{\an8}[audience cheering, applauding]

{\an8}Ladies and gentlemen, this is your king, George III.

-[cheering, applauding continues] -Welcome to Hamilton.

At this time, please silence all cell phones

and other electronic devices.

All photography and video recording is strictly prohibited.

{\an8}Thank you, and enjoy my show.

{\an8}[audience laughing, cheering]

♪ How does a bastard, orphan ♪

♪ Son of a whore and a Scotsman ♪

♪ Dropped in the middle of A forgotten spot in the Caribbean ♪

♪ By providence Impoverished, in squalor ♪

♪ Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? ♪

♪ The ten-dollar founding father Without a father ♪

♪ Got a lot farther ♪

♪ By working a lot harder ♪

♪ By being a lot smarter ♪

♪ By being a self-starter ♪

♪ By 14, they placed him In charge of a trading charter ♪

♪ And every day, while slaves Were being slaughtered ♪