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malthaussen

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5. This blows my mind.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue May 3, 2016, 09:55 AM

May 2016

I can't feature it: a writer sitting around trying to figure out a good concept for a musical, and he says: "I know, I'll do a hip-hop biography of Alexander Hamilton!" Ye gads, "Springtime for Hitler" was a concept that made more sense (on the face of it, anyway). Well, that was a smash hit, too.

-- Mal

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