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🎭 **ATTENTION, FOUNDING FRIENDS, FUTURE FOUNDING FRIENDS, AND FOUNDERS OF EXCUSES:** 🎭**MY DEAREST, MOST ESTEEMED, MOST HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT COMPATRIOTS—**
The hour has come.
The colonies are restless.
The Constitution is sweating.
The Schuyler Sisters have assembled.
King George has been informed and is **deeply displeased.**
And I have but **ONE QUESTION:**
### **WHO IS READY TO GO SEE HAMILTON?!**
Because **I AM NOT THROWING AWAY MY SHOT** to assemble the greatest collection of revolutionaries this side of the Hudson.
We have been **waiting for it.**
We have been **helpless.**
We have been **satisfied** with ordinary evenings for far too long.
**NO MORE.**
It is time to **RISE UP**, leave our humdrum civilian lives behind, and march triumphantly toward **THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS.**
And what, you may ask, is happening in said room?
**HISTORY.**
**MUSICAL HISTORY.**
**AMERICAN HISTORY.**
**HISTORY WITH A BEAT SO AGGRESSIVELY CATCHY THAT YOU WILL FORGET YOU ARE WATCHING A 2-HOUR-AND-45-MINUTE DEBATE ABOUT THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.**
We shall **TAKE OUR SHOT.**
We shall **RAISE A GLASS.**
We shall **MEET IN THE MIDDLE.**
We shall **BLOW US ALL AWAY.**
And, should anyone attempt to stop us, we shall simply respond:
**“I’M NOT THROWING AWAY MY SHOT.”**
We shall enter the theatre as ordinary citizens…
…and emerge as **TEN-DOLLAR FOUNDING FATHERS WITH AN UNHEALTHY CONFIDENCE IN OUR ABILITY TO RAP.**
There will be **GUNS.**
There will be **SHIPS.**
There will be **ROOMS.**
There will be **WIVES.**
There will be **SISTERS.**
There will be **WAR.**
There will be **REYNOLDS.**
There will be **PAMPHLETS.**
There will be **KING GEORGE III, WHO HAS VERY STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT OUR DECISION TO ATTEND.**
And there will almost certainly be **one person in our group who spends the entire evening whispering the lyrics approximately three seconds before the actors sing them.**
**THAT PERSON KNOWS WHO THEY ARE.**
📜 **THE OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION OF THE NEWLY FORMED MUSICAL REPUBLIC:**
📅 **THE DATE OF OUR GLORIOUS REVOLUTION:** [Dec 10]
⏰ **THE HOUR AT WHICH HISTORY SHALL BE MADE:** [7p]
📍 **THE SACRED GROUND UPON WHICH WE SHALL GATHER:** [Moran Theatre]
**RSVP, FOR THE LOVE OF ELIZA, ALEXANDER, ANGELICA, AND THE ENTIRE SCHUYLER BLOODLINE.**
Because if you do not respond, I will be forced to assume:
1. You have **no room where it happens**.
2. You have **thrown away your shot**.
3. You are secretly **Loyalist scum**.
4. King George has gotten to you.
5. **YOU’LL BE BACK.**
And frankly, **NO ONE HAS TO KNOW** which one it is.
Come dressed in your finest **Revolutionary-era drip**, your most **non-stop** enthusiasm, and your absolute confidence that you could have personally defeated the British if only Lin-Manuel Miranda had given you the opportunity.
Bring your **best of wives.**
Bring your **best of women.**
Bring your **best of friends.**
Bring your **best of puns.**
**BRING YOUR BEST SELF.**
Leave your **Reynolds Pamphlets** at home.
Unless they’re funny.
Then absolutely bring them.
**LOOK AROUND, LOOK AROUND.**
Do you see that?
That’s your calendar.
Do you see that?
That’s your opportunity.
Do you see that?
That’s **HAMILTON.**
And do you know what happens when you say yes?
**CONGRATULATIONS.**
You have just become part of the **room where it happens.**
So let us go forth.
Let us **RISE UP.**
Let us **TAKE OUR SHOT.**
Let us **HISTORY OUR HISTORY.**
Let us **SATISFY OUR SATISFACTION.**
Let us **WAIT FOR IT…**
…until the curtain rises.
🇺🇸 **GOD BLESS AMERICA, THEATRE, MUSICAL THEATRE, AND THE PERSON WHO INVENTED TICKETMASTER.**
**YOUR MOST LOYAL, REVOLUTIONARY, EXCESSIVELY VERBOSE, AND SLIGHTLY CONCERNINGLY OBSESSED CORRESPONDENT,**
[Cecilia Ralson]
**P.S. — History has its eyes on you.**
**P.P.S. — So does your RSVP.**
**P.P.P.S. — Please RSVP.**
**P.P.P.P.S. — I cannot emphasize this enough.**
**P.P.P.P.P.S. — I’m not throwing away my shot.**
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