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

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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Hamelcast. I am Jillian.

Today, I am here with Charles Lapointe, award-winning hair and wig designer,

Hey, Charles. Hey, nice to be here. Thank you so much for joining me. You said I can call you

Chuck, so I might go back and forth. Totally. Cool. Before we get started, can you tell me your

pronouns, please? Him is. Thank you. So, you know, look, I can't read your entire resume because

we have so much to get to. You've worked on over 70 shows, Hamilton, A2 Proud, Beetlejuice,

Cher, SpongeBob, Motown, The Color Purple, Beautiful, After Midnight, Magic Bird,

Newsies, Lombardi. Bring it on in the Heights, Wicked. You know, quite a few Tommy Kale productions

in there. Yeah, we've been together a while. Yes, I cannot wait to hear all about your friendship

with Paul Tazwell, who I'm also obsessed with. Who you can get on this cast, you know, you could

be glad to do this. I was going to ask you after I was going to see if you thought that maybe

you had a good time, and then I was going to ask you if you would mind putting us in touch because

I've been dying to talk to Paul Tazwell. I'm sure he would love it. I'm sure he would love it.

Okay, well, thanks. Okay, now I'm really. So right now we're drinking, we're drinking some coffee,

but if we choose to skip, because you know, I like to make a custom cocktail, or at least name it

now in these COVID times since we're not together. Oh, cool. My husband, Mike, who we call

Mixmaster Mike, he's very good at the naming of the things. And he was like, what, why do you call

it hair of the human instead of hair of the dog? And I was like, you know what? I'm going to go.

That's pretty fabulous. I like that. Stick with it. So no matter what, if we're doing the coffee

water wine tequila, whatever, whatever you get into, that's what we're at a human.

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