And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host David Axelrod.

Miguel Servantes is well known in Chicago and the theater community as the star of Hamilton,

the Chicago production.

He's a brilliant actor and singer and performer, but I also know him in another role and that's the

role of dad to a beautiful young daughter Adelaide who has epilepsy in a very, very,

virulent form.

I spoke with him about both his career and theater and his family's challenges when we sat down

in Chicago last week.

Miguel Servantes, my friend, it's good to see you especially.

We're recording this early in the morning.

You're probably performing late into the night.

Yeah, you know, Wednesdays are the two show days.

Oh my god.

I pack a lot of Hamilton into a Wednesday and there's...

That's, you know, I mean to ask you about that because there's so much energy in that production

and the idea of doing it not just every night, but twice in a day seems taxing.

Yeah, you know, it's as I am in my third year of this roller coaster here, it's the ebbs

and flows of how the energy comes and goes.

It's remarkable, you know, in the first year it was I was holding on for dear life.

I just getting through one show, you know, and not to mention two shows in a day,

was I could feel how much it takes.

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