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

Bootsing, cuts and pissing.

Hello friends and welcome back to The Hamilkast.

I'm Jillian, and we're in the middle of my dear friend Fergie Philippe's big return to the pod.

Among many other things, Fergie is an actor, a writer, a director, a puppeteer,

and in February of 2023, he ended his five-year run as Mulligan Madison.

He started on the Philip tour and then moved to Broadway.

And according to Fergie, these episodes are his post-mortem.

Fergie and I go way back.

He was first on the pod with Julian Ramos back in 2018.

Then he stopped by for a quick solo chat in Vegas since he couldn't make it to the big party recording.

And most recently, he said very nice things to me on my 300th episode,

which was hosted by the one and only James Monroe Agohart.

All of those episodes are linked in the show notes if you want to really catch up on all things Fergie.

Hopefully you've already listened to last week's episode, but just in case, here's a quick recap.

Fergie talks about not just meeting your heroes, but working with them,

which is what he got to do when he was cast as Sir Sagrimor and Camelon on Broadway,

because it was adapted by none other than Aaron Sorkin.

It was an actual dream come true for him seriously.

Fergie loves him so much.

Fergie also opens up about his post-Hamilton life after Broadway and everything leading up to it,

including performing to the seat he sat in when he first saw the show at the Rogers as a fan.

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