The Story of Tonight
- The fucking harmonies that they’ve fit into this brief little song, oh my god.
- Lafayette’s accent. Namely, “Leeet’s ‘ave eh-notheer ‘round tonight.”
- “Raise a glass to the four of us / Tomorrow there’ll be more of us.”
The Schuyler Sisters
- “(werk werk)” “ANGELICA!”, “(werk werk)”, “ELIZA!” –
- – “and Peggy!”
- Serious kudos to Jasmine Cephas Jones, because I initially had no idea that the same person was behind the G-rated voice in “The Schuyler Sisters” and the NC-17-rated voice in “Say No To This.”
- The way Angelica sings Eliza’s name in “Eliza, I’m looking for a mind at work!”
- Aaron Burr, Prince Regent of Fuckboys, Exhibit A: “Excuse me, miss / I know it’s not funny / but your perfume smells like your daddy’s got money.”
- Aaron Burr, Prince Regent of Fuckboys, Exhibit B: “Burr, you disgust me.” / “Ah! So you’ve discussed me!”
- Aaron Burr, Prince Regent of Fuckboys, Exhibit C: “I’m a trust fund, baby, you can trust me!”
- More importantly: ANGELICA.
- EVERYTHING ABOUT ANGELICA.
- “You want a revolution? / I want a revelation / So listen to my declaration!”
- “We hold these truths to be self-evident / That all men were created equal / And when I meet Thomas Jefferson? / I’mma compel him to include WOMEN IN THE SEQUEL. / [WERK!]”
- And for the love of god, if you haven’t seen this song performed in the Ham4Ham with Jonathan Groff, Andrew Rannells and Brian D’Arcy James, drop everything. Go. Now.
- The way your heart just soars at 2:29 when the full chorus joins in for the final, pulsating round of “Look around! Look around! At how lucky we are to be alive right now!”
- [Or at least mine does.] [And if yours doesn’t, consult your nearest medical professional.]
oh, I can’t wait to see you again
it’s only a matter of time
Foreshadowing, a How-To Guide by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Burr: Fools who run their mouths off wind up dead.
Laurens: YO YO YO YO YO! What time is it?! Show time!
Burr: …like I said…
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Hamilton: I am not throwing away my shot!
Ensemble: Just you wait…
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Hamilton: I couldn’t seem to die
Burr: Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it…
An itemized list of things I love about You’ll Be Back
- Otherwise known as the very important moment when I learned that someone called Jonathan Groff exists, and that he is candy floss personified.
- I love playing this song for people without explaining the context, because I get to watch them enjoy it, and then I get to watch them become extremely confused.
- The industrial-strength rolling of Rs during “Rrrrremember we made an arrrrrrrangment when you went away.”
- Oceans rise. Empires FALL!
- “Eh-nd when poosh, cahms to shahve, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!”
- “DAH DA DA DA DA, DAT DA DA DA DIE YA DA.”
- “You’ll be the one complaining when ahhh am gooooooone.”
- “And NO, don’t change the subject!”
- And listen, I know it’s a creepy pseudo-love song, but if Groff told me that I was his favourite subject and that he would love me till his dying days, I would probably be back.
- “For e-vahr and e-vahr and e-vaaaaaaaaahr …. ”
- “EH-VRY BODY!” ヽ(๏∀๏ )ﾉ
burr: alexander! missed you after the meeting
hamilton: oh, i was avoiding you
What I can tell you is that works of art are the only silver bullet we have against racism and sexism and hatred. Joe Biden happened to see Hamilton on the same day James Burrows was here. James Burrows directed every episode of Will & Grace, and remember when Biden went on Meet the Press and essentially said, “Yeah, gay people should get married”? He very openly credited Will & Grace with changing the temperature on how we discuss gays and lesbians in this country. It was great to see Jim Burrows and Joe Biden talk about that, and Jim thanked Biden and Biden thanked Jim because that was a piece of art changing the temperature of how we talked about a divisive issue. It sounds silly. It’s a sitcom, but that doesn’t make it not true. Art engenders empathy in a way that politics doesn’t, and in a way that nothing else really does. Art creates change in people’s hearts. But it happens slowly.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, ‘Hamilton’s’ Lin-Manuel Miranda on Finding Originality, Racial Politics (and Why Trump Should See His Show) (The Hollywood Reporter)