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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#316: Deejay Young // Principal Standby // Part One

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Angelica tour's Deejay Young talks about how growing up in the performing arts helped lead him to the career he has now, his early connections to his later fellow HamFam members, how studying creative writing helped inform his work as an actor on stage, the music and artists that inspire him, stories behind working for Disney, and touring with Jordan Fisher.

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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, sump, sump.

0:18.6

Hello everyone, welcome back to The Hamilkast. I am Jillian, and today I am joined by

0:24.6

the Angelicator's DJ Young. Hi DJ! Hey, hey, how's it going?

0:28.6

It's going wonderful now that you're here. How are you? I'm glad to be here. I actually want to just

0:34.1

start off and say congratulations on all that you're doing. It's really incredible to see

0:40.3

your start and where you are now and just to see all the people that you brought on

0:45.2

and just carrying the torch. It's so beautiful to see it. I'm just proud of your accomplishments

0:49.6

thus far. I just wanted to start off saying that. That's really nice. Usually I don't get

0:54.0

this early. I appreciate that. It's been an amazing ride. It's a passion project. I love it.

1:04.2

It's more love than labor, but it is a labor of love. Thank you so much for saying that.

1:10.4

Of course. Now before we turn the focus back on to you, can you please tell the people your

1:15.8

pronouns before we get started? He, him. Great. Thank you. Tell the people you're a

1:20.7

principal standby on the Angelica Tour, right? Let's go down all the roles you cover.

1:26.1

This is fun. Okay. So I cover the Sons of Liberty. I guess that makes it a little shorter.

1:33.3

I cover the Sons of Liberty, Lawrence Philip, Hercules Mulligan, James Madison, Lafayette Jefferson.

1:40.0

I also cover Hamilton and newly I cover Burr. Wow. Yes, they added Burr onto my coverage. So

1:50.4

now I'm up to five. Congrats. That's a full plate. It is a full plate. I was like, I don't want

1:57.7

anymore, but Burr is a role that I've always wanted to play. I remember before the shutdown,

2:06.6

a lot of my castmates were asking, you know, what I want to learn it or, you know, is it a

2:12.7

possibility? And I was like, I don't know. And they knew that there was a dream role of mine. So when

2:18.2

it came about this time around, I was literally like leaping off the floor, you know. And yeah,

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