{"id":12604,"date":"2017-02-02T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T03:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=12604"},"modified":"2017-02-01T11:33:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T03:33:23","slug":"rachelle-ann-go-nailed-a-role-in-hit-musical-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/rachelle-ann-go-nailed-a-role-in-hit-musical-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachelle Ann Go nailed a role in Hit Musical \u2018Hamilton\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Filipina actress and singer Rachelle Ann Go joins the cast of the upcoming West End run of hip hop musical Hamilton. She is set to play Elizabeth \u201cEliza\u201d Schuyler Hamilton, wife of Alexander.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The announcement was made late this week by Broadway.com and Broadwayworld.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12606\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/hamiltoncast.jpg\" alt=\"hamiltoncast\" width=\"635\" height=\"421\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Rachelle Ann Go posted a photo of her with Lin Manuel-Miranda, the author, librettist, composer, and star of &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; on her Instagram page.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In an interview with British media, Go said that she auditioned for &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; while she was in New York preparing to reprise her &#8220;Miss Saigon&#8221; role for Broadway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8220;I was sick that day \u2014 and even now I don\u2019t know how I managed to find my singing voice. I thought that would be the last time I\u2019d see Lin-Manuel \u2014 and anyone else connected to &#8216;Hamilton.&#8217; So you can imagine how I cried when they rang and told me I was going to play Eliza,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Go will be joined by another Filipina, Christine Allado, who will portray Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the musical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12605\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/hamilton.jpg\" alt=\"hamilton\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/hamilton.jpg 640w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/hamilton-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Image grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interaksyon.com\/entertainment\/rachelle-ann-go-joins-london-cast-of-hit-musical-hamilton\/\" target=\"_blank\">interaksyon<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Rachelle was also cast for the West End revival of \u201cMiss Saigon,\u201d in the role of bar girl Gigi Van Tranh in 2014. Following this, she was then cast in the role of Fantine for the 30th anniversary of another Cameron Mackintosh-produced musical, \u201cLes Miserables,\u201d which also toured several countries including the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/entertainment\/gma\/articles\/2017-01-28\/28374\/Rachelle-Ann-Go-scores-role-in-West-End-production-of-Hamilton#sthash.mx44SG6A.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">gmanetwork<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interaksyon.com\/entertainment\/rachelle-ann-go-joins-london-cast-of-hit-musical-hamilton\/\">interaksyon<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipina actress and singer Rachelle Ann Go joins the cast of the upcoming West End run of hip hop musical Hamilton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/hamiltoncast-e1485919765726.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12607,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions\/12607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}