PHOTO FLASH: Handwritten Drafts of Lin-Manuel Miranda's HAMILTON Lyrics

Sometimes you'll go to a museum and see detail sketches drawn by an artist for what will eventually be part of a great work of art. It doesn't quite work that way in theatre, and while fans of musicals treasure recordings of songs that were either cut or rewritten before opening on Broadway, early drafts tend to stay tucked away in a writer's notebook.

But today Lin-Manuel Miranda offered his Twitter followers a glimpse of a pair of his early drafts of HAMILTON lyrics, handwritten in his notebook. They're followed by an unused lyric from his previous musical, BRING IT ON.

As HAMILTON's reputation as one of this generation's great works of art only increases, perhaps we'll see these on display in a museum someday.

The new musical Hamilton has book, music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award-winning composerLin-Manuel Miranda, who also plays the title role. The musical is directed by Thomas Kail, with choreography by Andy Blankenbuehlerand music direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire. Hamilton is inspired byRon Chernow's biography "Alexander Hamilton."

HAMILTON is the acclaimed new musical about the scrappy young immigrant AlexanderHamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary, a loving husband and father, despised by his fellow Founding Fathers and shot to death by Aaron Burr in their legendary duel.