#411: Vincent Jamal Hooper // Part Two

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Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Vincent Jamal Hooper is back for round two! Vinny’s Hamilton experience took him to Puerto Rico, California, Texas, and Australia playing the roles of Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Lafayette/Jefferson, George Washington, and KGIII.

This week, Vinny talks about going from Hamilton to White Girl in Danger to making his Broadway debut as Simba in The Lion King. Plus, Vinny explains the responsibility of tone setting in a production, tells us about all the playlists he made to get in character for his multiple Hamilton roles, all the "animal work" he did to prepare for Hamilton and Burr, and why video games are a parable life.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm stage and stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.
0:05.3	Butts and cuts and poos and... Hello everyone welcome back to the hamelcast I'm Jillian and this is the second half of my chat with Vincent Jamal Hooper.
0:24.0	Vinny recently made his Broadway debut as Simba in the Lion King.
0:27.0	And before that, his Hamilton experience took him all over the place,
0:30.0	Puerto Rico, California, Texas, Australia,
0:32.6	he played Hamilton, Burr, Lafayette, Jefferson, George Washington,
0:35.7	and KG3.
0:36.8	If you listen to last week's episode,
0:38.2	you know that Vinny is a guy who gets things done.
0:40.1	There's really no other way to say it.
0:41.5	He had this plan that he would play Benny in a production of in the Heights and he'd impress everyone so much that it would lead to a conversation about being in Hamilton.
0:48.0	And then it happened. Well, it's not like it happened overnight. I mean, there was what he calls his revolving door of auditions.
0:54.0	But yes, one way or another his plan came together and he started his Hamilton journey in Puerto Rico.
0:58.0	Hamilton led him to white girl in danger and Vinny said it was a real experiment in confronting failure.
1:02.0	He found tremendous freedom
1:03.6	and not being afraid to be seen trying, which is something we could all learn from
1:06.8	I think. And that's where we're picking up this week. While Vinny was
1:09.4	working on white girl in danger, he gets the email about an audition for the
1:12.4	Lion King on Broadway,
1:13.6	something that wasn't even on his radar. Isn't that how it always works?
1:16.8	Anyway, here's my second episode with Vincent Jamal Hooper. During the process of White Girl in Danger I got an audition request for Lion King, you know,
1:39.5	put yourself on tape, send it off.
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