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Aaron Burrp, Sir Leslie Odom, Jr. on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | May 27, 2016

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Like I know there’s many pieces of information that are more problematic when people assume that Hamilton is history, but one of the worst ones for me is people actually thinking that Hamilton aimed at the sky, and I have no fucking clue why

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HE WAS TRYING OK WE’RE ALL TRYING JENNIFER IT’S HARD

to be fair he aimed at a tree…. which is…. almost the sky

but then again, burr most likely aimed at his hip…. which is…. almost his liver

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Well I mean nobody exactly knew what happened, if Hamilton was actually aiming at the tree or if that hair trigger made him misfire. Plus the tree was like….right past burrs head wasn’t it like I don’t think it was way above him

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MKAY TIME TO MATH IT UP:

Pendleton’s amended version of the statement includes him going back to the site and figuring out where the hell the shot went. It reads:

“the ball passed through the limb of a cedar tree, at an elevation of about twelve feet and a half, perpendicularly from the ground, between thirteen and fourteen feet from the mark on which General Hamilton stood, and about four feet wide of the direct line between him and Col. Burr, on the right side; he having fallen on the left.”

I’m going to start with an analysis that is purely height which means we can do it in a plane, woohoo, take it from the physics major every time you can reduce a dimension it’s fun. I drew you all a picture so you can follow along:

The thing that we care about is how high the bullet went over Burr’s head (the variable x), the thing that we have is “distance of Ham from the tree, height of Ham, height of Burr, height of where the bullet hit the tree,” and I’m going to say that Hamilton’s arm was held about four feet high because I’m lazy but it’s not too hard to adjust that where it appears in the formula if you want, that just changes the angle theta slightly. The fact that people stand straight and trees are basically straight and bullets fly straight means that “Ham to tree” and “Ham to above Burr’s head” are similar triangles!!!!, so the angle of bullet hitting stuff is the same, and then you just use tan(\theta)=(opposite)/(adjacent); this is the “toa” of “soh-cah-toa” if you ever learned that. I couldn’t find anywhere the actual distance of how far they were standing apart, so I left that as another variable “y” that y’all can also play with, but I plugged in a few reasonable possibilities for “distance between Hamilton and Burr” and you get the following numbers:

8 feet away–>bullet is 0.34 feet below Burr’s head 10 feet away–>bullet is 0.965 feet above Burr’s head 12 feet away–>bullet is 2.275 feet above Burr’s head

What about the four feet to the left thing? Make the same sort of setup with the triangles, the angle is going to be 72.9 degrees, and it’s a much simpler y/tan(72.9)=x because you don’t have to adjust for Burr’s height and idk I’m lazy so I didn’t bother adjusting for Burr’s width he wasn’t that wide okay, plug in Ham-Burr distance for y to solve for x and you get the following numbers:

8 feet away–> bullet 2.461 feet to the left 10 feet away–>bullet 3.076 feet to the left 12 feet away–>bullet 3.691 feet to the left

So either way it’s really close!!!! To actually find distance between bullet and head it’s simple application of the Pythagorean Theorem/distance metric for Euclidean space of d=sqrt(x^2+y^2):

8 feet away–> bullet 2.484 feet away total 10 feet away–>bullet 3.224 feet away total 12 feet away–>bullet 4.336 feet away total

and, like, sure change it a few inches because this is using top of Burr’s head and that people are not stick figures and have width but 2-3 inches change these numbers by 0.25 at most so, like, error margins don’t really matter, this is a reasonably accurate estimate certainly to the first decimal place. tl;dr is math says the bullet was really close to Burr’s head.

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Daveed Diggs Snapchat 5/17/16

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Off Script: How Jonathan Groff Created That King George Accent for 'Hamilton'

The Tony nominee tells THR of being onstage for nine “exposed” minutes and what dressing-room item he values most: “A shirtless picture of Daveed Diggs.”

It only took nine minutes onstage for Jonathan Groff to make a major impression as the foppish monarch King George III in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton. Besides spurring laughter throughout the Richard Rodgers Theater with just a lifted eyebrow, the actor also nabbed his second Tony nomination for the featured role. THR’s review called Groff — who starred in HBO’s Looking and originated the lead role in Spring Awakening — “enormously fun in his brief appearances, fully milking such melodically rich numbers as ‘You’ll Be Back’ for all their sardonic humor.”

Groff, 31, goes Off Script with THR to explain the roots of that carefully crafted British accent, the fan-made item in his childhood home and the reason he was often weeping backstage.

What’s the best part about playing King George?

Playing the king, you get to speak directly to the audience, and you can do anything you want. I didn’t get to have a lot of stage time with my fellow cast mates, but I got to build a relationship with the audience every night.

I also learned about how you can do a lot with very little — as in, it’s nine minutes of stage time, but also, it’s the little eye movements, eyebrow movements, hand movements. You could do one small thing and have a huge impact in a 1,300-seat Broadway theater, which is such a surprise. I could just [pout] with my lower lip and get a big laugh.

And the toughest?

Vocally, [“You’ll Be Back” and “What Comes Next”] are challenging for me to sing. And it’s very exposed — I walk out there on the edge of the stage alone.

What new habits did you adopt?

Halfway through the off-Broadway run, I decided that I wanted to do a very specific King George accent. I started slowly filtering it in, and it became my alter ego backstage. So right before I went onstage, I’d read a page from a book out loud in the accent to get into the mindset.

This young new author Isaac Oliver sent his book Intimacy Idiot to the Public Theater before it was published, and at first I thought, “Whatever,” and put it with this stack of other books. But when I started the accent, I pulled it out and it was hilarious. I read a page of it every day.

What did you given up to play the role?

Nothing. That’s the great thing about being King George. I could get as fat as I wanted to in that costume because of the giant cape.

What time did you wake up on a show day?

I’d wake up at ten and run at Equinox or Chelsea Piers, or outside.

What did you eat for dinner?

I went to Jo Allen a lot because it’s a block away, and I’d get a hot toddy and the La Scala salad with the creamy Italian dressing. I also ordered Just Salad to the theater.

What was something special in your dressing room?

A shirtless picture of Daveed Diggs.

Diggs mentioned that the cast is often dancing backstage during the show. What else did you do when you weren’t onstage?

I read all the books I always wanted to read but never did: The Agony and the Ecstasy which is a biographical novel about Michelangelo, [I reread]To Kill A Mockingbird and then Go Set a Watchmen, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. That one, I was weeping in the dressing room, my mind was so blown, and then I had to go out and play this white king, and I thought, “Oh god, I am white supremacy right now,” and it seriously affected my performance.

Another time, I finished A Little Life in the middle of the first act and was crying so hard, and I went down to Leslie Odom’s dressing room because he was also reading the book. I embraced him and cried into his neck and then had to come back out and be King George!

It’s an exciting show. Did you have trouble sleeping afterward?

I’ve never had trouble sleeping in my life.

What did you do on your day off?

I love going to the movies. My favorite day was when I had an old fashioned at the Plaza Hotel and then went to the Paris Theater and saw Carol by myself.

Favorite backstage guest?

Beyonce, who loved my walk.

Best stage door reaction so far?

There was this one fan who drew this amazing picture of King George and framed it, and my mom saw it and said, “This is amazing!” So now, that picture is in my childhood home, hanging on the wall in the kitchen (x)

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LIN IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN (I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS) @blainequartz THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS WITH ME. @tjeffs-lafayette THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS MOMENT OF DISCOVERY WITH ME.