#455: John Devereaux // Hamilton's Philip Tour // Part One

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Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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John Devereaux is currently on Hamilton's Philip Tour covering George Washington, King George III, Mulligan/Madison, and Lafayette/Jefferson. He grew up in Houston, Texas, loving sports and wanting to eventually practice medicine. In high school, he did some friends a favor by stepping in as a last minute replacement but this does NOT mean he was a theatre kid, okay?! In fact, he went out of his way to make sure his bio in the program said that acting was just a hobby and he was *really* an athlete who was going to be a doctor. But we know how this story goes, right? He stepped on that stage and everything changed. Not overnight, of course. This week John talks about realizing he was too squeamish to be a doctor while in the middle of rotations, why a Monopoly reference made him ditch his business major, the beauty of being present on stage, and auditioning for Friday Night Lights.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast.
0:05.1	Boots and cuts and boots and cuts.
0:07.6	Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Hamelcast. I am Jillian and I am here finally, finally years in the
0:24.4	making with the one and only John Devereaux. Hi John. Hey, Dylan. Thanks so much for having me. It has been a very
0:31.3	long time in the making. A long time coming. Thanks so much for being here. I'm so glad we're like
0:35.7	meeting each other in the excitement level because it's been, you know, I've been dying to have you. So this is great. I've been watching all
0:41.5	my castmates and everyone and listening to their, there's Hamilcast. So I was like,
0:47.3	what is it? It's got to be my chart. Guess what? It's today. Oh, I'm so glad. So just before we do anything else, can you just tell the listeners
0:54.9	your pronouns, please? My pronouns are here. Great. Thank you. So you've been with Hamilton since
1:00.4	like 2019? Yes, April of 2019 is when I joined. And it'll be, I just have my five year anniversary,
1:09.5	so five and a half now.
1:11.9	Wow.
1:12.8	Because you're currently with the Philip tour, but you started with Angelica.
1:16.3	Yes.
1:16.7	Before that, like you're from Texas.
1:18.7	You were in the rent 20th anniversary tour, which we have to dive into.
1:21.6	Oh, absolutely.
1:22.3	So let's dive in.
1:23.6	I want to hear everything about you.
1:25.3	It's been so like such a long time coming. Like we said,
1:27.6	this is your time, your show. You want to start at the top where you're from, whatever you want.
1:32.1	I'm following you. Okay. Sure. I'm from Houston, Texas, border race. And basically, like, I grew up
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