#454: Sabrina Imamura // Hamilton's Philip Tour // Part Three
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In her third and final episode, Sabrina Imamura ties up how she landed on the Hamilton's Philip Tour after starting with the original Angelica Tour in 2017 and making stops on Broadway (twice), the Eliza Tour (the Los Angeles sit down), and the And Peggy Tour (which kicked off in Puerto Rico).
Sabrina explains the importance of gigs that feed you creatively and why doing a show for the sake of it isn't really what she's about. You know what she *is* about, though? More stories about Asian people that don't revolve around war or politics or the fetishization of Asian women and people.
Plus, Sabrina goes in on her favorite books with the strongest female leads, why animals are the greatest, vintage project runaway talk, and our plea for JUSTICE FOR NATALIE FROM LOVE, ACTUALLY!! It'll make sense when you get there, I promise.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Boots and cuts and boots and cuts. |
| 0:07.1 | Hey, friends, welcome back to the Hamelcast. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Jillian, and this is my third and final episode with Sabrina Imamora. |
| 0:23.2 | Sabrina trained as a contemporary ballet and concert dancer, and after taking the big leap into the world of musical theater, she's been all over the country with Hamilton since 2017. |
| 0:30.6 | She's currently a swing on the Philip tour. Last week, Sabrina really opened up about her experience with anxiety, which included regularly having panic attacks while performing in Hamilton on Broadway. She was super candid about everything, which I really appreciated, |
| 0:41.8 | because as you know, these conversations can be so helpful to those who need to hear it. And as I'm |
| 0:46.1 | thinking about it, like, I think our whole conversation can be helpful, actually. Like anxiety stuff |
| 0:50.1 | aside, because it's been amazing to hear about how Sabrina didn't let anyone or anything |
| 0:53.7 | gate keep her from the industry. She was focused, talented, always ready to learn, and here we are. |
| 0:58.9 | Right? I love that. All right. Let's dive into Sabrina's third episode, which kicks off |
| 1:03.0 | with her journey to the Philip L.A. I've been kind of mostly in L.A., but I still have my place back in New York, so I'm kind of like back and forth by Coastal. |
| 1:24.7 | But I was in L.A. and I had gotten a call for my agent that they needed |
| 1:29.4 | some coverage on this tour because there was like a medical leave of absence that was happening |
| 1:36.4 | and they had already brought like a swing in for that, but then there was like a slew of like |
| 1:44.0 | vacations that were happening or like |
| 1:45.7 | personally so we're like we just meet one person to like cover woman one for these two weeks |
| 1:52.5 | and then the other swing that was brought on as an extra to cover that the woman one we're going to |
| 1:58.5 | have her cover you know just be an extra swing and cover um these other |
| 2:02.6 | people that have personal days or whatever so that's how I ended up I was just there for like two weeks |
| 2:07.6 | in like February March and while I was in South Carolina I had gotten a call from management and |
| 2:15.1 | they were like hey so we have like a proposition for you, like |
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