But if I’m being completely honest, the cut song I most miss from the show is a reprise of the song Dear Theodosia. Now, Dear Theodosia happens in the first act, and this represents a big shift in the mood of the show, because the whole first act feels very evolutionary, very urgent. It teaches us about rising up and daring to dream. But where most narratives would end at this point, Hamilton moves past that and talks a lot about legacy. This ends up being the real focus of the show. What does legacy mean? What does it mean for something to outlive you? Who lives, who dies, who tells your story? Much of which has to do with having children. For these historical men, it has to do with having sons. And at this point, Hamilton has just had his first son named Philip, and Burr has just had a daughter, Theodosia, named after her mother. And there are parallels in the lyrics that these two men sing to their children. But there is a reprise of this that has been cut from the show. When we learn in the second act that the mother of Aaron Burr’s child has tragically died, there’s a lyric from that song where he sings, we bleed and fight for you. Sometimes it seems that’s all we do. Where you can feel all of the regret and the frustration of his position at this time. And I think that does a lot To tell us how much Burr’s character has changed by that point in the show. Not only that, it sets up brilliantly the fear that he brings into this fateful duel with Alexander Hamilton, where his chief impetus, as he’s going into the thing, is, I will not let this man, uh, make an orphan of my daughter. And it’s only at that moment that we find out that Theodosia senior has died.