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Hamilton take a break lyrics5/2/2023 ![]() “My first draft of this song ended here, but I revisited the tune after writing ‘Burn’ in Act Two,” Miranda writes. That’s when I realized our task was not to dramatize not two ideological opposites, but a fundamental difference in temperament. “t wasn’t til I read this detail online-that Theodosia was married to a British officer when Aaron Burr met her, and he waited until she was available-that the character of Burr came free in my imagination,” Miranda writes. Learning this key fact about Burr was a turning point for Miranda. You’re very kind, but I’m afraid it’s unlawful, sir. I wish you’d brought this special girl with you tonight, Burr. “Without blinking, he improv’d at me, ‘AThanks, Hugh Laurie.” Miranda wrote George III’s song while on honeymoon with his wife, sans piano. ![]() “I told him I wanted to write a breakup letter from King George to the colonies,” Miranda writes. Inspiration can strike at unexpected moments-like, say, when you’re having a drink with Hugh Laurie. (“I’ve got a bridge to sell you” became Laurens singing “No matter what they tell you…”) “When it came time to write this number for the show, that melody did everything I wanted this scene to do: It conveyed a yearning and innocence I felt in finding a group of friends to sing with me.” 4. “I had a doo-wop group with four other friends, and I’d written this song called ‘I’ve Got a Bridge to Sell You,’” he writes. In the annotations for “The Story of Tonight,” Miranda reveals that he wrote the melody for the song when he was just 16. “Just Hamilton’s luck to meet his temperamental opposite.”) 3. Miranda writes that Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow “blanched a bit at this historical leap-Hamilton wasn’t needlessly violent-but the rhyme was too good to pass up.” (The lyrical annotations for this song also contain the second reference to Harry Potter in Hamilton: The Revolution: “This whole section is basically Harry Potter meeting Draco Malfoy before meeting his real friends,” Miranda writes. “The image in my head is of Harry Potter finding out he’s a wizard. Midway through, “We double the tempo … because Hamilton’s found his way out: He’s going to double down on his education, and make himself undeniable,” Miranda writes. It famously took Miranda a year to write Hamilton’s opening number, which compresses the protagonist’s first 19 years into a single song. Through the informative and often delightful annotations, Miranda not only fact checks his work and explores how he felt writing the songs, but demonstrates how Hamilton changed over time. ![]() The book, co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, traces the creation of the groundbreaking Broadway musical chronologically, from its inception on vacation to its opening night, and features annotations to the libretto written by Miranda himself. ![]() After months of waiting, Hamilton: The Revolution-or, as fans call it, the #Hamiltome-finally hit stories today. ![]()
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