The Broadway musical Hamilton is almost completely sung-through, so the cast album features nearly every moment in the show… except one scene.
The show’s creator and original star Lin-Manuel Miranda said that he made a conscious decision to exclude “the only scene in our show” from the cast album. “It’s the scene in Hamilton that goes between ‘Dear Theodosia’ and ‘Non Stop.’ I made a decision not to record this scene on the album, for two reasons 1) It really is more of a scene than a song, the only SCENE in our show, and I think its impact is at its fullest in production form.
2) As someone who grew up ONLY listening to cast albums (we ain’t have money for a lot of Broadway shows, like most people) those withheld moments were REVELATIONS
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