History Trivia / Hamilton

* A scene featuring George Washington passing away was initially included in the musical. Had the scene remained, the line "I hear wailing in the street" would have been sung by Hamilton, before Burr would later reprise the line in "The World Was Wide Enough".

* EnforcedMethodActing: Jonathan Groff has been quite open about how he's a "naturally wet" guy, prone to massive drooling when he has to play big emotional moments. This fits quite well with his playing King George, who was noted for the same thing during his mental breakdown.

* TheOtherMarty: The workshop reading had only a handful of the same cast members from the OBC. Among the notable differences: Creator/UtkarshAmbudkar played Burr, Creator/AnikaNoniRose played Angelica, Creator/JoshuaHenry (who would later play Burr in the first US tour) played Mulligan, Madison ''and'' King George, and Javier Muñoz played Laurens/Philip.

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

** 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 ''Film/OneNightInMiami''.
** Daveed Diggs would go on to make prominent appearances in cinema and TV, even getting to star in, write, and produce his own film (''Film/{{Blindspotting}}'').

* 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, unfortunately, this is untrue. After the duel, it was discovered that Hamilton's shot hit a tree directly behind Burr, meaning that while it's still possible that he did intentionally miss, he didn't aim in the air to do so.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: At the Adrienne Arsht Center performance of the play, the conductor and orchestra pit is too far from the stage for Jefferson to hand a copy of the Reynolds Pamphlet to the conductor. Instead, the conductor reveals he already has a copy and waves it. Still hilarious and doubles as ThrowItIn.

** One of the drafts for "The World was Wide Enough" showed us Hamilton's thoughts in the same style as Burr's immediately after Burr's segment with a sort of rewind. It also had a few different lines for Burr, showing him to be more hesitant about the duel initially only beginning to take it seriously because he saw Hamilton was wearing his glasses. And it the aforementioned second half, we see that Alexander only brought his glasses so he could see Burr's face. Misinterpreting what he saw, he figured that Burr, who hated dueling, wouldn't seriously try to shoot him so he could just throw away his shot and they could go home. The changes make the affair out to be a tragic misunderstanding compred to the final product where Burr is more blinded by his anger towards Hamilton and Hamilton throws his shot away more out of moral and legacy concerns.

* FanNickname:
** Not a fan-invented nickname, but it's relatively common in the fandom to just refer to Alexander Hamilton as just "Alex," "Hams" or "Hammie" (Or, thanks to his PassiveAggressiveKombat in "Your Obedient Servant", "A.Ham".)
** Peggy Schuyler is often referred to as "AND PEGGY!" thanks to the meme around that line.
** [[Series/ParksAndRecreation Human Disaster]] Aaron Burr.
** Thomas Jefferson is sometimes semi-affectionately referred to as "T-Jeffs", either for the sake of brevity or because Thomas Jefferson would probably hate that, and the significantly ''less'' affectionate, "Thomas Jefferson: America's Original Fuckboy". James Madison is similarly referred to as "J-Mads".
*** Due to allegedly being so enamoured with Mac'n'Cheese that he brought tons of it to America, many refer to Jefferson as a "Macaroni Fucker".
** Hamilton, Laurens, Lafayette and Mulligan are referred to as "The Hamilsquad".
** Lafayette is often called a "Large Baguette", since they sound very similar and he's portrayed as [[MauriceChevalierAccent stereotypically French]].
** The cast album is often called "Hamiltunes" by fans and Lin alike.
** "Smol Philip" for nine-year-old Philip Hamilton, particularly in fan art and videos.
** In some circles, the show itself is jokingly referred to as ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory - TheMusical''.
** The filmed performance of the show quickly gained the name "Hamilfilm".

** Copies of the Chernow biography (the source for the show) now have "Inspiration for the hit musical Hamilton" stickers on them, and newer editions use the show's poster as the cover. It's also a common joke in the fandom that reading the biography is shorthand for "I can't afford tickets to Hamilton." Copies of the book have also been sold in the lobby of the theater.

* CreatorPreferredAdaptation: Ron Chernow, who wrote the Hamilton biography that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda in the first place, was initially skeptical about making a musical from Hamilton's life, but changed his mind after his first meeting with Miranda, who stressed that he wanted ''Hamilton'' to be taken seriously by historians and asked Chernow to help him develop the script. [[http://www.newsweek.com/hamilton-biographer-ron-chernow-502295 Chernow said]] his skepticism melted the moment he heard Miranda's first song, and was completely on board afterwards. He's supposedly seen the show dozens of times, always as a paying customer.

* DevelopmentHell: Miranda has noted that for a while he was managing to write only one song for the show each ''year''. It took seven years to complete.

* KillerApp: The live recording brought in many people to Creator/DisneyPlus, as the service's app got downloaded 266,084 times (an increase of 72% compared to the whole previous month!) and one month later, 37.1% of subscribers had watched the film.
* MeaningfulReleaseDate: The July 3 Disney+ release date falls on the last Friday before Independence Day in the US. It is also the day the Declaration was signed and right after the Lee Declaration on July 2. John Adams even wrote the third would be treated as the "true" Independence Day.

** 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]].

** Daveed Diggs would go on to make prominent appearances in cinema and TV, even getting to star in, write, and produce his own film Film/{{Blindspotting}}.

* ActorAllusion: The Script makes sure that the Afro-American Actor that play UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson is given the ONE mention of Slavery in the Prologue. ("And every day while Slaves were being slaughtered and carted away,he kept his guard up!") and that the Actress who play Eliza talks about Alexander's Mother's Death.

** He was also delighted with the Music/WeirdAlYankovic parody "Hamilton Polka".

* CastIncest: Jasmine Cephas-Jones (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds) and Anthony Ramos (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton) are engaged. Peggy is Philip's aunt.

* 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 (not to mention the original play and all of Broadway).

* ActorAllusion: The Script makes sure that the Afro-American Actor that play UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson is given the ONE mention of Slavery in the Prologue. ("And every day while Slaves were being slaughtered and carted away,he kept his guard up!") and that the Actress who play Eliza mentions Alexander's Mother.

* ActorAllusion: The Script makes sure that the Afro-American Actor that play UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson is given the ONE mention of Slavery in the Prologue. ("And every day while Slaves were being slaughtered and carted away,he kept his guard up!")

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

* ActorAllusion: The Script makes sure that the Afro-American Actor that play UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson (pretty much the ArchEnemy Founding Father amongst Black Americans) is given 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