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Hi, everyone! Welcome back to The Hamilk House. I'm Jillian. This week we're back for Part 3

with Hamilton's costume designer, Paul Tazwell. Parts 1 and 2 are filled with so many

cool and specific costume details that'll blow your mind, so please make sure you've listened

to those first. I mean, Paul is giving us insight from the opening number to the final duel.

He's breaking down specific looks for characters. It's a whole thing.

Look, Paul Tazwell is a living legend, and he was so generous with his time. There are so

many wonderful gems in these episodes. I'm so thrilled you get to hear it. But yeah, how about

we get to this episode then? Yes? Yes. Alright, here we go. Please enjoy Part 3 with Paul Tazwell.

Okay, so we're going to move away from Hamilton a little bit.

Ellen is asking about in the Heights, and she is asking how much input did Lynn and Kiara have

for the costume designer in the Heights since they both live, quote, in the neighborhood. So we

touched on this a little bit, but any more insight you have on Heights? When we first started

rehearsal, Lynn was wearing the driving cap with a stripe that is iconic in the Broadway photographs.

Also, the Guayvara that he wears, the shirt that he wears as well. The red shirt with the red.

Yeah, I mean, the color of those were my choice. And the red was because it was a number of

reasons because we're heading into the 4th of July. I was 4th July weekend. And also, I wanted

for him to always be focal. I mean, you could always find Uznavi on stage. So that was the main

one of the main reasons. And it just looked good on Lynn. It's interesting that the hat,

though, was one that was very specific to Lynn and early on working on that character.

So knowing that he was very attached to that hat, I made a part of his design for Uznavi.

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