#415: Billy Nevers // Hamilton UK/Ireland: Lafayette/Jefferson // Part One

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Billy Nevers is currently in the UK/Ireland tour of Hamilton playing Lafayette/Jefferson. He’s also in the very rare position of being a principal who covers another principal - he’s the second standby for Aaron Burr, which is pretty unprecedented!

Billy grew up in London in a very theatrical family, so he was surrounded by it from a super young age: music was always on, he was always going to see shows, his mom was a drama teacher. His talent and passion were undeniably there from the start but Billy learned early on about the gatekeeping people of color have to deal with when trying to break into this industry.

In this episode Billy talks about the BIPOC experience in the arts and education world, how doing what you love is really hard work (and that's a good thing!), and doing Jesus Christ Superstar at an outdoor theater in the summer of 2020.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.
0:05.2	Boots and cuts and boots and... Hello everyone welcome back to the Hamelcast I'm Jillian I am so excited today I am joined by the one the only Billy
0:26.2	never's hey Billy hello hello hello I'm thrilled that you're here. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm excited that you're excited.
0:37.0	Before we do anything else can you just let the listeners know your pronouns please?
0:41.0	Hello, I'm Billy Nevers and I go by he-him pronouns.
0:45.0	Great.
0:46.0	You are doing the UK Island tour.
0:48.0	I am.
0:50.0	You are Lafayette Jefferson, but you also cover Burr,
0:53.5	which we will get into at length.
0:56.2	For sure, for sure, yep.
0:58.2	And you're in the playbill, you're in,
1:00.3	you're like officially, you're on the website,
1:02.0	like who's playing laugh Jeff
1:03.0	Billy Nevers however you are also the second cover for Aaron Burr we will dive into all
1:07.4	of it I don't think that's ever happened on the show before I don't think it's
1:10.0	ever happened in Hamilton history I don't think so right? So your reaction is the same as my reaction.
1:16.0	But yeah we will get into that. Yeah absolutely because it's fascinating. You have a very
1:21.6	extensive history with and Juliet.
1:23.4	I do, I do.
1:25.2	Yeah, also Legally Blonde and Groundhog Day and Jesus Christ
1:27.6	Superstar in the color purple and an intimate evening with Kristen Chenoweth who come on.
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