I recommend powering through it with the closed captioning on at least once

Aug 9, 2020
8:39:02am

Acorn All-American

The lyrics are interesting and clever...or just read the book if you don’t want to listen to rap for about half of the performance.

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I was SOO excited to finally get to se it - I lasted About 20 minutes

Lifi

8/8/20 10:07pm

RE: I was SOO excited to finally get to se it - I lasted About 20 minutes

LiveCoug

8/8/20 10:11pm

You were SOO excited to see it but you hate rap and hip-hop? Why were you excited to see it then?

YIsForBrigham

8/8/20 10:11pm

I didn’t know it was rap. That took me by surprise

Lifi

8/8/20 10:12pm

So you were excited to see something that you’d done absolutely no reading or research about? Weird.

Mike Honcho

8/8/20 10:22pm

Not really, considering all of the constant hype surrounding it. I saw a couple

Stringer Bell

8/9/20 10:18am

Sounds like my honeymoon.

vagabonder

8/8/20 10:13pm

I call “bull”

Zaphod

8/8/20 10:21pm

It's true.

Turn and Cough

8/9/20 1:04am

Same here. I didn’t like it at all. Turned off after 10 min.

WP17

8/8/20 10:46pm

Give it the full 2 hours. I wasn’t excited to see it.

RalphWiggam

8/8/20 11:08pm

I fast forwarded on your recommendation and couldn’t get it.

WP17

8/9/20 12:21am

What did you fast forward to?

RalphWiggam

8/9/20 12:46am

You'll be back. Soon you'll see.

maizecoug

8/8/20 11:12pm

Gotta know yo self. Once you know who you are it’s easy to avoid wasting money

StalwartBraveTrue

8/9/20 12:03am

I’m a huge history nerd and it was awful for me

WP17

8/9/20 12:21am

To each his own. I thought it was amazing. Second to Les Mis only for me

macdizzle

8/9/20 12:24am

That’s where I put it.

RalphWiggam

8/9/20 12:48am

Agree. Doesn’t have the message and emotion of les Miz but musicality is

StalwartBraveTrue

8/9/20 2:51pm

RE: I was SOO excited to finally get to se it - I lasted About 20 minutes

SeattleUte

8/9/20 1:12am

It’s really missing great songs

Remigius

8/9/20 2:08am

“Nothing you walk away singing or worth downloading the soundtrack”

RalphWiggam

8/9/20 11:46am

Ok Boomer.

slowhiteguy

8/9/20 7:32am

I recommend powering through it with the closed captioning on at least once

Acorn

8/9/20 8:39am

RE: I recommend powering through it with the closed captioning on at least once

LeftOfNormal

8/9/20 9:34am

Same. I was worried to tell my wife I couldn’t take it after 20 minutes when

O Gaucho

8/9/20 8:56am

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Acorn

8/9/20 9:16am

What about these songs (not rap)?

CaliWG

8/9/20 10:00am

Wait For It is probably my favorite song in the musical. It's so good.

durandal

8/9/20 10:02am

Mine too

CaliWG

8/9/20 10:06am

Outside of the music being amazing, the theme of Burr always waiting for it is carried throughout the rest of the

durandal

8/9/20 10:23am

We prepared to go see it by listening to soundtrack on Alexa.

(Private)

8/9/20 10:05am

I couldn’t stand the soundtrack- the voice sounded super whiny

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