#482: Tyler McKenzie // Hamilton Dance Captain and Universal Swing // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Tyler McKenzie is back on the podcast! Tyler joined Hamilton Broadway in 2017 and only had one week off before starting rehearsals for the yet to be revealed Philip Company. He graciously spent his first night off with me, recording his first episode of The Hamilcast. Tyler would join me once again when Mike and I had a party with some members of the Philip Company in Vegas in 2018. Today, Tyler wanted to come back on the podcast to reflect on his eight year journey with Hamilton. We recorded this at the end of May 2025, just days before his final performance on tour... in Las Vegas.
Tyler went from Hamilton Broadway to an original member of Philip, and during his time on tour he went from a swing to a universal swing to being both a universal swing *and* the dance captain of the Philip company. So yes, there is a lot to unpack. Not to mention that during the COVID lockdown, Tyler worked as a professor at Penn State teaching dance and musical theatre, and using this platform to hire his fellow performers when they needed it most.
This week, Tyler reflects on his Hamilton journey from his initial audition process up through his final role as a teacher and a leader with the Hamilton crew, including flying all over the place "saving the day" when companies were dealing with COVID outbreaks in 2021. But as you'll learn, Tyler is an excellent leader and teacher. He's all about solutions and adapting to what is in front of him to get the best out of the situation.
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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 cats. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Hamblecast. I'm Jillianian and I'm here today with my friend Tyler McKenzie. Hi, Tyler. |
| 0:25.6 | Hi, Jillian. Good to see you again. Good to speak to you again. I know. I am so thrilled that you're here and to be chatting with you again. I've missed you. |
| 0:35.8 | It's kind of wild to think about, I think our first conversation was in, our first conversation |
| 0:40.1 | ever was in 2017, I think. And we are about to have, I wouldn't say this will be our final |
| 0:46.7 | conversation, but I think this is my, I've never felt more like this is the final chapter |
| 0:52.9 | before I'm like maybe in and out of Hamilton. So this is going to be a moment. Final official podcast conversation. Well, we're going to tell them all about that. But before we do anything else, can I, can you tell me your pronouns, please? Yeah, he him, his. He and his are my pronouns. Thank you. So here's the deal. You've been with Hamilton since 2017. |
| 1:11.9 | Yes. |
| 1:12.6 | Yes, this is. |
| 1:13.1 | In and out. |
| 1:13.7 | In and now. |
| 1:14.1 | Pandemic. |
| 1:14.9 | I left a few times. You know what I mean? All that good stuff. No, no, no. We'll get into so much of it. You were back on the pod. We actually recorded at the end of 2017. and your episode came out a few weeks later in February of 2018. |
| 1:10.8 | But when you came on the show for the very first time, you had one... and your episode came out a few weeks later in February of 2018. |
| 1:30.2 | But when you came on the show for the very first time, |
| 1:35.5 | you had one week between being on Broadway and then joining the Philip company. And you spent your first night off in my old apartment. |
| 1:38.7 | Oh my God. |
| 1:39.0 | That's correct. |
| 1:39.8 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:40.4 | That's so... |
| 1:41.6 | I know. |
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