Leslie Odom, Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs & Okieriete Onaodowan
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton” & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Thayne Jasperson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Jonathan Groff & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
Phillipa Soo & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon Rua, Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Anthony Ramos, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Phillipa Soo
Leslie Odom, Jr., Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
Jonathan Groff
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Leslie Odom, Jr.
Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton” & Renée Elise Goldsberry
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Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Okieriete Onaodowan
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Anthony Ramos, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Phillipa Soo
Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Okieriete Onaodowan
Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Jonathan Groff
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr. & Okieriete Onaodowan
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
Phillipa Soo
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Phillipa Soo & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton” & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Phillipa Soo
Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
This interlude is almost entirely set to the same tune as “It’s Quiet Uptown,” acknowledging the repaired relationship between Eliza and Alexander while also foreshadowing that further unimaginable loss is about to take place.
The title—and final line of the song—comes from Hamilton’s closing in on...
[ELIZA]
Alexander, come back to sleep
[HAMILTON]
I have an early meeting out of town
[ELIZA]
It’s still dark outside
[HAMILTON]
I know. I just need to write something down
[ELIZA]
Why do you write like you’re running out of time?
[HAMILTON]
Shhh
[ELIZA]
Come back to bed. That would be enough
[HAMILTON]
I’ll be back before you know I’m gone
[ELIZA]
Come back to sleep
[HAMILTON]
This meeting’s at dawn
[ELIZA]
Well, I’m going back to sleep
[HAMILTON]
Hey. Best of wives and best of women
Best of Wives and Best of Women was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Best of Wives and Best of Women was produced by Bill Sherman & Alex Lacamoire & Lin-Manuel Miranda & Black Thought & ?uestlove.
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Phillipa Soo released Best of Wives and Best of Women on Fri Sep 25 2015.
Yes, but they reconnected during the events of “It’s Quiet Uptown.” Although together again, she did not rejoin the narrative until “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story,” where she continues Alexander’s legacy.
In Hamilton: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda said of this song:
This started out as a note trying to explain how my wife really is the ‘best of wives and best of women,’ but I’m trying to get at something more important—this show simply doesn’t exist without Vanessa. It’s a love letter to her."