#465: Paul Louis Lessard // Hamilton's Philip Tour // Part Three

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In their third episode, Paul Louis Lessard reflects on their one year anniversary playing King George III on Hamilton's Philip Tour. Booking the show was a surreal experience, but Paul is having the time of his life and has never felt more beautiful than when he's wearing those *perfectly tailored* KG3 costumes.

Paul also opens up about the unnecessary shame around vocal injuries and explains that has "vocal athletes", acknowledging issues and taking care of your voice is all part of the gig.

Plus, while answering questions from the Patreon Peeps, Paul discusses the value of barbershop quartets, his time making Rent quizzes online in high school (hi Adam Pascal and Daphne Rubin-Vega!), how his King George channels the Queen of Genovia, and why he's a synth pop fan for life.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast.
0:05.3	Boots and cuts and boots and cuts.
0:07.6	Ha ha ha ha ha.
0:15.0	Hey, everyone.
0:18.6	Welcome back to the Hamelcast.
0:19.7	I'm Jillian, and I'm wrapping up with Paul Lewis Lassard, who recently celebrated their one-year
0:23.5	anniversary playing King George on Hamilton's Philip tour.
0:26.5	I loved this conversation.
0:28.3	In Paul's first episode, we talked a lot about how being so focused on a timeline is one
0:32.1	of the main things that'll trip you up on your way to, you know, wherever it is you're
0:35.4	going. And as I'm sitting here, thinking about what to say to introduce this episode, I'm realizing that we kind of lived
0:40.2	that in this recording. We jumped all around Paul's timeline, and I love that because you can't
0:44.5	always tell interesting stories in a linear way, you know? I don't know. Am I looking too much into it?
0:48.9	I just thought it was cool. Kind of hit me sitting here. Anyway, last week, Paul was telling us their Hamilton story.
0:54.7	Back in 2015, Paul posted on Facebook telling the world he would absolutely play King George the 3rd one day.
1:00.1	That was 2015, right? Cut to late 2022.
1:03.1	They just come off a great run as King Herod and Jesus Christ Superstar.
1:06.0	And all the reviews essentially said that Paul's performance was, as the kids say, very KG3 coded.
1:10.7	It's perfect, right?
1:11.8	So after some emails and self-tapes and at least one nervous breakdown, Paul is about to walk into
1:16.0	the room and audition in person for Hamilton. Here we go. This is episode three with Paul Lewis
1:20.9	Lassard. I went in and was like, all I want to do is leave a good impression.
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