Answer: Meet Me Inside
In "Meet Me Inside" George Washington orders Alexander Hamilton to return home from the war. John Laurens shot Charles Lee in the waist during their duel, and in this line Hamilton demonstrates his lack of remorse for permitting the duel to occur.
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Answer: Treasury Secretary
He was the very first Secretary of the Treasury, to be exact. He acted as George Washington's right hand man during the American Revolution, and after the war he was promoted to create a national bank.
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Answer: History Has Its Eyes On You
Song is sung by George Washington in Act One when he is telling Hamilton that he needs to take a step back because when he was young he was given a lot of power and didn't know how to use it. He's letting Hamilton know to be careful.
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Answer: Wait for It
"Wait for It" is sung by Aaron Burr, who was played by Leslie Odom Jr in the original Broadway cast.
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Answer: Farmer Refuted
In this song, Samuel Seabury argues against the revolution. Hamilton interjects and attempts to debate with him. This is one of multiple instances in "Hamilton" where the characters show awareness of the music: the score does, indeed, modulate up a half-step just prior to this line.
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Answer: It's Quiet Uptown
This song is sung after Alexander Hamilton and Eliza lose Philip in Act Two, and they have to learn to deal with their misfortunes.
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Answer: $10
Not only do cast members from "Hamilton" perform at the outdoor (and sometimes online) Ham4Ham shows - cast members from nearby musicals such as "Fun Home" and "Les Mis" have also participated in raffling off Hamilton tickets!
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Answer: Marquis de Lafayette and Hercules Mulligan
Lin Manuel Miranda was very sneaky with this line because in Act One, Lafayette and Mulligan physically fight with Hamilton in the revolution, but the actors who play them in the original production also play Jefferson and Madison in Act Two, who also verbally fought with Hamilton.
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Answer: The Room Where It Happens
This song is sung by Aaron Burr in Act Two when Thomas Jefferson, James Maddison and Hamilton have a private meeting to discuss trades and government issues. They don't invite Burr, and Burr wants to be in "the room where it happens".
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Answer: When he got a dog
This isn't the full story - Lin says in "Hamilton: a Revolution" that already they had been struggling when they went to a vacation to the Dominican Republic with his wife's family. "My wife's aunt [...] was struggling was ALS, so the air was heavy: we dreaded/anticipated the news of her passing even as we attempted to make the best of this vacation. Amidst all this, one day a tiny stray puppy jumped up on my wife's beach chair and nipped at her ankle, with large brown eyes that pleaded, "Get me off this island." [...] Vanessa, a lifelong cat person, switched teams in that moment and Tobillo (Spanish for ankle) entered our lives for good."
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Answer: Marquis de Lafayette
This line comes from "Guns and Ships", a song that requires Lafayette to rap at breakneck speed. Lafayette convinces Washington that, if they are to win at Yorktown, Hamilton must take the lead. In the original Broadway production, Daveed Diggs played Lafayette in Act 1 and Jefferson in Act 2. He won the Tony for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical.
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Answer: Guns and Ships
Lafayette spits out 19 words in 3 seconds (6.333 words per second) in this song in Act One. The song previously holding that fastest song title was "Not Getting Married Today" from the musical "Company", which had 6.2 words per second.
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Answer: Helpless
Eliza is singing this song in Act One after she meets Hamilton for the first time; they wed two weeks later.
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Answer: Where I come from, some get half as many.
Cast member Anthony Ramos (John Laurens / Phillip Schuyler) said that he related to this quote. In the neighborhood where he grew up, it was considered lucky to live past the age of 21 because so few did.
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Answer: I Know Him
King George appears on stage for a mere nine minutes, yet manages to squeeze in three songs. In "I Know Him", King George discovers that John Adams is to be the new President of the United States. King George is very critical of the Americans seeking independence and believes they would be better off under his rule.
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Answer: Maria Reynolds
He cheated on his wife, Eliza, and was blackmailed by James Reynolds (Maria's husband) and Hamilton paid him off. He was caught sending Mr. Reynolds money and was accused of sending government funds (because he was Secretary of the Treasury, so he had access to government funds) and he was forced to publicly publish and admit his affair.
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Answer: My Shot
Hamilton sings this song in Act One as he arrives in New York and meets his friends Laurens, Mulligan and Lafayette. He sings about how he is going to rise to the top and not let anything get in his way.
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Answer: I forgot my dang name
In the previous song, "Helpless", we see Alexander and Eliza meet for the first time. In "Satisfied", we rewind back in time (the characters move backwards and the turntable in the floor spins in the opposite direction) and view the scene from Angelica's point of view. This ties into the musical's overall theme that everybody will have a different version of history and how things happened. "I forgot my dang name" refers, on the surface, to the euphoric feeling of attraction, but it also reflects Angelica momentarily forgetting that she is a Schuyler and has familial responsibilities to marry rich, as she realises later in the song. In real life, however, Angelica was not the eldest Schuyler child and, indeed, was already married when she met Alexander.
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Answer: George Eacker
Philip called Mr. Eacker out on publicly defaming his father and challenged him to a duel that took place in New Jersey. Philip was shot by Mr. Eacker and later died.
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Answer: The World Was Wide Enough
Burr sings this song at the end of Act Two after he he shoots Hamilton and realizes that Hamilton wasn't really a threat. They could have both lived peacefully together because the world was wide enough for both of them.
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Answer: Jefferson/Lafayette
This is said together by Jefferson/Lafayette and Madison/Mulligan. Interestingly enough, the double casting is totally intentional. While Jefferson fought against Hamilton, Lafayette fought alongside him.
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Answer: Washington on Your Side
It is during this moment that Thomas Jefferson realises that he must resign from the Cabinet. This passage uses a dactylic meter (a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables) along with internal false rhyme, assonance and alliteration. Dactyls, a relatively uncommon meter, are also used in Lafayette's blistering rap: "No one has more resilience or matches my practical tactical brilliance". This serves as a reference to the fact that Lafayette and Jefferson is a dual role, played by one actor.
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Answer: Non-Stop
"Non-Stop" ends the First Act. The song begins with Hamilton completing a degree at King's College, and he and Burr, become lawyers in New York. Hamilton uses his skills with a quill and his knowledge from being a lawyer to defend the United States Constitution. He wrote the Federalist Papers with James Madison and John Jay and, as the title states, he was "Non-Stop". Hamilton wrote a total of 51 essays defending the document in 6 months.
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Answer: Wait for It
Burr sings this song in Act One after he tells his friends that he's been seeing a married woman and that he would do anything to keep her because "love doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints". He goes into detail about his family and the death of his parents and his life and how everything is unfair to everyone.
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Answer: Peggy
She plays Maria Reynolds (hence the "I loved him" in the opening scene alongside Angelica and Eliza).
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Answer: My Shot
This is how Hercules Mulligan introduces himself. "Loco parentis" is Latin for "in the place of parents". This has a double-meaning in the show: he is saying that he views himself as a parental figure to his younger friends, but it also refers to the notion of Founding Fathers.
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Answer: Hamilton supported Jefferson in the Election of 1800 and not Burr
Hamilton showed his support for Jefferson, despite being closer with Burr. Burr saw this act as the reason he lost the election, and challenged Hamilton to a duel through letters that were sent back and forth between the two. This can be heard in the song "Your Obedient Servant" in Act Two.
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Answer: The Schuyler Sisters
Angelica Schuyler sings this song in Act One with her sisters. It is just a fun loving song about how they want change and how they're keeping their eyes open for a mind at work.
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Answer: Everyone will sit under their own vine and under their own fig tree.
He apparently quoted the line often while he was alive. Lin-Manuel Miranda didn't know this until he was personally informed by Hamilton's biographer, and he decided to put the line into the musical.
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Answer: It's Quiet Uptown
This heartbreaking song details the grief of Alexander and Eliza following the death of their son, Phillip. Together, they slowly begin to piece their lives back together as Eliza forgives Alexander for his adultery. The following song begins with Jefferson asking "Can we get back to politics?", which offers the audience a reprieve from the confronting emotions of "It's Quiet Uptown".
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Answer: Farmer Refuted
He sings two songs in Act One, "You'll Be Back" and "What Comes Next?" and one song in Act Two, "I Know Him". "Farmer Refuted" is sung by his loyal defender, Samuel Seabury, in Act One, delivering notice that the King doesn't approve of the Revolution.
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Answer: Cabinet Battle #1
Thomas Jefferson sings that line in Act Two when Hamilton tries to establish a national bank. That included the government assuming state debts, which Jefferson wasn't too fond of.
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Answer: I like you a lot
Just before this compliment to Laurens, he sang, "Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot, I think your pants look hot." The fact that Hamilton takes less than a moment to come up with personalized comments and then moves on to making revolutionary plans ("... A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?/ Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is!") is yet one more example of his rapid-fire thought.
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Answer: Who tells your story?
All of these lines come from the show's final song, "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story". The show ends with the cast directly asking the audience who tells their stories. This musical ends in an emotional, tender way. While there are harmonies and orchestrations throughout the song, the final word is sung a cappella and as a single, unified note.
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Answer: George Washington and Alexander Hamilton
This is the song that George Washington sings when he tells Hamilton that he is stepping down from his position as president.
Fun Fact: In the song, both Hamilton and Washington recite George Washington's actual farewell address word for word during this song.
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Answer: Burn
Eliza sings this in Act Two when she finds out that Hamilton has been having an affair behind her back. These are the words she actually quotes from Angelica, her sister.
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Answer: Your Obedient Servant
"Your Obedient Servant" is a shout-out to the way people back then signed their letters (the equivalent of 'sincerely'). This line is also used ironically, since "your obedient servant" implies civility while the song is an argument between Hamilton and Burr.
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Answer: Betsy Struxness
The Gypsy Robe is a theater tradition in which a chorus member with the most Broadway credits receives a robe on opening night. Before curtain, everyone associated with the show gather onstage for the Gypsy Robe ceremony.
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Answer: They have not your interests at heart
The song "Farmer Refuted" is based on an anonymously published pamphlet by Samuel Seabury signed, "A Westchester Farmer". Hamilton's responses were "A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress" and "The Farmer Refuted".
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Answer: David Bowie
Many, many famous people- from Emma Watson to Bernie Sanders have seen this show (and loved it!). The Obamas liked it so much that they invited the cast over to the White House to perform. But David Bowie never saw it before his death in 2016.
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