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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#401: Amanda Braun // Swing & Universal Swing // Part One

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Braun is on the podcast this and next week! Amanda first joined Hamilton as a swing in the original cast of the first national tour. After a short break from the Angelica Tour, she returned to Hamilton as a universal swing for two years (a VERY long time to do what is possibly the hardest gig in theatre), and is currently a swing on Broadway. Pretty impressive for someone who saw Hamilton at The Public and convinced herself the choreography was too hard for her to ever be cast in the show!

Amanda started dancing at three years old and thrives on expertly navigating any challenge that is thrown her way. From taking childhood dance lessons from Stephanie Klemons, to doing her sophomore year of college online because she was on tour with Catch Me If You Can, to working with Andy Blankenbuehler on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Amanda has an arsenal of knowledge and experience.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.

0:05.0

Boots and cuts and poops and... Hello everyone welcome back to the hamelcast I'm Jillian today I am here with Amanda Braun from the Broadway company previously

0:25.5

Universal Swing for a long time and I was swing on Broadway. Hey Amanda

0:29.1

Hello!

0:30.1

Hi how are you? Thanks for joining me. I'm good. I'm so excited to be joining you today.

0:38.0

Thanks.

0:39.0

Before we do anything else, can you just tell the listeners your pronouns?

0:42.0

Yes, I'm she her great

0:43.6

thank you. Congratulations you are newly engaged yeah that's a major thing that's

0:48.0

happening in your life right now thank you so much yes very exciting wedding shopping today, like that's what you're doing after this?

0:55.5

Is that right? Yes, later today, I'm like, it's crazy, it's hard with our schedule too to like do it all at the same time. Wow that's so exciting though

1:05.1

congratulations. You just came back from Japan which is like in my top five

1:10.0

places to visit can you tell me everything about that?

1:13.1

How was that?

1:13.7

Oh my God, it was incredible.

1:16.0

Truly like a life-changing experience.

1:19.3

I'd never been to Asia before.

1:21.5

So it was just so cool to be immersed in like a whole brand new culture.

1:26.4

Yeah it was awesome. Truly, highly recommend. Yeah I actually it's so funny I just saw a cousin of mine like two days ago who was just there for three weeks for work and he was like you have like you have everyone has to go once, just once at least.

1:43.2

It's just so cool and it actually wasn't that bad to get to.

1:49.3

Like not as bad as I thought.

1:51.1

Okay, yeah, I don't love planes planes so that is good news to me to hear that it's kind of not that big of a mountain of a trip that you would assume it is? I actually got on the plane and the whole time I was thinking, like before we left, I thought

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