Paul Tazewell
speaker
386 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 7 Jun
Paul Tazewell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
History reimagined in real time.
I designed period silhouettes, yes, but with restraint.
Neutral tones on much of the ensemble while allowing their skin to show through and the power of their voice to ring true in center stage.
And then, in contrast, King George III appears in full regalia, bewigged, jeweled, painted in perfect detail from his portraitist.
He is the old world, they are the new.
That visual duality, modern bodies in period shape versus one man preserved in all his pomp, is what makes...
the story of democracy unfolding so compelling.
It takes the historically familiar to frame a modern perception of how our nation was formed.
And suddenly, there's Thomas Jefferson.
Tommy Kail, our director, and I decided, let's make him a rock star.
So on stretched Jefferson, in flamboyant purple, modeled after a pop icon.
Not by chance.
That was a statement.
It was history isn't dry or static.
It's alive.
It's charismatic.
It's complicated.
Even in subtle contrast, like Hamilton's vibrant green suits versus Burr's muted raisin palette, I was planting seeds, setting up a visual duel, until finally, at the end, the two men stand together, both in black capes,
equal in power, equal in tragedy, balanced, not in life, but in history's memory.
The costumes weren't decoration, they were commentary, a way to ask, whose history is this and who gets to own it?
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