#191: Mike Anthony // Richard Rodgers Bar Manager // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Mike Anthony (Bar Manager at the Richard Rodgers) truly encapsulates the meaning of "built palaces out of paragraphs" in the first episode of our epic three part series! This week Mike shares how he came to be the bar manager at the Rodgers, why he refers to Lin-Manuel Miranda as "the cup guy", and the difficulties of being face to face with the elected officials of our current administration. We also discuss how lovely and warm the Obamas are and how M.Ant met President Obama while going to get ice for the bar!
Mike Anthony on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/mikeanthony91
Brandon Victor Dixon and the cast of Hamilton address VP-Elect Mike Pence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0gDpscFucI
Acceptance Speech: Lin-Manuel Miranda - Best Book of a Musical (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jehrbUGdlE
Rory O'Malley on The Hamilcast:
https://www.thehamilcast.com/171-rory-omalley-hamiltons-king-george-iii/
President Obama at New York City Fundraiser:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?400120-2/president-obama-york-city-fundraiser
Yes We Can Obama Song by will.i.am:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZHou18Cdk
The First Lady Delivers Remarks at "Hamilton at the White House" Workshop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTrF1MyAjYA
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have any purple hair on your microphone mic or is that just me? |
| 0:04.0 | Sorry. Was I the only one that got I got bonus purple hairs on my microphone? |
| 0:07.0 | Oh I do have one. |
| 0:08.0 | Yes, you feel so special about that. |
| 0:11.0 | Oh I feel mortified about it. I am keeping it. I love that that it actually happened. |
| 0:17.0 | Well guys there's our cold open. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi I'm stage and stages Lin Manuel, and you're listening to The Hamilcast. |
| 0:25.2 | Boots and cuts and boots and... Hello everyone welcome back to the Hamelcast I am Jillian. I am here with two mics, one mic, you know him. |
| 0:46.5 | This is microphone one. |
| 0:48.0 | This is microphone two. |
| 0:50.4 | And on microphone three we have Mike Anthony. |
| 0:52.6 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:53.3 | Hi, you are the bar manager at the Richard Rogers Theater. |
| 0:56.7 | I am. |
| 0:57.7 | And just so much more than that. |
| 0:59.4 | You are really, I have to say truly like a shining light in social media which can |
| 1:05.0 | oh my gosh oh um disheartening and just a time suck and an energy suck but you are |
| 1:11.4 | putting really beautiful things out there so thank you for doing that |
| 1:14.4 | oh wow well yeah I mean working where I work it's hard not to see a whole lot of good like all the |
| 1:21.6 | time so thank you so much for for being here I |
| 1:24.2 | really appreciate it. This is absolutely my pleasure I mean I'm having a little bit |
| 1:27.4 | of imposter syndrome right now like sitting on the couch where like Tommy Kale |
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