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Hello, what's up?
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It's me to lead you here with a Broadway podcast number on this leader show, and we are here with the W Eater Gala honoring reality Broadway theater holiday and everything.
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This is gonna happen for the evening.
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Hello.
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Oh my goodness, thank you.
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I don't even know how to take that, but thank you.
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Oh my goodness, and and your work in Angeliana is so funny, so grounded, so real.
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So funny.
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Josh, the dresser there, loves you.
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He's been like making all of my maternity pants.
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And he just loves you.
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I adored that show.
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I had the best two years, and I I miss it every day, but I love them, and I just I'm so I feel so blessed that that show is still running.
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And obviously, because it's an amazing story.
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So yay, I'm glad that it's already in America.
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Uh yeah.
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Hello.
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Fantastic in it.
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Um I don't know what the answer is to this.
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Are you a mom in real life?
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I am a mom in real life.
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Okay, okay.
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My daughter is gonna be five in two days.
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How crazy is that?
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Five.
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Yeah, I know five.
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A pandemic baby.
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Yep.
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A full pandemic baby.
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Like, as in, I didn't even know if I was gonna have anyone in a um room with me when I was having her.
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Like that kind of pandemic baby.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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I'm pregnant with my first one right now.
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Okay, and I would never have even okay, great, but it's gonna come.
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It's gonna come.
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You're gonna be great.
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I'm scared.
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Oh, don't be scared.
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I mean, you should be scared.
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I mean, actually, no, it is amazing.
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It is all the things, and it changes you fundamentally, it changes you in every way, shape, or form in the absolute best ways possible.
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But you were in for some sleep last night, let me tell you.
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Um, you know, you uh it becomes clear what's important.
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I will say that.
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A lot of the fluff that you think about, I think before you, I don't want to speak for everyone, but before you have a child, um, or before you have, you know, kids, there's a lot of things that seem important and then you realize it's not really that important.
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And so actually, like the clutter just kind of falls away in like the most beautiful way.
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And you're able to actually just be so much more present because you actually can't not not be.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah, I really do mean that.
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You're gonna be just fine.
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Yeah, you're gonna be just fine.
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That's all I need.
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That's all I need.
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Enjoy your party tonight.
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We're just kidding.
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Please, you don't have to do that.
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But if you if you wanted to, it would be um probably the right thing to do.
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Wait, I missed it.
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You said wet, wet, Betsy?
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And name your baby Betsy! She didn't even get it.
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She didn't even hear it.
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They got it, they're like Selicia's.
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Listen up.
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Oh my god, get off the line and cut.
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Hi, my name is Conrad Rickamora.
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Hi, Conrad.
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It's so great to meet you.
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Great to meet you too, Selicia.
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Shall we begin with?
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I just started free-watching how to get away with murder.
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Oh, really?
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No big deal.
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There's no big deal here.
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Um, you're also a theater, you're a theater person.
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Yeah, I'm in a O'Mary right now.
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How is that?
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It's great.
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I've been doing, we've been running for, well, off Broadway, we were last year, and then uh we've been on Broadway for almost a year now.
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So you've been with it the whole time.
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Yeah, the entire time.
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Since we were in a small rehearsal room at La Mama.
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Oh my god, congratulations.
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Thank you.
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And so for tonight, um, is there a woman in your life who has ever opened up a professional door for you?
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Oh, well, my I feel like my stepmom saved my life.
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She came in to my dad was a single parent uh of two little boys until I was seven years old.
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And uh she came in and she's a social worker, she's been a social worker her whole life, and uh she taught me about choices and how important it is to have choices, and then you can make the right choices when you have choices.
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Um and she really liked yeah, it she she's changed my life.
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Um yeah, meeting her.
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Amen.
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Um, and last question what are you manifesting this year?
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Oh, oh goodness.
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I am wow, what did I say back in uh that I'm manifesting uh wellness and uh taking care of myself.
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I think in this industry, yeah, it's in this industry you work so hard just to get your foot in the door, and then it's then when you do get your foot in the door, it's time to like reassess and like you know, yeah, uh take care of yourself.
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Well said.
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Thank you so much, and thank you.
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Have fun tonight.
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Hi, I'm Jason Robert Brown.
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Y'all, Jason Robert Brown knows my name.
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What on earth?
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Is this my dream come true?
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Um, hi.
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Hi.
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What's your connection to WP Theater?
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My connection is just that I love it.
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I love the organization, I love what they do, I love their mission, and I wanted to be here to help support them.
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You're amazing.
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Thanks.
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Um, what is the biggest creative risk that you've ever taken?
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You've done so much.
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You've done a freaking lot.
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I don't know.
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I mean, I probably took one this morning, but uh I think the biggest one I've ever taken was just sometimes trusting someone trusting that I could look at them and say, I know that you're the right person to work with me, even if their resume didn't suggest it, or I hadn't seen some of their other work.
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And when I met Daisy Prince when I was 22 years old, I said that's the person who I'm going to spend the rest of my life working with.
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And I was right.
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Do you always run on instincts?
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No.
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A lot of times I run on lawyers, but in those cases, I was able to run on instincts, and I'm glad I did.
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What was the moment that you realized that you could trust your inner voice and put the art out into the world that was inside of you?
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I don't know.
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I think that has to happen early, right?
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I think whatever makes somebody confident for no reason, that's what I was.
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You know, I when I was eight years old, I for no reason at all, I was like, people have to hear what I do.
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I mean, but it's all it's a lot of little kids.
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They perform, they sing, they jump around, they dance, they want attention.
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I always wanted attention, and when you get it, you're either like, oh, I like that, or you're like, oh, I don't like that.
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And I was like, no, I like that.
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So I've been trying to get it ever since then.
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And you know, not just get it, but also give it to shine it back out onto the world, on the artists who do work that excites me.
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What advice would you give to people who are coming up looking at you, wanting to do what you do?
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And what you do, you don't make things easy for people trying to learn your work.
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No, but but that's the thing that I want to say is that you're only ever going to be you.
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And every attempt to compare yourself to uh to take some part of yourself that you think other people don't like and hide that, uh, or to try to sand off the rough edges, none of that's gonna work at the end of the day.
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You just have to be your you.
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You have to find out what you is and just let that shine.
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I could talk to you for hours.
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I have to let you go.
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It's alright.
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We know each other now.
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I'm so happy to meet you.
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Pleasure to meet you, Salisha.
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Hi.
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Um, why are you perfect?
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You look great.
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I'm Selicia.
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I'm with the Broadway Podcast Network.
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Perfect.
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Step can I hand this to you, of course.
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Um, for our audio audience, can you introduce yourself?
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Hi, everybody, I'm Adrian Warren.
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Uh, Adrian, congratulations for being honored tonight.
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Like you're the honoring.
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That's crazy.
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What?
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You let me in here.
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Everybody let you in here.
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You're being honored for your extraordinary achievement to theater and beyond.
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How are you feeling?
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Uh, a little I don't know how to feel.
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This has never happened to me.
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I've never allowed it to be to happen to me.
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Are you kidding?
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Oh, you know what?
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This is a practice and taking my flowers.
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I think that's something all women have a problem with sometimes.
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This is not the first time that the industry has rallied behind you, rooting you on, excited for you.
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No, I'm I'm truly, truly honored, especially WP Theater, all the work that they do for women.
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And I'm just, I can't believe I'm here.
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My mom is with me today.
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It's it's a really special moment to have my friends and family here.
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I am excited for I know you don't know me, but I'm excited for you.
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I thought Gio Brian Hennings.
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Yes.
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I was like, Gio hair and make up makeup Adrianaire in here somewhere.
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He does my hair sometimes.
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Yes!
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Where you look great.
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Did he do it today?
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Yes, he did.
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Yes, he did.
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Plus up on the hair.
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We look good, we look good.
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You know, you know.
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Um, can I ask you, what is the biggest creative risk that you've ever taken?
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The biggest creative risk, wow.
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Um, number one is stepping in Tina Turner's shoes.
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Oh, you did that.
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I know, but that will always be a risk because that could have gone really badly.
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It didn't, but it didn't.
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So it's New Vers.
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I know.
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Instead of Tina's Tina's.
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But I have to say this: I think everything I do, I try to make sure that it's a risk, it's a challenge.
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Playing Kathy in the last five years on Broadway was a risk.
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It's a challenge.
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It's going great, and I'm so Nick's gonna be here tonight.
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He's gonna be here, and I'm I love I had just such an amazing opportunity to step into this role, and I'm having a ball.
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What are you manifesting this year?
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Peace.
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In a time of crazy, I am manifesting peace and rest is what I'm manifesting.
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I don't know about the rest part, I don't know if I'll get that part, but peace for sure.
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I hope these things for you as well.
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Thank you.
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Um, one more big question, because I know you have a lot of people who want to talk to you.
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You're in an industry in a space where you're high visibility, high impact, high pressure.
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How do you stay grounded?
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My family and my friends, the people I keep around me, my community, that's what keeps me grounded always.
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And also knowing that it's okay if I'm not okay and owning that, and it's okay when I need to sit down and owning that.
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So, yeah, that definitely keeps me grounded every day.
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Have a great time tonight.
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Thank you.
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Congratulations.
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Thank you so much.
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Thanks.
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I love it.
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Thank yourself.
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Hi, I'm Jeb Brown.
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Let me tell you why Jeb Brown's the bomb, okay?
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So my first Broadway show was Beautiful De Carol King musical at the Stephen Sondheim Theater.
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We've never worked together.
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But we got LBC in the house, okay?
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And right now.
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You were in the show?
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Yes.
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Oh, fantastic.
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I um launched the national tour, and then two years later I sh why closed the Broadway company.
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And did you do that fantastic video we did at the outset of COVID?
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Yes.
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Where we all sang Jason, it's crazy.
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I still watch it and and just for a cheer-up.
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It's so special.
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And it and it started a whole movement of those kinds of videos, right?
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I didn't realize that, Jason.
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Yes.
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I know, I know.
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I'm so excited for you.
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How is Dead Alba?
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Dead Alba is such fun.
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We're having a ball.
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It's at the Long Acre Theater, and we just opened, and we've got seven Tony nominations.
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I'm so proud of it and so good about it.
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It's uh it's an original offering, it's outrageous, and really, really, it's a doozy of a time.
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I have to come and see it very soon.
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Um, I used to sit next to Julia in the dressing room.
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Oh, there you go.
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I know, I know.
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Um, I'm just so excited to talk to you, but let me ask you some questions regarding tonight.
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Um what's your connection to WP Theater?
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You know, I I've been a fan of WP for a long time.
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I love Lisa McNulty.
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She's kind of, you know, my beacon when it comes to all things.
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Uh that Lisa?
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That that Lisa, right over there, yeah.
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Um, and Lisa asked me to do a play for the WP about 10 years ago.
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It was called The Undeniable Sound of Right Now.
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Laura Easton wrote it.
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She's now on the board of WP, and it was a fantastic experience.
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It was just great.
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So that, you know, that just deepened my good feeling about WP.
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But I see as much as I can of what they do, and I'm always satisfied.
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I mean, what you know, what more can you ask?
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Why am I so happy to just stand next to you?
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I'm like, oh my God.
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What did you sing in beautiful?
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Uh, Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
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Oh, very nice.
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And Lucy.
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Oh, very nice.
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It would have been you and me.
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I know.
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It would have been you and me.
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He was full when I got there.
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He was like, We're gonna close tomorrow.
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I'm like, oh my god.
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Every day I was worried.
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Oh, that's funny.
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Oh, that's funny.
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I dropped the pencils on my second day, and when I came back, they glued them all together on the desk.
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You just smiled.
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I just recognized your smile from that video.
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Oh, I had my wig on, it was like a- Yeah, right, but I just I just saw the smile, and I was like, oh, I know that person.
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I could talk to you for hours.
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Well, you said that to the last person.
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I did notice that.
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No, but I really did I really?
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Oh, that was I mean Adrienne Warren, yeah, I could talk to her for hours.
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But you're a different reason, though.
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Right.
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We really connect even though we've never met.
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I really I know.
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I'm like, this is my Donnie Kirschner, even though he was never my Donnie Kirschner.
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My Donnie Kirschhner.
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Can you believe that Don Kirschner is anybody's Donnie Kirschner?
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You know, Ricky, his son uh uh uh produces the Tony Awards and has for years.
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He the real Donnie Kirschner's.
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The real Donnie Kirschner's son, who is very much a Donnie type.
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He's six foot five and looks just like his dad, and he is the mastermind behind that and the Super Bowl halftime show and all kinds of things.
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So it's a family tradition.
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Show biz.
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I met Donnie Kirschner's wife?
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Could be.
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There's a sister.
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A sister?
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Somebody and I said, was there ever anything between Donnie and Lucille?
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Thinking that there wasn't.
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And she was like, Yeah, I found love letters.
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Oh no.
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So sorry.
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Accidental.
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Oh dear.
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That's yeah, I never heard that.
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And I'm you know I'm pretty dug in.
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I'm like, and god.
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Okay.
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Anyway, thank you for stopping by.
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What a good time.
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Good to talk to you.
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Thank you.
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My name is Nadia Thomas.
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And my name is Cody Renard Richard.
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Do y'all know who they are?
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Let me tell you who they are, because they're just gonna be humble and actually just say their names.
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Okay, he was just at the Met.
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The actual Met Gala, like the actual, the real one in the Vogue, walking the red carpet, doing this.
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Like, you look so beautiful.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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That was crazy.
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Glowing then, glowing now.
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Thank you so much.
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I am so happy for you.
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Honored to know you.
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Amen.
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And the sis next to him, Najia Thomas.
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We used to get everything mixed up back on the road, circa 2014.
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She had like a size six shoe, and because we had the same last name, there was always mixing them up.
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I'm like, these are.
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I was there when Nadia was doing her thing straight out of college to when she made her Broadway debut in such a triumphant way.
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And now to see you here, I am so excited for you.
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You're understanding Adrian Warren with this in the show with Nick Johnny.
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Kate?
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Hey, no one caught it.
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And she's slaying it.
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She's amazing.
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It's amazing.
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Do they kiss in the show?
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You gotta come see it.
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But maybe they do.
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We use this! Oh my bad.
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We gotta come see it.
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You gotta come see it.
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Wait, if they don't kiss?
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They might.
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We can't give nothing away, no spoilers.
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Okay, you be stage managing everything, Cody.
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You the celebrity stage manager of Broadway.
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Oh my god.
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What is that?
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I move around.
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It's been good.
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I've been very fortunate.
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I've never met a famous stage manager at the Met Gala.
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That was a first.
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It was a first.
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Who's your PR?
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It was a first.
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God.
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Know that.
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What are you both manifesting this year?
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Ooh.
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I'm manifesting um abundant joy.
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More abundant joy.
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Peace and for everyone to be able to pay their rent.
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Amen happiness.
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And for a new president.
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Most importantly.
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Manifesting that.
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Right.
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Right.
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Okay.
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Was there ever a woman in your life who opened the doors for you, either of you, professionally?
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Wow.
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You want to take it first?
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Professionally.
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Oh my my.
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I would say Liz Fleming.
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Professionally.
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I'm gonna say my grandma, because she was a professional, and she's the reason why I'm here right now.
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She's the reason why Broadway even existed in my life in theater, live theater.
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I owe her everything.
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And my mom, who was also a professional, not in this industry, but God bless her as well.
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I love that.
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Um, so many women.
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My mom, my aunt, my grandma, my high school theater teacher, Carrie Wood, Julia Jones, who's the first stage manager who hired me, Rachel Chaffkin, who was the first director, hired me as a PSM.
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Like, I work with amazing stage managers, yeah.
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Sorry, directors and people.
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Yeah, yeah.
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A lot of people.
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And just a quick little like, because Nasia is the one who taught me about a whole new era of hair.
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You did! I was like, wait, we can like style, we can buy all the things.
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Oh, the wit, yes.
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On tour.
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I didn't know that we could do that, and now I'm like about to come off in the wind, okay?
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The hair queen.
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Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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And Cody, you always have so many hair looks.
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Who designed your hair looks?
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This actually was Cassie Williams, who's our hair supervisor on last five years.
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But I go to Jolly Den's in Harlem, and those ladies hook me up with all the things.
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Tell them what you wanted, do you say play?
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What do you mean?
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Cathy played with this, but normally I go in with an idea and we kind of like make it happen.
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Oh, I didn't even think about that.
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For every show that you do, do you just be like, who's the hair person?
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What can you do?
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It depends on if they want.
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Which is not every show that I do.
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So it depends.
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Okay, I have to get you guys out of here.
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Looks like the party is about to start.
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Go get a drink.
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Enjoy your night.
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I'm so proud of the both of you.
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Thank you.
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And I have so much both of you guys.
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Hello, my name is Kara Young.
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You see, we got Kara Young here.
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Hi.
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Um, and when she is on Broadway, she is nominated.
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That's just how it goes.
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Oh, yeah.
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If she isn't a Broadway show, she's gonna be one of the nominees for the year.
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And you are nominated right now.
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Congratulations.
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Thank you so much.
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How are you feeling?
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I was in the room when you won last year.
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Oh my gosh.
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Um, I'm feeling grateful.
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I'm feeling grateful to still be able to be doing the work.
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Like, you know, tomorrow we have a show, and you know, we have eight, we have eight shows this week.
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I I'm I feel grateful to to continue to do the like to be doing the work.
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It's really wonderful when like there is a recognition, but the recognition of a performance is really the recognition of the company and of the writer and of the director and of the incredible staff of Second State.
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Like it's it's it's a collective effort when somebody's recognized.
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I feel like it's not just about you know me.
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See, what a great representation you are for the whole community and for so many more people than just you.
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You are truly amazing.
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How do you stay so grounded?
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I've seen you on stage.
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You're hilarious, you're hilarious.
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She's freaking funny.
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How do you stay so grounded in real life and also like in such a high pressure, high impact, high visual, um visibil, like visibility.
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Wow.
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Um, that's so you know, I my family keeps me really ground.
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I mean, I don't know, I feel like my community keeps me grounded too.
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You know, it never felt like it was like going from one place to the other.
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Like the this it I still feel like when I walk outside of the theater, I still see my community outside.
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Like when I was doing off, I still do off Broadway, you know, like it's not, there's not, we're not like going from one place to the next, and it's um what has literally been the most special part of it is that community and the people are still come out, they still support, I still support them.
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Like, you know, we keep each other on our on our toes, we we keep each we keep we keep each other's hearts like you know, centered.
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I think it's a it's a collective, it really is a collective.
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How do you feel the community surrounding you and lifting you up?
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Yeah, I've I I love this is like I do feel that.
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I feel it deeply to the point where it like it shakes me.
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It shakes my spirit in the most in a really profound way.
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Um did I hear, I don't know if it was your PR rap saying that you're the first black woman, like the first black person to have four nominations in a row.
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Like, is that real?
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Yes, that's real.
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That was that was that was real last year too, and now it's real again this year.
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It's crazy, it's insane.
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I mean, like, you know, this the the chapter just begun, and you know, there's just so much more work to do, and there's so many more writers to I mean, like, uh right now I'm working with Brandon Jacobs Jenkins.
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Like, one of the greatest living playwrights ever.
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I mean, he just won the Pulitzer for purpose.
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Oh my god, this is like it's so huge.
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I I am so grateful for the opportunity to finally be game being able to get to work with him and and you know be a part of the activation of his words every night.
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Like, I the the chapter has just begun, and I I'm looking forward to all of the more incredible right, like all of the incredible writers, all of the incredible directors and incredible company members that I'll be able to work with in the future.
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I have to let you go.
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I have to like the party is starting.
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You need to go get a drink and enjoy the night.
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I don't I am a little parched.
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I do need some water.
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Go get some water.
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Kara, thank you for stopping by.
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I appreciate you so much.
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I am Lee Silverman and I'm a director.
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Oh my goodness, didn't you direct SUFs?
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I did direct SUFs.
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Congratulations.
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Thank you so much.
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It's one of my favorite shows.
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I really appreciate that.
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Me too.
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Sam.
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Sam.
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Have you always had like a path to opening up doors and giving a voice to other women and non-binary and et cetera, et cetera?
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You know, I think I um have always felt like the reason to do what I do is to be in community with people who inspire me.
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And I care so much about um people who aren't always represented on stage.
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I think I have felt in my life not always represented on stage, and so I look to the theater to be a place where people can go and see themselves and see the stories that we want to see, um, and to um hopefully give people a good time while while we're there.
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Yes.
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So you've been opening up doors for so many others, but who's a woman who has opened up doors for you?
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You know, I have to say, I grew up in Washington, D.C.
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Oh.
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And so Zelda Fitzchandler, who is essentially um, you know, she started the regional theater movement.
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She was the artistic director of Arena Stage.
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Oh, like the United States?
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Yes.
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And she was the artistic director of Arena Stage, and she directed a lot of the work there.
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And I have to say, I knew that women, it was possible for women to direct because I grew up, you know, we didn't go to the theater a lot, but I did go to Arena Stage a couple of times, and I saw her there.
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And I thought, like, that is something, and like if you can see it, you know it's possible.
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And um, it's really to her that I I owe so much.
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I owe so much.
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So, what are you manifesting this year?
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Well, at the moment, um, we're putting together the SUFs tour.
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So we're gonna start um in Seattle September 12th, and then go to 38 cities over the next year, which I'm very, very excited about.
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Or is it gonna be some people from the Broadway?
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Uh you know, it's we're we're we're in the mix.
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We're in the mix at the moment.
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Um so that's really exciting.
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We start rehearsal in July.
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I have to say, right this second, the thing that I'm the most um focused on is um Yellow Face, a play that I directed in the fall that um is up for Tony for Best Revival.
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And Francis Jew and Daniel Day Kim are both um received acting award uh nominations, so we're really excited.
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And I just came back, we did a screening last night of the PBS recording for great performances of Yellowface.
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So that airs this Friday.
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So I'm very excited about that.
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Congratulations, I have 25 million backup questions, but it's time for you to get a drink and enjoy the night.
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So nice to meet you.
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Thank you for your question.
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My name's Rachel Haukin, I'm a set designer.
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Oh, awesome.
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What's your connection to WP Theater?
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WP, right here, to these guys, to these brilliant guys?
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Sure.
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WP gave me some of my first jobs, one of my very first jobs in New York, a bajillion years ago.
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Introduced me to so many great directors and actors.
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I'm a big fan.
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How long have you been in New York?
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So old.
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So old.
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Stop it!
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Don't ask me that.
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I mean, come on now.
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I'm in here a minute.
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I love that, and also like respect.
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Um, what is the biggest risk you've taken in your career?
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Oh my god, coming to New York City, don't you think?
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I think so too.
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No one has said that.
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Years on the West Coast, years and years and years on the West Coast, and then you come to New York and you're like, I hope it goes alright.
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Yeah.
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Truly.
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I'm from California.
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Me too, Southern California.
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Oh, lucky Fresno.
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You just drive through it.
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Come on.
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I know Fresno.
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I know Fresno.
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The armpit of California.
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Um, is there anybody in particular that you're celebrating tonight?
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Well, of course, Lisa McNulty, the great Lisa McNulty, my very good friend, who's been here for 10 years.
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How is that possible?
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Right, right.
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Yeah, she's a superstar.
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WP is very lucky to have her, which means we're all lucky to have her.
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And last question for you before I let you go.
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What are you manifesting this year?
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Oh my god, what am I manifesting?
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Better politics.
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Better politics.
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Better politics.
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Right?
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That's easy.
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I just want to sink into a ball, just thinking about amen to that.
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Yeah, thank you for this.
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I really appreciate it.
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My name is Otto Isando.
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How are you?
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Atto, why are you looking the bum?
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I'm good, by the way.
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You know, I tr I try to represent for the WP.
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You know me.
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You know my fit.
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Baby! Who put this together?
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This is uh John Varbedo's from Tight Head to Toe.
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All of it.
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Did you style yourself?
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Or do you said John did?
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No, no, this is just me.
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This is me.
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Yeah, you know how I do.
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I mean, come on.
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Listen, I am.
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How are you to who are you celebrating tonight?
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I'm celebrating everybody.
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I'm celebrating the WP.
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I just did a show at the WP, so I've just come from doing minority, so I'm celebrating women, I'm celebrating people.
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Thank you so much.
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I'm thank you.
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Everything is so good, and I'm so happy to be a part of all of this, and I was so happy to be invited, and so I had to put on my good suit for it, you know what I mean?
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Oh my goodness.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Your energy is just so what is the word vivacious?
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Vivacious, yes.
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Oh wow.
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Is there a woman in your life who's opened up doors professionally for you?
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Oh my god.
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I I can't countless women.
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I mean, starting for my mom, I have to say my mom because she's always been such a fan of mine and such a supporter of mine.
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But every single woman I've worked with, Meryl Streep, I'm gonna drop some names.
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Who's Meryl?
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Meryl Who, right?
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I've worked with Meryl Streep, Lucy Lou, Carrie uh Carrie uh Carrie Russell.
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I was about to say Carrie Russell.
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Carrie Russell, who's in my show right now, who is a great leader.
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Hillary Swank.
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I mean, I Who are these people?
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Who are these people?
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I don't know, but they've all led me and they've all been very inspirational and all very supportive of me.
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Okay, I tell what are you manifesting this year?
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Oh, I'm manifesting joy.
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I'm manifesting joy.
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That's all I got.
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It's already oozing out of you.
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Yes, let's go.
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I love this.
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What's it called?
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A sunny disposition.
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Sunny disposition, yes, sunny with no chance of rain.
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No.
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No, no, no.
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Blue skies all the way.
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Blue sky sunshine.
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Oh I did not know that about you.
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You pull this stuff out all the time.
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I wasn't planning on it.
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Okay.
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Oh my god.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Um, but also thank you so much for talking.
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Oh, thank you so much for.
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I shall, I shall, I shall.
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Uh, I'm Michael Webb, um uh music supervisor, orchestrator, arranger.
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He is musician of musicians.
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So humble, but all you gotta do is put a piano in front of him, and then you'll he don't have to talk.
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He just anoints the whole room.
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That is who this is, right here.
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I'll receive that.
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Okay, and there's a lot of things coming down the line to Broadway, and he will be at the head of them.
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Thank you very much.
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Um, what is your connection to WP Theater?
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Um, Lisa McNulty is someone who is so near and dear to my heart, um, and was super instrumental in uh when I first got to New York and really needed a theater home, she was one of the people who really wrapped her arms around me.
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Yeah, and so um even uh when I got my uh special Tony, which I still can't believe, she was super instrumental in uh placing me with that show and helping to foster my you know desire to do something big.
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So what is the biggest theater what is the biggest risk you've taken in this industry?
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The biggest risk I think every time you step into a creative process, it's a risk.
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It's like jumping into a pool of water.
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But like once you jump into enough pools of water, you know like the the leap might feel like a risk, but when you get into the water, it's gonna be a whole beautiful experience.
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And so for me, everything feels like a risk, but I know what that water feels like when we get into it.
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I love that.
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I love that.
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Are you a person who listens to your instincts?
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I think that I uh I think that I do.
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I think creatively.
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I know that musically you do.
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I think you I think we have to call it instinct when it comes to creative things, but it's really intuition and and what is being delivered through you.
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And so if we want to call it instinct, okay, some like call it impulse, sure.
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But um, I think listening to that voice that's inside you, you want to call it instinct, fine.
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But I love to listen to that voice that's inside.
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Go have a drink.
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Enjoy tonight.
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Thank you for stopping by.
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Thank you so much.
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Hey, what's up?
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It's me.
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It's the leash.
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Okay, we're gonna be pregnant.
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I just wanted to say thank you for watching this episode.
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Hello, what's up?
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It's me to lead you here with a Broadway podcast number on this leader show, and we are here with the W Eater Gala honoring reality Broadway theater holiday and everything.
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This is gonna happen for the evening.
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Hello.
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Oh my goodness, thank you.
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I don't even know how to take that, but thank you.
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Oh my goodness, and and your work in Angeliana is so funny, so grounded, so real.
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So funny.
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Josh, the dresser there, loves you.
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He's been like making all of my maternity pants.
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And he just loves you.
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I adored that show.
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I had the best two years, and I I miss it every day, but I love them, and I just I'm so I feel so blessed that that show is still running.
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And obviously, because it's an amazing story.
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So yay, I'm glad that it's already in America.
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Uh yeah.
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Hello.
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Fantastic in it.
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Um I don't know what the answer is to this.
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Are you a mom in real life?
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I am a mom in real life.
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Okay, okay.
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My daughter is gonna be five in two days.
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How crazy is that?
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Five.
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Yeah, I know five.
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A pandemic baby.
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Yep.
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A full pandemic baby.
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Like, as in, I didn't even know if I was gonna have anyone in a um room with me when I was having her.
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Like that kind of pandemic baby.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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I'm pregnant with my first one right now.
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Okay, and I would never have even okay, great, but it's gonna come.
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It's gonna come.
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You're gonna be great.
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I'm scared.
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Oh, don't be scared.
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I mean, you should be scared.
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I mean, actually, no, it is amazing.
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It is all the things, and it changes you fundamentally, it changes you in every way, shape, or form in the absolute best ways possible.
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But you were in for some sleep last night, let me tell you.
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Um, you know, you uh it becomes clear what's important.
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I will say that.
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A lot of the fluff that you think about, I think before you, I don't want to speak for everyone, but before you have a child, um, or before you have, you know, kids, there's a lot of things that seem important and then you realize it's not really that important.
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And so actually, like the clutter just kind of falls away in like the most beautiful way.
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And you're able to actually just be so much more present because you actually can't not not be.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah, I really do mean that.
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You're gonna be just fine.
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Yeah, you're gonna be just fine.
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That's all I need.
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That's all I need.
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Enjoy your party tonight.
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We're just kidding.
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Please, you don't have to do that.
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But if you if you wanted to, it would be um probably the right thing to do.
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Wait, I missed it.
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You said wet, wet, Betsy?
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And name your baby Betsy! She didn't even get it.
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She didn't even hear it.
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They got it, they're like Selicia's.
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Listen up.
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Oh my god, get off the line and cut.
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Hi, my name is Conrad Rickamora.
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Hi, Conrad.
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It's so great to meet you.
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Great to meet you too, Selicia.
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Shall we begin with?
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I just started free-watching how to get away with murder.
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Oh, really?
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No big deal.
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There's no big deal here.
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Um, you're also a theater, you're a theater person.
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Yeah, I'm in a O'Mary right now.
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How is that?
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It's great.
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I've been doing, we've been running for, well, off Broadway, we were last year, and then uh we've been on Broadway for almost a year now.
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So you've been with it the whole time.
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Yeah, the entire time.
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Since we were in a small rehearsal room at La Mama.
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Oh my god, congratulations.
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Thank you.
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And so for tonight, um, is there a woman in your life who has ever opened up a professional door for you?
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Oh, well, my I feel like my stepmom saved my life.
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She came in to my dad was a single parent uh of two little boys until I was seven years old.
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And uh she came in and she's a social worker, she's been a social worker her whole life, and uh she taught me about choices and how important it is to have choices, and then you can make the right choices when you have choices.
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Um and she really liked yeah, it she she's changed my life.
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Um yeah, meeting her.
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Amen.
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Um, and last question what are you manifesting this year?
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Oh, oh goodness.
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I am wow, what did I say back in uh that I'm manifesting uh wellness and uh taking care of myself.
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I think in this industry, yeah, it's in this industry you work so hard just to get your foot in the door, and then it's then when you do get your foot in the door, it's time to like reassess and like you know, yeah, uh take care of yourself.
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Well said.
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Thank you so much, and thank you.
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Have fun tonight.
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Hi, I'm Jason Robert Brown.
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Y'all, Jason Robert Brown knows my name.
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What on earth?
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Is this my dream come true?
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Um, hi.
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Hi.
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What's your connection to WP Theater?
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My connection is just that I love it.
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I love the organization, I love what they do, I love their mission, and I wanted to be here to help support them.
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You're amazing.
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Thanks.
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Um, what is the biggest creative risk that you've ever taken?
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You've done so much.
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You've done a freaking lot.
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I don't know.
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I mean, I probably took one this morning, but uh I think the biggest one I've ever taken was just sometimes trusting someone trusting that I could look at them and say, I know that you're the right person to work with me, even if their resume didn't suggest it, or I hadn't seen some of their other work.
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And when I met Daisy Prince when I was 22 years old, I said that's the person who I'm going to spend the rest of my life working with.
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And I was right.
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Do you always run on instincts?
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No.
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A lot of times I run on lawyers, but in those cases, I was able to run on instincts, and I'm glad I did.
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What was the moment that you realized that you could trust your inner voice and put the art out into the world that was inside of you?
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I don't know.
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I think that has to happen early, right?
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I think whatever makes somebody confident for no reason, that's what I was.
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You know, I when I was eight years old, I for no reason at all, I was like, people have to hear what I do.
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I mean, but it's all it's a lot of little kids.
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They perform, they sing, they jump around, they dance, they want attention.
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I always wanted attention, and when you get it, you're either like, oh, I like that, or you're like, oh, I don't like that.
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And I was like, no, I like that.
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So I've been trying to get it ever since then.
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And you know, not just get it, but also give it to shine it back out onto the world, on the artists who do work that excites me.
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What advice would you give to people who are coming up looking at you, wanting to do what you do?
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And what you do, you don't make things easy for people trying to learn your work.
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No, but but that's the thing that I want to say is that you're only ever going to be you.
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And every attempt to compare yourself to uh to take some part of yourself that you think other people don't like and hide that, uh, or to try to sand off the rough edges, none of that's gonna work at the end of the day.
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You just have to be your you.
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You have to find out what you is and just let that shine.
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I could talk to you for hours.
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I have to let you go.
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It's alright.
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We know each other now.
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I'm so happy to meet you.
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Pleasure to meet you, Salisha.
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Hi.
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Um, why are you perfect?
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You look great.
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I'm Selicia.
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I'm with the Broadway Podcast Network.
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Perfect.
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Step can I hand this to you, of course.
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Um, for our audio audience, can you introduce yourself?
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Hi, everybody, I'm Adrian Warren.
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Uh, Adrian, congratulations for being honored tonight.
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Like you're the honoring.
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That's crazy.
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What?
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You let me in here.
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Everybody let you in here.
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You're being honored for your extraordinary achievement to theater and beyond.
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How are you feeling?
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Uh, a little I don't know how to feel.
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This has never happened to me.
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I've never allowed it to be to happen to me.
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Are you kidding?
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Oh, you know what?
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This is a practice and taking my flowers.
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I think that's something all women have a problem with sometimes.
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This is not the first time that the industry has rallied behind you, rooting you on, excited for you.
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No, I'm I'm truly, truly honored, especially WP Theater, all the work that they do for women.
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And I'm just, I can't believe I'm here.
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My mom is with me today.
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It's it's a really special moment to have my friends and family here.
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I am excited for I know you don't know me, but I'm excited for you.
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I thought Gio Brian Hennings.
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Yes.
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I was like, Gio hair and make up makeup Adrianaire in here somewhere.
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He does my hair sometimes.
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Yes!
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Where you look great.
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Did he do it today?
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Yes, he did.
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Yes, he did.
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Plus up on the hair.
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We look good, we look good.
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You know, you know.
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Um, can I ask you, what is the biggest creative risk that you've ever taken?
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The biggest creative risk, wow.
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Um, number one is stepping in Tina Turner's shoes.
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Oh, you did that.
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I know, but that will always be a risk because that could have gone really badly.
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It didn't, but it didn't.
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So it's New Vers.
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I know.
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Instead of Tina's Tina's.
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But I have to say this: I think everything I do, I try to make sure that it's a risk, it's a challenge.
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Playing Kathy in the last five years on Broadway was a risk.
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It's a challenge.
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It's going great, and I'm so Nick's gonna be here tonight.
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He's gonna be here, and I'm I love I had just such an amazing opportunity to step into this role, and I'm having a ball.
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What are you manifesting this year?
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Peace.
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In a time of crazy, I am manifesting peace and rest is what I'm manifesting.
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I don't know about the rest part, I don't know if I'll get that part, but peace for sure.
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I hope these things for you as well.
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Thank you.
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Um, one more big question, because I know you have a lot of people who want to talk to you.
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You're in an industry in a space where you're high visibility, high impact, high pressure.
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How do you stay grounded?
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My family and my friends, the people I keep around me, my community, that's what keeps me grounded always.
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And also knowing that it's okay if I'm not okay and owning that, and it's okay when I need to sit down and owning that.
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So, yeah, that definitely keeps me grounded every day.
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Have a great time tonight.
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Thank you.
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Congratulations.
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Thank you so much.
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Thanks.
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I love it.
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Thank yourself.
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Hi, I'm Jeb Brown.
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Let me tell you why Jeb Brown's the bomb, okay?
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So my first Broadway show was Beautiful De Carol King musical at the Stephen Sondheim Theater.
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We've never worked together.
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But we got LBC in the house, okay?
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And right now.
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You were in the show?
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Yes.
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Oh, fantastic.
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I um launched the national tour, and then two years later I sh why closed the Broadway company.
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And did you do that fantastic video we did at the outset of COVID?
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Yes.
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Where we all sang Jason, it's crazy.
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I still watch it and and just for a cheer-up.
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It's so special.
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And it and it started a whole movement of those kinds of videos, right?
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I didn't realize that, Jason.
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Yes.
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I know, I know.
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I'm so excited for you.
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How is Dead Alba?
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Dead Alba is such fun.
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We're having a ball.
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It's at the Long Acre Theater, and we just opened, and we've got seven Tony nominations.
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I'm so proud of it and so good about it.
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It's uh it's an original offering, it's outrageous, and really, really, it's a doozy of a time.
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I have to come and see it very soon.
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Um, I used to sit next to Julia in the dressing room.
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Oh, there you go.
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I know, I know.
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Um, I'm just so excited to talk to you, but let me ask you some questions regarding tonight.
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Um what's your connection to WP Theater?
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You know, I I've been a fan of WP for a long time.
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I love Lisa McNulty.
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She's kind of, you know, my beacon when it comes to all things.
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Uh that Lisa?
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That that Lisa, right over there, yeah.
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Um, and Lisa asked me to do a play for the WP about 10 years ago.
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It was called The Undeniable Sound of Right Now.
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Laura Easton wrote it.
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She's now on the board of WP, and it was a fantastic experience.
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It was just great.
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So that, you know, that just deepened my good feeling about WP.
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But I see as much as I can of what they do, and I'm always satisfied.
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I mean, what you know, what more can you ask?
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Why am I so happy to just stand next to you?
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I'm like, oh my God.
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What did you sing in beautiful?
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Uh, Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
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Oh, very nice.
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And Lucy.
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Oh, very nice.
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It would have been you and me.
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I know.
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It would have been you and me.
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He was full when I got there.
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He was like, We're gonna close tomorrow.
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I'm like, oh my god.
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Every day I was worried.
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Oh, that's funny.
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Oh, that's funny.
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I dropped the pencils on my second day, and when I came back, they glued them all together on the desk.
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You just smiled.
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I just recognized your smile from that video.
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Oh, I had my wig on, it was like a- Yeah, right, but I just I just saw the smile, and I was like, oh, I know that person.
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I could talk to you for hours.
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Well, you said that to the last person.
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I did notice that.
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No, but I really did I really?
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Oh, that was I mean Adrienne Warren, yeah, I could talk to her for hours.
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But you're a different reason, though.
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Right.
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We really connect even though we've never met.
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I really I know.
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I'm like, this is my Donnie Kirschner, even though he was never my Donnie Kirschner.
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My Donnie Kirschhner.
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Can you believe that Don Kirschner is anybody's Donnie Kirschner?
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You know, Ricky, his son uh uh uh produces the Tony Awards and has for years.
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He the real Donnie Kirschner's.
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The real Donnie Kirschner's son, who is very much a Donnie type.
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He's six foot five and looks just like his dad, and he is the mastermind behind that and the Super Bowl halftime show and all kinds of things.
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So it's a family tradition.
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Show biz.
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I met Donnie Kirschner's wife?
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Could be.
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There's a sister.
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A sister?
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Somebody and I said, was there ever anything between Donnie and Lucille?
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Thinking that there wasn't.
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And she was like, Yeah, I found love letters.
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Oh no.
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So sorry.
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Accidental.
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Oh dear.
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That's yeah, I never heard that.
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And I'm you know I'm pretty dug in.
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I'm like, and god.
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Okay.
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Anyway, thank you for stopping by.
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What a good time.
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Good to talk to you.
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Thank you.
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My name is Nadia Thomas.
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And my name is Cody Renard Richard.
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Do y'all know who they are?
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Let me tell you who they are, because they're just gonna be humble and actually just say their names.
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Okay, he was just at the Met.
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The actual Met Gala, like the actual, the real one in the Vogue, walking the red carpet, doing this.
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Like, you look so beautiful.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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That was crazy.
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Glowing then, glowing now.
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Thank you so much.
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I am so happy for you.
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Honored to know you.
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Amen.
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And the sis next to him, Najia Thomas.
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We used to get everything mixed up back on the road, circa 2014.
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She had like a size six shoe, and because we had the same last name, there was always mixing them up.
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I'm like, these are.
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I was there when Nadia was doing her thing straight out of college to when she made her Broadway debut in such a triumphant way.
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And now to see you here, I am so excited for you.
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You're understanding Adrian Warren with this in the show with Nick Johnny.
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Kate?
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Hey, no one caught it.
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And she's slaying it.
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She's amazing.
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It's amazing.
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Do they kiss in the show?
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You gotta come see it.
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But maybe they do.
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We use this! Oh my bad.
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We gotta come see it.
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You gotta come see it.
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Wait, if they don't kiss?
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They might.
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We can't give nothing away, no spoilers.
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Okay, you be stage managing everything, Cody.
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You the celebrity stage manager of Broadway.
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Oh my god.
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What is that?
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I move around.
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It's been good.
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I've been very fortunate.
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I've never met a famous stage manager at the Met Gala.
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That was a first.
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It was a first.
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Who's your PR?
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It was a first.
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God.
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Know that.
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What are you both manifesting this year?
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Ooh.
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I'm manifesting um abundant joy.
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More abundant joy.
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Peace and for everyone to be able to pay their rent.
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Amen happiness.
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And for a new president.
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Most importantly.
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Manifesting that.
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Right.
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Right.
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Okay.
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Was there ever a woman in your life who opened the doors for you, either of you, professionally?
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Wow.
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You want to take it first?
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Professionally.
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Oh my my.
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I would say Liz Fleming.
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Professionally.
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I'm gonna say my grandma, because she was a professional, and she's the reason why I'm here right now.
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She's the reason why Broadway even existed in my life in theater, live theater.
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I owe her everything.
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And my mom, who was also a professional, not in this industry, but God bless her as well.
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I love that.
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Um, so many women.
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My mom, my aunt, my grandma, my high school theater teacher, Carrie Wood, Julia Jones, who's the first stage manager who hired me, Rachel Chaffkin, who was the first director, hired me as a PSM.
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Like, I work with amazing stage managers, yeah.
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Sorry, directors and people.
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Yeah, yeah.
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A lot of people.
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And just a quick little like, because Nasia is the one who taught me about a whole new era of hair.
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You did! I was like, wait, we can like style, we can buy all the things.
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Oh, the wit, yes.
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On tour.
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I didn't know that we could do that, and now I'm like about to come off in the wind, okay?
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The hair queen.
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Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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And Cody, you always have so many hair looks.
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Who designed your hair looks?
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This actually was Cassie Williams, who's our hair supervisor on last five years.
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But I go to Jolly Den's in Harlem, and those ladies hook me up with all the things.
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Tell them what you wanted, do you say play?
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What do you mean?
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Cathy played with this, but normally I go in with an idea and we kind of like make it happen.
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Oh, I didn't even think about that.
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For every show that you do, do you just be like, who's the hair person?
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What can you do?
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It depends on if they want.
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Which is not every show that I do.
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So it depends.
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Okay, I have to get you guys out of here.
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Looks like the party is about to start.
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Go get a drink.
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Enjoy your night.
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I'm so proud of the both of you.
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Thank you.
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And I have so much both of you guys.
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Hello, my name is Kara Young.
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You see, we got Kara Young here.
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Hi.
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Um, and when she is on Broadway, she is nominated.
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That's just how it goes.
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Oh, yeah.
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If she isn't a Broadway show, she's gonna be one of the nominees for the year.
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And you are nominated right now.
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Congratulations.
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Thank you so much.
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How are you feeling?
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I was in the room when you won last year.
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Oh my gosh.
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Um, I'm feeling grateful.
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I'm feeling grateful to still be able to be doing the work.
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Like, you know, tomorrow we have a show, and you know, we have eight, we have eight shows this week.
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I I'm I feel grateful to to continue to do the like to be doing the work.
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It's really wonderful when like there is a recognition, but the recognition of a performance is really the recognition of the company and of the writer and of the director and of the incredible staff of Second State.
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Like it's it's it's a collective effort when somebody's recognized.
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I feel like it's not just about you know me.
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See, what a great representation you are for the whole community and for so many more people than just you.
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You are truly amazing.
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How do you stay so grounded?
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I've seen you on stage.
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You're hilarious, you're hilarious.
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She's freaking funny.
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How do you stay so grounded in real life and also like in such a high pressure, high impact, high visual, um visibil, like visibility.
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Wow.
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Um, that's so you know, I my family keeps me really ground.
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I mean, I don't know, I feel like my community keeps me grounded too.
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You know, it never felt like it was like going from one place to the other.
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Like the this it I still feel like when I walk outside of the theater, I still see my community outside.
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Like when I was doing off, I still do off Broadway, you know, like it's not, there's not, we're not like going from one place to the next, and it's um what has literally been the most special part of it is that community and the people are still come out, they still support, I still support them.
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Like, you know, we keep each other on our on our toes, we we keep each we keep we keep each other's hearts like you know, centered.
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I think it's a it's a collective, it really is a collective.
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How do you feel the community surrounding you and lifting you up?
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Yeah, I've I I love this is like I do feel that.
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I feel it deeply to the point where it like it shakes me.
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It shakes my spirit in the most in a really profound way.
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Um did I hear, I don't know if it was your PR rap saying that you're the first black woman, like the first black person to have four nominations in a row.
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Like, is that real?
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Yes, that's real.
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That was that was that was real last year too, and now it's real again this year.
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It's crazy, it's insane.
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I mean, like, you know, this the the chapter just begun, and you know, there's just so much more work to do, and there's so many more writers to I mean, like, uh right now I'm working with Brandon Jacobs Jenkins.
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Like, one of the greatest living playwrights ever.
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I mean, he just won the Pulitzer for purpose.
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Oh my god, this is like it's so huge.
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I I am so grateful for the opportunity to finally be game being able to get to work with him and and you know be a part of the activation of his words every night.
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Like, I the the chapter has just begun, and I I'm looking forward to all of the more incredible right, like all of the incredible writers, all of the incredible directors and incredible company members that I'll be able to work with in the future.
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I have to let you go.
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I have to like the party is starting.
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You need to go get a drink and enjoy the night.
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I don't I am a little parched.
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I do need some water.
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Go get some water.
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Kara, thank you for stopping by.
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I appreciate you so much.
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I am Lee Silverman and I'm a director.
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Oh my goodness, didn't you direct SUFs?
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I did direct SUFs.
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Congratulations.
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Thank you so much.
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It's one of my favorite shows.
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I really appreciate that.
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Me too.
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Sam.
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Sam.
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Have you always had like a path to opening up doors and giving a voice to other women and non-binary and et cetera, et cetera?
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You know, I think I um have always felt like the reason to do what I do is to be in community with people who inspire me.
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And I care so much about um people who aren't always represented on stage.
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I think I have felt in my life not always represented on stage, and so I look to the theater to be a place where people can go and see themselves and see the stories that we want to see, um, and to um hopefully give people a good time while while we're there.
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Yes.
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So you've been opening up doors for so many others, but who's a woman who has opened up doors for you?
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You know, I have to say, I grew up in Washington, D.C.
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Oh.
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And so Zelda Fitzchandler, who is essentially um, you know, she started the regional theater movement.
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She was the artistic director of Arena Stage.
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Oh, like the United States?
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Yes.
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And she was the artistic director of Arena Stage, and she directed a lot of the work there.
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And I have to say, I knew that women, it was possible for women to direct because I grew up, you know, we didn't go to the theater a lot, but I did go to Arena Stage a couple of times, and I saw her there.
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And I thought, like, that is something, and like if you can see it, you know it's possible.
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And um, it's really to her that I I owe so much.
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I owe so much.
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So, what are you manifesting this year?
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Well, at the moment, um, we're putting together the SUFs tour.
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So we're gonna start um in Seattle September 12th, and then go to 38 cities over the next year, which I'm very, very excited about.
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Or is it gonna be some people from the Broadway?
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Uh you know, it's we're we're we're in the mix.
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We're in the mix at the moment.
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Um so that's really exciting.
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We start rehearsal in July.
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I have to say, right this second, the thing that I'm the most um focused on is um Yellow Face, a play that I directed in the fall that um is up for Tony for Best Revival.
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And Francis Jew and Daniel Day Kim are both um received acting award uh nominations, so we're really excited.
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And I just came back, we did a screening last night of the PBS recording for great performances of Yellowface.
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So that airs this Friday.
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So I'm very excited about that.
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Congratulations, I have 25 million backup questions, but it's time for you to get a drink and enjoy the night.
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So nice to meet you.
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Thank you for your question.
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My name's Rachel Haukin, I'm a set designer.
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Oh, awesome.
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What's your connection to WP Theater?
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WP, right here, to these guys, to these brilliant guys?
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Sure.
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WP gave me some of my first jobs, one of my very first jobs in New York, a bajillion years ago.
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Introduced me to so many great directors and actors.
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I'm a big fan.
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How long have you been in New York?
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So old.
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So old.
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Stop it!
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Don't ask me that.
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I mean, come on now.
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I'm in here a minute.
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I love that, and also like respect.
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Um, what is the biggest risk you've taken in your career?
00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:59.599
Oh my god, coming to New York City, don't you think?
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I think so too.
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No one has said that.
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Years on the West Coast, years and years and years on the West Coast, and then you come to New York and you're like, I hope it goes alright.
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Yeah.
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Truly.
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I'm from California.
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Me too, Southern California.
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Oh, lucky Fresno.
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You just drive through it.
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Come on.
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I know Fresno.
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I know Fresno.
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The armpit of California.
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Um, is there anybody in particular that you're celebrating tonight?
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Well, of course, Lisa McNulty, the great Lisa McNulty, my very good friend, who's been here for 10 years.
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How is that possible?
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Right, right.
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Yeah, she's a superstar.
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WP is very lucky to have her, which means we're all lucky to have her.
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And last question for you before I let you go.
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What are you manifesting this year?
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Oh my god, what am I manifesting?
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Better politics.
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Better politics.
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Better politics.
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Right?
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That's easy.
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I just want to sink into a ball, just thinking about amen to that.
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Yeah, thank you for this.
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I really appreciate it.
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My name is Otto Isando.
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How are you?
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Atto, why are you looking the bum?
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I'm good, by the way.
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You know, I tr I try to represent for the WP.
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You know me.
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You know my fit.
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Baby! Who put this together?
00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:11.359
This is uh John Varbedo's from Tight Head to Toe.
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All of it.
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Did you style yourself?
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Or do you said John did?
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No, no, this is just me.
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This is me.
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Yeah, you know how I do.
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I mean, come on.
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Listen, I am.
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How are you to who are you celebrating tonight?
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I'm celebrating everybody.
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I'm celebrating the WP.
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I just did a show at the WP, so I've just come from doing minority, so I'm celebrating women, I'm celebrating people.
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Thank you so much.
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I'm thank you.
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Everything is so good, and I'm so happy to be a part of all of this, and I was so happy to be invited, and so I had to put on my good suit for it, you know what I mean?
00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:43.039
Oh my goodness.
00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:44.079
Yes, absolutely.
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Your energy is just so what is the word vivacious?
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Vivacious, yes.
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Oh wow.
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Is there a woman in your life who's opened up doors professionally for you?
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Oh my god.
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I I can't countless women.
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I mean, starting for my mom, I have to say my mom because she's always been such a fan of mine and such a supporter of mine.
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But every single woman I've worked with, Meryl Streep, I'm gonna drop some names.
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Who's Meryl?
00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:11.200
Meryl Who, right?
00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:16.160
I've worked with Meryl Streep, Lucy Lou, Carrie uh Carrie uh Carrie Russell.
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I was about to say Carrie Russell.
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Carrie Russell, who's in my show right now, who is a great leader.
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Hillary Swank.
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I mean, I Who are these people?
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Who are these people?
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I don't know, but they've all led me and they've all been very inspirational and all very supportive of me.
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Okay, I tell what are you manifesting this year?
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Oh, I'm manifesting joy.
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I'm manifesting joy.
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That's all I got.
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It's already oozing out of you.
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Yes, let's go.
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I love this.
00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:45.119
What's it called?
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A sunny disposition.
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Sunny disposition, yes, sunny with no chance of rain.
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No.
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No, no, no.
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Blue skies all the way.
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Blue sky sunshine.
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Oh I did not know that about you.
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You pull this stuff out all the time.
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I wasn't planning on it.
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Okay.
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Oh my god.
00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:06.240
Yes, ma'am.
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Um, but also thank you so much for talking.
00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:08.880
Oh, thank you so much for.
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I shall, I shall, I shall.
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:16.160
Uh, I'm Michael Webb, um uh music supervisor, orchestrator, arranger.
00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:19.279
He is musician of musicians.
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So humble, but all you gotta do is put a piano in front of him, and then you'll he don't have to talk.
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He just anoints the whole room.
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That is who this is, right here.
00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:29.119
I'll receive that.
00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:32.960
Okay, and there's a lot of things coming down the line to Broadway, and he will be at the head of them.
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:33.839
Thank you very much.
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:36.400
Um, what is your connection to WP Theater?
00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:49.200
Um, Lisa McNulty is someone who is so near and dear to my heart, um, and was super instrumental in uh when I first got to New York and really needed a theater home, she was one of the people who really wrapped her arms around me.
00:29:49.839 --> 00:30:03.119
Yeah, and so um even uh when I got my uh special Tony, which I still can't believe, she was super instrumental in uh placing me with that show and helping to foster my you know desire to do something big.
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:07.039
So what is the biggest theater what is the biggest risk you've taken in this industry?
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The biggest risk I think every time you step into a creative process, it's a risk.
00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:15.599
It's like jumping into a pool of water.
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But like once you jump into enough pools of water, you know like the the leap might feel like a risk, but when you get into the water, it's gonna be a whole beautiful experience.
00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:29.359
And so for me, everything feels like a risk, but I know what that water feels like when we get into it.
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I love that.
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I love that.
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Are you a person who listens to your instincts?
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I think that I uh I think that I do.
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I think creatively.
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I know that musically you do.
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I think you I think we have to call it instinct when it comes to creative things, but it's really intuition and and what is being delivered through you.
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And so if we want to call it instinct, okay, some like call it impulse, sure.
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But um, I think listening to that voice that's inside you, you want to call it instinct, fine.
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But I love to listen to that voice that's inside.
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Go have a drink.
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Enjoy tonight.
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Thank you for stopping by.
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Thank you so much.
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Hey, what's up?
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It's me.
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It's the leash.
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Okay, we're gonna be pregnant.
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I just wanted to say thank you for watching this episode.
