{"id":18019,"date":"2016-05-24T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=18019"},"modified":"2016-06-10T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:58:07","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-may-24-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18019","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8211; May 24, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/hamilton.jpg\" alt=\"Hamilton: The Revolution book cover\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hamilton: The Revolution: <\/strong><br \/>\nBeing the Complete Libretto of the Broadway Musical, with a True Account of its Creation, and Concise Remarks on Hip-hop, the Power of Stories, and the New America<br \/>\nby Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"call number\" href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:WW_VOY:UWI71386055500002121\">ML50.M6733 H3 2016<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>New Arrivals<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>Who amongst us has not heard of <em>Hamilton<\/em>, yearned to experience <em>Hamilton<\/em>, died to be Hamilton? OK, maybe it&#8217;s just me. <\/p>\n<p>Tickets to the hit hip-hop Broadway musical are nearly impossible to come by, at this point they are virtually sold out, although you can try the lottery and cross your fingers. Don&#8217;t fear you though. Fortunately, you can still be subsumed by <em>Hamilton<\/em>, albeit from the sidelines. This book offers a behind-the-scenes view of <em>Hamilton<\/em> the musical. It includes the complete libretto, photographs of the musical and candids of it&#8217;s cast, as well as an account of the creation of the musical, from the composition of the first song of the show in 2009 to the opening night in 2015. You want to know how Pippa Soo got the part of Eliza? It&#8217;s in here.<\/p>\n<p>Are you curious to see what all the excitement is about? Check out this YouTube clip of the Hamilton cast performing the song &#8220;Alexander Hamilton&#8221; at the White House, including an introduction by President Barack Obama [youtube]https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZPrAKuOBWzw[\/youtube] <\/p>\n<p>and a live stage performance of the same song (&#8220;Alexander Hamilton&#8221;) complete with awesome costumes, music, lyrics, and dance <script height=\"370px\" width=\"658px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=dcc84e41db014454b08662a766057e2b&#038;ec=t3MW14MDE6f8yBNJo1Qe-u_VO7KWvtQ5\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton: The Revolution: Being the Complete Libretto of the Broadway Musical, with a True Account of its Creation, and Concise Remarks on Hip-hop, the Power of Stories, and the New America by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18019\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[110731,110733,110732,2510,1283],"class_list":["post-18019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-hamilton-the-revolution","tag-jeremy-mccarter","tag-lin-manuel-miranda","tag-musicals","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18019"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18030,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions\/18030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}