#420: Zach Bravo // Swing on the Philip Tour // Part Three

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week wraps up my chat with Zach Bravo, a swing on Hamilton’s Philip Tour. He talks about his experience as Rum Tum Tugger on the 40th Anniversary Tour of Cats and he candidly discusses his mental health. Zach is also taking questions from the Patreon Peeps talking about dream roles and superheroes, and Zach leaves us with some very, very inspirational final words.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.
0:05.2	Boots and cuts and boots and... Hey friends I'm Jillian and welcome back to the Hamelcast. You're listening to my third episode with
0:22.7	Zach Bravo. He's a swing on the Philip tour. We've learned a lot about Zach so
0:26.3	far. He's a Puerto Rican only child from Queens born during Scorpio
0:29.7	season who can quote Austin Powers with the best of him. And that was just in like the first five minutes of his first episode.
0:35.1	Zaka always loved acting out his favorite movies and TV shows and he says that's how he
0:38.7	honed his raw talent by performing what he thought was funny but then he tagged
0:42.2	along to his cousin Amanda's dance class,
0:44.1	and that changed everything.
0:45.6	His mom was super supportive,
0:47.0	and it didn't take long before Zach was cast
0:48.7	in the local junior shows.
0:50.1	By the time he was Jeannie and Aladdin Jr.
0:51.9	He knew this was it.
0:53.0	This is what he wanted to do.
0:54.5	So you can imagine how exciting it was for Zach to go to the famous LaGuardia High School of
0:58.1	Performing Arts in New York City.
0:59.6	And that's where he has his major aha moment on stages
1:03.2	Kinniki performing Greece lightning.
1:05.1	I'm not even going to attempt to describe it.
1:06.5	You really just need to hear Zach explain it.
1:08.2	Seriously, it's awesome.
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