#432: Cherry Torres // Hamilton on Broadway // Part Two
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Cherry Torres (currently Hamilton on Broadway, previously the Angelica Tour) is back for round two! After four years traveling the world on cruise ships, Cherry was ready to plant her roots and move her career to dry land.
Rock of Ages led to Cherry's Hamilton process, which continued as she performed her dream role of Nina in In the Heights and booking a gig for Disney. From auditioning for Hamilton Puerto Rico to eventually going on tour with the show, Cherry explains how her life led her to an absolute rollercoaster of emotions: pure elation, an unbelievable amount of grief, completely understandable anger, and what it's like to work through it all. Hint: women friendships are so special and valuable! Girlhood is alive and well and we love it!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast. |
| 0:05.6 | Butts and cuts and poops and... Hello friends and welcome back to the Hamel cast. My name is Jillian and this is my second episode with Cherry Torres. |
| 0:23.0 | Cherry is currently an ensemble member in the Broadway production of Hamilton covering all three |
| 0:26.8 | Skyler sisters and she was previously on the Angelica tour. |
| 0:29.0 | Cherry is originally from San Juan Puerto Rico and moved to Florida when she was about |
| 0:32.4 | 12 years old. |
| 0:33.4 | Her mom is a singer and her dad is a sound engineer and she taken a few dance classes. |
| 0:37.1 | But Cherry wasn't really drawn to music until a random brochure for a magnet program walked into her life |
| 0:41.9 | as they say. |
| 0:42.6 | After falling in love with the entire process of that first production of South Pacific, |
| 0:46.0 | she was hooked. |
| 0:47.0 | She went to Berkeley College of Music in Boston and was super grateful for her time there. |
| 0:50.8 | Cherry's first professional gigs were mostly cruise ships and |
| 0:53.4 | while she had a blast sailing off to London and then heading to the Caribbean |
| 0:56.4 | where she could see her family every Sunday in Puerto Rico, she was ready to |
| 0:59.7 | plant some roots. And that's where we're picking up today. Cherry's back in New York City, |
| 1:03.4 | trying to figure out the next step in her career. Here's part two with the wonderful Cherry Torres. 10 months to a year I can't quite remember the chunk of time that happened |
| 1:18.9 | where I was just like working I what you know any kind of large transition like that. I remember calling my dad crying and |
| 1:26.4 | be like, it's a lot, this is a lot, because I was working and babysitting and auditioning, |
| 1:31.4 | working and babysitting and auditioning and |
| 1:33.2 | it got it was a lot it was a lot it was a lot it was a lot of my mental health |
| 1:38.4 | I was like maybe I'm not cut out for this like you know and a lot of it was I hadn't auditioned for a while. |
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