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Hello, my friends, I'm Jillian, and welcome back to The Hamilkast.

We're picking up where we left off last week in my conversation with Stevenson Ardern-Sajje

from Hamilton Westend.

If you haven't listened to episode 285 yet, please pause and check that out first.

Stevenson talks about his unconventional journey to Hamilton, which involves Idris Elba and

getting pulled out of class for rehearsals.

It's a wild ride.

But if you're all caught up, here's part two of my conversation with Stevenson Ardern-Sajje.

So yeah, and then you're in, and then now it's adjusting and adapting to now being in,

I don't know, one of the biggest shows of all time, and not a hundred percent knowing

what role you're going to play in any given moment.

Yeah, so I was, first year I was, obviously, offstage cover, so we didn't, it was kind

of a strange one.

You start rehearsing, and they just, so we had, they were, Sam and I are both very deadline-oriented

people.

And so we kept asking Carrie, we were like, okay, so how long should it take us to learn

Hamilton and Burr?

And she was like, well, it takes as long as it takes, and we were like, yeah, about

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