[ SECRET POST #3601 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3601 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's JUST a Lin-Manuel Miranda thing. It's also, you know, both useful scene-setting for the historical circumstances, and something that's familiar to contemporary audiences - as you point out, Greatest City In The World-type boosterism is something that's pretty common these days. And it's also something that exists specifically in rap, so it's one of the strands that creates and sustains the rap music || immigration parallelism. It fits into the musical really organically.

It does suck that it's on the T-shirts, though.

[sparrow_lately]

It also serves story-telling purposes, since the action is set around NYC and the Battle of Brooklyn serves as the backdrop for a song and a half or so (time is sort of sped up and blended in the songs, as happens when a musical has to cover 30 years).