document_title: The Sims 2

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text: The Sims 2

text: Gameplay[edit]

text: From the neighborhood view, the player selects one lot to play, as in The Sims.[9] There are both residential and community lots, but Sims can only live in residential lots. Sims can travel to Community lots in order to purchase things like clothing and magazines, and to interact with NPCs and townies.

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text: The player can choose between playing a pre-made inhabited lot, moving a household into an unoccupied pre-built lot, or constructing a building on an empty lot. One novelty from The Sims is foundations.

text: The player switches among the "live" mode (default) to control Sims, the "buy" mode to add, move or delete furniture, or the "build" mode to rebuild the house. Buy and build mode cannot be accessed when on a community lot, but can be opened by using the neighborhood view. It is also possible to import neighborhood terrains from SimCity 4.[10]

text: The game contains some time-bound social challenges that provide a reward if successful. Sims can throw parties to gain aspiration points or invite the headmaster over for dinner in order to enroll their children in private school.[9] Some expansion packs have new mini-games, like running a Greek house in University or dating in Nightlife. In Nightlife, each date is a challenge to keep both Sims as happy as possible while accumulating aspiration points. Various other expansion packs introduce supernatural characters which Sims can be turned into, such as Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, Plantsims, and Witches.

text: Sims[edit]

text: The main part of the game is to lead a Sim from the start of life to death. A Sim will be born when a female Sim and a male Sim try for a baby. The mother will spend 3 Sim days (each day lasts 24 minutes though time can be sped-up) pregnant before giving birth to a baby.[9] Players can name the new Sim upon birth. The baby's appearance and personality will be based on the genetics of its parents (though the baby's appearance is hidden until it becomes a toddler). Babies can also be adopted by calling the social worker on the phone, even by single parents or same-gender couples. The baby will change into a toddler in 3 days, and 4 more days for the toddler to change into a child. After 8 days, the child grows into a teenager, and will live 15 days before changing into an adult. After 29 days, the Sim will become an elder. An elder will eventually die; the length of this final stage depends on the aspiration bar when they become an elder.

text: Babies, toddlers, children, teens, and adults can be advanced to their next life stage at any time during the 24 Sim hours before they will grow up automatically. For babies, this requires using the birthday cake. Toddlers, children, teens, and adults can use the "Grow Up" self-interaction. If the University expansion pack is installed, teens have the option to go to college, where they will be young adults for approximately 24 days. Aging can be disabled via cheats.

text: Players will need to build up talent badges, skills and relationships with other people, so that they can be successful in their career.[11] A player will also need to make sure a Sim is happy and well by fulfilling wants (including lifetime wants, avoiding fears, and fulfilling motives).

text: Pregnancy, toddlers, teens, and elders are new stages of life. Young adult is a unique age added with the University expansion. Teen Sims will become young adults once they are moved to a University, and will be adults once they leave campus, regardless of the reason. During Pregnancy, the belly does not expand gradually. Instead, every day, it "pops" to a bigger size.

text: Create-a-Sim[edit]

text: In The Sims 2, Create a Family is entered by clicking the "Families" button in the lower left-hand corner of the neighborhood view, then clicking the large "Create New Family" button. Clicking the button labeled "Create A Sim" will expand a tab which has the "Create a Sim" and "Make a Child" icons. "Make a Child" will be grayed out unless the family contains an adult male and adult female. Clicking the "Create a Sim" icon will generate a random adult Sim, who may be male or female which can be edited by the player.

text: As opposed to The Sims, any age besides baby or young adult (which must be made in the University Create a Student) may be created. Instead of having to choose from already finished faces which include hair, it is now possible to alter the facial structure (e.g. widening the nose, thinning the lips, elongating the chin, etc.) and choose any hairstyle to go with it. Different eye colors and an additional skin tone is available for the Sims as well. If Sims are older than a child, their aspiration and turn-ons/offs (Nightlife or later) may be determined. As in The Sims, there are five personality traits, and 25 personality points which can be assigned to those traits.[12] However, in The Sims 2, all personality points must be assigned. Additionally, there are twelve pre-set personalities, one for each of the zodiac signs. A zodiac sign will be set which matches the personality the player has selected for the Sim.

text: The Sims 2 also comes with The Sims 2 Body Shop, which enables users to create genetics, makeups, accessories, clothes, and Sims, with the help of third-party tools, such as MS Paint, Paint.NET, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Wings 3D, and SimPE. The Sims 2 Body Shop is normally installed in C:\Program Files\EA Games\[The Sims 2 or the most recent installed expansion pack or stuff pack here]\CSBin.

text: Social interactions[edit]

text: There are several new social interactions introduced in The Sims 2. These new social interactions can create memories and can be related to certain age groups. Social interactions can come up in the Wants and Fears panel and can be dependent on the Sim's personality and aspiration. Sims with certain personalities may not want to complete certain social interactions.

text: Careers[edit]

text: There are careers that come with the game that require skills and a certain number of friends in order for promotion.[16] Success in these careers unlocks career rewards and higher salaries plus bonuses. Sims also receive chance cards. Correct answers to these chance cards creates rewards for Sims while incorrect answers could cause a Sim to lose its job. Nightlife and Apartment Life allow Sims to gain promotions through social interactions with other Sims.[17]

text: Comparison to The Sims[edit]

text: Graphically, The Sims 2 is more detailed than The Sims and lets players view its world in full 3D. This is a change from earlier Sim games, such as SimCity 2000, which used dimetric projection and fixed resolutions, as the camera was in The Sims. In The Sims, Sims are 3D meshes, but The Sims 2 introduces far more detail in mesh quality, texture quality, and animation capability. A Sim's facial features are customizable and unique, and Sims can smile, frown, and blink. The player can adjust a Sim's features in the in-game Create-a-Sim tool; for example, noses can be made to be very large or very small. Texturing is achieved through use of raster images, though it appears more lifelike.

text: The Sims 2 characters pass through seven life stages — babies, toddlers, children, teenagers, young adults (only with University), adults, and elders — with eventual death of old age, while babies in The Sims only become children before ceasing to continue aging. The aspiration system (described above) is also new to The Sims 2. Sims can become pregnant and produce babies that take on genetic characteristics of their parents, such as eye color, hair color, facial structure, and personality traits as opposed to Sims, in which the baby would take on random appearance and personality. Genetics play a major role in the game, and as such, dominant and recessive genes play a larger role than they did in the original game. A player can also aspire to have a Sim abducted by aliens. Males then have the chance to become impregnated and produce after three Sim days a half-alien child.

text: Some of the other additions to gameplay are career rewards, a week cycle, the cleaning skill (which was a hidden skill in The Sims), a variety of meals (depending on time of day), exercise clothing, body shape affected by diet and exercise, and houses built on foundations.

text: Development[edit]

text: EA Games announced on May 5, 2003 that the Maxis studio had begun development on The Sims 2.[18] The game was first shown at E3 in Los Angeles, California on May 13, 2004.[18] Will Wright admits that while most of the content of The Sims 2 are original ideas, inspiration for its own expansions and constituents spawned from the successes of the first game. The community interest in the antecedent The Sims: Unleashed and The Sims: Hot Date expansions ensured the creation of The Sims 2: Pets and The Sims 2: Nightlife expansions, respectively.[19]

text: After development concluded, designers from Maxis regarded The Sims 2 as very capricious during creation. Bugs would appear, and Sims would be "tweaked", or have anomalies not present in a previous run.[20] A teaser trailer was provided on the Makin' Magic CD but was later uploaded to websites all over the Internet.

text: On December 15, 2012, Electronic Arts announced that the official website would be shut down on January 14, 2013. It is now no longer possible to download content from the official site, create exchanges, or participate in the official forum communities.[21]

text: On July 16, 2014, Electronic Arts announced the end of support for The Sims 2. As a response The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection was released at the same time as a limited time offer. The game became available for free download from Origin exclusively following an announcement by EA that they would no longer be supporting the Game.[22] This offer ended at 10:00 PDT July 31, 2014.[23][24][25] EA stated that they were planning on releasing the compilation as a retail release. However, as of now, no further information has since been released or confirmed on its planned retail release date.

text: On August 7, 2014, Aspyr Media released The Sims 2: Super Collection as digital download exclusively available at the Mac App Store; the game was updated for OS X Mavericks, 4K and Retina. This compilation only includes the first six expansion packs and the first three stuff packs. Aspyr stated they were unable to include the remaining packs for the game due to licensing conflicts with EA. Like the Ultimate Collection, no new updates on when the remaining packs will be released separately or as a single add-on to the Super Collection have emerged.

text: Music[edit]

text: The game features music performed by Paramore, Ryan Ferguson, Trivium, Chiodos and more recording artists (all songs recorded in the Sims language "Simlish").[26] The Humble Brothers contributed heavily to the game.

text: Reception and legacy[edit]

text:
Reception

Aggregate scores

Aggregator
Score

GameRankings
91%[16]

Metacritic
90[7]

Review scores

Publication
Score

1UP.com
A[12]

Eurogamer
8 of 10[27]

GamePro
[28]

Game Revolution
B+[11]

GameSpot
8.9 of 10 [29]

GameSpy
[9]

GamesRadar
9 of 10[30]

GameZone
9.4 of 10[31]

IGN
9.4 of 10[32]

PC Gamer (US)
85% [7]

Awards

Publication
Award

Blimp Award (UK Kids' Choice Awards)
Best Video Game

Apple Design Award (Apple Design Awards)
Best Mac OS X Game

text: The Sims 2 had a successful E3.[33][34] The game also received the Editor's Choice Award from IGN and GameSpy upon final review of the finished product.[35][36] From 71 online reviews, the average score was 90 out of 100. Seven of those sources awarded the game a 100 out of 100 score.[37] X-Play gave the game a 4/5. Computer Gaming World awarded the game as their 2004 "Strategy Game of the Year (General)", beating out RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, The Political Machine, and Silent Storm.[38] However, critics noted some serious bugs in the game.[citation needed]

text: The Sims creator, Will Wright, was recognized by being nominated at the Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards for Visionary and Game Developer.[39] The game was also nominated for two international awards in 2005.[40][41] The Mac version of the game won an Apple Design Award in 2006.[42] Computer Games Magazine named The Sims 2 the sixth-best computer game of 2004. The editors wrote that it is "more of a game and less of a dollhouse [than The Sims], but it remains a celebration of the beauty of the mundane." It also won the magazine's "Best Voice Acting" award.[43]

text: The Sims 2 was an instant commercial success, selling a then-record one million copies in its first ten days.[4] The game sold 4.5 million units within its first year, and 7 million by October 2006.[44][45] It received a "Double Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA),[46] indicating sales of at least 600,000 copies in the United Kingdom.[47]

text: As of March 2012, The Sims 2 had sold 13 million across all platforms and six million on PC, making it one of the best-selling PC games of all-time.[8] During April 2008, The Sims 2 website announced that 100 million copies of The Sims series had been sold.[5]

text: Controversy[edit]

text: The Sims 2's malleable content and open-ended customization have led to controversy on the subject of pay sites. Custom content is distributed through independent websites, some of which charge for downloading materials. Charging money for custom content is a violation of the game's EULA,[48] which prohibits the commercial use of Electronic Art's intellectual property.

text: On July 22, 2005, former Florida attorney Jack Thompson alleged that Electronic Arts and The Sims 2 promoted nudity through the use of a mod or a cheat code. The claim was made that pubic hair, labia and other genital details were visible once the "blur" (the pixelation that occurs when a Sim is using the toilet or is naked in the game) was removed.[49] Electronic Arts executive Jeff Brown said in an interview with GameSpot:[50]

text: This is nonsense. We've reviewed 100 percent of the content. There is no content inappropriate for a teen audience. Players never see a nude Sim. If someone with an extreme amount of expertise and time were to remove the pixels, they would see that the sims have no genitals. They appear like Ken and Barbie.

text: Prior to Thompson's statement, there was an enterable code which allowed to modify the size (including to zero) of pixelation accessible from the console menu. Shortly after the statement, subsequent patches and expansion packs removed the "intProp censorGridSize" code; this code had been left over from the beta testing stage of the original game and had not been intended for a public audience.

text: Editions, compilations, and add-ons[edit]

text: Many Sims games have been ported to OS X by Aspyr. The Sims 2 has also been released for a number of video game consoles including the PlayStation 2, the Xbox, Nintendo DS and the Nintendo GameCube.

text: OS X version[edit]

text: OS X ports of the base game, six expansion packs, and three Stuff Packs have been released by Aspyr Media. The port for the base game was announced on October 19, 2004.[51] The Sims 2 had reached beta status on March 1, 2005, and was released on June 17 the same year.[52] It was, at release, compatible with Mac OS X Panther and above. The Sims 2 Bodyshop was also available for OS X. The game is now available for purchase with all ported expansions and Stuff Packs on the Mac App Store for OS X Mavericks.

text: Console versions[edit]

text: The console versions of The Sims 2 featured local splitscreen multiplayer, a story mode and an option to control game characters directly, as opposed to queuing options as is traditional Sims gameplay.

text: Handheld versions[edit]

text: Game Boy Advance version[edit]

text: The Game Boy Advance version of The Sims 2 takes place in Strangetown, and shares a similar GUI to its predecessors (The Sims Bustin' Out and The Urbz). Players are guided through a goal-oriented game based on the reality television concept in which partitions of the game are divided into "episodes". Characters from the previous handheld sims games also appeared.

text: Nintendo DS version[edit]

text: The Nintendo DS version of The Sims 2 (commonly referred to as "The Sims 2 Hotel") begins with the player's car breaking down in Strangetown. Upon arriving, an anonymous donor grants the player the deed to a hotel which can be operated and customized at the player's discretion. The player's job is to bring life back into Strangetown by encouraging people to come to the hotel, which players can do by upgrading it and making the guests happy. There are several ways in which a player can make Strangetown a nicer place, but is up to the player to find them. Unlike most games in the Sim series, this one takes place in real-time.

text: PlayStation Portable version[edit]

text: The game begins with the player's character driving through the Strangetown desert, presumably 'Road to Nowhere' in their car, when suddenly a flying green diamond (Also known as the Plumbob, the marker and logo of the Sims game) flies towards the player and causes them to lose control of, and damage, their car. Fortunately, the player finds a gas station. The player takes their car into the garage. At that point the player takes control. The player is introduced to a vehicle mechanic named Oscar who, after a brief tutorial in teaching the player how to talk to NPC Sims, informs the player their car will only take a short while to fix.

text: The player is then free to roam around the gas station, and after being introduced to some more NPCs, including Bella Goth, who claims to be abducted by aliens, completing tasks and being taught the basic objective of the game which is 'Secret Hunting' for the store clerk. The player then exits the shop only to find the garage around the back has completely disappeared along with Oscar and their car, with only the foundation of the garage remaining. The only thing left from the disappearance is a cell phone, which the player answers and a man named Doctor Dominic Newlow offers the player a job, requiring him or her to get a ride into town and find a place to stay.

text: The player informs Police Deputy Duncan about the situation who replies that he can do nothing about it and suggests the player find a place to stay. After having bought Bella's house for pocket change and getting donuts for Deputy Duncan (which happen to have been found in the trash), the player finally gets a lift into Strangetown's Paradise Place, only to find more tasks and mysteries.

text: Expansion packs[edit]

text: The Sims 2 expansion packs provide additional game features and items. Eight expansion packs were released throughout the game's lifecycle. The Sims 2: Apartment Life is the final expansion pack for The Sims 2.

text:
Name
Release date
Major Additions
Neighborhoods
New NPCs
New Lifestate/Creature
New Careers

University
Windows:

NA: March 1, 2005

EU: March 2, 2005

Mac OS X:
December 12, 2005
Universities, Young Adult age group, Influence system
Campus:
La Fiesta Tech,
Sim State University,
Académie Le Tour
Barista, Bartender,
Cafeteria Worker,
Cheerleader,
Coach, Evil Mascot, Mascot,
Professors, Streaker
Zombies (Also in FreeTime and Apartment Life)
Natural Scientist,
Paranormal,
Show Business,
Artist

Nightlife
Windows:

NA: September 13, 2005

EU: September 13, 2005

Mac OS X:
March 27, 2006
Dates, Groups system, Outings, Pleasure and Grilled Cheese aspiration, New relationship states, ownable cars, Attraction system
Downtown:
Downtown
Gypsy Matchmaker,
Waiter, Chef,
Bartender, DJ,
Mrs. Crumplebottom,
Vampires (Counts/Countesses)
Vampires
None

Open for Business
Windows:

NA: March 2, 2006

EU: March 2, 2006

Mac OS X:
September 4, 2006
Businesses, talent badges
Shopping District:
Bluewater Village
Reporters,
Barbers
Servos (Robots)
Shop Employees

Pets
Windows:

NA: October 17, 2006

EU: October 20, 2006

Mac OS X:
November 6, 2006
Ownable Pets
None
Animal Control Officers,
Obedience Trainer,
Wolves, Skunks
Werewolves
Pet careers:
Security,
Showbiz,
Service

Seasons
Windows:

NA: March 1, 2007

EU: March 2, 2007

Mac OS X:
June 11, 2007
Weather system, Seasons, fishing, new talent badges,
gardening
Main:
Riverblossom Hills
Garden Club Members,
Penguins
PlantSims
Adventurer,
Education,
Gamer,
Journalism,
Law, Music

Bon Voyage
Windows:

NA: September 4, 2007

EU: September 7, 2007

Mac OS X:
December 17, 2007
Vacations in different cultural areas
Vacation:
Twikkii Island,
Three Lakes,
Takemizu Village
Fire Dancers,
Hotel Maids,
Bellboys, Masseurs,
Wise Old Man,
Pirate, Tour Guides,
Unsavory charlatan,
Witch Doctor, Ninjas
Bigfoot
None

FreeTime
Windows:

NA: February 26, 2008

EU: February 22, 2008

Hobby system, lifetime aspiration system, new talent badges.
Main:
Desiderata Valley

Secret:
Hobby
Hobby Members,
Rod Humble,
Hobby Leaders,
Food Judge,
Genie
Genie (Only NPC)
Oceanography,
Intelligence,
Entertainment,
Dance,
Architecture

Apartment Life
Windows:

NA: August 27, 2008

EU: August 29, 2008

Rentable apartments, reputation system, witchcraft system
Main:
Belladonna Cove[53]

Secret:
The Magical World
Butler, Landlord,
Roomies,
Breakdancers,
Street Performers,
Social Group Sims,
High Witch of Light/Darkness,
Spectral assistant (played by cats), Human statues[53]
Witches, Warlocks
None

text: Stuff packs[edit]

text: Stuff packs are add-ons that intend to add only new items (usually in the amount of 60) to the base game. However, some releases include certain gameplay elements introduced in previous expansion packs. There are ten total stuff packs. However, The Sims 2: Holiday Party Pack served as the pilot release for this line of products, which were called "booster packs". After the success of the pilot release, EA named the releases "stuff packs" and launched the line with The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff. The Sims 2: Mansion & Garden Stuff is the final stuff pack for The Sims 2.

text:
Name
Release date
Includes

Holiday Party Pack
Windows:

NA: November 17, 2005

Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year themed stuff, plus new NPCs: Santa Claus, Father Time, and Baby New Year

Family Fun Stuff
Windows:

NA: April 13, 2006

Mac OS X:
April 30, 2007
Family-oriented Fairy tale, outer space and nautical themed items mainly for children's bedrooms

Glamour Life Stuff
Windows:

NA: August 31, 2006

Mac OS X:
June 1, 2007
Luxury, couture and glamour themed objects, floors and walls

Happy Holiday Stuff
Windows:

NA: November 7, 2006

Mac OS X:
September 4, 2007
All items from Holiday Party Pack plus added Asian and European holiday themed stuff

Celebration! Stuff
Windows:

NA: April 3, 2007

Wedding themed hairstyles, fashions and accessories, furniture, and other party enhancers

H&M Fashion Stuff
Windows:

NA: June 5, 2007

Fashion collections from H&M and H&M branded build objects

Teen Style Stuff
Windows:

NA: November 5, 2007

Goth, Thrasher and Socialite themed stuff for teenagers' bedrooms, teenage haircuts and new teenage clothes

Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff
Windows:

NA: April 15, 2008

Kitchen and bathroom objects, floors, walls and clothing items

IKEA Home Stuff
Windows:

NA: June 24, 2008

Fashionable furniture, floors and walls from the styles of IKEA

Mansion & Garden Stuff
Windows:

NA: November 17, 2008

Items featuring three new decorative themes (Moroccan, Art Deco and Second Empire)

text: Core game editions[edit]

text:
Name
Release date
Includes

The Sims 2[54]
Windows:

NA: September 14, 2004

EU: September 16, 2004

Mac OS X:
June 13, 2005
The first release of the core game on four CDs.

The Sims 2 Special DVD Edition
Windows:

NA: September 17, 2004

The core game on one DVD, plus a bonus DVD with exclusive content.

The Sims 2 Holiday Edition (2005)
Windows:

NA: November 15, 2005

The core game and The Sims 2 Holiday Party Pack.

The Sims 2 Holiday Edition (2006)[55]
Windows:

NA: November 7, 2006

The core game and The Sims 2 Happy Holiday Stuff.

The Sims 2 Deluxe[56]
Windows:

NA: May 8, 2007

The core game and The Sims 2 Nightlife, and a new bonus DVD that is different from the one included in the Special DVD Edition.

The Sims 2 Double Deluxe[57]
Windows:

NA: April 15, 2008

The Sims 2 Deluxe and The Sims 2 Celebration! Stuff

The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection
Windows:

WW: July 16, 2014 - July 31, 2014

(exclusive to existing Origin customers that proved they owned the original Sims 2 game from July 16 until July 31, 2014, retail release not confirmed)
The Sims 2 Double Deluxe, The Sims 2 University Life Collection, The Sims 2 Best of Business Collection, The Sims 2 Fun with Pets Collection, The Sims 2 Seasons, The Sims 2 Bon Voyage, The Sims 2 FreeTime, The Sims 2 Apartment Life, The Sims 2 Glamour Life Stuff, and The Sims 2 Happy Holiday Stuff

The Sims 2 Super Collection
Mac OS X:

NA: August 7, 2014

The core game, The Sims 2 University, The Sims 2 Nightlife, The Sims 2 Open for Business, The Sims 2 Pets, The Sims 2 Seasons, The Sims 2 Bon Voyage, The Sims 2 Family Fun Stuff, The Sims 2 Glamour Life Stuff, and The Sims 2 Happy Holiday Stuff (The Sims 2 FreeTime and The Sims 2 Apartment Life along with the remaining stuff packs have not been included due to their unavailability for Mac at the time of its release)

text: Expansion-only compilations[edit]

text: Compilations of expansion packs and stuff packs without the core game have also been released.

text:
Name
Release date
Includes

University Life Collection[58]
Windows:

NA: August 24, 2009

The Sims 2: University, The Sims 2: IKEA Home Stuff, and The Sims 2 Teen Style Stuff.

Best of Business Collection[59]
Windows:

NA: October 6, 2009

The Sims 2: Open for Business, The Sims 2: H&M Fashion Stuff, and The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff.

Fun with Pets Collection[60]
Windows:

NA: January 12, 2010

The Sims 2: Pets, The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff, and The Sims 2: Mansion & Garden Stuff.

text: Downloadable content[edit]

text: Pre-order content[edit]

text: Most of expansion packs and stuff packs were released with pre-order items. This game content was redeemable at the official site using a code supplied by the retailer from which the player purchased, each retailer was often associated with an exclusive download. A total of 60 pre-order items were released.

text: The Sims 2 Store[edit]

text: The Sims 2 Store was an online store where players of The Sims 2 for PC could purchase and download content for their game online for additional fees. It offered objects, clothing, skins, and hairstyles that are both exclusive to the store and also come from earlier expansion and stuff packs.

text: It also had featured seven exclusive item collections that could only be found in the store. The store used a point system that players can purchase. It was opened from July 2008 to March 31, 2011 as a beta version limited to the United States and Canada. To download, players must install The Sims 2 Store Edition and the EA Download Manager. The exclusive collections were "Cubic", "Art Deco", "Spooky", "Castle", "Asian Fusion", "Art Nouveaulicious" and "Oh Baby", including a total of 471 items.

text: The Sims 2: Store Edition and the savegame can't be used with The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection.

text: Third-party tools[edit]

text: SimPE is an open-source utility for The Sims 2 that allows editing of Sims' characteristics, relationships and careers. It also allows the creation of objects. As the tool is intended for use by experienced modders, the SimPE interface is not considered intuitive[61] and users risk corrupting the game files.[62] TS2 Enhancer, developed by Rick Halle, is a commercial utility for editing characters and neighborhoods, but has since fallen into disuse.[63]

text: Notes[edit]

text: Jump up ^ Aspyr published the OS X version

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document_title: Hamilton (musical)

question_text: who is currently playing king george in hamilton on broadway

question_tokens: who is currently playing king george in hamilton on broadway

text: Hamilton (musical)

text: Synopsis

text: The play has two acts, telling Hamilton's story through major events:[12]

text: Act I

text: The musical begins with the company summarizing Alexander Hamilton's early life as an orphan in the Caribbean ("Alexander Hamilton"). After arriving in New York in 1776, Hamilton meets Aaron Burr, John Laurens, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Hercules Mulligan ("Aaron Burr, Sir"), and impresses them with his rhetorical skills ("My Shot"). They affirm their revolutionary goals to each other ("The Story of Tonight"). "The Schuyler Sisters", Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy, are then introduced. King George then insists on his authority ("You'll Be Back"). During the New York and New Jersey campaign Hamilton accepts a position as George Washington's aide-de-camp ("Right Hand Man") instead of field command.

text: Hamilton marries Eliza Schuyler ("Helpless") as her sister Angelica suppresses her feelings for the sake of their happiness ("Satisfied").  Burr reflects on Hamilton's swift rise while considering his own career and more cautious style ("Wait For It").

text: Hamilton's friend Laurens duels General Charles Lee, with Hamilton and Burr as their seconds. Laurens injures Lee and Lee yields ("Ten Duel Commandments"). Hamilton is temporarily suspended by Washington over the duel but recalled to help plan the final Siege of Yorktown ("Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)").

text: Soon after the victory at Yorktown, Hamilton's son Philip is born, while Burr has a daughter, Theodosia ("Dear Theodosia"). Hamilton receives word that Laurens has been killed in a seemingly pointless battle and throws himself into his work ("Tomorrow There'll Be More of Us"). He co-authors The Federalist Papers and is selected as Secretary of the Treasury by newly-elected President Washington. Angelica moves to London with her new husband ("Non-Stop").

text: Act II

text: In 1789, Thomas Jefferson and Hamilton debate the merits of Hamilton's financial plans during a Cabinet meeting. Washington pulls Hamilton aside, and tells him to figure out a compromise to win over Congress ("Cabinet Battle #1").

text: Eliza and her family, along with Angelica, back from London, travel upstate during the summer, while Hamilton stays home to work on the compromise ("Take a Break"). Hamilton begins an affair with Maria Reynolds, making him vulnerable to her husband's blackmail ("Say No To This"). Hamilton, Jefferson and James Madison create the Compromise of 1790 over a private dinner, exchanging Hamilton's financial plan for placing the country's permanent capital on the Potomac River. Burr is envious of Hamilton's sway in the government and wishes he had similar power ("The Room Where It Happens").

text: In another Cabinet meeting, Jefferson and Hamilton argue over whether the United States should assist France in its conflict with Britain. Washington ultimately agrees with Hamilton's argument for remaining neutral ("Cabinet Battle #2"). Washington decides to retire from the presidency and Hamilton assists in writing a farewell address ("One Last Time").

text: John Adams becomes the second President and fires Hamilton, who publishes an inflammatory critique of the new president as a response ("The Adams Administration"). Hamilton's affair with Reynolds becomes public ("The Reynolds Pamphlet"), damaging his relationship with Eliza ("Burn"). Their son Philip dies at age 19 in a duel with George Eacker ("Blow Us All Away"), causing a reconciliation between Alexander and Eliza ("It's Quiet Uptown").

text: Hamilton's endorsement of Jefferson in the presidential election of 1800 results in further animosity between Hamilton and Burr. Burr challenges Hamilton to a duel via an exchange of letters ("Your Obedient Servant"). Hamilton dies with his wife and Angelica at his side. Burr laments that even though he survived, he is cursed to be the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton ("The World Was Wide Enough"). The close of the musical is a reflection on historical memory and "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story".

text: Roles and principal casts

text: Original production casts

text:
Character

Vassar Workshop[13]

Off-Broadway[14]

Broadway[15]

Chicago[8]

First U.S. Tour[16]

West End[17]

Second U.S. Tour[18]

Puerto Rico[19]

Alexander Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Miguel Cervantes

Michael Luwoye

Jamael Westman

Joseph Morales

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Eliza Hamilton

Ana Nogueira

Phillipa Soo

Arianna Afsar

Solea Pfeiffer

Rachelle Ann Go

Shoba Narayan

TBA

Aaron Burr

Utkarsh Ambudkar

Leslie Odom Jr.

Joshua Henry

Giles Terera

Nik Walker

Angelica Schuyler

Anika Noni Rose

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Karen Olivo

Emmy Raver-Lampman

Rachel John

Ta'Rea Campbell

George Washington

Christopher Jackson

Jonathan Kirkland

Isaiah Johnson

Obioma Ugoala

Marcus Choi

Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson

Daveed Diggs

Chris De'Sean Lee

Jordan Donica

Jason Pennycooke

Kyle Scatliffe

Hercules Mulligan / James Madison

Joshua Henry

Okieriete Onaodowan

Wallace Smith

Mathenee Treco

Tarinn Callender

Fergie L. Philippe

John Laurens / Philip Hamilton

Javier Muñoz

Anthony Ramos

José Ramos

Rubén J. Carbajal

Cleve September

Elijah Malcomb

Peggy Schuyler / Maria Reynolds

Presilah Nunez

Jasmine Cephas Jones

Samantha Marie Ware

Amber Iman

Christine Allado

Danielle Sostre

King George III

Joshua Henry

Brian d'Arcy James

Jonathan Groff

Alexander Gemignani

Rory O'Malley

Michael Jibson

Jon Patrick Walker

Alexander Hamilton (alternate)

N/A

Javier Muñoz

Joseph Morales

Ryan Alvarado

Ash Hunter

Julius Thomas III

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text: Broadway cast replacements

text:
Alexander Hamilton – Javier Muñoz (July 11, 2016 – January 14, 2018);[20] Michael Luwoye (January 16, 2018 – present)[21][22]
Eliza Hamilton – Lexi Lawson (July 12, 2016 – October 28, 2018)[23][22]; Denée Benton (October 30, 2018 – present)[24]
Aaron Burr – Brandon Victor Dixon (August 23, 2016 – August 13, 2017);[23] Daniel Breaker (August 29, 2017 – present)[25][22]
Angelica Schuyler – Mandy Gonzalez (September 6, 2016 – present)[26][22]
Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson – Seth Stewart (August 15, 2016 – April 16, 2017);[27] James Monroe Iglehart (April 18, 2017 – present)[28]
George Washington – Nicholas Christopher (November 15, 2016 – January 8, 2017);[29] Bryan Terrell Clark (January 10, 2017 – October 30, 2018)[22]; Carvens Lissaint (October 30, 2018 – present)[24]
King George III – Rory O'Malley (April 11, 2016 – January 15, 2017);[30] Taran Killam (January 17, 2017 – April 16, 2017);[31] Brian d'Arcy James (April 18, 2017 – July 16, 2017);[32] Euan Morton (July 28, 2017 – present)[33]
John Laurens / Philip Hamilton – Jordan Fisher (November 22, 2016 – March 5, 2017);[34] Anthony Lee Medina (March 7, 2017 – present)[31][22]
Peggy Schuyler / Maria Reynolds – Alysha Deslorieux (December 20, 2016 – September 3, 2017);[31] Joanna A. Jones (September 5, 2017 – present)[22]
Hercules Mulligan / James Madison – J. Quinton Johnson (January 3, 2017 – June 10, 2018)[22]; Wallace Smith (June 30, 2018 – present)[24]

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text: Other notable production cast replacements

text: Chicago

text:
Aaron Burr – Wayne Brady;[35] Daniel Breaker[36]
Angelica Schuyler – Montego Glover[37]

text: Musical numbers

text:
Act I

"Alexander Hamilton" – Burr, Laurens, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Eliza, Washington, and Company
"Aaron Burr, Sir" – Hamilton, Burr, Laurens, Lafayette, and Mulligan
"My Shot" – Hamilton, Laurens, Lafayette, Mulligan, Burr, and Company
"The Story of Tonight" – Hamilton, Laurens, Mulligan, Lafayette, and Company
"The Schuyler Sisters" – Angelica, Eliza, Peggy, Burr, and Company
"Farmer Refuted" – Seabury, Hamilton, and Company
"You'll Be Back" – King George III and Company
"Right Hand Man" – Washington, Hamilton, Burr, and Company
"A Winter's Ball" – Burr, Hamilton, and Company
"Helpless" – Eliza and Company
"Satisfied" – Angelica and Company
"The Story of Tonight (Reprise)" – Laurens, Mulligan, Lafayette, Hamilton, and Burr
"Wait for It" – Burr and Company
"Stay Alive" – Hamilton, Washington, Laurens, Lafayette, Mulligan, Lee, Eliza, Angelica, and Company[a]
"Ten Duel Commandments" – Laurens, Hamilton, Lee, Burr, and Company
"Meet Me Inside" – Hamilton, Burr, Laurens, Washington, and Company
"That Would Be Enough" – Eliza and Hamilton
"Guns and Ships" – Burr, Lafayette, Washington, and Company
"History Has Its Eyes on You" – Washington, Hamilton, and Company
"Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)" – Hamilton, Lafayette, Laurens, Mulligan, Washington, and Company[a]
"What Comes Next?" – King George III
"Dear Theodosia" – Burr and Hamilton
"Tomorrow There'll Be More of Us" – Laurens, Eliza, and Hamilton[b]
"Non-Stop" – Burr, Hamilton, Angelica, Eliza, Washington, and Company

Act II

"What'd I Miss" –  Jefferson, Burr, Madison, and Company
"Cabinet Battle #1" – Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison
"Take a Break" – Eliza, Philip, Hamilton, and Angelica
"Say No to This" – Maria Reynolds, Burr, Hamilton, James Reynolds, and Company
"The Room Where It Happens" – Burr, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Company
"Schuyler Defeated" – Philip, Eliza, Hamilton, and Burr
"Cabinet Battle #2" – Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison
"Washington on Your Side" – Burr, Jefferson, Madison, and Company
"One Last Time" – Washington, Hamilton, and Company[c]
"I Know Him" – King George III
"The Adams Administration" – Burr, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Company[a]
"We Know" – Hamilton, Jefferson, Burr, and Madison
"Hurricane" – Hamilton and Company
"The Reynolds Pamphlet" – Jefferson, Madison, Burr, Hamilton, Angelica, James Reynolds, and Company[a]
"Burn" – Eliza
"Blow Us All Away" – Philip, Martha, Dolly, Eacker, Hamilton, and Company
"Stay Alive (Reprise)" – Hamilton, Phillip, Eliza, and Company
"It's Quiet Uptown" – Angelica, Hamilton, Eliza, and Company
"The Election of 1800" – Jefferson, Madison, Burr, Hamilton, and Company
"Your Obedient Servant" – Burr, Hamilton, and Company
"Best of Wives and Best of Women" – Eliza and Hamilton
"The World Was Wide Enough" – Burr, Hamilton, and Company
"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" – Washington, Burr, Jefferson, Madison, Angelica, Eliza, Mulligan, Lafayette, Laurens, and Company[a]

text: Notes

text:
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Credited to full company on the original Broadway cast recording.

Jump up ^ "Tomorrow There'll Be More of Us", a second reprise to "The Story of Tonight", does not appear on the original Broadway cast recording. Miranda explained that it was "more of a scene than a song, the only scene in the [sung-through] show", and he wanted to reserve the impact of "at least one revelation" that could be experienced more fully onstage.[38]

Jump up ^ Previously titled "One Last Ride" in the Off-Broadway production.[39]

text: Recordings

text: Original Broadway cast album (2015)

text: The original Broadway cast recording for Hamilton was made available to listeners by NPR on September 21, 2015.[40] It was released by Atlantic Records digitally on September 25, 2015, and physical copies were released on October 16, 2015.[41] The cast album has also been released on vinyl.[42] The album debuted at number 12 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the highest entrance for a cast recording since 1963.[43] It went on to reach number 3 on the Billboard 200[44] and number 1 on the Billboard Rap albums chart.[45] The original cast recording has won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.[46]

text: The Hamilton Mixtape (2016)

text: The Hamilton Mixtape, a collection of remixes, covers, and samples of the musical's songs, was released on December 2, 2016. The Mixtape debuted in the number 1 spot on the Billboard 200.[47]

text: The Hamilton Instrumentals (2017) and Hamiltunes

text: The Hamilton Instrumentals, an instrumental edition of the original Broadway cast recording without the cast's vocals, was released on June 30, 2017.[48]

text: In conjunction with the release, the producers of Hamilton announced that they were officially authorizing free sing-along programs for fans, and offering organizers the Hamiltunes name and logo to promote the events.[48] A series of unauthorized Hamilton sing-alongs under that name, starting with Hamiltunes L.A. in early 2016, had already taken place in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington D.C., with spinoff events nationwide.[48][49][50]

text: Hamildrops (2017–2018)

text: Miranda announced a new series of 13 Hamilton-related recordings called Hamildrops, releasing once a month from December 2017 to December 2018. The first release, on December 15, 2017, was "Ben Franklin's Song" by The Decemberists, containing lyrics Miranda wrote during development of Hamilton for an unused song that was never set to music.  Miranda had long imagined Benjamin Franklin singing in a "Decemberist-y way", and ultimately sent the lyrics to Colin Meloy, who set them to music.[51][52] The second release, on January 25, 2018, was "Wrote My Way Out (Remix)", a remixed version of a song on The Hamilton Mixtape, featuring Royce Da 5'9", Joyner Lucas, Black Thought and Aloe Blacc.[53]

text: The third release, on March 2, 2018, was "The Hamilton Polka" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, a polka medley of some of the songs from the musical. A fan of Yankovic since childhood, Miranda became friends with him after they tried to develop a musical together. About the origin of the song, Yankovic said, "Lin pitched it to me as a polka medley way more hesitantly than [he] should have. He was like, 'Would you want to do a polka medley?' I was like, 'Of course I do!'" Since Yankovic was busy working on his new tour, he wouldn't be able to release the song in February, so he suggested calling March 2 "February 30th". Miranda said it was "the most perfect 'Weird Al' creative problem solving possible."[54]

text: The fourth release, on March 19, 2018, was "Found/Tonight" by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt. A mash-up of the songs "You Will Be Found" from the stage musical Dear Evan Hansen and "The Story of Tonight", part of the proceeds were destinated to the initiative March for Our Lives, created after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Miranda said the song was his way "of helping to raise funds and awareness for [the efforts of the students in Parkland, Florida], and to say Thank You, and that we are with you so let's keep fighting, together." Platt added that he hoped the song could "play some small part in bringing about real change [in gun control laws]".[55]

text: The fifth release, on April 30, 2018, was "First Burn", featuring five actress who played Eliza Hamilton at productions of the musical: Arianna Afsar (original Chicago company), Julia Harriman (first national tour), Shoba Narayan (original second national tour company), Rachelle Ann Go (original West End company) and Lexi Lawson (Broadway). The song is the first draft written by Miranda of "Burn". Miranda described Eliza's portrayal in the first version of the song as "angrier" and "entirely reactive", while in the final version "she has agency", and explained that "it works as a song but not as a scene".[56]

text: The sixth release, on May 31, 2018, was a cover of "Helpless" by The Regrettes.[57] Miranda credited Mike Elizondo, a producer who worked with the band, as having suggested the idea, which he immediately accepted.[58] The seventh release, on June 18, 2018, was "Boom Goes the Cannon..." by Mobb Deep. The song, which incorporates a sample of the musical's "Right Hand Man", was one of the last recorded by Havoc and Prodigy, before Prodigy's passing on June 2017. Havoc expressed that the release of the record was "a great way to pay homage to [Prodigy] and continue not only Mobb's legacy, but his as well". Miranda dedicated it to Queensbridge.[59]

text: Background

text:
External audio
 Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks 'Hamilton': Once A 'Ridiculous' Pitch, Now A Revolution, interview with Scott Simon, NPR, April 9, 2016

text: While on vacation from performing in his hit Broadway show In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda read a copy of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, a biography of Alexander Hamilton. After finishing the first few chapters, Miranda began to envision the life of Hamilton as a musical, and researched whether a stage musical of Hamilton's life had been created.  All he found was that a play of Hamilton's story had been done on Broadway in 1917, starring George Arliss as Alexander Hamilton.[61] (Arliss reprised the role in a 1931 feature film adaptation, Alexander Hamilton, but to date there is no record of Miranda having seen it.)

text: Miranda therefore began a project entitled The Hamilton Mixtape. On May 12, 2009, Miranda was invited to perform music from In the Heights at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word. Instead, he performed the first song from The Hamilton Mixtape, a rough version of what would later become "Alexander Hamilton", Hamilton's opening number. He spent a year after that working on "My Shot", another early number from the show.[62]

text: Miranda performed in a workshop production of the show, then titled The Hamilton Mixtape, at the Vassar Reading Festival on July 27, 2013.[63] The workshop production was directed by Thomas Kail and musically directed by Alex Lacamoire. The workshop consisted of the entirety of the first act of the show and three songs from the second act. The workshop was accompanied by Lacamoire on the piano.[62]

text: Of the original workshop cast, only three principal cast members played in the Off-Broadway production: Miranda, Daveed Diggs, and Christopher Jackson. Most of the original Off-Broadway cast moved to Broadway, except Brian d'Arcy James, who was replaced by Jonathan Groff as King George III.

text: Productions

text: Off-Broadway (2015)

text:
External video
 Interview with Ron Chernow (conducted by Harold Holzer) on the adaptation of his book into the play, February 25, 2016, C-SPAN

text: Directed by Thomas Kail and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler, the musical received its world premiere Off-Broadway at The Public Theater, under the supervision of the Public's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, with previews starting on January 20, 2015 and officially opening on February 17.[64][65] The production was extended twice, first to April 5 and then to May 3.[66] Chernow served as historical consultant to the production.[4][67] The show opened to universal acclaim according to review aggregator Did He Like It.[68]

text: Broadway (2015–present)

text: Hamilton premiered on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (also home to Miranda's 2008 Broadway debut In the Heights) on July 13, 2015 in previews, and opened on August 6, 2015.[1] The production is produced by Jeffrey Seller and features scenic design by David Korins, costumes by Paul Tazewell, lighting by Howell Binkley and sound by Nevin Steinberg, who all reprised their roles from the off-Broadway production.[69]

text: The production was critically acclaimed by many theater analysts.[1][70][71]

text: Chicago (2016–present)

text: Hamilton opened at the CIBC Theatre in Chicago on October 19, 2016, following previews from September 27, 2016.[72] It is currently booking through January 20, 2019.[73] Near the beginning of its run, lead producer Jeffrey Seller said the show may be in residence for two years or more.[74] On its opening, attended by author Miranda, the Chicago production received strongly positive reviews.[75][76][77] Miranda praised the Chicago casts' performance during a later television interview.[78]

text: U.S. touring productions (2017–present)

text: Plans for a national tour of Hamilton emerged near the end of January 2016. The tour was initially announced with over 20 stops, scheduled from 2017 through at least 2020.[79] Tickets to the tour's run in San Francisco—its debut city—sold out within 24 hours of release; the number of people who entered the online waiting room to purchase tickets surpassed 110,000.[80] The first national touring production began preview performances at San Francisco's SHN Orpheum Theatre on March 10, 2017 and officially opened on March 23. The production ran in San Francisco until August 5, when it transferred to Los Angeles' Hollywood Pantages Theatre for a run from August 11 to December 30, 2017.

text: Just days after the first U.S. tour began performances in San Francisco, news emerged that a second U.S. tour of Hamilton would begin in Seattle for a six-week limited engagement before touring North America concurrently with the first tour.[11] To distinguish the first and second touring productions, the production team has labeled them, respectively, the "Angelica tour" and the "Philip tour".[79]

text: The second national tour began preview performances at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on February 6, 2018 before officially opening on February 15, 2018.[81]

text: The Angelica tour alone requires 14 truckloads of cargo and a core group of over 60 traveling cast, crew, and musicians.[79] The production team insisted that each tour must be able to duplicate the original Broadway show's choreography, which literally revolves around two concentric turntables on the stage.[79] This led to the construction of four portable sets, two for each tour, so that one set can be assembled well in advance at the next stop while the tour is still playing at the last stop.[79]

text: West End (2017–present)

text: Cameron Mackintosh produced a London production which re-opened the Victoria Palace Theatre on December 21, 2017, following previews from December 6.[9] Initial principal casting was announced on January 26, 2017.[17] The London production received strongly positive reviews.[82]

text: Puerto Rico (2019)

text: It was announced on November 8, 2017 that Hamilton would play the University of Puerto Rico's Teatro UPR in San Juan, beginning in January 2019, with Lin-Manuel Miranda reprising his performance as Alexander Hamilton.[19] The Teatro UPR stage had suffered damage following Hurricane Maria in September and October 2017, and is set to undergo restorations and repairs prior to Hamilton's 2019 bow.

text: Box office and business

text: Opening and box office records

text: Hamilton's off-Broadway engagement at The Public Theater was sold out,[6] and when the musical opened on Broadway, it had a multimillion-dollar advance in ticket sales, reportedly taking in $30 million before its official opening.[83]

text: By September 2015, the show was sold out for most of its Broadway engagement.[84][85][86][87] It was the second-highest-grossing show on Broadway for the Labor Day week ending September 6, 2015 (behind only The Lion King).[7]

text: Hamilton set a Broadway box office record for the most money grossed in a single week in New York City in late November 2016, when it grossed $3.3 million for an eight performance week, becoming the first show to break $3 million in eight performances.[88]

text: Ticket lottery and Ham4Ham

text: Hamilton, like other Broadway musicals, offers a ticket lottery before every show. Initially, twenty-one front row seats (and occasional standing room tickets) were offered in each lottery. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda began preparing and hosting outdoor mini-performances shortly before each daily drawing, allowing lottery participants to experience a part of the show even when they did not win tickets.[89] These were dubbed the "Ham4Ham" shows, because lottery winners were given the opportunity to purchase two tickets at the reduced price of one Hamilton ($10 bill) each.

text: The online theatrical journal HowlRound characterized Ham4Ham as an expression of Miranda's cultural background:

text: Ham4Ham follows a long tradition of Latina/o (or the ancestors of present-day Latina/os) theatremaking that dates back to when the events in Hamilton were happening.... The philosophy behind this is simple. If the people won't come to the theatre, then take the theatre to the people. While El Teatro Campesino's 'taking it to the streets' originated from a place of social protest, Ham4Ham does so to create accessibility, tap into social media, and ultimately generate a free, self-functioning marketing campaign. In this way, Ham4Ham falls into a lineage of accessibility as a Latina/o theatremaking aesthetic.[90]

text: As a result of the Ham4Ham shows, Hamilton's lottery process drew unusually large crowds of people that created a significant congestion problem for West 46th Street.[91] To avoid increasingly dangerous crowding and traffic conditions, an online ticket lottery began operating in early January 2016.[91] On the first day of the online lottery, more than 50,000 people entered, resulting in the website crashing.[92]

text: Following Miranda's departure from the show on July 9, 2016, Rory O'Malley, then playing King George III, took over as the host of Ham4Ham.[93] The Ham4Ham show officially ended on August 31, 2016, after over a year of performances.[94] The online lottery continued, with an official mobile app released in August 2017 that expanded the lottery by offering tickets for touring productions of Hamilton as well as the Broadway show.[95]

text: Critical response

text: Marilyn Stasio, in her review of the Off-Broadway production for Variety, wrote, "The music is exhilarating, but the lyrics are the big surprise. The sense as well as the sound of the sung dialogue has been purposely suited to each character. George Washington, a stately figure in Jackson's dignified performance, sings in polished prose... But in the end, Miranda's impassioned narrative of one man's story becomes the collective narrative of a nation, a nation built by immigrants who occasionally need to be reminded where they came from."[96]

text: In his review of the Off-Broadway production, Jesse Green in New York wrote, "The conflict between independence and interdependence is not just the show's subject but also its method: It brings the complexity of forming a union from disparate constituencies right to your ears.... Few are the theatergoers who will be familiar with all of Miranda's touchstones. I caught the verbal references to Rodgers and Hammerstein, Gilbert and Sullivan, Sondheim, West Side Story, and 1776, but other people had to point out to me the frequent hat-tips to hip-hop... Whether it's a watershed, a breakthrough, and a game changer, as some have been saying, is another matter. Miranda is too savvy (and loves his antecedents too much) to try to reinvent all the rules at once.... Those duels, by the way—there are three of them—are superbly handled, the highlights of a riveting if at times overbusy staging by the director Thomas Kail and the choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler."[97]

text: Although giving a positive review, Elisabeth Vincentelli, of the New York Post (which was founded by Hamilton himself), wrote that Hamilton and Burr's love/hate relationship "fails to drive the show—partly because Miranda lacks the charisma and intensity of the man he portrays", and that "too many of the numbers are exposition-heavy lessons, as if this were 'Schoolhouse Rap!' The show is burdened with eye-glazingly dull stretches, especially those involving George Washington."[98]

text: Reviewing the Broadway production in The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote, "I am loath to tell people to mortgage their houses and lease their children to acquire tickets to a hit Broadway show. But Hamilton, directed by Thomas Kail and starring Mr. Miranda, might just about be worth it.... Washington, Jefferson, Madison—they're all here, making war and writing constitutions and debating points of economic structure. So are Aaron Burr and the Marquis de Lafayette. They wear the clothes (by Paul Tazewell) you might expect them to wear in a traditional costume drama, and the big stage they inhabit has been done up (by David Korins) to suggest a period-appropriate tavern, where incendiary youth might gather to drink, brawl and plot revolution."[1]

text: In Time Out New York, David Cote wrote, "I love Hamilton. I love it like I love New York, or Broadway when it gets it right. And this is so right... A sublime conjunction of radio-ready hip-hop (as well as R&B, Britpop and trad showstoppers), under-dramatized American history and Miranda's uniquely personal focus as a first-generation Puerto Rican and inexhaustible wordsmith, Hamilton hits multilevel culture buttons, hard... The work's human drama and novelistic density remain astonishing." Cote chose Hamilton as a Critics' Pick, and gave the production five out of five stars.[3]

text: In an issue of Journal of the Early Republic, Andrew Schocket wrote that while Hamilton makes bold choices to stray away from what he calls the "American Revolution Rebooted" genre,[99] it remains "forged in the mold of this genre, and despite its casting and hip-hop delivery, is more representative of it than we might think."[100] In the same issue, Marvin McAllister noted that the production's heavy hip-hop influence works so well because "Miranda elevates the form through this marriage with musical theater storytelling, and in the process, ennobles the culture and the creators."[101]

text: A review in The Economist summed up the response to Hamilton as "near-universal critical acclaim".[102] Barack Obama joked that admiration for the musical is "the only thing Dick Cheney and I agree on".[103]

text: Honors and awards

text: Original Off-Broadway production

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Year

Award

Category

Nominee

Result

2015

Lucille Lortel Awards[104]

Outstanding Musical

Won

Outstanding Director

Thomas Kail

Won

Outstanding Choreographer

Andy Blankenbuehler

Won

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Won

Leslie Odom, Jr.

Nominated

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical

Phillipa Soo

Won

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

Daveed Diggs

Won

Brian d'Arcy James

Nominated

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Won

Outstanding Costume Design

Paul Tazewell

Won

Outstanding Lighting Design

Howell Binkley

Won

Outstanding Sound Design

Nevin Steinberg

Won

Outer Critics Circle Awards[105]

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical

Won

Outstanding Book of a Musical

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Won

Outstanding New Score

Won

Outstanding Director of a Musical

Thomas Kail

Nominated

Outstanding Choreographer

Andy Blankenbuehler

Nominated

Drama League Awards[106]

Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical

Nominated

Distinguished Performance

Daveed Diggs

Nominated

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Nominated

Drama Desk Awards[107]

Outstanding Musical

Won

Outstanding Actor in a Musical

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Nominated

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

Leslie Odom, Jr.

Nominated

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Won

Outstanding Director of a Musical

Thomas Kail

Won

Outstanding Music

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Won

Outstanding Lyrics

Won

Outstanding Book of a Musical

Won

Outstanding Orchestrations

Alex Lacamoire

Nominated

Outstanding Set Design

David Korins

Nominated

Outstanding Costume Design

Paul Tazewell

Nominated

Outstanding Lighting Design

Howell Binkley

Nominated

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical

Nevin Steinberg

Won

Special Award ‡

Andy Blankenbuehler

Won

New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards[108]

Best Musical

Won

Off Broadway Alliance Awards[109]

Best New Musical

Won

Theatre World Awards[110]

Outstanding Debut Performance

Daveed Diggs

Won

Clarence Derwent Awards[111]

Most Promising Female Performer

Phillipa Soo

Won

Obie Awards[112]

Best New American Theatre Work

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Andy Blankenbuehler, Alex Lacamoire

Won

Edgerton Foundation New American Play Awards[113]

Won

text: ‡ Blankenbuehler received a Special Drama Desk Award for "his inspired and heart-stopping choreography in Hamilton, which is indispensible [sic] to the musical's storytelling. His body of work is versatile, yet a dynamic and fluid style is consistently evident. When it's time to 'take his shot,' Blankenbuehler hits the bull's-eye."[107]

text: Original Broadway production

text:
Year

Award

Category

Nominee

Result

2016

Tony Awards[114]

Best Musical

Won

Best Book of a Musical

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Won

Best Original Score

Won

Best Actor in a Musical

Nominated

Leslie Odom, Jr.

Won

Best Actress in a Musical

Phillipa Soo

Nominated

Best Featured Actor in a Musical

Daveed Diggs

Won

Jonathan Groff

Nominated

Christopher Jackson

Nominated

Best Featured Actress in a Musical

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Won

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

David Korins

Nominated

Best Costume Design of a Musical

Paul Tazewell

Won

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Howell Binkley

Won

Best Direction of a Musical

Thomas Kail

Won

Best Choreography

Andy Blankenbuehler

Won

Best Orchestrations

Alex Lacamoire

Won

Drama League Awards[115]

Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical

Won

Distinguished Performance

Daveed Diggs

Nominated

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Won

Pulitzer Prize

Drama

Won

Grammy Awards[46]

Best Musical Theater Album

Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos & Phillipa Soo (principal soloists); Alex Lacamoire, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bill Sherman, Ahmir Thompson & Tariq Trotter (producers); Lin-Manuel Miranda (composer & lyricist)

Won

Fred and Adele Astaire Awards[116]

Outstanding Ensemble in a Broadway Show

Nominated

Best Choreographer

Andy Blankenbuehler

Won

Best Male Dancer

Daveed Diggs

Nominated

NAACP Image Awards[117]

Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration

Original Broadway Cast

Nominated

Dramatists Guild of America Awards[118]

Frederick Loewe Award for Dramatic Composition

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Won

Edward M. Kennedy Prize[119]

Drama Inspired by American History

Won

Broadway.com Audience Awards

Favorite New Musical

Won

Favorite Leading Actor in a Musical

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Won

Leslie Odom Jr.

Nominated

Favorite Leading Actress in a Musical

Phillipa Soo

Won

Favorite Breakthrough Performance (female)

Won

Jasmine Cephas Jones

Nominated

Favorite Featured Actress in a Musical

Nominated

Renee Elise Goldsberry

Won

Favorite Featured Actor in a Musical

Daveed Diggs

Nominated

Christopher Jackson

Nominated

Anthony Ramos

Nominated

Jonathan Groff

Won

Favorite Diva Performance

Won

Favorite Funny Performance

Won

Daveed Diggs

Nominated

Favorite Breakthrough Performance

Won

Anthony Ramos

Nominated

Okieriete Onaodowan

Nominated

Favorite Onstage Pair

Lin-Manuel Miranda & Leslie Odom Jr.

Won

Lin-Manuel Miranda & Phillipa Soo

Nominated

Favorite Replacement (Male)

Andrew Rannells

Nominated

Rory O'Malley

Nominated

Favorite New Song

"Alexander Hamilton"

Nominated

"My Shot"

Nominated

"The Schuyler Sisters"

Nominated

"Satisfied"

Won

"The Room Where It Happens"

Nominated

2017

Kids' Choice Awards

Favorite Soundtrack

Nominated

Billboard Music Award[120]

Top Soundtrack/Cast Album

Won

2018

Kennedy Center Honors[121]

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andy Blankenbuehler, Alex Lacamoire and Thomas Kail

Won

text: Original West End production

text:
Year

Award

Category

Nominee

Result

2018

Critics' Circle Theatre Award[122]

The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical

Won

Laurence Olivier Awards[123]

Best New Musical

Won

Outstanding Achievement in Music

Alex Lacamoire and Lin-Manuel Miranda

Won

Best Actor in a Musical

Giles Terera

Won

Jamael Westman

Nominated

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical

Michael Jibson

Won

Jason Pennycooke

Nominated

Cleve September

Nominated

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical

Rachel John

Nominated

Best Costume Design

Paul Tazewell

Nominated

Best Lighting Design

Howell Binkley

Won

Best Sound Design

Nevin Steinberg

Won

Best Director

Thomas Kail

Nominated

Best Theatre Choreographer

Andy Blankenbuehler

Won

text: Accolades

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External video
 Presentation to Lin-Manuel Miranda of the Special Achievement Award from the board of the George Washington Book Prize, December 14, 2015, C-SPAN

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Publication

Accolade

Rank

Billboard

25 Best Albums of 2015[124]

2

Rolling Stone

50 Best Albums of 2015[125]

8

text: Concept

text: According to an article in The New Yorker, the show is "an achievement of historical and cultural reimagining". The costumes and set reflect the period, with "velvet frock coats and knee britches. The set ...is a wooden scaffold against exposed brick; the warm lighting suggests candlelight".[4] The musical is mostly sung and rapped all the way through, with little dialogue isolated outside of the musical score.[13][2][126]

text: Casting diversity

text: Miranda said that the portrayal of Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other white historical figures by black and Hispanic actors should not require any substantial suspension of disbelief by audience members. "Our cast looks like America looks now, and that's certainly intentional", he said. "It's a way of pulling you into the story and allowing you to leave whatever cultural baggage you have about the founding fathers at the door."[127] He noted "We're telling the story of old, dead white men but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience."[128]

text:
The pro-immigration message of Hamilton is at the forefront, as the show revolves around the life of one of the Founding Fathers of America, Alexander Hamilton, and how he made his mark in American politics as an immigrant. Instead of being characterized as a white person, Alexander Hamilton's immigrant status would be referenced throughout the whole show, alongside with the virtue and prowess of Hamilton ("by working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter", described in the show's opening), in order to foster a positive image of immigrants.[129] Alongside this, the casting of Black, Latino, and Asian American leads allowed audiences to literally view America as a nation of immigrants, with the intention of showing how irrelevant the Founding Fathers' whiteness is to their claim on the country.[130]
"Hamilton is a story about America, and the most beautiful thing about it is... it's told by such a diverse cast with a such diverse styles of music," according to Renee Elise Goldberry, who played Angelica Schuyler. "We have the opportunity to reclaim a history that some of us don't necessarily think is our own."[131] Miranda has stated that he is "totally open" to women playing the Founding Fathers.[132] Casting for the British production is expected to feature predominantly black British artists.[133][134]

text: Historical accuracy

text: Chronology and events

text: Although Hamilton was based on historical events and people, Miranda did use some dramatic license in retelling the story. For example, while Angelica did have a strong relationship with Hamilton, it was exaggerated in the show. During "Satisfied", Angelica explains why Hamilton is not suitable for her despite wanting him. In particular, she states, "I'm a girl in a world in which my only job is to marry rich. My father has no sons so I'm the one who has to social climb for one." In actuality, Angelica had less pressure on her to do this. Philip Schuyler actually had fifteen children, including two sons who survived into adulthood (one of whom was New York State Assemblyman Philip Jeremiah Schuyler), and Angelica had eloped with John Barker Church three years before she met Hamilton at her sister's wedding, when she was already mother of two of her eight children with Church.[135] Miranda stated that he chose to do this because it is stronger dramatically if Angelica is available but cannot marry him.[136][137][138]

text: In addition, in Act I, Aaron Burr's role in Hamilton's life is overstated, and much of the early interactions between the two men in the show are fictionalized. For example, while Burr was present at the Battle of Monmouth, Burr did not serve as Charles Lee's second in his duel with John Laurens as seen in "Ten Duel Commandments"; Lee's second was Evan Edwards.[139] Hamilton also never approached Burr to help write The Federalist Papers as portrayed in "Non-Stop".[140]

text: During Act I, the character of Aaron Burr says that "...Martha Washington named her feral tomcat after him! [Hamilton]", to which Alexander Hamilton replies: "That's true!"[141] In fact, it is false. The idea of Hamilton as a serial adulterer has been one of the biggest mischaracterizations of the real Alexander Hamilton for centuries, with celebrated authors repeating the story over and over again, notwithstanding that the sexual connotation of tomcat as a womanizer did not appear in dictionaries until the first half of the 20th century. The "tomcat" story has been previously discredited by author Stephen Knott,[142] and refuted by historian and author Michael E. Newton at the "Alexander Hamilton Discoveries and Findings" talk held by the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society at Liberty Hall (Kean University) as part of the 2016 CelebrateHAMILTON events.[143][144]

text: In Act II, there are multiple inaccuracies throughout Hamilton's decline, probably due to time constraints and narrative arc. While it is true that John Adams and Hamilton did not particularly get along, John Adams did not fire Hamilton as told in the show. Hamilton tendered his resignation from his position as Secretary of the Treasury on December 1, 1794,[145] two years before Adams became president. However, Hamilton remained close friends with Washington and highly influential in the political sphere.[146] Additionally, Jefferson, Madison and Burr did not approach Hamilton about his affair; it was actually James Monroe, Frederick Muhlenberg and Abraham Venable in December 1792.[147] Monroe was a close friend of Jefferson's and shared the information of Hamilton's affair with him. In the Summer of 1797, journalist James T. Callender broke the story of Hamilton's infidelity. Hamilton blamed Monroe, and the altercation nearly ended in a duel.[148] With nothing left to do, Hamilton then published The Reynolds Pamphlet.[149]

text: In "Take a Break", Philip Hamilton, at age 9, claims, "I have a sister, but I want a little brother". Philip already had two younger brothers at the time: Alexander Hamilton Jr. and James Alexander Hamilton. On the same song, Angelica sends a letter to Hamilton, revealing she would come back to America from Europe for the summer. She didn't send such a letter, and remained in her home.

text: In "Blow Us All Away", George Eacker and Philip engage in a duel, before the events of the 1800 presidential election. The duel actually occurred in 1801, with Philip Hamilton dying on November 24. In the song, Eacker fires on Philip at the count of seven, while what happened in real-life was quite the opposite; both men refused to fire for over a minute before Eacker shot Philip in the hips.[150]

text: Lastly, it was not the presidential election of 1800 that led to Burr and Hamilton's duel. Burr did become Jefferson's vice-president, but when Jefferson decided to not run with Burr for reelection in 1804, Burr opted to run for Governor of New York instead. Burr lost to Morgan Lewis in a landslide. Afterwards, a letter was published in The Albany Register from Charles D. Cooper to Philip Schuyler, claiming that Hamilton called Burr "a dangerous man, and one who ought not be trusted with the reins of government", and that he knew of "a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr".[151] This led to the letters between Burr and Hamilton as seen in the show in "Your Obedient Servant".

text: Critical analysis and scholarship

text: The show has been critiqued for a simplistic depiction of Hamilton and vilification of Jefferson. Joanne B. Freeman, a history professor at Yale,[152] contrasted the show's Hamilton to the "real Hamilton [who] was a mass of contradictions: an immigrant who sometimes distrusted immigrants, a revolutionary who placed a supreme value on law and order, a man who distrusted the rumblings of the masses yet preached his politics to them more frequently and passionately than many of his more democracy-friendly fellows".[153]

text: Australian historian Shane White found the framing of the show's story "troubling", stating that he and many historian colleagues "would like to imagine that Hamilton is a last convulsion of the founding father mythology".[154] According to White, Miranda's depiction of the founding of the United States "infuses new life into an older view of American history" that centered on the Founding Fathers, instead of joining the many historians who were "attempting to get away from the Great Men story" by incorporating "ordinary people, African-Americans, Native Americans and women" into a "more inclusive and nuanced" historical narrative in which Hamilton has a "cameo rather than leading role".[154]

text: Rutgers University professor Lyra Monteiro criticized the show's multi-ethnic casting as obscuring a complete lack of identifiable enslaved or free persons of color as characters in the show.[155] Monteiro identified other commentators, such as Ishmael Reed, who criticized the show for making Hamilton and other historical personages appear more progressive on racial injustice than they really were.[155] According to Reed, "[Hamilton's] reputation has been shored up as an abolitionist and someone who was opposed to slavery," which Reed stated was untrue.[156]

text: In The Baffler, policy analyst Matt Stoller criticized the musical's portrayal of Hamilton as an idealist committed to democratic principles, in contrast to what he characterized as the historical record of Hamilton's reactionary, anti-democratic politics and legacy.[157] For example, Stoller cited Hamilton as a leader involved in the Newburgh conspiracy (a military coup plot against the Continental Congress in 1783); his development of a national financial system which, in Stoller's view, empowered the plutocratic elite; and his use of military force, indefinite detention, and mass arrests against dissenters during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791.[157] In 2007, history writer William Hogeland criticized Chernow's biography of Hamilton on similar grounds in the Boston Review.[158]

text: In 2018, Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past was published.  Fifteen historians of early America authored essays on ways the musical both engages with, and sometimes misinterprets history.[159]

text: Use in education

text: KQED News wrote of a "growing number of intrepid U.S. history teachers...who are harnessing the Hamilton phenomenon to inspire their students".[160] The Cabinet rap battles provide a way to engage students with topics that have traditionally been considered uninteresting.[160] An elective course for 11th and 12th graders on the musical Hamilton was held at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York.[160] KQED News added that "Hamilton is especially galvanizing for the student who believes that stories about 18th century America are distant and irrelevant" as it shows the Founding Fathers were real humans with real feeling and real flaws, rather than "bloodless, two-dimensional cutouts who devoted their lives to abstract principles".[160] A high school teacher from the Bronx noted his students were "singing these songs the way they might sing the latest release from Drake or Adele".[161] One teacher focused on Hamilton's ability to write his way out of trouble and toward a higher plane of existence: "skilled writing is the clearest sign of scholarship—and the best way to rise up and alter your circumstance."[162]

text: Hamilton's producers have made a pledge to allow 20,000 New York City public high school students from low-income families to get subsidized tickets to see Hamilton on Broadway by reducing their tickets to $70 for students, and the Rockefeller Foundation provided $1.5 million to further lower ticket prices to $10 per student.[163][164] The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History created a study guide to accompany the student-ticket program.[163][164]

text: Through a private grant, over the course of the 2017 school year nearly 20,000 Chicago Public School students got to see a special performance of the show, and some got to perform original songs on stage prior to the show.[165]

text: The website EducationWorld writes that Hamilton is "being praised for its revitalization of interest in civic education".[166] Northwestern University announced plans to offer course work in 2017 inspired by Hamilton, in history, Latino studies, and interdisciplinary studies.[167]

text: In 2016, Moraine Valley Community College started a Hamilton appreciation movement, Straight Outta Hamilton, hosting panels and events that talk about the musical itself and relate them to current events.[168][169]

text: Legacy and impact

text: $10 bill

text: In 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced a redesign to the $10 bill, with plans to replace Hamilton with a then-undecided woman from American history. Because of Hamilton's surging popularity, almost exclusively due to the musical, United States Treasury Secretary Jack Lew reversed the plans to replace Hamilton's portrait, instead deciding to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.[170]

text: Hamilton: The Revolution

text:
External video
 Presentation by Jeremy McCarter on Hamilton: The Revolution, June 11, 2016, C-SPAN

text: On April 12, 2016, Miranda and Jeremy McCarter's book, Hamilton: The Revolution, was released, detailing Hamilton's journey from an idea to a successful Broadway musical. It includes an inside look at not only Alexander Hamilton's revolution, but the cultural revolution that permeates the show. It also has footnotes from Miranda and stories from behind the scenes of the show.[171]

text: Hamilton's America

text: After premiering on the New York Film Festival on October 1, 2016, PBS' Great Performances exhibited on October 21, 2016 the documentary Hamilton's America. Directed by Alex Horwitz, it "delves even deeper into the creation of the show, revealing Miranda's process of absorbing and then adapting Hamilton's epic story into groundbreaking musical theater. Further fleshing out the story is newly shot footage of the New York production with its original cast, trips to historic locations such as Mt. Vernon and Valley Forge with Miranda and other cast members, and a surprising range of interviews with prominent personalities, experts, politicians, and musicians."[172] The film featured interviews with American historians and Hamilton authorities.[173]

text: Hamilton: The Exhibition

text: Hamilton: The Exhibition is a planned traveling interactive museum, which will focus on the history concerning the life of Alexander Hamilton and also the musical.[174] It is to debut in Chicago in November 2018.[175]

text: 2016 Vice President–elect Pence controversy

text: Following a performance on November 18, 2016, with Vice President-elect Mike Pence in the audience, Brandon Victor Dixon addressed Pence from the stage with a statement jointly written by the cast, show creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and producer Jeffrey Seller.[176] Dixon began by quieting the audience, and stated:

text: Vice President-elect Pence, we welcome you and we truly thank you for joining us here at Hamilton: An American Musical, we really do. We, sir,—we—are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us. All of us. Again, we truly thank you truly for seeing this show, this wonderful American story told by a diverse group of men and women of different colors, creeds and orientations.[176]

text: Pence listened to the expression of concern about President-elect Donald Trump's upcoming administration and later expressed that he was not offended.[177] However, Trump demanded an apology[178] for what he described, on Twitter, as the cast having "harassed" Pence.[179] This led to an online campaign called "#BoycottHamilton", which became widely mocked as the show was already sold-out months in advance.[180] Trump was criticized by The Washington Post, who noted the division between white and non-white America in the 2016 Presidential election and suggested Trump could have offered "assurances that he would be a president for all Americans—that he would respect everybody regardless of race or gender or creed";[181] instead, as Presidential historian Robert Dallek expressed, Trump's Twitter response was a "striking act of divisiveness by an incoming president struggling to heal the nation after a bitter election",[181] with the Hamilton cast a proxy for those fearful of Trump's policies and rhetoric. Jeffrey Seller, the show's lead producer, said that while Trump has not seen Hamilton or inquired about tickets, he is "welcome to attend".[182]

text: Parodies

text: In April 2016, Jeb! The Musical appeared on the Internet with Jeb Bush in the place of Alexander Hamilton,[183][184] with political figures like Donald Trump and Chris Christie holding supporting roles.[185] A staged reading, given "just as much preparation as Jeb's campaign", was staged at Northwestern University in June of that year.[186] The parody was crowdsourced, with contributions coming from a range of writers. A number of writers were drawn from Yale University, Boston University, McGill University and the University of Michigan. These writers met in a Facebook group named "Post Aesthetics".[187]

text: In 2016, Gerard Alessandrini, creator of Forbidden Broadway, wrote the revue Spamilton, which premiered at the Triad Theater in New York and also played at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. It parodies Hamilton and other Broadway shows and caricatures various Broadway stars.[188][189]

text: On October 12, 2016, the American sitcom Modern Family released the episode "Weathering Heights". The episode features a scene where Manny applies for college. To do so he records a parody of "Alexander Hamilton" as part of his application, complete with rewritten lyrics to accompany to his own life. It is revealed that most of the other applications are also Hamilton parodies.[190]

text: Live stage filming

text: On July 24, 2018, it was learned that a filmed version of a 2016 stage performance with the original cast was being bid on by major movie studios.[191]

text: Film adaptation

text: On February 10, 2017, Miranda said that In the Heights playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes wrote a script for a film adaptation, but reassured that, while a film would be made someday, it would not happen for years.[192]