#472: Manny Schvartzman // Hamilton Music Director and Conductor // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
I hope you're ready for a deep dive on Team Music because Manny Schvartzman is here! Manny is the music director, conductor, and keyboard one player on Hamilton's Angelica Tour.
In his first episode, Manny walks us through the early stages of his career, which started at around eight years old, when he started teaching himself to play piano and read music with the goal of being a classical pianist. By the time he was a freshman in high school, the word was out in Miami about kid from Buenos Aires who could play piano like nobody's business. Manny was like Schroeder - all about the classical music - and he couldn't be bothered with musicals like Fiddler on the Roof. But once he got a taste of the collaboration and storytelling involved in the theatre world, he never looked back.
Being his high school's music director at 14 years old was a formative experience and then you combine it with Manny's inherent curiosity, kindness, and relentless work ethic? He's unstoppable.
Manny was summoned to New York to work on On Your Feet (with the legendary Gloria Estefan) and was simultaneously making history in 2014 when he was part of the team that brought Cuba its first Broadway musical in 50 years: RENT.
"Revolution Rent" Documentary directed by Andy Señor, Jr.
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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 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome back to the Hamelcast. |
| 0:20.1 | My name is Jillian. |
| 0:21.2 | Today, I'm here with Manny Schwartzman. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:24.7 | Hi, Manny. |
| 0:25.3 | Hi, good morning. |
| 0:26.2 | How are you? |
| 0:26.6 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:27.4 | How are you? |
| 0:28.1 | Great. |
| 0:28.7 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:29.5 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm so happy you're here. |
| 0:31.2 | Before we dive into anything else, can you just let me and the listeners know your pronouns, please? Yeah, he, him. Great. Thank you so much. Mani, you are currently the musical director, conductor, and key one for the Angelica tour, right? |
| 0:43.5 | That's right. I'm the, yep, everything you just said. Okay, great. We'll dive into all of that. |
| 0:48.5 | But previously, your career has been amazing. You worked on your feet, the assistant music director on Broadway and on |
| 0:55.1 | tour. Internationally, I would love to dive into this. You worked on Rent in Cuba, which made history |
| 1:02.0 | in 2014, the first Broadway show to come to Cuba in 50 years. There's a documentary about it called |
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