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

Butts and cuts and, and boots and... Hello friends welcome back to the Hamelcast I'm Jillian and this is my second episode

with Mike Anthony.

Mike Anthony is a bar manager at the Richard Rogers Theater and he's been working there for over 10 years

and he's one of the best storytellers I've ever met.

You probably know him from his gorgeous Facebook post recounting his

hashtag life at Hamilton. They're really beautiful. You can find him at Mike

Anthony 91. My Mike is also joining us on these episodes and we cover a lot of

ground so check out episode 191 to get fully caught up before you listen to this one and something to note about this episode before you dive in we talk about loss grief and mediumship we also talk about fun things like the cabinet coming back to the Rogers for

Hamilton and the Broadway softball league but I wanted to give you a heads up that we

do touch on things that might be emotionally difficult for some. I just didn't want it to

come out of nowhere for you. Anyway all this to say I'm really excited for you to hear the rest of this conversation so here we go Mike Anthony part two with special guest to Mike Smith you know Mike

So we heard about your first time seeing in the Heights. Yeah. What was your first time seeing Hamilton? Holy

crap! And what was it what is that like as as were you a bar manager at this point at the

Rogers? So tell me what that experience is like like how much in because I know that

there's a screen like in the bar you know there's like a TV

screen that all you watch if they want to grab a drink during yeah like the

tail end of non-stop or something before the the craziness hits but like what now that you

had had this Heights experience with the

Cup guy and everything right and see jack and lac and Tommy and all these people who are

now coming back again like just walk me through the Hamilton up at all. I almost did not survive it, Jillian.

So again with Hamilton, I did not know, like I did not know much about the historical Hamilton,

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