{"id":131875,"date":"2015-10-13T21:04:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/13\/revolutionary-musicals\/"},"modified":"2015-10-13T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:04:38","slug":"revolutionary-musicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/13\/revolutionary-musicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary Musicals:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quiet-uptown.tumblr.com\/post\/131064207967\/revolutionary-musicals\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">quiet-uptown<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I recently had a conversation with my older cousin of 4 years, discussing how my generation of teenagers never got a\u00a0\u201crevolutionary\u201d musical of our time, as she did with Spring Awakening. <b>Well we did, actually:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kids born in the late 40\u2032s and 50\u2032s got to experience <i>West Side Story<\/i> in their teens, a revolutionary show about teenagers in love, stricken by gangs and racial differences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kids born in the 60\u2032s got to experience <i>A Chorus Line<\/i>, a revolutionary show about young adults desperate to succeed in what makes them complete.<\/p>\n<p>Kids born in the late 70\u2032s and 80\u2032s got to experience <i>Rent<\/i>, a revolutionary show about young adults and the struggle to maintain an artistic and free lifestyle in a rapidly changing society.<\/p>\n<p>Kids born in the early 90\u2032s got to experience <i>Spring Awakening<\/i>, a revolutionary show about teenagers like them, struggling to communicate and express their emotions with adults, set to modern music. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What do we late 90\u2032s kids get, huh? Well I\u2019ll tell you- we get a revolutionary show \u2026about the <i>revolution<\/i>. We get <i>Hamilton- <\/i>a show about young adults who just so happen to be the Founding Fathers. Told in a way that we millennials, even now, can directly relate to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So just because I wasn\u2019t quite old enough to understand<i> Spring Awakening<\/i>, and too young to experience the phenomenon that <i>Rent<\/i> was in the late 90\u2032s, doesn\u2019t mean that I missed out on that <i>\u201crevolutionary\u201d<\/i> show of the generation. That\u2019s why I care about <i>Hamilton<\/i>. Sitting in the front row of the Richard Rodgers Theatre on July 17th, 2015, at one of the show\u2019s first Broadway previews, with my favorite person in the world sitting right next to me, changed my life. The very same way that\u00a0<i>\u201cthat one special show\u201d<\/i> had been changing young adults of the generations before me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>quiet-uptown: I recently had a conversation with my older cousin of 4 years, discussing how my generation of teenagers never got a\u00a0\u201crevolutionary\u201d musical of our time, as she did with Spring Awakening. Well we did, actually: Kids born in the late 40\u2032s and 50\u2032s got to experience West Side Story in their teens, a revolutionary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/13\/revolutionary-musicals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Revolutionary Musicals:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1582,15381,15382,15380,770,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}