Songs
Lin Manuel Miranda
Who wrote the musical?
What is Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?
Alexander's last line in the show.
What is raise a glass to freedom?
This actor's spit helped personify the character as a psychopath.
Who is Jonathan Groff?
This president invited the cast of Hamilton to perform at the White House.
Who is Barrack OBama?
Aaron Burr sings about a woman who is waiting for her husband's death, which explains why she already has one foot out the door.
What is Wait For It?
This song is Burr listing all the reasons that they're in the spotlight right now.
What is A Winter's Ball?
This song was written so we could meet the awesome women in the cast before Hamilton meets them.
What is the Schuyler Sisters?
This character never found out if the United States won the war because he was killed once he went down to South Carolina after Yorktown.
Who is John Laurens?
Jonathan Groff wore this color at the Hamilten Tony Awards Presentation
What is red?
This song contains the couplet with the fastest set of lyrics in Broadway history.
What is Guns and Ships?
While writing this song, Lin forgot that Phillip had 15 children. However, this ended up strengthening the song's dramatic tension because of a sense of responsibility that falls on the singer's shoulders.
What is Satisfied?
This song was originally written as a Burr monologue when Hamilton was still a concept album. However, once Lin realized he was writing an actual musical, he chose to separate the monologue among the cast of Hamilton.
What is Alexander Hamilton?
Lin couldn't choose between playing this character and Hamlton.
Who is Aaron Burr?
A daily lottery that contestants could enter for a chance to win front row seats to Hamilton, in case they couldn't afford them. An outdoor performance by the cast of Hamilton usually accompanied the lottery in order to promote the former.
What is Ham 4 Ham?
The name of this song is based on a how-to guide to illegal activities from the 90's.
Ten Duel Commandments
(Based on Ten Crack Commandments)
What is Helpless?
Lin got the idea to write this song from Joel Ortiz's Big Pun Tribute, where he basically goes in on every Big Pun tune, uses the same syllables, but tells his own story on them
What is Farmer Refuted?
The number of songs in the musical and how old Alexander was when he was shot.
What is 47?
An in-depth analysis of lyrics from the show that is released every once in a while in order to show the audience how much effort was put into the writing of this musical
What is Genius Lyric Breakdown?
This song shows Angelica Shuyler confronting Hamilton about his affair.
What is Congratulations?
This is a cut song that talks about the woman who died in Valley Forge, as referenced in "Stay Alive."
What is Valley Forge?
This song took a whole year to write because Lin wanted to replicate the style of the super fun, party rap of the 80's.
What is My shot?
This character is death personified and, after her death in You'll Be Back, she begins to forshadow the deaths of several characters through her interactions.
Who is the bullet?
Lin wrote this song on his honeymoon.
What is You'll Be Back?