#357: Ashley LaLonde // Swing and Understudy on The Philip Tour // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
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🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Ashley LaLonde covers all three Schuyler Sisters, Maria Reynolds, and Woman 5 on the Philip Tour. Ashley’s Hamilton story is a total full circle moment with so many incredible stops along the way. As a born and raised New Yorker, Ashley saw and fell in love with Hamilton at The Public (thanks to Lin’s orthodontist, of all people!). She began singing Hamilton songs in her high school a cappella group and was determined to be in the show. Before being cast in Hamilton, Ashley did a quick stint at Harvard where she made history as the first woman to be cast (as the lead!) in a Hasty Pudding show.
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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, Kutsing, Bootsing, Bootsing! |
| 0:18.3 | Hello everyone, welcome back. To The Hamilkast, I'm Jillian, and today I'm here with Ashley Lelont. |
| 0:23.7 | Hi Ashley! Hello Jillian! Thank you so much for having me, I'm really excited to chat. |
| 0:28.8 | Oh my, thanks for being here, that was so kind of you. Before we do anything else, can you please |
| 0:34.3 | tell me and the listeners your pronouns? Absolutely, I take she-her. Great, thank you so much. So, |
| 0:39.2 | Ashley, you are on the Philip tour? You're a swing and you understudy all three Skylar sisters? |
| 0:44.0 | Yes, I do! Yes, I am the swing sister here at the Philip tour, which has been a whole journey. |
| 0:50.3 | I actually just debuted all four of my tracks, so I feel very relieved and excited, like, okay, I got |
| 0:57.3 | all of them in the bag, did Angelica first, then Eliza, then Peggy Mariah, and then Woman 5, which |
| 1:02.4 | was my last one. Amazing. She is the least dance-heavy track, so she dances, she's in the ensemble, |
| 1:09.1 | but she is probably the one that sometimes she's in the surround with the sisters, or, you know, |
| 1:14.8 | she does a little less footwork, she's not doing the lifts, she's certainly not the bullet, |
| 1:19.5 | but she is an ensemble dancer. You're not the dead mother track. Yes, not the dead mother track. |
| 1:25.5 | All right, great. So, this is like, you have such an amazing history. You're a born and raised in |
| 1:30.2 | New Yorker, as am I. I love that. Your credits, you know, other than Hamilton, punk rock girl, next to |
| 1:34.8 | normal, Chicago, the Laramie project, a reading of Alice's Wonderland, directed by the one and only |
| 1:39.6 | Steph Klem. We love Steph. Yes, while at Harvard, you were one of the first women to perform with |
| 1:45.6 | Hasty putting, and the first ever black woman, and you played the lead. So, we're going to get into |
| 1:53.0 | so much of that. I'm sure the listeners, I had a friend who went to Harvard, so I'm familiar |
| 1:57.3 | with Hasty putting, but I'm sure people are like, the Hasty what? The what? What is that? Hold |
| 2:02.1 | I'm into all of that. And yeah, you know, like I want to hear everything about you, your whole |
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