Alice Hamilton

Throwing my shot

Laurens
  *dramatic hair flip/turn* 
Laurens: huh! Who are you?

Alice: uh um

Mulligan: ooh! Who are you, speak up!

Alice: I-Im-

Burr: This here is Alexander Hamilton, sh- HES here to talk to me

MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS

Ooh, who is this kid? What’s he gonna do?

HAMILTON

I am not throwing away my shot!
I am not throwing away my shot!
Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
I’m young, scrappy and hungry,
and I’m not throwing away my shot!
I’m ‘a get a scholarship to King’s College.
I prob’ly shouldn’t brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish.
The problem is I get underestimated
I gotta holler just to be heard!
With every word, I drop knowledge!
I’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
tryin’ to reach my goal. My power of speech: unimpeachable.
Only nineteen but my mind is older.
These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder
ev’ry burden, ev’ry disadvantage
I have learned to manage, I don’t have a gun to brandish,
I walk these streets famished with my sister, she could heard crying in pain
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame.
But damn, it’s getting dark, so let me spell out the name,
I am the—

HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS

A-l-e-x-a-n-d
e-r—we are—meant to be…

HAMILTON

A colony that runs independently.
Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin’ on us endlessly.
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly,
then King George turns around, runs a spending spree.
He ain’t ever gonna set his descendants free,
so there will be a revolution in this century.
Enter me!

HAMILTON

Don’t be shocked when your hist’ry book mentions me.
I will lay down my life if it sets us free.
Eventually, you’ll see my ascendancy,

HAMILTON

And I am not throwing away my shot.
I am not throwing away my shot.
Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
I’m young, scrappy and hungry
and I’m not throwing away my shot.

LAURENS

My shot!
My shot!
And I’m not throwing away my shot.

HAMILTON/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE

I am not throwing away my shot.
I am not throwing away my shot.
Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
I’m young, scrappy and hungry
and I’m not throwing away my shot.
It’s time to take a shot!

LAFAYETTE

I dream of life without a monarchy.
The unrest in France will lead to ‘onarchy?
‘Onarchy? How you say, how you say, ‘anarchy?’
When I fight, I make the other side panicky.
With my—

HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN

Shot!

MULLIGAN

Yo, I’m a tailor’s apprentice,
and I got y’all knuckleheads in loco parentis.
I’m joining the rebellion cuz I know it’s my chance
to socially advance, instead of sewin’ some pants!
I’m gonna take a—

HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN

Shot!

LAURENS

But we’ll never be truly free
until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me,
you and I. Do or die. Wait till I sally in
on a stallion with the first black battalion
have another—

HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN

Shot!

BURR

Geniuses, lower your voices.
You keep out of trouble and you double your choices.
I’m with you, but the situation is fraught.
You’ve got to be carefully taught:
If you talk, you’re gonna get shot!
* Whispers * Alice go. They figure you out soon enough!

HAMILTON
*Little tipsy*
Burr, check what we got.
Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot,
I think your pants look hot,
Laurens, I like you a lot.
Let’s hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin’ the pot...
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot,
poppin’ a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not,
a bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?
Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is!
Oh, am I talkin’ too loud?
I'm sorry, it's my body on its own
Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth.
I never had a group of friends before,
I promise that I’ll make y’all proud.

LAURENS
  *smirks*
Let’s get this guy in front of a crowd.

HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/ENSEMBLE

I am not throwing away my shot.
I am not throwing away my shot.
Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
I’m young, scrappy and hungry
and I’m not throwing away my shot.
I am not throwing away my shot.

I'm skipping some verses due to my brain not wanting to focus

   Alice
"Burr i know what I'm doing this is my shot"

I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
When’s it gonna get me?
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
If I see it comin’, do I run or do I let it be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See, I never thought I’d live past twenty.
Where I come from some get half as many.
Ask anybody why we livin’ fast and we laugh, reach for a flask,
we have to make this moment last, that’s plenty.

Wipe tears not today, this is my future! Not My brother's.

Scratch that,
this is not a moment, it’s the movement
where all the hungriest brothers with
something to prove went?
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand,
we roll like Moses, claimin’ our promised land.
And? If we win our independence?
‘Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
I know the action in the street is excitin’,
but Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’
I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.
We need to handle our financial situation.
Are we a nation of states? What’s the state of our nation?
I’m past patiently waitin’. I’m passionately
smashin’ every expectation,
every action’s an act of creation!
I’m laughin’ in the face of casualties and sorrow,
for the first time, I’m thinkin’ past tomorrow,

Burr stops and makes eye contact with her, wondering what this firecracker of a girl went through to think like this?

Laurens: dude that was sick! Write me letters short stacks.
With that laurens wink and walked with the rest leaving me and Burr. I'm confused as heck but I roll with it.