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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#83: Ian Weinberger // Hamilton Broadway // Part One

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ian Weinberger, the Associate Musical Director of Hamilton on Broadway, is going to BLOW US ALL AWAY. Ian conducts the show, plays keyboard in the pit, and happens to be one of the nicest people on the planet. In this first episode, Ian tells us how he got involved in Hamilton (Dear Evan Hansen is involved), confirms that Alex Lacamoire and Kurt Crowley are as nice as they are brilliant, and explains the musician's version of #BurrsCorner.

Oh, did I mention there's a keyboard involved? Thank you Gregory Treco for telling me to get a keyboard for this recording and thank you Tyler Mount for making that happen.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Welcome to the Hamillcast. It's me Jillianian I am joined by Ian Weinberger the associate

0:14.2

musical director of Hamilton hey what's up hey and when you're not conducting the

0:18.5

show you're playing keyboard yeah in the pit right yeah I wear a couple hats I play keyboard to in the orchestra because the conductor also

0:26.2

plays keyboard so keyboard number two not T-O- right keyboard number two okay got it yeah so that's my like

0:31.3

normal gig is keyboard two at night. And then I conduct the show whenever the conductor, Kurt, is taking notes in the house or off doing rehearsal with somebody or if he's out of the

0:45.2

building living his best life.

0:47.0

And that is Kurt Crowley, correct?

0:48.0

That's Kurt Crowley.

0:49.0

My boss.

0:50.0

And we have just discovered that, well I knew I saw you the last time I saw the show that

0:54.3

you conducted and then we just discovered that the first time I saw the show you

0:58.7

were conducting I sure was the night Lynn when the Pulitzer yes that would have

1:02.2

been what March of last year?

1:04.1

Is that a year and a half or a year or April?

1:05.8

It's all very blurry to me.

1:07.3

For me too.

1:09.0

So yeah, I end up conducting the show on average, I'd say two or three times a week and and that's most of the gig is playing

1:17.0

key to most of the time conducting the rest of the time and then I also do a lot of

1:22.3

rehearsal with our people, with our actors.

1:24.4

Whenever we get new actors, it's on me to make sure that they're learning the music the right way and

1:29.6

shaping what they're supposed to be singing and rapping and how it's supposed to land on the ear

1:33.6

and what it's supposed to sound like and all those little vocal details come through me and

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