Ham and Burr

Two A’s — Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

 

An Outsider Fact-Checks American History, as Retold by Ham and Burr

 

Hamilton is coming to Korea: the English-language tour opens in Busan in December 2026 and moves to Seoul in early 2027. I don't know much American history, but I loved the show on Broadway — twice — for its music, its staging and everything else. This series is what happened when I finally went looking for the history behind the songs.

 

So it asks the questions an outsider asks. Was Angelica really single? Did a hurricane really carry Hamilton to America? Did he really fire into the air? Each answer sets what the musical shows beside what the records say, and ends with a verdict: true, invented, legend or still unresolved. Wherever possible, the evidence is the people's own words, in letters and newspapers that survive from the 1700s, and the pictures are public-domain portraits, maps and prints from the period.

 

Why “Ham and Burr”? In the musical, before their duel, the two men sign their hostile letters with clipped names: A. Burr and A. Ham. Put together, they make a snack worthy of this lobby, served alongside the Phantom Cookies.

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How this was made: Questions, viewing notes and final editing by Musicals of Korea. Research and drafts prepared with Claude; additional fact-checking by ChatGPT and Gemini.

 

🍔 This series will run to about 100 questions, served up as each burger comes off the grill.