Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
#1Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 9:13am
She will succeed Renee Goldsberry as Angelica in October. Josh Henry will play Burr in Chicago.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-News-Joshua-Henry-Mandy-Gonzalez-Jonathan-Kirkland-Will-Join-HAMILTON-in-Chicago-and-Broadway-20160801
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#2Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 9:14am
The fact that Olivo and Gonzalez are both playing Angelica brings me SO much joy. Henry's Burr will be inspired.
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#3Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 9:14am
Truly excellent casting. Plus, it's Mandy back on stage!
#4Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 9:16am
AHMAZING NEWS!
I literally was thinking about Mandy playing Angelica yesterday, but thought she might be too nice for the role, but I'm sure she's gonna kill it, after all, Renee is not really mean, she's just assertive.
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#5Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 9:21amExciting! Glad they chose Mandy for Angelica instead of Eliza, I think her mature look fits Angelica much better.
#7Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 9:37am
This is great news! I'm looking forward to seeing Mandy as "Angelica". She's going to be great.
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Broadway Star Joined: 12/23/15
#8Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 9:52am
OMG YASSSSSSSs
I would love for her to play Eliza (someday) though. Her "Burn" would be eargasmic
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/2/14
#9Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 10:03am
As much as I love Mandy (she's totes perfect for Angelica) but I think she's aged out of Eliza. Otherwise I feel like they would have casted her as Eliza.
#10Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 10:07am
Funnily enough, she was the first ever Maria Reynolds! Really excited to see what she'll do with Angelica, though. I believe Nina and Angelica are more similar than you'd think at first glance.
They/them.
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#11Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 10:12am
Honestly regardless of age I would have loved to seen Karen as Angelica and Mandy as Eliza. That would have been thrilling for sure. Oh well.
HBP
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/05
#12Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 10:51am
YES!!! I'm seeing it October 13 - hopefully Mandy is in by then!
#13Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 12:15pm
How wonderful! She is going to be just great. I would still love to see her play Eliza at some point, she can bring that combination of tenderness and spunk that made her performance as Nina so winning. But this role does seem more challenging and different for her, a great replacement for the brilliant Renee Elise Goldsberry.
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#14Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 12:20pm
I was just listening to In the Heights this morning, and I thought she'd make a wonderful Angelica, and low and behold this new casting was announced a couple of hours later!
Hey Dottie!
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#15Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 12:22pm
@ Dottie: I had the IN THE HEIGHTS OBC on repeat (almost) all weekend long. I miss that show so much.
#16Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 12:34pm
I forgot how much I liked the score to that show.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
#17Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 12:37pm
DottieD'Luscia said: "I forgot how much I liked the score to that show.
It's a great score...very much a great representation of my people and my culture. Not a hybrid latin score as interpreted by a non-latino composer...but a true score that has the pulse, beat and flavor of the nyc i grew up in written by a latino composer who did so as well.
#18Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 12:55pm
Excellent casting. Her Satisfied will be sublime (and probably so different from Renee).
I love that there's been so much LMM-show casts overlapping. Keep em coming!
#19Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 1:01pm
I only wish there was a number involving Washington and Angelica so that Mandy Gonzalez and Christopher Jackson could get to sing together again. But how great that they'll be together in another Lin-Manuel Miranda show.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#20Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 2:01pm
CarlosAlberto said: "@ Dottie: I had the IN THE HEIGHTS OBC on repeat (almost) all weekend long. I miss that show so much.
i never made the effort to go and see it (along with so many other shows that closed) but "In the Heights" has been my recent treadmill workout music. I'm thrilled to have Mandy Gonzalez in the Broadway production. I rally want to see Karen in Chicago and Josh Henry!
#21Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 2:07pm
MyFavoriteBrunette said: "CarlosAlberto said: "@ Dottie: I had the IN THE HEIGHTS OBC on repeat (almost) all weekend long. I miss that show so much.
i never made the effort to go and see it (along with so many other shows that closed) but "In the Heights" has been my recent treadmill workout music. I'm thrilled to have Mandy Gonzalez in the Broadway production. I rally want to see Karen in Chicago and Josh Henry!
I really want to go to Chicago and see that production as well. HEIGHTS is a great OBC too do a workout with. I don't usually work out to show tunes or OBC's but that show's more energetic numbers lend themselves for perfect workout music.
#22Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 2:10pm
CarlosAlberto said: It's a great score...very much a great representation of my people and my culture. Not a hybrid latin score as interpreted by a non-latino composer...but a true score that has the pulse, beat and flavor of the nyc i grew up in written by a latino composer who did so as well.
One of my favorite sounds when I workout while listening to the cast recording is that tiny occasional nuance of bachata to tie in with the neighborhood. It's just a touch and enough not to make you feel like you're in the neighborhood hookah lounge. The music is brilliant and I concur with what you wrote, a great representation of our people and culture.
#23Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/1/16 at 2:17pm
CarlosAlberto said: I really want to go to Chicago and see that production as well. HEIGHTS is a great OBC too do a workout with. I don't usually work out to show tunes or OBC's but that show's more energetic numbers lend themselves for perfect workout music.
¡Ay! GO!!!!! I have to or I will kick myself if I don't!
I usually listen to house music to workout with but to switch it up and turned to musicals. I was really surprised to find myself enjoying a run to them!
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#24Mandy Gonzalez to Join HAMILTON on Broadway
Posted: 8/2/16 at 2:03am
ray-andallthatjazz86 said: "I only wish there was a number involving Washington and Angelica so that Mandy Gonzalez and Christopher Jackson could get to sing together again. But how great that they'll be together in another Lin-Manuel Miranda show."
Angelica and Washington dance together during A Winter's Ball. Not nearly as good as getting a song with those two, but I'm definitely looking out for that moment!
