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

Bootsing, cuts in, bussing.

Hello friends, welcome back to The Hamlet Cast.

I'm Jillian, and this week picks up right where I left off with none other than Jonathan

Groff, Hamilton Broadway's original King George. If you missed the first part of our hang,

go listen to episode 258. That's where you can hear all about how Groff and Lin-Man

met and became friends. How Jonathan got involved with Hamilton, what it was like to step into KG3

after Brian Darcy James, and the hands-down best conversation I've ever had about Barbra Streisand.

But if you're ready to go, let's do this. Enjoy part two with King George III, Jonathan Groff.

Okay, here's a question. Did you ever respond to the audience at all because you

talked directly to us, so did the energy of the audience ever change your choices in that way,

or were you just mad? It's very tempting, I feel, with that role, to... there were certain

laughs that I removed intentionally. And there's one that's in the movie that I would do sometimes,

and I wouldn't do other times, because sometimes I would feel like I want them to hear what I'm

saying more than I want them to laugh at me. And so some shows I would come out, and before I would

sing, I would do this like... this like kind of like fake smile of like, hi, hi everybody.

I think it is in the movie because I remember thinking, oh wow, okay, Tommy, kept that one.

But some days I wouldn't do that because it felt cheap. There were certain things that I would do

where I felt like, let me take this smile out because it's this consistent laugh that I'm getting,

but I don't want it to be that easy for me or for them. I want to keep them... I want to keep the

audience a little nervous and a little like... I don't want to be too pandering to the audience,

because you can be with that character, and it still works by the way. But I was... I would be...

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