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

Bootsing, cut-sum-pussing!

Hello friends, welcome back to The Hamilkast. I'm Jillian. We're getting right back into my

conversation with Mika from the Philip tour. If you missed Episode 314, definitely go back and

catch up there first. You'll hear all about Mika growing up in Florida,

finding her voices a singer, and finding her path to the theater at a young age,

navigating New York's music industry at 18 years old, and how she came to join the Hamilton

family. But if you're all caught up, let's dive right back into it. Here's Part 2 of my

conversation with Mika, and she's talking about her first time performing in Hamilton.

I went on friend Jeleka. It was planned. It wasn't an emergency, and it was not the best.

It wasn't good. I mean, it was great, and I'm glad that my first time people, it went viral.

You know, I'm glad somebody was able to record it, because I'll have that forever. But I've grown

so much, and when I look back at that, I'm just like, I was a nervous mess, and it was in Jeleka,

what an Eliza. So I was like, dang, but it was great. The process of learning the sisters,

again, up until like three months ago, was probably the most stressful thing I've ever done in my

life. Like more so than putting on my own movie, directing it all of that stuff, is the most stressful

because I'm living up to an expectation. And I think in the day, we're all humans. And so,

if we don't speak the same language, it's kind of hard to get on the page of approval. And so it's very,

it was very stressful. But I will say it's very similar to Gary Q. In a Robert Tiffany really did

put the iron on me, and she made sure that I came out hot. And she made sure that I, it was,

it wasn't easy. And like sometimes we wanted to like choke each other, but it was, it was very much

so worth it, because her and Courtney and Anna at the time, and then now Rolando, Roberto,

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