#355: Ava Brennan // Angelica Schuyler in the West End // Part One

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ava Brennan played Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton at the Victoria Palace theater in London for a year, until August 2021. In her first solo episode (she was also featured in the London eps), Ava tells me about how she traveled the world playing characters she loves and how she eventually made her way to her West End debut as Nana in The Lion King. We also discuss Ava's performance in Top Boy on Netflix and discover of a mutual love for otters.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stage and Stage's Lin-Manual Miranda and you're listening to The Hamilkast.
0:05.1	Bootsing, cut-sum-pussing.
0:18.2	Hello everyone, welcome back to The Hamilkast. I'm Jillian and I am here with Ava Brennan. Hi Ava.
0:25.1	Hi Jillian, how are you? I'm wonderful. How are you doing?
0:28.6	Yeah, I'm really good. Thank you. Really, really good. Happy to be here.
0:31.3	Oh, Fenta, I'm happy you came back. So before we go any further, can you just tell me your
0:35.2	pronouns please? Yes, hey, she. Great. Thank you. Yes.
0:39.9	Yeah, so everyone, you know Ava from the London episodes that I did when Mike and I went over there,
0:45.9	but thank you for coming back to do your own little solo deep dive. I appreciate that very much.
0:53.1	Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm so excited. I want to know all the questions.
0:56.5	I'm intrigued. Yes, I have, I have some, the Patreon Peeps have some that we'll get to in a little bit,
1:03.5	but just a little bit about you. You were Angelica in the West End, Nala in the Lion King.
1:08.8	You were in the German company, which I definitely want to ask you all about.
1:12.7	The Tina Turner musical and you're currently Fontine in Les Mis, you're in Top Boy on Netflix,
1:18.8	Beauty and the Beast and Rocket Man and like, you're just all over the place Ava,
1:22.8	so thanks. Even more for being here. I know you're incredibly busy.
1:26.1	No, it's, it's all good. I've got loads of time, loads of time for Hello Kess.
1:30.3	Thank you very much. So I want to hear everything about you, like your life story,
1:33.6	which will lead into your Hamilton story, but since I have time and you have time,
1:38.0	like don't skimp on any details. Really? Oh my god. Yeah. Should we get into it?
1:42.4	Yes. Totally get into it. The floor is yours. The mic is yours.
1:45.8	Okay. Yeah. I don't know how excited this would be. This is a few little, yeah.
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