Thanks—and agreed. I knew quite a bit about the play's history, but little about all the drama and trauma it caused the Eureka in SF, for example, and some other details. I hope an expanded version in book form does go into the why for all the changes, especially to Perestroika, Kushner has made to the play since…

I vaguely recall on a theatre FB group some people complaining about one torrent having issues which prob were that it was inexplicably edited. But since mine was fine, I didn't pay much attention :P
At any rate, I'm glad PBS has picked this up (and I assume that means it'll get a N American DVD release)

Exactly. I suppose Wolfe's productions are pretty iconic and certainly bumped his reputation (and are interestingly quite different in terms of aesthetics from the RNT productions). But really, what it amounts to I think is both the typical New York snobbery, and also a kinda patriotic fear that just dismisses that…

That is VERY odd. I got mine from the BBC airing via a torrent I think (I know…) from the first airing. Do you think they repeated it later and made (rather poorly chosen) cuts? Anyway, I just double checked to make sure I wasn't just imagining they were in there, but they definitely are (I was wrong though—it runs…

I think it misses some major points. While, as a big theatre fan who posts on too many (mostly obnoxious) theatre forums and FB groups, I suffer from Hamilton fatigue. I figure I'll see it eventually, but I didn't bother with the lottery or anything when I was last in NYC (and actually I'm a little annoyed that the…

There is no Hamilton PBS adaptation (this headline is misleading). It's a documentary about the musical. This isn't like when they filmed Into the Woods or a myriad other shows late in their runs for broadcast.

Read the article—despite the misleading title, PBS is not showing Hamilton, just a documentary.

Did you get an edited copy? I know Gypsy pretty much like the back of my hand, and there doesn't seem to be anything cut from Everything's Coming Up Roses which is there in its full arrangement following it along with the music score (yes, I'm a geek). Did you mean your copy edited it or cut the number completely? …

What a horrid article. I admit, as a big theatre fan who frequents various theatre forums, I am sick of all the Hamilton stuff. But, so what. Implying that relatively elite magazines like The New Yorker shouldn't discuss the show because so few people have access to the show (though they could, you know, buy the…

It is, and once again it's using a headline that instantly makes a ton of people think—and report—that they are airing a filmed version of the show. I expected better from the AV Club :P

I looked it up—he was Tyrone the Pimp—pimping out poor teenage Donna Beck… Apparently he asked to leave AMC (I guess he realized it wouldn't be a long term role) because too many people commented on the confusion for their children…

I'm surprised they haven't done an upgraded BluRay release…

It's true. New Yorkers who consider themselves the center of the theatre world also conveniently forget that London had major productions of the plays before they did…

I believe he also played a pimp (typecast?) on All My Children and the creators of that show realized that it was confusing some kids who watched the show with their mothers (here in Canada in the 80s, anyway, All My Children aired on CBC right after Sesame Street—we weren't allowed to watch but I remember that made…

Yeah, considering how much AVClub loves their nostalgia, the tone of this piece struck me as ridiculously glib—and not even funny for that.

I will say her comments about the new set—and returning to make it feel more real like it used to was the only positive take away I got from that.

I don't think we're meant to buy that he will go to buttfuck Texas. These are drunken plans that won't look so hot in the sober light of day. However, it still shows Patrick finally taking some agency over his relationships which is the important thing.

It definitely was. Richard Lawson at Vanity Fair had a great piece I agreed with completely, back when the show premiered on this very issue—and addressing two of the more read critiques of the show on other sites (Slate being one). The criticism that it was too safe and not "gay" enough, and boring, and that—at its…

Well said. It certainly was, in many respects, a "check list". But for the most part I'm good with that.
I've heard some say that they were surprised that Patrick and Richie got such a clear happy ending, but I certainly read it as you did—or maybe even a bit more cynically. I'm glad they showed Patrick finally…

Sleep No More continues to do well in New York as well as a few others. I'd really recommend going if you have the chance.