History ShoutOut / Hamilton

* "Sweet Jesus" is the catchphrase of custodian McNair in ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'', and here delivered with the same inflection.

* The cut song "Valley Forge," which was included where "Stay Alive" is in the finished show, features the line, "I've seen the best minds of my generation/Waste away on pestilence and starvation" - a clear reference to Creator/AllenGinsberg's ''Literature/{{Howl}}''.

* In Ham4Ham, the Cabinet Battle #1 was redone as a WalkAndTalk... [[Series/TheWestWing in the White House.]]

* In "Take a Break", Hamilton and Angelica both quote from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', and Hamilton draws parallels between the play and his life. For those who know [[TheScottishPlay what saying that name in a theater entails]], it’s no surprise when everything after this gets worse and worse for Hamilton.

* In "Take a Break", Hamilton and Angelica both quote from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', and Hamilton draws parallels between the play and his life.

* Jefferson's "Such a blunder/Sometimes it makes me wonder/Why I even bring the thunder" in "Cabinet Battle #1" parallels the hook of "The Message," "It's like a jungle/Sometimes it makes me wonder/How I keep from going under."

* WordOfGod confirms that Hamilton's "I'm a diamond in the rough" is a nod to ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''.

* "Only 19, but my mind is old(er)" is a quote from Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Pt II". It can also, probably unintentionally, call to mind a line from ''RENT'' ("I'm 19, but old for my age...")

* The line "No one really knows how the game is played / The art of the trade / How the sausage gets made" is probably a reference to Otto von Bismarck's quote "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."

* Washington's introduction quotes from "Modern Major-General’s Song" (''Theatre/PiratesOfPenzance''), albeit with some of the lyrics modified, and with a completely different meaning than Gilbert and Sullivan used.

* Those same lines also reference an mistake Angelica made in a real-life letter to Hamilton: writing "My dear, sir" instead of "My dear sir." (He replied with "my dear seur," my dear sister in French.)

* The line "two virginians and an immigrant walk into a room" is styled after a popular "walk into a bar" type of joke.

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

** The reprise playing when Laurens dies brings "Empty chairs, empty tables" to mind, with "Tomorrow there'll be more of us" being answered by "But tomorrow never came."

* "Only 19, but my mind is old(er)" is a quote from Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Pt II".
** Probably unintentional, but it can call to mind a line from ''RENT'' ("I'm 19, but old for my age...")

* 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." It is a quote often attributed to UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck (although most likely uttered first by John Godfrey Saxe).

* The line "No one really knows how the game is played / The art of the game / How the sausage gets made" is probably a reference to Otto von Bismarck's quote "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."

* Washington's introduction quotes from "Modern Major-General’s Song" (''Theatre/PiratesOfPenzance''), albeit with some of the lyrics modified.

* 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."

* Lafayette self-identifies with Lancelot, and his introductory lines bring to mind Lancelot's "C'Est Moi" from ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}''.

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* Many songs either paraphrase or quote verbatim real-life documents, letters and pamphlets - most prominently "A Farmer Refuted", "Right-Hand Man", "One Last Time" (Washington's Farewell Address), and "The Reynolds Pamphlet".

* The way Hamilton spells out his name is a reference to how Music/TheNotoriousBig does the same thing in "Going Back to Cali".

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

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* In "The Election of 1800" Burr is described as someone you could have a beer with, while Jefferson was an elitist "in love with France". These were descriptions of the candidates for the 2004 election, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and UsefulNotes/JohnKerry.

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* All three King George numbers are quite [[Music/TheBeatles beatlesque]], borrowing from the melodies of "Penny Lane", "Getting Better" and "For the Benefit of Mr Kite".