Hamilton gift
Just something i wrote. English is not my first language so sorry for any errors. I just had to write this.
22 december 2074
Today was my grandmothers 70th birthday. When she was younger she was a big nerd, but she had never experienced a big premier or convention since she grew up in Sweden and only moved to New York after she got the job as a history professor when she was thirty. Where she meet grandpa. She was still a very nerdy woman. But even thou he lived in NYC she never really could go to big conventions. She once went to New York comic-con. But she was very busy, with two children and a job as a full-time professor.
Then she said that she was to old for those sort of things when she got the time. Me and my mom grew up hearing the classical storys of Harry Potter, Narnia, Hunger Games, The lunar chronicles and other great old books. Lots of John Green to. She always showed us the classical movies: All of the sixteen Star wars movies, all of the movies to the mentioned books, Marvel, DC (old name for ”The United Superhero Central”) and really old Disney/Pixar. TV to, her favourites were Doctor Who, some old thing called The 100 and TUSC shows. I know Doctor Who is still on but she showed us the things from like 1963-2022. Before the reboot with the women came and she got like a new personality. Doctors 1-17!
Really old stuff. She also loves too tell about history. Her favourite period, The American revolution. We all know the classic Broadway musical ”Hamilton: an American musical”. We all have to sings some of the songs in school anyway. But she was only twelve when it came out so she actually never saw this. When she moved to NYC it wasn’t in theatres and she was always crazy busy when it was. Well she had seen it on youtube, but not with her real eyes.
So back to her birthday. It’s playing on broadway right now, in the Lin-Manuel Miranda theatre. So my mom got tickets for her, me and grandma. When she found out she was so happy, she started to sing and rap the songs from it even. She actually sings really god, and sadly her rap was better than mine. She was so happy. When we got to the theatre she could barely hold still. It was an awesome play, the rimes were really good. The actors were great. My favourite song was ”You’ll be back” , but after really seeing the play it’s now ”It’s quite uptown”. The pure emotion. But grandma only said: Lin was better. She said things like that sometimes. During ”Burn” and ”Stay alive (reprise)” she said: Pippa will always the best. And during ”The world was wide enough” and ”Dear Theodosia” she said: This is not Burr was in the original. He had emotions in that. Leslie was better. But it was never really rude when she said it. She smiled when shel told us and chuckled. I always believed that she would point out all of the historical inaccuracies. But she surprisingly did not, she let it be. I laughed and I cried, grandma never cried. Maybe it was because she had seen it before, but I don’t think that was the reason.
She cried in the end though. When they thanked everyone after the show the man who played Alexander Hamilton said: And lastly we want to say may you rest in pice Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of this ground breaking musical. A lonely tear fell down her cheek. ”Yes, rest in peace Lin. You awesome, adorable Linamonroll. I will always look at you the way you looked at literary everyone.”. I have no idea what it means but it sound like it was from that old nerdy website, Tumblr. Tumblr would come up with such a weird word as Linamonroll. They were ll crazy there anyways.
But in the end it was a really good musical and me and mom really enjoyed it to. ”Rose, really thank you. This is the best birthday present you could have gotten me.”, grandma said to mom when we got out.
—Sofia
