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

Bootsing, cuts and bussing.

Hi friends, welcome back to The Hamlet Cast. I'm Jillian, and today we're picking up with

the wonderful Conroe Brooks, who's currently a principal standby on Hamilton's Philip tour.

Make sure you listen to last week's episode so you can hear all about how Conroe got his

start early on going from the school play to film and TV, being discovered by legends like

MC Hammer and Robert Townsend, and how he started the craze that took over the country for a while.

Flashmobbs. So that's where we're picking up right now, and if you're all caught up,

I'll leave you to it. Here's part two of my conversation with the great Conroe Brooks.

So tell me your Hamilton story. I mean, were you a fan of the show? Were you actively not listening?

Some people do that. Do you have what was your knowledge of Lin and the cabinet?

And were you, did you love it in the Heights? Like, what's your this whole Hamilton journey?

Yes. My Hamilton journey, so it's also quite a story.

So I saw in the Heights off Broadway at 37 Arts, and I was blown away. I was like, oh my god,

because the only like real musical theater that I had done was the Gary Marshall Happy Days

workshop. It was really a workshop thing, and you know, and it was in LA, but it was Gary Marshall.

But I really was very inexperienced as far as like professional theater.

So I saw it in the Heights, and I was like, oh my god, I could do Broadway.

I could be in this show, and that seeing that show clicked something in me where I was like,

I can do this. And I was obsessed with the show. I loved the show. Oh, tying in Flash

Mom America. After I did our first Flash Mom, I said to my partner Stacy, I want to do a Flash

mob for in the Heights. Like, that would be amazing. And she, and so she, you know, she was like,

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