i love to compare angelica skyler to mimi in "rent."here are surprisingly similarities between powerful women. a woman making choices at a time when you imagine there is no power. one of the things that is exciting and -- to me about playing angelica skyler and feeling so powerful and knowing that in the time that we live in with hillary running for sotomayor -- sonia we get to show, to quote chelsea , who the founding mothers were. and what they did. they were not just selling flags. -- sewing flags. they were actually the news -- muse. i don't know what history will say. i know that it is -- i think one of the most important musical theater works that i have ever been exposed to in my life. i'm not only talking about just the music on the page. in what andy did visually with a number -- with this number. i have only been a part of it. . what they have been able to accomplish in storytelling will always be studied. that is exciting. charlie: is there one memorable song, phrase, line that is always there for you? >> the first thing i sa

there was a lot of speculation that hamilton may have had an affair with his sister-in-law angelica skyler who was extremely beautiful, elegant, and sophisticated but we don't have any definite proof and i am somewhat doubtful of it simply because angelico was extremely close with his sister eliza. the entire skyler family adored alexander hamilton. if they felt he was having an affair with eliza's sister, they would not have. charlie: this is a pamphlet of some 900 pages. is this a way that people communicated? >> this is a highly verbal era. if you were a politician you were expected to write essays and pamphlets were almost the preferred form of political warfare. hamilton would have felt very comfortable publishing this in a pamphlet forum. this was a literate generation of politicians. charlie: it's his observations on certain documents contained in the history of the united 1796, inr the year which the charge of speculation against alexander hamilton, late secretary to treasury is fully reputed, written by himself. 1797. >> you know why he put that, written by himself, because most o