#437: Meghan Faddis // Hamilton on Tour // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Meghan Faddis spent four years as swing in Hamilton, starting in Chicago and then moving to the touring companies. While she's been dancing professionally since she was six years old, Hamilton was her first time swinging and to say she learned a lot is quite an understatement. Hamilton has her favorite style of dance and she was (and still is) thrilled to be part of the show.
This week Meghan talks about the balance of looking at Hamilton's intricate choreography as a puzzle, focusing on both the big picture and the endless details.
Meghan's first episode kicks off a very real and necessary conversation about the overwhelming work of a swing as she talks about learning Woman 1 in real time in the middle of a performance (yep, read that again), the time she did the show while suffering from food poisoning, the lack of mental health resources in the theatre industry, and the importance of being your own advocate. Yes, swings are seen as superheroes but they are also humans, which begs the question: just because someone *can*, does it mean they *should?*
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm stage and stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to the Hamilcast. |
| 0:05.4 | Butts and cuts and, poos and... Hey, the Hamill cast I'm Jillian and today I am here with Megan fattice hey Megan |
| 0:24.1 | hi how are you I'm so good how are you I'm wonderful thanks for joining me today of |
| 0:29.3 | course I'm so excited to be here I'm my god me too um Before we do anything else can you just tell the |
| 0:33.7 | listeners your pronouns please? Yes she her. Thank you. So you're a dancer. |
| 0:38.0 | You're a dance competition judge which I can't wait to get into you're like a |
| 0:41.2 | creator and a teacher and a personal. You're like a creator and a |
| 0:42.8 | personal trainer. You're an advocate. You're a human. For four years you |
| 0:46.7 | were swinging in Hamilton and the Chicago and touring companies and you left the |
| 0:50.8 | show last year. Correct. Right. and now you've just been doing like |
| 0:54.2 | doing your thing a million things yeah I feel like you nailed it I was like you're naming |
| 0:58.6 | all the things there's like 20 different things that I do so yes all of all of the above. I'm so excited. Let's dive into every last one of them. |
| 1:05.6 | Because I'm here to learn about your story. I know people are very interested in like the live notes of the dance judge. |
| 1:13.6 | Oh yeah. |
| 1:14.6 | Oh yeah. |
| 1:15.6 | So yeah, let's talk, like tell me your life story, |
| 1:17.8 | tell me your Hamilton story before, during and after Hamilton. |
| 1:20.4 | Like let's dive in to all of it. |
| 1:21.9 | I have till 2 30 today I'm here |
| 1:23.8 | amazing well I'm here so let's get into it great let's do it |
| 1:26.7 | um so I mean like if we're going way way way back started dancing when I was |
| 1:31.1 | three years old I've always known like literally since I was three years old that I wanted to do |
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