1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: And That's what You Really missed with Jenna. 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 2: And Kevin An. 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 3: iHeartRadio podcast. 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 2: Welcome to and That's what You Really miss podcast. We 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 2: have a dear old friend, Tracy Tom's here. She played 6 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 2: Joanne in Rent in the musical movie and then on Broadway. 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: She has a huge career. I don't think she needs 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 2: a huge instruction. She's a dear friend, wonderful human, and 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 2: you know she was Endeavor's product. So that's all I'm 10 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 2: gonna say. I also have an experience together where I 11 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 2: have an embarrassing moment that haunts me forever still to this. 12 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: Day that we talk about. 13 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 2: So I hope you guys enjoy the conversation. Enjoy Tracy, 14 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 2: and thanks for coming to listen. 15 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on. I really appreciate it. Of course, 16 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: we just recapped Rent the. 17 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 3: Movie twenty years ago. 18 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 2: Lord me and Adam on and he chatted about all 19 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 2: the things lovely Adam. 20 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: But yeah, we have a lot to talk about. I 21 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: feel like. 22 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,559 Speaker 2: I have a funny story that I have to share 23 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 2: with you or a reminder of a memory. But also 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: I feel like we've never like talked about Wren in 25 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: the movie and our careers, because like that's not what 26 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 2: we usually talk about when we see each other. 27 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: So why would we? Why would we? But here we are. 28 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: You've done a lot. You've done a lot. You've done 29 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: a lot of film and TV and screen, and you've 30 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: done a. 31 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 2: Lot of stage. Where did it start for you? And yeah, 32 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 2: just where did you get your start? Like where when 33 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 2: did you find the bug for the theater and the 34 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 2: screen and the TV and all of that. 35 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of weird. 36 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 4: So my dad worked in public television when I was little, 37 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 4: so it was always around the arts on public television 38 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 4: when I was young, and then he went to PBS 39 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 4: and Discovery and all kind of stuff like that, so 40 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 4: it was always rounded. I don't remember saying my first 41 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 4: play or anything like that. I was just always plays 42 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 4: and stuff when I was little. But there was there 43 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 4: was this show when I was a little called Junior 44 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 4: Star Search. I really for some reason, I do not 45 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 4: understand why I really wanted. 46 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 3: To be on Junior Star Search. I wasn't particularly talented. Wow, 47 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 3: I wasn't. I was not. 48 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 4: I was not good as a child, okay, and I 49 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 4: was like shy kind of I was shot like a 50 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 4: ham but a really weird kid. I was a weird kid. 51 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 4: But I just decided I want to be on and 52 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 4: I didn't even care, which. 53 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 3: Still man. So then I was very logical about this. 54 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 4: I was like, well, if I go on as a dancer, 55 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 4: what if I forget my steps or I fall down? 56 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 4: But if I go on as a singer and I 57 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,839 Speaker 4: forget the words something or a crack or the song. 58 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 4: So but I had this acting segment on there where 59 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 4: like a kid would two kids would do the same 60 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 4: scene with a celebrity and whoever did it best one, 61 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 4: and I went, I could do that. 62 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Okay. 63 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:14,679 Speaker 4: One of my parents room and said, mom, dad, I 64 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 4: want to acting classes and blessed my little heart. And 65 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 4: like I knew it was something I had to learn 66 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 4: how to do it because I was already in a 67 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 4: dating class and I wasn't very great. 68 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 3: I can't remember the steps, but I wasn't particularly graceful. 69 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. 70 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 4: Yeah, I wasn't a flexible kid. I could kick my leg. 71 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 4: I couldn't do any of it. So yeah, that's what 72 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 4: I wanted to do, and that's why I started acting class. 73 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 4: Actually was acting, singing and dance. 74 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 3: It was like a it was like a weekend thing. 75 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, I did that, and like I said, I 76 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 4: wasn't really good. 77 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 3: I don't think, but I liked it. 78 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: So, okay, did you ever get on Junior Star search. 79 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 3: Started the classes? It's like the bug the. 80 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: I got it, I got it, but you never you know, 81 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: like I want. 82 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 3: Did you get on it? Because googling going to. 83 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: Exactly to like, but I don't. 84 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 3: Want to do my homework. 85 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: So then did you go to like you just did 86 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: you continue to study? 87 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 2: And you went to regular school and then you you 88 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 2: pursued this later in life or like was it young? 89 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 4: Yeah? 90 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 3: That was called. 91 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 4: The Baltimore Actors Theater in Telson, and then I switched 92 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 4: from that school to the Arena Players, which is downtown, 93 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 4: which is one of the oldest consistently run. 94 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 3: Community theaters in the country. And so I switched that. 95 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 4: I did shows there for ten years, okay, and youth 96 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 4: theater Arena Players Youth Theater, and then I went to 97 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 4: high school. A lot of my people from that youth 98 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 4: theater went to Performing Arts High School. 99 00:04:58,440 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 3: I went to a regular high school. 100 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 2: For one hated it, transferred to the Arts school, got it. 101 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 4: Then I went to Howard with a Howard University with 102 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 4: a minor in theater, you know, communications, hated it switched 103 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 4: to fine arts, and then I just, okay, I guess 104 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 4: I'm going to be an actor. 105 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: I guess you know, I just didn't know whatever. But 106 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 3: here we are. 107 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 2: Did you fight the urge to like because you did 108 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: comms or was that like communication? Was was somebody telling you, like, oh, 109 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 2: do the major in something and then minor in. 110 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: This is a backup, like have a backup. 111 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 3: Father was like, what are you doing? And you want 112 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 3: to be an actor? And I'm like, yeah, but what 113 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 3: if I don't work? I didn't have something to fall 114 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 3: back on, right exactly, But you're just acting out of fear. Yeah, 115 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 3: do things right? 116 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: Right? 117 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 4: So that the switch and then I said, now goes 118 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 4: to an audition for Julliard. I went to but I 119 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 4: went to a summer program in Oxford to study Shakespeare. 120 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 4: They got the Shakespeare, but the audition for Juilliard and 121 00:05:58,160 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 4: I got it, And so. 122 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 3: That I m of school. 123 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: Not a lot of people get into Jilliard, you know. 124 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 3: No, I'm still like, what. 125 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: Stop, You're amazing? 126 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 5: Uh? 127 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: Okay? What was your what was your break? Then? Where 128 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: was your break? 129 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 3: I guess it would be Rents. 130 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: I did I did. 131 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 3: I did this one show called as If that lasted 132 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 3: two episodes. I remember that one of the bulls Chat. 133 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 4: Which was like four episodes of Hold off the Air. 134 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 4: But it's kind of a cult cult classic. I did 135 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 4: like two Broadway shows, no one. It's called a Drown 136 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 4: and Crow, right, a hit, but I did it drawn 137 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 4: and Crow. 138 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: Drown and Crow what a name. 139 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,239 Speaker 4: I know it was basically a retelling of the Seagull, 140 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 4: but we were black and Crow. 141 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, oh my gosh, the Seagull and then Rent 142 00:06:57,880 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: came your way. 143 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 3: Public over the course of like eight or nine years. 144 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: For Broadway, so you had been in the mix for 145 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: a long time. 146 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 3: Just like thank you, but no thank you, but no 147 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 3: maybe next time thank you, but. 148 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: No future Broadway replacement. 149 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 4: Yeah for the four hundredth Joanne. 150 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: And at some point you're like, I'm like stop bringing 151 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: me in. Yeah. 152 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 4: At some point I was like, this is this is 153 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 4: gonna be my last audition for this thing, because. 154 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 3: I'm still understaing for this thing. 155 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: Okay, so then how did you How did the movie 156 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: find you? 157 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 3: I went in for the movie. 158 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, you know. 159 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 4: It's kinda le Okay, fine, this could be my actual 160 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 4: last time. I didn't even think it went that well. 161 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 6: You know. 162 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well, just like the others, the others, 163 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: just like Lion King, just like I eat. 164 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 3: Billion times and didn't get gusted. 165 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair, that's fair. But you keep coming back, 166 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: and you know what it paid off. So you did 167 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: the movie, and what was the movie like for you? 168 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 2: Joining a cast that already kind of created something. I 169 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: don't assume that it could be like kind of like 170 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 2: joining a Broadway show once it's kind of been locked, 171 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 2: but in a different, I don't know, a different way. 172 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: Tell me about the experience. Well, so. 173 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 4: When I got it, I didn't know it was going 174 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 4: to be with the original cast, you know. I mean 175 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 4: I thought there was no way. I thought it would 176 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 4: be a cast of yeah, veryous celebrity you know, very 177 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 4: famous people. 178 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 3: I was like, why are you call me in? It's 179 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 3: going to be Queen Ontifa or someone who's gonna. 180 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 1: Offer only you know. 181 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 3: But then I got it, and I walked. 182 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,079 Speaker 4: Forty blocks and called everybody I'd ever met and just 183 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 4: screamed on the streets of New York City. 184 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, after all that time, Yeah, and then I. 185 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 3: Found out it was with the original cast, and that 186 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 3: freaked me out. 187 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 4: Then I got to get to see Wicked because I 188 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 4: hadn't seen Wicked yet, so I went too Wicked to 189 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 4: see a Dina and I just like I was kind 190 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 4: of mentally prepared for defind Gravity, I was for the 191 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 4: Wisid and I I wasn't prepared for No Good. I 192 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 4: wasn't prepared for the only song I knew was I 193 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 4: was like, oh, I don't know, there like eight other 194 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 4: songs like that. 195 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 3: Felting your face off. Hours of five minutes got it. 196 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 3: But I met her. 197 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 4: We had a little date. It was very cute, and 198 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 4: then we started rehearsal. I started like vocal training, you know, 199 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,079 Speaker 4: voice training with this guy, and I didn't know for 200 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 4: sure if I was singing Scenes of Love yet, because 201 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 4: you know, Joey doesn't sing that song in the show. 202 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 3: So I had to singing in the audition just to 203 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 3: see if I could. And then summer long, they're like, yeah, 204 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 3: you're just. 205 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: Going to sing it, and I'm like, it's so iconic. 206 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 4: I was like, this is going to be the biggest, 207 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 4: the biggest, like honor to sing this, and also it's 208 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 4: gonna be the thing, and people wanted me to sing. 209 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: For the rest of my life, and is it true? 210 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: It is the thing that everybody wants to you to 211 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: sing for the rest of your life. 212 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 3: I'm like, do you have a sitting I see, I don't. 213 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 2: I feel like the last time we did Harvest Home benefit, 214 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 2: which was probably the last time I saw you, or 215 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 2: maybe not, but one of the last times I saw you, 216 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 2: and they're like, Tracy, can you do? 217 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 3: Can everybody sing it? 218 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 4: How about somebody else? To the end, it's really hard 219 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 4: because it's like the hardest song ever. And some days 220 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 4: I can sing it and some days I feel like 221 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 4: it's one of those songs that had Jonathan lived, it 222 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 4: might have been like, hey, Jonathan. 223 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,719 Speaker 3: Lowered the song as a week of it all. 224 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,719 Speaker 1: So back to the movie, So you worked with the 225 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: Dina Yeah, I mean you absolutely held your own. 226 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 2: It was incredible kind of made you made Joe and 227 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 2: your own, Like, how what was that like the collaborative experience, 228 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 2: like given that you know they had already created something 229 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: that you guys were bringing over. 230 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 3: Luckily it was me and Rosario. We were both new 231 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 3: you know. 232 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:16,319 Speaker 4: When I got there, Anthony and Adam took me to dinner. 233 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 4: We just want you to know that we're really glad 234 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 4: you're here. We love Freddy, but we're gonna love you too, 235 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 4: and it's gonna be great. And I'm like, I'm terrified. Yeah, 236 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 4: but I had lived with Ren for so long. Yeah, 237 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 4: I remember things about it that they did. It was 238 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 4: their life, you know what I mean, Like it was 239 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 4: called in this whirlwind of craziness. But like I would 240 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,439 Speaker 4: just go to rehearsals when I wasn't called, just to 241 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:51,359 Speaker 4: sit there listening to and sing the songs. 242 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 3: You or what you own? 243 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 4: And uh, Anthony couldn't remember his harmony. Then I was like, 244 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 4: you don't remember what you're not? 245 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 3: Loa, loa, that's what you did? 246 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: Thank you? Crazy so good. They rehearsed live. 247 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 2: Did you guys how did they do the recording and 248 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 2: the singing in the did you guys pre record or 249 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:27,439 Speaker 2: did you sing all that? 250 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 4: So we rehearsed every day from like November. We started rehearsals. 251 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,079 Speaker 4: Somewhere in January, I think we started recording the music. 252 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 4: To record the music and then they do a whole 253 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 4: comp and they bring it back to you and you 254 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 4: listen to it and if you like it, then you 255 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 4: then it's locked. If You're like, I could do better. 256 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 4: I could beat play the same beat the com you know, 257 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 4: no no, no, no no no, give me back, well 258 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 4: pull the track up. 259 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: Did you did you beat the comp? 260 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 4: I we listened to Seasons of Love and I was 261 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 4: in the I mean we were in the studio. They 262 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 4: played it and I was like, listen to it. It 263 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 4: was just mind blowing me. Anyway, that was all happening, 264 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 4: and Adam Pascal said, if you can touch it, I'll 265 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 4: break your fingers. 266 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 3: Then it's locked and there's lot because there's still something 267 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 3: in there. I'm like, I could have done better. Tracy, 268 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 3: it's done, You're done. 269 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 2: Done. 270 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 6: Yeah. 271 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, I did have to re record something for that 272 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 4: song actually because I did it and they put it together, like, actually, 273 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 4: we want you to come back in and send your 274 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 4: verse again because it's a little too stilted to loosen. 275 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: Up the yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. 276 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 7: Five. 277 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 3: I was thinking, like I was on Broadway at the stage. 278 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 1: Man, this is movie, right, it's a little different, right, yeah, 279 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 1: a little bit. 280 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 4: And then I had I'd been up all night the 281 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 4: night before, and I'm like my voice might be raspy 282 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 4: or something, so I didn't prepare. 283 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 3: They're like today and I was like, I don't know 284 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 3: what's gonna sound like, but you might like it. Yeah, 285 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 3: you might like a little heft to the voice. 286 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. 287 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 3: We did a high seat to day though, and it's fine. 288 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 3: The end is fine. It's the verse. I was like, Okay, 289 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 3: someone there likely and that's what you hear on the album. 290 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: I love it. It's a it's a little grifty and 291 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: like gritty and I and I think that's the movie. 292 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the movie. 293 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 294 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 2: Uh so overall, good experience, kind of mind blowing and 295 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 2: surreal to say, yes. 296 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 3: It was just kind of like magic the whole time. 297 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 4: Everybody was you know, we all lived in San Francisco 298 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 4: for those six months during the movie, so special and yeah, 299 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 4: and we also but when we were singing along to 300 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 4: the playback, I don't know how you guys didn't want 301 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 4: to lave it. 302 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 3: We can sing full. 303 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: Out, yeah, yeah, but you can tell the effort, you know, yes, definitely. 304 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 3: So we're singing full, full throat, Yeah, you're singing, but 305 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 3: taking real leave. It took three days to shoot. By 306 00:14:58,360 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 3: the time we ended up had no. 307 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: Voice, Oh my gosh, because it was all the different Yeah, 308 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: you know, the setups. Yeah, in the different locations, right. 309 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, but I was squawking, wouldn't he until they said 310 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 4: cut because we couldn't hear them say cut because the music. 311 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 3: Is loud, you know. 312 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: And then you finally made it to broad. 313 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 2: After the fortieth audition and booking the movie, they said, okay, 314 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 2: well let her off broadcast. 315 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: What was that? Did you have to audition for Broadway 316 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: at that point? Please tell me what I didn't? 317 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 4: No. After Rent, I did Cold Case. I got Both 318 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 4: Case right when I was coming out twenty years ago. 319 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 4: And after that, I did Divorce Prada, k Pause, and 320 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 4: I did Death Proof, the Quan Tarantino movie, and then 321 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 4: I did the Broadway show, closed it. 322 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: And that must have been Yeah, And the only reason. 323 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 4: I did because Merle booked another job Dandridge, and she 324 00:15:58,720 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 4: had to drop out of the show. 325 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: Hey, listen, we'll take it how we can get it. 326 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: But you earned it. 327 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 3: And I was shooting Cold Case at the time, so 328 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 3: I was flung back and forth. 329 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 2: It was a crazy it's all about And but closing 330 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 2: Rent is like I remember it's I mean, that show 331 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 2: had run forever and it was such a cultural revolution 332 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 2: and Broadway history. 333 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 1: Like to close that show. What was the last show? 334 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 3: Insane? 335 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 4: Like every cast member came back, the whole audience was 336 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 4: full of people and our families. 337 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, everybody came up on. 338 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: Stage and it was just it was probably a five 339 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: hour show, right. 340 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, and we were filming it. Yeah right, you know, 341 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 3: so it's cameras where it was insane. It was like 342 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 3: too much, but what crazy? But yeah, but it was crazy. 343 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 3: It was crazy. 344 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: What a fun experience. You made it, you did it? 345 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 3: Did it? 346 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 4: Was? 347 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 1: Was it different doing Joanne in the movie and doing 348 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:07,959 Speaker 1: the stage? 349 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 6: Yeah? 350 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, well in the in the movie, we didn't sing 351 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 4: We're okay that song We're okay. But yeah, but you know, 352 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 4: you know, D and I are out there doing our thing, 353 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 4: and we we just really had a pack to work 354 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:25,959 Speaker 4: together and not against each other. 355 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 3: I mean for. 356 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 4: Joanne and Maureene just be like, you know, you just 357 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 4: you just really lean into their fighting because it's fun, right. 358 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 3: But yeah, just really lean into the love of it. 359 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 4: Because I see so many take me or leave these 360 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,880 Speaker 4: where they're just screaming at each other and it's it's fun. 361 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 4: They're trying everyone trying to out sing each other and 362 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 4: they're screaming and I'm like, well, I'm never gonna win 363 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 4: that fight because a Dane Monzel b right, be like Joe, 364 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 4: Maureene has so much more song. Right, Maureene has a verse, 365 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 4: a chorus, another verse, another chorus, and a bridge. 366 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 3: And joy I'm waiting for her command, you know what. 367 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 1: I like. 368 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 3: I'm just my goal is to meet Maureene, not just 369 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 3: you know. Plus, Mareene has a top notes. You know, 370 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 3: she's the higher. It's just not I can't think about 371 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 3: it that way. Let's think about it like this, like 372 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 3: we're meeting each other. 373 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 4: I'm just like, you know, so she's singing, sing and 374 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,360 Speaker 4: singing time how great she is, and it's finally like okay, okay, bitch. 375 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 3: Wait, just is great. You're lucky. Yes, yes, think about 376 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 3: that way. It's not as scary, you know what I mean. 377 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 4: And if I came in and I was busted one day, 378 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 4: but like you know, yeah, I agree that we would 379 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 4: sing it lower, not a lower key, but lowers of notes. Yeah, 380 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 4: show showed and C show. He came in and she 381 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:54,159 Speaker 4: was like, I'm busted. All right, we're going with the. 382 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: C And you guys had agreed on that dynamics. 383 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 3: Over top of somebody amazing, you know, and it was 384 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 3: really great because I really felt like we were a team. 385 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 2: It's also like what Rent was one of those shows 386 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 2: that was notorious for like just you know, you could 387 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 2: blow your voice hour singing easily singing, and then you 388 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 2: have all these musical kids singing these songs, just screaming. Yeah, 389 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 2: and you have Adam Pascal, who naturally sings screams. 390 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 3: And rehearsals for the movie. He would sit there in 391 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 3: a chair and just scream these notes. I know, been touring. 392 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to stand and con tort my mom. 393 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: He was like, I'm not trained, he said, excuse me, 394 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't. 395 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 3: Why are you able to do that or in that way? 396 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,439 Speaker 3: You know those chords of steel. 397 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: No, really, it's it's absolutely jarring and amazing. 398 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 2: But uh but yeah, it's easy to for for singers 399 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 2: to come in and be like, yeah, I could blow 400 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 2: you know, I could I could you know, scream through Rent? 401 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 1: You know, like well eight shows a week, so. 402 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 3: The week hunting now you have no yeah, exactly, nods. 403 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 2: Okay, we're going back a few steps to del War's 404 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 2: pradac all right, you're a part of another cultural revolution. 405 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 2: Touch point, you know, in history and a very important 406 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 2: part of my history. So tell me about that experience, Like, 407 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 2: did you guys know, did anybody know? 408 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: Like, no, nobody knew. 409 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 3: No, I mean I thought it. 410 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 4: Would be cool, right, Hecummer. It was Anne's first adult movie. 411 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 4: She had been like Princess diarisesm before then, you know, 412 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,679 Speaker 4: I mean so right, of course adult movie. The biggest 413 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 4: star in there probably was Adrian from his Entourage show, 414 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 4: and it was a relatively small cast. 415 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, we just did. I worked like four 416 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 3: days of the movie, that's. 417 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 1: It, and then it comes out. You guys have a 418 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: great time in those four days. 419 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 3: It comes out and it's like this phenomenon. 420 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: Truly, they just have no idea, Wow, wow, you know, yeah. 421 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 4: What's gonna hit. And also that script kept changing the 422 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 4: adaptation from a book, so it kept taking things out 423 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 4: and putting things, you know, different things. And I was 424 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 4: supposed of a different another scene. I was supposed to 425 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 4: pick her from the airport at the end of the movie, 426 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 4: but then we lost the location of the airports. 427 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 3: Never shot it, so it's part of the story, but 428 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 3: it's not there. So it looks like after she goes 429 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 3: to Paris. 430 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 6: I'm just like, bye, right right, right right. It's until 431 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 6: I rewatched it this year I was like, oh, got 432 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 6: your arc in half? Oh okay, I was supposed to 433 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 6: pick her up, you know, right right? 434 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 2: Wow? 435 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: Do people recognize you? 436 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 2: You've done so much now I feel like people like 437 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 2: recognize you from Rent or they recognize you from No 438 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 2: No one. 439 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: But like it is double was proud of the thing? 440 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 3: No really now no, oh my gosh, Now I think 441 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 3: nine one one is the thing? 442 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:24,959 Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, Wow, I think, but it's anything. 443 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 4: I mean, you know, like I was on that for 444 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 4: four years, and people love cocaine, so right now it's 445 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 4: usually nine one one. 446 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: So Devil's Product is coming out with a sequel. Are 447 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: you a part of the sequel? I am? Was it fun? 448 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 4: It was fun, but very different because it's a phenomenon now, 449 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 4: right you can't. 450 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 3: Shoot anyone on paparazzi and droves of. 451 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: People were you on location? Where like does everybody knew 452 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 1: where you? Guys were. 453 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 3: Operazzi? 454 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,239 Speaker 4: Every day the people find you and you look out 455 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 4: the window and the whole street is just full of fans? 456 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 1: What is that like? 457 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 2: Doing that movie so long ago? And then all of 458 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 2: a sudden, you guys are back, and it's like the 459 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 2: phenomenon is still there? 460 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 4: What is that? That's so crazy, very trippy because we're 461 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 4: all doing this table read. You know, now the cast 462 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,159 Speaker 4: is a tripled in size. All these people are moving now, 463 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 4: there's all kinds of creatures are happening. We're all through 464 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 4: on the table with each other like, yeah, the new people. 465 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 4: But then you have five of us, six of us 466 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 4: who are original. Actually more is more of us than that. 467 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 4: There's like some people at little bit parts have come 468 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 4: back or they're little moments. But we're just looking around 469 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 4: and everybody was nervous, including Meryl. We're all just like, 470 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 4: oh my god, I can't wow, what is happening. So 471 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,719 Speaker 4: it's the same writer or same director, same camera operators. 472 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: Oh I love that family, sir. 473 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, the costume designer is different. 474 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 4: But but the costume designer before had done sex in 475 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 4: the city and a costume person now does. 476 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 3: It and just like that. So still feels yeah in 477 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 3: the world. So wow, Yeah, it was crazy. 478 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: That's so exciting. 479 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 3: And I'm like, you have an oscar. 480 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. 481 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: Right, everybody's lived like a lot of lives that. 482 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 3: Were we were just like children. Yeah, she was really 483 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 3: like a child. Yeah, you know what I mean, she 484 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 3: was like twenty two. 485 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: Oh my god, unbelievable. Oh but that's so nice like that, 486 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:51,879 Speaker 1: you know. 487 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 4: And I was like thirty wow, like forty forty two, 488 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:00,959 Speaker 4: forty three something like that. I just had a birthday, 489 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 4: and I'm like, nine fifty. 490 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 1: You don't look a day over twenty one, So please, 491 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: you look beautiful. You're nice, and and you did it 492 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: nine one one. You're part of the Ryan Murphy family now, 493 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: and you've been doing nine one one for a long time. 494 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, nine seasons of nine one one. 495 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 1: Has it been that long? 496 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 3: Yes? 497 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what a lucky I mean, And not 498 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 2: obviously it's all the things, but like shows don't go 499 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 2: on that long anymore. Given that your first few shows 500 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,880 Speaker 2: were very short, that my first. 501 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 3: Two and two episodes and that and then Cold Case. 502 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 2: Was four and a half years, okay, that's fair that 503 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 2: you've been on two really great, like hit shows that 504 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 2: have run for a really really long time. 505 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: How do you I mean, I can't imagine. It's like 506 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 1: at this point in your. 507 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 2: Career, you're like, Wow, what a lucky beat to have 508 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 2: these things that keep living on right, Yeah. 509 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,120 Speaker 3: Because the industry is broken right now, what is working? 510 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 3: That is booking anything? Because what is working so everybody 511 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 3: can get whoever they want, right. 512 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 4: Wow, You're like you're working so much. I'm like, I'm 513 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 4: working on projects I booked a long time ago. 514 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 3: Twenty years. It ago. 515 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 1: Went almost tense, so everybody calmed down. 516 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 3: You're booking. I'm sending my tapes into the void like 517 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 3: takes off and brickets. Okay. 518 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: And then we do concerts. 519 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 3: We do benefit concerts. 520 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: That's right. We love a benefit concert. 521 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 2: I feel like I see you at every benefit concert 522 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 2: we do together, part of the crew, and I still 523 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 2: get nervous every time you do, too, terrified every time. 524 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: I don't know why. 525 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 4: What is that? Not to name drop, but I'm name dropping, okay, 526 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 4: Leslie Oman Junior. A long time ago, it told me 527 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,199 Speaker 4: the reason why I'm so scared because I. 528 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 3: Don't do it enough. 529 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 2: Ah. 530 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: I feel like we do do it enough. 531 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 3: No, I don't think so we did what once or 532 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 3: twice a year? 533 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough? What are we supposed to be doing 534 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: like ten a year? Yeah? Something? 535 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,120 Speaker 3: I don't know you all the time. 536 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 2: The depth and breath of your career has been amazing. 537 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 2: I hope you're proud because it's it's truly astounding. And 538 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 2: everybody we speak your name and everybody says such kind 539 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 2: things about you. 540 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: You have such a good reputation. 541 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 2: You work clearly for long periods of time with lots 542 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 2: of great people. What do you hope for in that 543 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 2: in the next decade of like work for for you? 544 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 2: Like have you found the thing you love or do 545 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 2: you want to keep kind of running the scale of 546 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 2: like all the things. 547 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 3: I'm interesting to see what happened. I still don't know. 548 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 4: It's like, yes, I'm fifty, but I don't get cast 549 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 4: as fifty year old now you know what I mean. 550 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 3: You can't, but they know I'm fifty. 551 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 4: So I get stuck in this thing about auditioning for 552 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 4: stuff that I'm just like, I'm gonna play too young 553 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 4: for Yeah, No, I am old enough to play the 554 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 4: part like I went in. 555 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 3: For something like I was playing like a parole officer 556 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 3: or stuff. You know, like, no, we're gonna go older 557 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 3: and I'm like I'm fifty. 558 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my gosh, Yeah that'll be interesting to see. 559 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, like if I ever catch up to myself. 560 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: Because you have the like the attitude and Bravado and 561 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: the wise name like a wiseness to you that you 562 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: can do that. It's just like will people believe it 563 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: because you don't want fifty Yeah? 564 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 4: Mmmm, So I'm interested to see it, you know, I'm 565 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 4: gonna think it's I mean, I'm ready to take public 566 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 4: more responsibility that I than I have right now on 567 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 4: like a show or something like yeah number because yeah, 568 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 4: because and when I'm recurring, so I pop it. 569 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: And out right right right. 570 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 3: But on the other hand, it's like I would like 571 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 3: the series regular money. 572 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, is that even a thing anymore? 573 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 4: And I don't even know if it is a thing 574 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 4: anymore actually, like oh yeah, we're just we're not going 575 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 4: We're like two people were a serious. 576 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: Right now now. I know it's so crazy. What about theater? 577 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 3: In order me to do theater, I have to really 578 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 3: love it. Yeah, it's just too hard. 579 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: It's so hard. 580 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 3: It was fun when I was in my youth. 581 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such a phase of like it's such a a. 582 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 2: Moment in time where you're you have to really be 583 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 2: in like the best shape of your life vocally and 584 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 2: emotionally and energetically to just be able to give that 585 00:29:59,400 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 2: a time. 586 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 3: So so I love theater, but yeah, you do what 587 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 3: to do it. 588 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 1: You've done it, I've done it. I have a funny. 589 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: Do you remember when we did the twenty four hour 590 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: place and I the whole thing up. 591 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 3: I'll bring it up. 592 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring it up, because you know what, you 593 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: can't take yourself too seriously. 594 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 2: We were at the American Airlines Theater on Broadway, and 595 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 2: there's a thing called twenty four hour plays where you 596 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 2: everybody gets together, You get put together as a cast. 597 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 2: The writer then meets the cast, They go away for overnight, 598 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 2: they write this twelve page play. You come back, the 599 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 2: actors get it and they have, you know, a few 600 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 2: hours to learn it and block it and then put 601 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 2: it up for an entire Broadway theater. Tracy and I 602 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 2: did this with Rachel Dratch and uh Alicia Whitty, and 603 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 2: every time, like all of my stuff was like stacked 604 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 2: till the very end. Yeah, your last twelve pages or 605 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 2: like the last like nine to twelve, and we'd be 606 00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 2: running it and running it and running it, and then 607 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 2: all of a sudden we get interrupted and we didn't 608 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 2: get to like the ninth move to. 609 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 4: Another room, because then you don't have to make it 610 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 4: fair when you rehearse it, you like keep moving around 611 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 4: a different rehearsal spaces so that nobody feels like they. 612 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 3: Have more space or you have a better. 613 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 4: Space than me, and we can't bubble, you know whatever. Yeah, 614 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 4: but you just don't understand people always it up. 615 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 7: I mean. 616 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 4: Really, the only thing that was interesting about ours with 617 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 4: you is that we couldn't figure out how to get 618 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 4: back on. 619 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: We just. 620 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 4: It just. 621 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 3: Like we think it. 622 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 2: I think I left you did you just left the same. 623 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 2: I am good luck to you ladies, see you later. 624 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 3: Sorry, bye. 625 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 2: My character exits, but I skipped over two pages and 626 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 2: so there was no contacts and they're just sitting there 627 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 2: and I left. 628 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 3: We were sitting there like. 629 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: It haunts me to this day. 630 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 4: It's scary when that happens. I mean I did it 631 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 4: well with Michael Kay Williams where there was this non sequitor. 632 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 4: I mean I had this line and I switched the 633 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 4: subject completely, and every every time we rehearse that, my 634 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 4: brain was hitch, I'll. 635 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 3: Just go And I was like, I'm gonna put this 636 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 3: up on the stage. I'm not. I cannot make this 637 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 3: bridge in my brain. I haven't built the bridge. Yeah, yeah, 638 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 3: and and it came. The line came, and I was like, 639 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 3: here it is. 640 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 6: I got. 641 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 3: Just stop that. I was like, and Michael K. 642 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 4: Williams, God rest his soul suits me. I don't know 643 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 4: if it's because I told him I think I'm gonna 644 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 4: press this up. Yeah, but he just he just saved me. 645 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 3: He just asked the question. And I was like, right, 646 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 3: that's where we are. Thank God. 647 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 1: No, there was no saving in that one. 648 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 3: It's like every part of the the joy of it 649 00:32:58,440 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 3: is supposed to. 650 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: Be the pressure and the people know the circumstances. 651 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,719 Speaker 3: And the audience laughed and they said, they go one, 652 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 3: am myself, what's happened? 653 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: I know it's very good cause, but man, that is 654 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: a tough one. 655 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 4: And even though when we did where I mess up 656 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 4: that line, David Lindsay bear from the audience. He was 657 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 4: the writer, so yelled the line out from the audience, 658 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 4: I mean yelled it from the you know it's supposed 659 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 4: to be I know, you know them the sandwich named Kristen. 660 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,719 Speaker 3: I forget her name, I know it, but she forgot 661 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 3: every single line. Every time they got to her, she 662 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 3: was like, what is it? It's me again, It's me right, 663 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 3: And it was hysterical. 664 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: I know because I appreciate it as an audience member. 665 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: I love that. 666 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 2: I love watching people you're falling a hole, yeah, or 667 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,640 Speaker 2: like in esson L when people break, You're like, I'm 668 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:11,360 Speaker 2: waiting for that. 669 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 1: I'm waiting for that, right. 670 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 3: But I don't dually do him anymore because of that. 671 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: Oh no, I haven't. I haven't done one since. 672 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think i've done one since. 673 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 1: I think I'm good. 674 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 3: Do them all the time. 675 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 2: You did say that to me afterwards, You're like, I 676 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 2: do these all the time, and it happens every time, 677 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 2: so don't worry. 678 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,840 Speaker 3: I think one time I was doing something else, so 679 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 3: I didn't have a lot of time the day, so 680 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,479 Speaker 3: I ended up just being like a dead body. 681 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,399 Speaker 1: You've really done them so much that you didn't even 682 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:46,239 Speaker 1: have deadlines. 683 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 3: I just died, like I came out and said something 684 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 3: and died. I mean it was the whole thing. I mean, 685 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 3: they're just. 686 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,359 Speaker 1: You guys. Can you've earned your keep there? So said 687 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,520 Speaker 1: here we'll throw you a bone. Here's one line. 688 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 3: And then you see musicals. 689 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, no no, said the twenty Hours musicals. 690 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 4: And I had lanceforne wrote me and Mandy Gonzalez the 691 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:18,120 Speaker 4: song No where the harmony was so complicated and we 692 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 4: Rachel Rato was in our sny and she wrote all 693 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,359 Speaker 4: of her lyrics on her hands and very obvious kept 694 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 4: looking at her. 695 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 2: I mean, that's a whole other thing. Is like learning 696 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 2: a song in that time where the music just moves 697 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 2: without you. It's not you're just going. It's like an 698 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,120 Speaker 2: audition that you learn last minute. 699 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 3: Bad and they filmed it. 700 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 4: It is on film, me and Mandy Gonzal screaming in 701 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 4: each other's faces, clang clang, the notes clang clang, clan. 702 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 5: Oh oh my gosh, destroyed this harmony And to this 703 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 5: day I feel bad. See, Okay, so you're doesn't captured 704 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 5: on film? 705 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 3: You know what? 706 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the I'll take it. 707 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 2: We ask everybody who is on Glee, which I don't 708 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 2: know why you were on Ugly, just saying what is 709 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:17,840 Speaker 2: the feeling that Glee leaves you with? 710 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,320 Speaker 1: And so I'm wondering, I guess what is the feeling 711 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:22,279 Speaker 1: that Rent leaves you with? 712 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 2: Since we did recap Rent, even though your career is robust, 713 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 2: that's six Ugly about No No Rent? 714 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,480 Speaker 1: What is the feeling that Rent leaves you with your experience. 715 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 3: Yes, you know, I was supposed a couple of set 716 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,080 Speaker 3: that day that they did Take Me, Leave Me. 717 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 4: I was cleared and then I had to work. That 718 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,920 Speaker 4: shifted and I had to work and could not go 719 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 4: for the filming of Taking Me, and they sang the 720 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:53,239 Speaker 4: mess out of it. 721 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,760 Speaker 1: God, yes they did Bummer bummer. 722 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:57,440 Speaker 4: You know. 723 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:03,080 Speaker 3: Rent is just like I'm still a Rent fan. M 724 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:04,640 Speaker 3: red Head. 725 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:05,560 Speaker 1: Yeah. 726 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,239 Speaker 4: I used to like sign out rooms at Juilliard just 727 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,840 Speaker 4: to sing Rent songs. Oh me and my friend Jeff 728 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 4: rest his soul. It's like three o'clock in the real one, 729 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:23,440 Speaker 4: you know. 730 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,560 Speaker 3: Just like light my candle, see you there. 731 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,440 Speaker 1: See that's so cute. 732 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 4: It was very surreal that I was able to do 733 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,759 Speaker 4: it in the capacity that I did, you know what 734 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,839 Speaker 4: I mean. I was just trying to be a fan 735 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,640 Speaker 4: the swing and the thing on the bus and truck tour, 736 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:43,840 Speaker 4: you know what I mean when I was auditioning for 737 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 4: it and to get the movie and to do the 738 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:48,720 Speaker 4: show on Broadway. 739 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:52,160 Speaker 3: And I did it. Hollywood Bowl, I love that one. 740 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:53,839 Speaker 1: It's like so fun. 741 00:37:54,440 --> 00:38:00,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, Kyler and Vanessa and everybody. But as I went 742 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 3: from playing Memings who played Marine and a lot yeah, 743 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:08,360 Speaker 3: I mean Wayne Brady was in it. I mean, like 744 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:15,839 Speaker 3: literally breaking what a time? 745 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 1: What a time? 746 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,400 Speaker 3: I don't know if I answer your question. It's just 747 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,239 Speaker 3: it's just I'm just so grateful, Yeah, you know what 748 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:21,480 Speaker 3: I mean. 749 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,279 Speaker 4: Even still I feel like because I only did it 750 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:29,239 Speaker 4: for five weeks on Broadway, maybe I feel like I 751 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,239 Speaker 4: don't have the the battle scars that people have from 752 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,719 Speaker 4: doing it they did it like years. Sure, I mean 753 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 4: I still kind of like a little bit like an 754 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 4: outsider thing. I'm like, I just popped into the end there, 755 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,239 Speaker 4: you know. I mean I didn't really have the whole 756 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,719 Speaker 4: no no, no, no months thing. 757 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 3: But but I'm part of it, you know what I mean. 758 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:51,880 Speaker 1: You're a huge part of it. I mean, so you 759 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,279 Speaker 1: put your stamp on Joan for sure. 760 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,719 Speaker 3: So I think so, you know, I and I try 761 00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,120 Speaker 3: to give as much homage to Freddy as I could, know. 762 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,400 Speaker 1: What I mean, and make it yours. 763 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean. But also you know, 764 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 3: bring her into it, of course. 765 00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:13,120 Speaker 1: Well it's a joy to see you. Any excuse, thank. 766 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 3: You back stage freaking out about what heaven is saying 767 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 3: not poler lines or remember lines. 768 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:26,480 Speaker 1: The amount of times we've been backstage nervous, whether. 769 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 2: It's singing for Debbie Allen or singing at a gallow 770 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 2: with Merlin Seth or you know, all the things, but 771 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 2: you give your time back and you're there, and it's 772 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,520 Speaker 2: it's always so nice to see you and doing that 773 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,799 Speaker 2: because you're so busy and you know, working and doing 774 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,040 Speaker 2: all the amazing things. So it's it's just I'm so 775 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,320 Speaker 2: grateful for you and thank you for coming on and 776 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,920 Speaker 2: chatting with us and sharing your stuff. 777 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,959 Speaker 1: And I'll see at the next benefit. 778 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,680 Speaker 3: Concept with some vocals on. 779 00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:05,480 Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, some great Oh my gosh, oh thank you, Tracy, 780 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:11,600 Speaker 7: thank you, it's so fun. Yes see you you, Tracy Toms, everybody. 781 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:16,360 Speaker 7: I hope that any of that made sense because we 782 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:21,359 Speaker 7: were just scabbing and hanging out. Tracy's amazing, she said, 783 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,239 Speaker 7: such an incredible body of work as an actress, from 784 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,400 Speaker 7: you know, nine one one on for ten. 785 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 2: Years to being Joanne in the movie of Ren and 786 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,080 Speaker 2: then going on to finish you know, the Broadway run. 787 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,040 Speaker 2: And she is I mean when I say like, she's 788 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:40,239 Speaker 2: always at every benefit concert that I'm either producing or 789 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,520 Speaker 2: singing out with her. 790 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,839 Speaker 1: Alongside her, and it's just such a joy. 791 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:49,480 Speaker 2: She's still so deeply and committed to the community, and 792 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,759 Speaker 2: she's giving back and also just a lovely human and 793 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:57,279 Speaker 2: just wildly talented and of course I wore proud of too. 794 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,440 Speaker 2: You will see her in and nine one one is 795 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:06,000 Speaker 2: returning in January eighth to all episodes on Hulu. And 796 00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,920 Speaker 2: thanks Tracy for coming to hang out with us, and 797 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:11,160 Speaker 2: that's what you really missed. 798 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,840 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram at and 799 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,239 Speaker 1: that's what you really miss pod. Make sure to write 800 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,520 Speaker 1: us a review and leave us five stars. See you 801 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:19,960 Speaker 1: next time.