“I fucking love y’all. Thank you so much, everybody who has been a part of making this the most incredible few years of my life. It has been such an honor to perform for y’all. This is the most important thing about Hamitlon to me. The way that you guys come out here and reclaim this area that I didn’t come to at all before I was in Hamilton is the most important thing to me. This is public space that belongs to all of you. If you can take one thing from this, Hamilton, if it belongs to me, it belongs to everybody. Please keep doing this, please keep making Broadway your own, theater is for all of y’all. Thank you so much for being a part of it. I love you.” – Daveed at his last Ham4Ham
“It is quite literally taking the history that someone has tried to exclude us from and reclaiming it,” says Leslie Odom Jr., who comes close to stealing the show with his turn as Hamilton killer Aaron Burr. “We are saying we have the right to tell it too.”
I feel like people are missing something really key that happened in the 2016 Tonys performance.
Lin changed one word. But that’s all it took to change the meaning of the performance and the Tonys.
“Weapon with my hands.”
They didn’t just take out the muskets to show solidarity, Lin is trying to teach us that what we do, say and write will change perspective for generations to come. He’s showing us how we don’t need a gun or violence to fight for what we believe in. Like Alexander, we have our hands. Our writing. Our words are immortalised when we write, no matter who takes us away. The massacre in Orlando has devastated our country, but why stay silent? Why give them what they want and silence ourselves? We need to make something that is immortalised. Teach generations that come that you can take away our loved ones, but you can NEVER take our words.
Fake Benevolence 