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You're listening to the Broadway Podcast Network.
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Hey guys, what's up?
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It's me so late.
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How are we doing today?
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So this episode is about I was on the red carpet for the opening night of the roommate on Broadway.
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And uh, you guys, I was hoping I would get to speak to Patty LePone and uh, of course her co-star Mia Pharaoh, but I didn't know.
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Patty came out, but she hung out just at the like she came out of the door, she took a few photos, she did a few laughs, she did not do any interviews, and then she bounced.
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So I did not get to talk to her, but I did get to talk to some lovely individuals and short and sweet, but a really great time and um inspiring.
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But before we dive in, I'm so excited, you guys! My one-man show is coming up! My solo show, October 14th.
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Have you gotten your tickets yet?
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It's called A Decade of Dreams at Chelsea Table and Stage here in Manhattan, in Chelsea, actually on 26th Street.
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And if you're not in town, there's uh uh tickets to stream it.
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I have been working so hard.
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Um my uh accompanist, Yasuhiko Pukuoka, oh my goodness, I'll be practicing that name every single day until we do the show.
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He's amazing, he's such a great accompanist, and so I've been working with him and I've been also trying to get everything else done ahead of time.
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My dress came in and I didn't like it, so I have to s I have to send it back, and so I'm I'm crossing my fingers that I get the wardrobe and that I'm that it's just like the wardrobe of dreams.
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And I I just finished writing my book um and the edits were I just finalizing the cover and I just can't wait to like share that with everybody.
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The pre-orders are up if you wanted to take a little sneak peek on my website, the salishashow.com.
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You can pre-order it.
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It's called YBNI.
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You can read it.
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And I'm currently working on a course with my best friend Jon Taya McIntyre, who's just like glorious, gorgeous Amazon of a woman, another of four, running for Miss USA, basically.
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Like she is so she's so wonderful, and we're working on a course, an online course together called The Power Move.
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90 Days to your boldest self.
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So we've got some really funny goodies in the work.
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That is not an even and lastly, the thing that's been on my mind is like what would you be doing if fear was not holding you back?
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Like if you weren't afraid of what people would think or what people would say or what everybody has going on in their mind about in their opinion about what you're doing, what would you be doing?
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Or maybe it's another type of fear that I didn't state.
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But like I am always like I write these things and then or I create these things and then I just sit on my little desktop.
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This season that I've been in has been a season of like practicing, creating something and then sharing it.
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Even when it's imperfect, when it is not collected, when it is wrapped around the edges, it is not like hiding it.
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If it wasn't if I created it to be shared, like my whole thing right now is to practice sharing it and putting it out into the world, um, so that I can be in the practice of like creating something hopefully one day that will be bigger than me and um outlast me.
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So that like creating a digital footprint or maybe something else.
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Um how would you guys feel about that?
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Is there anything that you've been working on that you're afraid to tell other people about?
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Or maybe that you're like afraid to start on your heart for months or years.
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Is there anybody out there that has anything like that going on?
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I don't even hear you, I don't even hear you.
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And if it blows up, if it blows up and we can go hide in our coffee.
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But like maybe it won't blow up in a bad way.
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Maybe it'll be a good thing, maybe it'll help somebody that you had no idea it was even gonna do.
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So um that's my like little encouragement for the day.
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I hope you enjoy this red carpet moment on uh uh for the roommate opening night on Broadway.
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And uh see you soon.
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Hey, what's up?
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It's me, Siliche, Silicia Thomas with the Salicia Show on the Broadway Podcast Network, and I'm so excited because it is opening night of the roommate on Broadway, starring Patty Lapone and Mia Farrow.
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I'm so excited.
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Stars will be coming out very soon, and uh can't wait to share some stuff with you.
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See ya!
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Um I'm my name is Bob Crowley and I designed the show.
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Oh my goodness.
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Congratulations and congratulations on the opening night.
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How are you feeling right now?
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I'm feeling very excited, you know, and we've had a lovely time doing the show with Mia and Patty and Jack O'Brien.
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It's been really just fantastic.
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For audiences watching tonight or any night in the future, what do you want them to look out for?
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Um, you can't take your eyes off those two girls out there.
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They're just amazing, you know.
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So uh they're gonna have a good time.
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Oh, I'm so excited.
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If you have to choose one celebrity roommate, who would you choose?
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I think I might choose you.
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Oh my god.
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Thank you so much.
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I hope you have a great time tonight.
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Um my name is Carol Halstead, and I am understudying both Patty Lapone and Mia Farrow.
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Woo! As a fellow understudy, how are you doing?
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How is your brain?
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I'm not sleeping! I'm not sleeping at all.
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It's crazy.
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Have you stayed in a positive mindset?
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Yeah, I've really tried to.
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I mean, there's times, as you know, if you've understudied, you at any moment anything can happen.
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And these, you know, these are pros, they'll never go out.
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And certainly the people come to see them, they don't want to see me.
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But just in case something happens, I have to be ready.
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Well, yeah, I have a feeling you're really freaking good.
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Who you just said they're never gonna call out.
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But if they did, who do you think was gonna call out first?
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No, I'm not saying that.
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I am not playing that game, girlfriend.
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Okay, okay.
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Fair enough, fair enough.
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If you have to choose a celebrity roommate.
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No, everyone is asking! Brilliant! Well, who is it?
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Well, I'm saying Patty and Mia.
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Wait, that's so sweet.
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Um what are you most looking forward to during this chapter of your life?
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I think working with the pressure that you're under in a constant, everyday 24-7, and yet being able to relax and enjoy my life at the same time.
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Honestly, and what have you learned about yourself throughout this process?
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I've I've learned that, oh, there I go freaking out.
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Oh, I talk myself down.
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No, I don't have to have that reaction, I can have this reaction.
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Uh, more breathing, more walking on grass.
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Any advice to aspiring performers or current understudies or swings in the business right now?
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Advice.
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No, I have no advice.
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I'm sorry.
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I have no advice because we're all just kind of hanging on by our fingernails.
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You heard it here best!
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You heard it here first with Carol.
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Thank you so much.
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You're so welcome.
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Um, ladies, you guys look so beautiful and it's such an honor to meet you.
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I know who you are, but for our listeners, can you state your name and what you guys are doing?
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I know you're seeing the show, The Roommate Tonight, but what are you guys up to right now?
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Well, I'm Marissa Derwinoker.
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I'm Carrie Butler.
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I'm Laura Bell Bundy, and we met over 20 years ago when we originated the roles of Hairspray the musical of Amber, Penny, and Tracy.
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And now we're doing a show together using our signature song from Hairspray called Mama I'm a Big Girl Now.
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Okay, whose idea was that?
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It was me and me and Carrie's.
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But then it became my idea.
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That's Marissa's.
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And then it was my idea.
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All good ideas are Marissa's.
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Yeah.
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This is so iconic.
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When is it happening?
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We start previews start November 2nd.
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Oh my god!
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So get your tickets because it's a special limited engagement.
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So don't wait.
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Oh good! We are moms! Yes, we are mamas, and we're doing time for eight shows.
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And we're doing like two shows on Saturday, two shows on Sunday, and on Monday, and we are like, and then we and we take care of our families.
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Good for you.
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And then five days a week at home, uh, or the four days a week at home with our families, and then we come at George.
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So you guys have been an inspiration to so many people.
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Who's your inspiration?
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Oh well, as actress-wise, Patty Lepone.
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Patty Lepone is my inspiration.
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For sure.
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Yeah.
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Yours too?
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Oh, absolutely.
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Patty Le Pone is an inspiration.
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Um, but there's so many, like Betty Buckley's on my list of inspirational performers to watch, and I know Robert Downey Jr.'s coming in here and then like my favorites.
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Bet Midler.
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But these women, these these women are friends.
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And you know, Jack O'Brien who directed this, it's it has been very inspiring for us, even though he's not a performer.
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He was a director who very much inspired, I think, all of our processes as we moved on after Hairspray.
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100%.
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Everything, every job I've had since hairspray, whatever, TV film, it's always I always go back to what Jack O'Brien taught me for Tracy, and I bring that to every character.
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Ladies, you're such an inspiration.
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Thank you so much for talking about.
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I hope you have such a fun night.
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Thank you.
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I'm Jen Silverman and I'm the playwright.
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The playwright at the house! Congratulations.
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How are you feeling?
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I have no idea.
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I'm so excited.
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A little bit like I'm dissociating from my body right now.
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Really?
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Have you eaten?
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What day?
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Oh my gosh! No, no, no.
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I had yeah, I had some peanut butter.
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I was like, that's all I could do right now.
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Really?
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You haven't had like dinner yet?
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Okay.
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Um has there been like a lot of rewrites in previews and getting to this part, or has it been smooth for you?
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You know what, there haven't been a lot of rewrites.
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Um the play sort of has had a life for about 10 years, and so when me and Patty were wanting to work on it, what I wanted to do is sort of support them as much as possible in terms of what they wanted tweaked or sculpted.
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Um, but they were so sparing in terms of what they asked for, and sort of we've done really delicate work shifting, I think, certain areas of text, but for the most part, we've been learning about it in a more 3D way with an audience.
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Um, who's your inspiration?
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For the player in life.
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In life.
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My mom.
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And my dad, also.
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So sweet.
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I'm always like, my dad, I love my mom too.
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And for this particular show, where did it come from?
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Like, why this show for you?
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I well, I wrote it when I had started seeing my life partner, Dane Laffery, who was a scenic designer, and his mother at that time, who I had not yet met, um, had just moved in with a roommate, a female roommate, and they were navigating for the first time the complexities of living in a house together.
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Um and I was hearing all these things from Dane, and I was thrilled and sort of inventing lots of possibilities.
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I'd be like, well, what if blah blah blah?
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And he'd say, like, no, no, no, that's not gonna happen.
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And then his mom's roommate vanished unexpectedly overnight.
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Uh and it turned out that it was like a very boring, banal, real-life reason.
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But that was sort of the catalyst for me, and so I wrote the play, and then I had to explain to him in an aisle at Whole Foods that I had written a play that was like not about his mom, but adjacent to his mom.
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Oh my goodness.
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What would you tell eight-year-old Jen?
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Oof.
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Good lord.
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I mean, things get easier and also things get harder.
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But, you know, we we develop more tools to be able to handle those things.
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I love that.
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And second to last question: what have you learned about yourself while working on this iteration of this project?
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Oh, I love that question.
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So much of what I am watching me and Patty do every night is bring audiences like an immense amount of pleasure and joy.
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And though The Roommate is a comedy, when I was writing it, I didn't think about it as a comedy.
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Interesting! I knew it was, I knew that there was comedy in it, but for me, the conversation that I was really interrogating was change and transformation, and what happens when we tell ourselves, we internalize the story that we're too old for anything to happen, and what happens when we realize that that is a complete lie and that we can transform our lives at any moment.
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So that was my focus at that time, but now what I'm really considering and sitting with is the experience of being in a packed audience full of people who are really, really enjoying themselves, and how there is actually both power and politics in that right now.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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That's right.
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Oh my god.
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I am so excited for you.
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Thank you.
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You look so cool.
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I hope that you really get to enjoy this night.
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Thank you.
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And that when you get a chance, you can have a nice bomb dinner with a classic, whatever you want.
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Thank you.
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Have a great cheer.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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So nice to meet you.
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Congratulations.
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I'm a producer and actor.
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Oh, great.
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Yes.
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Nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you too.
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Are you excited to see the show tonight?
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I'm so excited to see the show.
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I read the script and I fell in love with it.
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So I'm so excited to see how these two iconic actresses portray these characters.
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Iconic.
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Iconic.
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Do you know them?
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Do you know either of them?
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I met Mia Farrell a long time ago.
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Um, I love Jen Silverman's writing.
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I loved Highway Patrol.
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She's got a very uh specific way of writing, and I'm very interested to see how these amazing actresses portray these roles, so I'm really excited.
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Um, have you ever had a nightmare roommate?
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Yes, as a matter of fact, I have.
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In college, I had a nightmare roommate.
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I was 21, and she was a high-end call girl, if you know what that is, back in the day.
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Uh and so did she bring them to the apartment?
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She did.
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That was a nightmare.
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I mean, but I loved her, she was very fun, but like I didn't appreciate that that was my roommate at 18 years old.
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So, yes, I have had a nightmare roommate.
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Oh my god! God bless you! What a story!
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Not expecting that you really just made me cry.
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I know, you know, that's like you know, you conjure up these things when you think about the roommates.
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Oh my gosh, yes.
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Congratulations, have fun tonight and thank you!
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Bianca Mary Kin, my sister for this round when you say her right here.
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Bianca Marokin, nice to meet you.
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I'm nice to meet you.
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You look beautiful.
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Thank you so much.
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You look gorgeous.
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Oh, thank you.
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Are you excited to see the show?
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I'm very excited, I'm very intrigued.
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Yes.
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How did two women at that stage of life end up as roommates?
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I wanna know.
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Right.
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And their stories have some interesting stories to get to where they are, no.
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Right.
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Have you met, um, have you met either of them?
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Hadier Mia?
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No, never in person, so I am like blown away that I'm gonna get to see them this close.
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I think two legends.
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I just asked your sister-in-law and got a very unexpected answer.
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Dear, ha have you ever had a nightmare roommate?
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Um other than my husband?
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No! No, he's a delight! No! I'm thinking about this other roommate, no, I'm kidding! I'm gonna adore my husband.
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No, I can I'll gladly do his laundry anytime and watch his dishes anytime.
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No, I'm thinking about this turn when I was in college and uh she would never she would no.
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This is the thing.
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She would sometimes not come come home to sleep.
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And I was worried about her all the time.
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Like, what is it this time?
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Is she coming back?
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Did she get kidnapped?
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Did she get la la?
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So I was always worried about her.
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Oh, that's so that's the only thing.
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Uh yes, because I'm very maternal.
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And thank god she's still alive, she got married, she has kids, she's fine, she's fine.
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You are so fun.
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I hope that you have the best time tonight.
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Thank you so much on your sister-in-law day.
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Oh, and have a great time.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh, have a great night.
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Thank you, I mean you think.
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Uh Murray Hill!
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Murray Hill, it's nice to be there!
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Famous comedians on television!
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Yes, you have a show of Drag Me to Dinner.
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Drag Me to Dinner and on HBO somebody somewhere.
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Oh my gosh, congratulations! Are you excited for tonight?
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I love Patty.
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I'm a huge fan, and I'm even more excited because I just found out there's no intermission.
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That means, is it like straight through?
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80 minutes or less?
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Yes.
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Okay, that's cute.
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Okay, quick question for you.
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Have you ever had a nightmare roommate?
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Yes, I have.
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I I don't know what I can say on the camera, but I I I had a roommate, and nothing against homosexual men, they're a lot of fun.
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Um but I, you know, it's a stereotype from for gay guys, and you know, stereotypes are based on facts.
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And gay guys love to have sex all the time.
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And I had a gay male roommate, and I heard shit that I I still don't know what it was today, but I know it was that.
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Like suction cups, cork getting pulled.
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I mean, there was so much shit going on, it was horrifying.
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And um, and again, I love the gays, um, but yeah, the shit that they do.
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Wow.
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No judgments, but wow.
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Oh my god, why are you incredible?
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I hope that you have the best time tonight, that you enjoy every minute, and that you enjoy the no intermission.
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Yeah, I'll see you in like half an hour.
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We'll go smoke some joints in the alley.
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Showbiz.
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So nice to meet you.
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Thank you.
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You're incredible.
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Thank you so much.
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Yes, hi, I'm Mandy Gonzalez.
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Woo! Mandy Gonzalez, it's so great to meet you in person.
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You're such an inspiration.
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Thank you.
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Um, may I ask who your inspiration is?
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Oh my gosh.
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Uh, tonight I have to say Patty Lapone.
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I mean, I grew up uh listening to her, and she is such a force, and uh she's so inspiring in that way.
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She speaks her mind, and as a woman, uh I just feel so inspired by her on a constant basis.
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Oh, I love that.
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Yes.
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Um have you ever had a nightmare roommate?
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Yes, I mean I don't think it was so much a nightmare, but it it was definitely it.
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This night has definitely made me remember uh a very passive aggressive roommate that I had, and she would just leave a lot of like post-its around that said, please do this, nobody's washing the dishes, blah blah blah.
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So you would just you wouldn't see her all day and you would just think about these post-its.
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But no it was pre-cell phone and pre-texting and all those things, so I give her a little bit like a little bit.
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Like, just talk to me.
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I'll let you enjoy the show tonight.
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Have a great time, and thank you for stopping by.
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Thank you so much.
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Thanks for me.
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And that wraps a great night on the pink carpet for the roommate opening night.
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Woo! I'm Salicia Thomas, your host of The Salicia Show.
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You're listening to the Broadway Podcast Network.
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Hey guys, what's up?
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It's me so late.
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How are we doing today?
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So this episode is about I was on the red carpet for the opening night of the roommate on Broadway.
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And uh, you guys, I was hoping I would get to speak to Patty LePone and uh, of course her co-star Mia Pharaoh, but I didn't know.
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Patty came out, but she hung out just at the like she came out of the door, she took a few photos, she did a few laughs, she did not do any interviews, and then she bounced.
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So I did not get to talk to her, but I did get to talk to some lovely individuals and short and sweet, but a really great time and um inspiring.
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But before we dive in, I'm so excited, you guys! My one-man show is coming up! My solo show, October 14th.
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Have you gotten your tickets yet?
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It's called A Decade of Dreams at Chelsea Table and Stage here in Manhattan, in Chelsea, actually on 26th Street.
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And if you're not in town, there's uh uh tickets to stream it.
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I have been working so hard.
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Um my uh accompanist, Yasuhiko Pukuoka, oh my goodness, I'll be practicing that name every single day until we do the show.
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He's amazing, he's such a great accompanist, and so I've been working with him and I've been also trying to get everything else done ahead of time.
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My dress came in and I didn't like it, so I have to s I have to send it back, and so I'm I'm crossing my fingers that I get the wardrobe and that I'm that it's just like the wardrobe of dreams.
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And I I just finished writing my book um and the edits were I just finalizing the cover and I just can't wait to like share that with everybody.
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The pre-orders are up if you wanted to take a little sneak peek on my website, the salishashow.com.
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You can pre-order it.
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It's called YBNI.
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You can read it.
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And I'm currently working on a course with my best friend Jon Taya McIntyre, who's just like glorious, gorgeous Amazon of a woman, another of four, running for Miss USA, basically.
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Like she is so she's so wonderful, and we're working on a course, an online course together called The Power Move.
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90 Days to your boldest self.
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So we've got some really funny goodies in the work.
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That is not an even and lastly, the thing that's been on my mind is like what would you be doing if fear was not holding you back?
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Like if you weren't afraid of what people would think or what people would say or what everybody has going on in their mind about in their opinion about what you're doing, what would you be doing?
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Or maybe it's another type of fear that I didn't state.
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But like I am always like I write these things and then or I create these things and then I just sit on my little desktop.
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This season that I've been in has been a season of like practicing, creating something and then sharing it.
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Even when it's imperfect, when it is not collected, when it is wrapped around the edges, it is not like hiding it.
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If it wasn't if I created it to be shared, like my whole thing right now is to practice sharing it and putting it out into the world, um, so that I can be in the practice of like creating something hopefully one day that will be bigger than me and um outlast me.
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So that like creating a digital footprint or maybe something else.
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Um how would you guys feel about that?
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Is there anything that you've been working on that you're afraid to tell other people about?
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Or maybe that you're like afraid to start on your heart for months or years.
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Is there anybody out there that has anything like that going on?
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I don't even hear you, I don't even hear you.
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And if it blows up, if it blows up and we can go hide in our coffee.
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But like maybe it won't blow up in a bad way.
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Maybe it'll be a good thing, maybe it'll help somebody that you had no idea it was even gonna do.
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So um that's my like little encouragement for the day.
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I hope you enjoy this red carpet moment on uh uh for the roommate opening night on Broadway.
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And uh see you soon.
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Hey, what's up?
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It's me, Siliche, Silicia Thomas with the Salicia Show on the Broadway Podcast Network, and I'm so excited because it is opening night of the roommate on Broadway, starring Patty Lapone and Mia Farrow.
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I'm so excited.
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Stars will be coming out very soon, and uh can't wait to share some stuff with you.
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See ya!
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Um I'm my name is Bob Crowley and I designed the show.
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Oh my goodness.
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Congratulations and congratulations on the opening night.
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How are you feeling right now?
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I'm feeling very excited, you know, and we've had a lovely time doing the show with Mia and Patty and Jack O'Brien.
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It's been really just fantastic.
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For audiences watching tonight or any night in the future, what do you want them to look out for?
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Um, you can't take your eyes off those two girls out there.
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They're just amazing, you know.
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So uh they're gonna have a good time.
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Oh, I'm so excited.
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If you have to choose one celebrity roommate, who would you choose?
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I think I might choose you.
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Oh my god.
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Thank you so much.
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I hope you have a great time tonight.
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Um my name is Carol Halstead, and I am understudying both Patty Lapone and Mia Farrow.
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Woo! As a fellow understudy, how are you doing?
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How is your brain?
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I'm not sleeping! I'm not sleeping at all.
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It's crazy.
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Have you stayed in a positive mindset?
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Yeah, I've really tried to.
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I mean, there's times, as you know, if you've understudied, you at any moment anything can happen.
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And these, you know, these are pros, they'll never go out.
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And certainly the people come to see them, they don't want to see me.
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But just in case something happens, I have to be ready.
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Well, yeah, I have a feeling you're really freaking good.
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Who you just said they're never gonna call out.
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But if they did, who do you think was gonna call out first?
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No, I'm not saying that.
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I am not playing that game, girlfriend.
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Okay, okay.
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Fair enough, fair enough.
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If you have to choose a celebrity roommate.
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No, everyone is asking! Brilliant! Well, who is it?
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Well, I'm saying Patty and Mia.
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Wait, that's so sweet.
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Um what are you most looking forward to during this chapter of your life?
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I think working with the pressure that you're under in a constant, everyday 24-7, and yet being able to relax and enjoy my life at the same time.
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Honestly, and what have you learned about yourself throughout this process?
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I've I've learned that, oh, there I go freaking out.
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Oh, I talk myself down.
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No, I don't have to have that reaction, I can have this reaction.
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Uh, more breathing, more walking on grass.
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Any advice to aspiring performers or current understudies or swings in the business right now?
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Advice.
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No, I have no advice.
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I'm sorry.
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I have no advice because we're all just kind of hanging on by our fingernails.
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You heard it here best!
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You heard it here first with Carol.
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Thank you so much.
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You're so welcome.
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Um, ladies, you guys look so beautiful and it's such an honor to meet you.
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I know who you are, but for our listeners, can you state your name and what you guys are doing?
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I know you're seeing the show, The Roommate Tonight, but what are you guys up to right now?
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Well, I'm Marissa Derwinoker.
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I'm Carrie Butler.
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I'm Laura Bell Bundy, and we met over 20 years ago when we originated the roles of Hairspray the musical of Amber, Penny, and Tracy.
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And now we're doing a show together using our signature song from Hairspray called Mama I'm a Big Girl Now.
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Okay, whose idea was that?
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It was me and me and Carrie's.
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But then it became my idea.
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That's Marissa's.
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And then it was my idea.
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All good ideas are Marissa's.
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Yeah.
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This is so iconic.
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When is it happening?
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We start previews start November 2nd.
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Oh my god!
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So get your tickets because it's a special limited engagement.
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So don't wait.
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Oh good! We are moms! Yes, we are mamas, and we're doing time for eight shows.
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And we're doing like two shows on Saturday, two shows on Sunday, and on Monday, and we are like, and then we and we take care of our families.
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Good for you.
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And then five days a week at home, uh, or the four days a week at home with our families, and then we come at George.
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So you guys have been an inspiration to so many people.
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Who's your inspiration?
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Oh well, as actress-wise, Patty Lepone.
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Patty Lepone is my inspiration.
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For sure.
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Yeah.
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Yours too?
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Oh, absolutely.
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Patty Le Pone is an inspiration.
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Um, but there's so many, like Betty Buckley's on my list of inspirational performers to watch, and I know Robert Downey Jr.'s coming in here and then like my favorites.
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Bet Midler.
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But these women, these these women are friends.
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And you know, Jack O'Brien who directed this, it's it has been very inspiring for us, even though he's not a performer.
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He was a director who very much inspired, I think, all of our processes as we moved on after Hairspray.
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100%.
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Everything, every job I've had since hairspray, whatever, TV film, it's always I always go back to what Jack O'Brien taught me for Tracy, and I bring that to every character.
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Ladies, you're such an inspiration.
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Thank you so much for talking about.
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I hope you have such a fun night.
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Thank you.
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I'm Jen Silverman and I'm the playwright.
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The playwright at the house! Congratulations.
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How are you feeling?
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I have no idea.
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I'm so excited.
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A little bit like I'm dissociating from my body right now.
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Really?
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Have you eaten?
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What day?
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Oh my gosh! No, no, no.
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I had yeah, I had some peanut butter.
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I was like, that's all I could do right now.
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Really?
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You haven't had like dinner yet?
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Okay.
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Um has there been like a lot of rewrites in previews and getting to this part, or has it been smooth for you?
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You know what, there haven't been a lot of rewrites.
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Um the play sort of has had a life for about 10 years, and so when me and Patty were wanting to work on it, what I wanted to do is sort of support them as much as possible in terms of what they wanted tweaked or sculpted.
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Um, but they were so sparing in terms of what they asked for, and sort of we've done really delicate work shifting, I think, certain areas of text, but for the most part, we've been learning about it in a more 3D way with an audience.
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Um, who's your inspiration?
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For the player in life.
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In life.
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My mom.
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And my dad, also.
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So sweet.
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I'm always like, my dad, I love my mom too.
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And for this particular show, where did it come from?
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Like, why this show for you?
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I well, I wrote it when I had started seeing my life partner, Dane Laffery, who was a scenic designer, and his mother at that time, who I had not yet met, um, had just moved in with a roommate, a female roommate, and they were navigating for the first time the complexities of living in a house together.
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Um and I was hearing all these things from Dane, and I was thrilled and sort of inventing lots of possibilities.
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I'd be like, well, what if blah blah blah?
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And he'd say, like, no, no, no, that's not gonna happen.
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And then his mom's roommate vanished unexpectedly overnight.
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Uh and it turned out that it was like a very boring, banal, real-life reason.
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But that was sort of the catalyst for me, and so I wrote the play, and then I had to explain to him in an aisle at Whole Foods that I had written a play that was like not about his mom, but adjacent to his mom.
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Oh my goodness.
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What would you tell eight-year-old Jen?
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Oof.
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Good lord.
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I mean, things get easier and also things get harder.
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But, you know, we we develop more tools to be able to handle those things.
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I love that.
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And second to last question: what have you learned about yourself while working on this iteration of this project?
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Oh, I love that question.
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So much of what I am watching me and Patty do every night is bring audiences like an immense amount of pleasure and joy.
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And though The Roommate is a comedy, when I was writing it, I didn't think about it as a comedy.
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Interesting! I knew it was, I knew that there was comedy in it, but for me, the conversation that I was really interrogating was change and transformation, and what happens when we tell ourselves, we internalize the story that we're too old for anything to happen, and what happens when we realize that that is a complete lie and that we can transform our lives at any moment.
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So that was my focus at that time, but now what I'm really considering and sitting with is the experience of being in a packed audience full of people who are really, really enjoying themselves, and how there is actually both power and politics in that right now.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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That's right.
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Oh my god.
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I am so excited for you.
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Thank you.
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You look so cool.
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I hope that you really get to enjoy this night.
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Thank you.
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And that when you get a chance, you can have a nice bomb dinner with a classic, whatever you want.
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Thank you.
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Have a great cheer.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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So nice to meet you.
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Congratulations.
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I'm a producer and actor.
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Oh, great.
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Yes.
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Nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you too.
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Are you excited to see the show tonight?
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I'm so excited to see the show.
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I read the script and I fell in love with it.
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So I'm so excited to see how these two iconic actresses portray these characters.
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Iconic.
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Iconic.
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Do you know them?
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Do you know either of them?
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I met Mia Farrell a long time ago.
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Um, I love Jen Silverman's writing.
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I loved Highway Patrol.
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She's got a very uh specific way of writing, and I'm very interested to see how these amazing actresses portray these roles, so I'm really excited.
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Um, have you ever had a nightmare roommate?
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Yes, as a matter of fact, I have.
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In college, I had a nightmare roommate.
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I was 21, and she was a high-end call girl, if you know what that is, back in the day.
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Uh and so did she bring them to the apartment?
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She did.
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That was a nightmare.
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I mean, but I loved her, she was very fun, but like I didn't appreciate that that was my roommate at 18 years old.
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So, yes, I have had a nightmare roommate.
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Oh my god! God bless you! What a story!
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Not expecting that you really just made me cry.
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I know, you know, that's like you know, you conjure up these things when you think about the roommates.
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Oh my gosh, yes.
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Congratulations, have fun tonight and thank you!
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Bianca Mary Kin, my sister for this round when you say her right here.
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Bianca Marokin, nice to meet you.
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I'm nice to meet you.
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You look beautiful.
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Thank you so much.
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You look gorgeous.
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Oh, thank you.
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Are you excited to see the show?
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I'm very excited, I'm very intrigued.
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Yes.
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How did two women at that stage of life end up as roommates?
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I wanna know.
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Right.
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And their stories have some interesting stories to get to where they are, no.
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Right.
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Have you met, um, have you met either of them?
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Hadier Mia?
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No, never in person, so I am like blown away that I'm gonna get to see them this close.
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I think two legends.
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I just asked your sister-in-law and got a very unexpected answer.
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Dear, ha have you ever had a nightmare roommate?
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Um other than my husband?
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No! No, he's a delight! No! I'm thinking about this other roommate, no, I'm kidding! I'm gonna adore my husband.
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No, I can I'll gladly do his laundry anytime and watch his dishes anytime.
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No, I'm thinking about this turn when I was in college and uh she would never she would no.
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This is the thing.
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She would sometimes not come come home to sleep.
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And I was worried about her all the time.
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Like, what is it this time?
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Is she coming back?
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Did she get kidnapped?
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Did she get la la?
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So I was always worried about her.
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Oh, that's so that's the only thing.
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Uh yes, because I'm very maternal.
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And thank god she's still alive, she got married, she has kids, she's fine, she's fine.
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You are so fun.
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I hope that you have the best time tonight.
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Thank you so much on your sister-in-law day.
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Oh, and have a great time.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh, have a great night.
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Thank you, I mean you think.
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Uh Murray Hill!
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Murray Hill, it's nice to be there!
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Famous comedians on television!
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Yes, you have a show of Drag Me to Dinner.
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Drag Me to Dinner and on HBO somebody somewhere.
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Oh my gosh, congratulations! Are you excited for tonight?
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I love Patty.
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I'm a huge fan, and I'm even more excited because I just found out there's no intermission.
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That means, is it like straight through?
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80 minutes or less?
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Yes.
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Okay, that's cute.
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Okay, quick question for you.
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Have you ever had a nightmare roommate?
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Yes, I have.
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I I don't know what I can say on the camera, but I I I had a roommate, and nothing against homosexual men, they're a lot of fun.
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Um but I, you know, it's a stereotype from for gay guys, and you know, stereotypes are based on facts.
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And gay guys love to have sex all the time.
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And I had a gay male roommate, and I heard shit that I I still don't know what it was today, but I know it was that.
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Like suction cups, cork getting pulled.
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I mean, there was so much shit going on, it was horrifying.
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And um, and again, I love the gays, um, but yeah, the shit that they do.
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Wow.
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No judgments, but wow.
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Oh my god, why are you incredible?
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I hope that you have the best time tonight, that you enjoy every minute, and that you enjoy the no intermission.
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Yeah, I'll see you in like half an hour.
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We'll go smoke some joints in the alley.
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Showbiz.
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So nice to meet you.
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Thank you.
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You're incredible.
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Thank you so much.
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Yes, hi, I'm Mandy Gonzalez.
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Woo! Mandy Gonzalez, it's so great to meet you in person.
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You're such an inspiration.
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Thank you.
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Um, may I ask who your inspiration is?
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Oh my gosh.
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Uh, tonight I have to say Patty Lapone.
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I mean, I grew up uh listening to her, and she is such a force, and uh she's so inspiring in that way.
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She speaks her mind, and as a woman, uh I just feel so inspired by her on a constant basis.
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Oh, I love that.
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Yes.
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Um have you ever had a nightmare roommate?
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Yes, I mean I don't think it was so much a nightmare, but it it was definitely it.
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This night has definitely made me remember uh a very passive aggressive roommate that I had, and she would just leave a lot of like post-its around that said, please do this, nobody's washing the dishes, blah blah blah.
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So you would just you wouldn't see her all day and you would just think about these post-its.
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But no it was pre-cell phone and pre-texting and all those things, so I give her a little bit like a little bit.
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Like, just talk to me.
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I'll let you enjoy the show tonight.
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Have a great time, and thank you for stopping by.
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Thank you so much.
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Thanks for me.
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And that wraps a great night on the pink carpet for the roommate opening night.
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