'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. 'Sometimes 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,' the actress explained. 'It's a culmination of the entire experience we just had as the audience as the cast as the characters.' She went on to say that, in a way, each person's interpretation of the moment is correct. 'To me, the moment always belongs to all of us in the entire room,' she said during an interview for AOL Build in 2016. Soo admitted that the way she portrays the gasp changes with each show.

I do think she is seeing across a span of time in that moment.' During the same interview, Hamilton director Thomas Kail simply said, 'I'm happy that there's a dot dot dot at the end of our show as opposed to some sort of definitive statement.' I think those are all valid and all fair.

It's heart-stopping isn't it? I do think that it traverses time, in some way, whether that thing she's seeing is Hamilton, whether that thing she's seeing is heaven, whether that thing she's seeing is the world now. During a 2016 interview with Wired, the Hamilton creator said about the gasp, ' I think it's different for each Eliza. were asked about what Eliza's ambiguous ending means, they responded in general terms. Hamilton's creative team has been purposefully vague. But also because the gasp plays differently onscreen than it does in a sold-out theater. The moment has inspired a ton of online debate, partly owed to the world seeing Hamilton in unprecedented numbers. That's followed by Eliza clutching her heart and releasing a gut-wrenching gasp. Then, Hamilton (or Lin himself, depending on who you ask) guides Eliza up to the stage as a chorus sings, 'Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story.' She went on to live 50 years after Alexander's fatal duel with enemy Aaron Burr (Leslie Odom Jr.), and her final decades were committed to preserving Alexander's legacy and establishing a New York City orphanage. Where Is The Cast Of Broadway's 'Hamilton' Now?ДЄt the end of Hamilton, Alexander's widow Eliza (Phillipa Soo) sings a moving speech to the audience that summarizes her life after her husband's death.

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