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

Butts and cuts and, poosic! Hey friends welcome back to the Hamelcast I'm Jillian and this is my second

episode with Megan Fattis.

Megan spent four years as a swing with Hamilton on tour and now she's taking everything

she learned from that experience and putting it into her artistry and really her life in general.

Megan has been dancing professionally since she was six and

Hamilton's choreo is her favorite style of dance so she was and still is thrilled to be

part of the show. Last week Megan talked about looking at Hamilton's intricate

choreography like a puzzle, balancing her focus between both the big picture and the endless details.

That led to a very real and very necessary conversation about how overwhelming it is to be a swing,

like the time she learned Woman 1 in real time in the middle of a performance.

And Megan makes it clear that unpredictability is absolutely part of the gig.

Stepping up when she was needed is what she signed up for as a swing.

But as she said last week, just because someone can, does it always mean they should?

And look, I've been guilty of blindly perpetuating the swings or superhero's narrative

on this podcast many, many times, especially in the beginning.

And that's not untrue, it's just that the human part might get lost sometimes.

Okay, I'm kind of getting in the weeds here, but I urge you to listen to last week's episode,

especially because Megan explains this much better than I do.

So we're picking up that conversation right now and I'm

actually going to include the last like minute or so from last week just to help bring

you up to speed. So please enjoy episode two with Megan Fattis. It's a really hard thing to feel like you're going in and doing something that's not in your contract, that you're

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