Encounters: How a 'Hamilton' Super Fan Got Cast in the Broadway Show
He grew up watching Michael Jackson videos in Athens, Tex. Now J. Quinton Johnson is rapping in Broadway's hottest production, asked to audition before he'd seen it.
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