#369: Daniel Assetta // Samuel Seabury in the Original Australian Production // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the first of three episodes with Daniel Assetta, the original Samuel Seabury (and u/s King George III) in Hamilton’s Australian company.
There’s a good chance you’ve seen Daniel before, either on stage around the world in one of his many roles, or… going viral on TikTok. Does the term "Cotton Eyed Joe Kid" mean anything to you? Daniel has millions of likes and views on his videos of old footage of him dancing as a child. Additionally, Daniel talks about how his lifelong love of performing, starting with putting on shows with his superstar sister Chiara, combined with his unapologetic determination and some of the most supportive family on Earth, led him to where he is today.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage and Stage's Lynn Menwell Miranda and you're listening to The Hamilkast. |
| 0:05.0 | Bootsing, cuts and bussing. |
| 0:18.4 | Hello everyone, welcome back to The Hamilkast. I'm Jillian and today I'm here with seemingly my |
| 0:23.8 | new best friend, Daniel Estetta. Hi Daniel. Hi, how are you? I'm wonderful how are you? Thanks for |
| 0:29.9 | being here and joining me. I'm so excited to be here. Me too. Well before anything can you just |
| 0:36.1 | please tell the listeners your pronouns? Yes, so my pronouns are he, him. Thank you. So yes, you are, |
| 0:42.9 | you played Samuel C. Berry and understudy KG3 in the original Australian company. Yes, Hamilton. |
| 0:49.0 | I know wild. Wild and now you're here in New York City. So I am. That's even more wild. Why did |
| 0:55.8 | it journey? Your resume, Daniel, is like unbelievable. You have done so many incredible productions all |
| 1:03.9 | across Australia, New Zealand, Asia. You're just been, you know, you do cabaret. Like you are viral |
| 1:10.5 | tiktokers. Like there's so much to dive into. So I just, you know, I really, it's up to you. |
| 1:16.8 | How do you want to start this? Because I could go in any, any number of directions. Goodness. I mean, |
| 1:22.3 | I feel like, you know, I just remember like singing and dancing being just like a part of my life |
| 1:29.2 | from basically the very, very, very beginning. It was always just like, you know, whenever I would hear |
| 1:37.6 | music, whenever I would watch television shows, I would always be bopping along and like learning |
| 1:43.1 | like the lyrics that were in like, you know, the singles that they used to sell? Like and they put |
| 1:47.2 | like the lyrics in the cover sleeve. Like I was obsessed with just like, I mean, Spice Girls, |
| 1:53.7 | you know, and Aqua. They were like, they were like kind of like the two sort of like 90s, |
| 2:00.1 | kind of like pop groups that like, you know, that I was like so obsessed with. And, you know, |
| 2:09.6 | and also like, I actually, one of my favorite TV shows as a child was Barney the Dinosaur. |
| 2:15.2 | And I know that's so American. Like, which is so crazy because like a lot of my friends back in |
| 2:21.6 | Australia growing up, like their sort of like childhood influence on television was like the Wiggles, |
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