#496: Alex Lacamoire Returns! // Part Two
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Alex Lacamoire is back for round two and I hope you're ready because not only does he put that keyboard to very good use, but Alex was also kind enough to bring isolated stems from the Hamilton cast album. Yep, I know, it's insane. Not only does he play some of his favorite parts (the Stevie Wonder moment in One Last Time and the Eleanor Rigby part of the opening number, for example) but Alex gives us a tour around the orchestra, one instrument at a time: strings from Burn, percussion from Guns and Ships, guitar in Helpless, stride piano in The Room Where It Happens, the list goes on and on and onnnnn.
Plus! We talk Billy Joel, Chopin, Steven Sondheim, Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl, the connection between The Beatles and Sisqó, and Alex shares fantastic stories from his experience working on Sweeney Todd.
This is such a deep dive and I promise that you'll love every second of it! Seriously, this barely scratches the surface of Lac's generosity. What'd I tell you? The vibes. are. PRISTINE.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Boots and cuts and boots and cuts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Hamelcast. I'm Jillian, and today I'm wrapping up with Alex Lackamore, whose generosity knows no bounds. |
| 0:24.3 | As we told you last week, Alex and I really wanted to end things right without trying to outdo his three episodes from 2018. |
| 0:29.9 | Because honestly, that's impossible. Those episodes are truly legendary, partly because 2018 was such a specific moment in time for not just Hamilton, but this podcast. Those episodes are linked in the show notes, and while, yeah, maybe I could have dropped in clips from those apps, I wanted to let these two episodes be their own thing, because just like all those years ago, this is also a really specific moment in time. So last week, Alex talked a lot about celebrating 10 years of Hamilton on Broadway, putting together putting together the amazing performance at the Tonys, experiencing the Hamill film on the big screen, and what his day-to-day relationship is with the show now. But because he's Alex Lackamore and he never shows up to the pod empty-handed, there's also a keyboard and a laptop full of Hamilton music that no one has ever heard before. We dove into it a little bit last week, but the deep dive really starts now. |
| 1:12.2 | So here we go. |
| 1:12.9 | Alex is taking questions from the Patreon peeps |
| 1:14.8 | and showing off even more Hamilton layers |
| 1:17.0 | over a decade into the run. |
| 1:18.8 | Unbelievable. |
| 1:19.7 | Enjoy. I think I texted you this, but I finally saw Billy Joel in concert. |
| 1:35.4 | Amazing. |
| 1:36.5 | I love it. |
| 1:37.1 | Wasn't it like life-changing? |
| 1:38.2 | Yes. |
| 1:38.7 | He gives you everything you want. |
| 1:40.0 | I know. |
| 1:40.6 | Hit after hit after hit after hit. |
| 1:42.0 | Nothing new since River of Dreams, which is crazy to think about. It's what you want. His last big hit was like 1990 something. Technically, if you think about it. I know, I know. He plays everything you want. The crowd is unbelievable. But then he also does like little like riffs on his own rifts, but they're all really familiar. Yep, yep. And then he'll, like, bring out, you know, he'll play some Led Zeppelin song. |
| 2:02.9 | Right. |
| 2:03.1 | I still remember, like, the first time I saw him in 1990, he just, out of nowhere, just played |
| 2:06.4 | like that Zeppelin song, yeah. |
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