18. THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH

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Richard: Alright, this is That Would Be Enough, this is a sweet show, so for the sensitive bunch, I'd best suggest you leave.

Philip Jr: I'm already going.

Eliza: Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.

Madison: Didn't we hear this in The Schuyler Sisters?

Richard: Yeah, this becomes an Eliza theme.

Eliza: Look around, look around...

Hamilton: How long have you known?

Eliza: A month or so.

Jefferson: Known about what?

Washington: Eliza's pregnant.

Philip: Ey! That was me in there!

Angie: I'm about to vomit.

Hamilton: Eliza, you should have told me!

Eliza: I wrote to the general a month ago-

Hamilton: About what? Wait...A MONTH AGO?!

Washington: Alexander, don't get so angry! I was trying to keep you safe so your son would have a father!

Hamilton: No.

Eliza: I begged him to send you home!

Hamilton: Eliza! Why?

Eliza: Like Washington said, I was making sure Philip had a father.

Jefferson: Well, you chose a terrible one because Philip died at nineteen.

Eliza: I'm shocked you would even say that!

Hamilton: He's Jefferson, don't be shocked.

Hamilton: You should've told me!

Eliza: I'm not sorry!

Jefferson: Ha! Insulted by his own wife!

Eliza: Please, be quiet!

Hamilton: When will Maria come back?

Richard: Act Two.

Hamilton: How many songs until then?

Richard: Counting this song, six.

Hamilton: Shut up! Let's keep going!

Eliza: I knew you'd fight until the war was won-

Hamilton: The war's not done!

Eliza: But you deserve a chance to meet your son!

Philip: Yeah, don't forget about me! You don't want me to grow up without a father!

Jefferson: You would've-

Philip Jr: We don't need your snarky comments, that's my job.

Jefferson: But I thought-

Philip Jr: I switch sides like a record changer.

Eliza: Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.

Hamilton: Will you relish being a poor man's wife unable to provide for your life?

Eliza: I relish being your wife!

Everybody: Aw!

Angelica: I can't believe you weren't like the women in our society! I got lucky!

Eliza: Look around, look around...look at where we are! Look at where we started! The fact that you're alive is a miracle, just stay alive-

Hamilkids: STAY ALIVE!

Richard: *quietly* Where is my son?!

Eliza: That would be enough!

Philip: Ey, that's the title!

Richard: Yes!

Eliza: And if this child shares a fraction of your smile, or a fragment of your mind, look out world, that would be enough!

Jefferson: You got eight fractions and eight fragments.

Philip Jr: Although, one died which means you have seven!

Richard: Ugh. Seven.

Eliza: I don't pretend to know the challenges you're facing! The worlds you keep erasing and creating in your mind.

Angelica: We have to tell the truth, no one can understand his mind!

Eliza: But I'm not afraid! I know who I married!

Philip Jr: A filthy, lying, cheating, backstabbing-

Hamilton: Shut up!

Eliza: Say it nicer! Like, um, talk less.

Philip Jr: Smile more~

Angie: Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for~

Eliza: So as long as you come home at the end of the day, that would be enough!

Washington: You spent so much time in your office!

Hamilton: I was planning our strategies for winning!

Eliza: You did that seven days a week, twenty four hours a day! 24/7!

Eliza: We don't need a legacy!

Hamilton: What?!

Eliza: We don't need money!

Hamilton: WHAT?!?!?!?!

Eliza: If I could grant you piece of mind, if you could let me inside your heart, oh, let me a part of the narrative, of the story they will write someday-

Richard: And they did write that story!

Philip Jr: Multiple times, with lots and lots of detail!

Eliza: Let this moment be the first chapter when you decide to stay! And I could be enough! And we could be enough! That would be enough!

Richard: Alright! That was, uh, That Would Be Enough! The next song is Guns And Ships!

Lafayette: Guns and Ships?! Is this when...

Richard: Yes.

Lafayette: YES! THIS NEXT SONG IS ABOUT ME!

Richard: Don't spoil it!

Mulligan: THAT'S MY BEST FRIEND!

Richard: Alright, see you all next time!

Everybody: Bye!





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