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One of the members of the original cast of Hamilton, Javier Muñoz, is issuing a gentle reminder that the Disney+ version of the musical does not actually include the full original cast.

“A gentle reminder that Hamilton on Disney+ is not the original cast. It is the original production. Both Betsy Struxness and Emmy Raver Lampman are absent as they’d already left the show. These are 2 brilliant artists who poured their hearts into creating their tracks,” Javier tweeted out to fans who were citing the version as the full original cast.

Emmy Raver Lampman was part of the ensemble but left the show to star in the Spongebob Squarepants musical in Chicago. Betsy understudied the role of Angelica Schuyler but left the production in March of 2016. This version of Hamilton was filmed in June of 2016.

Javier was part of the original cast, but played the alternate for the role of Alexander Hamilton. In the Disney+ filmed version, Lin-Manuel Miranda portrays the role.

See the full cast list for the Disney+ Hamilton if you missed it!

Lin-Manuel Miranda has locked his Twitter account and he’s now private on the social media app.

The 40-year-old actor and composer, who is the star and creator of the Broadway musical Hamilton, went private on Twitter sometime on late Friday night (July 3).

The filmed version of Hamilton debuted on Disney+ that day and Lin participated in a live-tweeting party with fans and the rest of the cast from 7pm EST until 10pm EST. Shortly after the tweeting party ended, he locked his account. (Check out an interesting detail about the show that he revealed during the Twitter party)

Lin signed off for the night by saying, “Thank you for tonight. I’m so grateful you just have the whole thing now. With this extraordinary company and crew. It’s yours.”

There’s a lot of speculation happening right now over the reason for Lin going private, but one topic that seems to be trending is how Hamilton is about a group of men that were slave owners. There are some people calling the show racist for glorifying these people in history.

Also, an audio clip is spreading around from when Lin-Manuel provided the voice for the an audio-book and said the N-word as part of the lines.

Read what some fans are saying about Lin locking his account:

UPDATE: Lin has gone public on Twitter again.

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Renee Elise Goldsberry is opening up about the big risk that she took at the last minute while filming the movie for Hamilton!

The Tony-winning actress, who plays Angelica Schuyler, would normally wear a wig while performing in the Broadway musical, but she decided to use her natural hair for the movie so that fans wouldn’t see the lace front of the wig during closeups.

Renee said that in the show, her “favorite hairstyle was the last 1. High bun! Mature woman hair!”

“But in the movie, I luved the 1st look best bcuz we changed it up. I normally wore a wig, but I didn’t want that lace front in the movie, so I wore my own hair w/added volume in the back. Big last min risk. Worth it!” Renee added.

You’ve gotta watch the video clip of one of Renee‘s big moments in the show, which is a fan favorite.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is opening up about just how the idea of a hip-hop musical of Hamilton came to him.

In several interviews, the 40-year-old composer revealed that he was about to go on vacation when he randomly picked up a biography on the founding father.

“I was just browsing the biography section. It could have been Truman,” he told 60 Minutes. “I got to the part where a hurricane destroys St. Croix, where Hamilton is living. And he writes a poem about the carnage and this poem gets him off the island.”

“That is part and parcel with the hip-hop narrative: writing your way out of your circumstances, writing the future you want to see for yourself…This is a guy who wrote at 14, ‘I wish there was a war.’ It doesn’t get more hip-hop than that.”

Lin added in another interview with Vogue that after reading that part of the book, he “Googled ‘Alexander Hamilton hip-hop musical’ and totally expected to see that someone had already written it. But no. So I got to work.”

After wrapping up his vacation, it actually took Lin a full year more to write the musical’s first song, “My Shot”.

“Every couplet needed to be the best couplet I ever wrote,” he recalled to 60 Minutes. “That’s how seriously I was taking it.”

Hamilton also didn’t start out as a straight musical show either. The plan was for it to be just a mixtape.

“I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton’s life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar were albums before they were musicals,” he shared with Hollywood Reporter. “And I built this score by dream casting my favorite artists…”

Lin adds, “It was easier to think of it as a hip-hop album, because then I could really just pack the lyrics. [But] I only know how to write musicals.”

If you missed it, see what star Phillipa Soo shared about the meaning behind the gasp at the end of the show.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is opening up about the decision to have some actors in Hamilton play two different characters.

Four actors play dual roles in the musical: Tony winner Daveed Diggs takes on the roles of Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Ramos plays John Laurens / Philip Hamilton, Jasmine Cephas Jones plays Peggy Schuyler / Maria Reynolds, and Okieriete Onaodowan plays Hercules Mulligan / James Madison.

During the live-tweeting party for the Hamilton movie, Lin said, “I realized early that characters that were important early in his life fade away while others appear later. The double casting was so that we’d be INSTANTLY invested. ‘Jefferson? Hey that’s Daveed!’ Same w Laurens/Phil.”

In the first song, when Anthony sings, “Me I died for him,” he is referring to both of his characters. Both John Laurens and Philip Hamilton died while defending Hamilton’s honor.

Daveed sings in the song, “We fought with him.” His characters Lafayette and Jefferson both fought with Hamilton in different ways. Lafayette was one of Hamilton’s close friends and fought alongside him in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson and Hamilton were enemies and fought against each other for years during the birth of America.

Did you know that two of the actors mentioned in this post are actually engaged in real life?!

Phillipa Soo plays the role of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton in the filmed version of Hamilton and she’s opening up about her character’s big moment in the final seconds of the show.

SPOILER ALERT – Hamilton ends with the song “Who Live, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story,” in which Eliza explains how she is working to keep her husband’s legacy alive after his death. Right before the lights go down at the end, Eliza lets out a gasp.

Phillipa opened up about that moment during an AOL Build interview years ago.

“People are like, ‘Is it Eliza going into heaven? Is she seeing Alexander? Is she seeing God? What is it?’ And it’s kind of all of those things. Sometimes, it’s literally, I look out and I see the audience, and that’s what it is, but I think, that idea of ‘transcendence’ is present in all of that,” Phillipa said. “Whether it’s in Eliza’s mind, or in Phillipa‘s mind, they’re both one and the same, which is beautiful about that moment.”

Did you know that two of the original stars of Hamilton are now engaged in real life?!

Daveed Diggs is one of the Tony-winning stars of Hamilton and he not only found massive success from his time in the show… he also found love!

The 38-year-old actor is dating Emmy Raver-Lampman, who was one of the ensemble members in the original Broadway cast of the musical. She is not featured in the movie though.

Emmy was an understudy for all three lead female roles while on Broadway and she originated the role of Angelica Schuyler in the Hamilton tour. She now plays the role of Allison Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy and the second season is coming out this summer!

Daveed won the Tony Award for playing the dual roles of Lafayette and Jefferson. He went on to star in the movies Blindspotting and Velvet Buzzsaw, as well as the new Snowpiercer series.

Two other stars from the original Broadway cast became a couple and now they are engaged!