hamilton – Page 3 – Solutions Without Problems

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so i got to see hamilton live on broadway (i know, i still can’t believe it!!!) and here’s a couple details i thought people might enjoy:

when daveed diggs enters in act 2 as jefferson he blows kisses to the audience it’s adorable.

also jefferson makes all these weird faces constantly it’s hilarious.

in “the reynolds pamphlet”, maria reynolds walks across the stage to look judgmentally at hamilton. king george is also there and he mostly just laughs and prances around.

the switch from “hurricane” to “the reynolds pamphlet” actually occurs by hamilton dropping a huge stack of paper (the “pamphlet”) onto the stage from the upper level.

it’s basically the 18th century version of a mic drop.

in “say no to this”, maria practically gives hamilton a lap dance and climbs all over him. it’s uh. weirdly hot.

it’s hard to get a scope of the energy just by listening to the soundtrack song by song, but keep in mind most musicals aren’t purely music, they have some dialogue between songs. however, there’s only one scene in hamilton that’s not on the soundtrack and going song to song without pausing creates an electrifying energy that. wow. it’s dizzyingly good.

the one scene (if you didn’t know) that isn’t in the soundtrack is when eliza reads hamilton a letter informing him of laurens’s death, and the heartbreak on hamilton’s face is palpable. eliza tries to comfort him but he leaves abruptly, saying “i have so much work to do”.

in “you’ll be back”, when king george sings the line “i’m so blue”, the stage lights turn blue

when eliza’s pregnant, the pregnancy pad she wears looks bizarre af in period costume

at the very beginning hamilton’s this awkward immigrant who’s not very sure of himself, and his arc from that to war hero to secretary who won’t stfu to broken father is beautifully done on lin’s part

phillip is introduced while he’s practicing the piano at age 9 but when he stands up he’s like lin’s height it’s hysterical. watching a grown-ass man play a 9 y/o boy while his mother beatboxes behind him was honestly a highlight of my life.

eliza and angelica’s reunion in “take a break” was so cute, they hugged so much and just acted exactly like two sisters who hadn’t seen each other in forever.

hamilton constantly disappointing eliza (leaving for war, leaving to be part of the cabinet, not joining eliza and angelica over the summer) is a slowly building theme and you can feel her bitterness build throughout the play until it peaks in “burn”. god i love eliza.

you think you know emotion? no, you don’t. eliza’s cry/ scream when phillip dies is the most emotionally heartwrenching thing i have ever heard. my mother was straight up sobbing. i’m so ,

actually you know what? fuck alexander, eliza’s where it’s at. you know who was center stage when the curtain dropped at the end of the musical? eliza. because she’s the one who supported him, who forgave him, who, after everything, made sure his legacy lived on by telling his story. and although lin starts off by telling alexander’s story, he also tells eliza’s, because she is easily as important as him. hamilton is about the act of storytelling as much as it is about the history of a founding father, and without eliza doing so (so!!) much after his death, alexander would be a footnote in history textbooks. the musical is called hamilton because it’s about both hamiltons, husband and wife, and to say it is just about alexander hamilton is just plain wrong.

when she’s finally center stage at the end, eliza looked like she could finally see the audience, see the stage lights on her, and she gave a little gasp/ cry because she was finally being recognized and that was the moment i realized that nobody was every going to live up to eliza schuyler hamilton’s goodness and purity.

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