Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast.

Boots and cuts.

Boots and cuts.

I'm Jillian and this is my second episode with Giselle Soleil I own.

Giselle comes from a pretty musical family and she grew up watching The Sound of Music,

Mary Poppins, Hello Dolly, the classics.

She loved performing as a kid and then she had college where they do that ridiculous thing

where they make 18-year-olds pick a major.

We talked a lot about this last week and how unfair it is. There's way too much pressure, and then you might end up stuck doing something you don't

actually love because you didn't think you could change your mind. It's all a lot. And while Giselle

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 Danielle and in the Heights, and everything changed.

She switched schools, focused on performing, and since graduation, her career has been off and running.

Last week, Giselle opened up about how being on tour with Hamilton has actually been pretty lonely.

It's hard coming in as a replacement.

Plus, this is her first time being an offstage track, which is inherently isolating. It's the nature of this particular gig, but it's still something to manage when it comes

to our mental health, especially as a self-described extrovert and extrovert.

So this week, we're taking an even deeper dive into Giselle's life experience, and I gotta say,

I'm so grateful for her honesty and generosity during this conversation.

So here you go, here's part two with the fantastic

Giselle Saleh I own.

Giselle, I know you don't have a ton of time left. So I was wondering if you would be so

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