History ShoutOut / Hamilton

* In Ham4Ham, the Cabinet Battle #1 was redone as a WalkAndTalk... in the White House.

** The last line of the song ("No one needs to know") and the way it is sung are a ShoutOut to the musical ''The Last Five Years''.

* "Ten Duel Commandments" is one giant reference to [[Music/NotoriousBig "Ten Crack Commandments"]].

* The Hamiltome describes a line in "Satisfied" ("At least my dear Eliza's his wife/at least I keep his eyes in my life") as "trying to out-Eponine Eponine", referring to the ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' character noted for her ballad of unrequited love. That phrasing is extra meaningful/hilarious when you remember it's a (likely deliberate) takeoff on a line from Theatre/{{Hamlet}}.

* The Hamiltome describes a line in "Satisfied" ("At least my dear Eliza's his wife/at least I keep his eyes in my life") as "trying to out-Eponine Eponine", referring to the ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' character noted for her ballad of unrequited love.

** Probably unintentional, but it can call to mind a linefrom ''RENT'' ("I'm 19, but old for my age...")

** Probably unintentional, but it can call to mind a linefrom ''Theatre/RENT'' ("I'm 19, but old for my age...")

* In "The Adams Administration", "Sit down, John, you fat [[CurseCutShort motherf]]--" is one to the opening number of ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'', in tune as well as words (at least until Hamilton goes off-script and starts shouting profanities).

* In subject and delivery, Burr's opening lines are similar to parts of "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, whereas his meeting with the Schuyler sisters is a nod to The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City".

* The repeated chorus of "New York, New York!" (in "Alexander Hamilton" and, later, "The Schuyler Sisters") is reminiscent of several other odes about the city, notably "Empire State of Mind" by Music/JayZ feat. Music/AliciaKeys.
* "America sings for you" is a possible nod to "I Hear America Singing", one of the poems from Creator/WaltWhitman's ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass''.

* In "Satisfied", Angelica compares her instant connection with Hamilton to Ben Franklin's Key Experiment.
* The Hamiltome describes a line in "Satisfied" ("At least my dear Eliza's his wife/at least I keep his eyes in my life") as "trying to out-Eponine Eponine", referring to the ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' character noted for her ballad of unrequited love.

* In "Take a Break", Hamilton and Angelica both quote from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', and Hamilton draws parallels between the play and his life.
* Angelica's lines in "Take a Break:" "I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase/It changed the meaning. Did you intend this?" reference TheWestWing, which discusses a comma or a "smudge of justice" noticed by Toby that Constitutional scholars acknowledge can change the meaning of the Takings Clause in the 5th Amendment.

* "We Know" revolves around the phrase "Follow the money" from ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen''.

* The lines "No one really knows how the game is played / The art of the game / How the sausage gets made" could also be an allusion to "Series/TheWestWing"; in "Five Votes Down" Leo comments, "There are two things in the world you never want to let people see how you make 'em - laws and sausages."

* Hamilton quotes the theologian St Augustine when he says: "Hate the sin, love the sinner".

* The staging of the scene, with several members of the ensemble holding a tabletop for Hamilton to write on and peering over it to see what he’s writing, recalls the late-19th-century painting “Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto” by Russian artist Ilya Repin.

* "This is not a moment, it's a movement" is a reference to #blacklivesmatter.

* In "The Room Where It Happens" the phrase "click boom and it happens" is a reference to, of all things, Click Click Boom by Saliva.

* Mulligan's "Brrrrah! Brrrah!" is a mimickry of the sound of a rapidly firing gun - very common for hip-hop songs.

* In "The Adams Administration", "Sit down, John, you fat [[CurseCutShort motherf]]--" is one to the opening number of ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''.

* Lin-Manuel Miranda [[WordOfGod has confirmed]] that the structure of the show (an ideological clash between a narrator antagonist and a tragic protagonist) was inspired by ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'' and its Judas/Jesus dynamic.

* "Yorktown" (and, later, "What'd I Miss?") reference “the American experiment”, a phase originally coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in his ''Democracy in America''.
* "Yorktown" utiilizes several lines from "The World Turned Upside Down", a British drinking song sung by the defeated party during their retreat from Yorktown.

** In the original cast recording, the way Jonathan Groff intones "Everybody!" at the end of "You'll be Back" is meant to imitate to John Lennon in "All You Need Is Love."