Hamilton: An American Musical

Hamilton: An American Musical is a Musical about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The show, inspired by historian Ron Chernow's biography of Hamilton and incorporating hip-hop, rhythm and blues, pop music, soul music and traditional-style show tunes, has enjoyed enormous success both in the box office and among critics.

The musical made its Off-Broadway debut in February 2015, but moved up to Broadway by August. In 2016, Hamilton received a record-setting 16 Tony Awards nominations, winning 11, including Best Musical, and was also the recipient of the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is still bloody impossible to get tickets.

"Chorus: Here comes the General! Burr: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! Chorus: Here comes the General! Burr: THE MOMENT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! Chorus: Here comes the General! Burr: THE PRIDE OF MOUNT VERNON! Chorus: Here comes the General! Burr: GEOOOOOOOOORGE WASHINGTON!"
 * Child Prodigy:
 * Alexander Hamilton entered college in the United States as a teenager. He mentioned he was only able to because his neighbors raised a collection for him to afford the basic tuition fees. While he later drops out to join the war, he becomes an accomplished lawyer.
 * Aaron Burr is also mentioned to be this. Hamilton seeks him out in "Aaron Burr, Sir" to get his advice on completing college in a shorter timespan. Burr waves it off as
 * The Ditherer: Justified with Aaron Burr; in "Wait for It", he sings how he outlived his parents, but they both left high expectations for him. Everyone who loves him has died on him, and he's scared of what else he might lose if he takes further risks. Burr resents that Hamilton faced with the same drastic circumstances shows no regard for his life or for other people and yet seems to rise.
 * Driving Question: What is a legacy? How will we be remembered after we die? Both Hamilton and Burr struggle with this question throughout the play as their brief bond forms into a genuine friendship.
 * For Want of a Nail: It's shown a few times during the musical:
 * Both Burr and Hamilton court Angelica Schuyler, and both were eligible bachelors at the time. She turns down Burr because she doesn't like how he refers to her wealth as being attractive while reassuring her that he's not a gold-digger. Angelica did consider marrying Alexander, but then saw that Eliza was looking at him and whispered, "This one's mine." She thought about it, and introduced the two of them before giving them some alone time.
 * As Hamilton and later Angelica scathingly mention in her Cut Song "Congratulations", he ought to have gone on vacation with his family to upstate New York rather than stay to work at Congress. If he hadn't stayed at their apartment, Maria Reynolds wouldn't have come to him for help after her husband forced her into a blackmail scheme.
 * Hammy Herald: George Washington gets one in "Right-Hand Man" that is worthy of a WWE star.