{"id":490594,"date":"2019-09-26T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=891076"},"modified":"2019-09-26T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T22:30:54","slug":"watch-hamilton-music-director-alex-lacamoire-play-all-of-abbey-road-in-50-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-hamilton-music-director-alex-lacamoire-play-all-of-abbey-road-in-50-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch \u2018Hamilton\u2019 Music Director Alex Lacamoire Play All of \u2018Abbey Road\u2019 in 50 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/piano.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>When Tony-winning (and Emmy and Grammy-winning) Broadway musical director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/alex-lacamoire\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alex-lacamoire\" data-tag=\"alex-lacamoire\">Alex Lacamoire<\/a> (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hamilton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hamilton\" data-tag=\"hamilton\">Hamilton<\/a><\/em>, <em>Dear Evan Hansen<\/em>) happened to have a business trip to London scheduled recently, he saw a unique opportunity at hand, and made a call to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/abbey-road\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abbey-road\" data-tag=\"abbey-road\">Abbey Road<\/a> Studios. Lacamoire had previously made multiple viral videos where he would play through entire albums (Billy Joel\u2019s <em>The Stranger<\/em>, for one) on piano in under a minute, and the idea of speeding through <em>Abbey Road<\/em> at Abbey Road was too tempting to resist.&nbsp; Two accomplished friends, <em>Hamilton<\/em> director Thomas Kail and <em>Mary Queen of Scots<\/em> director Josie Rourke, happened to be on hand to shoot the video, and after a quick refresher on his favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/beatles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beatles\" data-tag=\"beatles\">Beatles<\/a> album, Lacamoire was ready to go. \u201cIt\u2019s in my head,\u201d says Lacamoire, who is currently musical director for the new off-Broadway show <em>The Wrong Man<\/em>, with songs by pop songwriter Ross Golan. \u201cI just needed to make sure the way I remember the songs from when I was six years old is the way they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He even got to play the so-called \u201cMrs. Mills\u201d piano used on some Beatles tracks, which was an intense experience. \u201cThat piano has so much vibe on it,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can sense when energy&nbsp; &nbsp;is coming out of inanimate inanimate objects. It was kind an otherworldly experience. There\u2019s definitely some kind of, like, magic coming out of there was just hard to express.\u201d It took about two hours to get all the raw footage \u2013 but in the end, he had a 50-second performance of <em>Abbey Road<\/em> ready for its 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fh5pWhqgpPc?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-hamilton-music-director-alex-lacamoire-play-abbey-road-in-50-seconds-891076\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Tony-winning (and Emmy and Grammy-winning) Broadway musical director Alex Lacamoire (Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen) happened to have a business trip to London scheduled recently, he saw a unique opportunity at hand, and made a call to Abbey Road Studios. Lacamoire had previously made multiple viral videos where he would play through entire albums (Billy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 15:36:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}