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

Bootsing, cuts and pissing.

Hey friends, I'm Jillian, welcome back to The Hamilkass.

We're wrapping up our three-part series with Hamilton Broadway's Aliza, Miss Crystal Joy Brown.

If you missed the last two episodes, you have missed a lot.

Crystal and I have had so much fun talking about life, Broadway, Hamilton,

reckoning with the real need for change and how to be part of the solution,

also sweat lodges, and frog poisons, star signs, dogs. I mean, you name it, we covered it.

So let's dive into part three, but real quick, if you feel some deja vu coming up,

it's because I'm replaying a little bit of the end of last week's episode.

I just think it's important for the full context of what Crystal's talking about,

and it's also fascinating. So yeah, enjoy!

I love playing real people because of the fact that I get to be like, oh my gosh,

because I really can step into their situation. I can see what was happening

at the time of the world, while they're trying to work through it, while they're trying to be

a black singing woman in it, you know, at playing Diana Ross, or being a defiant protesting,

you know, renegade in New York City in 1968, or being a person 19-year-old riddled with AIDS,

whose life has barely begun, because it's like, there's a true elements to all of those stories.

There's snapshots of what's going on in our society, and that is really enthralling to me.

And when I tell all of my students as well, acting as the study of human behavior,

it is psychology. You are studying why we do what we do, and we watch it because we're curious

to see what we would do. You know, like, you put yourself in the shoes of these characters,

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