#464: Paul Louis Lessard // Hamilton's Philip Tour // Part Two
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
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🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Paul Louis Lessard currently plays King George III on Hamilton's Philip Tour and this week they tell us about how playing King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar helped them get there.
Paul was admittedly one of those people who had an "aversion" to Hamilton back in the 2016 era, but eventually he was listening to (and falling in love with) select songs like "Take a Break" and "Wait For It." But it was "You'll Be Back" that led him to write a Facebook post way back in 2016 letting the world know that one day he will be playing King George III. It didn't hurt that almost all of Paul's King Herod reviews mentioned a KG3 vibe, which Paul made sure casting knew about when he was auditioning for Hamilton almost eight years later in 2023.
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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. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, friends, I'm Jillian. |
| 0:19.0 | This is my second episode with Paul Lewis Lassard, |
| 0:22.7 | King George on Hamilton's Philip tour. |
| 0:24.6 | So if you listen to last week's episode, |
| 0:26.3 | which you should absolutely do, |
| 0:27.5 | I think you'll agree the name of the game is authenticity. |
| 0:29.9 | I loved what Paul said about the lore of performing being like a siren song |
| 0:33.3 | and how it meant so much to him to be so passionate about something from such a young age. |
| 0:41.6 | That intoxicating smell of the program, staying up late on a school night to see a show, |
| 0:42.6 | it's beautiful. |
| 0:48.6 | But it also makes the fact that Paul says there was a time they felt their queerness had been used against them that much more frustrating. |
| 0:51.8 | First of all, everyone knew who Paul was when he was called into audition, |
| 0:56.0 | so then turning around and saying they're too queer? Yeah, that is 100% of you problem. Also, demanding that he butch up Marius? |
| 0:58.0 | In Les Mizz? |
| 1:00.0 | Please. |
| 1:01.0 | Whatever. Paul's beyond that now. |
| 1:02.0 | Plus, when we left off last week, it was 2015 and he'd adopted a brand new mantra. |
| 1:06.0 | Two words. |
| 1:07.0 | Fuck it. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, it turns out booking a gig on a luxury cruise ship and traveling to over 40 countries |
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