Confused by the Hamilton ending? Here's what Lin-Manuel Miranda says - CNET

Fans who knew Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical Hamilton only from its cast recording may have been surprised by its final seconds once the movie version rolled out on Disney Plus last week.

Some say it means Eliza has died, and is seeing her late husband again.

Others say she's seeing the audience and realizing her husband's legacy has been preserved.

The playwright responded to a fan theory that when Miranda, playing Alexander Hamilton, walks up behind Eliza, he has transformed back into himself as creator of the show. .

"It's a lovely notion," he admits in the tweet, going on to say, "The Gasp is The Gasp is The Gasp.

"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.

Is she seeing Alexander

To see the gasp for yourself, check out Hamilton on Disney Plus -- and don't miss our six things that may surprise you about the blockbuster musical