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Anthony Ramos

SITTING STILL DOESN’T COME EASY TO ANTHONY Ramos. The performer has spent his 29 years in constant motion: scrounging for dollar slices while living in Brooklyn as a kid, schlepping across America on musical-theater tours, staying up all night writing songs after eight-a-week Hamilton performances. “That’s always where my head’s at: think fast, make moves, bop bop bop bop bop,” Ramos says over a Zoom call in May.

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