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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#285: Stephenson Ardern-Sodje // Hamilton West End // Part One

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Hamilton West End's Stephenson Ardern-Sodje discusses his journey from being a writer to a performer, his very unique Hamilton audition process, what it has been like working alongside some of his heroes, and why hard work always pays off.

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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, cut, sin, pussing, cut.

0:18.8

Hello everyone, welcome back to the Hamilkast. I'm Jillian, and today I am joined by

0:25.0

Hi, Stevenson, Arden Sajay. Did I say the Sajay, right?

0:28.6

Perfect, yeah. Okay, great. Hi.

0:30.3

Hello, how are you?

0:31.2

You were an ensemble member of the original London Company of Hamilton.

0:34.0

You also played Philip Skyler, James Reynolds.

0:37.2

Who am I missing? You played Hamilton?

0:39.2

Hamilton, yeah, cover Ham, cover Lawrence Philip.

0:41.7

And I was initially, I was an offstage swing slash standby,

0:47.6

and then I was in the second season, as we call them over here.

0:52.0

In the second season, I was Man 5.

0:54.4

So yeah, and I was kind of, actually, this is a really nice kind of moment.

0:59.9

I joined six months into the original cast.

1:02.1

So I wasn't technically, technically wasn't an original cast member,

1:05.6

but then the first time I met Steph Clemmons, I was rehearsing with her,

1:10.1

and I was like, I just offhandedly had said like, you know, I'm like kind of

1:13.6

original cast, and she was like, hey, you were in the building with the original

1:17.2

cast members, like you need to own that and take it on, and it was such a nice

1:20.4

kind of like welcoming moment where I was like, yeah, I am an original cast member.

1:24.2

It was nice. That is so nice.

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