Description: "When Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton opened in London's West End in December 2017, it was as huge a hit as it had been in its original production off - and on Broadway. Lauded by critics and audiences alike, the show would go on to win a record-equalling seven Olivier Awards -- including Best Actor in a Musical for Giles Terera, for his portrayal of Aaron Burr. For Terera, though, his journey as Burr had begun more than a year earlier, with his first audition in New York, and continuing through extensive research and preparation, intense rehearsals, previews and finally opening night itself. Throughout this time he kept a journal, recording his experiences of the production and his process of creating his award-winning performance. This book, Hamilton and Me, is that journal."--
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PRAISE FOR HAMILTON AND ME
"This is a book written by a superlative actor and essential reading for any young actor about the way to approach a part." --Dame Judi Dench
"Giles Terera gives us a master class in the art of acting and a marvelously candid glimpse into the world of Hamilton behind the scenes. We get all the magic of the show, but also the patience, discipline, and the hard work of the actors who make it soar. Every Hamilton buff and avid theatergoer will cherish this memoir." --Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton
"Essential reading for the still growing legions of fans of the musical... Especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community and academic library American Theatre collections."--Midwest Book Review
PRAISE FOR GILES TERERA
"Giles Terera is terrific as Aaron Burr, who narrates this story, anchoring it, managing to hold together the whole exploding maelstrom." --The Times
"A star-making performance...as the ambitious Burr, Terera has a cool shrewdness. But there are notes of resentment, awkwardness and longing in his performance--Burr's appetite for politics is quickened by a thwarted desire to be, as one second-half song emphasizes, in 'the room where it happens.'" --Evening Standard
"A lithe, even slimey, solitary figure always desperately trying and failing to fit in, Terera grounds Burr's growing resentment beautifully...Terera's Burr has a gnat-like quality, easily swatted away despite his brilliance. Little wonder life grinds him down to bitterness, even something like madness and, as Burr's star falls and his life stalls, Terera's eyes cross in blinkered enmity. You feel for him hugely." --Variety
"Giles Terera is splendid as Burr, the frenemy and nemesis who is Salieri to Hamilton's Mozart, all silky, privileged containment and disengaged calculation as opposed to his fellow orphan's committed impetuosity." --Independent
"As Aaron Burr, Giles Terera gives a shiny performance that shows how his character's smoothness becomes his nemesis." --New York Times