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Heres a little list of shit I loved live: 

Alexander is completely nonchalant and remorseless when he informs Burr that he punched someone, like he literally couldn’t care less. Burr is less so.

In “Shot”, Burr is literally just sitting in the back reading and ignoring everything else like its not even happening.

Burr buys the whole gang literal shots that they’re going clubbing

Hamilton and Laurens keep staring each other in the eye

Lafayette is a dirty enabler and so is Mulligans

When Burr convinces Hamilton to let Seabury be, Lafayette pushes Hamilton forwards again to tear Seabury down while Mulligan cheers. Laurens does not encourage Hamilton forwards but does also cheer.

Hamilton gets up on Seabury’s box with him and gets right in his face while Seabury tries to ignore him.

Angelica is so tired of these men and wants them to stop. Every time someone says anything misogynistic or offensive she just stares into the crowd like she’s staring into the camera on The Office.

After Alexander has gotten permission to marry Eliza, he starts doing a heavily hip-based dance similar to moves from Shot. When Phillip Schuyler sees, he just looks horrified.

When Hamilton says the line, “Angelica tried to take a bite of me”, Eliza despite being held lovingly by Alexander, briefly backwards, suddenly worried and looking for Angelica

At the wedding, Laurens and Angelica walked together and Peggy and Lafayette. While walking, Lafayette leans over and whispers something that is clearly dirty and Peggy walks away offended

Mulligans is a great flower girl

When under stress, Hamilton wears glasses. In Stay Alive, he’s wearing them at the beginning. 

In King George’s second song, he wanders onto the stage as everyone from Battle of Yorktown is still on stage and looks really disgusted as he does his best to avoid touching anybody else while walking to the front.

Hamilton loves his son so much, you can see it so clearly if Lin’s acting and singing. Holy shit, he loves Phillip.

The complete 180 and shock in Hamilton from “Dear Theodosia” to Eliza telling him that Laurens is dead broke me a little inside for good

Jefferson, when first introduced, starts calling for more applause from the audience

Hamilton just cuts in front of Washington when introducing himself to Jefferson in “What Did I Miss” to shake Jefferson’s hand and Washington takes him aside to scold him like a tired dad who just can’t seem to teach their kid manners

Jefferson, at the end of his part of Cabinet Battle 1, literally drops the mic, but into Madison’s waiting hands as if they fucking rehearsed it before hand. Either that or Madison just knows Jefferson too well. Either way, I’m glad they didn’t actually drop the mic bc that shit is delicate and expensive.

In Jefferson’s part of Cabinet Battle 1, everyone is laughing and during Hamilton’s shit got real

In the beginning of Hamilton’s part in Cabinet Battle 1, Washington looks proud and occasionally leans over to the guy next to him, as if he was a proud parent at his kids recital going, “That’s my kid!”. By the end he is horrified and so very tired.

How tired Washington looked when Hamilton said that “Jefferson started it”

When practicing piano, Phillaps keeps slouching and when they get to the end he shouts done and pouts

After giving his rap he cheers and then runs off (presumably to dinner)

Someone in sound forgot to open Phillip’s mic in Schuyler Defeated but I could still hear the line, though faint. Broadway stars are good at projecting their voices and it makes me bitter that high schoolers don’t project well or take good care of microphones. 

The parallel between when Washington first hires Hamilton by handing him a quill and then in “One Last Time” where he hands Hamilton a quill again, but with their sides reversed as he asks Hamilton to help him write his farewell address.

When Madison yells the line “Which I wrote!”, he’s looking back at the direction where Hamilton and Washington walked offstage and looking really offended.

When Burr is reading the letter and gets to the point where it says “Ghat was my wife you decided to (fuck)”, Jefferson runs over to see.

Jefferson started bouncing up and down on the desk in Reynolds Pamphlets as if by the power of his ass alone. I’m still not sure how he did it without his hands.

Jefferson started making it rain with Reynolds pamphlets and King George joined in 

The stage manager accidentally popped out a little too much from the hole he has at the front of the stage while handing prop pamphlets to Jefferson and immediately ducked back under when he noticed

In Blow Us All Away, when Phillip says the line, “The ladies say that’s not where the resemblance stops”, he thrusts his hips forward and motions downwards with him hands and raises his eyebrows with a shit-eating grin.

When Phillip goes to Alexander for dueling advice, Hamilton is wearing his glasses. 

Never does Hamilton think that his son is going to die, not even once despite going off to a duel. Never once could Alexander imagine his son dying despite thinking about his own demise all the time.

Phillip dies stroking his mother’s hair and holding his father’s hand.

Eliza screaming “No!” and sobbing over her dead son’s body

Alexander breaking down into senseless sobbing when Eliza holds his hand and forgives him is heartbreaking and beautiful. The fucking raw emotion Miranda manages to get is incredible and I don’t know how he does it, let alone twice a day most days a week.

Alexander just trying to fucking mind his own business as everyone asks for his opinion. He keeps repeating, “it’s quiet uptown” and walking off with his head down but they keep following the poor man who just wants peace. All throughout this scene, he’s wearing his glasses.

As they all sing, “If you had to choose…choose, choose,” Alexander is alone on the second level, leaning over the railing with his glass looking between Burr and Jefferson who are in spotlights on either side of the stage.

When Alexander says he supports Jefferson, Burr’s smile doesn’t drop immediately. Instead he freezes, like he can’t believe what he’s heard.

As the ensemble is complaining about Jefferson and complimenting Burr, the man in question is just hunched over listening and punches the air like an excited child at the end when they voice their approval of him

Jefferson shaking his head, offended by the very idea when Madison proposes getting Hamilton;s support.

In Obedient Servant, Alexander and Burr are exchanging letters and when it comes to Hamilton, he just keep writing and writing and Burr stares at the growing pile of letters in his hand tiredly. Ensemble members keep handing Burr page after page and, a cast member dances and pretends to flutter wings with the last two pages as Burr waits with soulless eyes. Burr is so tired but Hamilton just keeps writing. By the end he has a stack at least half a foot thick and he doesn’t even read them, he just throws them behind him.

Burr just looks dead inside at the line, “Here’s an itemized list of thirty years of disagreements.” 

Hamilton, in the end is wearing his glasses when he dies. The same glasses he survived Fort Knox with, the same glasses that he wore when he had an affair, the same glasses he had on as he worked nonstop to try to block out John Lauren’s death, the same glasses he wore when he sent his son off to the duel, and the same glasses he wore in the aftermath.

Eliza, at the end of the musical, gives this loud gasp as she’s facing the audience. Either its symbolic of her dying and joining Hamilton as thats the first time she sees his face again despite dancing around him for half the song or she’s seeing the audience and realizing that she did enough.

Other Things:

Burr’s lighting is squares and Hamilton’s is circles

The orchestral backtrack to this musical is fucking amazing

Broadway drinks are always expensive as hell but they come with a nice souvenir cup to keep, even the small alcoholic glasses were souvenir cups with the same design and everything

The woman next to me was full on sobbing and so was I. We laughed about it afterwards.

If you bought merch at the begining, your bag said “Good luck after the show” on it which says a lot.