History Trivia / Hamilton

* ActorAllusion: The Script makes sure that the Afro-American Actor that play Creator/ThomasJefferson (pretty much the ArchEnemy Founding Father amongst Black Americans) the ONE mention of Slavery in the Prologue. ("And every day while Slaves were being slaughtered and carted away,he kept his guard up!")Är

!!Real-life stage musical (''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'')

* RomanceOnTheSet: Daveed Diggs (OBC Lafayette/Jefferson) and Emmy Raver-Lampmann (OBC Ensemble, Chicago cast Angelica) met and started dating during the Original Broadway run.

** In 2020, Miranda released a CutSong called “I Have This Friend” which was originally the lead-up to the Reynolds Pamphlet before being replaced with "Hurricane," where Hamilton asks Washington’s advice and is told to just ignore any accusations, only to not listen and publish the Pamphlet. He explained that it seemed like too much of a "one joke" song, and the moment should be treated more seriously.

* {{Improv}}:
** In "The Room Where it Happens", Burr's line "Congress is fighting over where to put the capital" is followed by incomprehensible shouting from the chorus who were told they could shout any location they wanted but preferably somewhere in the Thirteen Colonies. Lin-Manuel Miranda has noted that even he's not sure if the cast followed that instruction.
** Choreography-wise, the reason why the last third of "The Reynolds Pamphlet" is such complete chaos because it's complete improvisation - in essence, as long as no one directly touches Hamilton or gets in King George's way while he's walking, everyone can do whatever they want.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: During 'You'll be Back' on the cast album, Creator/JonathanGroff slips back into his American accent a few times ("You'll be the one complaining when I am gone...")

* ShownTheirWork: Two of the lines from "The Reynolds Pamphlet", "My real crime is an amorous connection with his wife" and "I had frequent meetings with her, most of them in my own house", are lifted verbatim from the real life document. A third, "the charge against me is a connection with one James Reynolds for purposes of improper (pecuniary) speculation", is only missing the one parenthetical word.

** Leslie Odom Jr. gained steady work with major roles in film and television while also focusing on his career as a musician, later picking up award buzz for both his acting and songwriting for One Night in Miami.

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!!Hypothetical stage musical based on events of the real-life ''Hamilton'' fanwork ''Fanfic/ItFeelsMoreLikeAMemory'' (''Fanfic/{{Hamilton}}'')
* AdaptationSequence:
** Out of universe: Historical events → historians’ interpretations of those events, including Ron Chernow’s → ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', mostly based off of Chernow’s interpretation of the historical events → ''Fanfic/ItFeelsMoreLikeAMemory'' → ''Hamilton''.
** InUniverse: Historical events → historians’ interpretations of those events → ''Hamilton''.
* ApprovalOfGod: The author expresses their approval of another [[RecursiveFanfiction fan-written]] musical based on the events of Aaron's second lifetime in ''it feels more like a memory'', ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18169913/chapters/42971864 IFMLAM musical, round 2]]'', in a [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/218497469 comment]] they left on the work.
* InspirationForTheWork:
** Out of universe, someone asked the author if they ever think about what the musical ''Hamilton'' would look like in the second timeline of ''it feels more like a memory'', and what stance people would take on a historical debate over those second timeline events (which became history In-Universe). The author replied with the musical synopsis and WordOfGod about it and its reception, and what the debates over those historical events would look like.
** In-Universe, in-universe historical events inspired the work.
* SelfAdaptation: Out of universe, ''Hamilton'' is savrenim’s adaptation of chapters 7–27 of their fanfic ''it feels more like a memory''.

* SelfAdaptation: Out of universe, ''Burr: An American Musical'' is savrenim’s adaptation of their fanfic ''it feels more like a memory''.

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* RealitySubtext: Not quite intentional, but Javier Muñoz's turn as Hamilton (as Lin's alternate and eventual replacement) is almost certainly colored by the fact that he is HIV+ and had cancer ''during the first year of the show''. "I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory" indeed.

** Creator/LinManuelMiranda was already known in the theatre community after ''Theatre/InTheHeights'', but much like the show itself, he exploded in popularity, effectively becoming a bonafide A-lister, consistently working afterwards as an [[RenaissanceMan actor, composer, producer, and director.]]
** Leslie Odom Jr. gained steady work with major roles in film and television while also focusing on his career as a musician, later picking up award buzz for both his acting and song writing for One Night in Miami.

** Creator/LinManuelMiranda was already known in the theatre community after Theatre/InTheHeights, but much like the show itself, he exploded in popularity, effectively becoming a bonafide A-lister, consistently working afterwards as an [[RenaissanceMan actor, composer, producer, and director.]]

* BillingDisplacement: Of a sort. The curtain call has only Hamilton and Eliza's actors gettin individual bows, with everyone else (including those two) bowing together. It makes sense for Hamilton since it's his story, but Eliza being the only other now is odd considering that Burr is the second largest role and he doesn't receive one. Eliza's bow could be chalked up to leading the final number which also places her right in front of the audience at the end, but it still gives off the wrong impression of the leading parts' sizes.

* BeamMeUpScotty: This show goes with (and repopularized) the idea that Hamilton aimed at the sky during his duel with Burr. The idea has some genuine following in academic circles since his pre-duel notes imply that he never intended to shoot Burr (and his historically good aim lends some credence to the idea that he missed on purpose), but there really is no way to know what happened. We do know that both Hamilton and Burr fired their guns once, but the other two men present couldn't see where Hamilton aimed before he was hit, so while it's possible that he fired in the air there's simply no way to know for certain.

* {{Improv}}: Choreography-wise, the reason why the last third of "The Reynolds Pamphlet" is such complete chaos because it's complete improvisation - in essence, as long as no one directly touches Hamilton or gets in King George's way while he's walking, everyone can do whatever they want.

* {{Defictionalization}}: Of a sort. After describing Washington in the casting notice as "John Legend meets Mufasa," Legend himself covered "History Has Its Eyes on You" for ''Music/TheHamiltonMixtape.'' [[note]] And his original actor played Mufasa on Broadway. [[/note]] Similarly, Eliza's casting description is "Music/AliciaKeys meets Elphaba." Keys performed Eliza's song "That Would Be Enough" on the Mixtape.

* {{Defictionalization}}: Of a sort. After describing Washington in the casting notice as "John Legend meets Mufasa," Legend himself covered "History Has Its Eyes on You" for ''Music/TheHamiltonMixtape.'' [[note]] And his original actor played Mufasa on Broadway. [[/note]] Similarly, Eliza's casting description is "AliciaKeys meets Elphaba." Keys performed Eliza's song "That Would Be Enough" on the Mixtape.

* ReleaseDateChange: In February 2020, Disney announced that they would be releasing a filmed performance of the show (recorded in 2016 with the original Broadway cast) to theaters in October 2021 with a Creator/DisneyPlus release to follow soon after. Three months later the theatrical release was scuttled for just a Disney+ release, which was moved up to July 3 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic throwing the state of movie theaters in flux.

* ShownTheirWork: Two of the lines from "The Reynolds Pamphlet", "My real crime is an amorous connection with his wife" and "I had frequent meetings with her, most of them in my own house", are lifted verbatim from the real life document.

* ShownTheirWork: Two of the lines from "The Reynolds Pamphlet", "My real crime is an amorous connection with his wife" and "I had frequent meetings with her, most of them in my own house" are lifted verbatim from the real life document.