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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#239: Brandon Victor Dixon // Hamilton Broadway // Part One

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Victor Dixon joins me to discuss his time as Burr on Broadway, takes us back to his early workshop audition, tells how he later came to be part of the show just weeks after closing his Tony nominated performance in Shuffle Along, and Brandon dissects Burr's Judas complex.

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Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

I'll Cover You (reprise) - Brandon Victor Dixon

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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

Butts and cuts and, and poops and... Huts and... Huts and... Hello everyone welcome back to the hamelcast. Finally, after all this time, all these years, Mr Brandon

0:26.7

Victor Dixon is here on the pod.

0:29.9

Lo these many years. Thank you so much for being here.

0:34.0

I'm so excited to talk to you.

0:35.0

Happy to be here.

0:36.0

Yeah, if you don't know about BVD,

0:39.0

I'm just going to read off some of your credits

0:42.0

because they are so beyond impressive.

0:43.7

It's ridiculous.

0:45.3

You originated the role of Haywood Patterson and the Scotsboro Boys.

0:48.4

You originated the role of Barry Gordy in Motown.

0:51.4

Tony wore nominations for the Color Purple and shuffle along. You won the

0:55.1

Tony for the Hedwig Revival which you produce, which I don't think a lot of people know about.

0:58.9

No, subtle stats, subtle stats. That's a hell of a subtle stat. What a humble brag that is. You have Grammy Award nominations.

1:06.7

Rent Live, you were Collins that I'll cover you, Reprise, just killed me and just about everyone else.

1:12.1

Jesus Christ

1:12.8

superstar one of my favorite moments I will say that that I'll cover you a

1:15.9

priest very much like there's a history behind that and so it's one of my

1:20.1

favorite moments all right let's get into that then later, because I loved it.

1:23.4

I was, yeah, before we always say on the pod, like before we had Hamilton, we had Rent.

1:27.1

So that's like a really big deal.

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