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Tag: hamilton
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The World Was Wide Enough
Burr: I can’t let this man with 6 small children who need a fatherly figure make an orphan of my 22-year old married daugher
Burr: I was too young and blind to see
Hamilton’s ghost in the distance: you were 54Let’s just say that lots of poor decisions were made by everyone involved, except for Eliza.
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History obliterates, and every picture it paints, it paints me in all my mistakes. When Alexander aimed at the sky, he was the first one to die, but I’m the one who paid for it.
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Aaron Burr, act 1: duels are dumb and immature
Aaron Burr, act 2: FIGHT ME -
you know what i love (and by which i mean hate)? when Hamilton gets so emotional and suddenly sucks at rhyming. for example in Dear Theodosia, when he rhymes “sun” with “son” and other lines in that song that don’t rhyme at all. OR when Philip dies! he doesn’t even try! he just sings, “Philip, you would like it uptown, it’s quiet uptown.” HE. JUST. CANNOT. RHYME. ANYMORE.
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Everybody trying to rap Lafayette’s solo in English and I’m over here like…
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In the musical of my life after I’m long gone, my wife Vanessa is going to be the one who steps forward as the hero. Vanessa is not particularly fond of musicals—she only likes good ones. She is not effusive in her praise, or boastful. But when I looked up from that Chernow book and said “I think this is a hip-hop musical,” she didn’t laugh, or roll her eyes. She just said, “That sounds cool.” And that was all I needed to get started. As I fell in love with the idea of a love triangle between Eliza, Alexander, and Angelica, she said, “Can you have Angelica rap? That would be cool.”
I am someone who is so averse to travel that I wrote a whole musical about not wanting to leave my block in Washington Heights.
It was Vanessa who booked us trips and time away from New York. “You don’t get any writing done here because life keeps popping up.” Thanks to her, Hamilton was written in Mexico, Spain, Nevis, Sagaponack, St. Croix, Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic—long trips where Vanessa would take me there and then leave me alone to write while she explored. She is my first audience, and she’s a tough audience, so I know if I impress her I’ve cleared the highest possible bar. She’ll come home from work and say, “Your king tune was stuck in my head all day—that’s probably a good sign.” This started out as a note trying to explain how my wife really is the ‘best of wives and best of women,’ but I’m trying to get at something more important—this show simply doesn’t exist without Vanessa. It’s a love letter to her.Lin-Manuel Miranda on the role of his wife, Vanessa Nadal, in the creation of Hamilton. From the annotated libretto in Hamilton: The Revolution (via darrenburr) -
