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Hello everyone, I'm Jillian and welcome back to The Hamilkast.

We're picking up this week where we left off with Marja Harmon, the end Peggy Tours and

Jelica Skylar. Catch up with last week's episode if you haven't already.

Marcia talks growing up, performing in Indiana, how a chance encounter and supportive family helped

lead her to her first professional gig alongside the likes of one Billy Porter. And then her journey

to New York. But hey, if you're all caught up, let's dive in. Here's part two of my conversation

with Marcia. So what is the next chapter in this amazing life story of yours?

The next chapter was then Lion King. Lion King. I came off of Katana Hotchenroove. Also, I'm

making it sound like all these things happened right after one of another. They did not. They did not.

I mean, those those three things did actually kind of happen pretty like within like kind of like

months. But I got in Lion King the tour. And it was like my fourth time. I auditioned for Lion King

many times. This was probably like my maybe like my fifth or sixth time going in for it. This time

was my time. And I found out that I was going to be going on tour the good joining the Gazelle tour.

And so I did that for a year, which was then completely different because that was kind of the

first time I was stepping into like, you know, like a commercialized machine musical at that point.

And also like the last tour I had done had been, you know, non-equity. So doing a production

contract tour was like, oh, I was like, oh, this is the sit like, you know, a month long sit-downs.

And, you know, I had a makeup artist and all these things that I didn't know existed.

So, and it was crazy. The process for Lion King was very, very cool. It was cool to work with the

whole two-faced Julie Tamer concept because as Nala, you know, you have the headpiece and so much of

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