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[0:00] Alan Seales: Welcome to another episode of The Theatre Podcast. Intimate, personal conversations with theatre's biggest names. I'm Alan Seales. And I'm Jillian Hockman. How are you doing?

[0:14] Jillian Hockman: I'm so good. We just finished talking with Becca Lee, Teddy Toye, and Mary Antonini from the ensemble of The Prom, and man, what a great conversation that was. Oh, they are so great, so energetic. It's a two-show day for them, so they came to hang out with us during their break, and they were just living it.

[0:32] Jillian Hockman: They were so wonderful, and we got into this in the podcast. On stage, they play like best buddies. They're playing teenagers in high school together, and the energy, that friendship is real. It comes across on stage, but in real life, the three of them talking to each other, they were just like, and they've been together for years with the out-of-town tryouts and the workshops and everything, and then bringing it to Broadway. It carries across so well.

[1:00] Jillian Hockman: It's very clear that they all care about each other a lot, and they are more than just co-workers. They're family.

[1:08] Jillian Hockman: Something that Teddy told me, actually, is really resonating, that he was told in Atlanta, and then they've heard it a couple more times now, the kids are choosing to spend their actual prom nights with them instead of going to prom at their schools, because the show, the story gives them a better sense of family and a better sense of belonging. That was so touching, and it added on to something that Mary had said as well, that it's the gay couple in the third row that's sitting there crying and holding hands, because they're finally seeing their story brought to life and the struggle that they go through, and the realization, to Mary specifically, that now younger kids and people going through this probably don't have to struggle as much as they did. That's the hope.

[1:58] Alan Seales: Yeah, this story is one that has been... This wouldn't have been possible, even to just get this show on a stage 20 years ago.

[2:08] Jillian Hockman: Probably not.

[2:09] Alan Seales: So seeing this come to life for every age now is a huge deal, and only more and more important now.

[2:17] Jillian Hockman: Yeah, I agree. So this is a non-standard episode in that it is three people, but my gosh, it's a good one. Please, everybody, enjoy this episode with Becca Lee, Teddy Toye, and Mary Antonini.

[2:30] Alan Seales: Here you go. One, two, three. Today, we have a special episode with not one, not two, but three cast members from The Prom, which has just been nominated for seven 2019 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. As ensemble members, they arguably have some of the hardest roles in the production. Becca Lee, Teddy Toye, and Mary Antonini, welcome to the Theatre Podcast.

[3:04] Becca Lee: Thank you.

[3:05] Teddy Toye: We're talking off mic, you're like, don't say that, don't say that. Okay, I guess I should definitely not say that.

[3:11] Mary Antonini: You should for sure say Toy-ay.

[3:12] Teddy Toye: Toy-ay.

[3:13] Mary Antonini: Close enough.

[3:14] Teddy Toye: You get called Toy-ay a lot?

[3:15] Teddy Toye: Yeah, normally, I get asked. They're like, Toy-ay, Toy-ay. I'm just silent-y. Toy.

[3:21] Alan Seales: Toy. All right. All right. So standard on the podcast, we get into your humble beginnings of what made you who you are and how you got to where you are now. So let's just start. Becca, tell me where you were as a kid. Where did you grow up? How did you get into theater?

[3:36] Becca Lee: So funny enough, I'm from Indiana. The prom takes place in Indiana. I was a cheerleader my whole life. I play a cheerleader in The Prom. So, you know, I, from as early as I can remember, always wanted to move to New York and be on Broadway. My mom loved theater. We listened to cast albums all the time. So as soon as I turned 18, I moved to New York. And my beginning was a little different. I started dancing for the Knicks and did that for a little bit. I toured with Trans-Siberian Orchestra and did regional theater, but it was like very all over the place. The goal was always Broadway. And for some reason, I was like, oh, if I dance for the Knicks, I will definitely do Broadway next. I had no idea. I just thought like dancing in New York would lead to the next thing and the next thing. It took several years, but finally I'm here. And that's the quick little roundabout version.

[4:24] Alan Seales: Well, how many years? So it was several years of dancing for the Knicks or did you dance for the Knicks for a few years and then go on to something else?

[4:30] Becca Lee: Yeah, I danced for the Knicks for a couple years, realized I can't really do that and regional theater. So I started doing regional theater shortly after that, all over the place. And then booked the Prom Lab in 2015. And that led me to Broadway now, thankfully, which is amazing to have been on this journey for so long.

[4:48] Alan Seales: Yes. And this is your Broadway debut.

[4:53] Becca Lee: Yes. So congratulations.

[4:53] Becca Lee: Thank you. Yeah. Is it everything that you hoped it would be and more?

[4:58] Becca Lee: Absolutely. Because I always say it was worth the wait for this show in particular. I feel like this show and this role is just perfect for me. The style of dancing and everything has led me to this moment. So it was well worth the wait. I love that our show is so special and meaningful and not just any show. So yeah.

[5:20] Alan Seales: Yeah. We'll get into the dancing. We'll get into the character stuff. It's so fun to watch all of you dance on stage because the choreography is so energetic. Casey has outdone himself. Casey Nicholaw in this one. I love it. Okay. Mary, your turn. Tell me about your beginnings.

[5:33] Mary Antonini: Yeah. Mine is also very different. I'm Canadian. So that's not usually... Broadway isn't usually on our radar. We look at Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival has been really high up in our country as far as music theater and theater go. So I went to school in Toronto and I worked at Stratford and I was doing Jesus Christ Superstar at Stratford and they brought it to Broadway. So that's how I ended up in New York the first time in 2012. And then when we closed, we were all sent back to Canada. So I worked on My Green Card for several years. Once I got my Green Card, I moved back and The Prom was the first show I did with my Green Card in 2015.

[6:28] Alan Seales: No kidding. So you booked the workshop.

[6:35] Mary Antonini: Yeah. Yeah. All three of us were part of the very first time they added dance. So yeah. So that's how I got sort of back.

[6:43] Alan Seales: Oh, that's so much fun. So were you here the first time with Jesus Christ Superstar? I guess it was just like a temporary work visa.

[6:47] Mary Antonini: Yeah. That's called a P2 visa, which is performance specific. So it meant I could only do Jesus Christ Superstar. So once that closed, I had no other options.

[6:58] Alan Seales: So you couldn't even audition?

[6:58] Mary Antonini: Absolutely not. Wow. No, I fought for the right to be on the same playing field in an ECC.

[7:06] Alan Seales: Wow. Well, we are so glad you're here.

[7:14] Teddy Toye: Yes. Tell me about where you came from.

[7:14] Teddy Toye: I grew up in Spring Hill, Florida, which is like 45 minutes north of Tampa. So me, I started doing, I started singing. My dad's a musician, so I've like always been around music kind of my entire life. There you go. Sorry. Yeah. So he exposed me to the music since I was very young. Like he had me on stage singing when I was like two years old. There's like photos of me with him, like he's jamming out and I'm on stage with the mic singing. And they kind of put me into shows when I was in, I think I was in kindergarten. I did my first show. They brought me to the local high school to do Wizard of Oz, me and my sister. And we auditioned and we both booked the Munchkin kids. And I was like the lollipop boy and doing all that.

So they exposed me to it like very young. And then I kind of jumped around a lot with what I was doing. Like I would get bored with things. And so all of a sudden I was doing like Taekwondo and then like baseball like throughout my entire life. But then theater kept kind of pulling me back in. So like middle school, high school, there was a local professional dinner theater that I would audition for in maybe middle school. And I started, me and my sister both started booking gigs there. We did like Music Man, Joseph, all those things. And they would bring in, there was like four or five equity contracts. So we'd be working with these legit like New York actors would come in and we'd be like the little kids.

And my mom was the backstage mom and would help out and stuff. And I get pulled out of school on Wednesdays to go do the matinees, which I always thought was the coolest thing in the world. I'd have all my homework and people be like, where are you going? I'm like, gotta go do my show, you know. And I got my like $100 stipend for like six weeks of work. And I thought I had all the money in the world when I was a kid. And yeah, so that was like my intro to doing that was always, I think started through my dad, really. And then I moved up here. I came right out of high school and I went to AMDA up here and ended up leaving AMDA. My last semester, I booked a TheaterWorks tour. I left and did that, traveled for six months with that as playing a hip hop dancing guinea pig.

So humble beginnings, you know. And so I did that for six months, came back, and then I booked a high school musical. I left out on the road with that for a little bit. And then I somehow years later, I booked Lysistrata Jones off Broadway. And so that was my first like kind of big thing. I was working with Dan Connectis, Doug Carter Bean and Lewis. And that ended up going surprisingly well off Broadway. We got like crazy reviews and stuff. We transferred to Broadway so quick. And then that was very short-lived. And right after that, I ended up jumping into Bring It On on tour. I toured with Bring It On for a little bit and then got kept as a swing for the Broadway production. And then, yeah, I've been with Prom since the first lab in 2015.

[10:28] Alan Seales: That's crazy.

[10:28] Alan Seales: Yeah, it's crazy. Mary, I was reading that you've played Anita in two regional productions of West Side Story. And I mean, going back to something, Becca, that you had said at the beginning is the dancing in The Prom is so much fun. There's so much of it. And the three of you, I mean, the whole ensemble in general, but the three of you specifically stand out from when I see the show, I still remember the three of you. Like the dancing is, you've got like, like if you could have, you watch Doctor Who. When he regenerates, he's got like these sparkles that just. And that's what I picture when you're dancing. It's just everywhere. And it's the hip hop. But you're singing so well and you're acting. And the reason I bring all this up is Mary, because Anita is not no small part. You have to sing and act and dance.

[11:21] Mary Antonini: That's what I love about her. You gotta be this triple threat.

[11:26] Alan Seales: Yeah, you do. And was that sort of a justification for you, like a stamp on the resume, like, yep, I can do this?

[11:31] Mary Antonini: Absolutely. For sure. It was actually, I've done West Side Story three times. And the first time I did it, I was Rosalia. And that was the first time I saw Anita and was like, oh, there she is. I need to tell her story for sure. So for absolutely playing that part and telling her story is absolutely such an honor. I mean, such a privilege to do that. And such a test. Truly, absolutely. To be able to do her justice is definitely a difficult feat.

[12:11] Alan Seales: Yeah. I love the story in general. I grew up watching the movie. When I was a little kid, it was Music Man, Singing in the Rain, and West Side Story were the three movies I just watched on repeat over and over and over again.

[12:23] Becca Lee: Yes, love that.

[12:27] Becca Lee: Oh, my gosh. Music Man was the first movie I ever watched.

[12:29] Alan Seales: Really?

[12:29] Becca Lee: Yeah. My mom has a story about me sitting as a baby and her coming into the room and being like, oh, you're still here? You're just gonna sit there and watch it? The whole thing. First one.

[12:40] Alan Seales: Yeah. And so, Teddy and Becca, you guys, you sort of, the two of you have named ensemble characters.

[12:49] Teddy Toye: Yeah. You're like Nick and Kaylee. Like, how did that come about?

[12:55] Becca Lee: Well, we have been prom dates since the very beginning, which I love so much, like since the first lab in 2015. So my name used to be Mandy. Now it's Kaylee. Same exact characters. It's a different name, which is a little fun fact.

[13:12] Teddy Toye: Were you named in the first lab?

[13:12] Becca Lee: No, I didn't have, I was Becca's dance partner.

[13:18] Teddy Toye: In Atlanta, though, in Atlanta, the Out of Town Trials, the show, we made up names for you guys.

[13:23] Becca Lee: So you were Boomer Junior.

[13:23] Teddy Toye: Oh yeah, I was Boomer Junior. That's what we always called. There was the Boomers. When Josh Lehman in Atlanta was in the ensemble, and we said he played my dad, and he was Boomer Senior. So I was Boomer Junior. Boomer Boomer Junior, for my first name, and last name was Boomer. We had this whole backstory, and Izzy. Izzy was my stepsister, we, at the time. Yeah, we had a whole backstory going in Atlanta. And then, yeah, the newest rendition of Prom that we came back to in the lab, yeah, the 2018 lab we did, we came back, and there was the new, they rewrote You Happened with the guys doing the promposals, and all that stuff. So yeah, it was all kind of a surprise to me when I came back. I was like, okay, and they're like, you're going to be Nick, you're still with Becca.

We came back, we were, I was like, am I, are we still dancing together? We have to be together. We have to, we text back and forth all the time before it. Yeah, we're, we're, Paul and I are so close. We're, we're, which is always, like, so.

[14:24] Mary Antonini: Wait, they can't separate us, right? We've been together three years now. I don't know how to dance with anybody else.

[14:29] Teddy Toye: Yeah, we're like, that's not gonna happen.

[14:30] Becca Lee: Yeah. All the time.

[14:33] Mary Antonini: They're like, all the time. So we came back and Casey's like, the first day of the lab, we walked in, Casey's like, I was like, are we? He's like, you two are still dancing. You're still together. We're like, oh. Good, good, good.

[14:41] Becca Lee: All right, we can do it. It's fine.

[14:44] Alan Seales: Well, did Casey help you guys like find the backstory or was he just like, you have to have something. Just go out and put it together. And like, Mary, do you have a character too that?

[14:53] Mary Antonini: Oh, I mean, her name is Madison. So yeah, she's actually, it's funny. She is the only person in the show who physically like hits Emma. She's the only one. I physically push her and nobody else in the show. Everyone is very verbally not very kind to her. But I am like, I am a bully. She's not nice. So but that's just that's just for me. That's just for me to get through my show and tell my story the best way I know how. But it's not official in any way.

[15:30] Becca Lee: I love that, though. But we have other ensemble characters also, and they have full names.

[15:35] Teddy Toye: I mean, you know, for us.

[15:38] Mary Antonini: I mean, you know, a lot of names.

[15:41] Becca Lee: Yeah, like my opening night character. I do name my wife. I won't tell you all the things, but.

[15:47] Teddy Toye: Oh, please tell us all.

[15:48] Mary Antonini: You have to.

[15:49] Becca Lee: Oh yeah, you got to go through. You named them. This is your doing. Certainly cut this out if you want. But my opening night character's name is Francesca Rose Bardo. But the wig's name is Rhonda.

[16:04] Teddy Toye: I'll stop with that. That's just a little tidbit. Little teaser.

[16:07] Alan Seales: But that's not in the script, obviously.

[16:10] Becca Lee: But I love it, though, because you have you identify with it. It becomes part of the part of the persona. And I think it helps. Helps you become like you're putting Rhonda on.

[16:18] Teddy Toye: So you put on Ronnie like, OK, now Ron is telling me where to go.

[16:25] Mary Antonini: Oh, she let you know, too.

[16:26] Becca Lee: So tell you.

[16:27] Alan Seales: Thank you for understanding me.

[16:28] Mary Antonini: I think everybody listening should understand you.

[16:31] Becca Lee: Thank you.

[16:32] Alan Seales: Yeah. Yeah. That is that's not a problem. But you recently got married. Yes.

[16:35] Becca Lee: Yes, I did.

[16:36] Alan Seales: Congratulations.

[16:37] Becca Lee: Thank you.

[16:38] Alan Seales: Is your husband in the biz, too?

[16:40] Becca Lee: Not at all. He does life insurance.

[16:41] Alan Seales: Oh, I know. Yay.

[16:45] Alan Seales: Does so is he cool with like the prospect of you could go away for a year on tour or like the more you work in theory, the more you you're away from home in some places?

[16:56] Becca Lee: Well, that's one of the reasons why I married him, because it's really hard to date people that aren't in the business and have them understand what our lives are like, because they're so unusual compared to the rest of the world, not the world, but the quote unquote normal. I don't know. I'm not saying this correctly, but you know what I mean?

[17:13] Teddy Toye: Yeah. Mongols.

[17:14] Becca Lee: So he's always been so supportive. When we first started dating, I booked a tour immediately and he would come visit me all the time. And he wants me to do what makes me happy.

[17:23] Mary Antonini: Oh, which is really sweet.

[17:26] Alan Seales: Yeah. That's supportive.

[17:27] Mary Antonini: Yeah. You got to be with someone supportive. You have to do this.

[17:30] Alan Seales: Well, that's business, too. I mean, you come home and it's like constant rejection, rejection, rejection. You've got to find that support through your family, you know, the people. Are either of you two seeing anybody?

[17:41] Teddy Toye: Actually, I was very lucky because so my partner was actually working with Casey and his name is Jazz Sealy. Hi, Jazz. He-

[17:50] Mary Antonini: Shout out to Jazz.

[17:51] Teddy Toye: Shout out to Jazz. We've been together for almost 10 years.

[17:54] Alan Seales: Aladdin you met, yeah?

[17:55] Teddy Toye: Actually, he is the he's in the original. He's part of the original cast. We did the tour together.

[18:01] Mary Antonini: Yes.

[18:02] Teddy Toye: Because Casey was like, y'all want to do the tour together? We were like, yes, please. But we actually met in Canada. We've been together for a very long time. And Becca's so right. If you don't have somebody who gets it, it's near impossible.

[18:21] Mary Antonini: Yeah.

[18:21] Teddy Toye: To do it well and to because it's hard. It's hard. Relationships are hard. And our job is hard. So you better have somebody who helps you along.

[18:32] Mary Antonini: And the hours are all backwards, too.

[18:33] Teddy Toye: Yes, completely.

[18:35] Mary Antonini: You don't have weekends off, you don't have nights off. It's all completely backwards.

[18:39] Alan Seales: Right.

[18:39] Teddy Toye: Yeah.

[18:40] Alan Seales: I think people don't necessarily understand that. I didn't understand it before I was on Broadway. It's like, we know what the schedule is. But when you're actually in it, you're like, oh, yeah, wow. You don't see anyone. We're a family at the show, at the theater. Thankfully, we all love each other. And it's great. But our real families, sorry, guys, we'll see you. And I don't know when. And that's how it is.

[19:03] Mary Antonini: Especially with what's going on right now with the Tonys and everything. I've never done a show that's made it to the Tonys like this. And so I think the scheduling wise, I wasn't aware and ready for how. I look at my calendar every day and I'm like, oh, oh, okay. I will have a day off in three weeks, maybe. And it's like, my every hour now of the day is scheduled out, which I've never had before. Normally, I'm like, look at it. I'm like, I have my show. I have this hour and I'll have the day. And it's like this. It's like, we have events. We have things. We have things. You got PT in between. You're trying to stay healthy. You're trying to, you know, you have all day. It's.

[19:42] Mary Antonini: I was entirely unprepared.

[19:43] Teddy Toye: Yeah, I'm so overwhelmed right now in the best way possible, but it's very overwhelming.

[19:49] Alan Seales: So then why are you getting up super early to go to golf things?

[19:51] Teddy Toye: Good question. Because it makes me happy. It brings, it gives me peace and sanity in the chaos.

[19:59] Alan Seales: So you're sitting here, you're sitting, you're blushing a little bit. So you're sitting here with a PGA hat on. I'm talking about this off mic before we started recording. So you're a huge golf fan.

[20:04] Teddy Toye: Yeah.

[20:08] Alan Seales: So where did that come from?

[20:14] Teddy Toye: About like four, four years ago, four or five years ago, which is hilarious. It's like I'm from Florida. I you would think I grew up doing it and stuff. And like my dad's an avid golfer my entire life. He was every weekend played with his like his guys. He had his. So and like I grew up in a clubhouse, but I never was into it. Like he tried like once, I think me and my sister on a weekend or something. I was like, no, I'm not having it. So I picked it up randomly. My buddy, Blakely Slabaugh, who's a performer, asked me to go to this place out in Queens, like a pitch and putt. And I was like, sure, that sounds fun. We were off. And so I went and I started playing. We like we did the one round. I was like, oh, this is nice. It's like we're outside. I was like, there's trees everywhere. I was like, there's no buildings. I was like, this is cool. This is cool. I'm into it.

[21:03] Teddy Toye: So I told my dad that day and I was like, hey, I was like, I tried like a pitch and putt golf course. And he's like, oh, I was like, yeah, I liked it. He's like, oh, he's like, do you want me to I'll send you a full set of clubs. I was like, oh, I was like, if you want to. Sure. And I had a full set shipped to me within like three days. Like he just had like a bunch of clubs because he just stores everything down there. So, yeah, I get a full complete set. And yeah, I just started. I just went out with my buddy Blakely and a couple other people and we just started going. I play like Van Cortland up in the Bronx and some different ones. And I started playing like about four years ago and then I just became obsessed with it.

Like I just really dove into it. And so we would play in Atlanta when we're down Atlanta. Me, Kevin Kosolak and Brendan Stimson, they were both the Mean Girls and two of my closest friends when we were all down there doing prom. We joined one of the golf clubs down there called Bobby Jones Golf Club. And we would go like before shows. We would book like two times early, go do the thing and sometimes go straight to the theater at the Alliance and like drop off my golf clubs and like go right into the show. And people are like, what are you? And I was like, we just came from the golf course. I was like, got 18 in. Let's do the show. And that's kind of how I'm at now. It's just like it's my my like Zen moment. Exactly.

[22:19] Teddy Toye: Yeah. It just gives me peace. And I just yeah, I really enjoy just like being out in the in the nature when you're around the concrete buildings.

[22:30] Alan Seales: Oh, I totally.

[22:30] Teddy Toye: Yeah. Most of the days it's like so nice to just escape.

[22:36] Teddy Toye: Yeah. And it's growing up in Florida. It's like I grew up kind of just being out outdoors and beach and, you know, being able to play and be outside. And it's like I don't really feel like I get that much anymore. So it's it's my like I try to get out like once a week just to.

[22:46] Alan Seales: Well, yeah, I applaud you for recognizing that need this early in your career.

[22:52] Teddy Toye: Yeah, I need it. You just just to decompress.

[22:57] Alan Seales: Yeah. Like get that energy out to Mary or Becca. Do you guys do anything like that to to really just kind of or is it wine at the end of the day or at the beginning of the day? I know your end of the day is a show.

[23:03] Mary Antonini: I think that I have a lot of things that sort of keep me sane. And I learned a lesson that was hard for me to learn was take your vacation, because when people get to Broadway or they start on Broadway, they think that you have to go and you can't stop and that if you do, it shows weakness or that you look ungrateful because you're not. And I I booked a vacation at the top of March and I went to Miami for a week and I laid down the whole week. I just laid there in the sunshine. I need sunshine. It's just in my blood and my heritage, everything, my whole body feels better in the sun. So I was like, I know Tony's are coming. I know what that schedule will look like, could look like, even though I didn't quite understand that it would be this much. But I did know it was going to be a lot. And I was like, if I can get out and and sort of recharge before that begins, then I think I'll be in a better position to to do that better.

[24:21] Alan Seales: So I think, yeah, planning the time off and taking the time off.

[24:27] Mary Antonini: Do you have a vacation booked for after Tony's?

[24:30] Becca Lee: No, not yet.

[24:32] Teddy Toye: I do. I'm going home to Florida. July 4th.

[24:36] Alan Seales: Already got your tea time booked?

[24:37] Becca Lee: Oh, yeah. And all of them. My dad's already got them lined up for me.

[24:42] Alan Seales: Becca, what do you do?

[24:43] Becca Lee: Um, after listening to Teddy, I got to say I'm a little envious of that, because that sounds amazing. Something calming and, you know, outside. I feel like even though golf, I mean, that is strenuous in some way, but I can do absolutely no more physical activity because normally my Zen kind of thing would be working out. I like going for a jog or working out in the morning, but I just absolutely cannot when I'm going to go do this show at night because I have to give my all to the show. And if I went for a run, it wouldn't be my best. So for me, it's really small things. I have a commute. I live in New Jersey. So every morning I have to take at least 20 minutes just to get myself in the right mindset.

It's just really simple. I mean, just like writing down things I'm grateful for, paying attention to my breath and just making sure I'm in the right mindset to get through the day, because I feel like my schedule is just going home, sleeping, waking up, getting on the train, coming back. And that's kind of it for now. But also this isn't forever. It's our schedule right now. So it's okay. But I find the little moments here and there. That's important to me.

[25:45] Becca Lee: I have to.

[25:47] Alan Seales: Yeah, absolutely.

[25:48] Mary Antonini: Three completely different ways, but it all accomplishes the same thing.

[25:51] Mary Antonini: It's very, very mindful, very meditative.

[25:51] Alan Seales: The three of you, the way you look at each other, the way you talk to each other, you're very good friends. I can tell you're very good friends. You feel like family.

[26:01] Teddy Toye: Yes, absolutely.

[26:01] Alan Seales: It carries through on stage, but that's how it is off stage too. Do you guys still hang out outside of the theater and all that?

[26:07] Mary Antonini: Yeah. I mean, we're at the theater a lot, so we actually don't have that much time outside of the theater right now. But yeah, we love each other and it makes our job so much easier. I'm so thankful for that.

[26:17] Becca Lee: I mean, I threw Becca's bridal shower.

[26:19] Mary Antonini: Yeah.

[26:19] Becca Lee: Oh, wow.

[26:25] Mary Antonini: And I mean, Teddy and I got close right away. We were friends. I mean, she took me in for Christmas this year.

[26:30] Teddy Toye: Yeah, that's right. I spent Christmas with Mary.

[26:32] Mary Antonini: Yeah. So I think we're super we're very close.

[26:35] Alan Seales: Yeah, that's that is that's great. And it comes across, I think, like the script, the heart, the script is very heartwarming. You're laughing and you're crying. And in order to take the audience on the journey with you, you have to be there yourself.

[26:49] Mary Antonini: Right.

[26:49] Alan Seales: And that opens you up to a level of vulnerability that, you know, no offense to your husband, selling life insurance.

[26:57] Becca Lee: No, absolutely. I agree with you. It's so true.

[26:59] Mary Antonini: And people always say Casey knows how to bring good people together.

[27:05] Alan Seales: This show, I mean, it doesn't get any better.

[27:08] Teddy Toye: No, it really doesn't.

[27:08] Mary Antonini: Are the best. I can't imagine it being any other way. We're so lucky.

[27:13] Becca Lee: Yeah, Casey.

[27:15] Teddy Toye: Yeah, he's notorious for that.

[27:15] Mary Antonini: Actually, he's notorious for hiring good people, people who are good in the room, have a good time, know how to work hard, good to each other. I think that's really important to him. And I think that comes through in his shows. I think his shows show that.

[27:32] Teddy Toye: Yeah.

[27:32] Alan Seales: Yeah. He's got four shows concurrently running on Broadway. That's ridiculous.

[27:36] Mary Antonini: And that's not the first time.

[27:40] Teddy Toye: Yeah.

[27:40] Alan Seales: Well, speaking of good people, Beth Brooks, Chris, Angie, Josh, you have gotten some of the best, the best people. And then Caitlin and Izzy, too.

[27:53] Mary Antonini: But Beth Brooks, Chris, Angie, they're comedy legends in the Broadway world. What's it like working with them?

[28:03] Teddy Toye: For me, I always simplify it down to I've never been in a room where I have seen numbers at this point done, because we've been with it for four years. I've seen these numbers done thousands of times, like Brooke do his solo, Beth do her solo. And I've never once got tired of just sitting there and watching them through every version in them coming up with new things and their processes of stuff to the performances every night. I never get tired of just seeing what they do and what they bring to it every night. And it's I feel like that's a true like testament to their craft and what they've done as performers to like because I've never had that.

[28:48] Mary Antonini: I’ve been so captivated always and then like really want like legitimately want to watch them every night to be like what's good, what's he gonna bring today, what's Brooks gonna do out there? Like that's performed like they're doing ladies improving, you're just like you never get tired of it and I feel like a lot of the times I, you know, I get bored with things and I'd be like okay I'm just gonna go hang in my dressing room, kind of where it's like this, you just their energy and just everything about it, it's contagious.

[29:22] Becca Lee: Yeah, yeah, they're incredible.

[29:23] Mary Antonini: And do you learn from them? Do they tell you like, oh back in my day kind of story? I mean they are masterful. It is like, and the three of us are so lucky because we've seen them change it from the beginning. We've watched them how to handle new pages every day, how to handle how a story changes, how to handle oh we're going to change this character so it's a bit more like this, how does how do you play that? And watching them do that, I mean really it is, if you're paying attention, it's a master class. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be with them in that room and then separately like there are these incredible performers and then they're amazing humans and you're like how dare you have the audacity to be that cool, how dare you be that good and that cool.

[30:15] Teddy Toye: I think sometimes on ensemble members, if you subscribe to this idea of a hierarchy, people sometimes don't get treated properly and that's just never ever happened with this group of people. It's amazing because they see the artistry around them in everyone and I think that makes the show better but I think it makes the company happier and I think it makes the work better and it shows them, I mean it really shows them off as like killer human beings, like they're just so cool.

[30:52] Becca Lee: Yeah, I think that we have such a good connection with them too because like even when we were down in Atlanta, we had this thing that we called the lanai. It was like the front area of the hotel that we were out and like every night I would cut, we'd get done with the show or rehearsal and stuff and like Angie or Beth and Brooks, they'd be like see you on the lanai and it was like one of those things that we'd all come down there after the show or rehearsal and meet up and just hang with them for a couple hours and everyone, we were all just talk and chat and like just get to know them as people and they would tell us stories of things and it was like one of the first times I got to see the difference between like all three of them of how they work with stuff like Brooks, Beth and Sieber because I remember I came down one afternoon and Sieber had a whole new set of lines, like script new pages and stuff and Sieber's like alright, he had like one drink or something like that, he's like I gotta go upstairs and memorize these for tomorrow and Brooks is like I'm not doing that, he's like it's gonna change tomorrow, he's like why are you gonna bother?

And Sieber's like well I can't get it in my feet unless I have and Brooks is like absolutely not, you know, and Beth's like well I, and she's like it's just so funny when you get down there, Angie pour you a drink and so it's just so funny to see the differences with all of them of how they work with each of like and to see their brilliance and the spectrums of how they get it accomplished because I feel like I would be like Sieber where I'm like I have to know what I'm saying and to be able to like yeah get up there and do something and to watch Brooks to be like yeah I don't, it's gonna change, I'm not, I'll have the pages in my hand, we'll figure it out, it'll change and like he's just so whatever.

[32:40] Mary Antonini: Yeah, it just comes to him like yeah, it's fun like watching them all do their thing.

[32:46] Teddy Toye: Does your choreography, did that evolve? Did that change over time? Like you come in and say alright here you're doing a fan kick and then tomorrow it's three pirouettes or you know like do you have trouble, the three of you have the trouble keeping the changes in straight in your head?

[33:03] Becca Lee: A lot of it's been pretty much the same since the beginning from the dance perspective.

[33:09] Mary Antonini: Yeah, yeah, tonight belongs to you has not changed one step right since the first.

[33:14] Becca Lee: Only teeny tiny things.

[33:15] Mary Antonini: Okay, like it's like from a point to a punch.

[33:20] Becca Lee: Yes, you're right, those things are hard. Yes, when you're trying to clean it and you're like the tiniest details, that is hard.

[33:25] Mary Antonini: Yeah, you're right. Most of the choreography has stayed very similar though. Love Thy Neighbor used to be probably what, at least a minute longer or even longer than that I would say.

[33:30] Becca Lee: Yeah, I'd say because we cut the whole, I mean we cut three minutes off that I think.

[33:36] Mary Antonini: Yeah, and I think so often backstage, thank you lord for cutting that because I don't know if I would make it.

[33:43] Becca Lee: Yeah, we used to kick our face and do a layout.

[33:49] Mary Antonini: Oh, I don't know, there was a layout?

[33:50] Becca Lee: Yeah, that's not in there anymore.

[33:52] Mary Antonini: Well, yeah, Casey's very good at giving choreography that looks very challenging. I mean it is very challenging but I think he knows can be sustained each shows a week. I would say, I mean when we were coming into this it was more like get ready kids, like you got like train, start training hard, like that's from the last labs and stuff we were doing, it was like I kept having to one-up myself with the choreo to sustain it, to be able to sing it, to be able to jump around because it's more like a high intensity interval training class. You go from zero to a hundred and you're like, I feel like in a lot of other dances and stuff you get a gradual flow to it and then this is, I mean we're starting the dance, we're jumping, we're sliding from the back of the stage to the front and then we're just non-stop jumping hard.

I was wearing a heart rate monitor for about two months during the entire show and tonight belongs to us, my heart rate would go into 90 percent of its max heart rate, so my heart rate is going up to like 180, 82 to 184 for two minutes straight, like through that entire number, so it's just like it doesn't stop, it's relentless, his stuff. So it was coming into it is like we had to kind of train for it to stay there so I was like, we were always in contact, I was texting back all the time, I was like alright, I'm on the, I was like I've been running miles every day like when we had our breaks in between the couple months off between we started, yeah, I was like running, training, like trying to sing while doing that, I was doing all kinds of flipping tires when I was down in Florida, it was just like doing all kinds of stuff just to try to get in shape for this.

[35:10] Mary Antonini: Yeah, I was doing the Aladdin tour when they did the last lab so I didn't do it and they had me come in and do three days of boot camp before we started rehearsal for Jasmine in Broadway and I mean, and I was Jasmine's friend being like hey girl, what's up?

[35:26] Becca Lee: Totally different, totally different kind of dance but I, my only goal was to not throw up in rehearsal. That was my only goal, was I was like let me not embarrass myself in front of these new people I haven't met yet, y'all don't know me, I better not throw up, my only goal.

[36:18] Teddy Toye: How long did you have to get in shape?

[36:19] Mary Antonini: I mean I guess I sort of knew what it was going to be and I will not tell my age but I have been with my body longer than many of the people in the show so finding the efficiency of movement, I've worked on that.

[36:34] Becca Lee: Yeah, that's, it's so much fun. I still like, I close my eyes and I picture, and I was a picture of the dancing and I actually the other day I was watching the clip of the Macy's Day Parade on YouTube, which I mean the Macy's Day Parade, you guys have done Colbert and Good Morning America and all sorts of things. Is this like, is this kind of like an old hat for you yet or do you still get excited when these things happen? They're like bucket list things.

[37:02] Teddy Toye: Every single one of them, yeah, it's a bucket list item.

[37:04] Becca Lee: Yeah, yeah, we're doing Colbert on Monday and it's like, and everything is different too. I'm like oh I don't know what to expect, what's gonna happen, are we gonna meet him, is he gonna be nice, like what's the backstage area gonna be? All the little details are really exciting. I don't think I can imagine getting to the point where like oh another TV show.

[37:22] Mary Antonini: It's also, yeah, Seth Meyers was cool because we were, I mean like Seth Meyers is very cool but also we were walking by like the SNL set and like that was very cool to be in the same space that, you know, that artists you adore were also there, that's very cool.

[37:36] Teddy Toye: I actually sprained my ankle the morning of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, so I sprained my ankle on the, I wore these massive boots in that number and in the rehearsal, the rehearsal beforehand, we like rehearsed at seven or something like that, really early and I sprained my ankle and then we went and we sat in the trailer and I put a cold Diet Coke on my ankle, I wrapped it up and then we did it and it was totally fine. Took Thanksgiving Day off, healed that mother up, went back the next day, it was good. Well it was like, it was like 18 degrees outside anyway, I mean it was ice, I was immediately icing it without doing anything but also yeah, people don't know that when you're dancing on that surface, it's not even, there's like, it's just a concrete, like the sewer caps, yeah, we're dancing on a manhole for half of it, it's cold.

[38:40] Mary Antonini: I didn't even think about it.

[38:41] Teddy Toye: Over the street, yeah, yes, there's a bunch of bumps and stuff in that road. I would have just assumed it was a stage.

[38:46] Becca Lee: Nope, like a little raised platform or marley or anything, people need to know.

[39:05] Mary Antonini: Dude, this is the episode of trivia, crazy secret stuff.

[39:11] Teddy Toye: Well speaking of the celebrities and stuff, like people come see the show, they come backstage, is there somebody that you've heard was in the audience and you're like oh Mary, oh my gosh, it happened?

[39:28] Mary Antonini: It happened in Atlanta too. So, Courtney Collins, we call her Courtenay, she plays Mrs. Green in the show and we were in Atlanta and she, we were talking and I was like how's it going? She's like oh I have a friend, I have a friend from school here in the audience. I was like okay cool, that's great and I leave the dressing room at the end of the show and Laura Linney is standing and I lost my mind and I am, I'm pretty like, I don't really lose my mind. Like we, I've met, I was on The View for JCS so like I've met Whoopi, I met and like Aladdin was in LA so tons of people were there like Jennifer Garner but they were always there. Laura Linney, I don't know why it's her but like I mean I do know why because she's amazing, but I burst into tears.

Courtenay's friend from college was Laura Linney from Juilliard, how very dare you, how very dare you. So a couple of months ago she was like hey Mary, Laura's here and I just wanted to let you know and I was like yeah that's cool, that's cool, I'm fine, that's totally great. So this time I did get a photo and now my life is complete, it's great.

[40:35] Teddy Toye: What about Becca, Teddy? I don't know, Glenn Close was pretty cool.

[40:44] Becca Lee: Yeah, she came with the Ryan Murphy night and we went, we had like a party thing after and Andrew Rannells, I was talking to him and I guess he sat with her, Glenn Close that night. So I was talking to Andrew and he's like hold on and he like, he's like Glenn and he, so she's like oh my god you're, she's like you're the kid with the hat, she's like I loved you and so I stood there with it was me, Andrew Rannells and Angie and talked for like 40 minutes and I was like what is this? I like got at the end of the night, I was like that was the weirdest, like I didn't know this night was going to turn like that. I was like now you're best talking to you and Glenn, Glenn Close, you and Glenn, 40 minutes.

[41:28] Mary Antonini: Yeah, that's the guy in the hat.

[41:29] Teddy Toye: Guy in the hat, she knew me, that was cool.

[41:31] Becca Lee: Do your parents understand the gravitas of all of this? Like I try, I try to explain what I do, like even the podcasting in general to my parents, they're like oh yeah honey, that's nice but you know when I, when I was a wee performer I would do, you know like the parent says that everything the kid does is wonderful but do they get it now? Like you guys, you're on Broadway, you're meeting Glenn Close and you're meeting Laura Linney and this is amazing things for you to do, do they understand all this?

[42:06] Teddy Toye: They understand how big this is. Even with you saying that, it's weird to me because I'm like oh my gosh, we're on Broadway, like it's weird that I still feel like that and I try to remind myself that every day because when you're in it, you got to remind yourself as weird as that sounds but my mom definitely does. I mean she's known this has been my dream since I was five years old and she's so proud but she's the same way, she's like I can't believe you're on Broadway, like I can't believe I'm on Broadway and you know just go back and forth, it's weird but true.

[42:33] Becca Lee: No, I can't believe it.

[42:34] Teddy Toye: No, I can't believe it.

[42:37] Mary Antonini: Yeah, I mean my parents just, they've always been just the most supportive so like with this especially because they've kind of been along for the ride with this one. They came to Atlanta two separate times during previews and in the end they were here for my opening night with this and just, they're kind of my support system for my own mental self too because they constantly checking in to just, my mom's every day like sending me texts even in between shows like today she already texted me a couple times being like hey how are you, you holding up, are you things good?

[43:08] Teddy Toye: Wonderful, his mom is awesome.

[43:43] Becca Lee: You should know me. But yeah, they're just, they're great. They're really great.

[43:49] Teddy Toye: That's fun.

[43:50] Becca Lee: My mom takes it off of me, usually. So depending on where I'm at, she's like, how do you, are you excited about this? Okay, great, so now we're doing that. So she usually takes it off of me. And I think as far, I mean, Broadway is incredible. But I think the work you do is the work you do, regardless of the stage door you walk in. So for my mom, I think she's always just been like, wherever you are, and whatever art you are doing, if you're doing the dream, it actually doesn't make a difference where. So if I'm on stage, she's there.

[44:32] Alan Seales: Oh, that's beautiful. Yeah, that is like the perfect mom that just supports you no matter what, because as long as you're happy, she's happy. And in regards to audience feedback, and like stage door experiences, I know that through stories with other people in The Prom, they're getting a lot of very personal things being told to them at the stage door. Does anything stand out for any of the three of you? I mean, the story itself is very heartwarming and very touching. There's a lot of representation on a Broadway stage that wasn't there previously.

[45:11] Becca Lee: Yeah, I would say the thing that stands out to me the most out of the entire Prom experience actually hasn't been in New York, it was in Atlanta. We got done with one of the shows and we came out and in the lobby, there'd be the kids hanging out. And I remember one night specifically, there was like a handful of girls and a couple guys, and we were saying hi to them. And then they said, they're like, you know, tonight's our prom night. And we're like, oh, that's cool. Did you like come after? They're like, no, they're like, we felt more supported and more like welcome here than we do at our own school. So we wanted to spend our prom with you guys, like this is our prom. And that was like the first time that I was like, oh, I was like, this is heavy.

This is heavy for me. And that's kind of like the biggest, I think, from an audience perspective that I've seen and interacted and have told me personally how it's affecting them without getting deep into detail about their lives and stories. But just that general, we feel more at home with you guys. This is our prom, this is our home. And yeah, to have that for them was something super special, I felt.

[46:30] Teddy Toye: Damn, that's beautiful.

[46:31] Mary Antonini: Yeah.

[46:33] Becca Lee: Either two of you.

[46:35] Teddy Toye: I've gotten several letters and people tell me really detailed things about their lives, kids. Some of it is similar to what happens in our show. Maybe they were scared to come out to their family or friends. And I mean, they make me cry, the things that people say, because it's like, this show, and they haven't even seen it, some of them. It's just they've heard the cast album, or they see clips when we performed on television or whatever. And our show has given them the strength and the courage to finally come out to their parents or tell their friends. And they thank us for that. And I'm like, we're just lucky to be along for this ride and have the opportunity to tell the story. I get that stuff all the time. People at stage door say the same thing, messages through Instagram. It's crazy, the amount of people that we're touching. And I mean, how lucky are we? I think that's the most important thing.

[47:32] Becca Lee: What could be better than that?

[47:33] Teddy Toye: Yeah.

[47:34] Mary Antonini: It'll make me cry if I keep talking about it. It's crazy.

[47:37] Alan Seales: Yeah. Mary, do you have anything?

[47:38] Mary Antonini: Yeah. I mean, often at the stage door, I've heard several times, this is my prom. I didn't get to go to prom. I went to prom with you today. We get that a lot. One that gets me all the time is, I mean, we all play kids on stage. So the teenagers, it makes sense to me when the teenagers are moved. I love that. It's when I see somebody who's lived their whole life and seen how hard it was for them. When they see that there's a show about this now and they start crying, that gets me every time. Anytime there's an older gay couple in the third row crying or holding hands, these people who have fought their whole lives to be loved and be seen as equals, I can't even imagine what it looks like to see something made for you and to know that people coming up behind you may not have to struggle in that same way. That one, they always get me.

[48:51] Becca Lee: Oh, I love that. I love that so much. So we'll wrap up here on the podcast. And there's always three standard questions that I ask everyone to wrap up and each of you will get to answer this. Let's start with Teddy. Very simply, what motivates you?

[49:07] Teddy Toye: What motivates me? I think for me, it's my family and the people who have always supported me the most. This is like, I love doing this and I love seeing them enjoy seeing me do what I love. You know what I mean? So it's like that. I feel like that's always been the motivating factor in my career. It's like, I love this and to see them so supportive and happy of me doing it and like doing the thing, like actually doing it, is what keeps me going.

[49:52] Alan Seales: Cool. Mary?

[49:55] Mary Antonini: It's a hard question. I think it's like the tiny voice, you know, the tiny voice inside of you, or inside of me, rather. I think it can be really easy to get caught up in ego and the bright lights and the excitement of it. But when I really think about what lights me up and what starts the fire, it's a tiny voice, you know, the instinct to tell someone's story that needs to be told.

[50:35] Becca Lee: I would say when I wake up in the morning, my goal is always to try to make someone else's day better in some kind of way. I think it's really important if I find what brings me joy and then that emanates to others and brings them joy also. Maybe it's on stage. Maybe it's doing a random act of kindness at the grocery store.

[51:01] Teddy Toye: Spreading your sparkle?

[51:02] Becca Lee: Yeah. Something as simple as that. It can be big or small. That's it.

[51:08] Alan Seales: All right. Next question, and we'll start with Mary on this one. What advice would you give to your younger self and younger people now listening, starting out down a similar path?

[51:18] Mary Antonini: I think always self-compassion and self-love. It's so hard to come by and it's so hard to feed properly, to let go of external validation, especially in this work when you have to take in criticism, when criticism is part of your job, auditioning and being rejected over and over and over and over again. If you don't have that self-love or self-kindness to yourself, I'm not sure you can get through it. I really do think that's sort of number one.

[52:03] Becca Lee: Love yourself.

[52:04] Mary Antonini: Love yourself. And then I always say, eyes and ears open, mouth closed for the young people, because that's how we all learned from our peeps, for sure, from our leads.

[52:20] Becca Lee: And I'll add now, phone down.

[52:22] Mary Antonini: That's right. Exactly. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my goodness. You're absolutely right. Phone down. Put your phone away.

[52:27] Becca Lee: Just turn your phone off. Put it away.

[52:28] Alan Seales: Yeah. Becca?

[52:30] Becca Lee: Advice I'd give to my younger self is to enjoy the journey more, because there were definitely years that I was sitting there just beating myself up because things weren't, quote unquote, happening fast enough. You have to trust that everything is happening in the perfect time for you. I totally didn't think that, so I just felt miserable for like three years. For like three years when I didn't book one job. And it's like, no, find the joy in every day. Your time is coming. Just keep going.

[52:59] Teddy Toye: Cool.

[53:00] Teddy Toye: I would go with the same kind of the same line as Mary in the sense of like, I felt like I was always trying to compare myself to people when I like early on in my career and everything. I was trying to figure out like who I am and what I am and how do I fit in this crazy industry. And I feel like looking back, I would just be like, do you? Do you? You've got your own unique style, your own thing. You don't have to compare to anybody. Just be the person you are and you'll fit into the whatever is out there eventually. And that's kind of like what I've learned I feel like over in the recent decade of stuff is I'm like, oh, this is where I fit. I never had to be those people that I always thought were better than me or I thought I needed to sound like this guy or have these kind of vocals or dance like this kid or some of my friends who were just constantly doing shows and stuff that I was just comparing myself to. And I feel like if early on, if I just like would have let that all go and just been like, it maybe would have helped me a little more ease into it.

[54:09] Alan Seales: Cool. All right. So final question, Becca, we'll start with you. This is the hardest question. If you can only see one show for the rest of your life, but you can see it as many times as you want, what show would you see?

[54:23] Becca Lee: Can I not pick The Prom?

[54:25] Teddy Toye: You pick any show you want.

[54:28] Becca Lee: I've never seen The Prom and I really want to see it.

[54:33] Teddy Toye: Get out.

[54:35] Becca Lee: No, I do.

[54:38] Teddy Toye: You guys are all giving me judgment eyes.

[54:43] Becca Lee: No, I'm just letting you talk.

[54:46] Teddy Toye: They're giving me judgment eyes. I'm sticking to it. I don't care.

[54:48] Teddy Toye: They're like, you haven't done it long enough. You want to watch it for the rest of your life?

[54:48] Becca Lee: I want to get her swung out.

[54:50] Teddy Toye: No. Yeah, we need to get you swung out.

[54:52] Becca Lee: It is a very good show.

[54:52] Becca Lee: You need to be swung out. And no judgment eyes.

[54:55] Teddy Toye: I saw them. It's OK. I understand.

[54:58] Alan Seales: Don't come for me.

[55:00] Teddy Toye: Assassins.

[55:02] Alan Seales: Oh, good.

[55:04] Teddy Toye: I was obsessed with it in high school and it's just been a show. I love history and that dark Stephen Sondheim. Neil Patrick Harris came to the show yesterday. I didn't get to say hi, but I was a big fan of him.

[55:18] Alan Seales: Oh yeah, you had to wait for your train.

[55:20] Teddy Toye: He hung out with Brooks.

[55:22] Alan Seales: What would you say, Mary?

[55:25] Mary Antonini: Honestly, I don't know. I think my default answer is West Side Story, just because that history is so deep. But I'm sure there are a million.

[55:40] Alan Seales: Yeah, well, yeah, there's no wrong answer.

[55:43] Becca Lee: Well, thank you. So, Mary, we'll still start with you. Where can we find you online?

[55:48] Mary Antonini: Oh, I am not online a lot, as Becca knows, when we share a dressing room. So she actually fills me in every day. I come in, I'm like, what happened in the world today? And then she shows me. But on Instagram, I am at Mary Emily and Mary Emily 18.

[56:04] Becca Lee: Hi, this is Becca here. I'm at Becca Lee backstage on Instagram.

[56:09] Teddy Toye: And this is Teddy. And

[56:16] Becca Lee: OK, we have different voices, Becca.

[56:20] Teddy Toye: You can find me at Teddy Toy, T-O-Y-E, silent E, Toye. Yeah.

[56:25] Becca Lee: Teddy Joey.

[56:28] Teddy Toye: Yeah, that could be like the another Jersey boy that didn't make it.

[56:33] Alan Seales: Teddy Toye.

[56:36] Becca Lee: I like that.

[56:37] Alan Seales: We can find more of me at theater underscore podcast on Instagram and Twitter. Facebook dot com slash official theater podcast. Please support us if you can. Theater podcast dot com slash Patreon. If you want to email feedback at the theater podcast dot com. Listen and subscribe. Please leave a rating. This is produced by Jillian Hockman. And thank you to Jukebox, the Ghost for the intro and outro music.

[57:00] Becca Lee: Three of you guys like Jukebox.

[57:02] Teddy Toye: I love music videos.

[57:04] Alan Seales: What? What do you mean?

[57:05] Becca Lee: Which one?

[57:07] Teddy Toye: I'm a sound of a broken heart.

[57:08] Alan Seales: I got. Yeah.

[57:09] Becca Lee: Well, you're going to hear their music when you listen to this episode.

[57:14] Alan Seales: Jillian here has known them forever.

[57:16] Becca Lee: What?

[57:18] Jillian Hockman: Yeah, I've known them for a year and a half.

[57:20] Alan Seales: Very cool.

[57:21] Becca Lee: Yeah. Anyway.

[57:25] Alan Seales: Teddy, Mary, Becca, thank you so much for this. This has been a lot of fun.

[57:28] Becca Lee: Thank you for having us.

[57:30] Teddy Toye: Very cool.