<P> The song's writer and composer Lin - Manuel Miranda explained, "' Wait for It' and' The Room Where It Happens' are two of the best songs I've ever written in my life and Aaron Burr got them both". </P> <P> Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton's musical director, explained how he came to add a banjo to a hip - hop band: "' The Room Where it Happens' just cried for it . The single greatest idea in the whole show, only because it's so quirky and is so of the style of the music . It's so Kander and Ebb - y, Dixieland, so I just sat down to orchestrate it, and I'm thinking to myself,' What can the guitar do?' And literally in a flash of light, I'm like,' Oh my god, it could be a banjo!' It invokes the feel of the song and I think it really fits in the world of it, but it's also so left of center and not what you would expect ." </P> <P> Aaron Burr encounters then Secretary Alexander Hamilton in New York, and they discuss the legacy of the deceased General Mercer, pondering what their legacy will be . Their discussion is interrupted as Hamilton is ushered to a secret dinner table bargain, in which he, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison agree upon an unprecedented political compromise . The capital city of their new nation will be moved to the Potomac River, politically and geographically placing it in the South . In exchange for this, the Democratic - Republican Party will support Hamilton's financial system in Congress, facilitating its passage into legislation . Burr enviously comments on how the American people, and more specifically himself, had no agency in this decision . He then decides to rectify this by running for political office in an effort to be in the eponymous room . This leads him to run as a Democratic - Republican against Philip Schuyler, Hamilton's father - in - law, for the position of United States Senator for New York . </P> <P> Claire Lampen of Yahoo News explained "History has drawn much of its information on the compromise from Thomas Jefferson's account of the evening, according to PBS; neither Miranda nor anyone else can be entirely certain what happened behind those closed doors". This grants Miranda artistic liberty and freedom in retelling the story of the compromise . </P>

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