#457: John Devereaux // Hamilton's Philip Tour // Part Three
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week wraps up my series with John Devereaux, a standby on Hamilton's Philip Tour covering George Washington, King George III, Mulligan/Madison, and Lafayette/Jefferson. Remember when John told the story about booking Hamilton and almost passing on it? Yeah well that almost didn't even happen because this week you'll hear about how John actually did pass on the first audition! Yep, he just wasn't that into Hamilton. But then he heard Wait For It and couldn't stop crying and decided he absolutely had to be in the show. John walks us through his Hamilton process while also giving excellent advice (spoiler: whatever it is, take the note). He's also taking questions from the Patreon Peeps where you'll learn about "the multiverse of KGIIIs" and why he wants to sit down for a hard hitting interview with the real Aaron Burr.
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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. |
| 0:07.1 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Hamelcast. I'm Jillian and today I'm wrapping up my |
| 0:21.7 | conversation with John Devereaux. John has been with Hamilton since he was on the Angelica tour in 2019. |
| 0:26.5 | He's currently a standby on the Philip tour covering George Washington, King George III, |
| 0:30.1 | Mulligan Madison, and Lafayette Jefferson. John has really opened up a lot over his three episodes |
| 0:34.6 | and he's a great example of the idea that your journey never |
| 0:37.5 | looks like what you thought it was going to look like. And what I love about John is that he has |
| 0:40.9 | enough of an open mind about things to say no. Does that make sense? Like he grew up wanting to be a |
| 0:45.3 | doctor. And even though he discovered his love of performing in high school, he still went to a |
| 0:49.3 | career magnet school to focus on medicine. And it was there in the operating room, machines beeping, watching someone have surgery, that he realized, yeah, no, this medicine thing is not for me, |
| 0:57.8 | like at all, hard, hard pass. And I think it's because, as John said, he never wanted to lose his |
| 1:02.5 | elasticity. He loves learning. He loves being curious about people and the world and himself. |
| 1:07.5 | He wants to know about every aspect of the industry, and he wants to do it all with total authenticity. It's why being on Rent's 20th anniversary tour meant so much to him, |
| 1:15.3 | living in the moment, doing what you can do, and realizing that we all just need a little more |
| 1:19.1 | humanity. Last week, John's second episode ended with him talking about Rent and how it connects |
| 1:23.6 | to Hamilton and the idea of legacy. So instead of speaking for John, I'm just going to include the last minute or two of that episode, |
| 1:28.9 | so the rest of what he's saying makes sense. |
| 1:30.6 | All right, here we go. |
| 1:31.7 | Please enjoy episode three with the lovely John Devereaux. |
| 1:43.1 | But true legacy, I think, it's how you affect people, how what you do and what you accomplish, how that affects people. |
| 1:55.0 | How that affects people going on. |
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