Why this change? “It’s stronger dramatically if societally she can’t marry you,” Miranda has explained. But not in the musical – and in a narrative that sticks remarkably close to the history, it’s a notable deviation. There’s controversy about how intimate the Hamilton/Angelica connection truly was, but a legal relationship between the two was always out of the question, since by the time they met, Angelica was married to John Barker Church. “Set my heart aflame, ev’ry part aflame.” “When you said ‘Hi,’ I forgot my dang name,” she sings to an unknowing Hamilton. But, the quick-fire lyrics of “Satisfied” make clear, Angelica is achingly aware of what she’s giving up. Angelica met him first, loved him first, but knows she can’t have a poor man like Hamilton and so gives way to her sister. After the song “Helpless” has shown the meeting between Hamilton and his wife-to-be Elizabeth Schuyler, the score flips into reverse along with the dancers, and we go back to view the meeting again through the eyes of Angelica, Elizabeth’s older sister. The best moment in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton almost goes to an adulteress.
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