#173 // Patrick Vassel // Hamilton's Associate & Supervising Director // Part Two
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Vassel, Hamilton's Associate & Supervising Director, is back this week to talk moving from The Public to Broadway, the joy and misery of tech, and how The Cabinet (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire, and Andy Blankenbuehler) established and continue to keep an extraordinary amount of trust among eeryone working on the show. Oh! And PDV raps cut lyrics from two songs, with explicit permission from Lin-Manuel, who texted us during the recording.
The Room Where It Happens (Off-Broadway):
https://genius.com/Lin-manuel-miranda-the-room-where-it-happens-off-broadway-lyrics
What'd I Miss? (Off-Broadway):
https://genius.com/Lin-manuel-miranda-whatd-i-miss-off-broadway-lyrics
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Boots and cuts and boots and... |
| 0:07.1 | Hootz and... Hootz and... Hello friends welcome back to the Hamelcast I am Jillian and this is my second |
| 0:22.0 | episode with Patrick Vassal aka P. D. Vassil aka P. D. Vassal. |
| 0:24.0 | Patrick is the associate and supervising director of Hamilton, which means he's super smart and has |
| 0:29.4 | stories for days. We pick up right in the middle of our chat so make sure you've listened to his first episode |
| 0:34.1 | number 172 to catch everything you missed. All right P. D. V. Part 2 let's go. |
| 0:42.3 | As I think has been covered on this program and others that first year was pretty wild |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah and the run at the public was was a months, but I wasn't on it's pretty unusual off-Broadway to have a resident director |
| 0:58.3 | And so I went back to substitute teaching after we opened at the public and then there were a couple |
| 1:05.5 | of put-ins and a couple of understudy rehearsals that Stephanie would call me and say, |
| 1:10.0 | can you please just come and make an afternoon afternoon because we could really use you around to support this and so I would go back a couple of times. |
| 1:17.0 | And you know, of course we, it was great that we already knew that we were making the move to Broadway, so that was in the works. |
| 1:23.2 | And you know, my job then and throughout that process was very much to be, you know, Tommy's |
| 1:28.9 | right-hand man and to be, and I really appreciated listening to Kurt's perspective on this podcast because he and I, you know, |
| 1:40.8 | Stephanie had done Heights and had been in pre-production with Blank before we walked into the studio. |
| 1:47.0 | Right. And Kurt and I were, I think, a little bit more. And honestly, Kurt was even ahead of me because he had done the Heights tour. |
| 1:53.8 | So I was really of the associates I was the newest to the both to the team and to the material. So Kurt talking about just trying to keep up in those rehearsals, |
| 2:06.0 | like that was very much me. |
| 2:08.0 | And a lot of what I was just trying to do was just organize information. |
| 2:10.0 | So I have hundreds of pages of notes from those rehearsals because I was just |
| 2:14.4 | trying to jot down everything that I thought we might need everything I thought that might be significant |
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