#320: Julius Thomas III // Alexander Hamilton on the And Peggy Tour // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
And Peggy tour's Alexander Hamilton, Julius Thomas III, discusses how growing up in Gary, Indiana prepared him for a life performing on international stages, his journey to New York, audition stories, and what it is like creating work with legends like James Lapine and Kander and Ebb.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage and Stage's Lynn Menwell Miranda and you're listening to The Hamilkast. |
| 0:05.1 | Bootsing, cutsum. |
| 0:18.8 | Hello everyone, welcome back to The Hamilkast. I'm Jillian. Today I'm joined by Julius Thomas |
| 0:24.8 | the third of the N Peggy tour. Hello Julius. Good morning. I never ask people to sing, so the fact |
| 0:30.9 | that you just threw it out there. Hi, good morning. Let's just start on a strong part. Let's just |
| 0:36.1 | start strong. Before we go any further, can you please tell me your pronouns? He him. Wonderful. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm, but I'm for any, as long as you approach me respectfully, I'm good with whatever you call me. |
| 0:48.8 | You got it. That's not a problem here on this show. So you have, I'm going to read some of your |
| 0:53.4 | credits. I'm sorry if that's going to make you uncomfortable. Sometimes it does. No, I love it. |
| 0:57.3 | You're an NAACP theater award-nominated actor. You are one half of the critically acclaimed entertainment |
| 1:03.5 | team, The Kings of Soul and Swing, which we're totally going to get into. You made your Broadway debut |
| 1:09.5 | in the Scottsboro Boys and you were in the 2012 revival of Porgy and Bess, Very Gordy and Motown, |
| 1:15.3 | TV appearances, Modern Family, Sesame Street, just you're all over the place. You just have like a |
| 1:19.9 | ton of theater credits for Broadway shows, Six National Tours, a host of regional theater appearances. |
| 1:24.8 | You're a teacher and you're currently Alexander Hamilton on the end peggy tour. |
| 1:28.2 | Oh, it's so crazy. I mean, I love to go back and read it just to remind myself where I've come |
| 1:34.8 | from, how hard I've been working over all of these years and see the fruits of my labor acting |
| 1:40.4 | as such a weird job and we get so insular and feel like, I'm not achieving enough because we see |
| 1:45.8 | everybody else winning Oscars and, you know, doing all kinds of stuff. But I have been really blessed |
| 1:50.7 | in my career and in my life. And so whenever somebody reads out the stuff like that, I'm like, |
| 1:56.4 | wait, that's me. Wow. Thank God. Great. Well, thank you so much for being here today. You're in |
| 2:04.8 | Denver, you said. I'm in Denver. Yeah, my first time playing Denver. How do you like it? It's beautiful. |
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