#460: Jennifer Geller // Hamilton on Broadway // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
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🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Jennifer Geller has been in the ensemble of Hamilton since 2017 on the first national tour and she is currently on Broadway. In her first episode Jennifer talks about her fantastic experience with Bring It On and how amazing it was to tour North America and Japan doing a show she loves so much. Bring It On would eventually lead to an invitation to audition for Hamilton, but we have a lot of ground to cover before we get there including rescue dogs, deviated septums, physical therapists, and why you just gotta be nice!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Boots and cuts. |
| 0:06.8 | So, boots and cuts. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm going to. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Hamelcast. I'm Jillian. And today I am joined finally by Jennifer Geller. |
| 0:25.3 | Woo! |
| 0:27.1 | Yes. Be your own hype person a la Jennifer Geller. |
| 0:31.2 | Yes. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:33.2 | Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. |
| 0:36.2 | Me too. Before we do anything else, though, can you please let the listeners know your pronouns? |
| 0:40.3 | My pronouns are, she, her. Great. Thank you. Jennifer, you've been with Hamilton since 2017? |
| 0:46.4 | Yes, January 17, yeah. First national tour. You're currently on Broadway. You made your national tour debut and Bring It On. So we have the whole Bring It On. Oh my gosh. Yeah. 2013 we started rehearsal for that. Oh my God. I can't wait to dive into all of it. Brooke Windham and Legally Blonde. I've seen all those videos, Rock of Ages, Saturday Night Fever. You're also a certified personal trainer and you have a business doing all of this while you're in Hamilton on Broadway. So we will talk about all of it. |
| 1:15.1 | And I definitely want to hear all the ins and outs of the curb your enthusiasm episode because you were in the episode where Larry David falls asleep and Michael Loyah yells at him. And it's |
| 1:20.6 | hilarious. So fun. All right, Jennifer. So let's dive in. Like this is your show, as you said before. |
| 1:26.3 | Because I was like, do we have a hard out? You were like, nope, the world is our oyster. Fantastic. I got all day. So where do you want to |
| 1:32.2 | start? Like, tell me your life story. How did you get to be here today? Yeah. I honestly, |
| 1:38.1 | bring it on is my connection to Hamilton. And that story is kind of crazy. So I was in college in Philadelphia at the University of the Arts. |
| 1:48.8 | We started class on September 4th, 2013, and exactly a week later, we started class on a Wednesday. |
| 1:58.3 | The following Wednesday, I got a call, well, before that, |
| 2:01.8 | I had gotten a call for my mom saying that my sister, so my family's in Georgia, my sister was |
| 2:06.2 | flying up to New York to audition for Bring It on the Musical. And my mom's like, do you want to go |
| 2:10.2 | with her? You should meet her up in New York. And I said, Mom, I can miss class already. And she's like, oh, come on, it'll be fun. |
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