Hi, I'm Stage and Stages, Lin-Manuel Miranda and you're listening to the Hamilkast.

Bootsing, cuts and buzzing.

Hello again friends, I'm Jillian and welcome back to the Hamilkast.

This is my third episode with Christina Lundy and we're wrapping up our conversation by

finding the beauty in the details. Christina is currently Hamilton Broadway's assistant

wardrobe supervisor with over 20 years of experience and a lifetime of good taste and pretty much

everything. Over these episodes we've talked about Hamilton, Shakespeare, temperamental fabrics,

favorite silhouettes, clothes as self-expression, boundaries of all kinds, backstage logistics,

stage store stories, destroying the patriarchy, and we did it all referencing Mad Men,

Dam Yankees, Taylor Swift, and 1994's cult classic reality bites. We've covered so much,

it's been a blast, so please enjoy my third episode with the one and only Christina Lundy.

Jen is asking, what do you think is the thing that would surprise most people about your job?

Well, I mean something that I feel like people who don't know how the backstage works or how

any of this works are kind of confused by, well, can't people put their own clothes on?

And you're like, not in the time they're given, sometimes, no, they can't.

And okay, here's what I think actually, particularly for people who

have not been directly involved in doing theater maybe since they were in school or whatever,

I think the degree of organization you have to hold in your head is very, very high.

And especially, so most of my career, I was a swing. I've

eaked out what is basically full-time work at different places, but I was not a full-time

dresser on a single track. The only time in my career, and I've been in the unions in 2006,

since working in the public where I did dress shows start to finish because they were limited

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