#361: Benét Monteiro // Germany's Alexander Hamilton // Part One

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Germany’s A. Ham, Benét Monteiro, joins me on The Hamilcast to talk about life before Germany growing up in South America, his journey into musical theatre, the shows and roles that have inspired him along the way, and how he got to Germany to begin his professional career in the theatre.

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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, sent, bussing!
0:18.4	Hello everyone, welcome back to The Hamilkast. I am so, so, so excited to finally be talking to
0:25.8	Benay Montero playing Alexander Hamilton in Germany. Hi, Benay. Hi, how are you?
0:31.1	I'm wonderful. Hello everyone. Yes, thank you so much for being here. I would say good morning,
0:36.3	but it's afternoon where you are. It's morning for me. Good afternoon from, from me. Yes, yes, it's now,
0:41.9	I mean, should I say the time? Sure. Yeah, it's, it's gonna be four o'clock here. Oh wow, it's
0:45.8	like about to be 10 a.m. So I'm really, really glad we were able to figure out the, the timing.
0:52.4	Before we do anything else, can you please tell the listeners your pronouns? Yes, he, him. Great.
0:57.4	Thank you so much. No problem. You have such an amazing career. I can't wait to talk about all of it.
1:03.8	Sister Act, the Lion King, Lola, Mama Mia, Seaweed and Hair Spray. You are just, you've performed
1:10.4	all over the world. That had held the musical. Just, I'm so excited to sit and chat with you.
1:15.8	Now you're in Hamilton. I just want to hear your entire life story, Benay. We have like two hours,
1:20.8	like let's get into it to talk about. How did you get from Brazil to Germany? Like tell me the whole
1:25.6	thing. How did I get from Brazil to Germany? 2010, I auditioned for Lion King in Sao Paulo and I got
1:32.9	the job and I came here and I never left. Wow. That's how it happened. Yeah, tell me about growing
1:38.3	up in Brazil and getting into this, this creative world. Tell me about your family, like your
1:43.8	interests. Just tell me about growing up in Brazil. Sure. I was born in Rio. I think I left Rio.
1:50.6	I was 11 to Brasilia, the capital, which I have the feeling I come from Brazilia.
1:58.8	I started playing guitar. I taught myself to play guitar. I was 14. Then I started writing
2:06.6	songs when I was 14, 15. Then I started singing in church. I was I think 19. That's how I started
2:17.2	my music journey. My father, he sings. He's not professional, but he sings. My mother sings.
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