marquisdegilbert:

okay i wasn’t going to talk about it but i can’t stop thinking about it and i haven’t heard anyone talk about it at length. 

but wait for it is a really interesting performance from an artistic standpoint because throughout most of it burr and the ensemble are seated and barely move. and i just. didn’t expect that. i had heard wait for it a bunch of times before seeing it performed obviously and when i did i always imagined it as this big elaborate dance number. i think it’s because its so rhythmically upbeat, and so i was kind of confused while it was being performed so everyone’s face was completely blank and they were sitting down calmly. 

and then i figured it out. i was literally waiting for burr (and so the ensemble as an offshoot) to get off of his ass and DO SOMETHING because of how the music feels. the dissonance between the music and the choreography kind of shows burr’s whole philosophy of keeping his head down and not showing his hand when the revolution is driving so many people around him in a really subtle way. 

in addition, the next “burr song” (where it’s almost exclusively him singing and reflects on his own thoughts) is the room where it happens, which Is a number with MUCH more movement, showing this is when burr finally decides to get up and do something.

  i just think it’s really interesting from an artistic standpoint and you can’t get it just from listening to the album (and it’ll probably never be on any sort of live broadcast unless a recording of the musical comes out because objectively speaking it’s kind of boring to watch people sitting still for 3 plus minutes)