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Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording Act I Booklet Hi Res FINAL
Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording Act I Booklet Hi Res FINAL
Lin-Manuel Miranda
INSPIRED BY THE BOOK ALEXANDER HAMILTON BY
Ron Chernow
WITH
Daveed Diggs Renée Elise Goldsberry Jonathan Groff Christopher Jackson
Jasmine Cephas Jones Lin-Manuel Miranda Javier Muñoz Leslie Odom, Jr.
Okieriete Onaodowan Anthony Ramos Phillipa Soo
AND
Carleigh Bettiol Andrew Chappelle Ariana DeBose Alysha Deslorieux
Sydney James Harcourt Neil Haskell Sasha Hutchings Thayne Jasperson
Stephanie Klemons Morgan Marcell Emmy Raver-Lampman
Jon Rua Austin Smith Seth Stewart Betsy Struxness
Ephraim Sykes Voltaire Wade-Greene
Alex Lacamoire
CHOREOGRAPHY BY
Andy Blankenbuehler
DIRECTED BY
Thomas Kail
THE WORLD PREMIERE OF HAMILTON WAS PRESENTED IN NEW YORK IN FEBRUARY 2015 BY THE PUBLIC THEATER.
OSKAR EUSTIS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PATRICK WILLINGHAM, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ACT I Disc 1
1. ALEXANDER HAMILTON
2. AARON BURR, SIR
3. MY SHOT
4. THE STORY OF TONIGHT
5. THE SCHUYLER SISTERS
6. FARMER REFUTED
7. YOU’LL BE BACK
8. RIGHT HAND MAN
9. A WINTER’S BALL
10. HELPLESS
11. SATISFIED
12. THE STORY OF
TONIGHT (REPRISE)
13. WAIT FOR IT
14. STAY ALIVE
15. TEN DUEL COMMANDMENTS
16. MEET ME INSIDE
17. THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH
18. GUNS AND SHIPS
19. HISTORY HAS ITS
EYES ON YOU
20. YORKTOWN (THE WORLD
TURNED UPSIDE DOWN)
21. WHAT COMES NEXT?
22. DEAR THEODOSIA
23. NON-STOP
Cast Orchestrations By.................................................................................................. ALEX LACAMOIRE
Alexander Hamilton .............................................................................. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Music Coordination........................................... MICHAEL KELLER AND MICHAEL AARONS
Eliza Hamilton.................................................................................................................. PHILLIPA SOO Synthesizer and Drum Programmer ............................................................ RANDY COHEN
Aaron Burr..................................................................................................................LESLIE ODOM, JR. Broadway Sound Effects by.......................................................................... NEVIN STEINBERG
Angelica Schuyler............................................................................. RENÉE ELISE GOLDSBERRY Ableton Programmer..................................................................................... SCOTT WASSERMAN
George Washington ............................................................................. CHRISTOPHER JACKSON Associate Synthesizer Programmer........................................................ TAYLOR WILLIAMS
Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson.................................................... DAVEED DIGGS Assistant Synthesizer Programmer ...................................................................JEREMY KING
Hercules Mulligan/James Madison ......................................... OKIERIETE ONAODOWAN Drum Samples and Additional Loop Editing .................................................WILL WELLS
John Laurens/Philip Hamilton.................................................................... ANTHONY RAMOS
Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds ................................................ JASMINE CEPHAS JONES Conductor/Keyboard 1...................................................................................... ALEX LACAMOIRE
King George............................................................................................................ JONATHAN GROFF Keyboard 2/Associate Music Director .........................................................KURT CROWLEY
James Reynolds/Doctor............................................................... SYDNEY JAMES HARCOURT Concertmaster ............................................................................................. JONATHAN DINKLAGE
Samuel Seabury...............................................................................................THAYNE JASPERSON Violin ................................................................................................................. ERIN BENIM MAYLAND
Charles Lee ................................................................................................................................... JON RUA Viola/Violin .................................................................................................................... MARIO GOTOH
George Eacker ............................................................................................................ EPHRAIM SYKES Cello.......................................................................................................................................... ANJA WOOD
Martha/Sentinel ....................................................................................................... ARIANA DeBOSE Drums............................................................................................................................ ANDRES FORERO
Dolly............................................................................................................................SASHA HUTCHINGS Percussion/Keyboard ............................................................................................. BENNY REINER
Bass/Keyboard.................................................................................................RICHARD HAMMOND
Ensemble Vocals Guitars/Banjo.................................................................................................. ROBIN MACATANGAY
CARLEIGH BETTIOL, ANDREW CHAPPELLE, ARIANA DeBOSE, Additional Musicians For Recording:
ALYSHA DESLORIEUX, SYDNEY JAMES HARCOURT, NEIL HASKELL, Harp................................................................................................................................ LAURA SHERMAN
SASHA HUTCHINGS, THAYNE JASPERSON, STEPHANIE KLEMONS, Wood Table On “Aaron Burr, Sir”........................... AHMIR “QUESTLOVE” THOMPSON
MORGAN MARCELL, JAVIER MUÑOZ, EMMY RAVER-LAMPMAN, JON RUA,
AUSTIN SMITH, SETH STEWART, BETSY STRUXNESS, EPHRAIM SYKES,
VOLTAIRE WADE-GREENE Mixed By.................................................................... TIM LATHAM at ATLANTIC STUDIOS, NYC
and INVICTUS SOUND, LONG ISLAND, NY
Produced by ALEX LACAMOIRE, BILL SHERMAN, LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Recorded By.....................................................................DERIK LEE at AVATAR STUDIOS, NYC
and AHMIR THOMPSON & TARIK TROTTER for THE ROOTS and ATLANTIC STUDIOS, NYC
Executive Produced by LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA and AHMIR THOMPSON & TARIK Music Copying ...................................................... EMILY GRISHMAN MUSIC PREPARATION/
TROTTER for THE ROOTS EMILY GRISHMAN, KATHARINE EDMONDS
Associate Producers: CRAIG KALLMAN, RIGGS MORALES, SEAN PATRICK FLAHAVEN Keyboard And Electric Drum Rental ................................................... COHEN KEYBOARDS
and THOMAS KAIL Percussion Rental........................................................................................................... ERIC POLAND
A&R: PETE GANBARG AvantGrand Piano provided by Yamaha
A&R Administration: CRAIG ROSEN Questlove exclusively plays ModernCre8ve Table 001 April Writing Desk
Production Manager: JILL DELL’ABATE Series
Marketing For Atlantic Records: DIANE VADNAL
Assistant Engineers: TYLER HARTMAN, RON ROBINSON and EBONIE SMITH
Music Assistants: KHIYON HURSEY, MADELINE MYERS and JOSEPHINE BEARDEN
Mastered by TOM COYNE at STERLING SOUND, NYC
ACT I BURR
Well, the word got around, they said, “This
kid is insane, man”
for someone less
astute,
he woulda been dead
took up a collection just to send him to the or destitute
1. ALEXANDER mainland. without a cent of
HAMILTON “Get your education, don’t forget from whence restitution,
you came, and started workin’,
AARON BURR the world is gonna know your name. What’s clerkin’ for his late
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore your name, man?” mother’s landlord,
and a tradin’ sugar cane
Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a ALEXANDER HAMILTON and rum and all the
forgotten Alexander Hamilton. things he can’t afford
spot in the Caribbean by providence, My name is Alexander Hamilton. scammin’ for every
impoverished, in squalor, And there’s a million things I haven’t done, book he can get his COMPANY
grow up to be a hero and a scholar? but just you wait, just you wait . . . hands on, Scammin’
ELIZA HAMILTON plannin’ for the
JOHN LAURENS future see him now as
The ten-dollar founding father without a When he was ten his father split, full of it,
debt-ridden, he stands on Plannin’
father the bow of a ship Oooh…
got a lot farther by working a lot harder, two years later, see Alex and his mother
bed-ridden, headed for a new
by being a lot smarter, land,
by being a self-starter, half-dead sittin in their own sick,
the scent thick, In New York you can
by fourteen, they placed him in charge of a be a new man.
trading charter.
COMPANY COMPANY HAMILTON
THOMAS JEFFERSON And Alex got better but his mother went quick. In New York you can Just you wait!
And every day while slaves were being GEORGE be a new man—
slaughtered and carted WASHINGTON In New York you can Just you wait!
away across the waves, he struggled and kept Moved in with a be a new man—
his guard up. cousin, the cousin
Inside, he was longing for something to be committed suicide. COMPANY
a part of, Left him with nothin’ In New York you can be a new man—
the brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow but ruined pride,
or barter. WOMEN
something new inside, In New York—
JAMES MADISON a voice saying,
Then a hurricane came, and devastation “You gotta fend for COMPANY MEN
reigned, yourself.” “Alex, New York—
our man saw his future drip, dripping down he started retreatin’ you gotta fend for
the drain, and readin’ every yourself.” HAMILTON
put a pencil to his temple, connected it to treatise on the shelf. Just you wait!
his brain, BURR COMPANY
and he wrote his first refrain, a testament There would have Alexander Hamilton, COMPANY
to his pain. been nothin’ left Alexander Hamilton,
to do
We are waiting in the COMPANY So how’d you do it? How’d you graduate
wings for you. Waiting in the wings There’s a million things I haven’t done, so fast?
for you. but just you wait!
You could BURR
never back down, BURR It was my parents’ dying wish before they
you never learned to You never learned to What’s your name, man? passed.
take your time! take your time! COMPANY HAMILTON
Oh, Alexander Oh, Alexander Alexander Hamilton! You’re an orphan. Of course! I’m an orphan.
Hamilton Hamilton God, I wish there was a war!
Alexander Hamilton... Then we could prove that we’re worth more
When America sings than anyone bargained for…
for you America sings for you 2. AARON BURR, SIR
will they know what Will they know what COMPANY BURR
you overcame? you overcame? 1776. New York City. Can I buy you a drink?
Will they know you Will they know you
rewrote the game? rewrote the game? HAMILTON HAMILTON
The world will never The world will never Pardon me. Are you Aaron Burr, sir? That would be nice.
be the same, oh. be the same, oh.
BURR BURR
BURR That depends. Who’s asking? While we’re talking, let me offer you some
The ship is in the MEN free advice.
harbor now, see if Just you wait HAMILTON Talk less.
you can spot him. Oh, well, sure, sir,
Another immigrant, I’m Alexander Hamilton, I’m at your service, HAMILTON
comin’ up from the sir. What?
bottom. I have been looking for you.
His enemies COMPANY BURR
destroyed his rep, Just you wait BURR Smile more.
America forgot him I’m getting nervous.
HAMILTON
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE HAMILTON Ha.
We fought with him. Sir…
I heard your name at Princeton. I was seeking BURR
LAURENS an accelerated course of study when I got sort Don’t let them know what you’re against or
Me? I died for him. of out of sorts with a buddy of yours. I may what you’re for.
have punched him. It’s a blur, sir. He handles HAMILTON
WASHINGTON the financials?
Me? I trusted him. You can’t be serious.
BURR BURR
ELIZA/ANGELICA/MARIA REYNOLDS You punched the bursar.
Me? I loved him. You wanna get ahead?
HAMILTON HAMILTON
BURR Yes!
And me? I’m the damn fool that shot him. Yes.
I wanted to do what you did. Graduate in two,
then join the revolution. He looked at me like I BURR
was stupid, I’m not stupid. Fools who run their mouths off wind up dead.
LAURENS MULLIGAN tryin’ to reach my goal. My power of speech:
Yo yo yo yo yo! Aaron Burr! unimpeachable.
What time is it? Only nineteen but my mind is older.
LAURENS These New York City streets get colder, I
LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN Give us a verse, drop some knowledge! shoulder
Show time! ev’ry burden, ev’ry disadvantage
BURR I have learned to manage, I don’t have a gun
BURR Good luck with that: you’re takin’ a stand. to brandish,
…like I said… You spit. I’m ‘a sit. We’ll see where we land. I walk these streets famished.
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame.
LAURENS LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN But damn, it’s getting dark, so let me spell
Show time! Show time! Yo! Boooo! out the name,
LAURENS I am the—
I’m John Laurens in the place to be!
Two pints o’ Sam Adams, but I’m workin’ on Burr, the revolution’s imminent. What do HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/
three, uh! you stall for? LAURENS
Those redcoats don’t want it with me! A-l-e-x-a-n-d
Cuz I will pop chick-a pop these cops till HAMILTON e-r—we are—meant to be...
I’m free! If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you
fall for? HAMILTON
LAFAYETTE A colony that runs independently.
Oui oui, mon ami, je m’appelle Lafayette! Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin’ on us
The Lancelot of the revolutionary set! 3. MY SHOT endlessly.
I came from afar just to say “Bonsoir!” Essentially, they tax us relentlessly,
Tell the King “Casse toi!” Who’s the best? LAURENS MULLIGAN LAFAYETTE then King George turns around, runs a
C’est moi! Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, spending spree.
Who are you? He ain’t ever gonna set his descendants free,
MULLIGAN Who are you? so there will be a revolution in this century.
Brrrah brraaah! I am Hercules Mulligan, Who are you? Enter me!
Up in it, lovin’ it, yes I heard ya mother said
“Come again?” MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS
Lock up ya daughters and horses, of course Ooh, who is this kid? What’s he gonna do? (He says in parentheses)
it’s hard to have intercourse over four sets
of corsets… HAMILTON HAMILTON
I am not throwing away my shot! Don’t be shocked when your hist’ry book
LAURENS I am not throwing away my shot! mentions me.
No more sex, pour me another brew, son! Hey yo, I’m just like my country, I will lay down my life if it sets us free.
Let’s raise a couple more… I’m young, scrappy and hungry, Eventually, you’ll see my ascendancy,
and I’m not throwing away my shot!
LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN I’m ‘a get a scholarship to King’s College. HAMILTON LAURENS
To the revolution! I prob’ly shouldn’t brag, but dag, I amaze And I am not throwing My shot!
and astonish. away my shot.
LAURENS The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish. I am not throwing My shot!
Well, if it ain’t the prodigy of Princeton I gotta holler just to be heard. away my shot.
college! With every word, I drop knowledge! Hey yo, I’m just like
I’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece my country,
of coal
I’m young, scrappy HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/ I am not throwing away my shot.
and hungry MULLIGAN Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
and I’m not throwing And I’m not throwing Shot! I’m young, scrappy and hungry
away my shot. away my shot. and I’m not throwing away my shot.
BURR
HAMILTON/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/ Geniuses, lower your voices. LAURENS
LAFAYETTE You keep out of trouble and you double your Ev’rybody sing: HAM/LAF/MULL
I am not throwing away my shot. choices. Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
I am not throwing away my shot. I’m with you, but the situation is fraught. Hey!
Hey yo, I’m just like my country, You’ve got to be carefully taught: Whoa! Whoa!
I’m young, scrappy and hungry If you talk, you’re gonna get shot! Wooh!!
and I’m not throwing away my shot. Whoa! Whoa!
It’s time to take a shot! HAMILTON Ay, let ‘em hear ya!
Burr, check what we got. Let’s go! Yea!
LAFAYETTE Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot,
I dream of life without a monarchy. I think your pants look hot, COMPANY
The unrest in France will lead to ‘onarchy? Laurens, I like you a lot. I said shout it to the Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
‘Onarchy? How you say, how you say, ‘anarchy?’ Let’s hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin’ rooftops!
When I fight, I make the other side panicky. the pot... Said, to the rooftops! Whoa!
With my- What are the odds the gods would put us all Come on! Whoa!
in one spot, Come on, let’s go! Yea!
HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/ poppin’ a squat on conventional wisdom, like
LAURENS
MULLIGAN it or not,
Rise up!
Shot! a bunch of revolutionary manumission
abolitionists? When you’re living on
MULLIGAN Give me a position, show me where the your knees,
Yo, I’m a tailor’s apprentice, ammunition is! you rise up.
and I got y’all knuckleheads in loco parentis. Tell your brother that
I’m joining the rebellion cuz I know it’s my Oh, am I talkin’ too loud? he’s gotta rise up.
chance Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at Tell your sister that
to socially advance, instead of sewin’ some the mouth. she's gotta rise up.
pants! I never had a group of friends before, LAURENS AND
I’m gonna take a- I promise that I’ll make y’all proud. ENSEMBLE
HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/ When are these
LAURENS colonies gonna
MULLIGAN Let’s get this guy in front of a crowd.
Shot! rise up?
HAM/LAUR/LAF/MULL/ENSEMBLE When are these Whoa! Whoa!
LAURENS I am not throwing away my shot. colonies gonna
But we’ll never be truly free I am not throwing away my shot. rise up
until those in bondage have the same rights Hey yo, I’m just like my country, When are these Whoa!
as you and me, I’m young, scrappy and hungry colonies gonna
you and I. Do or die. Wait till I sally in and I’m not throwing away my shot. rise up
on a stallion with the first black battalion When are these Whoa!
have another- I am not throwing away my shot. colonies gonna
rise up?
Whoa! Hey yo, I’m just like my country, 4. THE STORY
Rise up! I’m young, scrappy and hungry OF TONIGHT
Rise up! and I’m not throwing away my shot.
HAMILTON/ HAMILTON
HAMILTON I may not live to see our glory!
I imagine death so much it feels more like LAURENS/
a memory LAFAYETTE/ LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS
When’s it gonna get me? MULLIGAN I may not live to see our glory!
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me? We’re gonna ENSEMBLE
comin’, do I run or do I let it be? rise up! Time to take Not throwing away HAMILTON
Is it like a beat without a melody? a shot! my shot. But I will gladly join the fight!
See, I never thought I’d live past twenty. We’re gonna
Where I come from some get half as many. rise up! Time to take Not throwing away LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS
Ask anybody why we livin’ fast and we a shot! my shot. But I will gladly join the fight!
laugh, reach for a flask, We’re gonna We’re gonna
we have to make this moment last, that’s
HAMILTON
rise up! And when our children tell our story...
plenty.
Rise up!
LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS
Scratch that, HAMILTON And when our children tell our story...
this is not a moment, it’s the movement Time to take a shot!
where all the hungriest brothers with Rise up! HAMILTON
something to prove went? Rise up! They’ll tell the story of tonight.
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand,
we roll like Moses, claimin’ our promised land. HAM/LAF/MULL/ MULLIGAN
And? If we win our independence? LAUR Let’s have another round tonight.
‘Zat a guarantee of freedom for our Time to take a shot! Rise up!
descendants? Rise up! LAFAYETTE
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless Take a shot! Let’s have another round tonight.
cycle of vengeance and death with no Shot! Ri- ri- ri
defendants? Shot!
HAMILTON
I know the action in the street is excitin’, Let’s have another round tonight.
A-yo, it’s
but Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ time to take a shot! Time to take a shot! LAURENS
I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’. Time to take a shot! Time to take a shot! Raise a glass to freedom,
We need to handle our financial situation. And I am– And I am– Something they can never take away,
Are we a nation of states? What’s the state of no matter what they tell you.
our nation? HAM/LAF/MULL/LAUR Raise a glass to the four of us.
I’m past patiently waitin’. I’m passionately Not throwin’ away my-
smashin’ every expectation, LAURENS/MULLIGAN
every action’s an act of creation! COMPANY Tomorrow there’ll be more of us.
I’m laughin’ in the face of casualties and Not throwin’ away my shot!
sorrow, MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS
for the first time, I’m thinkin’ past tomorrow, Telling the story of tonight.
HAMILTON AND COMPANY HAMILTON
And I am not throwing away my shot. They’ll tell the story of tonight.
I am not throwing away my shot.
LAURENS/MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE than going downtown and slummin’ it with PEGGY
Raise a glass to freedom, the poor. Daddy said not to go downtown.
something they can never take away. They pull up in their carriages and gawk
at the students in the common ELIZA
HAMILTON Just to watch them talk. Like I said, you’re free to go.
No matter what they tell you. Take Philip Schuyler: the man is loaded.
Uh-oh, but little does he know that ANGELICA
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE his daughters, Peggy, Angelica, Eliza But–look around, look around, the
Let’s have another round tonight. sneak into the city just to watch all the revolution’s happening in New York.
guys at—
LAURENS ELIZA/PEGGY
Raise a glass to the four of us. COMPANY New York.
Work, work!
HAMILTON/LAURENS/MULLIGAN/ COMPANY
LAFAYETTE ANGELICA Angelica
Tomorrow there’ll be more of us. Angelica!
SCHUYLER SISTERS AND COMPANY
HAMILTON/LAURENS COMPANY Work!
Telling the story of tonight Work, work!
PEGGY
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE ELIZA It’s bad enough daddy wants to go to war.
Let’s have another round tonight Eliza!
ELIZA
HAMILTON/ MULLIGAN/ PEGGY People shouting in the square.
LAURENS/ LAFAYETTE/ And Peggy!
ENSEMBLE ENSEMBLE PEGGY
They'll tell the story COMPANY It’s bad enough there’ll be violence on our
of tonight Work, work! shore.
Raise a glass to The Schuyler sisters!
freedom ANGELICA
They'll tell the story ANGELICA New ideas in the air.
of tonight Angelica!
Raise a glass to ANGELICA AND MALE ENSEMBLE
freedom PEGGY Look around, look around—
They'll tell the story Peggy!
of tonight
ELIZA
Angelica, remind me what we’re looking for…
They’ll tell the story of- ELIZA
Eliza!
FULL ENSEMBLE ALL MEN
COMPANY She’s lookin’ for me!
Tonight
Work!
ANGELICA COMPANY
PEGGY Eliza, I’m lookin’ Work, work!
5. THE SCHUYLER Daddy said to be home by sundown. for a mind at work.
SISTERS I’m lookin for a Work, work!
ANGELICA mind at work!
BURR Daddy doesn’t need to know. I’m lookin for a Work, work!
There’s nothing rich folks love more mind at work!
Whooaaaaa! WOMEN to be self Look around
Work! evident
ELIZA/ANGELICA/ that all men Hey! Hey!
PEGGY ELIZA are created
Whooaaaaa! Look around, look around at how equal Look around
Work! Work! Lucky we are to be alive right now! Whoo! Hey! Hey!
ELIZA/PEGGY At how lucky
BURR we are
Wooh! There’s nothin’ like summer in the city. Look around, look around at how
Lucky we are to be alive right now! to be alive Hey! Hey!
Someone in a rush next to someone lookin’ right now!
pretty.
Excuse me, miss, I know it’s not funny ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY FULL COMPANY
But your perfume smells like your daddy’s History is happening in Manhattan and we
just happen to be in the greatest city in the Look around, look around at how lucky we are
got money. to be alive right now!
Why you slummin’ in the city in your fancy heels world!
History is happening in Manhattan and we just
You searchin for an urchin who can give you happen to be
ideals? SCHUYLERS SISTERS AND COMPANY
In the greatest city in the world!
ALL WOMEN
ANGELICA ELIZA/ In the greatest city in the world
Burr, you disgust me. ANGELICA PEGGY MEN
BURR Cuz I’ve been Look around, Hey! Hey! Hey! ALL MEN
reading look around Hey! In the greatest city-
Ah, so you’ve discussed me.
I’m a trust fund, baby, you can trust me! Common COMPANY
Sense by In the greatest city in the world!
ANGELICA Thomas Paine.
I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas So men say The Hey! Hey! Hey! COMPANY
Paine. that I’m revolution’s Hey! Work, work! ANGELICA
So men say that I’m intense or I’m insane. intense or I’m happening in- Angelica!
You want a revolution? I want a revelation insane. Work, work!
So listen to my declaration:
ELIZA/ ELIZA
ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY ANGELICA PEGGY WOMEN Eliza!
“We hold these truths to be self-evident You want a New York!
That all men are created equal” revolution? PEGGY
I want a Look around, Work, work! And Peggy!
ANGELICA revelation look
And when I meet Thomas Jefferson, In New York! around the ANGELICA/ELIZA/
So listen revolution’s PEGGY
COMPANY to my happening The Schuyler sisters!
Unh! declaration: Work, work!
We’re looking for a
ANGELICA ANG/ELI/ mind at
I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the PEG Work, work! work!
sequel! We Hey!
hold these FEMALE Hey! Hey! Work, work!
truths ENSEMBLE Hey!
Work, work! revolution is comin’. Revolution, they HAMILTON
The Honestly, look at me, please don’t read!
ELIZA/ have-nots are gonna Have not your
COMPANY ANGELICA PEGGY win this, it’s interests at SEABURY
Work, work! Whoa! Hey! Hey! hard to listen to you heart. Not your interests—
Work, work! Hey! Hey! Hey! with a straight face.
In the greatest HAMILTON
Work, work! In the greatest Don’t modulate the key then not debate
Chaos and bloodshed Chaos and bloodshed with me!
city in the city in the already haunt are not
world world Why should a tiny island across the sea
us, honestly you A solution. regulate the price of tea?
shouldn't even
COMPANY talk. And what about Don’t let them lead
In the greatest city in the world! BURR
Boston? you Alexander, please!
Look at the
cost, n’ all that we’ve astray. HAMILTON
6. FARMER REFUTED lost n’ you talk Burr, I’d rather be divisive than indecisive,
about Congress?! This Congress does not drop the niceties.
SAMUEL SEABURY speak for
Hear ye, hear ye! My name is Samuel My dog speaks more me, ENSEMBLE
Seabury, and I present “Free Thoughts on the eloquently Silence! A message from the Kng!
Proceedings of the Continental Congress!” than thee! they’re playing a
Heed not the rabble who scream revolution, dangerous A message from the King!
they have not your interests at heart. But strangely, your game.
mange is the same. FULL COMPANY
MULLIGAN
Oh my God. Tear this dude apart. I pray the king shows A message from the King!
you his mercy.
SEABURY Is he in Jersey?
Chaos and bloodshed are not a solution. For shame, 7. YOU’LL BE BACK
Don’t let them lead you astray. For the
This Congress does not speak for me. revolution! KING GEORGE
For shame, You say
BURR the price of my love’s not a price that you’re
Let him be. COMPANY willing to pay.
For the You cry
SEABURY revolution! in your tea which you hurl in the sea when you
They’re playing a dangerous game. see me go by.
I pray the king shows you his mercy. SEABURY Why so sad?
For shame, for shame . . . Heed— Remember we made an arrangement when
you went away,
HAMILTON HAMILTON now you’re making me mad.
Yo! SEABURY If you repeat yourself again I’m gonna— Remember, despite our estrangement, I’m
He’d have you all Heed not the rabble your man.
unravel at the SEABURY/HAMILTON You’ll be back.
sound of screams Who scream Scream— Soon you’ll see.
but the You’ll remember you belong to me.
You’ll be back.
Time will tell. Da da dat dat da ya da! HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/
You’ll remember that I served you well. Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da da da da LAFAYETTE
Oceans rise, dat dat da ya da! Rise up!
empires fall,
we have seen each other through it all, HAMILTON
and when push 8. RIGHT HAND MAN Understand? It’s the only way to-
comes to shove,
I will send a fully armed battalion COMPANY HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/
to remind you of my love! British Admiral Howe’s got troops on the LAFAYETTE
water. Rise up! Rise up!
Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor.
Da da dat dat da ya da! HAMILTON
Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da, ENSEMBLE 1 Here he comes!
Da da dat dat da… Thirty-two thousand
troops in New York ENSEMBLE 2 ENSEMBLE
harbor. Thirty-two thousand Here comes the General!
You say our love is draining and you can’t
go on. troops in New York
When they surround harbor. BURR
You’ll be the one complaining when I am Ladies and gentlemen!
gone . . . our troops!
And no, don’t change the subject They surround our They surround our ENSEMBLE
cuz you’re my favorite subject. troops! troops! Here comes the General!
My sweet, submissive subject, When they surround They surround our
my loyal, royal subject, our troops! troops! BURR
forever and ever and ever and ever and ever… The moment you’ve been waiting for!
HAMILTON
You’ll be back, As a kid in the Caribbean I wished for a war. ENSEMBLE
like before. I knew that I was poor, Here comes the General!
I will fight the fight and win the war I knew it was the only way to-
for your love, BURR
HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/ The pride of Mount Vernon!
for your praise, LAFAYETTE
and I’ll love you till my dying days. Rise up!
When you’re gone ENSEMBLE
I’ll go mad, Here comes the general!
HAMILTON
so don’t throw away this thing we had. If they tell my story BURR
I am either gonna die on the battlefield in George Washington!
Cuz when push comes to shove, glory or-
I will kill your friends and family to remind WASHINGTON ENSEMBLE
you of my love. HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/ We are outgunned, What?
Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da LAFAYETTE outmanned, What?
Da da dat dat da ya da! Rise up! outnumbered, Buck, buck, buck, buck,
Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da outplanned. buck!
Da da dat dat- HAMILTON
Everybody! We will fight for this land We gotta make an
but there’s only one man all out stand
ENSEMBLE who can give us a command so we can- ayo, I’m gonna need Buck, buck, buck, buck,
Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da a right-hand man. buck!
WASHINGTON HAMILTON my forces, they’re skittish as the British cut
Check it— We gotta stop ‘em and rob ‘em the city up.
Can I be real a second? of their advantages. This close to giving up, facing mad scrutiny,
For just a millisecond? I scream in the face of this mass mutiny:
Let down my guard and tell the people how I MULLIGAN are these the men with which I am to defend
feel a second? Rah! America?
Now I’m the model of a modern major general, We ride at midnight, Manhattan in the
the venerated Virginian veteran whose men HAMILTON distance.
are all Let’s take a stand with the stamina God has I cannot be everywhere at once, people.
lining up, to put me up on a pedestal, granted us. I’m in dire need of assistance . . .
writin’ letters to relatives Hamilton won’t abandon ship,
embellishin’ my elegance and eloquence, Yo, let’s steal their cannons- BURR
but the elephant is in the room, Your excellency, sir!
MULLIGAN COMPANY
the truth is in ya face when ya hear the British Shh-boom! Boom!
cannons go... WASHINGTON
Who are you?
ENSEMBLE WASHINGTON
Goes the cannon, watch the blood and the shit BURR
Boom! spray and... Aaron Burr, Sir?
WASHINGTON Permission to state my case?
Any hope of success is fleeting,
COMPANY
Boom! WASHINGTON
how can I keep leading when the people I’m
leading keep retreating? As you were.
WASHINGTON
We put a stop to the bleeding as the British Goes the cannon, we’re abandonin’ Kips BURR
take Brooklyn, Bay and... Sir,
knight takes rook, but look, I was a captain under General Montgomery
COMPANY until he caught a bullet in the neck in Quebec,
WASHINGTON ENSEMBLE Boom!
We are outgunned, What? and well, in summary
outmanned, What? I think that I could be of some assistance.
WASHINGTON I admire how you keep firing on the British
outnumbered, There’s another ship and...
outplanned. Buck, buck, buck, buck, from a distance.
buck! COMPANY WASHINGTON
We gotta make an all Boom!
out stand Huh.
ayo, I’m gonna need a WASHINGTON BURR
right-hand man. We just lost the southern tip and... I have some questions, a couple of
COMPANY suggestions
Incoming! on how to fight instead of fleeing west.
Boom!
HAMILTON WASHINGTON
They’re battering down the Battery WASHINGTON
check the damages. We gotta run to Harlem quick, we can’t afford Yes?
another slip. BURR
MULLIGAN Guns and horses giddyup, Well-
Rah! I decide to divvy up
HAMILTON I know you stole British cannons when we WASHINGON AND COMPANY
Your excellency, you wanted to see me? were still downtown. We are outgunned, outmanned!
Nathaniel Green and Henry Knox wanted to
WASHINGTON hire you... HAMILTON
Hamilton, come in, have you met Burr? You need all the help you can get.
HAMILTON I have some friends. Laurens, Mulligan,
HAMILTON To be their Secretary? I don’t think so. Marquis de Lafayette, okay, what else?
Yes, sir.
WASHINGTON WASHINGTON AND COMPANY
HAMILTON AND BURR Why’re you upset? Outnumbered, outplanned!
We keep meeting.
HAMILTON HAMILTON
BURR I’m not— We’ll need some spies on the inside,
As I was saying, sir, I look forward to seeing Some King’s men who might let some things
your strategy play out. WASHINGTON slide.
It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a
WASHINGTON hunger. ELI/ANG/
Burr? I was just like you when I was younger. HAMILTON COMPANY PEG
Head full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr? I’ll write to Boom! Whoa, whoa,
BURR Congress and whoa…
Sir? HAMILTON tell ‘em we
Yes. need supplies,
WASHINGTON you rally the
Close the door on your way out. WASHINGTON guys, master
Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder. the element Whoa, whoa,
HAMILTON of surprise. Chicka-boom! whoa…
Have I done something wrong, sir? HAMILTON
Why are you telling me this? I’ll rise above
WASHINGTON
On the contrary. WASHINGTON my station,
I called you here because our odds are beyond I’m being honest. organize your
scary. I’m working with a third of what our Congress information
Your reputation precedes you, but I have has promised. ‘til we rise to
to laugh. We are a powder keg about to explode, the occasion ELI/ANG/
I need someone like you to lighten the load. So? of our new PEG AND
HAMILTON nation. Sir! WOMEN
Sir? COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON) Whoa, whoa,
I am not throwin’ away my shot! whoa…
WASHINGTON I am not throwin’ away my shot!
Hamilton, how come no one can get you on Ayo, I’m just like my country, I’m young, ENSEMBLE
their staff? scrappy and hungry! Here comes the General!
HAMILTON ELIZA
Treasury or State? Alexander…
WASHINGTON HAMILTON
I know it’s a lot to ask, I have to leave.
HAMILTON ELIZA
Treasury or State? Alexander–
ANGELICA
He will never be ELIZA
satisfied, What would be enough
he will
never be satisfied, To be
satisfied,
satisfied, satisfied, WASHINGTON
satisfied… satisfied… History has its BURR
eyes… Why do you assume you’re
the smartest in
on… the room?
Why do
Look around, you! you assume you’re the
smartest in the
look around! ENSEMBLE
room? Non-
Why do stop!
He will You assume you’re the
never be satisfied, Isn’t this smartest in the
room? Non-
satisfied, enough?
What would be enough? Soon that attitude’s stop!
satisfied… WASH/MUL/ LAUR/LAF gonna
History has its be your doom! Non-
eyes... Why do you stop!
fight
on... like you’re
you... running out of time? Non-
Why do you
Why do you fight like fight Why do you fight like stop!
like
history has its eyes on history has its eyes on history has its eyes on history has its eyes on history
you… you… you… you… has its
eyes on
you…
HAMILTON
I am not throwin’ away my MEN
shot! Just you wait!
I am not throwin’ away my FULL COMPANY
shot! Just you wait!
I am
Alexander Hamilton! Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton, just you wait!
I am not throwin’ away my shot!
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