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

Butts and cuts and, and boots and... Hello everyone welcome back to the hamelcast I'm Jillian and you're listening to

episode 190.

Yeah, 190.

That's so crazy.

Anyway, this is the second half of my hang

with Hamilton Broadway's very own Alexander Hamilton, Austin Scott.

This episode is definitely a deep dive,

but so was his first one.

So take a listen to episode 189 to be fully caught up.

Like, for example, Austin talks about the cabinet battles.

And wondering, does Hamilton really lose that first cab battle and

how it like all depends on what's happening on stage at that moment what Austin's doing

what is Jefferson's doing and speaking of Thomas Jefferson we have a very real

conversation on just how flawed our founding fathers were.

Yeah to put it lightly. So check that out first if you haven't already but if you

have and you're all caught up here you go Austin Scott part two let's go. So you were saying earlier that you had a couple of connections to Hamilton before you were in Hamilton right so we talked about your audition story and then I know you were in a you play Benny in Heights right? Yeah a couple times

different regional theaters once in California once in upstate New York and

that was actually the first time I ever quote unquote met Lynn was when he like he sent a

I was like he did like a little FaceTime video with you know the cast and was just like you

know talking to us and wishing us luck and stuff so that was really fun and that was what I was

and you play Benny in both productions? Yeah I did so I was familiar with like Lynn's

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