The Election of 1800
[FULL COMPANY]The election of 1800
[JEFFERSON]Can we get back to politics?
[MADISON]Please?
[JEFFERSON]Yo. Ev’ry action has an equal, opposite reactionJohn Adams shat the bed. I love the guy, but he’s in tractionPoor Alexander Hamilton? He is missing in actionSo now I’m facing—
[JEFFERSON AND MADISON]Aaron Burr!
[JEFFERSON]With his own faction
[MADISON]He’s very attractive in the North. New Yorkers like his chances
[JEFFERSON]He’s not very forthcoming on any particular stances
[MADISON]Ask him a question: it glances off, he obfuscates, he dances
[JEFFERSON]And they say I’m a Francophile: at least they know I know where France is!
[MADISON]Thomas that’s the problem, see, they see Burr as a less extreme you
[JEFFERSON]Ha!
[MADISON]You need to change course, a key endorsement might redeem you
[JEFFERSON]Who did you have in mind?
[MADISON]Don’t laugh
[JEFFERSON]Who is it?
[MADISON]You used to work on the same staff
[JEFFERSON]Whaaaat
[MADISON]It might be nice, it might be niceTo get Hamilton on your side
[JEFFERSON AND MADISON]It might be nice, it might be niceTo get Hamilton on your side
[BURR]Talk less!
[ENSEMBLE]Burr!
[BURR]Smile more!
[ENSEMBLE]Burr!
[BURR]Don’t let ‘em know what you’re against or what you’re for!
[ENSEMBLE]Burr!
[BURR]Shake hands with him!
[ENSEMBLE]Burr!
[BURR]Charm her!
[ENSEMBLE]Burr!
[BURR]It’s eighteen hundred, ladies, tell your husbands: vote for
[BURR AND ENSEMBLE]Burr!
[MALE VOTER]I don’t like Adams
[FEMALE VOTER]Well, he’s gonna lose, that’s just defeatist
[ANOTHER MALE VOTER]And Jefferson—
[TWO MEN]In love with France!
[ANOTHER FEMALE VOTER]Yeah, he’s so elitist!
[TWO WOMEN]I like that Aaron Burr!
[A WOMAN]I can’t believe we’re here with him!
[A MAN]He seems approachable…?
[ANOTHER MALE VOTER]Like you could grab a beer with him!
[ENSEMBLE]Dear Mr. Hamilton: your fellow Fed’ralists would like to know how you’ll be voting
[HAMILTON]It’s quiet uptown
[ENSEMBLE]Dear Mr. Hamilton: John Adams doesn’t stand a chance, so who are you promoting?
[HAMILTON]It’s quiet uptown
[MEN]Jefferson or Burr?
[WOMEN]Jefferson or Burr?
[ENSEMBLE]We know it’s lose-lose
[MEN]Jefferson or Burr?
[WOMEN]Jefferson or Burr?
[ENSEMBLE]But if you had to choose
[ENSEMBLE]Dear Mr. HamiltonJohn Adams doesn’t stand a chance so who are you promoting?But if you had to choose
[HAMILTON]Well, if it isn’t Aaron Burr. Sir!
[BURR]Alexander!
[HAMILTON]You’ve created quite a stir, sir!
[BURR]I’m going door to door!
[HAMILTON]You’re openly campaigning?
[BURR]Sure!
[HAMILTON]That’s new
[BURR]Honestly, it’s kind of draining
[HAMILTON]Burr—
[BURR]Sir!
[HAMILTON]Is there anything you wouldn’t do?
[BURR]No. I’m chasing what I wantAnd you know what?
[HAMILTON]What?
[BURR]I learned that from you
[ENSEMBLE]If you had to chooseIf you had to choose
[MADISON]It’s a tie!
[ENSEMBLE]If you had to chooseIf you had to choose
[JEFFERSON]It’s up to the delegates!
[ENSEMBLE]If you had to chooseIf you had to choose
[JEFFERSON/MADISON]It’s up to Hamilton!
[ENSEMBLE]If you had to chooseJefferson or Burr?Jefferson or Burr?ChooseChooseChoose!
[HAMILTON]Yo
[ENSEMBLE]Oh!
[HAMILTON]The people are asking to hear my voice
[ENSEMBLE]Oh!
[HAMILTON]For the country is facing a difficult choice
[ENSEMBLE]Oh!
[HAMILTON]And if you were to ask me who I’d promote—
[ENSEMBLE]Oh!
[HAMILTON]—Jefferson has my vote
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/ENSEMBLE]Oh!
[HAMILTON]I have never agreed with Jefferson once
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/ENSEMBLE]Oh!
[HAMILTON]We have fought on like seventy-five different fronts
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/ENSEMBLE]Oh!
[HAMILTON]But when all is said and all is doneJefferson has beliefs. Burr has none
[ENSEMBLE]Oooooooooooooh
[MADISON AND JEFFERSON]Well, I’ll be damnedWell, I’ll be damned
[MADISON]Hamilton’s on your side
[ENSEMBLE]Well, I’ll be damnedWell, I’ll be damned
[JEFFERSON]And?
[MADISON]You won in a landslide
[BURR]Congrats on a race well-runI did give you a fight
[JEFFERSON]Uh-huh
[BURR]I look forward to our partnership
[JEFFERSON]Our partnership?
[BURR]As your vice-President
[JEFFERSON]Ha. Yeah, rightYou hear this guy? Man openly campaigns against me, talkin’ bout, “I look forward to our partnership.”
[MADISON]It’s crazy that the guy who comes in second gets to be vice President
[JEFFERSON]Yeah, you know what? We can change that. You know why?
[MADISON]Why?
[JEFFERSON]‘cuz I’m the President. Hey, Burr, when you see Hamilton, thank him for the endorsement