breanna. 25. lesbian. enfp. hufflepuff. she/her. i have a lot of feelings about comics, star trek, cartoons, and alexander hamilton.
You can tell a lot about a person by what their favorite musical about murderers is
5/12/09 - 3/15/16
“Seven years ago, Lin-Manuel Miranda came to the White House Poetry Jam. He took the mic and announced that he and his musical collaborator, Alex Lacamoire, were going to perform a song from a hip-hop album they were working on, and I’m quoting him, ’about the life of somebody who embodies hip-hop, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton’. And so, we all started laughing, but Lin-Manuel was serious. And who’s laughing now?” - Barack Obama
America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me!
Ms. Petrimoulx said that in recent months, more young people have populated her tours, curious not only about Alexander Hamilton but also about other characters from the show who are buried at Trinity Church.
“I got a question about Hercules Mulligan a few months ago,” she said. “No one had ever asked about Hercules Mulligan before.”
For the first time, visitors have started leaving stones and flowers on the graves of both Hamilton and his wife, Eliza. “There are just as many left on Eliza’s grave as there are on Alexander’s,” Ms. Petrimoulx said. “Maybe even more.”
Eliza Hamilton died in 1854 at the age of 97. Her grave, a plain white marble slab at the foot of a far grander monument to her husband, bears the words “Daughter of” and “Wife of.” Little more was known about her until “Hamilton” (and the Ron Chernow biography on which it is based) brought her accomplishments to light. She founded the first private orphanage in New York City and advocated for the construction of the Washington Monument, among other things. Now she has a fan base all her own.
The same can be said for her sister, Angelica Schuyler Church, whose romantic feelings for Hamilton provide one of the musical’s most bittersweet plotlines. Founding fathers aside, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of “Hamilton,” has said that he considers her the show’s smartest character.
“The hot question in the gift shop is where exactly Angelica is buried,” Ms. Petrimoulx said. (Her remains are in a vault that bears only the name Livingston, her relatives by marriage.)
The laughter after “what’s your name man? Alexander Hamilton” at the White House in 2009 vs the applause at the Grammys last night
whoops my hand slipped
“…And then you have the Hip-Hop Heads, who go in like this, and go ‘Alright, Broadway Hip-Hop let’s see what you got.’ And they’re bobbing their heads by the opening number and they’re catching the Biggie references and they’re leaving like ‘Well, maybe I was judging Musical Theatre too harshly’ and it’s their gateway drug to some of the most incredible story telling you’ll hear…”
Look at where you are,
look at where you started…
We know we don’t deserve you, @linmanuel
Just make us proud, that would be enough
Alexander Hamilton vs Kylo Ren: Rap Battle for the Republic (ft. Joey Richter & Brian Rosenthal)
It’s a Rap Battle for the Future of the Republic! Who will win: Alexander Hamilton, defender of democracy, or Kylo Ren, Dark Side slave of special interests? WATCH to find out.
