Leslie Odom Jr.: Aaron Burr, Sir

Ask Me Another

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🗓️ 15 April 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Broadway's Leslie Odom Jr., who plays 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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0:00.0	Hello listeners, it's Ophira here. Guess what? Ask Meena. There is going on the road and we are coming to Los Angeles, California. We will be at the theater at Ace Hotel on Wednesday, May 11th, and tickets are going fast. So, if you would like to put your trivia expertise on our stage, take the contestant quiz now,
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1:03.9	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
1:07.5	it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia.
1:08.8	Ask Me Another.
1:12.5	Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
1:22.7	Thank you, Jonathan Colton. We have a great show for you. Ten contestants are here to play our nerdy games, but only one will be our Ask Me Another big Winner with a prize provided by our VIP.
1:30.2	And our VIP is currently starring as Aaron Burr in the hit Broadway musical Hamilton,
1:36.5	which is a hip-hop retelling of the life of Alexander Hamilton.
1:40.8	And it is so wildly popular that is nearly impossible to get a ticket to the show.
1:46.7	It is easier to get into Harvard Business School than it is to get a ticket to the show.
1:51.2	It is easier to find a vegan who never mentions they're a vegan than it is to get into
1:59.0	this show.
2:00.6	Our VIP is Leslie Odom, Jr.
2:09.8	Leslie Odom Jr. will be joining us later in the show, but let's get started with our first
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