'I mean, who doesn't want to play Hamilton, right?' said Pierre Jean Gonzalez.
Pierre Jean Gonzalez is known for the Alexander Hamilton role in “Hamilton.” The Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton” has made its way from Broadway to Anchorage recently, running shows at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts from mid-August through this Sunday, Sept. 10.
The musical tells the story of the founding of the United States from the perspective of the country’s first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, blending show tunes and ballads with hip-hop and R&B. Pierre Jean Gonzalez stars as Hamilton in the Anchorage run and spoke with Alaska Public Media’s Wesley Early about his experience bringing the “$10 Founding Father without a father” to the Anchorage stage.So what’s it like to play Hamilton, and why did you want this role?I mean, who doesn’t want to play Hamilton, right? Truthfully, the first time I saw the show, it kind of blew me away.
Ha! Absolutely. Listen, first of all, the views here are insane. I mean, I did a tour the other day. We did the helicopter going up to the dog sledding, and then like the glaciers, and I’m still riding high off of that. I think Alaska… I wasn’t ready. I didn’t know. Nobody told me. For me as a boy who grew up in the projects in the Bronx, I never could have imagined that I would be here. Not just playing Hamilton, but just being in Alaska. Like that’s unknown for a lot of people I grew up with.
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