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“When you spend so much time knocking on doors and having them not open, you can start to think that you have to change what you’re doing.”
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says of the play’s success. “That’s not supposed to happen to a play!” Describing how he ended up in Hamilton is the stuff of any creative’s dreams: “It was a bunch of my friends who asked me to do something with them. And I was like, ‘Sure!’ And then it became this thing.”
After the massive impact of Hamilton, one of the most successful shows in Broadway history, Diggs found himself in a unique position. Suddenly, doors were opening for him that hadn’t before. “This led me to understand there was nothing about my process that was wrong,” Diggs said of his unexpected catapult to stardom. His experience lay mostly in experimental theatre, underground rap, and poetry — becoming a Tony and Grammy winner wasn’t even on his radar. “When you spend so much time knocking on doors and having them not open, you can start to think that you have to change what you’re doing,” Diggs says. But if the success of Hamilton taught him anything, it’s that there’s so much value in working with people >
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