#444: Jisel Soleil Ayon // The Schuyler Sisters on Hamilton's Philip Tour // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jisel Soleil Ayon (Hamilton's Philip Tour) is here for two fun, authentic, and very honest episodes.
Jisel grew up watching old musicals and performing as a kid but then she hit college where they do the ridiculous thing of making teenagers pick a major?! Insanity!
While Jisel loved performing, she also wanted a job where she could make a living, so she took her passion for American Sign Language and studied speech pathology and speech therapy. During her second semester, she was cast as Daniela in In the Heights and everything changed. She switched schools, focused on performing, and her career has been thriving since she graduated.
Jisel speaks very candidly about her initial apprehension towards Hamilton, her unexpected casting as a standby for the Schuyler sisters, and how being on tour as an offstage cover can actually be very lonely, especially for a self described "extroverted extrovert."
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Boots and cuts. |
| 0:06.4 | Boots and cuts. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm going to. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Hamelcast. I am Jillian. And today I am joined by the lovely |
| 0:22.9 | Giselle Soleil I own. Hey, Giselle. Hey, hi there. How are you? I'm doing good. I'm here with |
| 0:29.5 | my cat in Salt Lake City. We're performing at the Eccles at the very moment that we're recording. |
| 0:35.2 | So I'm doing great. Salt Lake City is sort of feels like one of |
| 0:40.1 | my homes. So it's nice to be here. Oh, wonderful. Okay. I want to learn all about your cat, |
| 0:44.8 | but first, can you tell us your pronouns, please? Absolutely. My pronouns are she, her. Great. Thank you. |
| 0:49.9 | What's your cat's name? Figaro and he's's a tour kitty, and I got him on tour. |
| 0:55.8 | He's a rescue. |
| 0:57.6 | We found him. |
| 0:58.7 | The venue people in San Antonio found him outside at the front of the theater. |
| 1:04.1 | They brought him back to the stage door. |
| 1:07.6 | And as everybody was coming in, we were all saying hi to this little kitty. |
| 1:10.5 | But then they had to go in and get ready for the show. And I was not in the show that night, as I am not in the show most nights. And the security people let him kind of just let me sneak him in to take care of him while we figured out what was going to happen with him. And some cast members were debating whether they wanted to keep him. Some crew members were debating and I was debating. I was like, I don't need a cat. I'm |
| 1:31.7 | going to keep him. I'm going to keep him. And then I decided to keep him and now he's mine. |
| 1:37.4 | Cute. Oh, we love him. Hi, Figaro. Welcome. Yeah, he's so cute. He might try and disturb and make some noise, but we'll see. |
| 1:45.1 | He was up behind you before on a ledge or something at first. I was like, who is that gorgeous? |
| 1:50.1 | He's very striking. Yeah, he's a pretty little kitty. |
| 1:52.7 | Okay, so you are on the Philip tour right now. You are standby for the Skyler sisters. |
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