#495: Alex Lacamoire Returns! // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Hamilton's award winning music director and orchestrator Alex Lacamoire is back after his legendary three episode series in 2018 and he's here to help wrap this show up right! Lac never comes to the pod empty handed and once again brought a keyboard, a laptop full of Hamilton music that no one has ever heard, and his ✨immaculate✨ vibes.
This week, Alex talks about celebrating ten years of Hamilton on Broadway including putting together the amazing performance at the Tonys, experiencing the Hamilfilm on the big screen, the pure joy of Leslie Odom Jr. reprising Aaron Burr, what his day to day relationship with the show is now, and reflecting on the brotherhood of The Cabinet™.
Lac also shares what it feels like for him to create and experience music, letting us in on what inspires him, what it feels like to truly be in the middle of a wave of inspiration, and what guides him to his own personal North Star.
Oh and did I mention there's a keyboard?! And secret Hamilton clips?!
This episode was recorded in November of 2025 at WTF Media Studios in Manhattan and produced with Natalie Grillo from Any Moment Productions in collaboration with Meghan Miles.
#126: Alex Lacamoire // Part One (2018)
#127: Alex Lacamoire // Part Two (2018)
#128: Alex Lacamoire // Part Three (2018)
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Transcript
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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 cats. |
| 0:07.3 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Hamelcast. I'm Jillian. I am here after all these years with my friend Alex Lackamore. |
| 0:25.4 | So happy to be here. Thank you so much for coming back and helping me, you know, wrap this thing up, right? |
| 0:29.4 | Oh my God. I can't believe that it's coming to a close. I can't believe it either. So I have, I told, I said this to Andy, too. So your episodes originally aired in 2018. |
| 0:55.6 | Wow. Yep. That tracks. Time machine. Yeah. Totally different. We were different people, different vibe, different thing. Yeah, for sure. You were episodes 126, 127, 28. Tommy's two episodes were right before you. Yes. 124, 125. Yes. Back to back, two members of the cabinet, crazy. The cocktail was the chickablau, if you remember. |
| 0:56.7 | We have it a little bit. |
| 0:54.9 | It's just like a blue Bacardi. 25. Yes. Back to back, two members of the cabinet. Crazy. The cocktail was the chickablau. |
| 0:56.8 | If you remember, we have it a little bit. |
| 1:15.5 | It's just like a blue Bacardi, summery, seltry thing. Oh, that sounds lovely. So it's here for you whenever you'd like it. Thank you. How are you? I'm great, GP. How are you? I'm so good. It was, you know, we wanted to do this and do this right, kind of exactly the way we did it the first time around, but different. |
| 1:17.6 | Like, we wanted to do this version right. |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.2 | Because you and I, like, the listeners should know that we had a big conversation about what it would look like for you to come back. Right. |
| 1:24.7 | And why it would be different and like why that's good. |
| 1:27.7 | Exactly. |
| 1:28.3 | Because your episodes are legendary. |
| 1:31.1 | A lot of preparation went into those three episodes, but I remember planning for it. |
| 1:37.1 | And I am a planner by nature and I'm a perfectionist by nature. |
| 1:40.4 | And it's the thing where that felt so perfect in that time capsule and in that bubble. |
| 1:45.3 | And my just question was going to be, if we do it again, like, how do we top that? |
| 1:49.8 | Because we can't. |
| 1:50.8 | We can't. |
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