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[0:00] Heather Bedor: Welcome to another browsing edition of The Broadway Show. We'll have to figure that out next time.

[0:30] Amber Brzezinski: I mean, it's fine. This is... so EvieMux, which is our virtual studio space that we use, is really interesting. It offers a ton of options that are a little bit more customizable than our predecessor that we utilize, which is StreamYard, so we're still getting the hang of it. So we're having fun with it, right?

[0:56] Heather Bedor: That's right. Yeah. So, we've got a weird day ahead of us with this episode because there's so much that happened in the last week.

[1:06] Amber Brzezinski: Mark is playing with his background. I would love to have that on my background. Is that... is that what's happening?

[1:12] Mark: Sure. You want to do it for me, too? Do you have the power, Mark?

[1:18] Mark: I don't think so, because I have to... well, maybe... hold on. Hold on. Let's see. Yeah. Oh. No. No. Yep. It did. Oh my goodness. This is really funny, guys. Thanks for hanging out with us. There's no way... no day but today and no way but the present time to learn how to do weird stuff.

[1:39] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, but it won't let me add one to yours. No. Poo. Poo-poo. You want to be in a jungle?

[1:44] Mark: Sure. Oh, no. It won't let me. Welcome to the jungle.

[1:47] Heather Bedor: It's just me. Only I get to be in a weird theater with a black thing behind me. You chose that life, a black thing behind you. It's a ghost. It's a ghost.

[2:05] Heather Bedor: Anyways, how have you gentlemen been?

[2:08] Mark: Splendid.

[2:12] Chris: Splendid as well. Yes, thank you. I have been sleepy and restless, but getting stuff done, taking names the way I go with everything I can do, and I'm just tired. But we have a lot of theater news to catch up on.

[2:27] Heather Bedor: Did you bring the names back when you were done?

[2:32] Chris: I did not. I refuse... refused. Do you want to talk about what's in the background for anyone that might be tuning in video or audio, Chris? Because you have some really cool stuff behind you.

[2:43] Chris: I do? Tell us. Tell us more. Oh, golden boy and drowsy chaperone. I swear Chris decorates his studio for you.

[2:55] Mark: Constantly cleaning and rearranging. What's the one behind you? Is it Stop the World? What is it?

[3:04] Chris: The London Man of La Mancha, the full recording.

[3:08] Mark: Oh. I thought it looked like Man of La Mancha, the words, but I was like, I don't... I don't recognize the...

[3:17] Chris: I saw Man of La Mancha with Brian Stokes Mitchell. That was an amazing...

[3:21] Mark: Wow, he's so nice. He was so good. He's so nice. My goodness.

[3:27] Chris: I saw a really open production in St. Petersburg that was environmental. It was a giant open space, and they played all over the place, so the jail was under a staircase, and the band sat on the back of a flatbed pickup truck, and it was two guitars and a... like a cojone hand drum.

[3:46] Mark: Whoa. Huh. That's kind of cool. Very, very cool.

[3:52] Chris: That's very cool. Oh, Mark is typing. This makes me scared.

[4:02] Heather Bedor: I gave him the power. No, no, I...

[4:09] Mark: Oh, when I respond...

[4:14] Chris: Oh yeah. Yeah, I might have to pay for the extra collaborator so all three of us can do this, but it's like our trial run. It's fine. I'm here.

[4:21] Heather Bedor: Oh my god. Okay. Everyone listening, everywhere, and watching and tuning in, this is going to be a chaotic episode because I gave Mark the power, and I failed to mention that there were special sound effects, and when I told him about it, I should not... I instantly regretted it.

[4:41] Mark: Oh, shit. It's gonna keep us on our toes, though, Chris. Just wait till I had my own.

[4:49] Chris: Well, you did just have another very cool episode of Broadway Jeopardy.

[4:54] Mark: That was fun. Yeah, a little late, but it managed to get out there. I mean, I watched it last night at Annette's house. Awesome. How'd you guys do?

[5:06] Chris: Well, they had already watched it and knew all the answers, and I knew some of them. The Gazintas was fun. I liked that. That was, yeah, that's a fun one.

[5:16] Mark: You're a nerd. Our favorite all night was from the One Star Reviews.

[5:19] Chris: Oh, yeah.

[5:23] Mark: And it was Exit Interview.

[5:29] Chris: Yes, yes, the Sunset Boulevard one, Exit Interview did not go well. It was that one that got me, like, to say yes to editing the thing, because that made me laugh so hard. I mean, it's true, though.

[5:44] Mark: Yes, sooner rather than later, we're gonna play some more Broadway Jeopardy on this show.

[5:48] Chris: There you go. I'll have a...

[5:51] Mark: Yes. Jeffrey Cohen, not a musical, LOL.

[5:57] Chris: What's not a musical?

[6:00] Mark: Oh, because he's talking about Imaginary Invalid. Imaginary Invalid. You know, I can see a play every once in a while. I saw Paranormal Activity. I loved it.

[6:05] Chris: And, you know, let's talk about my favorite musical of all time, because they just had a huge anniversary. Phantom.

[6:14] Mark: Oh.

[6:18] Chris: Phantom just celebrated 40 years in London.

[6:22] Mark: Wow. Isn't it not the same? Isn't it not the original, though?

[6:26] Chris: It's, I mean, it's everything. Are you excited for the pro shot?

[6:33] Mark: I don't know how I feel about it. I am, because the film I always thought was eh.

[6:37] Chris: Yes. The same with Rent. I thought the film of Rent was eh.

[6:41] Mark: Yes. But that, like, final performance pro shot, I just sat and cried for two hours.

[6:49] Chris: Yes. Well, plus Love Never Dies has a pro shot.

[6:53] Mark: For the Rent one, I got to be there. I worked merch for it, so I was there the whole closing.

[6:57] Chris: The NBC Live one? Or?

[7:02] Mark: No, the Rent Broadway.

[7:07] Chris: Oh, yeah. And they filmed me for, like, 45 minutes selling for the documentary they made. Not a single shred of footage made it in. But I got to stand behind the camera looking at the monitor as they filmed.

[7:18] Chris: Oh, cool. And so I got to see what they were zooming in on. It was really cool.

[7:23] Mark: That's amazing. Well, now we've got the Rent 30 streaming coming October 26th to support our friends at Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. So it's going to be the anniversary concert. We will have more information and maybe a few giveaways from our friends over at Broadway Cares. But very excited.

[7:40] Heather Bedor: I love Rent, but I will tell you, Chris, for a girl living in Fort Lauderdale who really never got a chance to go to the city growing up, when the show came out, when the movie came out, I think it was just living in Orlando a couple of years, I had known the story, but I had never seen Rent live. And I watched the movie and I fell in love with it. So I had that, I don't want to say reinterpretation, but, you know, cinematic version of it to rely on the same thing with Phantom. You had these movies and I think that opens it up for another generation.

[8:15] Chris: Look at Mean Girls. You know, Mean Girls the movie came out before Mean Girls the Broadway show, which came out before Mean Girls the Broadway show the movie. It's like High School Musical the musical series. Like the producers. Like I think that it opens up more accessibility, like what we're always talking about in the show. It allows for so many other people to see it. And then it's all straight marketing. Then they can come see the show directly.

[8:34] Mark: Lost Boys. My favorite, like, vampire movie from the 80s. I mean, I was like a baby when it came out, but I loved that movie growing up. So I was immediately attracted to the Broadway show. And they're getting a lot of people who are fans of the movie seeing the show and their first time Broadway, you know, show is Lost Boys.

[9:03] Chris: Shmigadoon. You know, everyone was a fan of a TV show. Now you're getting a TV show audience.

[9:08] Mark: Paranormal Activity. This might surprise both of you, but I doubt because you're both very smart. Paranormal Activity is not getting a traditional theater goer. They're not getting a traditional play, you know, patron. They are getting horror movie fans who have never been to a Broadway show before.

[9:24] Chris: I hear there's a lot of like talking and yelling and shouting things. Did I tell you about that?

[9:31] Mark: I definitely heard it somewhere.

[9:34] Chris: Yeah, it's like Rocky Horror where they're yelling out, but it's that people just need to get it off their chest.

[9:40] Mark: Oh no, don't go in there. Run. Don't go up the stairs. But it's so well done.

[9:52] Chris: But I think that when we allow accessibility, like, you know, elephant in the room here, we've all watched slime tutorials.

[10:03] Mark: Okay. What? Shocking. I know. If you don't know what a slime tutorial is, Broadway. Look it up. But, and finally Casey. Hi Casey Lambeth. I tried calling her. Casey was supposed to be helping us with the show tonight, but she is lazy being a mother. I'm just kidding. But she's in her comments and I'm happy she can be here.

[10:26] Heather Bedor: You know, bringing up what Jeffrey says, spelling bee closed.

[10:30] Chris: Yeah. You know what else closed yesterday?

[10:35] Heather Bedor: Heather's closed yesterday.

[10:39] Chris: Heather's closed yesterday. And they closed early.

[10:43] Mark: Yeah. And it was a great show. They did so well. They were pretty much selling out all the time or close to it. They're going on this huge national and international tour.

[10:46] Heather Bedor: But that was a movie before it became a musical.

[10:50] Chris: I had not seen the musical because the last time it was out, it was in the West End when I was like really into the show. I saw the pro shot.

[11:00] Heather Bedor: So yes, to answer the original question, I'm excited for the phantom pro shot. I don't know how to feel about it because I've seen that show so many times. I don't know if I'm going to feel like that fourth wall is like preventing me from experiencing it more.

[11:16] Chris: But I'm excited for it. I'm excited for people to be able to see it more.

[11:22] Mark: What about you guys? What are you looking forward to? We've had a couple of fun little announcements. What are you guys looking forward to the most?

[11:29] Chris: Announcements? What announcements?

[11:36] Mark: Like casting announcements and things that are happening.

[11:41] Chris: I'm trying to think of the last announcement that really got me excited.

[11:44] Mark: Oh no. I'm really tired. Olivia just brought up Much Ado About Nothing and I really need MCU actors to stop coming to Broadway and doing Shakespeare.

[12:02] Chris: I hate Shakespeare.

[12:08] Mark: I know you hate Shakespeare, but my god, Mark, you were barking up the wrong tree. And then Anthony Mackie's doing Lear or something or one of them.

[12:17] Chris: Don't make me go see Shakespeare.

[12:23] Mark: But you're gonna go see Shakespeare.

[12:30] Chris: Oh, and Shakespeare directed by, um, what's his name? Jamie Lloyd.

[12:37] Mark: Oh my god.

[12:39] Chris: Oh no. Oh yeah. Yeah, well. But like, I wouldn't even look at the theater if it wasn't for Hayley Atwell.

[12:44] Mark: Okay, but you're going. You're going to see the show.

[12:48] Chris: I mean, we'll see. I don't have tickets, but I want to. I will not see Anthony Mackie and whatever other Shakespeare plays.

[12:52] Mark: I can't.

[12:56] Chris: The biggest announcement to me, because I am such a nerd, that got me really excited, Dirty Dancing coming to Broadway for the first time ever.

[13:00] Mark: I've never seen the movie.

[13:04] Chris: You're fired. Give me back that tour. I never see Lost Boys the movie either, speaking of movies.

[13:09] Mark: Oh, how are we friends?

[13:13] Chris: It's just, Dirty Dancing is such a great show. I haven't seen the Broadway performance or the touring performance, but supposed to be incredible.

[13:22] Mark: And then Juan Pablo was announced to be taking over the role as Doc in Schmigadoon, and I love him. I can never pronounce his actual. It's like Juan Pablo de Pase, but he was on Fuller House and then like multiple different soap operas. He has a beautiful voice, but he's a great actor. So I'm very excited for those little things coming up. Little snippets.

[13:46] Heather Bedor: I think we need like a big, heavy-hitting Broadway news story.

[13:50] Chris: What about you, Chris? Something that's excited you this week?

[13:54] Mark: I think he's rebooting his camera. He's frozen. He's been moving around a little bit.

[14:00] Chris: I don't know. So Olivia said Tom was trained in Shakespeare before he did.

[14:04] Mark: I know. I know. All British actors are trained in Shakespeare, and I just, I don't, it's not for me.

[14:13] Heather Bedor: I mean, Chris, are you back with us?

[14:18] Chris: I think so. Can you hear me?

[14:24] Mark: We can hear you! Yay!

[14:27] Chris: Huzzah! Can you hear us okay?

[14:26] Heather Bedor: Mainly, you are casting the right person for the role. I always like to watch on Instagram reels or Facebook reels, like the little, you know, the movie videos. I really had that hiccup and this, I was watching one yesterday about Halloween Town. Not a Broadway show, I know I'm going off the shrinker here. Had you ever seen Halloween Town, Marc?

[14:52] Marc: I've seen the first one, I think, years and years ago.

[14:56] Heather Bedor: So they said the actor that actually wound up playing the mayor of Halloween Town, he was cast as like a small bit part to be the Yeti in the ice cream shop, and the guy that was cast to be the Yeti in the ice cream shop was meant to play the mayor. And they were cast in those roles, and they showed up to set and costuming and wardrobe the same day, and neither of them fit in their respective costumes. And so the producers and director were like, "Swap!" And they did.

[15:27] Marc: That sucks for that one guy.

[15:29] Heather Bedor: Well, but he got the same amount of pay. You know, I think it's like casting. I was watching one about That Thing You Do, and we're talking about Charlize Theron. They had multiple days of auditioning. She was the very first person to audition; they cast her right away.

[15:46] Marc: She's in that movie, huh?

[15:48] Heather Bedor: Yeah, yeah. She plays the girlfriend that falls in love with her dentist.

[15:52] Marc: Oh, the first girl, yeah. There's an extended version of That Thing You Do. It's like two hours and 45 minutes.

[15:58] Heather Bedor: Oh, that is this! And like, I was showing it to my wife, this is years ago now, but we started, and I was like, "Wait a minute, I don't know what any of these scenes are. What the hell is going on?" And it's like this extended edition. Anyway, one of my favorite movies. It was such a flop in the box office, but I would love That Thing You Do to go to Broadway. It is such a good—it should be a play with music.

[16:27] Marc: I should not be a musical with like a new score. I think it should be a play with music, like in a stereo-phonic style.

[16:34] Heather Bedor: Yeah, yeah, I agree. I mean, there's no reason to like write a song about running off to Disneyland. There's so much music and so many good songs that I think it could really do well.

[16:44] Marc: Yeah, yeah. I don't know that in my hometown they really—yeah, it was so—yeah, it's always been a big deal.

[16:51] Heather Bedor: That's amazing! I just, it's one of those things, it's just, man, like Tom Hanks wrote—and we're definitely not talking about Broadway right now—but it's, I think it's just a matter of that feel-good that we're all craving. Tom Hanks wrote the script for it. He did everything for it, and was like, he was specifically read it to be a movie about the '60s and the garage band making it big. And when it came out in the '90s, you know, it wasn't that—I guess I think we all love like the '50s and '60s movement back then. We were doing sock hops when we were in kindergarten, but it's that we all kind of resonate with like local kids done good, and that's cool if it's your local town, but it's like garage band, you know, turns famous one-hit wonders.

[17:35] Marc: I just, I don't see anything like—with no disrespect to Broadway shows either. I haven't been to something in a while that I'm just like, "Wow, I feel great!" Like, it's something new. Like, I love & Juliet, but it's, you know, jukebox, which is fine. There's a lot of fun moments to it. There's a lot of serious stuff that's in the background of it, you know? There's fun like Moulin Rouge—beautiful, super fun jukebox musical, like fun bouncy music, sad stuff happening in the background. Like, what's a show that you've seen recently or like within the last couple of years that you're like, "Man, I feel great!" That didn't have a negative or sad connotation on the other side of it?

[18:21] Heather Bedor: Shmigadoon. Shmigadoon is pure joy. Well, every show is going to have some kind of conflict. I mean, that's garbage without—you know, it has to have some kind of conflict. But as conflicts go, that one's pretty—uh, I don't—I don't like drama. I mean, I'll see anything in the theater, but you know, I'm a comedy guy. I don't gravitate towards like a very dramatic show. I am so worried about Chris's connection. I'm gonna text him. Are you alive, Chris? Are you listening to us? Chris, it's happening here. Um, for those of you that don't know, Chris just poof disappeared.

[19:03] Heather Bedor: Um, I want more feel-good shows with like Newsies—super serious stuff, but it had this like empowerment and like thrivingness. Like, you kind of felt alive after it. And speaking of Newsies, not intentionally but intentionally, um, Tommy Bracco—you know that our dear Tommy and Kara Lindsay just were on a Disney Cruise Line for an event with Susan Egan and a couple of other incredible Disney and Broadway stars to help champion in the announcement for the new Disney Cruise Line ship, Belief. And it was really funny because Tommy and Kara happened to be in Orlando, and I wasn't allowed to know because there was an NDA. I may have texted Tommy and said, "Screw the NDA! You should have texted me."

[19:49] Marc: I love Kara Lindsay! I did—I toured with Kara for Wicked.

[19:53] Heather Bedor: Not for Wicked. No, I did. My wife and I did the whole tour of Little House on the Prairie.

[19:59] Marc: Oh yeah, Kara is a delight, and she's been through so much.

[20:02] Heather Bedor: Yeah, but her and Kevin, her husband, also two of my favorite people, and they're adorable. Adorable kid. Uh, let's—you want to just talk about Kevin Massey for a second? I mean, some more—I love Kevin Massey. Um, I—so here in Orlando at Epcot, every January to February, we do my favorite festival, which is the Festival of the Arts. And stupid drunks—sorry, stupid drunks at Epcot call it farts. I've always called it FOTA—Festival of the Arts, not farts. Whatever, I digress.

[20:38] Marc: So it's this—what they call the American Gardens Pavilion. It's a tiny outdoor venue with a small stage, but for the last—going on 10 years, coming up to the 10-year anniversary—I really have hiccups, I'm so sorry. Um, they bring in all these incredible Disney on Broadway artists—Jodie Benson, who came in to, you know, help out with some Little Mermaid stuff. I mean, we had Sierra Boggess, Ashley Brown—like so many incredible people over and over. Mandy Gonzalez, that's—you know, Kara Lindsay, which is where I met Kara. Adam Jacobs—just over and over and over. And they do these 30-minute sets of the songs, and they're not even just their songs; it's like whatever songs. And my dear friend Jim Abbott's a music director for it, and I just have sat there and just like lived my best Disney Broadway girl moments, and I'm having the opportunities to interact with them and become friends with some of these people.

And they really are just some of the coolest people you'll ever meet. I'm sure—and so damn talented. But yeah, this past year, they just did a Beauty and the Beast anniversary special that was really beautiful to see.

[21:54] Marc: Are you a Banana Ball fan, Mark?

[21:56] Marc: Uh, that's sports.

[21:57] Heather Bedor: No, it's kind of sports. I mean, if someone put a gun to my head and said, "What baseball game would you want to go see?" I'd probably say the one with the singing and the dancing bananas, but that's about all I know.

[22:07] Marc: Okay, noted. Well, you know Derek Klena is a Savannah Banana now.

[22:11] Heather Bedor: I do know that! He went to the dark side. He was a baseball player before he was a Broadway guy, of course. He was also—when Chris said St. Petersburg earlier, I just started singing, and I was singing Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.

[22:25] Marc: Oh no, I just had—have you heard?

[22:27] Heather Bedor: But yes, so they just did this huge Disney on Broadway collaboration for their Banana Bowl, which is their first year doing this, like World Series style.

[22:36] Marc: Do they play other real teams?

[22:38] Heather Bedor: Yes! Oh my god, I'm gonna educate you and all of our theater people that are in the comment section right now. And Casey, feel free, girl, you're in the comment section. You know you're part of Broadway Fan Club. You shout out to—so Jesse Cole created Savannah Bananas in Savannah. They took over this like dilapidated stadium and really fought to do something not as an exposition sport, like the Harlem Globetrotters, but truly as like a way to enjoy playing sports. Sounds like a Disney movie from the early 2000s.

[23:09] Marc: You say that facetiously, but they just partnered with Disney, and I'm waiting for them to announce that—

[23:15] Heather Bedor: I know! Sounds like—so they created two different things. They created the visitors, which were like, let's say like Triple-A, so it's the farm league, so like minor league, but not really this. So they had a team to play against alongside of the party animals, and they started to travel to different stadiums. So now there's the party animals, the Savannah Bananas, the Texas Tailgaters, the local Beach Coconuts, the Indianapolis Clowns. I am forgetting at least one more, but they all have their own schtick and their own theme. So the local Beach Coconuts are very like beachy. It's five o'clock somewhere. One of their mascots is Peter Colada; he's a giant—

[24:00] Marc: Oh, thank you, the firefighters! Casey, thank you! How could I forget? They have a Dalmatian, and they do fire stunts.

[24:06] Heather Bedor: That's cool! But they're actually playing baseball, but it's the way they—

[24:10] Marc: Lose me.

[24:11] Heather Bedor: Well, I mean, okay, fine. And we won't force—in terms of thinking about going to a baseball game, that sounds better than most. I mean, I got a chance—I had only gone to one, not expecting that somebody online in one of like my little communities here in Orlando was like, "I have an extra ticket. Does anyone want it?" I was like, "Because they're impossible to get tickets." They do a lottery every year to be able to purchase, I think, two tickets. All their tickets are supposed to be, I think, 25 or 35. That's it!

[24:46] Marc: Yes, Casey, it does have different rules than baseball. If someone catches it, it's an owl! You know, that kind of stuff. There's a lot of fun distraction. They do opening numbers, lots of TikTok or whatever. It's just fun. Um, but yeah, so you do that, and then now they have like—I think we are not sponsored by Banana Ball, but if they'd like to, just equal can absolutely give us a call. They have an app that's theirs. They will not let people like charge more for ticket prices. So I did the first two games they've ever done here at Disney at the Wide World of Sports, and it was pouring rain the first day. I'm in the second day; it was much—

[28:53] Heather Bedor: And Bill were so sweet because I was trying to do something nice for my dad and my step-mom, and so they left messages in their voices and I was like, oh, it's the cutest thing ever.

[29:53] Heather Bedor: Also Chris did not answer so I think he was abducted by aliens. I'm very worried and if he's tuning in, are you okay? I hope he is alright.

[30:23] Heather Bedor: No, that was too magical. I really gave you the control over this. I don't know how I feel about that.

[30:53] Heather Bedor: That evil laugh needs to go away.

[31:23] Heather Bedor: Oh my. Yeah, it's, I don't know, to me it's been such a weird week. My brain needed a break.

[31:53] Heather Bedor: Yeah. You know I'm just dealing with a lot of people across our groups who are just not happy and then some people who are overly happy. I'll ask you this as a New Yorker. When someone says, this is a question that comes up pretty frequently in our groups and I think across socials. If you had one day to spend in New York that you were a theater person, what would you do from breakfast through dinner?

[32:59] Amber Brzezinski: If I had not, if I didn't live in the city? Yeah, or like what would you like to show off New York City? I mean I used to when I was a kid, when I lived in Southern California but my dad lived in Pennsylvania. I used to visit him, he used to take me to the bus stop, the Peter Pan bus in the morning at like 5, 6am. I'd get into the city and because I was a young teenage boy from Orange County, California and didn't know the spooky, scary New York City, I stayed in Times Square. Okay. I would have two shows and I'd go home at like midnight. I would spend the whole day. I would browse through Triton Gallery. Okay. I would go into Triton Gallery and look. I would also go spend a lot of time in, it doesn't exist anymore, but there's Theater Circle, like gift shop, but there used to be a gift shop of theater stuff underneath the Marriott Marquis.

[34:20] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, okay. It doesn't exist anymore.

[34:26] Heather Bedor: No, because you've got the Shubert Alley one, one Shubert place and then you've got theater. Yeah, so they used to have three. It used to be the three stores all owned by the same people. So I would go through those three back and forth and back and forth. I probably, I haven't, I've never been, but I'd probably go to the Museum of Broadway.

[34:49] Heather Bedor: Wait a minute, everybody stop, breathe for a second. You've never been to the Museum of Broadway? I've been in the lobby for the store. We're fixing that. I don't care if it's going to be until the next time I come. We're fixing that. You've never been to the Museum of Broadway? No. Someone get Julie Boardman on the phone, please.

[35:03] Amber Brzezinski: So I haven't gone for purely petty reasons. Go spill the tea.

[35:10] Heather Bedor: So for years and years and years, you guys know I collect Broadway props and costumes. So my goal for years was trying to get a Museum of the American Musical started. And I was met with no's and no's and no's everywhere I went. I think my problem, well, besides having no connections, but I wanted it to be a really like academic, like museum, museum, as opposed to like a more of an Instagram. Yeah, which, you know. So I was fairly personally devastated when Museum of Broadway was announced. And then I, this was during the pandemic, I reached out, I emailed everybody's email I could find to be like, hey, this is who I am. Please, I'd love to be involved in any way, shape or form. Never heard back from anybody. And so I was very bitter and like, didn't want to go.

[36:08] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[36:16] Heather Bedor: And now I just I haven't. It's cost not. So I will tell you what I have been through.

[36:26] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, no. Chris says his laptop has OD'd on Quaaludes.

[36:30] Heather Bedor: Oh, no. That sounds expensive.

[36:37] Amber Brzezinski: So Museum of Broadway visit number one. I went through. I had bought a ticket. You get a discounted ticket if you bring a ticket from TKTS or any Broadway show. And I went through because I was like, how long does it usually take? They're like, oh, about an hour, hour and a half. I was there for three and a half. Walked through. It was beautiful. The stage man, it's because you actually go down and you go backstage. It was so well done that I was like emotional because I'm like, finally, there's a place that people can see everything that all of my like loved ones and myself have gone through and like really experiencing it and like being hands on. I thought that was very cool.

[37:11] Heather Bedor: The second time I was there, I was the associate producer for Live with Ryan, Friends with Ryan Myers. And we had had Sam Pauly coming into the show that we were doing at Don't Tell Mamas. And they had just brought their Six the Musical, like special. Where'd your audio go? I'm sorry. Your audio went weird for a second. I don't know. Is it here? No. Anyway, continue. Ghosts.

[37:43] Amber Brzezinski: But we went through, I don't know, you ask questions I can't answer. But we went through this whole at like the end of the exhibit and it was really lovely. Then we walk through it. And I went two years ago, my gosh, for Halloween with Amber. And they had trick or treating, which was stupid cute. So it was like coloring pages of like Wicked and like Aladdin's. It was really cute. But such a great experience. And then I've gone to a couple of events there. Ran into Seth Rudetsky there after a Legally Blonde press event. The cast recording for Deaf Becomes Her was there. But everyone there was so lovely and kind. And I understand trying to get a hold of someone is impossible. Julie actually asked me to create a fan community for Museum of Broadway almost two years ago.

She has been impossible to get a hold of because I had the opportunity to work with her when I was working with Bonnie and Clyde. Like the live, like the ProShot live stream. So we were doing some help with distribution and marketing and created a group with that. But at Broadway Con is where she actually hosted a panel that I was on with a producer. And she's just lovely. So I can completely understand. It's hard because you're like, I really want to do this thing. And I'm like totally involved. Like I'm here and I want to do this. And then it's like crickets, but it's like, I know they're self-funded, which is so stressful on its own. And they have a lot of challenges because they are considered a museum, but they're not a nonprofit. So it's a challenge.

[39:29] Heather Bedor: But a fun fact, if you do go in there, a couple of fun things for listeners too. They have extremely clean bathrooms. They are downstairs. They're free to use. You do not have to be going to the museum to be able to go and use the bathrooms. They have free lockers downstairs that can probably fit about like a purse and a backpack. Free. And then if you're looking as you're going down the stairs, all of the Playbill covers are all from Julie's personal collection. She cut them all up and wallpapered the wall with them. And if you're looking for merchandise and you can't get into a show, they do have a lot of the merchandise from the shows right there and then. But yeah, I'll take you there. If you have any interest in actually going and seeing it.

I love looking at the costumes up close. They have the entire display of how the Wicked, like the Gershwin, like everything works. It's really cool. And after Gavin passed, they did some really beautiful memorial stuff for him as well.

[40:46] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I mean, I should definitely go. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Now you're regretting it.

[40:56] Heather Bedor: No, I should see it. You know, I got so much stuff. I need to donate.

[41:05] Amber Brzezinski: Don't donate. Just create a new one.

[41:10] Heather Bedor: No, that's too much. I will tell you that I am personally gearing up and if you'd like to join me and want to make this a collaborative effort, something I haven't talked about yet is that I have been given several very cool theater items to auction to help donate to Broadway Cares, Equity Fights AIDS, including an original Broadway cast signed window card of Come From Away.

[41:29] Amber Brzezinski: Ooh. I know. Some really, really, really cool stuff. So if you have any interest, maybe we'll do something fun like that. But I still think you need to start your prop corner all over again here.

[41:42] Heather Bedor: I know I should. Next time I'll have to bring some stuff. You've said that for a month.

[41:48] Amber Brzezinski: I know. I know. There's just always so much crap around here. Here, I've got my. Oh, don't come apart. Got my Lego Wabun.

[41:58] Heather Bedor: Your Wabun. I love it.

[42:07] Amber Brzezinski: And my plastic Wabun. I have the plastic one. The Lego one looks really good. How long did it take you to make?

[42:12] Heather Bedor: I let my wife make it. I mean, that was nice of you. She did a very good job. So cute. Yeah, I know. Adorable. I need the plush one now.

[42:23] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, yeah, they did start doing the plush ones. What's your favorite merch item you've ever bought? I feel like I haven't asked you this question yet.

[42:26] Heather Bedor: Oh, my God. My favorite merch item? Let me help you narrow it down. Top five? I'm trying to think. I love what I really collect. I mean, well, I collect window cards, and I'm a big merch guy. I used to get shirts and all that stuff, but it's all so expensive now. What I really love is things that are unique to that show. Like, you're not going to find at any other show. Right. What are some of my favorite merch items? I'm looking around. I see the candle.

[42:56] Amber Brzezinski: Chris is back. He has risen. Welcome back.

[43:08] Heather Bedor: Welcome back. It's been such a something something. Welcome back. I can't see there. Oh, no. Chris, can you hear us? I feel like I need a Ouija board.

[43:20] Heather Bedor: It's nice to see you, and you can hear us.

[43:24] Chris: It's like a nice Chris screensaver for us.

[43:28] Marc: It's like, if you're in a class and you have to be there on the camera the entire time, that's the video you play.

[43:34] Chris: It's actually just a cardboard cutout of the screen.

[43:38] Marc: No, we like the real thing.

[43:42] Heather Bedor: Oh, Chris's camera probably has a low FPS.

[43:46] Chris: Okay. All right.

[43:50] Heather Bedor: Well, Chris, you look very handsome and dapper. The beard's looking great tonight.

[43:54] Marc: I don't know if you can hear us. The beard is bearding.

[43:58] Heather Bedor: Dude, let's talk about your beard bearding. I was talking to Chris about it.

[44:02] Marc: And I said, Mark's beard is getting so thick.

[44:06] Heather Bedor: It used to be down. He said during COVID.

[44:10] Marc: You just let it grow out. And I'm like, right now.

[44:14] Chris: It's like, you know, yeah, it's only a few weeks.

[44:18] Marc: I've been shaving since I was 10.

[44:22] Chris: Have you really?

[44:26] Marc: Yeah. Yeah, I've had a shave since I was 10 years old.

[44:30] Chris: I had a beard in high school.

[44:34] Marc: Okay. That makes sense.

[44:38] Heather Bedor: I like things that are unique, for sure.

[44:42] Marc: I loved my rabbit.

[44:46] Chris: Oh, from Spamalot?

[44:50] Marc: Yes. I have so much. I did merch for Spamalot, the original.

[44:54] Heather Bedor: I know you did. So I have killer rabbit bunny slippers.

[44:58] Marc: Yeah, that we used to sell.

[45:02] Chris: Okay, I never saw those.

[45:06] Marc: I only saw the squeeze and it goes.

[45:10] Chris: Yeah, we had the ones that clamp on.

[45:14] Marc: We used to sell cans of Spam and coconut halves.

[45:18] Heather Bedor: Right. I remember seeing the coconut halves.

[45:22] Marc: Well, I already told you my favorite thing I got from Flea, one of them, was a change for Pips from Newsies.

[45:26] Heather Bedor: I wish Lost Boys, and this is something I'm not even going to pick on Lost Boys for because it's a lot of shows.

[45:30] Marc: They keep going with these light-colored shirts.

[45:34] Heather Bedor: Yeah, no light-colored shirts.

[45:38] Chris: I'm moving. Can you hear me?

[45:42] Heather Bedor: We can hear you. It's like a Godzilla movie, though.

[45:46] Chris: Yeah, no, because there's latency issues.

[45:50] Marc: Okay.

[45:54] Chris: I feel like my laptop just overdosed on Quaaludes.

[45:58] Heather Bedor: Oh my god.

[46:06] Marc: Jeffrey says the notebook tissues.

[46:10] Chris: Jeffrey has not stopped talking about the notebook tissues.

[46:14] Heather Bedor: Okay, you're here.

[46:18] Chris: Now that's popping in.

[46:22] Marc: I feel so bad.

[46:26] Chris: I feel like I bought something recently and I was like, this is so cool.

[46:30] Marc: That was awesome.

[46:34] Chris: Bye again.

[46:38] Marc: Oh man.

[46:42] Chris: I feel so bad.

[46:46] Marc: Cabaret, you know what, I'll say Cabaret had I love doing costume-y.

[46:50] Chris: Cabaret and Anne Joliet were the only shows I've ever seen do it.

[46:58] Marc: Cabaret did a couple of prints that were postcard-sized of different costumes, like the drawings.

[47:02] Chris: Yes, the recent Cabaret.

[47:06] Marc: And then Anne Joliet did it, and they did playing cards, and every playing card was a different costume.

[47:10] Chris: That's cool.

[47:18] Marc: I thought that was so cool. But yeah, I don't like the light-colored shirts or the pullover hoodies.

[47:22] Heather Bedor: Give me a good zippered hoodie.

[47:26] Chris: Yeah, I'm with you on the zippered hoodies.

[47:30] Marc: I am not a ringer-tee guy.

[47:34] Chris: Get the ringer-tees out of here. I thought we moved past them.

[47:38] Marc: I like the ringer-tees. You know what everyone's bringing in, though?

[47:42] Chris: They're all bringing in socks.

[47:46] Marc: I hate that, because the socks are always so cute, and they don't fit my giant feet.

[47:50] Chris: Okay, well that, because you have hobbit feet.

[47:54] Marc: But like, $27 for a pair of socks, I'm like, I don't want to wear the socks.

[47:58] Chris: It's just so weird.

[48:02] Marc: Yeah, socks are a big thing.

[48:06] Chris: Socks are an interesting thing. It really hasn't been anything that I've loved.

[48:10] Marc: Everyone's got a shot glass, or a tattoo, or whatever.

[48:14] Chris: I remember at the Fiddler Revival, excuse me, the Fiddler Revival I worked at, the Danny Burstein one, we sold a Fiddler on the Roof Christmas ornament,

[48:18] Marc: which, think about it for a second,

[48:26] Chris: a Christmas ornament?

[48:30] Marc: You mean a Hanukkah bush ornament?

[48:34] Chris: Exactly, but it's just like a Christmas ball, and it cracked me up, so I have a few of those.

[48:38] Marc: That's amazing.

[48:42] Chris: The notebook tissues were great. When I saw the notebook, they had stopped the tissue sales,

[48:50] Marc: because this was when the tissues were really starting to gain traction, and people were starting to write articles about it.

[48:54] Chris: Some of the producers thought that it was cheapening the show,

[48:58] Marc: or undermining the seriousness of the show.

[49:02] Chris: People were going to the show just to buy the fucking tissues.

[49:10] Marc: Yes, and eventually, a few days afterwards, I learned,

[49:14] Chris: I was so mad.

[49:18] Marc: So I pulled a, you know, hey, I'm an old merch guy thing, and they went into their closet and got me a couple boxes.

[49:38] Chris: You naughty boy. Oh my god.

[49:42] Marc: No, I didn't buy them, because I was like, no, I'm not going to cry.

[49:46] Chris: Oh, mine are not opened. Don't open them.

[49:50] Marc: I thought I heard something. Oh, okay.

[49:54] Casey: said, I got a Lion King vinyl from the show at the Broadway Theater in Vegas and had the cast sign my sleeve at stage door.

[49:58] Marc: Nice.

[50:02] Chris: I love that they are bringing vinyls back to theaters.

[50:06] Marc: Yeah. I do love that.

[50:10] Chris: I sold the vinyl for Drowzee Chaperone, but that was it.

[50:14] Marc: I want to get the one for Masquerade. I need to get the one for Phantom, and I need the one for Lost Boys.

[50:18] Chris: It's very expensive.

[50:22] Marc: I have no way to play them.

[50:26] Chris: That and Playbills for shows I haven't seen.

[50:30] Marc: Also fair. Yeah, no, I'm the same way with that one.

[50:34] Chris: I'm like, if I haven't seen it, I don't want a Playbill from it.

[50:38] Heather Bedor: Oh my god, Chris, we can see you drinking a cup.

[50:42] Chris: That means you're moving around. Can you hear us, Chris?

[50:46] Chris: Oh, I'm in real time. Almost.

[50:50] Heather Bedor: Welcome back. It's like Max Headroom.

[50:54] Chris: I'm pointing. One, two, three.

[50:58] Marc: So about three seconds lag.

[51:02] Chris: Oh, that's frustrating.

[51:06] Marc: I had at Broadway Flea dumpster diving. I found Alton Fitzgerald book. I think I told you that's my pride.

[51:18] Chris: I bought the I think I bought the hoodie and got the tote for free or something. I was still working for Disney, so I got a great cast member discount, which was awesome.

[51:30] Marc: And then I got Alton to sign his book and the bag when I saw him at Epcot. Naive.

[51:38] Chris: I'm not a big autograph girl. We've talked about this, but when I know someone at this point, Alton is just so freaking cool.

[51:46] Marc: I'm like, you know what, dude, can you do this? That'd be great. Thanks. I love autographs. I'm a big autograph girl.

[51:50] Chris: See, I'm just not. I mean, I used to be.

[51:54] Marc: I will stand at a stage door and get a Playbill sign to do a giveaway with our members.

[51:58] Chris: But I don't necessarily need any of that stuff for myself.

[52:02] Marc: I think it's sweet. When Masquerade did the whole thing with the cast, I thought that was really sweet. I wasn't actively seeking it out.

[52:10] Chris: I don't know. Maybe it's all the Comic Cons and stuff I work with. I'm like, great. Thanks.

[52:18] Marc: One of the volunteers I had worked with while doing the convention with the Disney kids, she wound up working at another convention that I was emceeing at, and she happened to be the handler for Bryce.

[52:30] Chris: And so she actually gave me something. He signed Hey, Heather, which was very sweet. But I'm like, thanks, Bryce.

[52:46] Marc: It's like asking you to sign something that says Broadway Jeopardy on it.

[52:50] Chris: Which is fine. I kind of feel like I need to start collecting my friends' autographs.

[52:58] Heather Bedor: Chris, are you going to autograph something for us? What do you want?

[53:02] Chris: I don't know. A blank check?

[53:06] Marc: I don't have checks anymore. It's the 21st century.

[53:10] Chris: Can I tell you, I had to get a check printed the other day. Why did I have to get a check printed for the other day? And I was so mad. I genuinely don't remember.

[53:22] Marc: I had to go to my bank and pay $5 to get a frickin' check printed.

[53:30] Chris: Who does that?

[53:34] Marc: Chris is gone again.

[53:38] Chris: No, I'm here. You just can't see me at the time that you're talking.

[53:42] Marc: Kind of. You look like Godzilla is about to attack.

[53:46] Chris: Well, what do you guys want to talk about as we wrap up tonight? Because I've been rambling a lot. Thank you, Strawberry Limeade.

[53:54] Heather Bedor: Well, you mentioned hoodies.

[53:58] Chris: And if I was talking in real time, it shows it. Anyway, you'll see there's a hoodie behind me.

[54:06] Marc: It is wicked. You can't see.

[54:10] Chris: Stephen Schwartz signed it. That's who you were telling me about.

[54:14] Marc: That's cool. I was in Denver at the Performing Arts Center walking through their little courtyard.

[54:18] Chris: And I looked over at the tables and I'm like, that's Stephen Sondheim.

[54:22] Marc: And that was all I had with me. I was wearing the hoodie and I asked him to sign it.

[54:30] Chris: And I said, thank you. I can never watch this again.

[54:34] Marc: Was it Sondheim or Schwartz?

[54:38] Chris: Schwartz.

[54:42] Marc: Can you imagine asking Stephen Sondheim to sign a wicked sweatshirt?

[54:46] Chris: I know, but we know what he meant.

[54:50] Marc: I'm distracted by my computer slowly dying in real time.

[54:54] Chris: I was like, how dare you not tell me you met Sondheim?

[54:58] Marc: Every day a computer death.

[55:02] Chris: That's how he ran into Cinco.

[55:06] Marc: He was just outside of Schmigadoon.

[55:10] Chris: I was on the balcony lobby. It was intermission. And I looked over and I said, hi, are you who I think you are?

[55:14] Marc: He said, I don't know. I'm Cinco Paul.

[55:18] Chris: I said, yes, you are then.

[55:26] Marc: I thank him for writing Schmigadoon.

[55:30] Chris: And for bringing so much joy to all of us theater nerds.

[55:34] Marc: He was lovely. He was absolutely lovely.

[55:38] Marc: Mark, you said you're a pretty tight boy as was Cinco?

[55:42] Chris: Yeah. I mean, you know.

[55:46] Marc: I don't think he'd call me a friend or anything.

[55:50] Chris: He knows me. If we saw each other in the street, he'd be like, hey, Mark.

[55:54] Marc: I got to know most of the Schmigadoon cast and crew during the golden years of Schmigadoon.

[55:58] Chris: The golden years of Schmigadoon.

[56:02] Marc: Yes, Chris and I were talking last night and today, I think, about the amount of shows that we could cast between the people that the three of us know.

[56:14] Chris: Oh, yeah.

[56:18] Marc: So we were like, oh, yeah, and Wicked we could cast.

[56:22] Chris: I don't have this, but I don't have a Madame Marble.

[56:26] Marc: But I do have a Ben Cameron.

[56:30] Chris: Ben Cameron as Madame Marble.

[56:34] Marc: I'm texting him right now.

[56:38] Chris: Dear Ben, would you consider being a Madame Marble?

[56:42] Marc: You think I'm kidding.

[56:46] Chris: I love it.

[56:50] Marc: Knowing the people you know.

[56:54] Chris: If you had to cast a show this week, knowing the people you know, besides Schmigadoon.

[56:58] Marc: I was going to say, Schmigadoon, easy.

[57:02] Chris: Because now it's cheating.

[57:06] Marc: Let's see, people I know. I could probably do something like the Music Man.

[57:14] Chris: Okay.

[57:18] Marc: The Mayor's Wife.

[57:22] Chris: Ulayli McKechnie-shin.

[57:26] Marc: I think that would be fine.

[57:34] Chris: Now you're both quiet.

[57:38] Marc: I was trying to hear Chris, but he cut out.

[57:42] Chris: No, that's all right.

[57:46] Heather Bedor: I think David is speaking on the Broadway cruise. I don't know. Is it Seth's cruise? No. Oh, that's different. I'm mixing up my cruises. He's on Seth's Broadway cruise.

[58:16] Amber Brzezinski: Casey will sign a blank check for me with her autograph. No, it's six man. It's from Norwegian six man. It's my third year, fourth year doing it. I've sailed a lot with Norwegian. That's why I've sailed a lot with Norwegian. It's their charter. So they take over the entire ship.

[58:41] Heather Bedor: I feel like I told you the lineup. Did I not? Did I fail you?

[58:47] Amber Brzezinski: I'm sure you did. Cruising is my favorite way to vacation. I'm telling you, like they're doing right now. If I refer anybody out, I get a $300 shipboard credit and you get a $300 shipboard credit.

[59:06] Heather Bedor: Yeah, no, I can't afford to go on any cruises.

[59:11] Amber Brzezinski: It's not that expensive.

[59:11] Heather Bedor: If it's more than $10, I ain't got it.

[59:19] Amber Brzezinski: Okay. Well, Patti LuPone is performing on the ship. Laura Bell Bundy, Curie Butler, Norbert Leo Butz, Darren Criss, Norm Lewis, my buddy. Rachel Bate Jones, Eden Espinoza, Jerry Mitchell, Curie St. Louis, Mark Shaman, and Marissa Jarrett Monacourt.

[59:42] Heather Bedor: That is quite... I would love to. It's amazing. And anyone that's listening, if you want to go and come and hang out, promo code is the number 2BFC, like Broadway Fan Club. So 2BFC. But yeah, it's amazing. My dream job is lecturing on a cruise.

[59:56] Amber Brzezinski: My dream job is musical theater history lecturing on a cruise ship. I mean, I could probably make that happen.

[1:00:01] Heather Bedor: That's my dream job.

[1:00:01] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I got a guy for that.

[1:00:08] Heather Bedor: Yes, Casey is shouting at you, Mark, you should come with us. Casey and I met on the Broadway cruise along with some of our other friends. And we have a group chat called Broadway Bitches. And it's like my favorite little thing to do. But there's some good people on it. And this one's I think five days. But yeah, um, it'll be interesting. Last sailing catch Ken Davenport did a couple of them. It was weird. I really appreciate Ken Davenport. It was real weird.

[1:00:43] Chris: My sippy cup.

[1:00:43] Heather Bedor: Your sippy cup. What cup do you have tonight? I couldn't see.

[1:00:47] Chris: Hey, old friend. Do you know, Mark? Do you do you know that Chris is going to be in town soon?

[1:00:56] Heather Bedor: In New York town?

[1:00:56] Chris: Yeah. Oh, well, not this week, but next week. I'm in town Tuesday through Saturday evening from the 20th to the 24th. So maybe you guys should go get coffee.

[1:01:10] Mark: Tuesday through Saturday evening from the 20th to the 24th. So maybe you guys should go get coffee.

[1:01:16] Chris: Yeah. But Chris, do you want to tell Mark?

[1:01:25] Chris: No, but then I felt like I was being very intrusive and, and one of those needy Patreon people and friend who you co-host a podcast with.

[1:01:34] Mark: No, I'm just such a lazy homebody. It's just hard. Takes a lot to get me out of the house.

[1:01:38] Chris: Just stop it. Lazy. I'll be in Crown Heights. I'm just saying, you know.

[1:01:44] Mark: Oh, well, that's real close. Super close. And Chris has a full agenda that he wants to do. Chris, do you want to tell everybody what you plan on doing?

[1:01:49] Chris: What are you doing? I don't know what I'm seeing yet, because I'm waiting to see what I can get tickets to. I would like to see Wanted and The Fantasticks because those are the two new musicals that will have started previews when I'm there next week. And then I have a friend who's, what do you call it, understudy swinging in Copperfield, but she doesn't have an in date. So I love her. But there's also Soon, which our friend Will Blum directed. So that would be a good one. I hear a lot about Slam Frank, and I'm the kind of person who would like to see things for myself. I've heard a lot of things about Midnight.

[1:02:43] Heather Bedor: Apparently that's three hours plus of it.

[1:02:49] Chris: Yes. Yeah. But JJ's in it. And I like JJ.

[1:02:49] Heather Bedor: Yes, JJ is in it. And, oh gosh, there are more things. I'm trying desperately to get a rush ticket for Benjamin Button, a rush lottery, whatever, on the TodayTix app. So we'll see how that goes. There's, there's, there's a lot to see. There's always a lot to see.

[1:03:08] Chris: And I remember last fall, when I was up in October, it was a very off-Broadway trip. I was starting with The Baker's Wife, which was the centerpiece of my trip. I saw like the third preview. But I saw Bo the Musical, which I really, really liked. I saw a little musical called Reunions. And I may have been one of four people who saw it. There was a fella next to me, and we both turned to each other at the end and simultaneously said, that was just charming. It was such a beautiful little show. And I'm really hoping that we can produce it down here in Florida in an upcoming season. But yeah, it's like, and then I saw The Queen of Versailles. So yes, it was very, I mean, the year before that was Tammy Faye. So I'm like, I don't know, I hope this doesn't portend terribly for Wanted.

[1:04:12] Mark: No, I mean, I genuinely think last season was primarily an off-Broadway year.

[1:04:17] Chris: Yeah, we'll see. I don't know.

[1:04:21] Heather Bedor: Anyways, well, then you'll get to go see Fantasticks. You'll probably get to see meet Chris Catelli, complete your Schmigadoon behind the scenes.

[1:04:32] Chris: I, if he dresses the way he does at premieres, I will absolutely recognize him. In civvies, I don't know that I would recognize him. I'd think, oh, there's another Broadway dancer boy. Cinco, I mean, because he's in civvies, always interviewed, just in a nice suit coat or a shirt, you know. So I recognize, also, he's extremely tall.

[1:04:59] Mark: Yeah. So he kind of popped out in the crowd. When he's walking with Anne, you can very much tell where they came from.

[1:05:03] Heather Bedor: Well, yeah, I mean, that's like, you know, a scene that's got to be a show to each other.

[1:05:09] Chris: It should be a show.

[1:05:11] Mark: It should be a show.

[1:05:12] Heather Bedor: I am sad that Galileo is not going to be in previews when you're up there, Chris, but that means the next time you go.

[1:05:19] Chris: That's honestly at the top of my list for the season is Galileo.

[1:05:23] Mark: Yeah. Ancient astronomers make interesting musicals.

[1:05:27] Chris: Rock musicals. I just, I don't know. I have this premonition that every time I think of Galileo, I think of Platinum.

[1:05:40] Mark: That's not a good omen.

[1:05:45] Chris: I don't know what to tell you there. And I don't know why. I have no idea why that's the connection I made. Or what was Marilyn, an American fable? That was another one.

[1:06:01] Mark: Anyway, we're presenting.

[1:06:02] Chris: I saw Platinum.

[1:06:04] Mark: Oh, my gosh.

[1:06:06] Chris: I don't know. I lived to tell the tale.

[1:06:09] Mark: You nerds.

[1:06:11] Chris: Mine is, I saw Carrie.

[1:06:13] Mark: It throws sentiments at you.

[1:06:15] Chris: I saw Carrie.

[1:06:16] Mark: I saw Carrie.

[1:06:17] Chris: I saw Carrie.

[1:06:18] Mark: I saw Carrie.

[1:06:19] Chris: I saw Carrie.

[1:06:20] Mark: I saw Carrie.

[1:06:21] Chris: I saw Carrie.

[1:06:22] Mark: I saw Carrie.

[1:06:22] Chris: Throw sentiment.

[1:06:24] Mark: Wow.

[1:06:25] Chris: And the woman next to me turned to me at intermission and said, you didn't have to pay for that seat, did you?

[1:06:32] Mark: And I had. I paid 50 bucks for that seat.

[1:06:37] Chris: Wow. You paid $50 for Carrie?

[1:06:41] Mark: That was the top price.

[1:06:43] Chris: That's amazing, though.

[1:06:44] Mark: It throws sentiment, you know.

[1:06:45] Chris: I paid 100 for Millie for about the same seat.

[1:06:49] Mark: In a different theater, of course.

[1:06:50] Chris: But it was Sutton. And they had one ticket left on a Saturday night at 8 p.m. And there were 15 people ahead of me, all wanting doubles. And I just threw up my hand. I said, I want a single. And he said, hold, it's yours. Because, you know, they're trying to get the house open. Or get the show on.

[1:07:11] Mark: I paid 25 bucks to see Sutton in Shrek. I purchased merch for Shrek and then got to see it for free.

[1:07:21] Chris: Was that where I'd seen you?

[1:07:23] Mark: No, I only went there once. When I went to see Gatsby, I was sharing with one of the ushers in the lobby that I thought the last time I was in that theater had been Shrek. And then we were talking about how it had gotten completely gutted for Here Lies Love and then brought back. And I said, you would never know that Here Lies Love was even in here. And I said, it's funny, I was there at the first Shrek preview. And when Danny Beeker and Brian James walked out, they had this prop helmet that they fumbled and it fell in my lap and I picked it up. And my friend Beth next to me said, I don't know, she didn't say anything, but she just sort of took it from me, stood up and held it back up to the stage, handed it to Shrek. And then Danny started ad-libbing like, Shrek, what the hell was that?

[1:08:21] Mark: Yeah.

[1:08:22] Chris: The usher then said, that was you? And apparently it was a thing that they all remembered. But yes, I'm famous at the Broadway theater.

[1:08:34] Mark: I love that theater. I think that theater is so perfectly organized. The merch, the bar in the middle, the bathrooms, the accessibility of it, and the fact that you walk in one and out the other, and then they have their entire stage doors on the sidewalk and it's nice and long.

[1:09:00] Mark: You're disagreeing with us?

[1:09:04] Chris: No, I'm agreeing. Yes. Nodding yes.

[1:09:06] Mark: Also, I'm going to get into sports ball for a second, Mark. The Yankees were knocked out of the World Series playoffs. So I'm now agreeing with you.

[1:09:11] Chris: The World Series playoffs was happening, didn't we?

[1:09:13] Mark: Yeah.

[1:09:13] Chris: I thought that was like the second Sunday in June.

[1:09:18] Mark: That was last week.

[1:09:20] Chris: But I'm updating my score here to watch the Brewers and Dodgers. Because I like sports.

[1:09:24] Mark: Oh, Brooklyn's it, yay.

[1:09:25] Chris: Brooklyn?

[1:09:26] Mark: The Brooklyn Dodgers?

[1:09:26] Chris: No, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

[1:09:32] Mark: I live real close to Ebbets Field, where Ebbets Field used to be.

[1:09:35] Chris: That's cool.

[1:09:37] Mark: We had a bar called Ebbets Field, where I used to live.

[1:09:41] Chris: You played y'all?

[1:09:42] Mark: No, I don't have, yeah.

[1:09:43] Chris: I was like, we're rambling. Anyways, boys, I'm going to watch the rest of the Brewers game and go get some dinner. And Chris, I'll call you to make sure that your laptop doesn't OD again.

[1:09:55] Chris: Yeah, it'll be a while because as soon as we're done, I got to start dinner and I'm going to try and fix my laptop.

[1:10:01] Mark: Okay, sounds like fun. But I'm going to call you in like 30 seconds.

[1:10:04] Chris: Okay.

[1:10:06] Mark: Because she's a Dodger fan, but I'm more of an Oliver fan than a Dodger fan.

[1:10:09] Chris: I knew it was coming.

[1:10:12] Mark: I left that wide open for about 20 minutes, y'all. 20 minutes.

[1:10:15] Chris: I'm a Nancy boy.

[1:10:21] Mark: You get another one.

[1:10:22] Chris: Hey.

[1:10:25] Mark: All right, boys. Well, let's make sure that we go through everything that we can offer. Please make sure you can go harass Mark on his own channel. When you go to his YouTube, youtube.com slash at the at sign.

[1:10:39] Chris: Yes.

[1:10:39] Mark: Broadway by Ghostlight. You can find Broadway Jeopardy Wednesday next episode coming out.

[1:10:44] Chris: Friday.

[1:10:47] Mark: Who are you?

[1:10:48] Chris: Well, because last week was got delayed. So I wasn't supposed to have an episode last week. It's supposed to be fair.

[1:10:52] Mark: Fair enough. You can follow us right over at at.

[1:10:57] Chris: Oh, hello.

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[1:12:04] Heather Bedor: Oh, good God. I knew you were going to freaking do it.

[1:12:07] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, my God. I'm going to end the episode before he gets his hand on anything else.

[1:12:10] Heather Bedor: Okay. Goodbye, everybody. Have a lovely.