Renée Elise Goldsberry performs cut Hamilton song for the first time

Renée Elise Goldsberry is wrapping up her run as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, and she blessed the faithful #Ham4Ham troops earlier this week with a performance of one the character’s cut songs from the show. In the original Public Theater run of Hamilton, there was a song called “Congratulations,” sung by Angelica to Alexander Hamilton after “The Reynolds Pamphlet.” It’s an entire song of Angelica telling Hamilton he’s an idiot, and it’s brilliant, but it was left on the chopping block once the show made the move to Broadway and got tightened up. Parts of the song were folded into “The Reynolds Pamphlet” so that the general sentiment remains, but there’s something delightfully incisive and relentless in Angelica’s words in “Congratulations”: “Congratulations / You have invented a new kind of stupid / A ‘damage you can never undo’ kind of stupid / An ‘open all the cages in the zoo’ kind of stupid / ‘Truly, you didn’t think this through?’ kind of stupid.” As they say in “The Reynolds Pamphlet”: DAYUUUMM.