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🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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And Peggy tour's Angelica, Marja Harmon, visits The Hamilcast and shares how a chance encounter with a waiter while touring colleges helped her book her first professional gig, leading her from a life in Indiana to starring in shows on Broadway, how she booked Hamilton, and more.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage and Stages, Lin-Manual Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilkast. |
0:05.1 | Bootsing, cuts and buzzing! |
0:18.6 | Hello everyone, welcome back to The Hamilkast, I'm Jillian, and today I am joined by |
0:24.5 | Marja Harmon. Hi! Hello! How are you? |
0:27.8 | I'm doing really, really well. I'm back in the show. I was out for 10 days because I got COVID. |
0:35.4 | Oh, boy. Yes, last night was my first night back in. |
0:39.6 | Oh, well congrats. Thank you, thank you. Before we continue, can you tell everyone your pronouns, |
0:43.6 | please? Uh, she or hers. Great. Thank you. So Marja, you are the current Angelica Skylar |
0:49.9 | on the N Peggy tour in Hamilkast. Yes. You're in Canada at the moment. |
0:53.7 | Yes, we've been in Canada all summer. In fact, we've done Vancouver, Edmonton, and now Calgary |
1:01.9 | before we head back to Seattle at the end of the month, so. Oh, I was just in Seattle on tour with |
1:08.2 | my other podcast True Crime Obsess, and it was my first time there, and I fell in love with Seattle. |
1:13.3 | I've never been, which is crazy, but I'm very, very excited. We were there in May, and Seattle |
1:20.4 | welcomed me. It was just like dreary and rainy and chilly, which is like my favorite type of thing. |
1:25.2 | I'm moody. Like just, yes. I was just like all the Pearl Jam and like Nirvana. I was very like |
1:31.0 | in my element in Seattle. So it was great. But before Hamilton, you may have also seen Marja in |
1:37.6 | on Broadway in the Book of Mormon, Kat on a Hot 10 Roof. New York City Center is merely |
1:42.0 | we roll along. You were also Nala in the National Tour of the Lion King and like so many other |
1:46.6 | productions. I eat a ragtime hairspray dream girl's grease. Oh, and you were also in the Puerto Rico |
1:53.2 | performances too. Oh, yes. I mean, that was crazy. Yeah. That was so great. Yeah. So I want to hear |
2:00.0 | your entire life story. And I want you to really take your time with this. Like this is my whole |
2:05.9 | day, so don't spare any detail. Let's really get into it. Well, I'm originally from Southern Indiana, |
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