#467: Vanessa Magula // Hamilton's Philip Tour // Part Two
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In her second episode, Vanessa Magula talks about what it was like to join the Philip tour as a Hamilton superfan, including learning harmonies she didn't know existed and doing her best *not* to sing Burr's part in Non-Stop.
But now she's in Hamilton and as a friend told Vanessa: time to dream a new dream. She booked her dream job, and now she's gotta figure out how to live it in a healthy and fulfilling way. From imposter syndrome, to having to learn the show, to giving herself grace, and the added stress of coming out of lockdown? Yeah, there was a lot to navigate.
Vanessa's episodes are total lovefests, but that doesn't mean we can't pay tribute to the biggest hater of them all: Kendrick Lamar. And we do! Oh, and quick reminder that you can be a hater without being a bully. FYI.
Mermaid (Brittany Campbell and Candace Quarrels have a band! Get into it!)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast. |
| 0:05.2 | Boots and cuts and boots and cuts. |
| 0:07.1 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey friends, I'm Jillian, and welcome back to the Hamilcast. |
| 0:20.6 | Vanessa Magula has been with Hamilton for three years. She's the standby for all three Skyler sisters on them. Hey friends, I'm Jillian and welcome back to the Hamillcast. |
| 0:22.9 | Vanessa Magula has been with Hamilton for three years. |
| 0:25.5 | She's the standby for all three Skyler sisters on the Philip tour. |
| 0:26.8 | Her story's amazing. |
| 0:33.4 | Vanessa is a self-described theater kid and became a Hamilton super fan when she saw the original company on Broadway in September of 2015. |
| 0:34.9 | The album wasn't even out yet. |
| 0:38.3 | Ever since she was a kid, she was performing on the side, as she puts it. There was no pressure, she was having a great time, and she was really good at it. |
| 0:41.3 | But her love of theater seeped into everything she did, like how Deaf West Spring Awakening single-handedly inspired her to minor in disability studies. |
| 0:48.3 | When she auditioned for Hamilton in 2016 in LA. It changed everything. She didn't book it, but she did get a literal golden ticket for a |
| 0:55.0 | callback, and she realized that no matter what, this is what she wanted to do. She quit her 9-5 |
| 0:59.4 | health care job, moved across the country to New York City, and in between yearly Hamilton |
| 1:03.3 | auditions, Vanessa Thrive, doing improv. Oh, and she actually ended up collecting yonder |
| 1:07.3 | pouches during Freestyle Love Supreme's Broadway run. She probably met so many of us, |
| 1:10.9 | and none of us had any idea. The world is crazy. So anyway, this week, Vanessa talks about booking her |
| 1:15.7 | absolute dream job, Hamilton, and navigating what that actually means, especially after coming out |
| 1:20.5 | a lockdown. So here we go. Here's episode two with the insanely fun and warm and candid Vanessa Magula. |
| 1:35.3 | Were you one of those people where, because Kurt Crowley has talked about this, |
| 1:39.9 | where he's like, yeah, like once they got to the point where like, oh, really lovely people who are super fans of the show are now being cast in it and like how fun and amazing and wild and |
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