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Pan actor John Devereaux brings history back to his home state with ‘Hamilton’ RICH LOPEZ | Staff writer rich@dallasvoice.com Stand-by cast member John Devereaux is ready at the gate any time he needs to step onstage to portray any one of three characters in Hamilton .
Four meaty roles with heavy dialogue are in his catalog — four! It takes, he said, a certain amount of crazy to do this, and that’s ok.
The Houston native and TCU alum took three years to audition for Hamilton and is now in his fifth year with the show. But the experience still feels as fresh as day one though. “This is my first big job and the biggest show to be in,” he said. “There is lots of work that goes into the choreography and staging and singing, and then, to join a show that was already in motion — it was like double-dutching in.
And that was a lot of pressure.” The Broadway musical phenomenon Hamilton exploded on the Winspear Opera House stage last week to roaring applause and standing ovations.
