Leslie Odom Jr.: Aaron Burr, Sir (R)

Ask Me Another

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Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Broadway's Leslie Odom Jr., who played Aaron Burr in the hit musical Hamilton, joins us to talk about the show's meteoric rise and his path to Broadway as a high school student.

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0:41.0	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:47.0	its NPR's hour of Puzzles, Word Games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:52.0	Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
1:00.0	Thank you, Jonathan Colton.
1:02.4	We have a great show for you.
1:03.7	Ten contestants are here to play our nerdy games, but only one will be our Ask Me Another
1:08.4	Big winner with a prize provided by our VIP.
1:12.8	And our VIP is currently starring as Aaron Burr in the hit Broadway musical Hamilton,
1:19.3	which is a hip hop retelling of the life of Alexander Hamilton.
1:23.5	And it is so wildly popular that it is nearly impossible to get a ticket to the show.
1:29.4	It is easier to get into Harvard Business School than it is to get a ticket to the show.
1:34.2	It is easier to find a vegan who never mentions they're a vegan.
1:40.7	Then it is to get into the show.
1:43.3	Our VIP is Leslie Odom Jr.
1:46.9	We'll be joining us later in the show.
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