We got many questions that we’ll be answering tonight, “most of them about Jonathan Groff’s spit,” Tommy Kail,  the director of “Hamilton,” announced at the outset of a 90-minute virtual “Hamilton Town Hall” fundraiser for Presidential candidate Joe Biden last night, which drew an online audience of some 100,000 donors. Groff didn’t actually answer any questions, although he did appear briefly during the singing finale wearing a paper crown with the words “Biden/Harris” inked in. Click on the photographs below for some of the comments; the most popular was from Christopher Jackson.
Then watch the video of the finale below, as well as of the whole event.

What we do in the next 18 days will determine what the country will be like in the next four years — Renee Elise Goldsberry Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will get the nation back on track & restore its soul — Leslie Odom Jr.

Director Tommy Kail, the host for the event

Ariana DeBose talked about what it was like to be The Bullet

Thayne Jasperson

musical director Alex Lacamoire

Jon Rua

Sasha Hutchings

choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler

“I was elated. I mean how many times do you get to perform for the president of the United States”? –Javier Munoz, talking about performing as Alexander Hamilton in front of President Barack Obama.

The most important line in Hamilton? Ephraim Sykes nails it: “History has its eyes on you.” He means YOU (all of us), and he means now. Will you Vote?

Words of advice during this moment (when theater is closed)? Christopher Jackson: “You don’t need an audience to validate your work, and your passion… My singing is between my God and me… This is something we HAVE to do. “

Renee Elise Goldsberry

How does producer Jeffrey Seller chooses his shows? “I don’t know what it’s like to be struck by a bolt of lightning, but I know what it’s like to be experiencing something so rhythmic, so melodic, so visceral, it makes my body shake.” (Sounds painful.) Nobody asked him about that weird pooping painting behind him.

Betsy Struxness spoke in front of a blowup of a photograph she took with Joe Biden

Daveed Diggs was asked about the first night on Broadway, after 117 performances of the musical downtown. “I didn’t have any Broadway aspiration. I thought you guys would replace me My life seems to be falling through a series of trap doors” – But he was surprised to discover how emotional that first Broadway show was. (It didn’t hurt that his parents were in the audience.”

Lin-Manuel Miranda explained how he saw the importance of voting from an early age, because his father had come from Puerto Rico, where he was a U.S. citizen, but couldn’t vote for President. “To young people: If we didn’t believe change was possible, this country wouldn’t exist.”

At the end, the gathered Hamiltonians sang “The Room Where It Happened” interspersed with photographs of people voting — filling in and mailing in their ballots. The room where it happens this year is the voting booth.

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