#469: Robbie Rozelle // International Cabaret Artist & Record Producer // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Robbie Rozelle is a beloved cabaret artist, director, producer, housewives aficionado, and my friend. He identifies as a Charles Nelson Reilly with a Paul Lynde Rising. And guess what?! We're going back to basics! Robbie joins me in person, in my living room, and we talk about his Hamilton experience as well as pretty much everything else.
As a kid, Robbie fell in love with classic movie musicals (The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Annie (1982 ONLY), Bye Bye Birdie, Damn Yankees) and became transfixed. By the time he was cast as Scarecrow his freshman year of high school he knew he was going to be a performer. As a young gay kid in the middle of the AIDS crisis, Robbie found hope, joy, and a sense of belonging in theatre, which is why he's made it his life goal to preserve musicals through producing cast and artist albums.
This week, Robbie talks about his journey to New York City by way of upstate New York with a quick stop in Pennsylvania, how he became the Creative Director of Playbill, his transition to Center Stage Records, and how wise words from Jan Maxwell led to his "second life" as a cabaret icon.
Robbie Rozelle - Songs from Inside My Locker (Live at Feinstein's/54 Below)
///
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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 cats. |
| 0:07.1 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Hamelcast. I'm Jillian. This is crazy. We're going back to basics. Today I'm here with my dear, dear friend, Robbie Roselle. Daddy's home. Daddy's calling. What? I'm so thrilled you're here. We're going to dive into exactly what we're doing. But can you just tell everyone your pronouns first, please? Of course. My pronouns are he, him, his. Thank you. So I am sitting on my living |
| 0:38.0 | room floor. You are sitting on the couch. We are going back to basics. Fiona is here, |
| 0:42.2 | her first in-person recording. I haven't done this since February of 2020, and the last person |
| 0:47.2 | was Andy Blankin Bueller. That's crazy to me. Isn't that crazy? I've done big party recordings, |
| 0:52.3 | like in London. Sure. But that was two apartments ago. |
| 0:55.8 | The world is different. I'm a different. Like, who is that person? Everything is different. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah. So thank you for doing this and being here with me. A chance to talk to you, just to be your |
| 1:05.1 | friend on the couch with you? Not about housewives for once. Well, we'll get there. I mean. |
| 1:10.8 | But we have like snacks here. We have |
| 1:13.2 | the hamletome. Do you know about the hamletome? I do I own a copy of the hamletone, but this is lore. |
| 1:18.6 | This is lore for the, the pod because when people would come over, I'd have the guest sign it. |
| 1:23.6 | Oh my God. |
| 1:24.2 | So now I have it out here. Like we're really going back to basics. And there's a cocktail here. |
| 1:29.2 | Yes. And the cocktail is everything's coming up, Roselle. |
| 1:34.8 | Which is an old-fashioned with a rose in it. |
| 1:37.3 | Like, I was looking at it, you know, it's like when you get a Bloody Mary and there's so many, |
| 1:42.1 | Bloody Mary is like a drink with a snack attached. |
| 1:45.5 | Which I do have the celery sticks. |
| 1:46.8 | It's true. |
| 1:47.3 | But you're always like, how am I going to get to the liquid of it? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gillian Pensavalle, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Gillian Pensavalle and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.