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The ending gasp is supposed to be left to the imagination. Its either her dying gasp as she passes away, or her seeing the crowd and seeing that the story was told. Most people feel the latter.

@ovinedreamer1451

Жыл бұрын

Most people also agree it's not Alexander taking her by the hand, it's Lin showing her that their story gets told.

@amandaturner4991

Жыл бұрын

I read an interview where Lin said that the gasp is for each Eliza to interpret and then Phillipa piggybacked off of that and said it was different for her on different nights. I thought that was super interesting.

Eliza's final gasp is left to interpretation but many of us like to think that it is a surprise to see that her story was told, that's why it's called Hamilton, because it's the story of Alexander and Eliza. By the way, did you notice how Burr served as the narrator of the story? he said it himself, he became the villain of Alexander's story and it became like a "punishment" to have to tell the story of his enemy over and over again

All of the Hamilton family are buried in the graveyard at Trinity Church, which was where a lot of the people in New York on 9/11 hid from the debris raining down. The orphanage still exists.

@tiamarrow6366

Жыл бұрын

Actually not all of his family…Phillip Hamilton is apparently buried underneath the street next to the church because he was the one who initiated the duel that killed him, and since he came from a prominent and wealthy family….that was probably looked down upon,

The orphanage part gets me every single time. I'd like to think this musical is about Eliza just as it is about Alexander. And yes, she did all those things, she was a remarkable woman. And Lin told us their story.

This play is a beautiful cathartic mess of a man's rise and fall, and a woman's ceaseless effort to use what time she was given to pick up what Alexander ran out of time to do. You experience the upward spiral of the Revolution, and the cliffdrop of the second act. It's not even a drifting down, it's a straight plummet that keeps going deeper the longer it goes. And yet, Eliza is the hope at the end, that everything will be remembered, that we can all come from deep tragedy and find strength again. A reminder to take our time; don't wait for it, but don't charge in, either. So long as we move forward, that would be enough. Thank you for sharing your experience with this musical on your channel. It's why people seek out Hamilton reactions, because the impact of this musical feels so personal, and you get to relive that experience by seeing someone ELSE experience it for the first time. The time it takes to react/record, edit, and upload is no small task. So, thank you. :D

@SugarcatPlays

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed it is!!!

I watched Hamilton many times, some days I’m more emotional than other days but no matter what from 5:29 on I can’t hold back any tears, it’s just sobbing and crying from there…

Once Eliza started singing I was weeping!!!

@smk828

2 жыл бұрын

Like a baby!!! Every time. 😭

The play is called Hamilton and not Alexander Hamilton because it is the story if Eliza as well

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I'm so happy you got it right away! I love Eliza's gasp and her "seeing" the audience and knowing Alexander's story was told and through it, so was hers.

This never fails to make cry, even in public. I'm a mess

@srslyboomer

2 жыл бұрын

So say we all :)

@SugarcatPlays

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry!!!

@srslyboomer

2 жыл бұрын

@@SugarcatPlays Nah - we have a saying on our house, "Honor your tears" - they're just a sign you're feeling the universe. This is a brilliant piece of art, and I watch reactors seeing it as a way of getting a tiny bit of that "first time watching" feeling again. We're all crying along with you, because it's what we're all here for :) Thanks for sharing with all us Internet Randos!

Choosing to fire your gun in the air during a duel is known as "throwing away your shot" which brings a whole double meaning to the phrase. In the end, Burr didn't wait and Hamilton did, in fact, throw away his shot.

I always take her final gasp as her realizing that they are telling her story. She’s been asking for a while “will they tell your story?”, which is an irony since we are watching their story.

And once you read some interviews with LMM and Cherkow (the guy who wrote the book that inspired this), this story was only possible becsuse of Eliza because she did keep all those records (you know except for the ones she destroyed) and this is kind of more her story

The orphanage she founded still exists! It's Graham Windham now and focuses on family services. They did a show for the families and workers and when she sings "Have I done enough" for the last time the kids, who'd been practicing for weeks, sang back "Eliza you have done enough!" Nearly broke her.

That gasp at the end is up to the interpretation of each actress playing Eliza-- is she seeing heaven? God?Alexander?-- but one of the most often cited interpretations (and I think, my favorite) is that she is indeed seeing across time and generations to view the audience hearing her story being told right now in the theater.

Regarding the Laurence/Philip part - now go back to the first song in the play, and notice the double meaning of the "we fought with him" line - it's delivered by Daveed and Oak who play Lafayette and Mulligan in the first act (so the line can be interpreted as "we fought alongside him") and Jefferson and Madison in the second act ("we fought against him"). Absolute brilliant. (Some also argue the "i died for him" line also applied for both characters, Laurence/Philip, but although they both die in the play, i don't really think they died "for" him)

@MLoreley

2 жыл бұрын

Harder with Laurens to pair it, but with Philip, he died trying to defend his father's honor, so there's at least a grain of truth in "I died for him" there.

@trinasp

2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping someone pointed that out!

Thank you for still posting your reaction to the musical here. Your reactions have truly made my hamilton heart happy.

Another great, emotion-filled reaction from you! It was so genuine, and so my reaction when I saw this show. I got to see a great cast in Dallas and again in Fort Worth, but nothing conveyed the emotions I felt when I watched this on Disney+. I was a blubbering mess at that gasp at the end. My interpretation is that she gasped because she realized her story was being told. Throughout the whole play, we focused on Hamilton’s legacy, but her legacy was just as impressive and important. She did all that. I believe the orphanage is still open but I think I read it’s a children’s home. I also never look at the Washington monument the same when I go to DC. Good job on all your reactions! Thank you for sharing them with us!

my personal interpretation of the end of who lives who dies who tells your story is that when lin approaches the eliza, that's exactly who he is, he's no longer hamilton, he's lin manuel miranda, he's showing eliza the audience, all the people who came to see her and hamilton's story, and that's why she gasps.

@belzvaldez19

2 жыл бұрын

okay now im crying

@trinasp

2 жыл бұрын

I love that! Never looked at it that way, I always thought it was her realizing and reacting to the audience for listening to her story, but not the Lin part of showing Eliza that. I will forever think of it that way! Thanks!

@trinasp

2 жыл бұрын

I love that! Never looked at it that way, I always thought it was her realizing and reacting to the audience for listening to her story, but not the Lin part of showing Eliza that. I will forever think of it that way! Thanks!

Since you wanted to know what we would like to see you reacting to: Tick, Tick,...BOOM. First movie directed by LMM and very personal to him. It is about Jonathan Larson who wrote Rent. LMM has said in many interviews without Larson and Rent there would be no Hamilton, since he decided he wanted to write musicals when he first saw Rent on hin 17th birthday.

Oh god, every time I listen to these last two songs I can't help but end up in a mess of tears. And yeah, every Eliza (performed by each actress) has their own interpretation of the final gasp, but I do agree (or at least is my favorite interpretation) that at the end is not Alex who presents Eliza, is Lin, showing her to the audience and letting her know that her story was told many years later. Thanks for your reaction to the songs! It's been a long ride, but I truly enjoyed your commentary.

@SugarcatPlays

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Much more to come!

When Phillipa “Eliza” says that she lived another 50 years that hits so different because she was 47 when Alexander died and when she died….she was 97 years old. She lived so long and accomplished everything that was stated in that last song. As for the gasp…some think it’s her dying breath aka“her time was up” hence why she was worried if she would run out of time, and wouldn’t be able to finish telling Alex’s story. Some also say it was Eliza seeing that the 4th wall had been broken and her story had been told (the crowd was the 4th wall) and others say that she was seeing her loved ones in heaven because sadly, throughout most of her adulthood life, she was always in mourning, and for wealthy families back then, when a loved ones died, they wore black all year round…For Eliza….not only did she lose Alex and then her father a year later, but when her son Phillip Schuyler died…he died the same year but a few months after Peggy died. Peggy didn’t live a long, or political life which is why there’s not a lot of info on her…..she married very young (she married into the family of her mother’s relatives the Van Rensselaer’s and ironically Angelica, Eliza and Peggy’s younger brother John Schuyler (their parent’s had 3 sons named John but only the 3rd one lived to adulthood) married Elizabeth Van Rensaeeler, who was the sister of Peggy’s husband) when Peggy died….Alexander was by her side age sent Eliza letters letting her know

I´m sure people have already mentioned this, but I don´t see it here so... In the end, Hamilton threw away his shot, and Burr did not wait... Lin Manuel Miranda is a genius.

@SugarcatPlays

Жыл бұрын

Isn't it incredible!

Amazing end to this masterpiece 💗

And now it's time for the breakdown of what you've learned since you started this journey followed by all of the extras that we keep throwing at you (since all true Hamilton/Lin fans can always seem to be NonStop... sorry, I had to) especially the Ham4Hams.

@SugarcatPlays

2 жыл бұрын

There is SO much more Hamilton coming don't worry lol

The world was wide enough's studio version sounds better. I am aware that Leslie Odom Jr was probably very tired because of all the moving and singing, but in the theatrical version there is barely any emotion to the way he delivers the rap verses

Another great, emotion-filled reaction from you! It was so genuine, and so my reaction when I saw this show. I got to see a great cast in Dallas and again in Fort Worth, but nothing conveyed the emotions I felt when I watched this on Disney+. I was a blubbering mess at that gasp at the end. My interpretation is that she gasped because she realized her story was being told. Throughout the whole play, we focused on Hamilton’s legacy, but her legacy was just as impressive and important. She did all that. I believe the orphanage is still open but I think I read it’s a children’s home. I also never look at the Washington monument the same when I go to DC. Good job on all your reactions! Thank you for sharing them with us!