00:00Ten years of Hamilton. From the very first workshop to now, when you think back on these last ten years,
00:08is there one specific memory that still really touches your heart, whether it's a moment on stage or an interaction with a fan?
00:15I'm glad you said workshop because it made me think back.
00:18And I am remembering the day we had a presentation for friends and producers, and I had not yet written the final number.
00:25And I woke up at five in the morning, and it all came out, and I couldn't stop crying while I was writing Eliza's chapter.
00:34And I was so grateful that Philippa Ksu can sight-read music because I showed up at 10 a.m. being like,
00:39you're going to learn the finale now. And she's like, I am? And every line she was like, she did? She did?
00:45And watching Pippa learn that song three hours before we sang it for people was like an amazing moment.
00:52Oh my gosh. Well, the cast, the crew, everyone was on it.
00:55Yeah.
00:55Yeah, I love that. Well, I know that the show really resonated with audiences and everyone around the world back then.
01:01It still does today. So what do you think about this show still really resonates, especially given today's political climate?
01:07I mean, I think that's the thing about the show is that I think the insight I had while writing the show,
01:13because I was not a very good social studies student, I learned a lot to write this show.
01:18So ask me a second question about economy, the economy, and I will fail it. I learned enough to write this.
01:25But I remember really just realizing that the fights they were having at the dawn of our founding are the fights we're still having.
01:35They're our family fights. And the way that the fight you have with your sibling is a grown-up version of a fight you had when they were six and you were three.
01:41And so that was really the biggest insight was like, oh, they're just our problems.
01:47They're just the contradictions in the creation of this republic. And we'll never stop debating them.
01:53The names will change. The proper nouns will change. But they're the same fights.
01:57And so I think it will always hit as long as we're a country.
01:59Yeah, for sure. Very quickly, I know this is a filmed version of Hamilton.
02:03Would we ever be open to a movie adaptation?
02:06They have to top this. And this feels pretty hard to top.
02:10So I always say, I never say never to anything, but I also feel like, I don't know, Tommy knocked it out of the park.
02:16So I kind of can't imagine topping it.
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