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[lotesse]

number of times I have made it through the Hamilton cast recording without uglycrying over the death of his son = approx 0

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[musesfool]

I KNOW. I was honestly not expecting to, either. Though for me, it starts at "Burn" and just continues from there.

[lotesse]

There's something really great about how the emotional beats of the second act are blended and interspersed. Like, Eliza's line goes from the haunting/hopeful "Stay Alive" refrain to her brief crescendoing rage with her husband - "did you know?>!" - and then immediately plunges into this stifled soft bereaved motherly register. And that register is much more evocative because of the other intense emotions that have already opened the listener up and stripped them down.

[yatima]

Sept huit neuf... Sept huit...

[lotesse]

I mean - *damn*, you know? I could talk about the agony of loss when a young person dies, all the energy that it takes to bring a baby all the way through and raise it and educate it and keep it alive, I could talk about the counting motifs (music, the heavy meter of the show itself, the fatal duellists' countdown), but I don't know if that even gets at the core of the pathos of that faltering French line