Hi, I'm Stage and Stage's Lin-Manuel Miranda and you're listening to The Hamlet Cast.

Bootsing cuts and bussing cuts.

Hello friends, I'm Jillian. Welcome back to The Hamlet Cast.

We're picking up this week with Hamilton West End's current Eliza Sharon Rose.

If you miss Sharon's first episode, definitely go back and check that out.

You'll hear Sharon talk about how she came to The West End. It's kind of a crazy story.

Plus, getting back on stage after 15 months away and how important it is to check in with

your mental health, especially when you're in a show like Hamilton.

Plus, we talk about jingle jangle, which we're getting to more in this episode.

So if you're all caught up, let's just dive right back into it.

Here is part two of my conversation with Sharon Rose.

So let's go back to when you weren't listening to Hamilton because you were too scared to,

because you wanted to love it, but then you felt like you would want to be in it,

and then that wasn't going to happen, right? So then dream girls, right?

We're at the Dream Girls audition and Hamilton. So you said Hamilton called.

So tell me, you were listening to it a little because you realized you liked it,

and then you were like, no, I can't keep doing this.

So just after, I think it was just up, no, just before the Dream Girls audition,

I had decided to listen to the Hamilton album in full.

And I was like, I'm going to do this. I know I'm never going to get it,

but I'm going to do this because people keep saying it's beautiful.

And I was like, whatever, whatever.

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