#conroe brooks

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work!

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Philip Company - #HamilTourToo - Ensemble

Tia Altinay - Ensemble

Conroe Brooks - Ensemble + u/s George Washington

Cameron Burke - Ensemble 

Eean S. Chochran - Swing

Phil Colgan - Ensemble

Desmond Sean Eillington - Ensemble

Lili Froehlich - Ensemble 

Daniel Gaymon - Ensemble

Camden Gonzales - Ensemble

Stephen Hernandez - Ensemble

Kristen Hoagland

Abby Jaros - Ensemble

Emily Jenda - s/b Schuyler Sister

Wonza Johnson - James Reynolds/The Doctor/Philip Schuyler

King David Jones - Swing + u/s Lafayette/Jefferson, Madison/Mulligan, and Philip/Laurens

Carina-Kay Louchiey - Swing

Brandt Martinez - Ensemble

Taeko McCarroll

Tyler Mckenzie - Ensemble

Justice Moore - The Bullet

Julian Ramos - Ensemble

Jen Sese - Ensemble

Julius Thomas III - Ensemble

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look around, look around

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those already following on twitter are probably the figurative choir, so if any of y’all have the chance to kindly pass on some knowledge while waiting at the stage door before folks come out...

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blow us all away

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durHAM

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& that would be enough

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Conroe Brooks: 41, cast member of “Hamilton,” Los Angeles

Last December, Conroe Brooks’ manager broke the good news by calling to say: “You’d better sell your car. You’re going on tour.”

He’d finally been cast in “Hamilton.”

“I literally fell to my knees and yelled,” Brooks said. “Thanks to God, thanks to my mom, hollering, all kinds of stuff.” The actor had four days to settle his affairs in Los Angeles — sell the car, sell his stuff, ditch his apartment — and get to New York to start rehearsals.

The moment was deeply cathartic: Brooks had had a thorny, painful, yearslong road into this touring production.

His saga began in the fall of 2015, when a friend texted about an open call for “Hamilton” video auditions. Brooks thanked his friend, joking that he could never afford a ticket. “I really wanted to see this,” Brooks remembers texting, “so I guess I’ll just have to be in it.”

He didn’t believe that would actually happen.

After a few months, he submitted a homemade video anyway — singing “I’ll Cover You” from “Rent” and rapping “Can’t Hold Us” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis — and expected to hear nothing.

He didn’t, until three months later, when the “Hamilton” team asked him to submit another video. That started a grueling process of occasional, torturously tantalizing callbacks, more video submissions, in-person auditions in L.A. and New York and months going by without hearing anything.

In the interim, Brooks was having a rough time. His mother was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor, which ultimately killed her. He got dropped as a soul/R&B singer from a wedding band. His acting work was precarious. Brooks paid the rent with piecework video editing and as a food-delivery driver for Postmates.

He was going broke — and spiraling into depression. “It was a really dark, hopeless time,” Brooks said. “I was just thinking: ‘Good things are never going to happen for me. I didn’t hear back from “Hamilton.” My mom’s gone. And even if I get the job, she’s never gonna see it.’ I was in a really bad place.”

After nearly two agonizing years, Brooks finally got the good news — and he’s headed to Seattle as a member of the ensemble and a lead understudy for the roles of George Washington and King George III. [source]