The Powers That Be: Alright, the next big fandom craze will be *spins wheel* a rap-musical about *throws dart* Alexander Hamilton
The lyrics to “Satisfied” — in which Angelica Schuyler recounts how Hamilton and her sister Eliza met and married — are some of the most intricate I’ve ever written. I can’t even rap them, but Renee Elise Goldsberry, who plays Angelica — that’s her conversational speed. That’s how fast she thinks. You really get the sense that Angelica’s the smartest person in the room, and she reads Hamilton within a moment of meeting him.
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
Is this where it gets me, on my feet, several feet ahead of me?
I see it coming, do I run or fire my gun or let it be?
There is no beat, no melody
Leslie has a 10000 IQ rating from annotating the lyrics on Genius. Every syllable is annotated. She knows things Chernow never found.
Lin won’t open his dressing room door unless he can see it’s not “that woman who won’t stop yelling ‘WHERE’S ELIZA’S SEQUEL’” at him.
One morning when they open the theater while in previews, the stage manager finds cardboard boxes filled with personalized binders for each member of the ensemble/chorus, with detailed biographies of lesser known Revolutionary people Leslie matched them up with so they wouldn’t be character-less.
She’s attended the show seventeen times already and has tickets booked through next summer. SHE WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED.
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