HAMILTON Just Won the PULITZER!
Awesome news! I just had a feeling it might - and yet it's very rare for a musical to win. BIG congrats to all involved!
Just a guy in Texas who loves movies.
I have heard/seen them perform the "My Shot" song and it bugged me repeating the same "I'm not throwin' away my shot...shot" line over and over and over and then it got stuck in my head and was really irritating.
I've seen HAMILTON twice, and I'd have to say "My Shot" is one of my least favorite numbers in the score (although the song's "rise up" passage is so good I'm beginning to reconsider my feelings).
However, very little of the score is actually rap - so if that's a concern to you, you needn't worry. The score is by turns funky, jazzy, romantic and pulsating. But always theatrical.
I tend to think awards are silly, but it's seems a foregone conclusion that the show will win for musical, book, score, actor, supporting actor and actress, direction and choreography (along with having a good shot at set design and lighting design, among others). And it won't be winning these awards because of hype. To put it simply, HAMILTON is an extraordinary and thought-provoking show with some genuinely thrilling musical sequences.