WEBVTT - Tangoing with Tracie Thoms 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.440 And That's what You Really missed with Jenna. 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:05.600 And Kevin An. 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:07.080 iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:13.240 Welcome to and That's what You Really miss podcast. We 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.079 have a dear old friend, Tracy Tom's here. She played 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.079 Joanne in Rent in the musical movie and then on Broadway. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.040 She has a huge career. I don't think she needs 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:30.520 a huge instruction. She's a dear friend, wonderful human, and 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.360 you know she was Endeavor's product. So that's all I'm 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.159 gonna say. I also have an experience together where I 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.440 have an embarrassing moment that haunts me forever still to this. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:44.960 Day that we talk about. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.360 So I hope you guys enjoy the conversation. Enjoy Tracy, 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.000 and thanks for coming to listen. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.520 Thanks for coming on. I really appreciate it. Of course, 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.880 we just recapped Rent the. 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.920 Movie twenty years ago. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.040 Lord me and Adam on and he chatted about all 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.480 the things lovely Adam. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.080 But yeah, we have a lot to talk about. I 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:10.560 feel like. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:13.559 I have a funny story that I have to share 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.399 with you or a reminder of a memory. But also 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.800 I feel like we've never like talked about Wren in 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.800 the movie and our careers, because like that's not what 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.040 we usually talk about when we see each other. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.920 So why would we? Why would we? But here we are. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.039 You've done a lot. You've done a lot. You've done 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.640 a lot of film and TV and screen, and you've 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:35.000 done a. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:40.440 Lot of stage. Where did it start for you? And yeah, 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.400 just where did you get your start? Like where when 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.760 did you find the bug for the theater and the 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:47.080 screen and the TV and all of that. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:48.560 Well, it's kind of weird. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.200 So my dad worked in public television when I was little, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.560 so it was always around the arts on public television 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.200 when I was young, and then he went to PBS 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.320 and Discovery and all kind of stuff like that, so 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.640 it was always rounded. I don't remember saying my first 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.920 play or anything like that. I was just always plays 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.400 and stuff when I was little. But there was there 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.920 was this show when I was a little called Junior 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:16.720 Star Search. I really for some reason, I do not 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.320 understand why I really wanted. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.519 To be on Junior Star Search. I wasn't particularly talented. Wow, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:24.480 I wasn't. I was not. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.840 I was not good as a child, okay, and I 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.480 was like shy kind of I was shot like a 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.600 ham but a really weird kid. I was a weird kid. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.320 But I just decided I want to be on and 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:40.800 I didn't even care, which. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:48.640 Still man. So then I was very logical about this. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.480 I was like, well, if I go on as a dancer, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.240 what if I forget my steps or I fall down? 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.240 But if I go on as a singer and I 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.839 forget the words something or a crack or the song. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.440 So but I had this acting segment on there where 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.240 like a kid would two kids would do the same 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.200 scene with a celebrity and whoever did it best one, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:09.440 and I went, I could do that. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.480 Oh my gosh, Okay. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:14.679 One of my parents room and said, mom, dad, I 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.280 want to acting classes and blessed my little heart. And 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:19.520 like I knew it was something I had to learn 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.799 how to do it because I was already in a 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.720 dating class and I wasn't very great. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.480 I can't remember the steps, but I wasn't particularly graceful. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:28.320 Yeah. 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.799 Yeah, I wasn't a flexible kid. I could kick my leg. 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.440 I couldn't do any of it. So yeah, that's what 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.560 I wanted to do, and that's why I started acting class. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.000 Actually was acting, singing and dance. 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.480 It was like a it was like a weekend thing. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.400 Yeah, Okay, I did that, and like I said, I 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:46.200 wasn't really good. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.920 I don't think, but I liked it. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:54.240 So, okay, did you ever get on Junior Star search. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.400 Started the classes? It's like the bug the. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.920 I got it, I got it, but you never you know, 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.000 like I want. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.800 Did you get on it? Because googling going to. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.440 Exactly to like, but I don't. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.400 Want to do my homework. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.960 So then did you go to like you just did 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:19.000 you continue to study? 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.320 And you went to regular school and then you you 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.680 pursued this later in life or like was it young? 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:25.120 Yeah? 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.040 That was called. 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.200 The Baltimore Actors Theater in Telson, and then I switched 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.760 from that school to the Arena Players, which is downtown, 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.920 which is one of the oldest consistently run. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.440 Community theaters in the country. And so I switched that. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:50.760 I did shows there for ten years, okay, and youth 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.080 theater Arena Players Youth Theater, and then I went to 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.680 high school. A lot of my people from that youth 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.360 theater went to Performing Arts High School. 0:04:58.440 --> 0:04:59.960 I went to a regular high school. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.960 For one hated it, transferred to the Arts school, got it. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.080 Then I went to Howard with a Howard University with 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:15.040 a minor in theater, you know, communications, hated it switched 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.880 to fine arts, and then I just, okay, I guess 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:18.839 I'm going to be an actor. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.440 I guess you know, I just didn't know whatever. But 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:22.400 here we are. 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.360 Did you fight the urge to like because you did 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.320 comms or was that like communication? Was was somebody telling you, like, oh, 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.680 do the major in something and then minor in. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.560 This is a backup, like have a backup. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:36.960 Father was like, what are you doing? And you want 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:38.240 to be an actor? And I'm like, yeah, but what 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:39.480 if I don't work? I didn't have something to fall 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:44.800 back on, right exactly, But you're just acting out of fear. Yeah, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.080 do things right? 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:46.920 Right? 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.480 So that the switch and then I said, now goes 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.159 to an audition for Julliard. I went to but I 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.839 went to a summer program in Oxford to study Shakespeare. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.120 They got the Shakespeare, but the audition for Juilliard and 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:58.800 I got it, And so. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.159 That I m of school. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.440 Not a lot of people get into Jilliard, you know. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:07.280 No, I'm still like, what. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.719 Stop, You're amazing? 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:11.680 Uh? 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.120 Okay? What was your what was your break? Then? Where 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:15.760 was your break? 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.480 I guess it would be Rents. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.000 I did I did. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.560 I did this one show called as If that lasted 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:29.839 two episodes. I remember that one of the bulls Chat. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.320 Which was like four episodes of Hold off the Air. 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.160 But it's kind of a cult cult classic. I did 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.320 like two Broadway shows, no one. It's called a Drown 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.760 and Crow, right, a hit, but I did it drawn 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:44.160 and Crow. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:45.880 Drown and Crow what a name. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.239 I know it was basically a retelling of the Seagull, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.480 but we were black and Crow. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.840 Okay, okay, oh my gosh, the Seagull and then Rent 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.000 came your way. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.520 Public over the course of like eight or nine years. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.839 For Broadway, so you had been in the mix for 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:05.680 a long time. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.719 Just like thank you, but no thank you, but no 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.000 maybe next time thank you, but. 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.520 No future Broadway replacement. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.600 Yeah for the four hundredth Joanne. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.720 And at some point you're like, I'm like stop bringing 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:19.720 me in. Yeah. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:21.560 At some point I was like, this is this is 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.600 gonna be my last audition for this thing, because. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.320 I'm still understaing for this thing. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.320 Okay, so then how did you How did the movie 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:33.720 find you? 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:35.880 I went in for the movie. 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.600 Okay, Okay, you know. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.080 It's kinda le Okay, fine, this could be my actual 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:45.600 last time. I didn't even think it went that well. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:45.840 You know. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:51.360 I was like, oh, well, just like the others, the others, 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.720 just like Lion King, just like I eat. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:57.960 Billion times and didn't get gusted. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.720 Okay, that's fair, that's fair. But you keep coming back, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.680 and you know what it paid off. So you did 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.320 the movie, and what was the movie like for you? 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.760 Joining a cast that already kind of created something. I 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.280 don't assume that it could be like kind of like 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.720 joining a Broadway show once it's kind of been locked, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.640 but in a different, I don't know, a different way. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.360 Tell me about the experience. Well, so. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.280 When I got it, I didn't know it was going 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.680 to be with the original cast, you know. I mean 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:30.840 I thought there was no way. I thought it would 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.200 be a cast of yeah, veryous celebrity you know, very 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:34.840 famous people. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:36.360 I was like, why are you call me in? It's 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:41.640 going to be Queen Ontifa or someone who's gonna. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:44.679 Offer only you know. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.160 But then I got it, and I walked. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.079 Forty blocks and called everybody I'd ever met and just 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:50.920 screamed on the streets of New York City. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.640 Yeah, after all that time, Yeah, and then I. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.480 Found out it was with the original cast, and that 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:58.199 freaked me out. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.120 Then I got to get to see Wicked because I 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.079 hadn't seen Wicked yet, so I went too Wicked to 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.000 see a Dina and I just like I was kind 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:10.199 of mentally prepared for defind Gravity, I was for the 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.640 Wisid and I I wasn't prepared for No Good. I 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.360 wasn't prepared for the only song I knew was I 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:17.520 was like, oh, I don't know, there like eight other 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:18.120 songs like that. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.880 Felting your face off. Hours of five minutes got it. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.240 But I met her. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:33.000 We had a little date. It was very cute, and 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.520 then we started rehearsal. I started like vocal training, you know, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.079 voice training with this guy, and I didn't know for 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:40.960 sure if I was singing Scenes of Love yet, because 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:42.640 you know, Joey doesn't sing that song in the show. 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.800 So I had to singing in the audition just to 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.600 see if I could. And then summer long, they're like, yeah, 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:48.960 you're just. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.560 Going to sing it, and I'm like, it's so iconic. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.160 I was like, this is going to be the biggest, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.880 the biggest, like honor to sing this, and also it's 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.400 gonna be the thing, and people wanted me to sing. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.320 For the rest of my life, and is it true? 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:05.760 It is the thing that everybody wants to you to 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:06.760 sing for the rest of your life. 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.480 I'm like, do you have a sitting I see, I don't. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.559 I feel like the last time we did Harvest Home benefit, 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.360 which was probably the last time I saw you, or 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.880 maybe not, but one of the last times I saw you, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:19.280 and they're like, Tracy, can you do? 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:24.520 Can everybody sing it? 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.120 How about somebody else? To the end, it's really hard 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.880 because it's like the hardest song ever. And some days 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.520 I can sing it and some days I feel like 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.559 it's one of those songs that had Jonathan lived, it 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.520 might have been like, hey, Jonathan. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.719 Lowered the song as a week of it all. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.719 So back to the movie, So you worked with the 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.480 Dina Yeah, I mean you absolutely held your own. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.079 It was incredible kind of made you made Joe and 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.240 your own, Like, how what was that like the collaborative experience, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.040 like given that you know they had already created something 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:08.920 that you guys were bringing over. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.439 Luckily it was me and Rosario. We were both new 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:13.160 you know. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.319 When I got there, Anthony and Adam took me to dinner. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.520 We just want you to know that we're really glad 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:24.400 you're here. We love Freddy, but we're gonna love you too, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:29.840 and it's gonna be great. And I'm like, I'm terrified. Yeah, 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.880 but I had lived with Ren for so long. Yeah, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:42.240 I remember things about it that they did. It was 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.280 their life, you know what I mean, Like it was 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.400 called in this whirlwind of craziness. But like I would 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.439 just go to rehearsals when I wasn't called, just to 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.359 sit there listening to and sing the songs. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.000 You or what you own? 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.240 And uh, Anthony couldn't remember his harmony. Then I was like, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:00.480 you don't remember what you're not? 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:07.440 Loa, loa, that's what you did? 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:20.760 Thank you? Crazy so good. They rehearsed live. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.120 Did you guys how did they do the recording and 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.559 the singing in the did you guys pre record or 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:27.439 did you sing all that? 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:32.200 So we rehearsed every day from like November. We started rehearsals. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.079 Somewhere in January, I think we started recording the music. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.960 To record the music and then they do a whole 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.360 comp and they bring it back to you and you 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.880 listen to it and if you like it, then you 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.000 then it's locked. If You're like, I could do better. 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.160 I could beat play the same beat the com you know, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.880 no no, no, no no no, give me back, well 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:57.360 pull the track up. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:58.960 Did you did you beat the comp? 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:00.920 I we listened to Seasons of Love and I was 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.680 in the I mean we were in the studio. They 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.640 played it and I was like, listen to it. It 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.280 was just mind blowing me. Anyway, that was all happening, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.360 and Adam Pascal said, if you can touch it, I'll 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:14.160 break your fingers. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.000 Then it's locked and there's lot because there's still something 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.400 in there. I'm like, I could have done better. Tracy, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:24.760 it's done, You're done. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:25.560 Done. 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:26.000 Yeah. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.719 Yeah, I did have to re record something for that 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.760 song actually because I did it and they put it together, like, actually, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:32.960 we want you to come back in and send your 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.760 verse again because it's a little too stilted to loosen. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.120 Up the yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:38.840 Five. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.440 I was thinking, like I was on Broadway at the stage. 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.360 Man, this is movie, right, it's a little different, right, yeah, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:49.080 a little bit. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:51.679 And then I had I'd been up all night the 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.160 night before, and I'm like my voice might be raspy 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:55.640 or something, so I didn't prepare. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:57.719 They're like today and I was like, I don't know 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.840 what's gonna sound like, but you might like it. Yeah, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:02.760 you might like a little heft to the voice. 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:03.200 Yeah. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.320 We did a high seat to day though, and it's fine. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.600 The end is fine. It's the verse. I was like, Okay, 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.960 someone there likely and that's what you hear on the album. 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.760 I love it. It's a it's a little grifty and 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.920 like gritty and I and I think that's the movie. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:20.560 Yeah, and that's the movie. 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:27.480 Uh so overall, good experience, kind of mind blowing and 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.680 surreal to say, yes. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.440 It was just kind of like magic the whole time. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:36.040 Everybody was you know, we all lived in San Francisco 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:42.000 for those six months during the movie, so special and yeah, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.040 and we also but when we were singing along to 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:45.880 the playback, I don't know how you guys didn't want 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:46.160 to lave it. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:47.960 We can sing full. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.680 Out, yeah, yeah, but you can tell the effort, you know, yes, definitely. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.480 So we're singing full, full throat, Yeah, you're singing, but 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.360 taking real leave. It took three days to shoot. By 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.280 the time we ended up had no. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.840 Voice, Oh my gosh, because it was all the different Yeah, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.440 you know, the setups. Yeah, in the different locations, right. 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:10.360 Yeah, but I was squawking, wouldn't he until they said 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.960 cut because we couldn't hear them say cut because the music. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:13.280 Is loud, you know. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.920 And then you finally made it to broad. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.920 After the fortieth audition and booking the movie, they said, okay, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.520 well let her off broadcast. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.480 What was that? Did you have to audition for Broadway 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.720 at that point? Please tell me what I didn't? 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:37.520 No. After Rent, I did Cold Case. I got Both 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.560 Case right when I was coming out twenty years ago. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.320 And after that, I did Divorce Prada, k Pause, and 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.520 I did Death Proof, the Quan Tarantino movie, and then 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:50.720 I did the Broadway show, closed it. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.720 And that must have been Yeah, And the only reason. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.640 I did because Merle booked another job Dandridge, and she 0:15:58.720 --> 0:15:59.680 had to drop out of the show. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:09.040 Hey, listen, we'll take it how we can get it. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:10.000 But you earned it. 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:11.720 And I was shooting Cold Case at the time, so 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:12.640 I was flung back and forth. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.640 It was a crazy it's all about And but closing 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.480 Rent is like I remember it's I mean, that show 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.840 had run forever and it was such a cultural revolution 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:24.600 and Broadway history. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.800 Like to close that show. What was the last show? 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:30.040 Insane? 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.680 Like every cast member came back, the whole audience was 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.320 full of people and our families. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.600 Yeah, yeah, everybody came up on. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.800 Stage and it was just it was probably a five 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.080 hour show, right. 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.360 Yeah, and we were filming it. Yeah right, you know, 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.600 so it's cameras where it was insane. It was like 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:55.960 too much, but what crazy? But yeah, but it was crazy. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:57.360 It was crazy. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.240 What a fun experience. You made it, you did it? 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:01.200 Did it? 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:02.160 Was? 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.400 Was it different doing Joanne in the movie and doing 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:07.959 the stage? 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:08.920 Yeah? 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.560 Yeah, well in the in the movie, we didn't sing 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:18.920 We're okay that song We're okay. But yeah, but you know, 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:20.920 you know, D and I are out there doing our thing, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.560 and we we just really had a pack to work 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:25.959 together and not against each other. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:27.480 I mean for. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.320 Joanne and Maureene just be like, you know, you just 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.320 you just really lean into their fighting because it's fun, right. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:37.680 But yeah, just really lean into the love of it. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.320 Because I see so many take me or leave these 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:46.880 where they're just screaming at each other and it's it's fun. 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.639 They're trying everyone trying to out sing each other and 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.320 they're screaming and I'm like, well, I'm never gonna win 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:58.800 that fight because a Dane Monzel b right, be like Joe, 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:05.960 Maureene has so much more song. Right, Maureene has a verse, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.720 a chorus, another verse, another chorus, and a bridge. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.600 And joy I'm waiting for her command, you know what. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:14.159 I like. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.200 I'm just my goal is to meet Maureene, not just 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:19.800 you know. Plus, Mareene has a top notes. You know, 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.760 she's the higher. It's just not I can't think about 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:25.080 it that way. Let's think about it like this, like 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:26.000 we're meeting each other. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.560 I'm just like, you know, so she's singing, sing and 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.360 singing time how great she is, and it's finally like okay, okay, bitch. 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:36.240 Wait, just is great. You're lucky. Yes, yes, think about 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:37.840 that way. It's not as scary, you know what I mean. 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:39.840 And if I came in and I was busted one day, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.240 but like you know, yeah, I agree that we would 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:48.520 sing it lower, not a lower key, but lowers of notes. Yeah, 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.200 show showed and C show. He came in and she 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.159 was like, I'm busted. All right, we're going with the. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:58.280 C And you guys had agreed on that dynamics. 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.080 Over top of somebody amazing, you know, and it was 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.160 really great because I really felt like we were a team. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.960 It's also like what Rent was one of those shows 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.320 that was notorious for like just you know, you could 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.920 blow your voice hour singing easily singing, and then you 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:18.080 have all these musical kids singing these songs, just screaming. Yeah, 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.760 and you have Adam Pascal, who naturally sings screams. 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.159 And rehearsals for the movie. He would sit there in 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.280 a chair and just scream these notes. I know, been touring. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:29.920 I'm gonna have to stand and con tort my mom. 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:35.080 He was like, I'm not trained, he said, excuse me, 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:36.600 And I'm like, I don't. 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.640 Why are you able to do that or in that way? 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.439 You know those chords of steel. 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.560 No, really, it's it's absolutely jarring and amazing. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:53.639 But uh but yeah, it's easy to for for singers 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.000 to come in and be like, yeah, I could blow 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.000 you know, I could I could you know, scream through Rent? 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.080