#397: Alexander Ferguson // Hamilton Broadway // Part Two

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week, Alexander Ferguson (Hamilton Broadway) talks about his experience taking a leave from the Broadway company to spend a few months on tour in Australia and New Zealand including adorable koalas, terrifying spiders, Flight of the Conchords, incredible restaurants, and loving audiences. And yes, we finally get to Alexander’s impressions! We talk about his viral YouTube videos, how he figured out he could actually *do* so many impressions, and the many influences and inspirations behind his sense of humor. Plus, more about Alexander’s animation, filmmaking, and other creative endeavors.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.
0:05.1	Butts and cuts and, and poops and... Hello friends and welcome back to the Hamelcast I'm Jillian and this is my second
0:22.2	episode with Alexander Ferguson.
0:23.8	Go ahead take a second and sing his name. It's fun right? Good? Okay so
0:29.7	Alexander has been with Hamilton since 2018 from the Angelica Company to Broadway to
0:34.0	Australia and New Zealand and back to Broadway.
0:36.4	He's Man 5 in the Ensemble and covers Hamilton, Burr, KG3, Lawrence Philip, James Reynolds,
0:41.1	and Philip Skyler.
0:42.1	I said this to him last week, but he really is a creator in the truest sense of the word,
0:45.5	because in addition to acting, he's an impressionist, an animator, a filmmaker,
0:49.3	and a few more things you'll learn about in his second and third episodes.
0:52.2	Last week, Alexander talked about growing his second and third episodes. Last week Alexander talked about growing
0:53.6	up in Florida, graduating from New York's American Musical and Dramatic Academy, aka Amda, and
0:58.7	jumping right into the regional theater scene, including the all-encompassing experience that is a Theater Works tour.
1:04.3	By 2017 he was auditioning for Hamilton, and yeah, the audition process might have been quick, but
1:08.3	it was stressful, to say the least.
1:10.6	And honestly, that's just a very small part of Alexander's story.
1:13.0	Right now, Alex is going to tell us about his time with the show overseas, and we get into more of
1:17.4	his many, many talents.
1:19.2	Here we go. So how long were you on the Angelica tour before you went to Australia?
1:33.0	I did one year as man five.
1:35.4	I did the following year as a standby.
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