![]() One two three four five six seven eight nine! ![]() Good! Un deux trois quatre Cinq six sept huit neuf Un deux trois quatre Cinq six sept huit neuf Hamilton is available to watch on Disney+ from July 3.Un deux trois quatre Cinq six sept huit neuf But just thinking about what we want to leave behind after we’re gone is a good place to start. Not bad for a ‘bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean’.Īspiring to such legacies ourselves might be pushing it. Now the globe-conquering show that bears his name can be added to that list. The orphanage still exists today in the form of the Graham Windham organization.Īs well as the orphanage, Hamilton’s legacy includes the New York Post, which he founded, and he’s immortalised in his portrait which adorns the ten-dollar bill. It’s the part of his legacy she says she’s proudest of - but as director of the orphanage for 27 years, it’s part of her legacy, too. In memory of Hamilton, the orphan, she went on to establish the first private orphanage in New York. This song is all about the lengths Eliza went to make his legacy a reality. The show’s gut-wrenching final song gives us another way of putting it: ‘Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story’. In a script annotation, he says: ‘I think we all dream - or it might just be me - that when we pass on, the people we love are going to keep us alive in some way, whether that’s talking about us or keeping our picture up.’ A legacy to be proud of There’s no doubt that Miranda, like Hamilton, is a man who values leaving a legacy. At that moment, he chooses to focus on his family, not his legacy. He ultimately never returns to public life. Following Philip’s death, he withdraws from politics and instead moves uptown for a quiet life of walks and churchgoing. The grief is a turning point for Hamilton. In act two, ‘It’s Quiet Uptown’ is a powerful song of loss - specifically, the death of Hamilton and Eliza’s son, Philip. Just stay alive, that would be enough.’Įliza is fighting an uphill battle against Hamilton’s ego, and it takes a tragedy to change his ways. ‘The fact that you’re alive is a miracle. There are times when some try to pull Hamilton back from his self-obsession. In ‘That Would be Enough ’, his wife Eliza tries to remind him not to focus on his legacy at the expense of living in the moment with his family: When Hamilton pleads: ‘Why do you have to say goodbye?’, Washington replies: ‘If I say goodbye the nation learns to move on, it outlives me when I’m gone.’ A choice between legacy and love Later, as the older and wiser George Washington prepares to end his tenure as president in ‘One Last Time’, he explains to Hamilton that he’s stepping down for the good of one part of his legacy - the United States of America. Miranda says about these lines: ‘In a song about legacy, we begin with Hamilton and Burr bitching about how the guy who doesn’t even survive the war gets a street named after him, while they’re still alive and hustling.’ It sounds like Burr and Hamilton might actually be jealous of the dead man, just because of a street name. ‘That’s a lot less work’, Hamilton quips back. ‘The Mercer legacy is secure’, Burr says. ‘The Room Where it Happens’ starts with Burr and Hamilton discussing how a nearby street has been renamed Mercer Street in honour of General Mercer, who was killed in the revolutionary war: An obsession with legacy is one of the many things Hamilton and Burr have in common. Hamilton isn’t the only character who has a legacy on his mind. We have to make this moment last, that's plenty.’ See, I never thought I'd live past twentyĪsk anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask If I see it comin', do I run or do I let it be? ‘I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory In a moment of quiet in ‘My Shot’, Hamilton sings: According to Miranda, there’s plenty of scope for an autobiographical interpretation of death’s haunting presence. ![]() It’s clear that Hamilton is acutely aware of his mortality, and it’s a key driving force behind his ambition. I will lay down my life if it sets us freeĮventually, you’ll see my ascendancy’ ‘The ticking clock of mortality is loud in both our ears, and it sets us to work’ ‘Don’t be shocked when your history book mentions me Over and over again, he declares: ‘I am not throwing away my shot!’ Perhaps this trauma is one of the reasons why, two songs later, the newly-arrived New Yorker Hamilton blasts out his big intention for his new life.
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