The New Yorker saw Hamilton when it was playing off-Broadway and twice this month - once the day she talked to the FBI and on Tuesday

Independence; 'We've gone through some hard times,' she said

Hillary Clinton boasted today at a rally in one of America's most wealthy counties that she's seen the smash Broadway hit Hamilton not once, not twice, but three times.

'I have to say I just saw Hamilton, a great, great musical,' Clinton said at the event in Virginia's Fairfax County. 'I saw it for the third time, if you don't tell anybody, and I hope you all get to listen to the soundtrack.'

Clinton was in Annandale, Virginia, road-testing possible running mate Tim Kaine, a former governor and the current U.S. senator in the commonwealth.

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Hillary Clinton boasted today at a rally in one of America's most wealthy counties that she's seen the smash Broadway hit Hamilton not once, not twice, but three times

Clinton was in Annandale, Virginia, road-testing possible running mate Tim Kaine, a former governor and the current U.S. senator in the commonwealth

'I have to say I just saw Hamilton, a great, great musical,' Clinton said at the event in Virginia's Fairfax County. 'I saw it for the third time, if you don't tell anybody, and I hope you all get to listen to the soundtrack'

Setting aside her stump speech, Clinton instead began her remarks with a Hamilton-themed version of the 'hard times' America's encountered over its 240 years as an independent nation.

The millionaire presidential candidate told rally attendees, 'I hope you get to see it when it comes to Washington.

'And it's gonna travel probably...around the country for you know the next century,' she said to laughter.

Clinton said the production 'tells us some important lessons.'

'You look at our founders, Virginia gave us a bunch of them, you look at them, they did not all agree they did not even all like each other. But here's what they did: they worked together and they set the most outrageous unbelievable goal that they were gonna transfer these colonies into a nation that could stand on its own with the rest of the world.'

Continuing, she said, 'What an outrageous idea, who could think that that could come to pass.

'And there's a song in this play where George Washington did something nobody expected - he stepped down. He could have stayed as the great Revolutionary War general, who fought for and obtained our independence as our first president.'

She told them Washington 'probably could have stayed president for as long as he was alive.'

'But he said, "Wait a minute, we are a different creature. 'We're gonna go about this in a way that gives real credence to our aims, so now I'm stepping down." '

Another 'hilarious' song in the musical is performed by the King of England 'who can't believe it what is he doing - nobody steps down,' she said. 'And in stepping down Washington said, "The eyes of history are on us." '

Clinton reflected on the current state of the union and said, 'Well we've gone through some hard times.'

Clinton first saw the history-making theater production in March of 2015 off Broadway with her husband Bill and daughter Chelsea when it was still at the Public Theater. She saw it again over Fourth of July weekend. Above, she holds the Playbill from that performance

Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Lin Lanuel Miranda pose backstage with the cast at the hit musical "Hamilton" on Broadway at The Richard Rogers Theatre on July 2 - the same day Hillary spoke to the FBI at its Washington headquarters about her since-dropped email case

Yesterday Clinton delivered a speech on the racial divide in America in Springfield, Illinois at the Old State House, where former president Abraham Lincoln gave a speech telling Americans that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

'And we are in no way facing the kind of existential challenge that President Lincoln faced,' she cautioned. 'But we're facing some of our own, aren't we?

Tying the story to her stump, she asked rhetorically, 'Are we going to be coming together or falling apart? Are we building walls or bridges, are we creating opportunities to lift everyone up? Or are we scapegoating or finger pointing and trying to marginalize groups of Americans?

'Because if you listen to the presumptive Republican nominee,' she said, bringing up Donald Trump, 'that is the campaign he is running.'

She asked them to, 'think hard,' about the future, as she emphasized her campaign slogan, 'we are stronger together.'

Clinton has twice seen the Tony Award winning hip-hop musical that depicts Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in the last month.

Tickets sell for $1,000 a piece on average in the secondary market, according to the New York Times.

Orchestra seats jumped to $849 a piece last month as the show's producers moved to cut into scalpers' profit.

That money also helps to subsidize the $10-a-seat lottery system the musical now users to give Average Joes the chance to take part in the Lin-Manuel Miranda created craze.

The hit musical is sold out on Broadway through January and is expanding in September to Chicago. It's coming to Washington's Kennedy Center a year after that, in September of 2017.

The Democratic presidential candidate's third viewing of the play was this Tuesday when the cast gave a special performance for Clinton's big money donors. Miranda no longer acts in the musical but made an appearance Tuesday at Clinton's fundraiser

Clinton noted at the end of that performance as she did today that she's seen the production three times. 'I cry every time,' she said Tuesday

Clinton first saw the history-making theater production in March of 2015 off Broadway with her husband Bill and daughter Chelsea when it was still at the Public Theater. A smashing success, it was about to make the move to Richard Rodgers Theatre.

She saw it again over Fourth of July weekend on the same day she spoke to the FBI at its Washington headquarters about her since-dropped email case.

The Democratic presidential candidate's third viewing of the play was this Tuesday when the cast gave a special performance for Clinton's big money donors.

The Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee between Clinton and the Democratic Party, bought out the Tuesday matinee and sold tickets to party donors for $2,700 minimum.

Tickets to the event went for as much as $10,000 for each of the 1,321 seats in the Broadway theater.

Hosts paid $33,000 to have their name on the fundraiser and chairs contributed $100,000 in exchange for two seats and tickets to the wrap party with Clinton and other notable guests.