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Speaker 1: And That's what you Really missed with Jenna.

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Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's What Really miss podcast Big Guest Today.

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Speaker 2: Big Guest Today is like an actual Glee Zoe's Extraordinary

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Speaker 2: Playlist crossover.

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Speaker 3: Sidener Auston, the one and only Skyler Auston Skyler was

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Speaker 3: a part of the Glee family from the beginning because

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Speaker 3: of the Spring Awakening connection. Who's around, but he's also

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Speaker 3: then got on the show, left his mark very quickly

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Speaker 3: in a very impactful way, and then went off and

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Speaker 3: had done Pitch Perfect and Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist and crazy

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Speaker 3: ex girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: Just everything you name it.

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Speaker 3: We talked about the Hollywood Bowl like he's just so

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Speaker 3: multi talented, so kind, so good at what he does.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing he doesn't do or can do. Curious, Hey guy,

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Speaker 1: how are you Skylard?

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Speaker 2: Good? Good?

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Speaker 4: No, I'm doing great, you know, can't really complying.

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Speaker 1: Wow, we love it.

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Speaker 4: Worst guest ever, it gives you nothing like it's good.

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Speaker 4: I'm an actor in between jobs just like I don't know.

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Speaker 3: No, we well, we're here to talk about all the

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Speaker 3: things that you have, the accomplishments you have accomplished, all

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Speaker 3: the things that you have done in addition to anything

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Speaker 3: that you're doing. Cool, You've been on so much stuff.

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Speaker 2: I feel like you haven't stopped working the thing.

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Speaker 4: I don't like to stop working, So even though there's

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Speaker 4: few weeks actually, but even just that, like, yeah, I

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Speaker 4: just like to be working.

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Speaker 2: I really do. I love it. That's why you're so good.

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Speaker 4: I think, Yeah, I belong on like some sort of

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Speaker 4: a set or or stage or something like that, or

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Speaker 4: else my energy just goes crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the place to put it.

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Speaker 2: You also have such a unique set of skills that

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Speaker 2: you can just pop between TV, film, stage like it's nothing.

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Speaker 4: Maybe, yeah, maybe that's what helps it not feel so monotonous.

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Speaker 4: And I always get asked what's your favorite, and like

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Speaker 4: which one do you prefer? And I'm like, honestly, I

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Speaker 4: could never part with any of them.

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Speaker 2: They'll scratch a different inche yes.

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Speaker 4: And also I don't think I could ever just do

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Speaker 4: kind of incredibly challenging. Why the hell are we doing

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Speaker 4: this to ourselves? Eight shows a week or how the

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Speaker 4: heck of my hand on this, Like I'm indoors with

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Speaker 4: to complain, Like I really don't like to complain, especially

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Speaker 4: when I'm working. They're just very they have their unique challenges.

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Speaker 4: So like I do like to go from that kind

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Speaker 4: for yes. So you know, that's kind of my outlook

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Speaker 4: I was going to get, you know, that's the initial dream.

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Speaker 4: That's what I started doing. That's what I only ever

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Speaker 4: process of being a series regular, especially when you're loving

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Speaker 2: the whole series, the whole series.

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Speaker 3: Just to speak to you, we watched the pilot pilot.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you know you were there from the creation of it.

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Speaker 2: You got to be there the inception of it. You

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Speaker 2: had been on Glee obviously, and so not many people

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Speaker 2: have been on multiple music television shows because they're pretty rare, right,

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Speaker 2: you and Alex I feel like had that special I

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Speaker 2: How was that you know that project came around setting

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Speaker 4: Serial clinger on a stage five, because you just kept

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Speaker 4: Actually, Leah used to invite me all the time, and

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Speaker 4: to support them. But I'm always at one point or

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Speaker 4: Like and they they're not even being judgmental on purpose.

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Speaker 4: In fact, they're actually confused themselves. Why would anyone be

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Speaker 4: we did full on live singing as well.

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Speaker 4: And most of them are prerecorded. I'd say seventy five

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Speaker 4: I did Demi Levado's Anyone, which is like a big

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Speaker 2: You did Anyone live live Yes, that was a highlight

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Speaker 2: for sure. We were just talking about how people are

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Speaker 3: You want to feel confident that they're going to nail it.

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Speaker 3: And there's like like watching Lauren Graham.

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Speaker 1: On TV, You're like, I know she's gonna nail it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not worried when Skylight opens his math, like I

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Speaker 4: But if I could bring the ease that Lauren Graham brings,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she get in the wild. The other day for

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Speaker 4: was recording me, but I was like, I will I

438
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,679
Speaker 4: will do this a few times. The first few is

439
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 4: going to be cobweb City, maybe a crack, and then

440
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,000
Speaker 4: hopefully we'll get one. And thankfully we did. And then

441
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 4: I got the special reward of doing it in front

442
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,159
Speaker 4: of you guys time after time, making it seem like

443
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:30,800
Speaker 4: I'm just pulling this out every time.

444
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,320
Speaker 1: Okay, we know the magic. We're not trying to pretend.

445
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,439
Speaker 2: I never got to see Spring Awakening, so this is

446
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 2: my first time getting to watch you perform.

447
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:43,200
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that was really cool. I was really

448
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 4: excited because when you get offered Glee, you're not told

449
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:49,640
Speaker 4: what character you're playing.

450
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 2: Do you know this?

451
00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,080
Speaker 4: No, no, this is what you really missed done Glee.

452
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,639
Speaker 4: When you get an offer, even for Gwyneth Paltrow, you

453
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:04,959
Speaker 4: say yes to the opportunity and then they'll tell you

454
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 4: what you're playing, which was wild and like, I couldn't

455
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 4: imagine a role that I would say no to, but

456
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:14,879
Speaker 4: just the fact that there was like a slight I

457
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 4: don't want to say threat, but a slight like terrifying

458
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,159
Speaker 4: take it or don't. And thankfully the role was so

459
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 4: fun and so so exciting to doe yeah, or like

460
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 4: what if they're like great, so you're not singing, you know,

461
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 4: you're like Darren's like friend, you're Darren's brother. You have

462
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,680
Speaker 4: one scene which would have been, by the way, also fine,

463
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 4: I would have done it, but still like, I'm glad

464
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:40,119
Speaker 4: that it worked out, and I'm also glad that I

465
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 4: was able to sing within the context of the character

466
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 4: would be singing, not just realistically but like he it's

467
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 4: it's a competition.

468
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 2: So that was really.

469
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 4: Fun in the world in the world which by the way,

470
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,119
Speaker 4: I would have loved to sing about my feelings in

471
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 4: that hallway of course, But it was also really special

472
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 4: because I I watched the show. I knew the show,

473
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 4: I knew the formula of the show, and I knew

474
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 4: that like the Nationals. I was gonna say, the finals,

475
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 4: the Nationals were like a big episode and like that's.

476
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 2: A big deal.

477
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 4: This season's kind of build towards that. And so the

478
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 4: fact that I got to kind of you know, because Jonathan,

479
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 4: I know, played your guys' rivals for a while, so

480
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 4: to be kind of that but a little bit sillier

481
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 4: and whatever was really right, you know, Jonathan to you.

482
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: When she came on the show and.

483
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 4: There you go, and she's incredible voice.

484
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 2: What a disservice.

485
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 4: So so exactly, I really lucked out and I got

486
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 4: to do this thing that I remember doing on Pitch

487
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 4: Perfect when we had our like nationals or whatever it

488
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 4: was called, like the finals, where we got to actually

489
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,360
Speaker 4: sit in the audience and be filmed in the audience,

490
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 4: but then when it was actually over us or even

491
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,439
Speaker 4: you know, inside of us, onto you guys like I'm like,

492
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 4: I'm chilling, like this is a free concert. This is

493
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 4: so fun. So I really really loved every part of

494
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 4: that experience.

495
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 2: You really have done all of the things like modern

496
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 2: pop culture relevant musicals like you were, Pitch Perfect, Glee,

497
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 2: Zoe's You Really Girlfriend is the only one You've at all.

498
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 2: There's gotta be.

499
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 4: Snowe No, okay.

500
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,880
Speaker 2: You really are? You're it the one?

501
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,640
Speaker 4: Yeah. The first of all, there's got to be other

502
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 4: shows that we're not even thinking about.

503
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 2: The TV musical Jedi, well.

504
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 3: I guess like the Nashville's of the World, and that's true,

505
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 3: you know.

506
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 2: But nobody's beating your number. Yeah, that's crazy, I think.

507
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 4: So yeah, hey, I'll take it.

508
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,160
Speaker 2: You brought up two really good points that I wanted

509
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 2: to because obviously we've been talking about Glee for forever

510
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 2: to longsu might say, but there's not a lot of

511
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 2: other musical TV shows, especially ones that were in our

512
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 2: same era, and hearing you say one that the crew

513
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 2: would talk to you guys about how special it was

514
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 2: and how special it felt. We got that from the

515
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 2: very beginning, but it's so nice to hear that that

516
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 2: experience is not limited. And it's nice because it's so

517
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 2: rare to have a musical and the joy that that

518
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 2: brings on set. Obviously, the joy comes through when you're

519
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 2: watching it as a viewer, and it did in the

520
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 2: pilot of Zoe's, but the joy that you can feel

521
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 2: from the crew who have long hours and we do

522
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: on sets of course, and have families to go home

523
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 2: to most of the time, and they're gone sixteen hours

524
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,199
Speaker 2: a day, and there's something that music does and I

525
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 2: think with these shows is that always comes through on camera.

526
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 2: So even though we're only performing to a handful of

527
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 2: people on sem The joy and excitement and support that

528
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 2: we all get from them is what then translates onto

529
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 2: the screen and into the homes of the people who

530
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 2: are watching. And it's lovely to hear that that was

531
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 2: the same for sure.

532
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 4: I Mean there's been projects where there's limited crew, you're

533
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 4: kind of acting in a vacuum, or it's just kind

534
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 4: of like to them, it's you know, I've worked with

535
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 4: some incredible cruise, but obviously it gets monotonous, gets slow.

536
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 4: It's like we're doing the same friggin scene and it's

537
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 4: like seen thirty seven of sixty and it's such a

538
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 4: transitional whatever scene. It was so special and there was

539
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 4: a real transfer and a real like energy transfer with

540
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 4: the way you would have with an audience like so

541
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 4: it really did feel good on the day and it

542
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:53,479
Speaker 4: felt right, and oftentimes we did this incredible Probably one

543
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 4: of a career highlight is this season one finale of

544
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 4: Zoe's was a seven minute oner where we did the

545
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:08,120
Speaker 4: entire Don McLean American Pie. Oh, and there's time passage.

546
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 4: There are sets that have to come and go when

547
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 4: the camera's facing another direction. There are actors bringing people

548
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 4: into rooms and then there's a total other tableau that

549
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 4: kind of comes to life.

550
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: It was so beautiful.

551
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 4: It was alstually a very emotional song and a very

552
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 4: emotional moment of the of the show. And I was

553
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 4: watching that show Cheer at the time, and which was

554
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 4: the cheerleading show, and I remember it was a very

555
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 4: big thing for them to hit zero, meaning like everyone

556
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 4: know your part, know what you do, and we have

557
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 4: to hit zero, like we have to be perfect. Then

558
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 4: I kept saying that to almost like we got to

559
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 4: hit zero, guys, like everybody know your entrances, keep going,

560
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 4: like if you trip over a cable, like keep going.

561
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 4: And to have that moment with Alex, who you know,

562
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 4: wouldn't even pretend like he was nervous, you know what

563
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 4: I mean, even if he was right like he had it.

564
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 2: In the bag.

565
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 4: But then you have people like Lauren Graham and Mary

566
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 4: steam Bergen and like everyone rallying together and of course Alex,

567
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,679
Speaker 4: but you know what I mean, like, yeah, Alex is

568
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 4: such a leader in any ways, And I have an

569
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 4: amazing video of some of our crew and grips, like

570
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 4: because they had like a huge shower curtain, like a

571
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,639
Speaker 4: big backdrop, they would have to kind of like you know,

572
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 4: show the Day on Time one and they're throwing their

573
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 4: bodies into this curtain to get it to move fast,

574
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 4: and because it's like no one wants to be the

575
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 4: reason why. Yeah, And one of the few times that

576
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 4: the entire cast and entire crew went behind the monitor

577
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 4: to watch playback because it was like, once we got it,

578
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 4: we got it. It's a Warner. It's going to be

579
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 4: one of these two. And it was one of two

580
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 4: that were perfect. It was like take five and six

581
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 4: all in my kind of dark, funeralish kind of clothing,

582
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 4: and it was just it was like I knew I

583
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 4: would remember that forever. But I'm sure there's crazy action

584
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 4: sequences in movies that took a bigger village and but

585
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 4: this was very special. And I felt that a lot

586
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 4: of the people that would come up to me after,

587
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 4: you know, on Todd that I had worked on Zoe's.

588
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 4: When they talk about Zoey's, there was this like emotional

589
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 4: cup cup filling feeling.

590
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: That they had of life. It's not just another job.

591
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 4: No, and they've said that, like they would say that

592
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 4: all the time. I was just I would go home,

593
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 4: I would tell my wife, I would try to explain

594
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 4: it like you know, and it's what we're doing it for.

595
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 4: I mean, we're doing it for the audience. But every

596
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 4: time the show gets canceled before it maybe should have been,

597
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 4: I feel the worst for the audience that gets left hanging.

598
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 4: And then the crew that is like they do this

599
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 4: thing with you, and they're there, like you said, Kevin,

600
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 4: like all day, every day. They become your family, and

601
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 4: they see you, you know, not feeling well. They see

602
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 4: you when you were not at your best, they see

603
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 4: you when you're at your best. They've seen some of

604
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 4: your best work. And you just get to know these people.

605
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 4: And then to be able to write when they would

606
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 4: forget that this is a musical, like oh of today's

607
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 4: a musical day, And it was just it was such

608
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 4: a such an amazing thing to be a part of.

609
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 2: Oh how special. Also like the specific set of circumstances

610
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: to be able to use all of your skills, everybody's

611
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: using all of their skills in a musical to do

612
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 2: something like that seven minute one er for example, totally

613
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 2: like that may be a once in a lifetime career

614
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 2: thing that you all get to do together.

615
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 4: I never thought going into it when I knew that

616
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 4: I'd be working with Mary Stemberg and Lauren Graham, that

617
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 4: I'd be a part of one of their career highlights.

618
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 2: Right, So that was another huge berk.

619
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 3: I'm so fascinated by this wonder idea and like how

620
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,479
Speaker 3: everybody has to really just rally together in general. If

621
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 3: for these shorter numbers too, when you guys were shooting

622
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 3: on those days, like you know, for Glee, especially when

623
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 3: you did nationals, like those are eight.

624
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: Hour performances, right, were.

625
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 3: Your musical days shorter on Zoe's because of it? Or

626
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 3: was there more preparation and rehearsal that had to go into,

627
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 3: like the rehearsal on the day on set to get

628
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 3: it before you start shooting.

629
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 4: It varied, Like if it was a really big sequence,

630
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 4: we would have to go to the set like on

631
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,959
Speaker 4: a Saturday, or like the location that was very location specific.

632
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 4: We shot this big Christmas song and like a town

633
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 4: square in somewhere in British Columbia, and like you know,

634
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 4: on a rainy Saturday, like me Jane and Mandy with

635
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 4: her like boombox went over there because we wanted to

636
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 4: make sure we're ready and some of the some of

637
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 4: the dancers as well, and sometimes that was necessary, but

638
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 4: I gotta say it was treated sometimes like any other scene. Yeah,

639
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 4: and of course it would vary depending on the song

640
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 4: and that, you know, what the scale of it. But

641
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 4: there were times where it's like we do like scene thirteen,

642
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 4: then we're doing are you going to be My Girl?

643
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 4: Then we're doing scene eighteen, and then Mary's doing like,

644
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 4: you know songs, and you're like, we did two songs

645
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 4: in three scenes today, Like that's too many things a lot.

646
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 4: But I think we shot eight day episodes, which is

647
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 4: probably what you guys did. No, we were.

648
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 2: Scheduled for that. We never made it.

649
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 4: See, we can never go over yeah we were eleven

650
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 4: ever we know we went over time, but we never

651
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 4: went over days.

652
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 2: I don't think we could afford that.

653
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

654
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 3: I mean did you guys ever have did I never

655
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 3: mention like having coming up against like songs that were

656
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 3: in your script and then did it happen often where

657
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 3: it didn't get approved or it was too expensive or

658
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 3: like what was you know, did you guys have to

659
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 3: change those a lot?

660
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 4: Thankfully? Gosh, they were such a I'm sure behind the

661
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 4: scenes it must have been chaos at times, but they

662
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 4: really kept us out of it.

663
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 2: I can't think.

664
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 4: I think there's a few, a couple, but really none

665
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 4: that come to mind. And honestly, it was more internal

666
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 4: bs of life, like a creative decision of like Austin

667
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 4: hates the arrangement, or like we're still working on the key.

668
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 4: We did the previews and like we sent it to

669
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 4: the people and they're like kind of confused, So we're

670
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 4: gonna simplify it, and we're worried that these these because

671
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 4: like Austin and Mandy and whoever was directing, they would

672
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 4: like crack the code of whatever the song was because

673
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 4: it was very it was always tough, like it was

674
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 4: it was, it was always different, like we had a

675
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 4: bit of a formula. But yeah, sometimes when I would

676
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 4: sing the songs in the booth, I had no idea

677
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 4: what I would be physically doing, right, so I would

678
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 4: be like, can I go back in and like like

679
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 4: make it more of an exertion or something, And sometimes

680
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 4: sometimes we would do that, but rarely, and so I

681
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 4: at least would like get with Mandy and be like

682
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 4: what is this?

683
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 2: What's going on?

684
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 4: And you know, but Mandy's like the type of person

685
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 4: that wants to have you up to her her dance

686
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 4: room and really like roll around and like get into it.

687
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 4: But I was like, just please, like you know, I

688
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 4: know we're not marrying what we're doing, but like, is

689
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 4: this a full modern dance or am I standing and singing?

690
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 4: Or generally was somewhere in between.

691
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is nice. I mean that also makes more

692
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 2: sense because I mean we never had that uglee, so

693
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 2: like the voice could be completely disconnected from the movement

694
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 2: you're doing, where that seems a more intentional choice on

695
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 2: your Guys's show, which you then feel as a character,

696
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 2: like Jenna was saying earlier when we were talking before this,

697
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 2: when she did a musical movie where it's doing it

698
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 2: live or at least with the intention of like trying

699
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 2: to mirror your movements is freeing and liberating for your performance.

700
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 4: Definitely, people don't understand how tricky it is and technical

701
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 4: and how like the left hand sometimes doesn't talk to

702
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 4: the right, Like we had to figure out this machine

703
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 4: in season one, and I remember the moment where I

704
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 4: was like, you know, because the vocal department is trying

705
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 4: to schedule me for a pre record while the dance

706
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 4: department hasn't yet, you know, And I was like, hey, like,

707
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,720
Speaker 4: I know that you want to get me in, I

708
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 4: gotta like do a dance rehearsal with this demo singer

709
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 4: first because I need to know how I'm singing this right.

710
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,479
Speaker 4: And so it was kind of like chess that you'd

711
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 4: have to like plan in your head. Then it kind

712
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 4: of like became kind of clear and kind of all

713
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 4: flowed in a really really cool way.

714
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 2: I guess it all comes down to the type of

715
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: musical you're doing, Like it's very established in your pilot

716
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 2: immediately that it does feel more natural, it does for

717
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 2: more real right right. And our show it was like

718
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: everything squeaky clean, super polished from the beginning.

719
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 4: That's our layout. Well, that's why I blew me away.

720
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 4: How you guys were learning so many of those movements

721
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 4: because you can't even like, god forbid, I do my

722
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 4: hands opposite, you know what it's supposed to be left right,

723
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 4: I go right left. It's kind of just me most

724
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 4: of the time. We had a few group numbers, but

725
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 4: I mean, you guys are in formations.

726
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 2: It's full on glee clubs. So like that blew me away?

727
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: How How there's also an editing room.

728
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 3: Oh ye, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we and we

729
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 3: you know, we worked together so much too. There was

730
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 3: like a cohesiveness and like a shorthand that you just

731
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 3: learn and people are like pushing you in ways because

732
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,959
Speaker 3: you missed the rehearsal and like you just all got

733
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 3: each other and we make it work.

734
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 2: But right, like you wouldn't have been able to do

735
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 2: a seven minute number at the pilot, but you were

736
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 2: able to do it by the finale.

737
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 4: That's totally true, like from Pitch Perfect. But it's kind

738
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 4: of like if you don't know what you're supposed to

739
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 4: sing here, just like listen to the demo and like

740
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 4: pick one something like pick a male voice, like just

741
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 4: don't look like you don't know what you're doing. And

742
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 4: there's a little bit of like fun in the like

743
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 4: kind of winging it too, which I probably made it

744
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 4: really like helped with the energy that you guys had too.

745
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, which brings you to another point that you mentioned

746
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 2: earlier of when you're getting to a musical show like this,

747
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 2: the dancing, the singing, and the acting, you're getting to

748
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 2: get into that rhythm of being practiced at all of

749
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 2: them at the same time. And I know we spent

750
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 2: a lot of time saying like, oh, you know, the

751
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 2: schedule was so hard, but but it's also so fun. Yes,

752
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 2: it is so. It is exhausting, but to be able

753
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 2: to exhaust those parts of you that you want to

754
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 2: be able to use on every job and hardly ever

755
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 2: are able to do that, Yeah, and push yourselves in

756
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: those ways is such a gift.

757
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 4: And you guys were sharpening your tools, Like you guys

758
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 4: were able to kind of go into a world tour

759
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 4: and be like, well, I mean we're somewhat like this,

760
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 4: Like we are just kind of used to being thrown at,

761
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 4: like just thrown into it. Alex and I once had

762
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 4: to take a red eye to get to the Rockefeller

763
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 4: Center Christmas tree lighting. We didn't get to have a

764
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 4: sound check, and we just like eight million people here

765
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 4: comes something like George Michael or baby please come home,

766
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 4: and like I think about that now, and I'm like,

767
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 4: I would definitely be begging for that at least sound check.

768
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 4: I want to make sure they didn't even have time

769
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 4: to think about it. Yeah, right, Normally I like a

770
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 4: good amount of sleep. I'm like, oh, I didn't sleep

771
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 4: at all. You know, it is exhausting, of course, but

772
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 4: it's very privileged work and it is our dreams, so

773
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 4: like I try to never lose sight of that.

774
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 2: That. Yeah, yeah, that's such a good point. Also, two

775
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 2: of the best hands to have a no sleep performance

776
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,959
Speaker 2: of you and Alex again those are arms are feel

777
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 2: comfortable holding me In that rising song.

778
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 4: I've just cut to him and I like in the elevator,

779
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 4: just being like, do you want to run it? Like

780
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 4: with like an AirPod in each and just like see

781
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 4: if we know what key we're going to do this.

782
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: In Oh my God. Speaking of fast paced, you also

783
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: did the Ball, which was.

784
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 4: Scary, fun, fast, furious. Eight days of rehearsal, so I

785
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 4: guess technically, but eight no, I believe it's like eight

786
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 4: days and that includes like then it's the show. And

787
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 4: that was the case for rent when I did it

788
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 4: in twenty ten, and that was terrifying, yeah but fun.

789
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 4: But I always like to say, like I feel like

790
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 4: I rented that role, like I never fully took ownership again,

791
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 4: trying to remember the lyrics to love Eboem as much

792
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 4: as possible. Yeah, funny new culture Zinger story about that

793
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 4: where she kind of went up in the same space

794
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 4: every night, and and and the Colt Scherzinger also stole

795
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 4: the show, and I feel confident saying that even though

796
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 4: I was the one, she was probably stealing it from.

797
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 4: Technically I had a big part, but I was just like, man,

798
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 4: she's what you're talking about when you're leaving. And but

799
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 4: and she was so flawless, except she would go up

800
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 4: on this one spot every night in the second act

801
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 4: and it was just this big vamp and she would

802
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 4: look at me and she looked at me and she

803
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 4: said help, and I like would say her part with her,

804
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 4: and then of course here comes that point. It's like

805
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 4: the one of the honey, I know you're there, please

806
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 4: pick up the phone. She would play Maureen. And then

807
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 4: the second night, same spot, same flub, and I was like,

808
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 4: she looked at me too, like it's happening again because

809
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 4: I've made mistakes, even on the bull stage, by the way,

810
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 4: where you're like you don't sleep, and then you're like,

811
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 4: I know that if I do one thing right, it's

812
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 4: going to be that spot. Yeah, And the same spot

813
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 4: happened her again. That's a block on it. So I asked,

814
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 4: was like.

815
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 2: Are you okay?

816
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 4: And then we got back to it. So that was

817
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 4: super fast into.

818
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 2: The Woods was also super fast, and all.

819
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 3: Of those shows are incredibly difficult alone with a proper

820
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 3: rehearsal schedule, to then be thrown into a Bowl experience

821
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 3: like that is actually my stomach is true.

822
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 4: It's crazy. And they get these like insane power house TV,

823
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 4: film stage stars, and I guess there must be a reason,

824
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 4: and I think a small portion of them is. I'm

825
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 4: sure it's like so they can do a certain kind

826
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 4: of contract, but I think it's also like and they're

827
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 4: so busy and so obviously we can only get them

828
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 4: for the short amount of time. And like, I feel

829
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 4: like I could speak on behalf of every cast I've

830
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 4: ever worked with at the Bowl that were like, we'll

831
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 4: take another week, I will clear, I will clear this

832
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 4: week to give me less panic attacks. Yes, I did so.

833
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 4: Into the Woods was the first time they ever did

834
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 4: some time at the Bowl. And it ain't sure when.

835
00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 3: We did Hair at the Bull, it was ain't got

836
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,479
Speaker 3: no that song. I'm not kidding.

837
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever learned.

838
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh the way, I'm sure there's plenty of people

839
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 4: that didn't. Your fault is just like nowhere to hide.

840
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 4: It's because it's solos and it's just.

841
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: For you right four for yeah, I really.

842
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 4: I told my Nicolsha is a going story, so at

843
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 4: least I'll tell my own. I mean I definitely did,

844
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 4: like but it is no no, no non fault And like

845
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 4: I did, I did a no no no noa in

846
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 4: one and it was so horrible. Chips In was there

847
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 4: and he like kind of roasted me about it. He

848
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,399
Speaker 4: was the original Baker. But that Saturday the next night,

849
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, your fault is going to be

850
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 4: and it was such a stupid thing. I like, I

851
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 4: remember being on stage and I had the thought outside

852
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 4: of what I was doing, which was like, wow, this

853
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 4: is going really well. Like nobody's rushing, Gayton's like Gayton's

854
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 4: leading the charge and and I was like, that's my

855
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 4: line and like immediately no, no no in my line

856
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 4: and I was just like I can't believe I no

857
00:41:56,080 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 4: none had son right, twenty thousand people, it just.

858
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: Doesn't stop moving without you.

859
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 4: That's exactly right. That especially that song, and like you know,

860
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 4: I got to do Sunn Foster's dream role with her

861
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 4: right here because she played the Baker's wife, which was

862
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 4: really exciting and fun and cool. But yeah, I mean

863
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 4: it's fast and furious, and I then did another. I

864
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,439
Speaker 4: did a Sondheim celebration which had some of the same

865
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 4: castes into the woods, and then Patty Laphone and Brian

866
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 4: Stokes Mitchell. I get to do all the Sunday in

867
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 4: the Park with George stuff, which is my total dream roll.

868
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 4: And I got to do like finishing the hat in

869
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 4: front of you know, bowle full of people, scaled up,

870
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 4: scaled up so it's like bigger than it would ever

871
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 4: be on Broadway.

872
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

873
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 4: Cool, Yeah, it was really an amazing moment. And we

874
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 4: had the guy Adam who does the imagineering projections onto

875
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 4: the Castle for the shows at Disney, doing projections onto

876
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 4: the arches of the Bowl for Sweety Todd. It was

877
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 4: like a bunch of blood splatter and a bunch of

878
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 4: Sweeney Todd like looking art. And then for Sunday he

879
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 4: had the actual Sunday in the Park on the arches

880
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 4: and we ended with Sunday too, which was beautiful. So

881
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 4: I got to do the eleven o'clock number was here

882
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,919
Speaker 4: at Box. It was really really fun, and that leads

883
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 4: me to my final thing that I did at the

884
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 4: Bowl most recently, which was the music of Claude, Michelle

885
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 4: Schoenberg and Elaine Bublil, who wrote Le Miz and miss

886
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 4: I Gone. How did I miss this?

887
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 2: Was? I don't know you have children about to say,

888
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have missed that.

889
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 4: I bring it up because so many people just like you, Jenna,

890
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 4: are humongous fans, and so when you're doing those songs,

891
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 4: yeah they're a bit slower. Thankfully, they're humongous things. Not

892
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 4: only does everyone know all the words, they know the

893
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 4: dynamics of how it's supposed to sound. They know that

894
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 4: you're supposed to date crescendo with perfect vocal control by

895
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 4: the end of bring Them Home or whatever, so that

896
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 4: each one of them had their own unique like I

897
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 4: can't believe I'm about to be in my own aware

898
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 4: essentially in front of all these people who are just

899
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 4: clinging and clanging their dinner, just like as if you know,

900
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,919
Speaker 4: sit back, relax and smell the weed. By the way,

901
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 4: that was the first time I've ever like smelled weed

902
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 4: when performing during.

903
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: The re Oh yeah, that was right, yes.

904
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 4: And something they don't tell you that I then was

905
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 4: able to like tell other casts was there's like a

906
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 4: very slight delay in the audience reaction, and so I'll

907
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 4: never forget finishing each Yes, the opening number of Rent

908
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,879
Speaker 4: with me and Aaron Tavate, he played Roger.

909
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 2: And we do the big everything is rare.

910
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 4: After twenty minutes of exposition, we like finally have our

911
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,959
Speaker 4: first applause break and it was just crickets but then

912
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 4: rumbling down the hill. I heard it and finally got

913
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 4: hit with it, but it was so weirdly anti climactic.

914
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 4: If there could be a close up on my face,

915
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 4: I wonder just like, did I do something? Like is

916
00:44:58,280 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 4: is it out? Like?

917
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 2: What's what is?

918
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 4: What is the thing that's making them not obviously clap

919
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 4: is like it's teed up for us. So I told people,

920
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 4: I said, when we finished and home before dark, bo

921
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 4: just know a quick millisecond for you to hear that,

922
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 4: Oh god, the panic full. This is all good to hear.

923
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 4: I'm new to theater, so this is making me feel.

924
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: You got to do the bullet some point when I'm.

925
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 4: Ready do the bullet some point. But like everything I've

926
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 4: ever done at the Bowl, I've always been like, God,

927
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 4: would it be amazing to close the balls and just

928
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 4: do this in a private theater with acoustics and did you.

929
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: Do your sits probes in the in the because that's

930
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: a highlight major. It was like highlight They do all theirs.

931
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 4: With the La Philharmonic better than Yes, they now do

932
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 4: it at I've done both, but now my most recent

933
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 4: times they do it at like a big you know,

934
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 4: like rehearsal space. And Banker was, yeah, exactly, which is

935
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 4: still cool to jam fifty or sixty at the best

936
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 4: musicians and you're just staring right at each other. But

937
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 4: the concert all is amazing because it's made for literal acoustics.

938
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 2: So oh my god, oh my god, I'm just you

939
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 2: did a little shop. How was that? Yeah? It was fun.

940
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 4: I've never replaced before, and I got to just be thrust.

941
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 4: I was one of the first replacements to end, and

942
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 4: it was during a COVID outbreak, so there was I've

943
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 4: never You probably know a little bit about like how

944
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 4: when you go into a show, you rehearse with the

945
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:37,280
Speaker 4: understudies and the stage manager is kind of the director.

946
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 4: Like I didn't even work with Michael Mayer, who I

947
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 4: know so well. He's like, how's it going. I'm like

948
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:46,280
Speaker 4: kind of a mess because like everyone's out, it's literally

949
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 4: just me and a stage manager, and like literally I

950
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 4: think I had like scene members to rehearse with like

951
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 4: a few times, and I begged Michael, I said, if

952
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:59,760
Speaker 4: you come, please do not come on my first performance

953
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 4: because it's not a true opening night. I need to

954
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 4: see how this goes. Of course, the only time he

955
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 4: came to see me was my opening night, and it

956
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 4: did get He's like, but it went so well.

957
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know, but it so easily could have not.

958
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 2: And so that was crazy.

959
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:17,240
Speaker 4: And also that another incredible experience, similarly to Crazy Ex Girlfriend,

960
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 4: where the reputation proceeds itself. It's like the most fun

961
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 4: sandbox ever. Everyone's warm. It's such a special theater, such

962
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,720
Speaker 4: a special space, such a special production, such a special cast,

963
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 4: I remember. But the theater doesn't have like spotlights, so

964
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 4: you have to literally be in your on your mark,

965
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 4: like you have to be on four on six, like

966
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 4: two and a half here if you want to like

967
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 4: end in the pool of light for the opening. And

968
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 4: so that was a little stressful. And the stage manager

969
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 4: at the time was definitely giving me. And I pride

970
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 4: myself on being like a quick learner, but he was

971
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 4: giving me more than I could ever ever he was

972
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 4: even like and Jesse, you know, Robert sometimes overshoots his

973
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 4: mark is sometimes Jonathan like moves him over in the blackout.

974
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 4: I'm like, what do you give me? Yeah, yeah, I

975
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 4: used to do. I'm not a fixer yet. I'm trying

976
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 4: to like insert myself in here.

977
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 2: To be like jumping other people. I'm not gras yet.

978
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 2: I know.

979
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 3: I don't know if you remember Skyler, but my first

980
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 3: performance in Spring was no.

981
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 1: I had no put in.

982
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 3: I didn't even have a costume because there was a

983
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 3: flu going around, and so I think Lauren was out,

984
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 3: Phoebe was out, Aaron went in, Uh Aaron, because then

985
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 3: had to go in also, so then I had to

986
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 3: go in as Honor. Maybe Phoebe was out, Yes, exactly.

987
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 3: It was a full blackout moment. I'd never stepped foot

988
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 3: on that stage other than rehearsal with the stage manager.

989
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 3: I had not performed with any of the girls. I'd

990
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 3: never done Mama before, and I literally was like they

991
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 3: were like go and I thought I was going to vomit.

992
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: And I neede it through obviously, but like it is.

993
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 2: That was you guys are freaks. I don't know how

994
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 2: you guys do this.

995
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 4: This wasn't by choice, Kevin, Like, we didn't quite Jenna

996
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 4: didn't really sign up for that moment. Like, that's an

997
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 4: actual actor's nightmare. And for those of you don't know, actors'

998
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 4: nightmare is when you it's similarly when you didn't study

999
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:16,919
Speaker 4: for the test. You have a dream and you don't

1000
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 4: know your lines and you're on set one's looking at you,

1001
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 4: and that is literally as close as you'll ever come

1002
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 4: to an actor's nightmare. We had COVID breakouts where they're

1003
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 4: calling people from the original in twenty nineteen run in

1004
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 4: twenty twenty two being like do you.

1005
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 2: Remember urchin number two?

1006
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:37,280
Speaker 4: And like tight harmonies, tight choreography, like these are people

1007
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 4: that swung those roles, like Jenna was a swing meaning

1008
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 4: she has to know every part of every you know,

1009
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 4: imagine doing the five person girl group, but you know

1010
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 4: every harmony. So if you're on for Remy tonight or

1011
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 4: on for Phoebe tonight, it is like same but totally different.

1012
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I can't. I can't.

1013
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 4: That is a special skill that I'm sure Jenna like

1014
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 4: you're grateful it happened, but also probably don't ever want

1015
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:02,320
Speaker 4: to do that again.

1016
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:06,720
Speaker 3: Thrilled it feels like a rite of passage and something

1017
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 3: that like it's funny because I remember even when Lauren

1018
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 3: was leaving the show, when you guys all were departing

1019
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 3: and they were looking for the new cast, like I

1020
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 3: was like, hey, Michael, I'd love to be considered for real,

1021
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 3: so like, of course you want to be like put

1022
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 3: up to bat like everybody else, and he was like,

1023
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 3: you're too valuable, like I can't, I can't take you, and.

1024
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: You're like I hate to be fair. Like whatever it

1025
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: wasn't my roller would have been, you know.

1026
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 3: But like still there's a part of it that's like

1027
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 3: swings are so valuable and they it takes a certain

1028
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 3: skill set, but it also takes a certain amount of

1029
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 3: like being able to handle the pressure and then deliver

1030
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 3: that is so stressful that I was like, I do

1031
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 3: not want to do this again.

1032
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 4: This is it sucks and is so unfair that that's

1033
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 4: the answer. But that's that's definitely the truth. It had

1034
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 4: nothing to do with whether or not you're capable. You're

1035
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 4: clearly capable for all of them, which is why you're

1036
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,399
Speaker 4: more valuable. But it's like you don't want to hear

1037
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 4: that because you're like, hey, I want to be like

1038
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 4: a full timer. Yeah, just give me one and be like,

1039
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 4: I want to be full time. I don't want to

1040
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,879
Speaker 4: have to always be like Also in that show, the

1041
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 4: understudies were on stage singers.

1042
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:12,240
Speaker 2: This is Jenna Storytel meant.

1043
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,760
Speaker 1: That you out, we need your time, we need.

1044
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 4: You for act too, because so and so sprained their

1045
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 4: ankle or there was a lot of mid show call

1046
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 4: outs in that show. I pride myself on never having

1047
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 4: done that before. I would have to be thankfully, we're

1048
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 4: not going to mention names. Also because I would never

1049
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 4: claim to say that it wasn't warranted on their end,

1050
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 4: but I would have to literally be a vocal cord

1051
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 4: would have to be snipped off me or I would

1052
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 4: have to have an ankle dangling, because I just I

1053
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 4: think that's such a mind screw for the audience to

1054
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 4: be like by the way, all the like, and it's

1055
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 4: literally as like you're like, well, how did they even

1056
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 4: like alert the audience. It's like, oh, it's literally like

1057
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 4: the curtain or non curtain comes down. There's just a blackout,

1058
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 4: and then it's like the least sexy stage manager voice.

1059
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 5: Being like ladies and gentlemen, so right now, actually everything's

1060
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 5: different and this person's a different human ka keep going

1061
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 5: and everyone's like and sometimes it would happen like deep

1062
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 5: into act too and we've already spent two hours with

1063
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 5: these people.

1064
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we were.

1065
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: The last scene even like Purple Summer.

1066
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,760
Speaker 4: Well because like we also and now I will defend

1067
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 4: and I'm glad we're not naming names because it was

1068
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 4: a little bit of everyone had their own thing going on,

1069
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 4: and like it was a very rigorous, very physical show,

1070
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 4: and there were injuries and there were sicknesses, and there

1071
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 4: was some like youth partying and came through it, but

1072
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 4: there were definitely moments where I'm like, really, we couldn't

1073
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 4: just hold on for one more number, and this poor

1074
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 4: girl like with a different haircut, probably different ethnicity, different everything,

1075
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 4: different colored dress is coming on being like, hey, you

1076
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 4: don't know me yet, but let me just wrap this

1077
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 4: sukka up. I just thought that was a crazy thing

1078
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 4: for the people that have paid so much, but hey,

1079
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 4: that's why theater that it does happen.

1080
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,760
Speaker 2: It does happen, yes, And also by.

1081
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 4: The way, people get to say, oh my god, I

1082
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,760
Speaker 4: was at the show when I got to see this person,

1083
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 4: and then Jenna Ashkowitz, who went on to do she

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Speaker 4: like wrapped up the show.

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Speaker 2: M hm, they got to see. You know, it's always

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Speaker 2: very memorable. People like it.

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Speaker 4: It's always very re memborable for everyone in citing for

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Speaker 4: many different reasons.

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Speaker 3: Everybody before we let you go, we ask everybody what

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Speaker 3: is the feeling that Glee leaves you with? But because

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Speaker 3: you were only in well you were there, but like

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Speaker 3: because Zoe was your your baby as well, I'm going

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Speaker 3: to ask you, Zoe, what is the feeling that Zoe's

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Speaker 3: playlist leaves you with?

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Speaker 2: Pride?

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Speaker 4: Pride and a feeling of you know, we got a

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Speaker 4: lot of people through a lot of grief during the pandemic,

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Speaker 4: and I pride myself on you know, it's nice to

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Speaker 4: be a part of a show where you think it

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Speaker 4: was great and the show was so great, and like

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Speaker 4: the acting was so great. But like there's something that

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Speaker 4: transcends the show when people are like, hey, I really

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Speaker 4: like it was really a vehicle for getting through the

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Speaker 4: death of my father, or like it was just a

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Speaker 4: great escape, whether it was grief or just like, hey,

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Speaker 4: the world's kind of crazy right now. I get to

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Speaker 4: turn on NBC right now and like watch my favorite people,

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Speaker 4: and that's always been a dream of mine to have

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Speaker 4: a home on a show. I still have yet to

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Speaker 4: have one that's like run as long as Glee and

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Speaker 4: that I know so many people who are diehard Gleeks

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Speaker 4: and like what that did for them, Like, no matter

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Speaker 4: how old they get, they that will have a very

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Speaker 4: special place in their heart. So even to be a

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Speaker 4: small part of that and then a bigger part of

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Speaker 4: Zoe's which didn't go as long but definitely had an impact,

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Speaker 4: I think I think pride.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, beautiful sky Time.

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Speaker 2: So nice to see you. Thank you so much, so

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Speaker 2: much time. All right, love you guys.

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Speaker 1: Skyler.

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Speaker 2: Why we could just talk form forever?

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Speaker 1: I mean literally what a great interview.

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Speaker 2: I mean this is he does.

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Speaker 1: He's literally done everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy, he doesn't stop, That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Social, multi talented, but also like a good human.

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Speaker 2: It's so nice and he's great to work with, Like

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Speaker 2: he's easy to work with. He as you can tell,

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Speaker 2: he loves to work so smart.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the craft.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Skyler for coming on and for it was

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Speaker 3: a nice crossover too because we had him for Glee

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Speaker 3: and we had it so easy.

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Speaker 1: Hope you guys, enjoyed that episode.

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Speaker 2: I learned so much. So next up Rocky Horror Picture Show,

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Speaker 2: so you can watch with us. And that's what you

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Speaker 2: really missed. Thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram

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Speaker 2: at and That's what you really miss pod. Make sure

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Speaker 2: to write us a review and leave us five stars.

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Speaker 2: See you next time.