Hamilton
Hamiltonstans and Potterheads may be in for the ultimate crossover : yesterday , the musical theater ’s official Twitter bill reposted a picture of Tom Felton — theHarry Potterfranchise ’s Draco Malfoy — do one of King George ’s songs from the show . Lin - Manuel Miranda ’s knock operetta attracted a huge fandom outside of its Broadway audience when the original cast album became usable for streaming on Spotify . Because the form of the showincludes almost the total write up in its songs , listeners who were n’t lucky enough to see it on stage could still see and apprise the melodic retelling of Alexander Hamilton ’s aliveness story .
Tom Felton began his acting career playing Harry Potter ’s snobbish adversary Draco Malfoy . Like most of the main shape , he is still often associated with the persona despite proving himself in a diverse mix of interesting projects since then . The actor made a TikTok account in July to showcase his musical talents ( and resist off quarantine boredom ) with guitar covers and original songs . A week ago , Felton started posting videos of himself performing covering fire of song fromHamiltonwritten for the fictitious character based on King George III — develop by Jonathan Groff on Broadway — under the liable hashtag # hamiltom .
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After a live movie recording of the Broadway output was discharge on July 6 of this year , Miranda allow that he wasreluctant to accommodate the bit into a movie for creative reasons . While most studio and streaming platforms would likely climb up at the chance to get their handwriting on a potentialHamiltonmovie , Miranda ’s logical thinking behind preserving the bequest of his artistic production in the signifier it was initially destine is undoubtedly justify .
Fans of the musical can hopefully respect Miranda ’s determination as an creative person ; however , it ’s understandable that they might be a small disappointed at the missed opportunity to see the show as a feature film star their favorite player . Felton has certainly testify his power toplay an chesty , upper - incrustation megalomaniacon screen . Plus , he already has the British accent down : he even breeze through the Received Pronunciation , also known as the Queen ’s English , required for the King George role .
This level of commitment in a few social medium posts could be a result of quarantine - induced creative thinking — the posts even admit a photoshopped graphic with the cast album edit to read " Hamiltom . " Still , they make a solid casing for a Felton casting , if not in a movie , then perhaps in one ofHamilton ’s theatrical production when they open back up on Broadway , the West remainder in London , or Sydney , the latter of which is currently casting . On the bright side , Felton has more than enough time tocover the entireHamiltonsoundtrackbefore then .
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