#461: Jennifer Geller // Hamilton on Broadway // Part Two

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In Jennifer Geller's second episode, she talks about how heartbroken she was not to book Hamilton Chicago after being personally invited to audition by Andy Blankenbuehler. But when she eventually booked Hamilton's first national tour, Andy reminded her it was all about trusting the process. Easier said than done, but a good lesson nonetheless.

Jennifer also goes in on how the the ensemble is an extension of Burr's mind, especially during "The Room Where it Happens" (it's fascinating, you have to hear this) and explains how Hamilton's purposeful choreography and storytelling spoils performers forever.

Plus, we talk about Hamilton coming back to Broadway after the COVID-19 lockdown and how we both used to be insufferable nightmares who didn't have any work/life balance but we've both moved on from that nonsense and have changed for the better (thank god).

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.
0:05.1	Boots and cuts and poots and cuts.
0:07.1	Hi, friends, I'm Jillian, and welcome back to the Hamillcast.
0:20.6	This is my second episode with Hamilton
0:22.1	Broadway's Jennifer Geller. Jennifer's been with Hamilton since 2017, but she first met most of the
0:26.8	creatives back in 2013 when she booked the tour from Bring It On. We jumped around a lot last week.
0:32.0	We talked about our rescue dogs, Fiona and Olive. We gushed over our mutual admiration for physical
0:36.5	therapists. We compared deviated
0:38.0	septims. Like, we were all over the place. But in terms of a career, Jennifer told us about how a week
0:42.8	into college, she started auditioning for Bring It On, and before she knew it, her 19-year-old self
0:46.7	was on tour in North America and Japan. Lots of talk of Japan last week, too. I want to go so bad. After the highest high of doing a show she loves, being with her amazing cast, spending time
0:56.7	in such a stunning location, she came home and experienced what her dad called situational
1:00.6	depression.
1:01.4	Now what, right?
1:02.6	Plus, her college was going to make her start over as a freshman because of all the time
1:05.7	she missed.
1:06.3	It was a bummer.
1:07.0	But her mom had an idea.
1:08.6	Move to New York.
1:09.5	School will always be there for you.
1:11.2	So that's what she did.
1:12.2	And that's where we're picking up.
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