

The cast of the Hamilton spoof, Spamilton, performed at the Broadway in Bryant Park concert this week a medley including “Lin-Manuel As Hamilton,” “1776,” “What Did You Miss,” and “Rap Battle” — Hamilton tunes by Lin-Manuel Miranda with Spamilton lyrics by Gerard Alessandrini, best-known until now for Forbidden Broadway.
Watch the three videos beginning with the opening number from the show, which spoofs the opening number of Hamilton:
How does a whipper snapper student of rap
and a Latin
trapped in the middle of a manhattan
Flat win
Broadway accolades
while other writers kiss
the corporate dollar
grow up to be a hip-hop op’ra scholar?
This blue collar
shining beacon
puerto rican
got a lot farther
by being a lot smarter
by stretching rhymes harder by being a trend-starter.
The second song spoofs Thomas Jefferson’s song “What’d I Miss?” (This one is close-captioned.)
So what’d you miss? What’d you miss?
The lyrics go by so fast You are in the abyss
I see you sittin’ there and looking befuddled I guess my diction is sloppy or muddled
We’re telling a complex plot
In the third video, “Rap Battle,” Nicole Vanessa Ortiz sets what must be a world speed record for her rapping.
The lyrics in the video above include “Lin-Manuel” rapping:
I am not throwin’ away my spot
I am not throwin’ away my spot
I compose like Debussy
But it comes out like BIG Juicy
And I love rapping the way he taught
I am not stoppin’ the way I rap
Till I turn showtunes upside down
I reviewed Spamilton when it opened at the Triad. Now it’s at the 47th Street Theater — down the block from Hamilton.
The cast members performing in Bryant Park:
Tristan J. Shuler, Chris Anthony Giles, Cameron Amandus, Nicole Vanessa Ortiz, Aaron Michael Ray, and Fred Barton on the piano.