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Like with the scale of production, the way Hamilton is shot for the Disney+ movie means that its incredible choreography isn't properly captured like it would be seeing it live and in person. The Choreography is Backgrounded On Disney+ That's great in some of the slower, more personal musical numbers, but it means the sheer size of Hamilton's production is rarely fully shown-off on the streaming service. But it's also the choice of framing director Thomas Kail tends to stay close on the actors, and there are far too few times he goes wide with his shots. In part, that's simply due to the fact it's a recording, and so something will inevitably be lost from seeing it in person. Hamilton on Disney+ is unable to fully capture the scale of the show. These are live-wire productions suited for a live audience, with impressive displays of lighting and sound accompanying the performers. This is particularly true in some of Hamilton's bigger, more action-orientated songs, such as the booming "Guns and Ships" or "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)". Seeing Hamilton from the seats of a theater only serves to make it loom even larger as befits a story that covers so much ground, it really does feel epic in size as well as scope. The musical features large, expansive sets that allow for its vast cast of characters to take the stage together the background structures, designed to evoke the very foundations of the country, including the ships that brought so many immigrants to its shore, with its ropes and brick walls, include catwalks for the characters to move around on a higher level, and the scaffolding is huge (and grows even larger in the second act, to signify the building of the country). Hamilton, with an estimated budget of $12.5 million for its stage production, is far from the most expensive musical ever produced (a dubious honor that belongs to Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark's $75m) it certainly packs a punch well above its weight in terms of its staging and design. One of the most impressive aspects of Hamilton is the sheer scale of the production. But while Hamilton on Disney+ is the same show but filmed, the format does mean that what you see, and how you see it, changes from stage to screen. Having Hamilton, one of the biggest musicals of all time, available on Disney+ is great of accessibility, given the difficulty of acquiring tickets even before a global pandemic broke out, and grants people the rare opportunity of seeing the incredible original cast of the show too. Related: Hamilton: All 46 Songs In The Musical, Ranked From Worst To Best Rather than a new take, this was filmed across three nights at the Richard Rogers Theater, NYC, back in 2016, with a mix of performances including those with and without audiences. Given its success, it's hardly a surprise that a way has been found to immortalize the experience of seeing the original Broadway production, which comes in the form of a Hamilton movie on Disney+ (one that the Mouse House paid around $75 million for the rights to). Playing to constantly sold-out audiences, Hamilton has proved to be a non-stop major hit ever since. Created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also stars as the show's titular character, one of America's Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, the musical debuted off-Broadway in early-2015, before shortly making the leap to Broadway itself later that year. A filmed version of Hamilton is streaming on Disney+, and the movie does have a few important differences from the experience of watching the Broadway musical live in a theater.
