1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning. 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 2: Everybody is DJ en Vy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne, the gud 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 2: We are the breakfast Club. 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 1: We got a special guest in the building. 5 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, Lyncia Cabetti. Did I say it right? 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 4: Pretty close? 7 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 3: Well, what is it? 8 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 4: Cobetta Cobeta? 9 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: But got it? 10 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 3: Welcome, thank you, Welcome, welcome, welcome. 11 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:22,159 Speaker 2: Now, if you don't know who she is, she's an 12 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 2: actress and the first black actress. 13 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 5: Oh wait, wait, wait, look let me say something cause 14 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 5: she because she off here before we just started. She said, 15 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 5: how did y'all find me? I said, You're the first 16 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 5: black actress to play alpha Be full time? How can 17 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 5: we find she said? How dare I exact, sir, black 18 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 5: actress to play alpha Be full time on the Broadway Wicked? 19 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 3: How's congratulations first and foremost? 20 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I mean, it's a dream come true. 21 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 4: It's like surreal sometimes and sometimes I'm like, oh, yeah, 22 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 4: this is exactly where I always thought I would be 23 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 4: doing something like impactful for our community and our industry. 24 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 4: But most days are just like I'm just dumbfounded. I 25 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 4: can't believe I'm singing these songs what. 26 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: Did it mean for you personally and what did it 27 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 1: mean for Brown personally? 28 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 4: It was an opportunity to tell the story of my community, 29 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 4: our struggles, our strengths, our power, for our for our industry, 30 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 4: for the entertainment industry. I think it just opened the 31 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 4: eyes of who can do what and who was capable 32 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 4: of what, and just like brought a more creative outlook 33 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 4: to art. 34 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,839 Speaker 2: Now you ain't Hamilton before, but I want to start 35 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 2: from the beginning my birth. Okay, how did you get 36 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 2: into the arts? 37 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 4: Like? 38 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 3: What was it so special to you? Said this is 39 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 3: what I want to do. 40 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,479 Speaker 4: You know, It's funny. I started at church and I 41 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 4: hated singing. My parents saw something special in me and 42 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 4: kind of like thrust me into music and correct. Both 43 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 4: my parents are from Ethiopia immigrants, so I'm first generation 44 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 4: and I loved playing outside. I loved playing sports. I 45 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 4: was super into my academics too. I was just like 46 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 4: a really hype kid. I feel like I was just 47 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 4: I couldn't be stopped. Lots of energy, especially for this role. 48 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 4: But like being inside rahearsing and like I just was 49 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 4: like I want to be outside and I want to 50 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 4: be playing. But I started to see like how music 51 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:23,399 Speaker 4: affected people specifically in church and how that moved people spiritually. 52 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 4: And I was like, wait, I think I'm good at 53 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 4: this something. I don't know what it is. I don't 54 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 4: know how to hone in on it, but I know 55 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 4: that it just feels special. So I wanted to keep trying. 56 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 4: And then I started doing like community theater and middle 57 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 4: school and high school, and in college, I decided I 58 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 4: wasn't going to study it. I had other interests. I 59 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 4: studied diplomacy and world affairs and undergrad and politics, all 60 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 4: different angles to make like positive change to the world 61 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 4: around me. 62 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: I mean how many times? 63 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 2: And then you got to Broadway, So explain how you 64 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,519 Speaker 2: got to Broadway and those feelings. 65 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 4: Midway through my five year run in Hamilton, the audition 66 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 4: for Alphabat came up and I already actually had another 67 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 4: job offer that I was very excited to embark on, 68 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 4: and my team was like, I mean, it depends on 69 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 4: what you want to do, and I was like, WHOA, 70 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 4: no black woman has ever played this role. I'm not 71 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 4: going to pass up this opportunity. So auditions it was 72 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 4: like six rounds across maybe like four months of me 73 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 4: flying to New York from La on Zoom, just lots 74 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 4: of different It's a long process. If that's such a 75 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 4: technical skill, would that that is required for this character. 76 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 4: So after all those rounds and the up and downs 77 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 4: of the emotions, I got it. I don't, I gotta, 78 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 4: I don't, am I good? I don't know. It's just 79 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,119 Speaker 4: like so much inner turmoil. I finally got the call 80 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 4: from my agent and I started cracking up. I'd like 81 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 4: I couldn't even like emote. I was just like, this 82 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 4: cannot be happening right now. 83 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 6: I think thought it was a joke or you or 84 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 6: you didn't know what you felt. 85 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 4: I think I didn't know what I felt. I was 86 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 4: like in shock. Yeah, at that point, I think I 87 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 4: had convinced myself that it was highly possible. I was. 88 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 4: I was in the final like four people maybe, but 89 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 4: I was like Universe, God, Mother, Earth, I receive whatever 90 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 4: is mine, however, I want this set, and I feel 91 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 4: like I would be great for this moment, but like, 92 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 4: I accept the outcome. So I think I was. I 93 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 4: was playing both outcomes internally so well that no matter 94 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 4: what that call would have whatever the outcome of that 95 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 4: call would have been, I would have been ready so 96 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 4: I think my body was like, oh, okay, this is happening. 97 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 4: I had to like go on a walk and like 98 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 4: ground myself to remember what was real. I couldn't believe this. 99 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 7: Mean, how many times do people try to gas like 100 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 7: you like, is America ready for a black alpable? 101 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 4: Right? 102 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 1: Like the damn green face isn't fantasy enough. 103 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 4: It's so silly, and it's people say things like she's green, 104 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 4: like it doesn't matter what her race is, and I'm like, 105 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 4: she's green exactly. She looks different than everybody else. That 106 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 4: is the point. So I do think the world was ready. 107 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 4: I do think the world was ready, and I feel 108 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 4: so grateful that it was me. 109 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:08,799 Speaker 1: You know, it's only interesting. 110 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 7: Like I took my nine year old and my six 111 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 7: year old to see Working on Broadway and they saw 112 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 7: the movie, so it's the Dim Alpha. 113 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 3: But is black? 114 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: Isn't that? 115 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 7: Like if I say, if I say that to them, 116 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 7: you're like, you know, she's black, right, Like of course. 117 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: That's all they know. 118 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 4: Is as crazy that this generation gets to live in 119 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 4: this in this climate and see it as normal, Like 120 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 4: that's what they get to grow up experiencing. And that's 121 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 4: my favorite part of this is this whole generation that 122 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 4: is just this is their norm. 123 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: Why do you think it took decades for a black 124 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: woman to get this role full time? 125 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 4: Like? 126 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: What does that say about Broadway? If anything, I. 127 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 4: Think art is a reflection of the society it represents. 128 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 4: So I don't think Broadway was particularly doing anything outside 129 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 4: of what our country represented. And as times have changed, 130 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 4: so has art. Art has shifted. So I feel like 131 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 4: it's exactly the timing is exactly right. And again, like 132 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 4: I can't speak to why I took this long, but 133 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 4: all I know is I'm happy I'm here. 134 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 3: Do you get a lot of love or do you 135 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 3: get a lot of hate? 136 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,679 Speaker 4: I get a lot of love. I mean, haters are haters. 137 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 4: There's always haters, there's always critics. 138 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 2: The reason I asked is like I took my kids too, 139 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 2: And of course the majority of people in there are others. 140 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 3: Well, I should say all white. 141 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, but I was wondering lovers. 142 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: You're the other. 143 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 4: Actually I'm green, okay? 144 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 3: And what type of hate do you get? Is it letters? 145 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: Is it? You know? 146 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 2: Because I thought that the play was phenomenal, Like I said, 147 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 2: when I seen you in Hall, I took my three 148 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 2: year old, and then I took my twenty three. 149 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 4: Year old, Wow, and they both enjoyed it. 150 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 3: They both joyed great. 151 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 4: Across the generations people relate. I mean, it's the hate. 152 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 4: I don't know. I wouldn't even call it hate more 153 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 4: than just like strong opinions, because less so about race, 154 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 4: more just because this is a long running show twenty 155 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 4: two years. Everyone who has seen who comes to see 156 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 4: Wicked has seen Wicked more or less. The amount of 157 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 4: people who are new to this piece of work is 158 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 4: very little, so everybody knows every word, every intonation, like 159 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 4: every way every single line goes or every vocal part goes. 160 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 4: So it's less like why they're a black Alphaba. I 161 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 4: don't really get that. There's more celebratory energy about the 162 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 4: racial thing. But people just like what they like, and 163 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 4: you know what, that's fine. I cannot be for everyone, 164 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 4: and I think that's what this show is teaching me, 165 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 4: especially this character who has to fight with the world 166 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 4: around her not trusting her and misunderstanding her. But she 167 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 4: always says true to who she is, and that I 168 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 4: think is my biggest takeaway from playing this role. 169 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 5: What was the most challenging part about playing Alphaba? 170 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 4: If there are any I would say a mental and 171 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 4: emotional fatigue. The show is very emotionally taxing. I am 172 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 4: constantly faced with like the biggest, most complicated inner feelings 173 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 4: that specifically a black woman can experience, feeling othered, feeling misunderstood, 174 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 4: not being trusted, disillusionment, believing in someone, trusting in someone, 175 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 4: and then realizing that it's not what it seems. So 176 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of times when I leave 177 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 4: the show and I have to just like I don't 178 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 4: even turn on the lights in my apartment for hours. 179 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 4: I have to be like dead in my head because 180 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,559 Speaker 4: it's just like the emotional rollercoaster of what the character 181 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 4: requires also requires me to plug in and charge when 182 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 4: I'm not there. 183 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 7: Let's stay there for a minute. Yeah, because alphabet is 184 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 7: one of the most demanding roles in. 185 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 4: If not the most, you have the most. 186 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 7: So what's your apprecial ritual to get into that headspace 187 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 7: and voice space every night? 188 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 4: I think I definitely take stock in how I'm feeling. 189 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 4: If I'm feeling like more tired, maybe I listen to 190 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 4: like hype music, or like take a walk, or like 191 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,079 Speaker 4: take a hot yoga class, something to get me my 192 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 4: energy going. But if I'm feeling particularly stimulated that day, 193 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 4: sometimes listening to like jazz and something calmer, I usually 194 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 4: do like a thirty minute warm up, half of it physical, 195 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 4: half of it vocal. And then while I'm getting the greening, 196 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 4: which takes thirty minutes to do my makeup every day. 197 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 4: When they're doing that for me, that's when I play music, 198 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 4: and music I feel like is what drops me into 199 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 4: whatever emotional space I need to get into the character. 200 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 5: Make up only take thirteen thirty minute thirty minutes, Yeah, yeah, 201 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 5: I expect it more right. 202 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 4: People usually think it takes like hours. It was gonna 203 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:34,839 Speaker 4: probably just do your face, neck and hands right right 204 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 4: and like a little bit down my back, but like 205 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 4: it's only a little bit down my arm. 206 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 2: So do you have a life on Broadway? Can you 207 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 2: have a life on Broadway with the amount of shows. 208 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 3: That you see? Let me tell you. 209 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 4: Eight a week. We have one day off yesterday, I 210 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 4: would say there, you can have a life on Broadway 211 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 4: When you're Alphaba, though, which is a different. 212 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: Beast life that's very difficult. 213 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 4: I think. I try. I'm a communal being. I need 214 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 4: the energy of other so I try to balance it. 215 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 4: But most states. I do spend chilling on my own because, 216 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 4: like I said, the mental toll is really I really 217 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 4: have to like relax in order to bring my whole 218 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 4: heart and soul emotionally to the characters. So everybody has 219 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 4: a life, but I have less of a life right now. 220 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:19,959 Speaker 4: But you know what the sacrifice is worth it? Let 221 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,439 Speaker 4: me tell you it is worth it. 222 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 7: What's harder hitting that defying gravity? Note eight times a 223 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 7: week are carrying the weight of representation every time. 224 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 4: The curry cool? Ain't that the question? Definitely the representation. 225 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 4: It's just it means so much to so many people. 226 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 4: And like I think another back to what you were 227 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 4: saying about the hardest parts of the role, Like I 228 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 4: put a lot of pressure on myself to make every 229 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 4: interaction I have through this period of my life has 230 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 4: something meaningful to audiences black, brown, white, It don't matter. 231 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 4: Like I just I think that that opportunity can sometimes 232 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 4: feel like pressure to me, just because I care so 233 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 4: much and I've really want especially the kids. I want 234 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 4: kids to go away feeling empowered. So defying gravity is 235 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 4: like it's like a science is like this is how 236 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 4: you're sing. It is vocal technique, but with the cultural, racial, 237 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 4: emotional aspects of it. Like those those things take real 238 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 4: care and I really put a lot of effort into 239 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 4: how I present myself and what I share with my community. 240 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: So you feel actual pressure to represent. 241 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 4: I do feel pressure in that. I feel like it's 242 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 4: more self induced, just because, like I said, I care 243 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 4: so much about positively impacting the world around me, and 244 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 4: that's I feel like that's been one of my dreams 245 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 4: since I was a kid, Like I never knew what 246 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 4: I would do growing up, but like that's kind of 247 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 4: why I went into politics for a little while too 248 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 4: and still have a passion for it, is that I 249 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 4: care so much about just like positively inspiring people. So yeah, 250 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 4: I do feel pressure, only because that's what I choose 251 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 4: to care about. I don't think anybody puts it on 252 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 4: me besides myself, which is why this role teaches me 253 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,679 Speaker 4: to stay you know, connected and true to who I am, 254 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 4: regardless of what's happening around me. 255 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: Because I feel like, if you just bring your full 256 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 1: self to the role, that's enough. 257 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 4: I completely agree, and that's exactly what the character does. 258 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 4: She brings herself to all these crazy life situations, and 259 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 4: that's how she survives and thrives. 260 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 2: Do you did you reach out to actresses before you 261 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 2: to just to ask them how the role was and 262 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 2: the role and are they open to it, especially you 263 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 2: being black? Well, were they open to it or wasn't 264 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 2: one of those states? 265 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 4: Like yeah, No, they were incredibly open. They call it 266 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 4: kind of like a sisterhood. Like the people who have 267 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 4: played Alphaba, they all sort of say, like, nobody can 268 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 4: know what it's like until you've done it, So like 269 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 4: any vocal teacher, any like voice doctor, therapists, like I 270 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 4: can't explain to anybody in words what it feels like 271 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 4: unless you you know, you've experienced it. So hearing their 272 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 4: experiences was like incredibly inspiring and just like really positive 273 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 4: guidance for me dealing with the strenuous nature of it. 274 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 4: Like the one main thing I took away from all 275 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 4: those conversations was like the girls, a lot of the 276 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 4: girls were saying, like, anything you experience, every other alphabet 277 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 4: has experienced, so like you're not alone in those intense 278 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 4: feelings when it gets difficult. So that just made me 279 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 4: feel less crazy. 280 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 2: And what's the craziest thing that's happened on stage? Did 281 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 2: you see like a favorite celebrity in the stage directive 282 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,319 Speaker 2: one to the bathroom, What was the craziest thing that 283 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 2: happened to you as. 284 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: You good question. 285 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 4: I can't really see the audience sometimes sometimes when I 286 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 4: know something like Serena Williams when the audience recently and 287 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 4: I was like, oh, Queen. Sometimes I stumble words and 288 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 4: like say crazy things and I just have to like 289 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 4: find a way to get around it. 290 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 6: But during the performance, yes it happens. 291 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 4: I don't think so unless there's like a long silence. 292 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 4: I think people are so dropped into the show that 293 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 4: they're like, they're not worried. 294 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 6: Have you met Cynthia Arriva. 295 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 4: I haven't met her yet. She did send me flowers 296 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 4: on my debut, my first show, which was sweet. But 297 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 4: I think we should probably be doing some stuff soon. 298 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 7: How do you navigate being celebrated but still feeling like 299 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 7: you're breaking through systems that weren't designed for you. 300 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 4: I celebrate myself because what I'm doing is a literal revolution, 301 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 4: and I believe art is a part of social change 302 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 4: and political growth. I believe art shapes culture and culture 303 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 4: shapes art. It's sort of symbiotic in that way. So 304 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 4: I feel like the fact that I have the opportunity 305 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 4: to break through these barriers also like strengthens my relationship 306 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 4: with myself. I'm like, yeah, you did that. 307 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: Who was your elphab growing up? Like, who made you 308 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: believe you can defy gravity? 309 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 4: That's a great question, I would say, seeing Cynthia for sure. 310 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 4: I mean Cynthia has done so many amazing projects, yeah, 311 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 4: which like haven't just inspired me endlessly. Audre McDonald also 312 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 4: how she has crossed over to different industries, to within 313 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 4: the entertainment industry. So seeing black women be sort of 314 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 4: like multi hyphenated artists, it's inspired me so much and 315 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 4: made me feel like like if they can do it, 316 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 4: you know I can't do. 317 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 6: Do you remember your first audition for a Wicked Yes? 318 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it was terrified, shaking. I remember the first 319 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 4: time I sang define gravity in front of the creative team. 320 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 4: I feel like my hands were like literally like I 321 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 4: was like, yeah, I was so nervous. It was probably 322 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 4: one of the hardest things I overcame in my career 323 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 4: so far, like that day, because it meant so much 324 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 4: to me. I knew what it would mean if I 325 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 4: would continue on in the process being the first black 326 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 4: woman in the possible first black woman in the role, 327 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 4: and just the difficulty of the material. I was stressed. 328 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 4: But then when I did it, I was like, no, 329 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 4: I can do anything. Like once I did it the 330 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 4: first time, I was like, I'm good, I got it. 331 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: Are you a sick thing or do anything together at 332 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: the Tony Awards because you said. 333 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 4: I pray, honey, that's what I'm I am asking the 334 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 4: universe and doing all the networking I can try to get. 335 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 4: She is hosting, I pray. I pray. So if anyone 336 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 4: can hear me, bring me to the Tonys. I would 337 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 4: like to be in attendance. I think it would be 338 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 4: really great for our community. 339 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: You haven't been nominated yet. 340 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 4: I can't be nominated for Wicked because it's not a 341 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 4: new show in this season. I know that, Yeah, that's 342 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 4: a thing. 343 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: That's crazy. But if you're an actress, are actor that 344 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: takes the role to another level, yeah you've done well. 345 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 4: Thank you one to I agree. I do think that 346 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 4: long running show should have the opportunity to award you know, 347 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 4: particular performances in that way. But for my knowledge of 348 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 4: how it works, it's about the new works of that season. 349 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 4: There's like a maybe you know, September of the last 350 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 4: year until March of the current year or something some 351 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 4: timeline that the show has to open. From what I understand. 352 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 6: Back to what and he was asking you like, do 353 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 6: you have a life outside? 354 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 4: Ye? 355 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 6: So look right, So you don't you have friends? Of course? 356 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: Okaye? 357 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 4: Please? I need a community. 358 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 6: Okay, right, okay? 359 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 5: So you you're a liber you got a birthday coming up? Yes, 360 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 5: what are you going to? 361 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 4: Like? 362 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 6: What do you do for your birthday? Are you working? 363 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 4: I don't know. I guess if my birthday falls on 364 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 4: a Monday, it would be rare and that I would 365 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:31,400 Speaker 4: be off, but most likely I'm working. 366 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,439 Speaker 5: You're off on Mondays, off on Mondays and that's the 367 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 5: only d that's the only day. 368 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: And so you work tonight? Correct? 369 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, we got shows tonight? 370 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 4: What days? 371 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 3: You have two shows today? 372 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 4: One? No? Today is one Wednesday and Saturday or two 373 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 4: usually two shows. 374 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 6: In a day. 375 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 5: You can't even have a shot if you I can't 376 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 5: even pop up on you with a bottle, like girl. 377 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 4: I wish I could even have a shot. This entire 378 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 4: year gives a glass of wine a month. 379 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 5: Okay, So how do you celebrate being alphabet? How do 380 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 5: you celebrate that, like really, because it always doesn't have 381 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 5: to involve. 382 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 4: In a party. 383 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, how do you celebrate? 384 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 4: I mean it really is sometimes very simple things like 385 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 4: taking a walk by the water, like it seems I 386 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 4: know it's peace and just like I've never lived in 387 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 4: New York City. I'm from California. 388 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: I will take the. 389 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 4: Water, I'll take the natural whatever or the trees. But 390 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 4: like it always, it always hits me hard when I 391 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 4: think about, like why I'm in New York. It's for 392 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 4: this job. It's for this special groundbreaking role that I'm in. 393 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 4: So like when I when I finished the eighth show 394 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,679 Speaker 4: week and I literally just walk out the theater, like 395 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 4: I just this piece comes over me because I'm like, 396 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 4: look what I have accomplished, and look where I am 397 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 4: in this city that I've always wanted to live in. 398 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 4: So I feel like celebration comes in very simple, I guess, 399 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,200 Speaker 4: non conventional ways, but not really just personal ways. But like, look, 400 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 4: I take my days off next week, I'm going to 401 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 4: Vegas and visit my friends, and I will be having 402 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 4: a grand time. 403 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 1: Sometimes gratitude to celebrate, I. 404 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 4: Agree, That's what I mean, Like just walking out the 405 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 4: out of the theater, and being like just taking a 406 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 4: moment to feel what I'm doing. I feel like I've 407 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 4: won the lottery. 408 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 3: Is it true that you know it's hard to get 409 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 3: take us to wicked at times? 410 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 4: Right? Yeah? 411 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 2: Is it true that for one of your shows you 412 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 2: had sixty family members in presence for one of your shows? 413 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 4: That is correct? And you know what, most of them 414 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 4: were family members and they all wore like are traditional 415 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 4: Ethiopian clothes. And I was like the groserwand has never 416 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 4: seen so many Africans And it made me so happy 417 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 4: just to see like my culture represented in that in 418 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 4: that space and. 419 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,199 Speaker 2: Talk about your culture. I've seen a picture on your 420 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 2: Instagram family together and you were saying, this is my tribe, 421 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 2: and yeah, how a close knit family? 422 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 3: How was that? Growing up? 423 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 4: Is everything? I mean, I think that's probably one of 424 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 4: the reasons I even had the confidence to pursue this 425 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 4: career path. Like my parents are immigrants, you know, most 426 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 4: of my aunts and uncles and parents are you know, 427 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 4: corporate politics. You know, did they understand? They did not understand, 428 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 4: but they did trust me, which is I think a 429 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 4: strong distinction because they knew my work ethic, they knew 430 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 4: that I had a very logical approach to it, but 431 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 4: having their support was invaluable. I mean I could not 432 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 4: be who I am today without every single one of them. 433 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, I did have a few more questions. I know 434 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: you should do. 435 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 4: I love being here. 436 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 3: I got time. 437 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,959 Speaker 4: I got time for you, Trum, I got time for you. 438 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 7: I remember seeing you cry after performing defying Gravity one time, Like. 439 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 4: That's probably true, Yes happens often. 440 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: What were you feel so you cry all the time? 441 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 4: Not all the time, but I would say every now 442 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 4: and then. 443 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 1: What were you feeling in that particular moment. 444 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 4: That moment in the show is Alphaba realizing her power, 445 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 4: not knowing it, but just realizing it, if that makes sense. 446 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 4: So when I get up there and I'm you know, 447 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 4: flying and singing that song, it's like it's the ultimate. 448 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 4: It's it's like arriving at self actualization. It's like I'm 449 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 4: at the starting line of like anything I could possibly be. 450 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 4: So sometimes when I hit the last note and lights 451 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 4: go off, I'm like I like this because I'm like, 452 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 4: like I'm doing it. I'm doing the thing that like 453 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,439 Speaker 4: my ancestors could not even imagine, Like even me as 454 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 4: a kid, I couldn't. I couldn't even dream. I didn't 455 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 4: even dream of being elb Like that wasn't even an option. 456 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 4: It wasn't even like I understood the racial divide as 457 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 4: a kid. It was just not even something I even 458 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 4: had the purview to imagine. So now in that moment, 459 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 4: stepping into my power and let and having that being 460 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 4: the beginning of my my journey, it's like it's it's 461 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 4: overwhelming in the best way. 462 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 6: Wow, your birthday is on Wednesdays. 463 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 4: And it's two shows. I'll be in the theater. It's fine, right, 464 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 4: it'll be green reinfressing. 465 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 7: So what is the role taught you about yourself? Not 466 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 7: not as a performer, well, not just as a performer, but. 467 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 4: As That's such a good question because I always like 468 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 4: to I give a lot to my characters, but like 469 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 4: I like to examine what my characters are giving me too. 470 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 4: I think we sort of touched upon it. But she's 471 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 4: she's teaching me to be unapologetic in who I am, 472 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 4: and like you were saying, like trust that showing up 473 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 4: being in this role is what is impactful. I don't 474 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 4: have to do anything else besides just literally be the 475 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 4: representation on the stage. So she's really she's really challenging 476 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 4: me to get my values in order in that you know, 477 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 4: my relationship with myself is the priority and is my superpower. 478 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 3: Now you did it. You did backup singing for Beyonce 479 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 3: one time. 480 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 4: I did talk about that and who crazy? It was 481 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 4: only a couple of weeks. It was for her Coachella 482 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:04,160 Speaker 4: rehearsals and what shoot twenty eighteen? Yeah, I think, And 483 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 4: just to see the master, I mean, that's it. Like 484 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 4: she is everything you can imagine, and she's so grounded. 485 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 4: And to watch how she interacts with every department of 486 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 4: every aspect of her of her art is beautiful, down 487 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 4: to every every step, every costume, every lighting, music choice, 488 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 4: like it's it was so inspiring to be to be 489 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 4: in her presence. 490 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 5: And don't ever say it was only for I ain't 491 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 5: saying for a four hour if you were twenty five 492 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,479 Speaker 5: years old, you were so young, I am able to 493 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 5: experience that. 494 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 6: That's dope. 495 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,360 Speaker 4: It's so crazy. Yeah, bless her for that experience. Really 496 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 4: life changing. 497 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 7: What's more intense doing that a Broadway? 498 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 4: I heard this eight shows a week, Like it's the frequency, 499 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, If it was a couple 500 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 4: of week, it'd be different. You know what I'm saying, 501 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 4: Like one show a day, a couple times a week, 502 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 4: manageable every day, it's a lot. 503 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: How do you want your time as Alpha? 504 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 7: But to be remembered, You wanted to be remembered as 505 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 7: a turning point, a movement, are beginning? 506 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 6: Oof? 507 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 4: I love that turning point, movement or beginning? Can I 508 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 4: think it could be all of them? I really do. 509 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 4: I think it's it's a turning point because it's a 510 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 4: you know, historic, it's the first time a movement, a 511 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 4: movement that has been moving already. So it's sort of 512 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 4: like I'm jumping on the train. Maybe I'm sitting in 513 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 4: the passenger seat, but I feel like that train is 514 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 4: already moving. And Yeah, I wanted to be a moment 515 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 4: where well, people look at me and wonder what their 516 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 4: own capabilities are, because that's what this experience was. I 517 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 4: didn't although I wanted to be the role, I didn't. 518 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 4: I wasn't sure that I was even equipped to manage 519 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 4: the intensity of how technical it is. But I took 520 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 4: a chance on myself. I took a chance on my 521 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 4: power and my my abilities, and that's what I want 522 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 4: this moment to be remembered as. 523 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 7: Yeah, man, it's like everyone deserves a chance to fly, 524 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 7: me have a whole different meaning with you. 525 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's my favorite line. I mean, what 526 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 4: couldn't kept encapsulate the theme of the show more than everyone 527 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 4: deserves a chance to fly? So my leg Yeah, of course. 528 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 5: So the first week, your first week on broblem, after 529 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,439 Speaker 5: you realize okay, this is really eight shows, what was 530 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 5: that feeling on that Sunday? 531 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 4: You know this is probably gonna be surprising to you maybe, 532 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 4: but I was like, no, I got this. I was like, 533 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 4: I was so concerned with my ability to sustain this, 534 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 4: and I was wrong for doubting that I really was. 535 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,360 Speaker 4: I finished the week and I was like, look, it's 536 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 4: a lot of work. I'm tired. My body's tired, my 537 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 4: voice is tired, my mind is tired. But like I'm equipped. 538 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 4: I feel like I feel like I've had a lot 539 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 4: of work experiences that I've built me to be able 540 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 4: to sustain this, and like my body is strong so 541 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 4: long as I take care of her, she serves me. 542 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 4: So I finished that weekend, I was like so impressed 543 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,120 Speaker 4: with my own ability to be honest, I was shocked. 544 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 6: I was a shocked person got the job. 545 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 4: Thank you are amazing. 546 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: You keep killing it. Like I said, my family loved it. 547 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 2: We had a great time. So Kendy was expensive. I 548 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 2: ain't go from my kids wanted every piece of can. 549 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,360 Speaker 4: They know that the kids will eat the snacks. 550 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 3: But they had a great time. 551 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: Loved this so much. 552 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. 553 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: Man, my pleasure. 554 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 3: You gotta go check it out. 555 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 6: I am I'm the only one who has not seen it. 556 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 4: Come on out. 557 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 6: I'm coming girl. I know about you, so I'm like, 558 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 6: I gotta come and support you. 559 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 4: Appreciate it and you all amazing. Thank you all. 560 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 3: Right, Lyncia, Lyncia, Lyncia. 561 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 4: You got it. 562 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: Last name Cobetta co Betta. 563 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 6: He's still going to mess it. 564 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 3: Upright, ladies and gentlemen, It's the Breakfast Club. 565 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 1: Come morning. 566 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Thank you so much. 567 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.