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When Hamilton arrived from Broadway, Lin-Manuel Miranda changed some of the lyrics for the West End audience.
Now, he’s changed the lyrics again – live on stage, to chastise a woman for filming him during a performance.
At a performance in Puerto Rico, the creator of Hamilton channelled his inner Patti LuPone and told a woman to stop recording him, all without breaking character or missing a beat.
He did the on-the-spot rewrite while rapping My Shot. Replacing the original line “the problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish”, he slotted in the scold, saying “lady in the fourth row, please stop it”, before turning to his astonished co-stars and continuing with the song.
In a tweet later, he pleaded with audience members to “just enjoy the show”, saying that “having to think that fast within My Shot takes a year off my life”.
Despite the filming incident, he said the audience “were the best crowd we ever had”.
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