Why does King George sing alone?
Why does King George return for this short reprise?
What inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to write this song?
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Every song in Hamilton is connected... except ONE.
There Are 2 Lines in the Hamilton Songs that I Don't Understand.
What is meant by the lyrics “I wasn’t aware that was something a person could do” in “I know him?”
Most songs are connected to each other. Either by specific lyrics, instrumental segments (sorry, not a music guy, no idea what to call them), even titles.
Alexander Hamilton, A Winter's Ball, Guns & Ships, What'd I Miss, The Adams Administration, & Your Obedient Servant all start with "How Does"
Schuyler Sisters, The Story of Tonight, Stay Alive, & Cabinet Battle have sequels/reprise. You'll Be Back having two.
The World Was Wide Enough "samples' The Ten Duel Commandments.
The Reynolds Pamphlet carries some of Angelica's iconic lines from Satisfied.
The Room Where It Happens samples Wait For It.
BOWABOW samples It's Quiet Uptown.
Heck, Non-Stop samples a crap ton of Act 1. (Hey, that rhymes, nice.)
And many many more connections that I am too lazy to enumerate... But please, have fun in the comments finishing the list.
Back to the point, all songs carry off from other songs. EXCEPT ONE.
That being...
Can you guess?
FARMER REFUTED.
Searched through the whole soundtrack, and no lyrics from this song are repeated, and it doesn't repeat lyrics from previous songs, no instrumental segments, are carried into this, nor are there any from this song that are carried into others. At least not significant enough for me to notice.
You could say the line "For the revolution" could count, but I don't, because it is not said in that specific way in any other song. The line may be common, but it's not like, say "Rise up".
But alas, I am only human, therefore, I make mistakes. So feel free to correct me (politely, hopefully) or to add to any of the lists in here.
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I haven't seen the production on stage...yet...but I was able to see a bootleg copy of the entire production. A lot of the points that I didn't understand when I was only listening to the soundtrack were cleared up, but there are 2 that are still a mystery to me. Maybe someone out there in Redditland can help me out.
King George in I Know Him " ♪ John Adams? / I know him. / That can't be. / That's that little guy who spoke to me / All those years ago, / What was it? '85? / That poor man. They're going to eat him ALIVE ♫ "
I always assumed the actor who played John Adams was onstage with King George during You'll Be Back, so when King Gorge says 'that little guy' I thought it was referring to that song.
But no, King George is alone onstage in all 3 songs...so when did King George meet John Adams? This may be a historical point that has flown RIGHT over my head 'cause not only do I not like history, but I'm Canadian, so not much American history was taught in school.
Hamilton (to Philip) in Blow Us All Away - " ♫ To take someone's life, that is something you can't shake / Phillip, you mother can't take another heartbreak. ♪ "
I always thought this line would be made clearer watching the show, but I'm still a little confused. Your husband having an affair, that's heartbreak sure, but the way the line is worded and spoken made it seem much more devastating.
Then I thought she also had to deal with her sister moving to London and her father loosing the senate seat, and those are...painful I guess, but I wouldn't consider them heart braking.
Then I thought maybe Peggy dies (in the play...all these points are from the stage production only, so please don't point out that Angelica was married when she met Alexander, and Philip actually had brothers etc)...that would be heart breaking but I don't think LMM meant for Peggy to be killed off in Act II, just not mentioned ever again.
I hope this isn't too long, but I can't seem to make a concise and informative TLDR.
Edit - For those of us that haven't seen the show, I wanted to tell you this. For me, the production was more or less what I pictured in my head when I listen to the soundtrack. There are not a lot of speaking parts (that are not in the soundtrack), so pretty much the soundtrack IS the musical. Like Les Mis, and to a lesser extent Phantom.
The only part that I would say was very unexpected was when Burr would solo (like in Dear Theadosia, not Burr, Sir), the actor is fairly stationary. I didn't like this...until The Room Where It Happened came on...then Burr is animated and mobile. As I thought about it, this makes PERFECT sense for the character of Burr. He 'stands still' until he gets so agitated by Hamilton that he 'starts to move'.