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

Butts and cuts and, and boots and... Hello everyone welcome back to the hamelcast I'm Jillian and today I am here once again with my friend Charles

Simmons hey Charles hello everybody how's it going welcome back to the show

thank you glad to be back. Greetings from Manchester, UK.

I know I can't believe it.

So you were the original George Washington and the Hamburg Company.

Yes.

You're currently George Washington in the new the UK Ireland tour. Exactly. Yep. I am the I am the first principal cast member to perform the show in two languages. The first one ever was a gentleman

named Joshua Rivera who was in one of the touring companies in America and then he came to

Germany to perform with us when our run started but he was he was the assistant

assistant dance captain and a swing but I am the first principal cast member, the first main cast member to do it in two languages.

That is incredible. Congratulations.

Thank you very much. It's awesome. It's exciting to be part of that, to be a part of that history in that way. That's it's very cool

Right because last time we spoke you were still in rehearsals when you came on the podcast

Right, so there wasn't that much about the German production that we were allowed to talk about necessarily, but now we can.

So that's exciting and so now we get to talk about also like what your week has been like, your Premier Week just that transition so I want to dive into all of this I know you have

like even your last week alone could be like a whole podcast series I'm sure

yeah parties in the rehearsals yeah it, it's been a crazy ride, definitely.

So just in case, can we do like a little recap,

sort of like your truncated life story and Hamilton story,

and then we can get into like your Germany experience in London like the floor is yours so we're ready to go well for those of your

listeners who didn't know I was as you said the first in involved in the first foreign language production of Hamilton, which was in Hamburg, Germany.

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