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the signs as things that happen onstage in hamilton

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Aries: A dancer representing a bullet firing from a gun twice- once missing Hamilton during ‘Stay Alive’, once hitting him during ‘The World Was Wide Enough’.
Taurus: Jefferson making sure to show Phillip the Reynolds Pamphlet, Phillip looking up at Hamilton before hurrying offstage.
Gemini: King George dancing and clapping during the Reynolds Pamphlet. He’s taunting Hamilton right there with everyone else.
Cancer: Eliza stepping between Hamilton and Burr and holding her hand out to her husband as he says “My love, take your time.”
Leo: Not one step of choreography during ‘Wait For It.’ Just Burr singing with the ensemble in chairs.
Virgo: The company doing the choreography from ‘My Shot’ during Hamilton’s last a cappella verse.
Libra: The scene between ‘Dear Theodosia’ and ‘Non-Stop’ when Hamilton learns of Laurens’ death through a letter from his father. Lafayette and Mulligan receiving the same letter at the same time on the upper level of the set.
Scorpio: Eliza dropping her head down onto Phillip’s body at the end of ‘Stay Alive Reprise’. Hamilton putting his hand on hers and her jerking it away immediately.
Sagittarius: Angelica watching Hamilton in Farmer Refuted, transfixed, from the upper level of the set. Her stepping forward and seeming as if she’s going to try to speak to Hamilton, before the yell of “SILENCE!” interrupts the scene.
Capricorn: Hamilton standing center stage in the eye of the ‘Hurricane’- while the company lifts chairs, tables and each other through the air around him in super slow motion.
Aquarius: Jefferson dropping his mic after his verse in ‘Cabinet Battle #1’, and it being caught by Madison right before it can hit the floor.
Pisces: Maria Reynolds being present onstage in almost every song between ‘Say No To This’ and ‘The Reynolds Pamphlet’.

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Letter from Angelica Church to her brother Philip J. Schuyler, July 11, 1804.

My dear Brother – I have the painful task to inform you that General Hamilton was this morning woun[d]ed by that wretch Burr but we have every reason to hope that he will recover. May I advice that you repair immediately to my father, as perhaps he may wish to come down — my dear Sister bears with saintlike fortitude this affliction. The town is in consternation, and there exists only the expression of grief & Indignation. Adieu my dear Brother remember me to Sally, ever yours – A Church

note: “Mere hours after the duel, Angelica Church writes in haste to her brother Philip Schuyler to break the news to him, expressing her futile hope that Hamilton would recover. The hasty scrawl of her handwriting suggests the degree of her distress.” [source]

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At this point on stage, Hamilton appears next to Eliza, much to her happiness and amazement, as if this is the moment of her death. In fact, after the final note fades, the last sound heard is Eliza’s gasp—perhaps her last breath, or her joy at her dying vision of Alexander waiting for her—as the theater goes dark.

By the end of the show, the title, Hamilton, refers to Eliza Hamilton as much as Alexander Hamilton. It opened by describing Alexander’s birth, so it’s appropriate for it to end with the death of Eliza, the one who told so much of both of their stories.

As the New Yorker describes it: ‘In the show’s final moment, he motions Eliza to the lip of the stage, where she steps beyond him and takes the light. The last image we see is of her awestruck face, gazing out into some blissful beyond.‘ I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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In this song, Eliza becomes the extradiegetic narrator (lit. narrating from outside the world of the story). So in a way, she is literally looking out into the theater and seeing the crowds of people that have come to see and hear her and her husband’s story in this amazing play that’s being performed for packed audiences and turning the entire world of theater on its head. THEY’RE TELLING YOUR STORY. YOU MADE IT, GIRL, YOU MADE IT.

annotations on the genius.com page for who lives who dies who tells your story 

(i am definitely crying) 

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Broadway isn’t the only place to give “Hamilton” a spin.

The show’s hip-hop, rap and R&B songs are fueling city workouts.

On Friday at 5 p.m., riders can work out to the infectious rap and R&B rhythms Hamilton: A Hip-Hop Musical Ride at Soul Cycle on W. 77th St.

Like Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical, the class is sold out.

“I love ‘Hamilton.’ I love spinning,” says theater press agent Molly Barnett, 30. “My birthday’s on Friday. What better way to spend it.”

Seats at $34 a pop became available on Monday at noon. “I set my alarm to reserve my spot and all the available bikes disappeared in seconds.”

Work! Broadway hit ‘Hamilton’ drives a Soul Cycle ride (NY Daily News)

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“Does the fact that Hamilton’s widow lived fifty years after his death make the tragedy worse?”

Chernow: “Yes, and with the added poignancy that at the time of Hamilton’s death, seven of their eight children were also still alive, the eighth having died in a duel three years earlier. One of the things that I was most at pains to do was to edit Eliza Hamilton back into the story, because she tried so hard to edit herself out. She ran the New York Orphan Asylum Society for several decades. I dug out all the records, and she wasn’t just lending her name to it — she was really running it — dealing with the finance committee, arbitrating disputes — and it frustrated me that there was this missing founding mother. She is usually mentioned as a weak, religious, weepy, neurasthenic woman — as if she hadn’t done anything. In fact, she was a strong, gutsy lady who was still mentally sharp and active until the end of her life.”

Kenneth Jackson and Valerie Paley, An Interview With Ron Chernow
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