002 - Leslie Odom Jr. (Original cast member of Broadway's "Hamilton")

The Good Parts with Andy Grammer

Andy Grammer | Multi-Platinum Selling Pop Artist

Arts, Music

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Leslie Odom, Jr. is a Grammy Award-winning performer who originated the role of Aaron Burr in the highly-coveted, sold out run of “Hamilton” at The Public Theatre in 2015. Andy and Leslie dive into his work on the groundbreaking show, which went from off-Broadway to becoming one of the most successful shows ever. They discuss how he prepared for the part, what it was like to originate the role of Aaron, and when the cast realized how impactful the show would be.

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0:00.0	Hey, Andy Grammer here, and you are listening to The Good Parts podcast.
0:04.3	Tell me your story, but don't leave the good parts out.
0:13.6	Andy Gramer here, very excited to have Leslie Odom Jr. on the podcast.
0:17.9	This guy is obnoxiously talented in almost every form that you can be talented in.
0:22.8	He's a theater actor, musician, he does audio, he just wrote a book, it's stupid. We go through
0:28.6	all of them and it's actually fun to be like, what's your favorite of all the things you're stupidly good at.
0:32.5	We also get into what it was like to be a part of Hamilton from the jump, originating characters
0:36.9	on Broadway.
0:38.3	We get into race in America.
0:40.7	It's kind of an intense, really cool discussion.
0:42.7	We get into mentorship, the power of just doing.
0:45.7	He's super inspirational dude.
0:48.1	I love this guy.
0:49.2	I'm pretty sure you will as well.
0:50.9	Here we are.
0:51.7	Good parts with Leslie Odom Jr.
0:53.5	Let's do it.
1:00.0	Dude, thank you so much for being here. I love you. I genuinely appreciate you. So this is my
1:06.1	welcome my podcast where I just love to like have longer conversations because like someone like you
1:11.7	or me we pass each other at these kind of bigger events and I really enjoy you and your energy
1:17.2	and everything that you are and we have like five minutes as as you're like going up on stage
1:23.4	where do we meet the first Boston Pops I think think it was? Mm-hmm. And then...
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