#412: Rubén J. Carbajal // Laurens/Philip on Broadway // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Rubén J. Carbajal is finally on the podcast after all this time, but honestly, the timing could not have been better. Rubén recently made his Broadway debut as John Laurens and Philip Hamilton, but not before doing over one thousand performances across the country including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and performing alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda in Puerto Rico.
Rubén has been performing since he was five years old, but it wasn’t until he did In the Heights for the first time that he felt truly connected to a role. He wants to do that show forever (that’s a quote) and so far he’s done it three times: once as Sonny and twice as Usnavi.
When Hamilton came along Rubén was a superfan just like the rest of us, and we have a lot of fun revisiting those early days of the Hamilton fervor. What’s more exciting than being a fan of something and then actually being a part of it?! And for years, at that! It wasn’t an easy process and this episode ends with one of the busiest and most important days of Rubén’s life: an audition, the news about a call back, a Mets game, and standing on the turntable at the Richard Rodgers Theatre for the very first time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Butts and cuts and poosy, |
| 0:06.8 | and poosy, |
| 0:07.8 | hahut. Hello everyone welcome back to the Hamill cast I'm Jillian and today the time is finally here. I am joined by |
| 0:25.0 | Rubin Carball. Hey Rubin! Hey what's up? Oh thanks for being here I'm so |
| 0:29.2 | excited to chat with you. Likewise I've I've known about your podcast for so long and to be on it is an honor so thank you. |
| 0:36.4 | Oh that really means a lot to me. Thank you so much. |
| 0:38.6 | Before we do anything else can you please tell the listeners your pronouns? |
| 0:41.8 | He him. Great thank you. So you are |
| 0:44.8 | currently Lawrence Philip on Broadway this is your Broadway debut. Yes. You are coming |
| 0:49.0 | back to the show after over 1,000 performances as Lawrence Philip all like across like in Puerto Rico |
| 0:55.9 | all over the place on all the tours. Yes so you have like a lot where we also we we must we simply must discuss your punk rock version of |
| 1:05.2 | Hamilton because that sits in such a perfect little place in my heart. I want to |
| 1:10.4 | hear all about you and your life story and your Hamilton story I've all day so we'll go down any and all tangents. |
| 1:17.0 | Same, same. |
| 1:18.0 | Tell us where you're from and how you got into this world of acting and performing. |
| 1:23.7 | I'm from Los Angeles. |
| 1:25.7 | I was born and raised there. |
| 1:27.5 | I am first and a half generation Mexican American, deep roots into my Mexican culture. |
| 1:36.1 | Spanish was my first language. |
| 1:39.8 | I grew up dancing Balefoclororico which is like Mexican hat dance and it's like a tap but it's |
| 1:46.7 | it's more like you know grounded and and it's with Marjachi and these beautiful dresses and these |
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