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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#260: Jonathan Groff // Hamilton Broadway's Original King George III // Part Three

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In part three, Jonathan Groff takes questions from the Patreon Peeps, reflects on his roles in Looking, Spring Awakening, and Frozen, talks about why the stage door is important to him, and explains how Little Shop of Horrors was an out of body experience.

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Little Shop of Horrors (The New Off-Broadway Recording)

Jonathan Groff Channels His Inner Sutton Foster to Perform "Anything Goes"

The Wild Party Off-Broadway Cast Recording

Frozen on Disney+

Hamilton on Disney+

Mindhunter on Netflix

Gillian on Twitter

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The Hamilcast on Twitter

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:18.4

Hello friends, I'm Jillian, welcome back to The Hamilkast.

0:21.3

This week, I wrap up my time with the one and only Jonathan Groff.

0:24.8

This conversation was an absolute dream come true, and I'm so grateful that he took the kind of

0:29.1

time that you get to spend three episodes with him. Jonathan, if you're listening, I'm overwhelmed.

0:33.6

Thank you, thank you, thank you. So if you missed the first two, those are episodes 258 and 259.

0:38.8

There, you can hear all about how he met Lin, his time with Hamilton from the public to Broadway,

0:43.0

his experience with the Hamil film, Mind Hunter, all the things. But if you're all caught up,

0:47.0

I'll leave you to it. Here's part three with Jonathan Groff, and we're picking up with more

0:50.8

questions submitted by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

0:59.6

All right, are you ready for question two from Lin?

1:02.6

Oh my god, yeah, of course.

1:03.6

It says also, when he is in the parchment dress on the surround in the last moments of the musical,

1:08.1

how is he playing that? Is he still King George? Is he Groff?

1:14.0

These are the important questions, because everybody texted me that. I was like, I had the same

1:18.0

question about the parchment. Let me go back. Rewind. Rewind, um, I am myself.

1:28.0

You're you? Yep. Because I remember looking at, well, trying to make Renee laugh from across,

1:35.4

she was like, number four, we were doing that across from each other. So we've been always like,

1:40.0

be interacting with, I imagine like from the audience, I am a color of white costume on a stage.

1:48.5

So I am not like an entity that is playing anything. So I'm just basically a prop. I feel a little

1:55.5

bit like a prop at the end, because a lot of the times I'm just standing there. I'm not even dancing.

2:03.2

So it's almost like a piece of scenery. So exterior wise, I'm not really playing anything except

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