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Stage phenomenon Hamilton heads to Southampton for six-week season
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03/03/2025
Joining the production as Alexander Hamilton is 2024 Black British Theatre Award-winner Marley Fenton, whilst Billy Nevers, previously Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the tour, will now play Aaron Burr.
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Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers.
00:06
Wow, this is the big one. It's been on our horizon for so long in Southampton, and it's
00:12
almost nearly here. Hamilton, and lovely to speak to our Alexander Hamilton and Marley
00:18
Fenton.
00:19
Hello.
00:20
Monumental role, isn't it? And you were saying it's probably about four or five months of
00:25
auditions to secure. How on earth did you get that role?
00:29
I mean, it was definitely a crazy time in my life. I was currently in another show and
00:35
I was auditioning. I was on tour at the time, so I was travelling back to London every two
00:40
weeks or so to go and audition. And then I had a couple of Zooms and things like that.
00:45
And because it was something I wanted to do for so long, it was definitely quite a high
00:50
intensity time. But luckily, it went the way that I wanted and the audition process was
00:56
exactly what I'd hoped for. And of course, we're sitting here, so yeah, it went well.
01:01
Clearly, and at the risk of asking the blindingly obvious question, what is it that attracted
01:05
you so much to that role? Why did you want to be it? It's a monumental role, isn't it?
01:09
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, well, before even kind of seeing anything about who was in it
01:14
and things like that, I heard the music and the music was something that drew me to it
01:21
straight away. You know, the jazz, the hip hop, the rap, the soul, you know, that's music
01:26
that I've kind of grown up on. So even just hearing that was definitely something that
01:30
attracted me to it. And then seeing the casting for the show, even though I understood
01:36
kind of what the show was about and the story, the thing that attracted me most was
01:40
definitely the casting and how, you know, in the famous words of them, it's a story of
01:45
America then told by America now, which is so powerful for me to, you know, hear and
01:50
see multiple black people on stage kind of singing about freedom and singing about
01:54
things like that. So those are definitely the things that attracted me to Hamilton.
01:58
And it's so nice to be able to bottle that energy that I had when I first heard about
02:03
it and then bring it on stage every night. Yes, it's a great feeling.
02:07
In some ways, it's such an unlikely musical, isn't it? Because you could think it's so
02:11
complex, isn't it? The story is telling. You don't believe it can be as thrilling as it
02:15
actually is. You sit there watching it and it just comes along, doesn't it?
02:19
Oh, yeah, definitely. It's great. Sorry, go on.
02:23
No, no, I was just going to say, tell me what you think you have to nail to be authentically
02:27
Hamilton. What have you got to be to be him?
02:30
I think for me, there's a few different things, but I think it's definitely finding
02:34
that kind of jumps in his age.
02:37
He goes from being 19 to 47 in the show.
02:40
And it's so crazy that each time he's kind of on stage, you know, other things have
02:46
happened. And it's not just this is this is his journey top to bottom.
02:50
You know, there's only three hours or so of content that you can kind of put into a
02:55
musical, you know, over that that that lifespan that, you know, there's other things
03:01
that would have came into it. So it's a lot of research and a lot of, you know, really
03:06
honing in on who he was as a person to be able to carry that through his age.
03:12
And then it's, you know, it's a very big technical aspect within the voice.
03:17
It's, you know, a lot of a lot of rap, a lot of words.
03:20
So it's kind of just getting that into your body as quick as possible.
03:23
Yeah.
03:24
An interesting time span. Obviously, you are at the younger end, aren't you?
03:28
Yeah, definitely.
03:29
Two years ago. What difference does it make that you are one of our younger Hamiltonians?
03:34
I think it's definitely a thing of Act One feels like more accessible to me.
03:39
You know, he's 19 when he when he's in Act One or at the start of Act One.
03:44
And that's definitely been the thing that I've been able to gravitate towards more and
03:49
kind of understand more. And then the challenge for me is Act Two and is is the
03:54
older years, you know, when he gets a son and things like that.
03:57
That's definitely the thing I've been working very hard on because it's a big jump.
04:01
And it's obviously something that I've not experienced, but it's all a part of the job.
04:05
And it's exciting that that's something I get to play. But, yeah.
04:10
Well, it sounds super exciting. Really looking forward to seeing it.
04:13
And really lovely to speak to you. Congratulations.
04:15
And you. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited.
04:19
Yes.
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