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

Butts and cuts and, and poops and... Huts and... Huts and... Welcome back to the hablecast. We are diving right in. I am here with Alexandra Sarmiento.

Hi! From the West End Company of Hamilton originally a New Yorker a fellow

Queens gal and I'm thrilled to talk to you I feel like I know you we have this

whole situation I'm so excited you're here you have this fancy Mike I just I'm

so excited to talk to you you you're mugging for the pod that's not a visual medium. It's fine.

So you're in your are you in London or are you in yes so I'm in I'm in London now and just before we even get into it I feel like this is how people

feel like when they go to the Oscars it's like I've finally made it

to the cast.

Don't that's it's back at you it's the but it's both

especially when I get to talk to someone who's in a completely different

company that I don't have like too much experience with it's a yeah yeah yeah

definitely so it is noon where I am here in New York City, but it is 5 p.m. where you are.

It's 5 o'clock somewhere.

I've already had my cocktail port, so I'm ready to go.

Yeah, so I was like, okay, I'm usually like I'm down a drink whatever but you had like flavored

vodka also I mean we just spoke about this right before we started recording but I just

got home after living in a hotel for three weeks one it was just nice just nice to be home. Two, I didn't have time to go grocery

shopping. So the only things I had were like the assorted alcohols and tonic.

So I just have like vodka and tonic and that's about it but gets the job done.

Yeah.

Still nice and refreshing.

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