Mandy Gonzalez (Episode 88)

Theater People

Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

Tony Awards, Nyc, Musicals, Actors, Creative, Arts, Plays, Writers, Broadway, Theater, Society & Culture, Interview, Comedy, Producers, Performing Arts

4.8 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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WE"RE OBSESSED! We had the MOST fun hanging out with Mandy Gonzalez in her dressing room backstage at the Richard Rodgers Theater before a performance of "Hamilton." It had been less than two weeks since she'd taken over the role of Angelica, and she still hadn't completely moved in!Mandy made her Broadway debut in 2000 in "Aida" as the Amnneris standby-she eventually took the role over full time. She went on to originate roles in "The Dance of the Vampires" and "Lennon" before winning her br...

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0:00.0	Hey, theater people, Patrick here with a pretty big announcement. I am just over the moon to tell you that I have partnered with Today Ticks on a brand new podcast called Broadway Backstory, which premieres on Tuesday, November 15th. I've even made a little promo for the new podcast, and I'm going to play it for you now.
0:24.1	My name is Patrick Hines. I'm the creator and host of the Theater People podcast, and I'm so
0:29.2	excited to announce that I have partnered with Today Ticks on a brand new podcast called Broadway
0:34.0	Backstory, which premieres on Tuesday, November 15th.
0:42.9	Each episode of Broadway backstory finds out how a show went from an idea to a full Broadway production.
0:43.9	And the most exciting part is that we get the story from the people who lived it.
0:47.7	The conceivers, actors, directors, composers, designers, producers, even the theater owners.
0:54.0	They've all shared their amazing stories
0:55.8	with us so that we can share them with you. Our first two episodes tell the unbelievable true
1:01.1	backstory of the groundbreaking Tony Award winning in The Heights. Here's the show's creator and star
1:06.9	Lynn Manuel Miranda. In The Heights was not just figuring out the story of In The Heights.
1:11.6	It was figuring out who the hell I was and what story I wanted to tell. And the show's director,
1:16.4	Tommy Cale. What I knew how to do was creates structure. And I knew how to say, let's look at these
1:23.0	20 minutes of the show. And let's pull it apart and put it back together and push this thing forward.
1:28.3	But I didn't know producers.
1:29.6	The five other shows we've picked to cover in our first season include Fun Home, the 25th annual
1:34.3	Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Secret Garden, Legally Blonde, and Title of Show.
1:39.3	In getting the backstories of these shows, we've talked to over 65 people, people like Lisa Croone and Janine Tesori, the Tony Award-winning composing team of Fun Home.
1:48.0	And I loved writing for a person who has not really been seen in musical theater,
1:56.7	you know, in shows where everybody is treated equally and people get made fun of and all that,
2:02.2	it's not been true for gay women.
2:05.5	Daisy Egan, who won a Tony Award when she was 11 for originating the role of Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden.
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