“All acting is based on truth, honesty – it allows an actor to find the truth inside someone else’s story,” Fox said. Marilyn Fox, who taught Jones acting at UCLA, said she thinks Jones’ quiet thoughtfulness and empathy shows through in her performances. Jones also had to prepare to play two wildly different characters in the same show. “In that sense, it’s a really strenuous test as far as stamina, and that’s a big piece of doing an extended run with a Broadway show.”
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“The musical theater program is quite rigorous with all the vocal classes and lessons and the dance classes and acting classes – they hardly have a free moment,” Belzer said. While at UCLA, Jones was able to balance her schoolwork while also performing professionally, with the same amount of focus required of Broadway performers. (courtsey of Robert Stein Management)ĭan Belzer, one of Jones’ voice professors at UCLA, said he thinks Jones’ time in the UCLA theater program helped prepare her for the show and its intense schedule. She said she tries to prepare for her second featured female role while she is changing costumes in between the two acts. Alumna Joanna Jones plays two different roles in every "Hamilton" show. Jones said it was challenging to prepare for the intense eight-show-per-week schedule, particularly on days when the cast did both a matinee and an evening show. During that time, she met with dance captains to learn choreography, worked with music directors to practice her songs and watched performances from backstage to get a sense of the show. However, Jones only had four weeks to rehearse for the show. After months without hearing back from the casting team, Jones got a callback for the Broadway production in July, flew out to New York for a final audition and received an offer to join the Broadway production in August. She later recorded herself singing three of the show’s featured female roles to demonstrate her vocal range. When the “Hamilton” casting team came to Los Angeles in April, Jones auditioned for the double-casted role of Peggy and Maria. “That’s not something I had ever imagined was possible.” “It was just so brilliant that the story of the birth of our nation and our founding fathers was being told through rap and ethnically charged music by people of color and ambiguous ethnicities,” Jones said. in college through Nicolette Robinson, his wife and a fellow Awaken A Capella member.
Jones first saw “Hamilton” after receiving tickets from Leslie Odom Jr., who played Aaron Burr in the show’s original cast. “And to have it be this show, which is the best show I had ever seen and something that had impacted me so much, to be welcomed into that circle … I was so humbled and honored.” “It’s a dream come true of mine to be on Broadway,” Jones said. Jones said “Hamilton” has provided her with an inclusive space to expand upon her theatrical training and further her theatrical career. 23, the UCLA alumna took over the dual role of Peggy, the kind-hearted youngest Schuyler sister in the show’s first act, and Maria Reynolds, Alexander Hamilton’s seductive mistress in the second act. Joanna Jones first went to see “Hamilton: An American Musical” in 2015, but she had no idea she would make her Broadway debut two years later as a member of the cast.
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