#466: Vanessa Magula // Hamilton's Philip Tour // Part One

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Vanessa Magula went from being a Hamilton superfan studying pre-health at UCLA to being cast as the standby for all three Schuyler sisters on the Philip tour. No, for real. Vanessa has always been a self-described theatre kid, evidenced by the fact that Deaf West's Spring Awakening is what inspired her to minor in Disability Studies, but it took her a while to take the leap and be a full time performer. After going to an open call for Hamilton in 2016 and being given a literal golden ticket for a callback, everything changed as Vanessa realized that - whether she booked Hamilton or not - this is what she wanted to do.

In between yearly Hamilton auditions, Vanessa thrived in the New York City improv comedy scene and even ended up collecting Yondr pouches during Freestyle Love Supreme's Broadway run.

Come join our instant bff vibes as we talk about our love of Hamilton (Vanessa saw it in September of 2015 hello!), Anessa Folds, Utkarsh Ambudkar (UTK), Lin's Warriors, and tons of other stuff.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast.
0:05.3	Boots and cuts.
0:06.7	Boots and cuts.
0:07.5	Goose and cuts.
0:07.6	Ha ha ha ha.
0:23.4	Hey, everyone. I'm Jillian. I'm already having way too much fun.
0:30.3	I am joined by my new best friend Vanessa Magula. Hi, Vanessa. Hi. How's it going? I'm good. How are you?
0:36.7	I'm really great. We have the giggles a little bit already. We do. And that's a good vibe, I feel. You know, on this Monday, I'm just, I'm good. Let's do this with my two glasses, enormous glasses of ice water. Let's just get silly. Yeah. You'll be shocked. It's raining in Seattle. Who knew? What?
0:51.4	So yeah, ready to gab. To gab. I love Seattle.
0:55.2	The thing that Seattle does, I've only been there a few times when I was on tour with my other podcast to come obsessed.
1:00.4	Here's the thing about Seattle.
1:01.2	Seattle always comes through with the grungy 1994 weather whenever I'm in town.
1:05.8	Oh, fully.
1:06.2	So you could hear Eddie Vedder's voice in the wind like heaven on on earth. It's always like 50 degrees in raining.
1:11.8	And I'm like, thanks, girl.
1:13.6	Love it.
1:14.2	That's my weather.
1:14.9	That's the thing.
1:16.5	Like, I always run very hot.
1:19.0	So I think like, oh, it's raining.
1:20.3	Let me put on a jacket.
1:21.3	And then I'm sweating the second I step outside.
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