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[0:23] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I've been out there for a little bit.

[0:25] Heather Bedor: Hello.

[0:27] Amber Brzezinski: So you were telling me about your crazy weekend of hunting down a chihuahua in the middle of I am so tired. I am like a self-proclaimed tried and true indoor kid.

[0:44] Heather Bedor: I'm an indoor kid.

[0:45] Amber Brzezinski: You and I'm not ashamed. Yeah, like I don't I don't want to be outside. And like the fact that I had to be outside for so long, and I like couldn't give I like I looked like a tomato.

[1:00] Heather Bedor: I was so red. It was it was like it was not a time. So I'm gonna try to not laugh at you.

[1:09] Amber Brzezinski: But you the dog was found and possibly chose its own home at this point.

[1:14] Heather Bedor: Yeah, which really had a we love a homework now. So I scheduled a root canal for tomorrow. Yay fun, and then I go for this consultation this morning. I say consultation with like quotation marks around it. Um because they're like, oh yeah, um, we're just gonna do like the cleaning of the tooth now.

[1:38] Amber Brzezinski: And I'm like, they're like, we'll just clean it, like get it ready, and I'm like, yeah, okay. I was there for four hours. Four. The first hour I was waiting. Um they they it hurts. Um, I feel like I got punched hard. Um, that's why I'm all swollen, but they cleaned out the decay. That's disgusting.

[1:58] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, you're lagging.

[2:01] Heather Bedor: Um lagging. We also have a giant.

[2:07] Amber Brzezinski: Love that.

[2:07] Heather Bedor: We also have a giant thunderstorm outside yet again. So this should be us too all week, all week. Well, we're like at the real field, like 115. Right.

[2:18] Amber Brzezinski: And so like I'm dying, but like anyway, so they cleaned out my tooth, and they're like, you're bleeding so much that we can't put on the permanent crown after your root canal tomorrow. And I'm like, okay, great. So um, it's not great. I feel like shit, and it hurts to smile, and it hurts to laugh, and it hurts to talk.

[2:45] Heather Bedor: I have been icing my face. My face hurts, and I know the old adage it hurts me too. It'll be interesting, but uh yes, welcome to another uh rambunctious Monday evening edition of the Broadway Fan Club podcast. Uh the lady that just disappeared off the screen is Amber, and I am um here's the little escape artist himself.

[3:10] Amber Brzezinski: A little escape artist.

[3:12] Heather Bedor: Oh he has like Hulk Hogan hair, like the blonde highlights.

[3:19] Amber Brzezinski: He does have those are some highlights, those ears are cool. What's his name?

[3:23] Heather Bedor: His name is Gunner. Hi Gunner. Um he's handsome boy.

[3:29] Amber Brzezinski: He's very cute. He's like an ugly but cute guy. He doesn't look like a traditional chihuahua.

[3:35] Heather Bedor: No, he's a mystery. And Olivia says takes some Tylenol, it helps a lot.

[3:40] Amber Brzezinski: Olivia, I am allergic to Tylenol.

[3:44] Heather Bedor: So I have 800 milligrams of ibuprofen and doesn't do shit. Anyways, and I am the um hurting Heather. That's what we're gonna call me today, the hurting Heather. Um, so I think Amber and I have talked about it before. We will probably do a little mini sode today. Um, because we're both dealing with some crazy shit.

[4:07] Amber Brzezinski: But there's been some interesting stuff going on in the last week, and I think we kind of should just hop right into some Broadway news. What do you think, Amber?

[4:15] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, go for it. If you want to drive the boat, I'll just be here.

[4:18] Heather Bedor: I can try. Well, the first thing I want to talk about is this not a publicity stunt, totally a publicity stunt at the Empire State Building.

[4:30] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[4:32] Heather Bedor: Um, for those of you that live under a rock, uh Ivan Bierkiss and Angela Nicolao um were arrested after scaling the Empire State Building's antenna July 1st. If that name sounds familiar, they were part of a Netflix documentary called Skywalkers in like 2024. They pulled out this flag, and the flags um said um when the power of love I can't remember something.

[5:03] Amber Brzezinski: The power of hate power of uh the beats the love of power, the world knows piece, which I believe is a Jimi Hendrix um lyric.

[5:12] Heather Bedor: Yeah, and there is absolutely no way in this world, but these two pulled off, and I'm gonna keep saying it like this. There's no way that they didn't have this plan for the Empire State Building. One great publicity and marketing. Two, from everything the news organizations have said is they snuck into a maintenance closet, slept overnight in this closet, found an emergency hatch, and climbed the 1500 foot antenna that was still on because Empire State Building is a working antenna on the building that has a lot of radiation.

[5:45] Amber Brzezinski: There's right, it it feels very inside man, a hundred percent.

[5:51] Heather Bedor: But like immediately I had to create like one of our pictures that says the Broadway fan club on the flag, and then everyone else started to do it, which is great. Um we were the first, but um there's no way with the millions first off. Amber, have you been to the Empire State Building?

[6:09] Amber Brzezinski: No.

[6:10] Heather Bedor: So I I made it a mission for quite some time that whatever city I visit, I go to the tallest building in the city. So I've been to 30 Rock, I've been to the Empire State Building, I've been to the Sears Tower, um, been to the Arch in St. Louis. I love architecture, I think it's so cool.

[6:23] Amber Brzezinski: I love architecture, I don't love being updated. I think it's so cool. I could do the top of the Eiffel Tower. My mom stopped in the middle, I went all the way up to the top.

[6:36] Heather Bedor: I'm like a two feet on the ground kind of gal.

[6:39] Amber Brzezinski: You're an indoor cat that doesn't like heights.

[6:41] Heather Bedor: No doubt. I'm a I'm like a six feet underground kind of gal. Like yeah, I'm a spooky girl too, but we don't want you underground yet.

[6:50] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but yeah, so there's literally no way, like, no way with you have to have a ticket to go in. They bought a ticket, you have to have a ticket to go in, they check you at multiple points, and then guys, they do a full security sweep, full.

[7:06] Heather Bedor: So, although it might not be Broadway news, it's weird New York shit that and you know what? It's fucking theater.

[7:14] Amber Brzezinski: It is, you know what? It is it is performance because they've been married for several years. Um, they do the that is live theater. If I've ever seen live theater, Batman helmet that's what I'm saying.

[7:27] Heather Bedor: Like that was so theatric. The drawing. And she texted. Like the facts of the matter is, like, if you don't think that was performance art, you're a live fucking theater.

[7:40] Amber Brzezinski: I was just gonna say, you might be wondering why we're talking about this because that is goddamn theater in the streets of New York. That is why.

[7:49] Heather Bedor: Um let's see. Some other interesting news this week. Um, so may Meg Statler, uh Salter, um, is starting her reign at O'Mary tonight.

[8:00] Amber Brzezinski: So excited.

[8:01] Heather Bedor: She looks so good at the pride parade.

[8:04] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, so good. Um, there was casting news um for newsies at the Muni. Did you hear this?

[8:12] Heather Bedor: Yes, I did a little swap root, a little swap root swap. I'm not sure what's going on with JJ. This is now the second show at JJ was supposed to be in for he was supposed to be in 11 to midnight, and then canceled that performance because of some equity stuff, and moved over to Footloose, right?

[8:29] Amber Brzezinski: And then he was supposed to go in as Jack Kelly at the Muni July 16th through the 22nd for newsies, and they just swapped it.

[8:38] Heather Bedor: Oh my god, my brain's just stopped working to Jack Rode. I thought it was Casey Lakes.

[8:44] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, it was Casey Lakes.

[8:46] Heather Bedor: Yep. This is this is Root Canal Brain. It was Casey Likes, and we love Casey, but also it's kind of weird that Casey is gone. Um, and Jack Rodin's in Jack. His name might sound familiar to you. He was Frankie Apps in the Tony Award-winning revival tour of parade, directed by our buddy Michael Arden.

[9:23] Amber Brzezinski: Um, he was in workshops for the little big things, 10 things I hate about you. Um he's also uh coming in an upcoming indie feature triumph of the will, and later this summer he'll make his US and UK solo concert debut at 54 below.

[9:40] Heather Bedor: So it's gonna be real interesting because I mean that is a switcheroo 10 days out from performance, which is crazy.

[9:50] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, it's absolutely crazy. Um and that's showbiz, baby, and that show biz, kid.

[9:56] Heather Bedor: Uh something else that's crazy is you have the labor strike, which I don't know if anybody has heard of. Umber, you know what I'm talking about.

[10:09] Amber Brzezinski: I do. So um, I believe the date was July or June 30th. Pull up the actual date here. Over 250 theater cleaners voted to authorize a strike on June 30th, which could impact major productions like Wicked and the Lion King.

[10:28] Heather Bedor: What is a theater cleaner?

[10:30] Amber Brzezinski: The person that cleans the theater that people forget exists in the theater world, and they're the only ones that make this place palatable and changeable.

[10:38] Heather Bedor: So really kind of um impactful. This almost makes you want to go on a soapbox.

[10:47] Amber Brzezinski: Go ahead.

[10:48] Heather Bedor: Uh you know, I I'm an usher. I'm an usher. I am an usher. And we have lots of incredible front of house people in our groups as well. And it is infuriating walking through those aisles and literally every single time at the end of the show because we always go through looking for lost and found found items that people might have like a bracelet, something might have gotten caught, a cell phone.

[11:12] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[11:13] Heather Bedor: So we can bring it over to guest services. Um, and just the amount of like spewed candy, cups, trash, garbage, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And I not an outdoor kid. I'm gonna say it. But I was told, get it right. I was told when you go a space, normal, well, I was told this camping. However, it applies to like any space you go to, you leave it just as nice or nicer than you arrive.

[11:52] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, make sure it's cleaner than when you got there.

[11:55] Heather Bedor: Yes. That means you take your trash, you throw it in the trash. Guess what? When you walk out, every drawer has one of those big things. There's not a Muppet that jumps out and like insults you.

[12:06] Amber Brzezinski: There's not.

[12:12] Heather Bedor: I would too.

[12:13] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, well, I would too.

[12:31] Heather Bedor: You know what I mean? Like, but yeah, I mean, people are just everywhere. There's the recycle things for you to put your playbills, there's trash receptacles, like you are able to do your part when exiting a theater to make it nice for the next person who will be sitting in your seat.

[12:50] Amber Brzezinski: Not only that, but you have to remember the theater cleaners are making sure I'm like hyped now.

[12:55] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Well, you know, they're making sure it's clean, especially post-COVID. There's a lot of more excessive cleaning, sanitizing. It is regular all the time. They're cleaning the bathroom, they're cleaning the puke because somebody got too drunk, they're cleaning the stickiness because you spilled your soda, or you stepped on a bag of potato chips that everyone looked at you really rudely because you opened it up and it was so loud and it was a quiet moment. There, let me tell you, I have lots of friends that are ushers in front of house. I don't have the patience or the bandwidth for it, so go you guys.

[13:33] Amber Brzezinski: But years ago, I worked in a guest relations role at a theme park that was a beach. Um, like it was a beach environment, and our job at guest relations, I worked for a very short period of time because this was disgusting. Um, somebody, a woman left used sanitary products, sanitary, dirty side down on a chair. How do you do that? Like, how do you have it in your mind? So, yeah, they're not getting the right full wage. They're not getting like it's it's a reputable strike. Um, so we'll see what happens with that. But just be nice, clean up. Just if you had to do your part to make their job just a little bit easier.

[14:20] Heather Bedor: My mother used to clean the hotel room before housekeeping and come.

[14:25] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, and then you still leave a tip.

[14:27] Heather Bedor: Yeah. A good one.

[14:29] Amber Brzezinski: A good one. Um, let's see. Something good. Well, sad, Marishka Hargate just finished her run um at Every Brilliant Thing yesterday. We had lots of uh lots of new people coming in and out.

[14:46] Heather Bedor: What's the new people coming in and out?

[14:48] Amber Brzezinski: Of like various shows.

[14:50] Heather Bedor: Oh, yes. Um, but her real-life husband was on stage and was part of the proposal. It was very sweet, and so it was good. I'm noticing that People Magazine, because of all the major stunt casting, is doing a lot more Broadway coverage, so it's really fascinating. Um, Sherry Renee Scott um had her first look this year. She looks great. She looks incredible as Matento. Oh my god. Um, Larkin came in and is pushing everything incredibly um as Columbia, so that's really exciting. Um, we've already talked about Betsy and Ethan coming in. What are some things you want to talk about, Amber?

[15:32] Amber Brzezinski: Um, let's see. Oh, we had like a little, we've had like some 4th of July kind of events that happen. I mean, like the Brooklyn Bridge being set on fire by fireworks accidentally. I meant more Broadway-oriented events, but that was a thing that did happen.

[15:53] Heather Bedor: What's the thing that did in tandem with the Broadway-related events?

[15:57] Amber Brzezinski: Yes. Um, I more was referring to um just in time performing at the US Capitol in a PBS concert, which is amazing. Like Love PBS, support PBS, and like a chance to see some just in time, like one of the most coveted shows. They killed it. They were absolutely amazing.

[16:20] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Um, so that was fantastic. I think we also had let me, I just want to don't quote me on this. But oh yes, yes, yes, yes. We had um Idina Menzel, Adam Lambert and Cheryl Lee Ralph. That's why I was forgetting, singing the national anthem. Um for which, you know, more patriotic things.

[16:48] Amber Brzezinski: Yep.

[16:49] Heather Bedor: Um, as the nation's 250th birthday celebration. Um, so that was, you know, I feel like it's very cool to see Broadway performers in these different Did you hear about Sam Paulie?

[17:10] Amber Brzezinski: I did.

[17:11] Heather Bedor: Yeah. So Sam and Noah J. Ricketts recorded the vocals for the Macy's fireworks. Um that's awesome too. Right.

[17:23] Amber Brzezinski: So it's just been really inspiring at a time where it feels like there's been a lot of like pushback and just to the arts and this space to see these performances involved in celebrating America's 250 happy birthday.

[17:44] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Almost an anniversary.

[17:46] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, well it is. It's a birthday anniversary, whatever. You know where people weren't though. I mean we don't have to say it, but I have to. I think just facing you know where people weren't doing where they aren't. Now it hurts. It hurts so bad.

[18:06] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Oh my god. And then the other event of the weekend besides Fourth of July that had New York on its toes. We had some nuptials at Madison Square Garden.

[18:28] Amber Brzezinski: That's not Broadway.

[18:29] Heather Bedor: The famous TNT got married.

[18:33] Amber Brzezinski: It is because a couple shows sprinkled a little references into their performances.

[18:44] Heather Bedor: It's fair. Um I do believe like I think Shmega Dude and my like jabbed in like a joke about like the traffic and like all this well there's a lot of people who are very upset at TNT. For those of you who don't know TNT Travis Kelsey, Taylor Swift, you know those people they got married at Madison Square Garden on Friday. Um with like the biggest wedding in the world. They had a thousand people.

[19:09] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[19:10] Heather Bedor: Um but they closed down multiple streets they have a lot of stuff and a lot of Broadway people. Actually, there's a local bar that's across the street that is telling them that they owe them money because they lost so much business.

[19:22] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[19:23] Heather Bedor: Because they shut down so many so much. It was that well, that's what that's I feel like why almost why it does have to relate to Broadway because it's like it's so close, and like it really did affect. Like I went into the city on Sunday, and I was like, are people still gonna be clearing out? Like his wife soon were actually there Friday and Saturday, and um it was cool because Friday night they went into like Times Square for like the midnight moment, and it was the when they had the ball drop um for the 250th.

[19:57] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, the midnight moment like depends on the time of year, but like there's usually a couple hundred people out there. This was wall to wall people, so like, and I I will say like the videos I set saw kept popping up, everybody was out on the streets trying to figure out what celebrity was where because they were everywhere, right?

[20:17] Heather Bedor: Everywhere.

[20:18] Amber Brzezinski: I well, it was again like the event of the season, yeah. So, like I wouldn't be surprised if like you know, they peppered in a Broadway show on their way in or out. They didn't see a lot, they did see a lot of glasses. Here's the thing too there's again people that are pissed because New York is under like um like an energy saving crisis and like the Empire State Building and different things are like they're supposed to be preserving power, and like yes, Taylor and Travis donated 26 million dollars to various organizations, many of them in New York City, but I can play both sides of it. Um, it is the closest thing to the US having like royalty when it's a royal wedding, yeah.

[21:03] Heather Bedor: Um, but from what I've heard from which is gross, by the way. I'm just gonna put that out there. Pretty gross. Um, I know that a lot of our members, well, I can't say a lot, several of our members had a spouse that attended or whatever, because there's a lot of industry people, um, and there were a lot of cameras inside. So, from what our sources are telling us is that this will be released um in Taylor fashion. So I'm sure Disney Plus will have a field day or something with that.

[21:35] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I was not there.

[21:38] Heather Bedor: Um I saw an interview with Rachel Dratch uh talking about doing a shot of tequila with George Clooney. Like this was the place to be, but very interesting stuff. Um to say the least.

[21:50] Amber Brzezinski: To say the least.

[21:55] Heather Bedor: Uh you want to talk about some shows closing that we haven't talked about.

[22:00] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, we did have some shows closing. Actually, speaking of previously shows closed, um, I saw that Megan Hilty has been wandering and vacationing around P Town and like popping into random drag bars and like singing random Glinda and like random for the gays riffs, which I just love. Like, imagine just like living your best life.

[22:23] Heather Bedor: Yeah, yeah.

[22:26] Amber Brzezinski: When Megan Hilde said everything I do is for the gays, she meant it.

[22:33] Heather Bedor: She did.

[22:34] Amber Brzezinski: She did. Um, and we talked so DBH was closed, Dog Day Afternoon is closing in six days on the 12th, proof closes on the 19th, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone will play its final performance on July 26th. So, and then not closing, but the switch out of cast from Jordan Fisher and Nikki Am James to Ace Slater and Betsy Wolf will be July 19th is Jordan and Nikki's last show. July 24th is Ethan and Bessie's first show.

[23:01] Heather Bedor: Which is I still think the craziest thing.

[23:03] Amber Brzezinski: Crazy. Um, and then tomorrow is big news for maybe happy ending.

[23:04] Heather Bedor: Yes. Yes. It's their fan event. This is the day they are breaking the record for the theater. Um they're doing they've had like a lot of seats. People are like, why are the seats marked off? That's this is why. Because it's like by lottery only, it's a fan event, they're encouraging costume contests, they're gonna have meet and greets with Waboon, um, lots of special giveaways, so very cool stuff for that.

[23:33] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so it's interesting, like the shows that have been there for a while, and I I'm gonna leave Gatsby out of it because I was even looking at our Gatsby numbers, and we can generally tell when a show is comfortable or when a show is really succeeding. Gatsby's numbers have dropped um for our daily active viewers, and for those of you that don't know but are listening to the podcast now. We do run the Broadway fan club is actually a business uh where we run over 200 fan communities, um, all on Facebook, because that way you guys can interact with each other. We're not just talking at you like an Instagram. We do have an Instagram account as well where you might be seeing this live.

[24:15] Heather Bedor: Um, but it always surprises people. I had a guy message me at three o'clock in the morning the other day because his post did not get approved. And I'm like, dude, it's 3 a.m. Please contact me during normal business hours. And he went off on me. This isn't a business, you're just a fan. And I was like, dude, we literally are a business. We are an LLC because this is what we do. We are a podcast, we are helping directly to the shows we have all these incredible opportunities because of the relationships that we've built in the city um and through industry so um if you message us at 3 a.m you might not get the best response but that's okay oh my goodness we are i am i'm not i won't say running out of steam i'm i'm i'm not feeling great do not get half of a root canal i i strongly encourage you to not do that but um what else should we talk about amber i have one other thing i really want to talk about um have you seen the sneak preview of hades town i saw the link for it but as we like a like a like a thing crawl like cross my feed to be like watch this then i was like oh you have to watch that later but then as we know like my life has just been in like shambles sams for the last like while so i it's on it's in my i have like uh one of my four million tabs open on my phone with it to look at i have 98 tabs on my phone i haven't gotten oh sh are we are we doing that i have 98 i have i've 37 not too bad not too bad i'm very however um my youtube watch later.

[26:17] Heather Bedor: Ooh, it's up to six hundred and eighty four because I've just been like, watch later, watch later, watch later, watch later. Uh, Jeffrey has asked us to post the link. I'm gonna see if I can find it. Oh, and Olivia did mention, uh, or I'm sorry, Jeffrey mentioned that a lot of shows did not perform on Sunday. Actually, like Broadway did have a very unique schedule this week. I'm assuming more have to do with Fourth of July than less to do with Taylor's um wedding. But you know, obviously the holiday, and then um, you know, some shows did two show Sunday. Um, you know, some shows I think were off. I don't even remember what other weird days people were off. The summer is so weird. Like, that's the whole thing is that summer in the city is so freaking weird.

[27:12] Amber Brzezinski: Like you were in the city yesterday, you went to go see Lost Boys. Is that all you saw? Was Mene?

[27:15] Heather Bedor: Yes, yes, how crazy. We had, like I said, I had originally planned it was supposed to be me and my like best friend Jill from high school, and then our like 70-year-old co-worker who loves the movie The Lost Boys. Like, she is I've known her obviously my entire working time for seven years, and she's one of those people that likes specific movie quotes and then just like says them all the time. So one of her lines that she'll say all the time is I like Michael, Michael's nice. So, like she loves that is well, it's it's similar. They say like they say they flip them, they say, like, oh, Michael's nice. I like him, or like they like they reverse it in the show. But like, so I told her I went, I was like, it's gonna be a musical.

So when tickets came out, I like grabbed three for us really quick, and she we had been planning on it for months, and then her daughters bought a like beach house for the family to go to for the weekend. So she was like, I have I'm going with my family, and I was like, Of course, like, yeah.

[28:27] Amber Brzezinski: So now that you've seen the show twice. Do you have a favorite scene line?

[28:34] Heather Bedor: Um, honestly, it was really nice catching like the little where were you sitting for this one?

[28:42] Amber Brzezinski: This one I was sitting so last time I was orchestra left. This time I was mez right.

[28:48] Heather Bedor: You did the mez. Okay, good. Were you front mez or I was like middle mez, and I let my friends sit on the inner seats and I sat on the outer seat because I'm a good host. Um, and I've seen the show, so like I didn't need to see the partial so you know right. All people know I hate the mez and I hate the balcony. This show, I think you have to see it from the mez. Yeah, um but my friends, my friends loved it, they thought it was like amazing, but like I really loved like all of Ali's little like nuances. Like, I didn't realize the first time. I don't know, should I even say it, or is this like spoilers?

[29:33] Amber Brzezinski: No, it's fine. Spoilers ahead.

[29:35] Heather Bedor: There you go. Spoilers, spoilers ahead. Like when you know, he first puts the earring in um David's ear. I you know, or Michael's ear, like he likes licks his hand because it gets legal, and like there's just like these little tiny glimmers, it comes to in a position, and I'm gonna we also had uh I have to post this because maybe Marcus boys will see it. Dana says, I'm still sad there's no death by stereo merch. Same. I'm also sad that all the fun t-shirts are white because I'm a stainy girl.

[30:12] Amber Brzezinski: No, me too, but also vampires and white shirts. Every freaking show that I have seen, I was thinking about it. Every show is like a light colored or white shirt. Megadoon, I think was baby blue. I didn't get it. Yeah, um, the Romeo. I think together I had to get because it's a Vetherfucked, and I love that shirt, but it's white. I'm a dirty girl. Like it shows so many. It's I need a black shirt. Like, can you can we please make the black shirts cooler? Make black shirts cooler again.

[30:42] Heather Bedor: That's my uh I mean Gatsby had a black shirt, cabaret had a black shirt. I mean, like they have one, but they're not as fun as the whatever white shirt option that they have. The white shirt with the because I know there's some that have like the rules, right? Um, you want me to show you though? Can I show you? This kind of brings us into the Broadway drop shop, the newest thing that we were showing. Yeah, for those of you that don't know, we have this really awesome partner now called Broadway Drop Shop. I'm gonna put up a link and I'm gonna show you guys what it is. So it's H T T P S colon slash slash the Broadway Dropshop dot com. This is very long slash question mark vi a equal sign the Broadway fan club that'll get you our exclusive access and discounts. But I've got to show you this because I'm kind of obsessed with it.

[31:34] Amber Brzezinski: Um, it is their newest drop. Let me get through all of it. I love the the miss this mission is sponsored by Sangria, but they have two stay wilds. Can you see these?

[31:47] Heather Bedor: Okay. So it's a stay wild water bottle. Hydration for anyone who sleeps all day because problem caused problems after dark and still wants your drink to wants their drink vampire level cold. A 17 ounce stainless steel stay wild bottle keeps beverages hot or cold, leak proof, and ready for your next dramatic boardwalk adjacent life choice. It's so freaking cute. Like the little bat and the blood drops. Like, can you see how cute this is?

[32:14] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I would like it as a sticker to put on an awala because a walla every day.

[32:19] Heather Bedor: You do you do love it? But this is a good, like I personally have one of the brand, not this one specific of the water bottle. It's really good. It keeps it really cold. But they only have 20 of 24 left. Um, but here's your sticker. Uh stay fucking wild. Um, which is exactly two inches by one and a half inches. And it's gay.

[32:43] Amber Brzezinski: And it's gay. They also have the pride bundle talking about gay. There's a four-piece pride bundle. I am the pride of Broadway. Um there's the Unsinkable Pride collection, which I don't know if you've seen it says lock it up. Have you seen my eggplant in big deck energy? Um, there's so there's the buttons, there's the sunglasses, and then the um other buttons, and then the water. So that's the bundle, and that's cheap. There's only two bundles left for 20 bucks. Um, which is pretty cheap. Here's the the sangria one. It's really cute. And yes, it's inspired by Mince.

[33:24] Heather Bedor: So cute. Miss Mission sponsored by Sangria. Yeah, that has to be that's that has been our best. It is. And then here's the other mints. This one. Watch out, the big boss is here. I love it. But I think it's cool because it's just super limited drops. So if you're interested, we'll put the link up. Um, and then you can buy them before they sell out, and then they're gone forever. But speaking of, um, I will I will tease this. Amber kind of knows this. We are on the precipice. We are about to start this really cool collaboration that I can honestly say nobody else in the network has, and nobody else that we know of has an official collaboration like we will for something that you can only get um as a member or as a podcast listener, and we will be giving more details within the next couple of weeks. Um, so stay tuned because this one is really cool and I'm kind of nerding out about it.

[34:35] Amber Brzezinski: So her to hear first. Let's see. I am gonna look through our comment section, see if we can answer anything. Um David Gethings is posting two random stuffs questions. Can anyone help me complete the trading card set? And will there be a fiscal release DVD Blu-ray? David, we do have a really incredible subs group if you have not joined that yet. We also run a group called Buy Sell Broadway. Um, so those are two options for um you to reach out.

[35:06] Heather Bedor: Lots of trading cards. And as far as a fiscal release, I haven't heard anything yet that hasn't seemed a trend, but who knows? Who knows? That's what I did the morning of July 3rd. I watched Souffs on PBS YouTube.

[35:24] Amber Brzezinski: That's cool. And how was it?

[35:26] Heather Bedor: Sobbed. I you know what I you know what happened? I was like, I just want to see like a little Hannah Cruz Inez Mulholland moment in the beginning, and then I was like, I'll just watch the next scene. I'll just watch the next scene. I'll just watch the next scene. Uh huh. Next thing you know it, they're on a horse. I'm sobbing, I'm crying. It's two and a half hours later, I'm still sobbing. Uh the Harry's mom is writing a writing a letter, still sobbing. Oh, that one kills me. You know what? I'm done. I'm I'm just done. And then I was like, I still remember being home with you. Happy Fourth of July.

[36:07] Amber Brzezinski: Happy Fourth of July. Remember me calling you during Saufs during intermission.

[36:12] Heather Bedor: I was like, okay, so because I was trying to figure out what show and I'm like, well, I might as well go see Saufs because we run the group again. That's how some of you start off with. Because I'm like, not really my kind of thing. And but we start the group because we have we have a desire for it from across our memberships. And uh so I'm talking to Amber, I was like, all right, well, I'm just gonna get like a rush ticket, and it was super easy to get a rush, and it was like center org, like really great seat for like 30 bucks, and call her during intermission, and I was like, okay, so this is all I can say about it. It's a female version of Hamilton meets six, meets like cool shit.

[37:00] Heather Bedor: It's actually more similar to Book of Mormon. Because here's my argument. Here's my argument. Outside of the like the Africans. No, outside of the Africans, all the Mormons play both the male and female roles. And in SUFS, they all play both the male and female. Well, specifically Hillary Clinton as a producer, but they specifically stated no men on the cast.

[37:04] Amber Brzezinski: You know what I was actually thinking about? Because on my way home from New York, I was listening to Book of Mormon.

[37:36] Amber Brzezinski: Yep. So I was like, hey, these shows have that very much in common. Because I was just thinking about when the men come out as the mom and they're like, oh you in Book of Mormon getting piled up. And so I know. But my friends that I went to the Lost Boys with, we were talking about because the tour is coming to New Haven next year, and I was like, we'll all go.

[38:07] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[38:08] Amber Brzezinski: But I also feel like we should just go to the city. Like, why would we not just go to the city? I don't know. You and I need a city trip real soon. Speaking of a trip to the city, flea is coming up, so you know I'll be there for that. I've been avoiding New York for summer, one, because it's so hot, but two, because of the World Cup. I love soccer, I do. There has been a lot of soccer going on.

[38:37] Heather Bedor: Um, and again, John and Sue went up for the Fourth of July, but they had such luck with the lottery, let me tell you. Because he was like, what's the best way? And I was like, I mean, lottery is always fine, but like, I don't know. Because he wanted lottery for Moulin Rouge and lottery for Book of Mormon. And I was like, well, with Moulin Rouge closing very soon, that might be impossible.

[38:59] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[38:59] Heather Bedor: Book of Mormon's relatively easy, however, anniversary.

[39:05] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[39:05] Heather Bedor: They got them for both. Of course. And I'm just like, really? And then if you want to talk about Book of Mormon, Josh Gad, it was just announced today, is joining the prequel to Oceans 11. So that'll be fun.

[39:23] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, very fun.

[39:24] Heather Bedor: So lots of fun and weird stuff happening in the city. Lots of summertime, just, I don't know. Even Masquerade, our love of Masquerade, they are being more relaxed on the dress code because it's so damn hot.

[39:42] Amber Brzezinski: I've heard that too, yeah.

[39:44] Heather Bedor: Because, I mean, don't get me wrong, a lot of our members are still dressing head to toe in gorgeous apparel, but they don't necessarily have to because it's five bajillion degrees, even though Lee's Art is very much air-conditioned, you don't have to do the full getup like I did with a corset and a ball gown, right?

[40:05] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[40:05] Heather Bedor: Well, and plus, like, I mean, in theory, if we do recall, back in the day when that fashion was a thing, like people would pass out because of it. So like, it's literally like a safety reason. Like, it's not just because they don't want you to look fashionable and cool, it's like, it's like physically a hazard for...

[40:20] Amber Brzezinski: I always have to remind our members in our Masquerade group that they, um, because they're like, oh yeah, it totally ruined my experience because somebody was in a t-shirt and jeans or whatever. And I'm like, that is part of production because I had the same qualm during my experience at Masquerade, and I actually asked our friends at the box office and the people I know over there. I said, hey, random question. You guys aren't being as strict on the dress code, or like what am I missing? And they're like, that's actually production.

[41:00] Heather Bedor: So if you are attending Masquerade off-Broadway, at least, and you see somebody in a t-shirt and jeans, I assure you they are not just a guest who got lucky and got in. They are actually part of production doing safety checks, they're training on stage management or being a butler. They are part of the production, and clearly they're not gonna have a change of clothes. So go easy.

[41:27] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but we always suggest to reach out to the box office or even through their Instagram, they're very good about responding very quickly. If you have a question, you can send them photos right there as well.

[41:37] Heather Bedor: Yeah, for sure.

[41:39] Amber Brzezinski: All right, you know what? I do agree with Jeffrey's comment that stuff was filmed great, like, not too many close-ups, very well. It's a wonderful, and I think I've mentioned PBS like four times this support PBS, support public radio, support MPR, support all those things right now.

[41:58] Heather Bedor: Yeah, do the support local theater. Guess what I'm doing after my root canal tomorrow, Amber.

[42:04] Amber Brzezinski: What are you doing?

[42:05] Heather Bedor: Winter Park Playhouse. I'm so excited. Our dear friend Chris Levy, who I'm actually picking up from the airport in about an hour. They have their ribbon cutting after being closed for about eight months because they received this incredible support from the state. They had like a 10 million dollar renovation. And this theater's been around for four years and it really needed it. But they have their ribbon cutting tomorrow afternoon. So I am having a root canal on this part of my face again.

[42:36] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[42:37] Heather Bedor: And then hopefully the drugs will wear off enough that I can go to the ribbon cutting. My dental assistant friend said after, she's always told me to have like a milkshake or something because it helps like move the Novocaine out of your body faster.

[42:53] Amber Brzezinski: It's not even the Novocaine I'm worried about. They're getting, they gave me Halcyon, which I'm sure you're familiar with.

[43:01] Heather Bedor: Um, I'll be on benzodiazepam tomorrow morning, folks. So if for some reason there's weird posts, it's because I'm like, folks, and they're having me do one before my procedure, like an hour and one at 20 minutes. And Chris is actually taking me to the root canal tomorrow, and I'm like, good luck.

[43:21] Amber Brzezinski: Um, completely high as a kite.

[43:25] Heather Bedor: Yeah, um, my mouth is still numb from this morning.

[43:31] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, for sure.

[43:32] Heather Bedor: I just forgot what I was gonna say.

[43:34] Amber Brzezinski: Shoot.

[43:34] Heather Bedor: I don't know.

[43:35] Amber Brzezinski: I don't know.

[43:38] Heather Bedor: Um, and Jeffrey was saying good night and good luck had too many Clooney close-ups.

[43:42] Amber Brzezinski: I'll also say Maryland. We Roll Along, there were a lot of things.

[43:44] Heather Bedor: Yeah, people got feedback. If you look at Newsies, Newsies also had a lot of close-ups, but it didn't because I think they had so much dancing to show.

[43:57] Amber Brzezinski: They had no choice but to widen it up.

[44:02] Heather Bedor: 100%. You know, I love me some Newsies. I'm so sad I'm not gonna be able to get to the Muni, but I'm hoping it's going to extend past that and make it out on tour, just like I hope Shrek will.

[44:15] Amber Brzezinski: Look at our friend Nick Walker, Shrek from Hunts.

[44:19] Heather Bedor: That's what I was gonna say. And yes, we were supposed to connect at the end of the month for Sweeney Todd, but I ended up going with a random girl that I met at the stage door at a different show who I like, who doesn't. Amber and I booked these tickets like eight months ago because she's a humongous Wicked fan, and Jackie Burns was in the show, so she came with me to see Jackie.

[44:46] Amber Brzezinski: Um, we did meet Jackie, she might be sending an email in case that comes across.

[44:51] Heather Bedor: And then I literally am like a dope, and I didn't even realize that Matt Faucher, who was Sweeney, is literally from Bristol.

[45:03] Amber Brzezinski: Well, that's cool.

[45:05] Heather Bedor: I'm like, oh, that's where Amber lives, by the way.

[45:10] Amber Brzezinski: That's where I live, yeah.

[45:11] Heather Bedor: So I'm like, oh, so like you did a couple shows here, you've been on Broadway a couple shows here, and you probably grew up like four streets down from me. He's just like at like the age gap older than me.

[45:27] Amber Brzezinski: So I didn't, I would have known him in high school, and I shame on me, guys. I'm a product of a Catholic school.

[45:34] Heather Bedor: I mean, that's okay though.

[45:36] Amber Brzezinski: So I didn't know like anyone in town.

[45:39] Heather Bedor: Because I was like, I grew up the same like 18 kids.

[45:43] Amber Brzezinski: And see, I wish I had that experience. My hometown was, but my high school was like a class of 800 or something.

[45:51] Heather Bedor: We had a lot of... that was my high school.

[45:53] Amber Brzezinski: But my hometown, Coral Springs in Fort Lauderdale, not small but small-ish. It's where New Found Glory is. I actually helped get them their first gig because I was 14. We had a series called the Outhouse series. Yes, this is a true story.

[46:08] Heather Bedor: Um, but I moved to Orlando when I was 17, four days after my high school graduation, and it was a world of difference.

[46:16] Amber Brzezinski: But it's, I compare, and a lot of people do, I compare Orlando and Manhattan a lot because there's a huge theater community, but it's this little big town.

[46:27] Heather Bedor: Um, like big little town, like everybody, if I know one person, it's gonna, I will probably have a mutual friend or many.

[46:35] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and how did that happen?

[46:38] Heather Bedor: But, and I do feel like Bristol is in a weird way the same way because we have ESPN in our town.

[46:45] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, we have America's oldest theme park. Like we are a larger city for where we are, where it is very similar with like a sixth degree of separation kind of thing, but also like weird celebrities, but they're more sports-oriented because it's ESPN that's in this area.

[47:08] Heather Bedor: We have, I mean, one of my very first friends here in Orlando was Scott Porter, and he was working prep back of house at Panera Bread across from UCF.

[47:18] Amber Brzezinski: And if that name sounds familiar, um, he, I actually saw him at Alter Boys off-Broadway at New World Stages a bajillion years ago. He sent me a nice email that I still have to this day in that playbill to say thank you for coming.

[47:31] Heather Bedor: Um, but he was in Friday Night Lights and Prom Night and Speed Racer. He's the mayor in Ginny and Georgia, like he is freaking killing it. He does like all of his voiceover work for Marvel, like this man is nuts.

[47:45] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but then I also like kind of grew up in this area, like going to Chris Kirkpatrick's house, and like I know a lot of NSYNC and Joey Fatone, and like, but like Orlando's so fucking weird like that.

[48:01] Heather Bedor: But then you go to New York and then you have the same kind of experience.

[48:05] Amber Brzezinski: And um, that's why you and I are really good with stuff. Like, and that from day one when you and I were at the after party for Water for Elephants, and neither one of us were fangirling because Bernadette Peters or Andrew Rannells were there, and we were just sitting and talking to people and to the cast and to whoever was there.

[48:22] Heather Bedor: Like, we don't fangirl over 99.9% of celebrities because we see them as their counterparts, and we're all in the same industry together.

[48:32] Amber Brzezinski: That's what, like, we had a really sweet member who was asking about stage dooring. Like, oh my god, I really get nervous, and I go to the shows on my own. This is today. You know, is everything I need to prepare? What do I need to do? Is it okay to ask for photos? Yes, stage door is never a guarantee, but like you don't have to put these people on a pedestal.

[48:53] Heather Bedor: Like this is somebody who just did a show. You and I like to stage door for different reasons.

[48:57] Amber Brzezinski: Well, I think kind of the same too. Like, we get our business done at the stage door, like somebody does in the golf course, but you don't have to be nervous, it's just like having a conversation with somebody.

[49:07] Heather Bedor: Yeah, they might have just performed on stage, but hey, good job, or like that was really beautiful, or like I love how you sounded in this. They love that. Like, they're just somebody who's good at their job and known for what they do.

[49:21] Amber Brzezinski: Olivia says it great too. What did you say, Olivia?

[49:24] Olivia: I mean, celebrities are just human beings like us.

[49:26] Amber Brzezinski: Most of them are.

[49:28] Heather Bedor: Most of them are human, some are not.

[49:31] Amber Brzezinski: Uh, but um, it's really interesting.

[49:35] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like if I, and like you can absolutely speak this as fact, I fangirl less at people than I do at moments.

[49:48] Amber Brzezinski: Like, I'm like, oh my god, I love this part of the show. I can't wait for it to happen. This just happened in the show, this is happening in the show, this is happening in the show.

[49:57] Heather Bedor: You mean like during Sunset?

[49:58] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, I do.

[49:59] Heather Bedor: Yes, I do.

[50:00] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, I do, and I also mean that way during like Skimbleshanks, the railway cat right now in Cats.

[50:06] Heather Bedor: Like, I'm like, oh my god, it's happening. Oh my god, it's happening. Oh my god, give me that. Yeah, oh my god, oh my god, uh, like it happened. That's what you, you are like a nervous chihuahua, yeah.

[50:19] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, and for those that have not heard this so adorable story, and like I just like I really love like parts and shows. Well, I have to that's more the moment that I need than then. There are people that have not been blessed.

[50:34] Heather Bedor: So Amber and I went to Sunset, she had gotten tickets, she had a last minute dropout. We also use that as our opportunity, give each other like birthday Christmas gift, whatever. And she's like, okay, I got these seats specifically because it should be. There's no real way to tell, unless you've seen the show, like now. Like now, if I think if we were to see this show, I'm gonna pull up a view from my seat, to be honest.

[51:00] Amber Brzezinski: So Amber researched and like I don't research, I just like knew.

[51:05] Heather Bedor: Yeah. She knew, but like now it'd be like just in time and knowing table 11 these seats, this is what to wear if you want to get the dance kind of thing.

[51:13] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, it's a real thing. Um, and people are crazy, and we love them. Um, but Amber specifically chose the two end seats.

[51:21] Heather Bedor: Oh my god, you're so funny. And like I literally was like, We're gonna sit right over here. Do you see my mouse?

[51:27] Amber Brzezinski: No, yeah.

[51:27] Heather Bedor: You see my mouse?

[51:32] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[51:32] Heather Bedor: So, like, right over here is like the exit doors for the theater. And if you knew anything about Sunset Boulevard, you knew that they did their little outside alley walk, and then this is right where they came back in.

[51:46] Amber Brzezinski: So the scout himself would go walk.

[51:49] Heather Bedor: So I when they had a coupon, like a discount coupon. I bought I bought seats and wanted some of the seats that were available. I think it was like literally this seat right here.

[51:59] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, um, were these seats over here?

[52:01] Heather Bedor: And I was like, I want those seats because when they walk back in, that's where they're gonna be.

[52:08] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[52:08] Heather Bedor: And I wanted like I want to feel that energy like come back into the theater. This girl is sitting in her chair, oh like vibrating.

[52:18] Amber Brzezinski: I was like vibrating. It's like it's gonna happen. They're gonna, and like because you're watching them through the screen, and like you can hear them singing, you can hear them singing as they come around the door, and she's like, it's gonna happen. Where are they?

[52:27] Heather Bedor: Where and like boom, doors open because security's staying they're gonna open up the door, and she's like, because like that that moment was just so like all of a sudden for the doors to open, like one foot away from you, and like the whole cast, just so like in your face with the backlights of the city street.

[52:47] Amber Brzezinski: I was like, I need to be able to do it. It's ingrained in my brain. It was perfect. Um, and Dana also said, not a fangirl, but I did totally fangirl at Andre de Shields at Sunset Boulevard, by the way.

[52:58] Heather Bedor: And my husband had to not so gently nudge me away. He still laughs at me because I never do that.

[53:03] Amber Brzezinski: No, but you know what? That's Broadway royalty. When I went to the 80s Town 2000s show, and Andre was like right in front of me, and then was sitting a couple rows back.

[53:11] Heather Bedor: I was like, Oh shit, Andre de Shields, like yeah, it's amazing. But also, like there was a teenager that was sitting behind me who was there for a theater thing, and she's straight up like pictures zooming in, like very obvious.

[53:27] Amber Brzezinski: And I was like, Okay, let's not do that. Um, do you want to give me your phone and I'll take a picture of you and your mom together?

[53:35] Heather Bedor: And so I like made sure I got the three of them in the photo, right? Like, just be respectful.

[53:40] Amber Brzezinski: Um do you know Cole Sprouse personally?

[53:44] Heather Bedor: Well, no, like of him, yes, like Dylan and Cole Sprouse, yeah, yeah, like Sweet Life of Zach and Cody, yes, yeah.

[53:51] Amber Brzezinski: Cole Sprouse, his Instagram handle is like dueling photos or something because he takes pictures of people taking pictures of him and post it on Instagram, like caught you, caught you, caught you.

[54:07] Heather Bedor: And like the way he catches people is so like he'll they'll be like on a plane, like with their phone, like this, and he's like taking a picture of them, and he's like, he's like, if you're gonna post me, like I'm just gonna post you right back.

[54:20] Amber Brzezinski: Like, I I'm sorry, and this is no offense to anybody out there. I don't understand the selfies with celebrities or the autographs, and you're talking to the girl who hosts celebrity panels at Comic Cons.

[54:32] Heather Bedor: No, I like it.

[54:33] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I like to have a mummy.

[54:35] Heather Bedor: You do, but like I have it in my brain. I can remember the conversations I've had, any of the friendships that have developed, like I love that, but like to me, I'm like, I'll take a picture with you.

[54:50] Amber Brzezinski: Like, we're friends, we're in the middle of Times Square, or like we had our little photo shoot with our Halloween costumes. Like, I love that kind of stuff.

[54:57] Heather Bedor: But to me, I want to live in the moment. Like 4th of July, perfect example.

[55:02] Amber Brzezinski: Um, one up point of Sea World with my buddy Ross, and he had never been, and that's fine. And we had seats, which was nice for the fireworks, which is massive with like this massive drone show.

[55:13] Heather Bedor: And he and I are sitting there, and the people sitting in front of us have their phones like way up in the air.

[55:20] Amber Brzezinski: So all you see is a uh like view full of cell phones, and you could look around the stadium and you just saw everybody's faces being reflected back to them from the cell phones.

[55:31] Heather Bedor: What are you doing, Amber?

[55:32] Amber Brzezinski: He got really quiet and solemn. My mom just texted me and just gave me a she is she's also having a time.

[55:41] Heather Bedor: Finger surgeries.

[55:43] Amber Brzezinski: Love that.

[55:44] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Um, but so people are staring through their phones, and I'm sitting talking to Ross, and I'm talking to some random dude who's sitting next to us, and we were just like, it's in the sky. Why do we need to record?

[55:57] Amber Brzezinski: Everyone's gonna have the same thing.

[55:59] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[56:01] Amber Brzezinski: Um, Josh Peck, I've been watching a lot of his reels recently, because funny as shit. I never watched Drake and Josh, but he's been doing all these really funny things.

[56:09] Heather Bedor: And he had one where it was like somebody was laying on the pavement dead, and there was a person in front of me.

[56:15] Amber Brzezinski: He's like, quick, get me a video of your fireworks from last year. Quick stat call 911. Get me a video.

[56:22] Heather Bedor: So somebody finds a video from their fireworks before calling 911 and shows them the video.

[56:26] Amber Brzezinski: He's like, Well, they're dead. Your video of fireworks that everyone else sees. We don't care.

[56:30] Heather Bedor: Right.

[56:32] Amber Brzezinski: It's true. Unless it's something like the ones is it Italy. And then it's the same people who are like, oh, I have no space on my phone.

[56:43] Heather Bedor: You're like speaking of space on my phone.

[56:46] Amber Brzezinski: You just took 48 pictures of a bunch.

[56:49] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[56:51] Amber Brzezinski: Like pick pick one.

[56:53] Heather Bedor: Right.

[56:54] Amber Brzezinski: Like you like, like if you and if you really want to remember the fireworks, take one photo of the fireworks.

[57:02] Heather Bedor: Boom. Done.

[57:04] Amber Brzezinski: Done.

[57:06] Heather Bedor: Um, speaking of memory on phone, keep an eye, everybody, out on our YouTube because I will be uploading the entire QA session from the opening night of Hedwig's uh Hedwig and the Angry Inch's 25th anniversary with John Cameron Mitchell.

[57:23] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I have not posted that yet. I've been waiting to, so it will be done.

[57:27] Heather Bedor: Um, but keep an eye on our YouTube. YouTube is at the Broadway Fan Club. We're so easy to find.

[57:32] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I have to go pick Chris up from the airport. So, as a friendly reminder to everybody, we're gonna be updating our list very soon.

[57:40] Heather Bedor: www.thebroadwayfanclub.com will show you most of our fan groups, even if a show has closed, we will continue to keep that group open.

[57:48] Amber Brzezinski: Why are we're gonna take the community away from you guys.

[57:50] Heather Bedor: Um, we do have our Etsy shop, and we had an awesome member who was posting pictures of her stack that Amber made what, like six lost boys bracelets for.

[57:59] Amber Brzezinski: I think she said there were two in there.

[58:01] Heather Bedor: No, I think she said there were like six.

[58:03] Amber Brzezinski: I don't know. There were a lot of she had a bunch of bracelets and she said two or Broadway fan clubs.

[58:07] Heather Bedor: Well, I'm not paying attention to her.

[58:09] Amber Brzezinski: We need comprehension.

[58:11] Heather Bedor: We be nice.

[58:13] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but we have this great Etsy shop, which is the BroadwayfanClub.etsy.com. That'll take you right to our shop and where we'll always run specials and promotions.

[58:22] Heather Bedor: We can do any kind of custom order. Um, but we have so many different choices up there right now. If you want to listen to any of our previous 93 episodes plus our special episodes, guys, we are coming up to our hundredth episode very soon.

[58:35] Amber Brzezinski: You can go to www.onlybroadwayfans.com. That is onlybroadwayfans.com. That will take you to our Broadway Podcast Network page directly.

[58:45] Heather Bedor: Download episodes, give us a like, give us a follow, find us on Spotify, Apple iPod or Apple Um podcasts, anywhere that you listen, but onlybroadwayfans.com is the network website.

[58:57] Amber Brzezinski: Also, you can check out any of the additional 190 podcasts that are on the network. Come hang out with our family over there.

[59:04] Heather Bedor: Um, download episodes, give them a like. If you're looking to find us on Instagram and you're not watching us on Instagram, uh, at the B Way fan club, we always run every kind of contest, every kind of art drop.

[59:17] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and we go live every Monday night there.

[59:19] Heather Bedor: We've already shown you the drop shop link. We'll be posting that as well.

[59:22] Amber Brzezinski: And then just for selfish reasons, because I would really love to have some of our members on the Broadway Cruise.com. If you enter two BFC, like Broadway fan club as a referral code, you'll get a really great discount as well.

[59:36] Heather Bedor: So make sure to keep an eye out and do everything that we possibly can to make your lives more theater-filled.

[59:44] Amber Brzezinski: Speaking of um contests, Dana here in the chat was uh the lovely winner of our Cats the Jellicle Ball Pride contest.

[59:54] Heather Bedor: Uh so congrats, Dana.

[59:56] Amber Brzezinski: And she was apparently faded for the prize.

[59:58] Heather Bedor: Oh it was like all things that she collects and like has history with like the faded, so congrats.

[1:00:06] Amber Brzezinski: Love that official la live congrats to Dana.

[1:00:10] Heather Bedor: And to answer Jeffrey's question, do we prefer YouTube or Facebook?

[1:00:13] Amber Brzezinski: We don't really prefer either one, but because we have so many groups on Facebook that we share too, that tends to be where more people are getting notified.

[1:00:25] Heather Bedor: So that just by default has more people to engage with.

[1:00:29] Amber Brzezinski: However, if you want to are on YouTube, your comments will show up here.

[1:00:35] Heather Bedor: So we'll still see them.

[1:00:36] Amber Brzezinski: Yep.

[1:00:37] Heather Bedor: And if you go on to YouTube, you can see our previous episodes as well.

[1:00:41] Amber Brzezinski: Facebook generally tends to remove them after 90 days.

[1:00:44] Heather Bedor: Yeah, yeah.

[1:00:44] Amber Brzezinski: So like don't feel like, oh, I can't chat on YouTube.

[1:00:47] Heather Bedor: You can.

[1:00:47] Amber Brzezinski: We'll still see you.

[1:00:49] Heather Bedor: And guys, we love when you guys come into the comment section. Like, this is why we go live, is that we can have a general conversation with you.

[1:00:56] Amber Brzezinski: We don't want to talk at you.

[1:00:57] Heather Bedor: But if you're joining us anytime outside of 8 p.m. Eastern on Monday nights or when we have our live show, you can still comment and that way we can still respond.

[1:01:06] Amber Brzezinski: We can still see the comments. It's not no big deal at all.

[1:01:09] Heather Bedor: It's true.

[1:01:10] Amber Brzezinski: That is also a true thing.

[1:01:12] Heather Bedor: Dana says, Oh, MG, it was amazing. Truly, all things I collect. Thank you, ladies.

[1:01:16] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[1:01:16] Heather Bedor: I was truly shocked at how perfect it was.

[1:01:18] Amber Brzezinski: Well, Dana, thank you. We appreciate the support.

[1:01:21] Heather Bedor: And everybody, make sure you follow the groups that you love simply because we do so many giveaways and so many fun things.

[1:01:28] Amber Brzezinski: And when I tell you this upcoming collaboration, you guys are going to lose your minds.

[1:01:33] Heather Bedor: And we're going to do a giveaway to launch that.

[1:01:35] Amber Brzezinski: So stay tuned.

[1:01:36] Heather Bedor: Make sure you're following us on Instagram, on Facebook.

[1:01:39] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and definitely go to onlybroadwayfans.com and make sure that you um hit that little alert ding bell anywhere that you possibly can so that you know when we're going live and we have a new episode.

[1:01:51] Heather Bedor: But we do do.

[1:01:54] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I am gonna get myself quiet now uh because I have a root canal in 12 hours.

[1:02:01] Heather Bedor: We have to get the pin that Jinx has that says I am on vocal rest.

[1:02:05] Amber Brzezinski: I'm on vocal rest. I'm just gonna do one of these and just take my mouth shut.

[1:02:09] Heather Bedor: But I'm gonna take lots of uh legal drugs now and go night night after I pick Chris up from the airport.

[1:02:15] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, don't do that first.

[1:02:17] Heather Bedor: No, yeah, no, no, no. I have to pick him up first. That's much more important.

[1:02:20] Amber Brzezinski: But yeah, we love you guys. Thank you for joining us here every Monday night because on Broadway's dark, we keep the ghost light burning every Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern.

[1:02:27] Heather Bedor: We will see you all next week.

[1:02:30] Amber Brzezinski: Astela, bye bye.