Author’s Note: I submitted a prompt about this idea, and then I submitted a clarification, and by the time I wanted to submit a second clarification, I thought, I should just write the thing.
Summary: They’re in the play! (Little bits of Hamilton/Laurens, Hamilton/Eliza, Peggy/Maria, and lots of friendshipping.)
1
They go through the requisite
amount of hey, this doesn’t look like
heaven, this looks like a theater!, which takes… more time than you might
think, especially since they aren’t all speaking to each other. Hamilton is refusing to acknowledge anything
Jefferson says, Jefferson wants to be addressed as Mr. President, and Eliza
keeps deliberately stepping on Burr’s foot.
Madison is just glad to not be coughing.
He breathes in and out. Nudges
Jefferson. Smiles.
It’s Angelica who finds the books.
Some time after that, John Laurens
finds the first playbill.
And, well, there’s nothing else to
do.
Pity them: they can’t even make the
obligatory Waiting for Godot reference.
2
The first time around, they have to
do it all script-in-hand. Eliza plays
her husband. Being him, singing and
rapping his lines, is like learning a new grammar. By the end of Act One, she’s flushed
pink. Everyone has been chanting her
name—the longer they say “Alexander,” the more it sounds like “Eliza,” as if
all of this is for her—and she’s been moving so quickly, her skin burns, as if
she will tear through it, step out, take flight.
In Act Two, she moves on Maria
Reynolds—played by Burr—with a kind of ruthlessness. She says he’s left her helpless.
He sings, “I didn’t know any
better.”
She says she’s ruined.
Here’s the kicker: he agrees. “Yes, yes,” they both sing in tandem.
3
Lafayette plays Jefferson;
Jefferson plays Lafayette. No one can
tell the difference. They finally
compromise, so that Jefferson plays Lafayette with his hair undone and
Lafayette binds his back to play Jefferson.
Also Jefferson will stop trying to do Lafayette’s accent, because it
makes everyone uncomfortable. They spend
hours in the wings practicing “Guns and Ships”
and “Washington On Your Side” together.
They all like their doubles because
they have all, at one point, been lonely.
congratulations on the record-breaking 16Hamilton nominations:
Hamilton for Best New Musical Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) for Best Book of a Musical Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) for Best Score
Lin-Manuel Miranda for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Leslie Odom, Jr. for Best
Actor in a Leading Role
in a Musical Phillipa Soo for Best
Actor in a Leading Role
in a Musical Daveed Diggs for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Jonathan Groff
for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Christopher Jackson
for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Renée Elise Goldsberry for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Thomas Kail for Best Direction of a Musical Andy Blankenbuehler for Best Choreography Alex Lacamoire for Best Orchestrations David Korins for Best Scenic Design of a Musical Paul Tazewell for Best Costume Design of a Musical Howell Binkley for Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Jon Rua as Henry Clay Thayne Jasperson as John C. Calhoun Sasha Hutchings as Daniel Webster
Ok so I know Jefferson died after the Missouri Compromise was brokered, but Hamilton is alive here, so maybe he talked Jefferson to death 6 years early.
Also Ham chill, we know you have the spirit of a 27 year old but you’d be almost 70 years old at this point.
The Marquis de Lafayette (left) informs General George Washington and Colonel Alexander Hamilton that the French will support America in the Revolutionary War.
smol Hamilton is smol
K I know Hamilton was small but this is ridiculous. It looks like Lafayette brought his 12-year-old kid along for the meeting.
The Hamilton posts on my dash left me with a vague desire to see the show if the opportunity ever arose. But this. I pressed play, and at a minute and 20 seconds into this video, I paused it, opened iTunes, and downloaded the soundtrack. What the fuck is this. I didn’t ask for this.
THIS IS EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENED.
I can’t put words to just how much the orchestra loses their collective shit during Yorktown – specifically during Oak’s rap + right after it. Their volume skyrockets, the conductor was headbanging…it felt like my seat was rattling off its hinges with the energy of it.
Yep, this is what sucked me in too. Listen with headphones. Every single time I get goosebumps when they get to “The world turned upside down…”
I’m so beyond excited to see this
The goosebumps are sooo real
I am so broke, but I would literally kill a man to see this musical.
