She often communicated with Hamilton, sending letters of introduction to him for scientists and other intellectuals hoping to come to America. Her husband, who she married three years before Eliza married Hamilton, was John Baker Church, a businessman who served in the British House of Commons. Born in Albany to Catherine van Rensselaer and Philip Schuyler (who was a founder of Union College), she was an incredibly influential person both in America and in Paris and London, where she lived for over a decade, getting to know people like Benjamin Franklin and Marquis de Lafayette. Angelica was close with Hamilton, but not necessarily in love. Of course, in reality, the story didn’t go quite like that. “It’s going back and forth between rapping and singing and then high belting all the while she’s telling this story of watching “Hamilton,” the man she falls in love with in that moment and then having to let him go because her sister is also madly in love with him,” Umoh said. “Satisfied,” is one of Angelica’s most powerful and perhaps most challenging songs. I was also attracted to Angelica’s songs,” Umoh said. She doesn’t hold anything back and respected in the high society that she belonged in. She had these strong traits that I can definitely relate to. “I think I was really drawn to her loyalty and her protectiveness over her sisters. She immediately felt drawn to Angelica, one of the three Schuyler sisters, who falls for Hamilton. This time, she was able to sit back and pay more attention to the characters and the relationships. Then, while on tour with “Into the Woods,” she got to see the “Angelica Tour,” of the show the first national touring production. The music and lighting stuck out-there aren’t traditional scene changes in the production so it relies on lighting to give the illusion of different scenes, according to Umoh. I was just like ‘Whoa, what happened?’” Umoh said. The first time she saw the musical, which was on Broadway back in 2016, she was stunned, but not in the way that many are.
After graduating, Umoh moved to New York City and has been working as a professional actress ever since, performing in the Broadway revival of “Ragtime,” and the Fiasco Theater Company’s production of “Into the Woods,” and for the last few months, the touring production of “Hamilton.” Instead of studying to be a doctor, she headed off to Boston Conservatory at Berklee to study performing arts.
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