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Michael Luwoye: Once a theater outsider, now he's Alexander Hamilton — in L.A., and soon on Broadway

LOS ANGELES - Click. Click. Click.

The sound comes from deep inside Michael Luwoye's mouth, near the back of his tongue. It's not intentional. The "Hamilton" star clicks when he's trying to order his thoughts, place objects spatially or respond to somebody who says something profound.

"It's like a period or some sort of punctuation mark," he explains, adding a click at the end of the sentence for emphasis. "I don't know what it is. It just happens."

He's sitting poolside in a shaded cabana on the roof of his Hollywood home, a 22-story luxury apartment building with a sweeping view of the city, including the iconic needle at the top of Capitol Records and, if you look

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