little things from Hamilton West End that I didn’t notice the past times I’ve been
This is so overly long but last night is looking to be the last night I will have seen the original west end cast and I wanted to pick up on everything I could. Firstly, here’s the cast I saw:
Ash Hunter (Alternate Alexander Hamilton), Rachelle Ann Go (Eliza Hamilton), Giles Terera (Aaron Burr), Rachel John (Angelica Schuyler), Obioma Ugoala (George Washington), Jason Pennycooke (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Tarinn Callender (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Cleve September (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Christine Allado (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Michael Jibson (King George). Ensemble: Jade Albsersten, Johnny Bishop, Leslie Garcia Bowman, Courtney Mae Briggs, Jack Butterworth, Jon Scott Clarke, Leah Hill, Waylon Jacobs, Miriam-Teak Lee, Gabriel Mokake, and Lindsey Tierney.
-There was applause after Alexander Hamilton, I’ve finally witnessed it!
-Ash’ Burrs Corner in My Shot - “a bunch of revolutionary revolution revolutionists”
-Tarinn stealing Cleve’s mug in The Story Of Tonight and then them proceeding to do a bit about it
-Rachelle and Christine holding hands and looking so delightfully thrilled to be in New York in The Schuyler Sisters
-Christine is such a cute Peggy, she seems to be either annoyed at being left out, or very happy-go-lucky and sometimes childlike
-Applause and woops after “compel him to include women in the sequel” line!
-Cleve swiftly whipping Giles away for the distraction on the exact first “mercy” beat in Farmer Refuted
-Obi blocking the ‘letter’ being passed along by the ensemble during Right Hand Man, the last time I saw him on was February and he collected the ‘letter’ from them
-Ash’s super cocky grin on “that’s true!”
-Christine and Rachel holding hands and bopping during the “heys” at the start of Helpless
-I love that Peggy and Laurens dance together during Helpless because it means I get to watch my two favourite cast members at the same time
-Cleve persuading Rachel to get up and make her speech in Satisfied, after her laughing and shaking her head, by nodding and saying “yes! Go!”
-Christine and Rachelle’s eskimo kiss in Helpless/Satisfied
-Ash placing his hand on cleves chest, and cleve’s dramatic look down to it at the start of Meet Me Inside
-Ash nodding in agreement with Eliza at the end of That Would Be Enough
-Rachel’s Angelica in Satisfied, or Rachel John in general tbh
-the way cleve sung “let’s have another round” in tsot (reprise)
-overall rapport between Tarinn and Cleve
-tarinn randomly bear-hugging Ash on “wonders great and small”
-Tarinn’s verse in Yorktown!! Always!! Astounding!!
-My friend bursting into tears at the first note of Dear Theodosia
-the quiet “will you read it for me?” In The Laurens’ Interlude
-Jason encouraging applause like 4 times over in What’d I Miss?, and receiving it louder each time
-an elderly lady who was sat near me found every funny line absolutely hilarious and it was so endearing
-very close shave mic drop in Cabinet Battle #1
-cleve being all reluctant to play piano, and the stroppy, mimicking, “sept-huit-neuf”
-cleve ‘practicing’ the Philip rap with a piece of paper with ‘the lyrics’ in his hand, dropping it all flustered when ham comes over unexpectedly, then gradually sliding it away with his shoe mid-rap
-Christine is an incredible Maria, her voice is so mesmerising oh my god
-a red spotlight shining on Maria’s red dress
-Reynolds summoning Maria with a heel-click
-the room where it happens was amazing, Giles is incredible
-Rachelle looking miffed on “I’m sure he already knows” in Schuyler Defeated
-the audience’s utter amusement at the tantalising Burr at the beginning of Washington On Your Side
-air-punching of audience members during Cabinet Battle #2
-a man in the royal circle stood up after One Last Time, applause went on a while, and you could see Obi grinning from ear-to-ear and it was lovely
-mike making giles laugh at the start of The Adams Administration
-the way hurricane is ...choreographed? Blocked? I’m not sure what the word is but it’s super clever
-Cleve angrily screwing up The Reynolds Pamphlet and tossing it to the floor
-Ash’s riff on “slow down” during Blow Us All Away
-My friend whispering a subtle “oh no” at the end of Blow Us All Away
-Cleve writhing in pain during Stay Alive (Reprise) and Rachelle looking so, completely heartbroken. She nails grieving-Eliza.
-the way Ash sung “You knock me out I fall apart” in IQU
-giles’ subtle disbelief and betrayal when burr finds out ham supports jefferson in The Election of 1800
-complete audience silence as they’re enraptured during the monologue in The World Was Wide Enough
-rachel blowing a kiss at the end of curtain call and then pointing to the audience member so they knew it was for them
-Ash jumping on someone’s back to walk off the stage, I couldn’t see which cast member it was since I was too far over
-that was such a great show, shoot me a message if interested in full audio
