{"id":30469,"date":"2015-09-22T23:53:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T03:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=30469"},"modified":"2015-09-23T00:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T04:21:33","slug":"what-wendy-wore-vintage-ungaro-to-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/what-wendy-wore-vintage-ungaro-to-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Vintage Ungaro to &#8220;Hamilton&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MrB and I went to the Broadway production of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/harnessing-the-hamilton-hype-1442961218\" target=\"_blank\">hot-hot-hot<\/a> musical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamiltonbroadway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hamilton<\/em><\/a> tonight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30470\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hamilton.jpg\" alt=\"hamilton\" width=\"484\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hamilton.jpg 484w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hamilton-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hamilton-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/07\/theater\/review-hamilton-young-rebels-changing-history-and-theater.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">uniformly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hamilton-review-the-revolution-moves-uptown-1438907400\" target=\"_blank\">rave <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/theater\/broadway\/sc-hamilton-broadway-review-20150806-column.html\" target=\"_blank\">reviews<\/a> for Lin-Manuel Miranda&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/13\/theater\/hamilton-heads-to-broadway-in-a-hip-hop-retelling.html\" target=\"_blank\">hip-hop interpretation<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alexander-Hamilton-Ron-Chernow\/dp\/0143034758\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Chernow&#8217;s 2005 biography of Alexander Hamilton<\/a>, I was dreading the evening a little. I was originally supposed to see <em>Hamilton<\/em> on March 26, when it was downtown at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publictheater.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Public Theater<\/a>. However, the show didn&#8217;t go on that night <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2015_East_Village_gas_explosion\" target=\"_blank\">because of a terrible gas explosion that killed two people and destroyed three buildings in the East Village<\/a>, just a couple of blocks away from the Public.\u00a0 When I thought of the play after that, I remembered the smell of smoke in the air that day, so I almost didn&#8217;t take the replacement tickets for the Broadway version.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m glad I did get those tickets. In fact, I would love to see <em>Hamilton<\/em> again, ASAP. It&#8217;s a fabulous retelling of history in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0298203\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>8 Mile<\/em> <\/a>style, with a racially diverse cast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-women-of-hamilton\" target=\"_blank\">great roles for women<\/a>, and a very funny\/pissy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">King George III<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/milowent.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/i-laughed-i-cried-it-was-better-than.html\" target=\"_blank\">I laughed, I cried &#8230; it was better than <em>Cats<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The weather has been starting to cool off over the past few days, so I&#8217;m trying to squeeze in a few more summer dresses before fall is here in earnest. I haven&#8217;t worn this one in a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30471\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ungaroresize.jpg\" alt=\"ungaroresize\" width=\"498\" height=\"1181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ungaroresize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ungaroresize-127x300.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ungaroresize-432x1024.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ungaroresize-300x711.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><strong>What Wendy Wore to Hamilton<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Dress:<\/strong> Vintage Ungaro (acquired in 2008, seen <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/outfit-post-vintage-ungaro-dress-from-frock\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> in 2009)<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Shoes:<\/strong> Prada (2010, recently seen <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/what-wendy-wore-sequins-for-99-homes-screening\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Go see <em>Hamilton<\/em> if you can. Not going to be in New York in the foreseeable future? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/09\/21\/440925873\/first-listen-cast-recording-hamilton\" target=\"_blank\">The cast recording is now available<\/a>. Check it out. You won&#8217;t be sorry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2015\/08\/hamilton-leslie-odom-jr-aaron-burr\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a nice Vanity Fair piece<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/playing-the-man-who-shot-hamilton-1438896589\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Odom Jr.<\/a>, who plays Aaron Burr, the frenemy-turned-killer of Miranda&#8217;s Hamilton. The performer of one of the musical&#8217;s many show-stopping numbers, Odom visited the New Jersey site of the infamous Burr-Hamilton duel. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2015\/05\/20\/hamiltons-aaron-burr-recreates-famous-got-milk-commercial\" target=\"_blank\">And here he is again<\/a>, recreating a Burr-related &#8220;Got Milk&#8221; commercial. Very cute!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MrB and I went to the Broadway production of hot-hot-hot musical Hamilton tonight. Despite the uniformly rave reviews for Lin-Manuel Miranda&#8217;s hip-hop interpretation of Ron Chernow&#8217;s 2005 biography of Alexander Hamilton, I was dreading the evening a little. I was originally supposed to see Hamilton on March 26, when it was downtown at the Public&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/what-wendy-wore-vintage-ungaro-to-hamilton\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,496,277,41,108,137,497],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"category-on-the-town","9":"category-outfit-post","10":"category-pictures-of-me","11":"category-theater","12":"category-things-to-do-in-nyc","13":"category-what-wendy-wore","14":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30469"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30477,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions\/30477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}