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

Butts and cuts and pooset. Hey friends I'm Jillian and welcome back to the Hamelcast. This is the second half of my conversation with Alexis Hasbroke, who's currently a swing on the North American tour of Hamilton.

Alexis has been dancing her whole life since she was three years old.

Growing up about an hour outside New York City, she says she was dancing pretty much seven days a week and learned

everything she could. Ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, point, musical theater dance, contemporary,

lyrical, absolutely everything.

Last week, Alexis talked about the musical theater program at Rider University, which she loved,

and taking a year off to do cats on the Royal Caribbean Oasis cruise ship.

By the time Alexis was ready to finish her last semester, COVID hit, and her whole college experience, including the

big senior showcase, moved online.

She rounded out her time at Ryder by taking virtual classes and learning how to do self-tapes,

which was actually incredibly valuable and while

Alexis waited for the entertainment industry to open back up she found her

second true love teaching elementary school special education which she hopes to

return to someday. When everything reopened, Alexis went back to Katz,

but unfortunately, the conditions on the cruise ship

were not good for her, in any sense.

Putting her mental and physical health first,

Alexis made the decision to leave that contract

when she booked the national tour of Mulan Rouge. And because when it rains

it pours, that's also when Hamilton started reaching out. And they started reaching out

a lot. Alexis loved being on tour with Muan Rouge and obviously she couldn't

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