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”
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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
Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Okieriete Onaodowan
Phillipa Soo, Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sydney James Harcourt & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
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
Anthony Ramos, Ariana DeBose, Sasha Hutchings, Ephraim Sykes, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
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
A leitmotif that repeats throughout the first act to unite Hamilton and his Revolutionary friends.
Thematically, this song is reminiscent of those other Revolutionary bros, Les Amis de l'ABC, and their pre-fight song “Drink With Me.” Miranda, however, says the connection wasn’t intentional:
Rather...
[HAMILTON]
I may not live to see our glory!
[LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
I may not live to see our glory!
[HAMILTON]
But I will gladly join the fight!
[LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
But I will gladly join the fight!
[HAMILTON]
And when our children tell our story…
[LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
And when our children tell our story…
[HAMILTON]
They'll tell the story of tonight
[MULLIGAN]
Let's have another round tonight
[LAFAYETTE]
Let's have another round tonight
[HAMILTON]
Let's have another round tonight
[LAURENS]
Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you
Raise a glass to the four of us
[LAURENS/MULLIGAN]
Tomorrow there'll be more of us
[MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS]
Telling the story of tonight
[HAMILTON]
They'll tell the story of tonight
[LAURENS/MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE]
Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
[HAMILTON]
No matter what they tell you
[MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE]
Let's have another round tonight
[LAURENS]
Raise a glass to the four of us
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE]
Tomorrow there'll be more of us
[HAMILTON/LAURENS]
Telling the story of tonight
[MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE]
Let's have another round tonight
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/
ENSEMBLE & MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/ENSEMBLE]
They'll tell the story of tonight
Raise a glass to freedom
They'll tell the story of tonight
Raise a glass to freedom
They'll tell the story of tonight
They'll tell the story of—
[FULL ENSEMBLE]
Tonight
The Story of Tonight was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The Story of Tonight was produced by Bill Sherman & ?uestlove & Black Thought & Alex Lacamoire & Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton” released The Story of Tonight on Fri Sep 25 2015.
Yes, “The Story of Tonight” was certified gold by the RIAA on January 9, 2019.