Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.

Butts and cuts and,

boots and cuts and... Hello, fam, am I'm Jillian, and you're listening to Mike Moyes's second episode

episode 161.

Mike Moyes is the assistant conductor

for Hamilton on Broadway

and spend some time with the other companies as well.

Mike is so, so fun, oh and also a musical genius. Full stop I'm serious. Go back and listen to

episode one to hear the Andrew Lloyd Weber story, T.M. and catch up on Mike's whole

journey. But right now we're diving into episode two and we had a blast. Enjoy.

So wait, what were we saying?

Kurt and I were just like in rehearsal and I was observing him and kind of just he was showing me the ropes.

And so that this was the first time I ever had to play from the show.

And this is like later in the third week maybe fourth week of having gone

home and just like shed the piano part of it all you know I went away just to learn

the piano part because I didn't realize that I had to sing and wrap the entire

show while I did the play the piano part in the

rehearsal room right so three or four weeks go by and Kurt and I touch bass I go

into watch the rehearsal and then like the second rehearsal that I came in to observe he was like do you want to play anything

now I was not told one major factor which is that like once you get towards the

beginnings of winter when it gets colder like even late fall the AC is just bumping in the

theater so that when 1350 something people and the lights and all the actors

...