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

Bootsing, cuts and bussing!

Oh hello friends, I'm Jillian and welcome back to The Hamilkast.

This week is the final part of my conversation with London's Aaron Burr, Simon Anthony Rodin.

We've had such a great chat so far so I really hope you'd

didn't skip ahead. In his first two episodes, Simon tells us how he got the gig to play Aaron Burr,

navigating a pasta syndrome, and how his early training helped pave the way to make the calls

that were right for him, even though maybe they weren't the safest bet.

It's been a really fun conversation, so if you're all caught up, let's go.

Here's part three of my chat with Simon Anthony Rodin.

When we were with you in London, we had some conversations about what the show has done for theater,

the work it still has to do, the work that the theater industry has to do in terms of race

and representation and equality and equity and all of that, so I wanted to maybe give you a space

if you have anything more to say on that front in terms of your experiences or what you would like

to see theater look like moving forward and the work that needs to be done.

Yeah, 100%. As I said to you before, when I saw this show and I saw the representation on the stage,

it was just a profound experience because it's not my norm and that is that you know,

there are people that whether I've grown up with them or not, like I am seeing such a diverse

group of people in one space and I guess in terms of like being a Londoner, that's my experience

of the world, you know what I mean? Whether or not that's how the rest of this country looks,

that's my world and I think that's the first time that we've been celebrated in that way.

I think in terms of like storytelling, although these were, you know, originally white people,

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