When an old friend of her husbands Alexander Hamilton comes.
Today Maria Reynolds would be 254 years old.
Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson and Hercules Mulligan/James Madison (played by Daveed Diggs and Okieriete Onaodowan, respectively) are defined by fighting with Hamilton (the “we fought with him” line in the show’s opening number is clever – they fight alongside him in Act I and against him in Act II). Wife of James Reynolds and Alexander Hamilton's mistress (17681828) Maria Reynolds was born in New York City (largest city in the United States) on March 30th, 1768 and died in United States of America (sovereign state in North America) on March 25th, 1828 at the age of 59. The double casting was so that we’d be INSTANTLY invested.” John Laurens and Philip Hamilton (both Anthony Ramos) are linked by their intimate connection with Hamilton, as well as their untimely, tragic, and ultimately influential deaths. Reynolds Family Association Mary Reynolds Fosdick, Fannie Denison Holmes, Anna D. Hamilton has several actors play multiple parts, which helps pull out resonant themes and draw connections between the doubled characters.Īddressing his specific reasoning for doubling roles in Hamilton on Twitter, Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote, “ I realized early that characters that were important early in his life fade away while others appear later. In theatre, the term “doubling” refers to a stage convention where one actor plays more than one role for a single performance. In the musical phenomenon Hamilton, oft applauded for its crafty attention to detail, actress Jasmine Cephas Jones plays both Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds, creating an important link between the two characters. Maria Reynolds (ne Lewis Ma March 25, 1828) was the wife of James Reynolds, and was Alexander Hamilton's mistress between 17.