#278: Warren Egypt Franklin // Lafayette/Jefferson in Hamilton's Philip Company // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
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🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Philip tour's Lafayette/Jefferson, Warren Egypt Franklin, discusses his journey to Hamilton and how a chance In The Heights rehearsal with Alex Lacamoire led him to a night backstage at The Richard Rodgers Theatre, where he would get wisdom from the original cast on following his dreams, working hard, and later wind up in Hamilton callbacks straight from graduation.
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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 | Bootsing, cuts in, buhsing! |
| 0:18.6 | Hello everyone, welcome back to The Hamilkast. I am Jillian. Today I am joined. Oh, I'm so excited. |
| 0:26.0 | Warren, Egypt, Franklin. Hey, my friends. Hey, this is a dream to be on here. It's just, I'm great. |
| 0:31.7 | I am great. I'm so happy to do this. It's a dream to be talking to you. So, before we go any |
| 0:37.6 | further real quick, can you please tell me your pronouns? Yes, it's he, him. Great. Thank you so |
| 0:41.8 | much. You are calling in from LA where we're courting virtually, of course. You are Lafayette |
| 0:47.6 | Jefferson on the Philip tour of Hamilton. I am. Everyone just heard you in the Eli Malcolm |
| 0:52.8 | episode with freestyle. Friday, you were, you are real-life best friends. You just told me. We are, |
| 0:57.4 | the Sun Deliberty Me, Elijah, and Desmond. We like are really, really close in real life, so that's |
| 1:02.7 | why it just translates so easy on stage, because we really look up for each other real-life. |
| 1:07.0 | So, to my boys, my brothers. Yeah. Okay, so we have a lot to talk about. You are very busy. You are |
| 1:13.7 | running off. You have something to film. You have a call time a little later, but we have to get in, |
| 1:18.9 | I want to hear like the whole Warren Egypt story, the Hamilton story, what you're up to now. |
| 1:24.4 | Oh my goodness. Yeah. Because you got the Hamilton gig right out of college, is that right? |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, I booked Hamilton two weeks after graduating from college. That's the dream. That's insane. |
| 1:35.3 | It all happened so quickly, right? Yeah. So, a little bit of backstory for me. I was in college, |
| 1:44.6 | the first time I saw Hamilton. I was a freshman in college, and Alex Lackam, my school was doing in |
| 1:51.2 | the hype. That was my debut freshman show. So, I played graffiti pee in the hype of my first college |
| 1:57.9 | show, and my music director, David Peppin, worked on in the hype and bring it on with Lynn and |
| 2:05.8 | Lackam, everybody. So, they brought Lack and Stephanie to our college to do a little workshop |
| 2:13.8 | for a hype, and they were also teaching the seniors. They're like, Showcase closed the number, |
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