"The Room Where It Happens" — which Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has called one of the "best songs [he's] ever written in [his] life" — will be a familiar one to anyone lucky enough to have snagged tickets to the hit Broadway musical. But what may be less familiar to viewers who haven't cracked open a history book in some years is that "The Room Where It Happens" actually functions as a patch over a hole in the Hamilton narrative.
