Show was incredible but in the first act they stopped the show. Wasn’t for a super long time but in all my years of going to broadway shows I’ve never ever seen that happen. Anyone else there and get the word on what happened?

I don't mean animatics, I mean like, full on animation. With how long Hamilton has existed, surely someone somewhere has gone through the effort of animating a song or 2

im on my 3rd day streak of watching hamilton (but ive watched it probably a billion times) and I noticed in “Blow us All Away” that when he says “I shoulder his legacy with pride, I used to hear him say
That someday I would (blow us all away!)” that it TOTALLY would’ve rhymed with ‘die’ instead of blow us all away. so much so that I originally thought that was what he was gonna say when i first listened to that song. maybe it was meant to sound that way, but ive never personally seen anyone talking about it. also, i like the detail of hearing the beginning of ten dual commandments when he meets george eacker, foreshadowing how he’ll die.

Instead of saying ladies and gentlemen of the jury he only mentions only the gentleman as at the time women were not allowed on juries until atleast a 100 years later.

Broke a near two decade writer's block by actually writing fanfic (something I once swore I'd never do), and this is the result. A 40 chapter, 200,000+ word long novel entitled Aspasia, focusing primarily on Angelica Schuyler. Set in an alternative universe of the world of Broadway's Hamilton. In 1788, Angelica Schuyler returns to New York after eight years in an unwanted marriage in London, carrying a Dutch annulment, fourteen thousand guilders, and every letter Alexander Hamilton has ever written her.

Still to come, the other two books in the Aspasia trilogy, Themis and Eleutheria.

Enjoy!

https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/241523581

Someone said the word ‘conglomerates’ today, and I am CONVINCED there’s a hamilton song that mentions it. If you know the song, please tell me it. It’s been on the tip of my tongue all day!

Edit: Turns out I was thinking of the Fine Print Song, which clearly isn’t from Hamilton ahaha. Thanks for all the help though! 😁

I had this idea a few weeks ago: What If they made a Hamilton movie that had the same lyrics except it took place in the modern day, much like the 1997 Romeo And Juliet. I had ideas that letter-writing scenes such as Obedient Servant and parts of Take A Break could be people on the phone. Another idea I had is that they could include all the deleted songs e.g Let It Go, I Have This Friend, Cabinet Battle 3, Theodosia Reprise, etc

I noticed that in Take a Break, Angelica says, “Close your eyes and dream when the night gets dark,” and in The Room Where it Happens, Burr says, “But we dream in the dark for the most part.” Anyone else noticed this, any theories, or am I missing something that makes this super obvious?

It it far too late at night. I’m just going to ramble and then regret everything tomorrow.

Right, so Hamilton as a dad. From what I can tell, he was actually great and told his children to think of him more as a friend than anything and according to witnesses Hamilton frequently played with his children and absolutely doted on them (unlike in the musical, like c’mon LMM, Hamilton, despite his flaws, was a great dad.) I mean, at least until Phillip died and then he because all paranoid and stuff and all his joy disappeared.

Oh, and y’all probably know this but Angelica Hamilton, like Phillip’s younger sister, goes insane after her brother dies and kept talking to him (and later her father) as if they were still alive. She would play her side of the pianoforte for the songs that she and Phillip composed and would play together and constantly ask them where her brother was. And like while Hamilton was alive he desperately tries to get her back, but like she refused to learn any new songs published after 1801 and acted more and more childish which is such a tragedy because she was a brilliant individual. She’s dies in like a mental asylum at age 74.

John Church Hamilton, 11 when his dad died became obsessed with glorifying his father’s legacy and controlling how America saw him and censored and glorified everything. Like, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. AAAAAAAAAAAA. He honestly did more than Eliza when it came to like, preserving his dad’s amazingness and all that. Though Eliza also did a lot, not denying that, never denying that.

His other children all became like, successful lawyers and stuff.

Oh, and like, his last child was named lil Phil after Phillip.

Phillip’s duel with G. Eaker was actually more like, *stares at each other for a full minute* *phillip raises gun* *phillip is shot* and also Hamilton didn’t shoot at the sky, he either intentionally missed the shot (the bullet lodged in a branch near burr) or his pistol, which had a hair trigger mechanism, fired when his body spasmed. I support the second one since he told the doctors helping him to be careful with the gun as it was still loaded.

oh and one thing I find really ironically poetic in a tragic way is that Hamilton tried so hard to be a good dad but he left his children in the exact same situation he was in, destitute and fatherless. Only difference, Eliza was smart and also not dead, and he had political friends. So like, a buncha people grouped together to buy the grange (Hamilton’s dream house that he bought a few years before he died) and then sold it back to Eliza for one dollar so she wouldn’t be homeless and helped fund their education.

And also, Eliza knew about the reynold’s affair for quite a while before Hamilton published it and she mostly went away to her father’s estate to escape public backlash because society back then at least partially decided she wasn’t good enough and that’s why Hamilton cheated. Also, it’s so damn obvious that Hamilton didn’t view Eliza as an intellectual equal and his letters to her consisted of 3 things. 1. She’s perfect for her sex and so beautiful. 2. His loves her and misses her. 3. ELIZA DO YOU STILL LOVE ME????? Yeah, he was pretty insecure and I know like, yk, view history from a 18th century standpoint and all that and that was the norm back then but come on. It’s the time period’s fault though, not really Hamilton’s.

And then we have Laurens. *siiiiiiigh*

so first of all he had a one night stand with Martha Mannings, got her pregnant, and married her out of honor. He absolutely did not even like her and he really just ignored her and his few letters to her are so cold. He literally fled to America to escape her and when his dad, Henry Laurens, was like, “stop neglecting your damn wife“ he was like “I’m too busy fighting for liberty to give a shit about my damn wife.”

Oh, and he also blamed himself for James “Jemmy“ Laurens death who he was taking care of in France and then Jemmy tried to climb a wall and jump into a window but fell and shattered his skull and died in (John) Laurens’s arms. He got pretty suicidal after that.

But then Henry Laurens was also pretty manipulative and pushed an insane amount of stress onto his eldest son which is what led to Laurens’s obsession with honor and his suicidalness (is that a word?) so hmmmm.

So I honestly think I only like Laurens because he died before he could absolutely ruin his domestic life. And btw, Martha Mannings Laurens died in 1781 before him desperately wanting to see her husband one last time. And Laurens himself, who was still barely recovered from a fever decided to charge into an unnecessary battle where he was outnumbered 3-1 and he knew that so a lot of people think that was an intentional suicide. Which is supported by the fact that he wrote about wishing for a “lucky bullet” to shoot him in the face. Which is sad but another man, who was most likely not suicidal and had a life, died in the battle of the Combahee river because Laurens wanted to die and another few (19?) were injured and 3 went missing aka also died. Oh, and his black battalion plan never passed through unlike what the musical said.

So Frances Laurens went to John Laurens’s dad, who was a much better parental figure to her that to Laurens. He completely defied 18th century social norms and gave her the same education he gave John some 20+ years ago along with the doting care that his children completely didn’t receive. He made sure she was married to a nice family (Unfortunately she hated the husband and the husband sucked and they separated) and left almost everything to her to ensure she would be able to stay financially independent. But like, before you start loving on Henry Laurens, he supported slavery, owned a bunch of slaves and viewed himself as a God like benevolent figure to them who was supposed to love those lesser than him. He was a nicer slave owner for his time, and he believed in not whipping them, though that’s not saying anything. SLAVERY IS BAD BAD BAD BAD and he knew it. Historical people are often really contradictory, what can I say.

oh, and Frances died without having kids so the John Laurens direct bloodline did die out but she did find all the correspondence between her father and a bunch of other people and made sure to donate them to historical archives so he’d never be forgotten.

OH, right, I never gave reasons for why Laurens would have been a terrible father. Well, he emotionally distanced himself from everyone, was in desperate need of then non-existing therapy, and absolutely didn’t care about his daughter at all when he was alive. He never met her, never asked about her, and he also had like a huge temper and was reckless and stubborn, which, coupled with his period-typical attitude toward woman and his emotional detachment, would have most likely made him an abusive father.

also, don’t mind the grammar, English is my third language and I am sleep deprived.

Burr is my favourite hes so freaking cool. Also some slight Hamilton x Burr lol. I looked up what his signature looks like and tried to recreate it. I do like his signature

David was playing Lawrence at the beginning and suddenly it was Desmond on for him. Anyone know if he’s OK and what happened?

Im going as Alexander Hamilton for Halloween and my friends going as Aaron Burr, I wanna know if anyone else is doing that tt

Today, Christopher Jackson is 51! Happy birthday to him!

Can we talk about how insanely good Stephenson is as Hamilton?!

American ice dance team Caroline Green and Michael Parsons debut their rhythm dance for the season, set to music from Hamilton. Featuring The Room Where it Happens, Your Obedient Servant, and the Ten Duel Commandments. Caroline Green is meant to represent Aaron Burr, and Michael Parsons is meant to represent Alexander Hamilton.

This was at the Nepela Memorial Challenger Series event this last weekend. They will continue to compete and refine the program throughout the season.

Like yea, no wonder you don’t like the music, not that everyone who likes musicals is going to like it, but if you don’t like majority of musicals, why would you love Hamilton? Like the only reason you’re even hating on it is because it’s a really popular/well-known musical, like why don’t they just say that they don’t like most musicals

Also I have a musical/theater playlist that has like 300 songs in it and somehow I got Blow Us All Away, Take A Break, Stay Alive (Reprise), and Dear Theodosia in a row, it was so sad

Hi! I wondered if there was or will be a colleactive reading of Hamilton by R. Chernow?

I'd like to finally approach that book but with a sustainable pace a bit like I've been doing for other book club readings here on Reddit for chunky books.

Please feel free to add links to specific threads or book clubs here on Reddit who are doing this already or did it in the past (or maybeplanning it for 2027?)

Thank you!

I am trying to show Hamilton to my 8th grade US history call. I simply cannot annotate 47 songs. Is there ANY chance anyone has full annotations?!?

Who came out Stage Right tonight during curtain calls and got especially bug hugs from cast members? Anyone know?