Mandy Gonzalez

And then at 8 o'clock, the curtain goes up.

On our Broadway bonus hour, I've got a conversation with Broadway powerhouse Mandy Gonzalez.

She originated the role of Nina in In the Heights.

She played Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton and defied gravity as Elphaba in Wicked.

So she's had some great Broadway experiences.

And Mandy Gonzalez is going to share some remarkable backstage stories, some memories of working with Lin-Manuel Miranda and what it's like to be part of Broadway history.

And she's got... unique family heritage that sets her up perfectly to be part of a performance this Saturday with Seth Rudetsky in Seth's Big Fat Jewish Broadway Show at the Harry and Rose Sampson Family Jewish Community Center.

That is coming up Saturday, and you will hear some really fun insights and stories from Mandy Gonzalez in that 8 o'clock hour.

And for what it's worth, they assembled an absolutely fantastic cast fantastically talented group of people.

I mean, seeing the career that Mandy Gonzalez, who played Sarah in the Broadway version, has gone on to.

In the Heights, Hamilton.

Amazing.

I mean, we had Sierra Bojas, Ashley Brown, like so many incredible people over and over.

Mandy Gonzalez, that's, you know, Kara Lindsay, which is where I met Kara.

Adam Jacobs just over and over and over and they do these 30 minute sets of the songs and they're not even just their songs it's like whatever songs and my dear friend Jim Abbott's a music director for it and I just have sat there and just like lived my best Disney Broadway girl moments and I'm having the opportunities to interact with them and become friends with some of these people and And they really are just some of the coolest people you'll ever meet.

I'm sure.