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Hi, this is Debbie Millman.

In a few weeks I'll be back with a new season of design matters but for now I want to look back on

some of the podcasts we recorded in 2017. If you hear something you like and want to listen to the

whole podcast you can find it on iTunes along with over 300 other

interviews I've conducted over the 13 years I've been hosting design matters.

This past fall I spoke with Thomas Kale, the director of Hamilton. The musical became an instant phenomenon and one of the hottest tickets ever on Broadway.

Tommy got his start in New York when he was hired by

Alan Hubby, the owner of the Drama Bookshop, which had a 50-seat performance space

in the basement. I asked him about some of his early productions

and about how he met Lynn Manuel Miranda who wrote the music and lyrics for Hamilton.

I did four plays that I wrote at the American Theater of Actors on 54th Street,

which is sort of like a rite of passage, it's like above a police station, and I think my budget was $1,300 and I mean that was the dream.

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