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[0:01] Brian Plopski: Did you bring wine? I got the glasses. You guys, I made a quiz. I didn't bring anything, but I'm here to have fun.

[0:21] Brian Plopski: Hello and welcome to the official Broadwaysted Podcast. We're drunk on theater. I'm your host, Brian Plopski, and I'm Blue Abadie Abadie. Smurf, Grover, Tobias, Cookie Monster, Max Rebo, and some whales are excited for this one. Joining us today are the usual Blue Velvets, including Kevin, you my boy, Blue, Jaeger. You my boy, Blue! You my boy!

[0:46] Brian Plopski: Kimberly, our Blue Valentine Game Master and unofficial babysitter for the hour.

[0:50] Kimberly: Well, hello!

[0:55] Brian Plopski: And with us today is a person you follow and love, and is here to talk about Avatar. Let's give a big Broadwaysted welcome to Friend of the Show.

[1:00] Brian Plopski: Friend of the Show! The Broadway Disher!

[1:05] The Broadway Disher: Hey! Hey!

[1:11] The Broadway Disher: Wait, thanks. I'm already wasted.

[1:16] Brian Plopski: Perfect!

[1:18] The Broadway Disher: Great.

[1:19] The Broadway Disher: Amazing. Friend of the Show. What is this show, the one, though? This is the show?

[1:26] Brian Plopski: The Broadway Dish.

[1:28] The Broadway Disher: Oh, okay. Yes. Yes.

[1:31] Brian Plopski: Yeah, well, on that note, what are you drinking?

[1:35] The Broadway Disher: What are you drinking?

[1:39] The Broadway Disher: I started this morning with a sensible Bloody Mary sitch, like the Equity one before rehearsal, the one before rehearsal, and then the one after, the Equity one after. Well, after lunch, I kind of moved to some martinis.

[1:59] The Broadway Disher: Oh, yeah. And now, like, I don't know. I think I'm moving to wine. I'm not sure, because I had some kind of Jaeger bombs. People, you know, now that I'm a thing, people send me a lot of alcohol that they want me to promote, because I'm an influencer.

[2:21] Brian Plopski: Oh, totally, totally.

[2:24] The Broadway Disher: So, you know, I like whatever they send me. A lot of blue, though. Yeah, a lot of, a lot of, like, Avatar. Avatar Jin is, like, a huge, huge fan of sending other people things.

[2:38] Brian Plopski: Sure.

[2:41] The Broadway Disher: Well, speaking of Av...

[2:45] The Broadway Disher: I just have to, I have to jump in, Brian, because I am so excited that you're here, because, like, I love all of the drama, and, like, you bring it to us every, like, every day. Like, your feed is insane. You fill us in with everything we all really want to know. So I just want you to tell us, because we're all so excited about the opening of Avatar, but we need to know, what was your favorite piece of drama that came out of all of this? Because you've been, like, in there and telling us everything.

[3:15] The Broadway Disher: I mean, look, my favorite piece of drama is that everything blew up in their face, and I became the star. So, I mean, it's not like it shouldn't be drama. Like, that's just truth, that I should have been from second one, when, like, you know, getting thrown out of the aud... or getting, like, leaving those auditions, and then, you know, just kind of, like, hanging around the rehearsals, like, just, you know, like, in a janitor outfit, just kind of doing research, because usually they wear blue as well, and I just, you know, would, like, peek in. And I just feel like these people needed to go down, and they did. And so, you know, I'm so honest with my fans, with you guys. I'm so honest with the people below me that they, you know, have no choice but to look up to me, because they are below me. So, you know, I just feel like the greatest piece of drama was that I became the star.

[4:10] Brian Plopski: I mean...

[4:11] The Broadway Disher: Oh, yeah. And did you ever. Thank you. Yeah, I really, I know, I did. Well, have you seen it? What can we expect when it opens up in just a couple of days here, in a couple hours, really?

[4:23] The Broadway Disher: Well, I mean, I don't think people are ready for it, you know? Like, you know, on my posts, I say, y'all, I'm not ready, you know? Like, I feel like people look at things like Hamilton, and look at things like, you know, there's a lot of hype around huge geek men, that the music thing. Like, I feel like there's a lot of hype around that, but people are not ready for Avatar, because what it's going to give you is heart, the heart of the Navisions. It's what I believe the Navi are called the Navisions. And I feel like people have never seen Navision representation like this on a stage. I feel that people aren't ready for the magic, the literal magic that happens on stage. And I feel like people just aren't ready to see this. Like, literally, they're not ready. We're not ready. But you know, we're still doing it. So yeah, thanks.

[5:30] Brian Plopski: Yeah, that was an excellent, excellent answer. And I think we're all very excited to see, you know, we're not ready. But I think we're excited. But you're right, we're not ready. We're not ready.

[5:43] The Broadway Disher: No, we're not. We're not ready. The amount of like, not ready I am, makes me feel like I'm ready to not be ready.

[5:53] The Broadway Disher: I mean, and I feel that's how the entire production is, is not ready. I feel like we could have hashtag not ready, and sell it in the lobby, you know, like the Aham, like, hats, like, maybe we just have not read like, I, you know, I feel like that.

[6:11] Brian Plopski: Yeah. And what kind of energy to bring to a show for everyone in the theater space, those on stage and off to just not be ready, to not be ready. And I feel like that's when people are the most open when they don't know what they're doing.

[6:23] The Broadway Disher: Yeah, they don't know what's coming. Nor do they know what they're doing. You know, on stage, I feel like it, you know, everyone talks about like, how do you do it shows a week and keep it fresh. If you don't know what you're doing, it's always fresh. Never the same show twice. It's never the same show twice, because I don't remember what I did the day before, because I'm so in it.

[6:50] The Broadway Disher: Yeah, and I didn't know it. So I, you know, that's, that's kind of like, I hate to give away my kind of trade secrets, but it is how I live my career is if you don't know it, you'll never be wrong.

[7:03] Brian Plopski: Totally. What a good philosophy.

[7:05] The Broadway Disher: Right? Yeah.

[7:07] Brian Plopski: And you know, what, Kevin, sorry.

[7:13] The Broadway Disher: What can we like, so we're all excited about avatars opening, which is gonna be great. But like, what can we expect also from you going forward? Like what, like what, what's more on the horizon for you? The Broadway? What do you feel?

[7:24] The Broadway Disher: You know, like somebody told my agent, the other day, and who, you know, and he was, he's not an agent, like full time, like he, you know, obviously works like has a restaurant. But when he is working as my agent, they told him that this was a real jumping off point for me, and that I and that I should jump that I should absolutely jump. They said it's so it's like I'm in the stratosphere, like, my jumping off point should be the stratosphere after this, and I absolutely should take that step and jump. And I, you know, that was like such great feedback.

[8:06] The Broadway Disher: So I think, honestly, for me, obviously, you know, I hate thinking about awards and Tony's, but um, you know, obviously, like that'll happen. Um, for me. And, you know, I think, um, I'm really excited to launch my makeup removers, after being blue for so much, even though I did want to be pink, but but I guess, you know, Navisions are always blue. Just like, always have, like, I like to keep on the nail polish, the blue nail polish, because then you walk around and everyone's like, Oh, she's an avatar, because they see my blue nail polish. And yeah, it's that thing.

[8:52] The Broadway Disher: So I mean, I don't really have anything lined up, per se, but I will keep being completely honest in my Twits feed and, and bringing people down who don't hire me, which is amazing. And we're all here for it. So thank you.

[9:12] The Broadway Disher: Yeah, honestly, it's honest, it's transparency. You know, they're, they're just not ready for it. They're not ready. I'm not ready. You're not ready. Hashtag not read.

[9:24] Brian Plopski: Yeah. Well, I'm on that note. Are we all ready to play a game? I think I'm ready to play a game. Is anyone ready to play a game? But if you are, then if you don't know how to play, it'll never be wrong. See, it applies to everything. We won't call them rules.

[9:40] Unknown speaker: Great, yeah, guidelines. That's like the regular lines in Avatar. Guidelines.

[9:50] Unknown speaker: We'll play a quick round of Dirty Hands on a Hard Body. So everyone has one hand that is now clean. You'll put it on the table in front of you and then it's a categories game. So we will go around, we're on Zoom. So in my view, I have Brian, then me, then our disher, then Kevin. And then we go all the way around that way. If you stutter or repeat something that someone has said already, then one hand goes up and that is your dirty hand. You're out of the round and then you get to pick the next category for the group. And then we play till one person wins. Okay. Okay.

[10:29] Unknown speaker: So it's super easy to start.

[10:32] Unknown speaker: Colors.

[10:35] Unknown speaker: Colors. Okay, colors. Great. I will start and then we'll go around. So I'll just start with the color blue.

[10:44] Unknown speaker: Who's next? Broadway disher.

[10:47] Unknown speaker: Oh, and what do I do? I put, I, what?

[10:50] Unknown speaker: Do another color. Oh, oh, pink.

[10:53] Unknown speaker: Rapid fire. There we go. Okay, okay, got it. Okay, great. I said blue. You can say? Pink.

[10:59] Unknown speaker: Great. Orange.

[11:03] Unknown speaker: Yellow.

[11:04] Unknown speaker: Red.

[11:06] Unknown speaker: Brown.

[11:10] Unknown speaker: Green.

[11:14] Unknown speaker: Russet.

[11:18] Unknown speaker: Burnt sienna.

[11:24] Unknown speaker: Um, turquoise.

[11:28] Unknown speaker: Steel.

[11:32] Unknown speaker: Chartreuse.

[11:35] Unknown speaker: Fusion.

[11:40] Unknown speaker: Um, mauve. That's a color, right?

[11:42] Unknown speaker: Yeah. Or is it mauve?

[11:44] Unknown speaker: Either. Okay.

[11:46] Unknown speaker: That's a terrible name. Did we say purple?

[11:50] Unknown speaker: No.

[11:53] Unknown speaker: Did we say purple?

[11:56] Unknown speaker: No, say purple.

[11:59] Unknown speaker: Purple.

[12:06] Unknown speaker: Oh. Um, gold.

[12:10] Unknown speaker: Butthole pink.

[12:13] Unknown speaker: Is that a different shade than normal pink, I'm assuming?

[12:16] Unknown speaker: It, it really is.

[12:18] Unknown speaker: Yeah.

[12:22] Unknown speaker: I'm gonna say, you know what, I'm gonna put my hand up after that, because there's nothing you can really respond after that one. So I'm gonna give the new category for the three of you. Your category is, um,

[12:37] Unknown speaker: uh, musicals that you're excited to see on Broadway.

[12:44] Unknown speaker: Okay. So Brian, you'll start.

[12:48] Unknown speaker: Um, I guess I'll start with Avatar.

[12:52] Unknown speaker: Sure. The Music Man.

[12:54] Unknown speaker: Pearly.

[12:59] Unknown speaker: Um, anything, anything that the Broadway Disher does.

[13:05] Unknown speaker: Because I'm not ready. That covers a lot of shows that are coming. A title, Brian, a title.

[13:11] Unknown speaker: Um, uh, The Revival of Mamma Mia.

[13:15] Unknown speaker: Oh, Broadway Disher would be great with that.

[13:18] Unknown speaker: Um, Company.

[13:20] Unknown speaker: Company. The puppet version of Dear Evan Hansen.

[13:25] Unknown speaker: Oh, yeah, Dear Evan Hansen.

[13:27] Unknown speaker: Dear Evan Hansen. Yeah.

[13:30] Unknown speaker: It's gonna be incredible.

[13:32] Unknown speaker: Yeah, yeah. Um, uh, I hope-

[13:35] Unknown speaker: Waving through a window's gonna be tough, so.

[13:41] Unknown speaker: Yeah, um, I would, you know, speaking of blue things, like, I would love to see a Sonic the Hedgehog musical.

[13:47] Unknown speaker: Oh, yeah. The Rolling. The Rolling would be great.

[13:52] Unknown speaker: The Rolling is fantastic.

[13:55] Unknown speaker: Yeah.

[13:59] Unknown speaker: Oh, Starlight Express. They can use the same theater.

[14:05] Unknown speaker: Yeah, and rest.

[14:10] Unknown speaker: Oh my god, yes.

[14:14] Unknown speaker: Um, to go along with that, um, I'm gonna say Ice Castles.

[14:14] Unknown speaker: Totally.

[14:14] Unknown speaker: I'd love to play the blind girl.

[14:17] Unknown speaker: Oh my god, that would be incredible.

[14:18] Unknown speaker: We're not ready for it, for sure.

[14:20] Unknown speaker: We're not ready for that.

[14:22] Unknown speaker: No.

[14:22] Unknown speaker: Um, I'm gonna, I'm gonna bow out, because, um, uh, I, uh, I have nothing else I'm excited about.

[14:33] Unknown speaker: Literally nothing else.

[14:33] Unknown speaker: Is there a category for us in the final two?

[14:36] Unknown speaker: We've reached the end of Brian's excitement, and we have the two ladies here who are gonna be playing for the finale with the category that Brian will give us now, which is...

[14:45] Unknown speaker: Things that are blue.

[14:47] Unknown speaker: Things that are blue, okay.

[14:49] Unknown speaker: Brian, who should go first?

[14:51] Unknown speaker: Uh, Kimberly, I think you should start this off.

[14:54] Unknown speaker: Things that are blue.

[14:55] Unknown speaker: Um, blue markers.

[15:03] Unknown speaker: My soul.

[15:05] Unknown speaker: Wow.

[15:06] Unknown speaker: That's deep.

[15:07] Unknown speaker: Yeah.

[15:08] Unknown speaker: Yeah, it's not black.

[15:09] Unknown speaker: It's like off black, so it's blue.

[15:11] Unknown speaker: Right.

[15:12] Unknown speaker: Sure, sure, yeah.

[15:13] Unknown speaker: Um, indigo.

[15:17] Unknown speaker: Blue M&M's.

[15:21] Unknown speaker: Blue lagoon.

[15:24] Unknown speaker: Sure.

[15:26] Unknown speaker: Um, blue eyes.

[15:30] Unknown speaker: Blue cheese.

[15:34] Unknown speaker: Blue moons.

[15:39] Unknown speaker: Blue my audition.

[15:43] Unknown speaker: Yeah, I mean...

[15:46] Unknown speaker: Yeah, I agree.

[15:48] Unknown speaker: That's, that's right, yeah.

[15:50] Unknown speaker: I mean...

[15:50] Unknown speaker: Yeah.

[15:51] Unknown speaker: Yeah.

[15:52] Unknown speaker: Yeah.

[15:53] Unknown speaker: Um, blue oceans.

[16:01] Unknown speaker: Blue oceans, um, blue my producer.

[16:08] Unknown speaker: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I mean, if that...

[16:12] Unknown speaker: Yeah, Kimberly?

[16:14] Unknown speaker: Um, blue whales.

[16:18] Unknown speaker: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

[16:19] Unknown speaker: Whoa.

[16:22] Unknown speaker: Oh, dear, um, blue...

[16:31] Unknown speaker: That Leanne Ryan song.

[16:33] Unknown speaker: Yeah.

[16:34] Unknown speaker: Yeah, you didn't even have to say that.

[16:35] Unknown speaker: I totally understand.

[16:36] Unknown speaker: Yeah.

[16:38] Unknown speaker: Oh, absolutely.

[16:40] Unknown speaker: And then blue suede shoes, if we're going with songs.

[16:44] Unknown speaker: Well, I mean, I wasn't.

[16:46] Unknown speaker: I was kind of going with a mood, but, you know, it's fine.

[16:50] Unknown speaker: Um, a tone.

[16:53] Unknown speaker: Um, oh, I think I lose.

[16:59] Unknown speaker: Oh, Kimberly?

[17:00] Unknown speaker: I can't, I can't, I mean, I think I have to put my blue nail polish hand up.

[17:06] Unknown speaker: Oh.

[17:06] Unknown speaker: Oh.

[17:08] Unknown speaker: Or was that the last one?

[17:10] Unknown speaker: I think that was the last one.

[17:12] Unknown speaker: I think she might have snagged you with her blue nail polish hand.

[17:15] Unknown speaker: My blue nail polish avatar hand.

[17:21] Unknown speaker: Well, and she just won, and a call back to her hand.

[17:24] Unknown speaker: I love it.

[17:25] Unknown speaker: Oh, not putting dirty hands on a hard body.

[17:30] Unknown speaker: Well, that brings us to the end of our episode. Thank you so much for joining us. We're all very excited for Avatar on Broadway. Again, you can open April 1st. You can go to avataronbroadway.com.

[17:44] Unknown speaker: That's avatar with two V's, avataronbroadway.com. Avatar with two V's for tickets and more information.

[17:52] Unknown speaker: Thank you, Broadway District, so much for joining us. We really, really appreciated it.

[17:56] Unknown speaker: Oh my God, you guys. They should all be following you anyways, but where can they be finding you on like the social media?

[18:05] Broadway Disher: At the Broadway Deshar.

[18:08] Unknown speaker: Perfect.

[18:09] Unknown speaker: Yeah, great.

[18:11] Unknown speaker: At the Broadway Deshar. Also, please don't tag me in reviews. I don't live my life by them. That's just rude.

[18:15] Unknown speaker: Totally, I understand.

[18:18] Unknown speaker: Well, we end every episode with a quote, and this quote is, our great mother does not take sides, Jake. She protects the balance of life.

[18:29] Unknown speaker: Obviously a quote from the Avatar film that we hope makes it into the musical.

[18:34] Unknown speaker: So we look for, yeah, that was.

[18:36] Unknown speaker: It's good to have, it's good to have hopes.

[18:39] Unknown speaker: Yeah, you know.

[18:41] Unknown speaker: Well, we all have, we're not ready.

[18:44] Unknown speaker: We have.

[18:44] Unknown speaker: Not read.

[18:45] Unknown speaker: Not read, not read.

[18:48] Unknown speaker: Avataronbroadway.com with two V's. Thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it.

[18:54] Unknown speaker: And as we end every episode, we raise a glass and we say.

[18:57] Unknown speaker: Zootoo.

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[19:03] Unknown speaker: Thank you so much.

[19:05] Unknown speaker: Bye.