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🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Hamilton costume designer Paul Tazewell discusses his journey to Broadway. From growing up in Akron, OH to his first Tony nomination for Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, how he first came to work with the core creative team on In the Heights, how the ideas for what we now see on stage were realized, what ideas were scrapped early on, and what it takes to build each look to directly reflect the individual playing the role.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage and Stages, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilkast. |
0:05.1 | Stoods and cuts and puts and cuts. |
0:18.8 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to The Hamilkast. I am Jillian. |
0:22.7 | Tonight, I am joined by I cannot even believe I'm saying this. Paul Tazwell. Hi, Paul. |
0:28.2 | Hi, Jillian. How are you? I'm so wonderful. This really, it's an honor. I just, I'm beside myself. |
0:36.0 | Before we get started, I'm going to do like a big introduction, but before we get started, |
0:39.4 | can you just tell me your pronouns, please? He, him, his. Great. If you're listening to episode |
0:44.1 | 270, something of this podcast, you know who Paul Tazwell is. I mean, I've been talking about |
0:48.8 | you and saying wonderful things behind your back for so long. I'm so glad I get to say them to your |
0:52.4 | face. So Paul Tazwell, you are an award-winning costume designer for theater film, television, |
0:58.5 | opera. You name it, Hamilton and in the Heights, of course. You started your amazing Broadway career |
1:04.4 | working on bringing denoise, bringing to funk. You were nominated for Tony. Just some of your |
1:09.8 | theater credits are, you know, Hamilton Heights, Ain't Too Proud, Side Show, Streetcar, Magic Bird, |
1:15.9 | Tommy Kale, Jesus Christ Superstar, both Broadway and live on NBC. The color purple, |
1:22.0 | raisin in the sun, the film, Harriet, the upcoming West Side Story film, the immortal life of |
1:27.1 | Henrietta Lacks. I mean, this is too, it's crazy. So thank you so much for being here. You're |
1:32.0 | an incredible, you're a legend. You're a living legend. Oh, well, it is a delight to be here, |
1:37.3 | and it's also daunting to hear. Anytime that somebody lifts off my credits, I'm like, oh my god, |
1:43.3 | I remember that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We're also drinking a cocktail tonight. So you have some, |
1:50.6 | what do you have some sparkling pink? I do. I'm holding up. This is, I'm, you know, I was thinking, |
1:56.3 | this is my Angelica, because it is, it's vodka with a splash of rosé root, sun, sunrise of lemon, |
2:09.2 | a lemon slice, and then a little bit of nit that thrown in. Well, fantastic. We're going to call |
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