The star of Hamilton and A Star Is Born on growing up in Brooklyn, accidentally becoming an actor and working with Lin-Manuel MirandaAnthony Ramos is rapping down the phone: “I’m past patiently waiting / I’m passionately smashing every expectation / Every action’s an act of creation … Um … I can’t remember … Sorry.
I’ve been out of the show for two and half years.” Much has happened since Ramos last recited those lyrics on the Broadway stage, in the original production of Hamilton.
Ramos’s dual role as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s all-conquering musical has catapulted him into a career that’s so impossibly busy, you can forgive him for losing track a little.
Although the words do come back to him moments later: “Oh yeah – I’m laughin’ in the face of casualties and sorrow / For the first time, I’m thinkin’ past tomorrow.
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