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After listening to Hamilton for the first time: Oh wow so many words how did the cast memorize all those fast raps
After listening to Hamilton for the 1000th time: I mean yeah you can buy The soundtrack if you want but I can just sing the whole show to you right now start to finish nbd but whatever you prefer let me know HOW DOES A BASTARD ORPHAN
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The Bullet, an ensemble member with nothing to separate her from the rest but a poof of curls at the top of her head, morphs not only into a Greek Chorus member, but into a signal of death approaching until she eventually (historical spoiler alert:) approaches Hamilton at the end of the show as an embodiment of the shot that killed him.
At the start, the Bullet is indistinguishable from her fellow ensemble members. Most of the ensemble steps into the spotlight a couple times, though, as everything from named historical figures like Samuel Seabury and James Reynolds to small speaking roles, and the Bullet is no different. After “You’ll Be Back,” she steps forward for the first time as a spy receiving a letter, only to have her neck snapped by a redcoat and become the first death of the revolution. However, unlike the rest of the ensemble, who return to the anonymous chorus until their next role, the Bullet never seems to leave that first moment behind. Her next appearance as a singular character is in “Stay Alive,” when she becomes the actual Bullet for the first time as she passes Hamilton by at the sound of the gunshot at the top of the song, and from that moment on, every second she is allowed the audience’s full or even partial attention, she becomes a harbinger of death.
Though her connection to death is most apparent in Act II, she is absolutely present and aware of his role as the Bullet from the beginning. When asked about playing the Bullet in an interview with “The Great Discontent,” Ariana DeBose, the original Bullet, said, “I always know I’m aiming for him—even if the rest of the ensemble members don’t. So even if I’m just a lady in a ball gown at a party, there’s still a part of my character that knows that that moment is going to come.” Even when the spotlight is not on her, every moment the Bullet is onstage has significance. Whether it’s in "My Shot,” when the ensemble unfreezes one by one as Hamilton moves toward them during his first recitation of the “I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory” monologue and the Bullet is the last one to move, her hand still outstretched toward Hamilton as he steps in front of her, or it’s in “Ten Duel Commandments,” when the ensemble lines up between Hamilton and Burr, singing, “Pick a place to die where it’s high and dry,” and the Bullet places herself directly at Hamilton’s side, the connection between them is already being formed. Knowing that the Bullet is fully aware of the final meeting she and Hamilton are hurtling toward makes the short moment in “Ten Duel Commandments” when Hamilton looks at her lining up beside him, the only time he ever seems to truly see her before his final moments, and the pair stand side by side for numbers six and seven of the Commandments, moving through the choreography in sync, feel hugely significant in a way it never would otherwise.
Several songs later, during “Yorktown,” she kills a redcoat with Laurens in South Carolina. They celebrate for a brief moment before she returns to the ensemble, and the show moves on. It until three songs later that the audience and Hamilton learn that Laurens was shot and killed in South Carolina not long after the fighting ended. It is a short and easily dismissed interaction, but this is the first moment that her actions are entwined in someone’s death. This quick look the Bullet and Laurens share in “Yorktown” begins to feel like Laurens sealing his fate with a handshake in retrospect.
This quick tie the Bullet forms with a person as they are about to die becomes extremely important in the second act, when she really steps into her role as the Bullet. Her spoken lines, though few, are particularly significant, as every one of them eventually leads to someone getting shot – namely, Philip and Hamilton. In “Blow Us All Away,” she tells Philip exactly where to find George Eaker, the man who will kill him, singing, “I saw him just up Broadway, couple of blocks. He was going to see a play.” Philip follows her directions and challenges him to the duel that will kill him. Her only other spoken line is as one of Burr’s supporters in "The Election of 1800,” when she says, “I can’t believe we’re here with him” and flashes Burr a large, hopeful smile. Burr leaves the exchange with a fist pump, believing he has the election in the bag, only to have that hope ripped away when Hamilton’s support of Jefferson leads to him losing the presidency and challenging Hamilton to the duel the whole show has been foreshadowing. At the start of “Your Obedient Servant,” when Burr actually challenges Hamilton, the Bullet actually pulls Burr’s desk onto the stage and hands him his quill so that he can begin his fateful letters, edging his toward the battlefield. Every action she takes ensures that Hamilton meets her one last time.
Once she has successfully gotten the pair to pull their guns on each other’s, she appears for a final time as the actual bullet, slowly approaching Hamilton throughout the entirety of his final monologue and coming dangerously close to him as he moves, scatter-brained, across the stage. Halfway through, he steps right in her path, turns back and stumbles out of the way, and as he frantically repeats, “Rise up, rise up, rise up,” she lunges for him, only to be pulled back by another ensemble member as Eliza steps in her path. Once Hamilton has been shot, she joins the ensemble once again, satisfied that the path she’s been on since the beginning has come to an end.
The Piece Of Foreshadowing In ‘Hamilton’ That Everyone Misses (Odyssey Online)
(via thefederalistfreestyle)
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i have finished the college au from hell
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Helpless
Hamilton: Eliza, I don't have a dollar to my name, an acre of land, a troop to command...
*pauses to glare at Washington*
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burr: hey angelica whats your number?
angelica, visibly texting: i dont have a phone
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she has had un-deux-trois-quatre-cinq-six-sept-huit-neuf of your shit, alexander
bonus:
Raise your hand if you don’t know wether to laugh or cry🙋🏻
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So listen to my declaration: "We hold these truths to be self-evident That all men are created equal" And when I meet Thomas Jefferson I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel!
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#SQUADGOALS
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really quick doodle of his royal brittish yandere.
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hamilton cast → jasmine cephas jones
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from the table in the corner they could see a world reborn
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Basically
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HARRILTON: A Wizarding Musical
WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT
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your fave is problematic: phillipa soo
- cheekbones way too sharp
- hair always extremely soft and nice looking
- does tons of charity work ?? like ???
- was the first to jump up and cheer for the person who won an award she was nominated for
- portrays eliza schuyler hamilton who was a known to be progressive and generous
- loves being called a cinnamon roll
- is a cinnamon roll
- rides her bike through new york ?? like that’s so dangerous and eco friendly ??
- had a bowl-esque cut as a baby
- gigGLEs
- gardens (in new york ?? who does that ??)
- likes peach tea ?? why peach ?????
- has j groff officiating her wedding
- tried to bleep out the word ‘fucker’ during a live performance
- is extremely close with her female coworkers
- impersonates emojis and occasionally warms up by beatboxing
- went to julliard
- sike ! she’s the cutest button on this planet, way too good for the world
- do u think she would adopt me ???
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i don’t know what i expected but i am not upset