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[0:20] Bryan Plovsky: Hello, and welcome to the official Broadwaysted podcast, where we're drunk on theater. I'm your host, Bryan Plovsky, and today we got the beat. There's a vision of nowness surrounding this old feeling, so we've got to get up and go. I'm not mad about you, you cool jerk. You'll always be a good girl. Our lips are sealed about the beautiful automatic rain. But when I turn to you, here you are on vacation. As we say, lust to love, because I'm head over heels. Joining us today are the usual people who make heaven a place on earth, including Kevin, how much more Jacob.

[0:56] Kevin Jacob: You got so excited when you figured that one out.

[0:59] Bryan Plovsky: Oh yeah. I actually now figured out yours first.

[1:02] Kevin Jacob: Oh, and built the rest.

[1:04] Bryan Plovsky: You used to be the leftover one, and now you're the one.

[1:07] Kevin Jacob: I appreciate it. That's why I'm no longer like Kevin Finale, Jake.

[1:10] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, Kimberly, our game master and unofficial babysitter for the hour.

[1:14] Bryan Plovsky: Hello.

[1:16] Kimberly Cooper: Stay safe.

[1:16] Bryan Plovsky: We're all drinking.

[1:18] Kimberly Cooper: Yes.

[1:19] Bryan Plovsky: And with us today is one of the best voices out there. You may have seen her in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Cuff Me, the Fifty Shades of Grey musical parody, you're welcome, the first national tour of Kinky Boots as Pat, gigantic or on TV in the amazing, and if you haven't watched Search Party. But you can catch her making her Broadway debut in the Go-Go's musical Head Over Heels. Hey, hey, hey.

[1:42] Bryan Plovsky: Let's give a big Broadwaysted welcome to Friend of the Show, Bonnie Milligan.

[1:49] Bonnie Milligan: Yay! Welcome.

[1:51] Bryan Plovsky: Hey y'all.

[1:52] Bonnie Milligan: I don't know why I went so slowly.

[1:53] Kimberly Cooper: No, we love it.

[1:55] Bonnie Milligan: It felt authentic.

[1:58] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah. Are you so I'm from Central Illinois, but like where I'm from, there's a slight draw.

[2:01] Bonnie Milligan: No, that's.

[2:02] Bryan Plovsky: And as I drink more, you'll hear it come out.

[2:04] Bonnie Milligan: Right. Or when I waited tables, I always always be like, how y'all doing? And people are like, what? I'm like, I don't know. I think about it. I say things like, oh, like olive oil, like that's tossing some olive oil. Like, what? I don't know. It makes you sound nicer.

[2:20] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, when you wait tables, you create a persona.

[2:22] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, absolutely. Being married to someone from the Midwest, I sometimes when I'm trying to be nice to people, I talk a little more Midwestern.

[2:29] Kevin Jacob: I totally believe that.

[2:30] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. It works. I mean, you're welcome.

[2:34] Bryan Plovsky: Well, if you want to get more of her personality, you can follow her at Belting Bonnie on Twitter.

[2:39] Bonnie Milligan: A very appropriate Twitter handle.

[2:41] Bryan Plovsky: Thank you. That is one hell of a voice. Who named me?

[2:44] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, I'm not sure.

[2:45] Bryan Plovsky: Wait, really?

[2:46] Bonnie Milligan: Oh man. Who named you? Um, Robbie Rosell.

[2:49] Bryan Plovsky: Oh, friend of the show.

[2:51] Bonnie Milligan: I had um, I was like singing at 54 Below all the time. And he approached me, and I think it was the first time we met, and he was like, Do you are you on Twitter? And I'm like, no, I'm not on Twitter. And he was like, give me your phone. And literally sat me up on Twitter, and he was like, You shall be Belting Bonnie. And what's funny? It's just like Rob. I was already on Instagram as Belting Bonds, which is like more familial. You know, like, hey friend, Bonnie. Hey Bonds. But he didn't know that, but he named me Belting Bonnie, and I was like, okay, that's fair, so I'm into it. And I once tried to like consolidate, I was like, they should be the same, but it didn't feel right. Like Instagram feels like Bonds, Twitter feels like Bonnie.

[3:29] Kimberly Cooper: I totally agree with you.

[3:31] Bonnie Milligan: Right? Yeah. I tried it's a big one. One's just in the front, party in the back.

[3:35] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, it's your social media mullet.

[3:37] Bonnie Milligan: Thank you.

[3:37] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah, absolutely. Um, but let's just start with what are you drinking?

[3:40] Bonnie Milligan: What are you drinking?

[3:44] Bonnie Milligan: I am drinking a vodka soda.

[3:46] Bryan Plovsky: Yes.

[3:47] Bonnie Milligan: With Reyka. Is that it right? I've been practicing. I again still don't speak Icelandish. But also, I feel like eventually I might want some of that Tanteo jalapeno to came up. That's what I'm drinking. It's really good. She's smell it. Like it just he opened it and it like filled the room.

[4:04] Kevin Jacob: So good.

[4:04] Bonnie Milligan: It's aromatic. I'll get you halfway through. This vodka is doing me right. Reyka is really good. It's really crisp.

[4:11] Kevin Jacob: Oh, I said it wrong?

[4:12] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. You know what? The Y is before the K. But I don't want it to be like Reika.

[4:17] Kevin Jacob: Oh, Reka.

[4:19] Bonnie Milligan: There you go. You're welcome. Just put a little everything it'll be fun.

[4:24] Kevin Jacob: Yeah. Thanks for that.

[4:25] Bonnie Milligan: You're welcome. What are you drinking?

[4:27] Kevin Jacob: I'm drinking a man can rosé because I'm a masculine macho man with my dog on the front.

[4:33] Bonnie Milligan: Is that your dog?

[4:34] Kevin Jacob: No, it's just like I got so excited. First of all, do you own this winery? Do you own this thing? That's your dog. Can I get some free, I don't know, rosé in a can and a dog?

[4:47] Bryan Plovsky: I just got to do it.

[4:48] Kevin Jacob: That would be a great company that you sell somebody, like if they buy enough rosé, they get a dog.

[4:48] Bonnie Milligan: They get a dog.

[4:52] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, it's like when they would like, when you bought enough cigarettes and you get like a jacket.

[4:56] Bonnie Milligan: What?

[4:57] Kevin Jacob: What?

[4:58] Bonnie Milligan: How old are you?

[4:59] Kevin Jacob: All of us are like, what are you telling me about? Like if you bought enough like Marlboro's and like sent in your like a Marlboro of all things, where are you from?

[5:07] Bonnie Milligan: But no, but you you got like a jacket in the bag and something like that.

[5:11] Kevin Jacob: No, I'm dead. When I was in college, the camel people used to come to the bars and be like, Do you want some free cigarettes? And they've like, like they were like a creepy dark drug dealer, and they're like handing out cigarettes. And then you would get free things in the mail.

[5:23] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah.

[5:23] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, because you just had to sign up on an email.

[5:26] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, I think we learned about that in health class, but they were like, this is how they were.

[5:33] Bryan Plovsky: Here's your first pack. That's the lights.

[5:37] Kevin Jacob: Here's the fast you work up. Whoever gets highs on the final gets a super cool duffel bag.

[5:42] Bryan Plovsky: At first I was like, we shouldn't be talking about this, but I was like, we're a drinking podcast. I think it's okay.

[5:45] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, but don't smoke.

[5:49] Kevin Jacob: You can't be belting Phil in the blank.

[5:51] Bonnie Milligan: No. Yeah.

[5:52] Bryan Plovsky: Oh, I have a gin and tonic because I'm myself.

[5:55] Kevin Jacob: Proud of you. Um, so let's do it. Uh start with what have you seen this week?

[5:59] Bryan Plovsky: What have you seen this week?

[6:01] Bonnie Milligan: What have I seen? I seen my opening. That happened this week.

[6:04] Bryan Plovsky: We opened on Broadway on Thursday.

[6:07] Bonnie Milligan: That's amazing. It's been like nose to the ground.

[6:09] Bryan Plovsky: What was it like first Broadway opening?

[6:11] Bonnie Milligan: Well debuting. Real. Like really crazy. It felt like a whirlwind because you're just kind of like, okay, what's happening? Because you're really trying to take it all in, but then I'm like an emotional gal. So if I would take it in, then I would be like, ooh, like start to cry. I'm like, no, you can't be doing this right now. But um, it was amazing. We had like the most unreal house, and like the cast of Pose was there from FX. Right. And I was obsessed with that show. Um, and it was just the most fun. And then the party was at Guastavino's. I know, which was soups, fans. Um, and it was cute. I wasn't mad. My mom and my stepdad were there and a couple of friends, so it was just like it was magical, is the word for it. Yeah, it was cool.

[6:54] Bryan Plovsky: That's incredible. Yeah. Well, we'll definitely talk more about Head Over Heels a little bit later. But have you guys seen anything?

[6:59] Kevin Jacob: I saw Head Over Heels.

[7:00] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah, we too.

[7:02] Kevin Jacob: We too. On Tuesday.

[7:04] Bryan Plovsky: It's a good week.

[7:04] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[7:05] Bryan Plovsky: Yes, I was in the third row. They were fun seats.

[7:06] Kevin Jacob: Oh my god, you are up in it.

[7:09] Bryan Plovsky: I was in everything. So we were in the second row of the Desany.

[7:12] Kevin Jacob: The dress.

[7:13] Bryan Plovsky: Oh my god, those seats are amazing. Before we even talk about the show, we've talked about it on this podcast before. Go to the Hudson.

[7:18] Kevin Jacob: Oh, it was like the Hudson.

[7:21] Bryan Plovsky: It's like the prettiest place on earth.

[7:23] Kevin Jacob: Yes.

[7:23] Bryan Plovsky: And there's like leg room and nice new seats.

[7:27] Kevin Jacob: It's the oldest and newest theater on Bronx.

[7:29] Bryan Plovsky: Isn't that so the time machine?

[7:35] Kevin Jacob: I know. 1903. They won like the original producer, I might be wrong. Sorry, just Google things. But like he died on the Titanic.

[7:44] Bryan Plovsky: Mr. Harris.

[7:45] Kevin Jacob: We learned that in Tim.

[7:48] Bryan Plovsky: With Tim, uh the tour guy tour ghost like.

[7:50] Kevin Jacob: Oh my gosh, I need to do the historical.

[7:54] Bryan Plovsky: I'm upset. Because then I went to the Belasco this week too.

[7:57] Kevin Jacob: Oh, and saw Getting the Band Back Together, and that's the most haunted.

[8:00] Bonnie Milligan: But can you remind me where they're next door?

[8:02] Kevin Jacob: I know. That's a scary street.

[8:06] Bonnie Milligan: We have a ghost, but it's like Mrs. Renee Harris allegedly. And she's nice, but I share a dressing room with Rachel York. Uh-huh. Um, and things on her station will like go missing. She's like, Where's that spoon? Like, who needs a spoon? Like, but I'm like, what? And I'm always like, the ghost.

[8:20] Kevin Jacob: So does Rachel think you're a thief?

[8:24] Bonnie Milligan: What are you cheating with? Her spoon. No, but what's amazing is that. While you're on stage, she's like rounding through your drawer. Michael joke with her, and I'm like, Rachel, I didn't take it. She's like, I'm not saying you did. It's just where it isn't.

[8:39] Bonnie Milligan: No, because it's like move. And it's like nobody would move that. Yeah. And clearly, Renee is very into Rachel.

[8:47] Kevin Jacob: That's great.

[8:48] Bonnie Milligan: That's amazing. Everyone should be in direction.

[8:50] Bryan Plovsky: Oh my gosh. For sure. But Head Over Heels was so much fun. It is like a burst of excitement and energy from the beginning. I've laughed at the one of the jokes with it was something I've laughed at harder than I've laughed at anything this whole year. That it was just like it felt like a la like Mel Brooks. Like if you love like that kind of a comedy that's just like fun for the sake of being fun and things that you can groan while you're laughing.

[9:15] Bonnie Milligan: And you like jokes that are double downed upon.

[9:17] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, I feel like that's what happens a lot. And it's just someone else's joke. Oh, they're going for the rest of the joke. And one thing that like Michael Mayer, who directed, who was so genius and amazing, was so great about was like you also all of you have to root these performances in like truth. So we're doing these insane things, but like I need you to like, it has to come from a place of like character development that these people are growing. They may seem like these stereotypical characters, but they're they're rooted in truth, even though they're saying the craziest things with full commitment.

[9:51] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah.

[9:52] Kevin Jacob: And I think he was really smart for that. So that you actually do care about these people while you're laughing.

[9:58] Bonnie Milligan: And one of the things that's really struck me while I was watching it that I've actually I hate you. Um that struck me that also I've seen a lot of people talking about on social media is how much I wish there had been a show with this message when I was younger.

[10:14] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[10:15] Bonnie Milligan: Because like seeing this kind of storyline and saying that like people are just who they are and like loving who you are is normal. Like I remember how much Rent meant to me at the time. Yes. And like it was dealing with like issues that were close to me, but also kind of not so close to me because I was like, I was from Florida, I wasn't dealing with as like much of this crisis. I was much younger. Yeah. But like this show speaks to like the younger generation as well as the older generation in just kind of that like it's okay to be you, and like the it gets better kind of feeling. And I really like it. I've seen it resonating with like the younger generation, like hardcore.

[10:49] Kevin Jacob: Have you seen that as well?

[10:51] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, the people at our stage tour, it's so moving. Like it kind of reminds us like how important it is. And again, as you think, oh, it's like this silly show, but like you said, it's not all for that. There is something we're saying, and the amount of especially like young and young queer youth that have like waited and uh so many non-binary plural individuals who have stopped and been like, I use they them pronouns, and I never thought I would hear that on stage or in a song, and tears full in their eyes that they're like, This means more than I can describe, and like you know, lesbians that are are saying, I can't believe there's a lesbian storyline that it's just joyful, and that when you come out, yeah, it's not mired in like trauma or people not accepting, and how do I accept myself? It's like no, it's just joy, like it's that's so unheard of in so many ways, which is sad.

[11:44] Kevin Jacob: Like, they should be able to feel represented in the joy, and that is that is a huge thing in like in gay literature and gay story arcs that it's called like it's like I think it's the lesbian like death character, like there's like a whole syndrome that if you pay attention, uh I don't know exactly what's called Google Things, but like all just like gay death characters. I think it's like the gay character death or whatever it's called syndrome, but like if you look like the majority of gay characters in fiction are used for either like sad endings or just like tragic situations and scenarios, and they're or else they're like the butt of the joke.

[12:19] Bonnie Milligan: Yes, so like seeing two characters that it like you said, it's like, yes, there is something you have to go through, like there is like the hurdle to cross because it's a show has to have like a plot like that. But like it's just gonna be like we're happy. It's just joyful and fun.

[12:35] Kevin Jacob: It's just like you know, my character, it's like she doesn't know what she wants, and that's what the toil is that it's like, why am I wrong? People, I can't pick a guy, and there's something wrong with me, but then she realizes there's nothing wrong with her.

[12:48] Bonnie Milligan: Oh my god, that poetry segment.

[12:51] Kevin Jacob: So awesome.

[12:52] Bonnie Milligan: And also on the idea of like, oh, the joy and the not being on the butt of a joke, also as a plus size actress, like to not be the butt of a joke and nothing about my size in this show. Nothing. No. And it was written for like to have a plus size actress doing, but that's the whole point of it, and not to have a single thing about it, but that she is the vision of beauty, which back in the day she was because look at like art, you know, plump bodies because that meant like wealth and health and all these things. And it's like I would be.

[13:20] Bonnie Milligan: And so that's been like to get to go out on stage and sing a like a song called Beautiful about how like beautiful I am is unbelievable and exciting and on the side.

[13:30] Kevin Jacob: Because you are a girl.

[13:33] Bonnie Milligan: But it's like what you're like, yes, it's not a joke. Like, what's funny about her is that she's so conceited and not quite self-aware yet. But she's at the beginning loves herself, and it's not, oh, how do I find out how to love myself? Which is so many, like fat girl storyline.

[13:47] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[13:47] Bonnie Milligan: Well, how can you see through my body and see my soul is good? It's like, no, I am everything.

[13:52] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[13:52] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, wait, what's wrong? What's happening? And then it's a different discovery.

[13:55] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, yeah.

[13:57] Bonnie Milligan: And on top of all of that, the go-go's are awesome.

[13:59] Kevin Jacob: Oh my god, they're the best.

[14:00] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. What was that like marrying that music with this storyline? How you say like you try to keep everything honest and yeah from a true place? What was it like taking these songs that a lot of us like know from like 80s parties and growing up in the 80s and you don't know it's but it's it's loosely based on the story of Arcadia, not Tom Stoppard, right? The other one. Sir Philip Sidney from like 1580 something with the songs of the go-go's, yeah.

[14:24] Bonnie Milligan: Um, for me, I feel like they oddly fit kind of perfectly. There is so the GoGo songs, like which I always kind of bopped along to and I knew about, I didn't realize were so filled with story and depth. Like when you really kind of break down the lyrics, like even a song I bring this up, Good Girl, which is like my sister's song. But myself and Mopsa sing along with her. It's a trio, and every care each character is in their own wor way playing the role of a good girl. I'm trying to like, I feel bad. My sister is like she can't go for this boy clearly. She like loves, and but I'm I'm come from a place where I don't love meeting all these men every year and trying to find a suitor. And it's my role as the princess, and it's your role.

And I'm sorry, baby girl, but like you have to smile till it hurts, and you have to smile so that everyone loves you. And it's like these things make sense because I'm like, I've had to do this and I don't like this. And she's singing it as she's discovering it. I'm from a place that's been through it. And Mopsa is like, I have to smile. I don't like these, you know, and she has her own like storyline and especially her feelings with me, and we're all in this place, so the the lyrics somehow really lend themselves um story to the story, which is amazing.

[15:43] Bonnie Milligan: And I mean, there's things like cool jerk, which is a little fun, but it's more like you know, dancing. Um, which is why we just kind of sing it while we like have scenes throughout that number. So, you know, I think it's smartly kind of put together, and the lyrics lend themselves to acting, which is the best.

[15:59] Kevin Jacob: Absolutely.

[15:59] Bonnie Milligan: That usually helps. But also like lyrics I didn't know. Like I didn't know good girl that well, except for the chorus, and I was watching it, and I was like, oh, this is everyone. When she's a slavery girl has done this, good girl. I mean, and the late the girls, the go-go's have talked about when they wrote that song and did that song, and it was like they were they were told they couldn't be an all-female rock band. They were like, you have to have a man in there somewhere. And they were the first ones to be successful who wrote their own songs. That's I didn't. I read that in the playbill. And I was like, I did not know that they're the only group female group that write all of their numbers to be like the top of the chart.

[16:37] Kevin Jacob: Yes.

[16:38] Bonnie Milligan: Yes. Like that's crazy that they not only were they with first. Just one of the only.

[16:42] Kevin Jacob: Yes, yes, that's crazy.

[16:43] Bonnie Milligan: That's awesome. And they're them and Josie and the Pussycats.

[16:45] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[16:47] Bonnie Milligan: Exactly. No, but like even that lyric they brought up saying, good dog, good girl, like they're kept being told what to do. It's like, I guess I'll be a good dog. You know what? On my grave, let's write an epitaph. Like, it is intense. And I always thought we got the beat was we got the beef. So that really cleared it up for me. I hate it so much.

[17:07] Kevin Jacob: Now I want some beef.

[17:08] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah.

[17:10] Kevin Jacob: Don't we all?

[17:10] Bonnie Milligan: It's just such a funny skull. It's just like such a great message. Um, that's not shoved down your throat, but it's just presented how a world could be if we would just all love each other. It's yeah, it's really an awesome show.

[17:23] Kevin Jacob: And if there were oracles and prophecies, wouldn't that be nice?

[17:26] Bonnie Milligan: Wouldn't it be nice? I love the the embracing magic beach boys.

[17:30] Kevin Jacob: Oh yeah.

[17:31] Bonnie Milligan: The magic of it too, which is very Shakespearean. Like you see the end of Winter's Tale when the statue of Hermione comes to life, and it's like, oh my god, she's back. It's that kind of nod. I don't want to give any spoiler alerts. Like a time turner necklace.

[17:44] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[17:47] Bonnie Milligan: No, it's it's so much fun. Oh my god, I'm so excited. I saw, and I have to get this in there, uh, Mama Mia 2. Here we go again. I have just seen it. I haven't seen it again. I'll keep this short, but all I'll say is is that it's not as campy as the first one. The first one's like way campier.

[18:01] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, yeah.

[18:01] Bonnie Milligan: However, this one, my mom and I went together. Oh we had I went with my Mama Mia, and it was first of all, we had it's not like it's a mess of a movie, like in a good way.

[18:13] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, yeah.

[18:14] Bonnie Milligan: Like so as was the first one. We had so much fun.

[18:16] Kevin Jacob: I've heard this from everyone.

[18:18] Bonnie Milligan: It's so much fun. Lily James is great. They're the flashbacks to like a young Donna, and um, which are unnecessary because she explains what happens in the first five minutes of the other one. And then that's true. And so like still my flashback to be its own movie. Yeah, okay. We get Grease into this more. And anyway, but like the songs are great. Lily James is spectacular. Um, Jessica Keenan Wynn is great. She's my friend. She is I I have to see her movie, but I've just been like, you know. Oh, in a broader. Junior Brave show. Um, I am it's a ridiculous movie. We had a great time, and I will say the last 20 minutes of the movie are fan service times 10.

[18:55] Kevin Jacob: Is it a mega mix?

[18:56] Bonnie Milligan: And it is it's not a mega. Oh my god, 20 minute mega mix. No, no, no. 20 minute waterloo.

[19:02] Kevin Jacob: Oh good.

[19:02] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, Waterloo's my favorite. They did it in a French restaurant, so we can so we can mention the. I've seen uh I had a great time. I had a great time. Um Lily James, if you ever want to be this podcast, let me know.

[19:13] Kevin Jacob: I love it.

[19:14] Bonnie Milligan: I want Lily, I want to. Give me Lily.

[19:15] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, yeah.

[19:16] Bonnie Milligan: Lily's eyes. Uh, and Lily's Eyes. Um I gotta tell you guys, I've been watching America's Got Talent this season, and I gotta say, I'm really getting inspired to share my secret talent with the world.

[19:27] Kevin Jacob: Oh, yeah?

[19:28] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. Can I give you a demonstration?

[19:29] Kevin Jacob: Wait, what's your talent?

[19:31] Bonnie Milligan: Singing and acting?

[19:32] Kevin Jacob: It's not dancing, right?

[19:33] Bonnie Milligan: No, all that is way too vanilla for America's Got Talent. No.

[19:37] Bonnie Milligan: I am an alphanumeric contortionist.

[19:39] Kevin Jacob: What does that even mean?

[19:40] Bonnie Milligan: I can contort my body, but only into letters and numbers. You wanna see?

[19:43] Kevin Jacob: Hell yeah.

[19:45] Bonnie Milligan: This isn't gonna end well. Oh, I stretched out for this. Oh C No no, hold on. Let me curl my leg. Oh G. Okay, this one's easy. Oh. Yep, now this one. This one is a little curvy.

[20:04] Kevin Jacob: D?

[20:05] Bonnie Milligan: Yep. Alright, this one, I got a little zzz. This one, hold on. I love how you said it. I know, I'm sorry.

[20:15] Kevin Jacob: T, yep.

[20:16] Bonnie Milligan: And then this one, I gotta peek it up. Oh, so I'm gonna get it.

[20:19] Kevin Jacob: Hey, impressive flexibility.

[20:22] Bonnie Milligan: And then this one, a little curl, and then a kick out. There it is.

[20:28] Kevin Jacob: There it is.

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[20:50] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, and everything's at the most affordable prices.

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[21:02] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, gross. He's doing the letters thing again.

[21:05] Kevin Jacob: This talent is great.

[21:08] Bonnie Milligan: Alright, B.

[21:12] Kevin Jacob: R.

[21:13] Bonnie Milligan: Okay.

[21:14] Kevin Jacob: Are you having a baby?

[21:16] Bonnie Milligan: Oh.

[21:16] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[21:17] Bonnie Milligan: Alright, this one is Ah.

[21:19] Kevin Jacob: Alright.

[21:22] Bonnie Milligan: D.

[21:23] Kevin Jacob: Alright, stretch this one out.

[21:26] Bonnie Milligan: W.

[21:27] Kevin Jacob: Alright.

[21:30] Bonnie Milligan: Why?

[21:31] Kevin Jacob: Alright, hold on.

[21:32] Bonnie Milligan: This one.

[21:32] Kevin Jacob: I got it.

[21:37] Bonnie Milligan: Then one more crack.

[21:40] Kevin Jacob: Oh.

[21:42] Bonnie Milligan: Okay, and then one more letter.

[21:44] Kevin Jacob: Oh god.

[21:44] Bonnie Milligan: D.

[21:45] Kevin Jacob: D.

[21:45] Bonnie Milligan: D, stop it.

[21:47] Kevin Jacob: Please stop.

[21:50] Bonnie Milligan: Wait. Did you master that very strange and creepy talent just so we could creatively do an ad segment?

[21:57] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, Kimberly. Because I'm dedicated.

[22:01] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, okay, okay, we get it. For the love of God, please stop contorting.

[22:04] Kevin Jacob: You think Simon will like it?

[22:06] Bonnie Milligan: That's the grossest thing I've ever seen. We're moving on from this.

[22:09] Kevin Jacob: Golden buzzer.

[22:11] Bonnie Milligan: Is that America's Got Talent? Ready for the cards? Let's play a game.

[22:16] Kevin Jacob: Great.

[22:16] Bonnie Milligan: Okay. Wait, I need another one of these guys.

[22:19] Kevin Jacob: Oh, do you want to deal? Or do you want the tequila?

[22:21] Bonnie Milligan: Let's switch it up. If you're at home, refresh your drink. Play along. Always play along with us. Except for the games in which you need to draw a physical card from the middle of the table, which I'm about to explain, and you can't really play along with it.

[22:35] Kevin Jacob: Alright, cool. Imagine.

[22:36] Bonnie Milligan: But guess along with us. Amazing. As I explain plot points.

[22:40] Kevin Jacob: Yay!

[22:40] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, I love this game. In which I have the plot of some Shakespeare plays.

[22:47] Kevin Jacob: Well, I don't have the plot. I have the name of some Shakespeare plays.

[22:50] Bonnie Milligan: Right. In one pile. Okay. I have the name of some hit 80s songs in the other pile.

[22:55] Kevin Jacob: You'll grab one of each.

[22:57] Bonnie Milligan: Okay. And then sing to me the plot of the show to the tune of the song.

[23:01] Kevin Jacob: That feels so hard.

[23:02] Bonnie Milligan: Okay.

[23:03] Kevin Jacob: And then we will all try and guess what show and what song you are describing.

[23:08] Bonnie Milligan: Got it. Um, and Kevin Starts is a good example.

[23:10] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[23:11] Bonnie Milligan: Oh god. Like for lovers.

[23:14] Kevin Jacob: Hey.

[23:16] Bonnie Milligan: Going in an enchanted.

[23:19] Kevin Jacob: Miss Summer Night's Dream Like a Virgin.

[23:21] Bonnie Milligan: Yes, yes.

[23:22] Kevin Jacob: Nice.

[23:23] Bryan Plovsky: Alright, your turn.

[23:23] Bonnie Milligan: Should we bring out the bells for this game now? To ring in.

[23:26] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, just whoever rings the bell can go first.

[23:30] Bryan Plovsky: We don't always have bells, but we have them.

[23:32] Bonnie Milligan: We have it. So let's embrace it. Bell it. And you know it's a podcast. Add more noise.

[23:38] Bryan Plovsky: Alrighty.

[23:39] Bonnie Milligan: Yep. This emperor is not my salad.

[23:44] Kevin Jacob: Stab in.

[23:45] Bryan Plovsky: He stabbed in the back.

[23:48] Kevin Jacob: Julius Caesar.

[23:51] Bonnie Milligan: Billy Jean is a regular.

[23:53] Kevin Jacob: Oh god.

[23:56] Bonnie Milligan: Okay. I wrote them all. This emperor's not my salad.

[24:00] Kevin Jacob: Yes, I do. I'm dead with you.

[24:03] Bonnie Milligan: Okay.

[24:05] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[24:08] Bonnie Milligan: I'm 14 and I don't know.

[24:12] Kevin Jacob: But I'm at a boy at a party.

[24:15] Bonnie Milligan: We're gonna kill it.

[24:17] Kevin Jacob: It's Romeo and Juliet.

[24:18] Bonnie Milligan: And pour some sugar on me.

[24:25] Kevin Jacob: I realized I only know the tune up pour some sugar. And that's all I needed. And I started and I was like, got it! And I was like, I'm going to ride. This is all I got. This is all I got. This is it.

[24:40] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, Catherine is mean.

[24:43] Kevin Jacob: Oh, just get her a boyfriend.

[24:46] Bonnie Milligan: Oh.

[24:47] Kevin Jacob: That is living on a prayer to taming of the shrew.

[24:49] Bonnie Milligan: That is correct.

[24:50] Kevin Jacob: Or taming of the shrewd to Living on a Prayer.

[24:52] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, either way.

[24:53] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[24:54] Bonnie Milligan: If you're crazy and you look, you'll see blood on your hands.

[24:59] Kevin Jacob: You are a bad wife.

[25:01] Bonnie Milligan: Time after time.

[25:02] Kevin Jacob: Because you're both your husband.

[25:04] Bonnie Milligan: Yep. You got time after time from that?

[25:05] Kevin Jacob: What?

[25:06] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, for sure. Time after time.

[25:08] Kevin Jacob: Scottish play.

[25:12] Bonnie Milligan: That's true, that's true. This is like our own form of theater.

[25:16] Kevin Jacob: Denmark is a little old place where.

[25:21] Bonnie Milligan: Yes, it is.

[25:23] Kevin Jacob: Uh oh.

[25:24] Bonnie Milligan: Okay.

[25:27] Kevin Jacob: We can murder our uncles.

[25:31] Bonnie Milligan: This is again.

[25:35] Kevin Jacob: Deadmark baby.

[25:36] Bonnie Milligan: Someone make this video. My twin and I, we were shipwrecked and lost each other.

[25:42] Kevin Jacob: I goin' a cover as a man.

[25:45] Bonnie Milligan: It's as you like it for no, it's uh it's the other one. Nine, ten, eleven. No, hold on. I know the song is uh How Did I Know by Whitney Houston. Thank you.

[25:53] Kevin Jacob: And the play is it's Viola and 11.

[25:57] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, you're right, you're right. It's uh nine, ten, eleven, twelve, twelve night.

[26:02] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[26:03] Bonnie Milligan: I thought you were counting me out in street.

[26:08] Kevin Jacob: I was like, don't say I was on the twelve, I'll be out.

[26:11] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. Amazing. There is a lot of like cross dressing though in all of these Shakespeare shows.

[26:17] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[26:18] Bonnie Milligan: Cross-dressing girl in a forest.

[26:25] Kevin Jacob: Great.

[26:26] Bonnie Milligan: As you like it. Good old roster.

[26:29] Kevin Jacob: Oh, I love that so much. So here's a question for you.

[26:31] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah.

[26:32] Kevin Jacob: This is your Broadway debut.

[26:33] Bonnie Milligan: Yep.

[26:34] Kevin Jacob: Was there a difference between going on for that first preview and going on opening night?

[26:40] Bonnie Milligan: Yes. Because the very first preview was like, this is the first time I will ever be on Broadway. So I had a big group of friends come. At first it's fun so funny because before I was like, wait till we have a few shows. People like, don't come to the first. But I'm so glad that like a big group of friends bought tickets. Because I didn't realize how emotional I would be. But then it's like, oh no, this is like my first show ever on Broadway. My heart was racing so hard. Um and the audience was amazing, and it was like long applauses. And I was just like, after beautiful, like sitting there in my pose, and they kept going, they kept going and on lights, they were like holding off the cue. And I was like, yes.

Because we had 37 previews. So we've been doing it for a while. We had like a solid week of what they call like freezing the show. So we'd already like did all the changes that I felt comfortable in the show. We knew what it was, but then it's like a different feeling that you know this is a group, it's opening night. Um my mom was there, then it was just like um I was like ride through the very end. We end in a poem, and I have a line, breaking night, and it's the putting up theater is hard. And I've been with the show for four years, and it's had a lot of ups and downs, and um, there were so many times I thought it wouldn't happen. And so where I'm sitting there, and to say the words breaking night, it's like you do break through night to like get to this light, and so I was like, breaking night and immediately so I just cried through the rest of the poem, but with a giant smile because it's just gratitude.

So they were different, but like both really emotional and really cool. And you're one of the only people to have gone through the whole entire process, really soul person. So, what was that journey been like?

[28:42] Bonnie Milligan: Crazy. Yeah, like there is a weird almost like survivor's guilt that can happen because you're like because everybody's in but I I've met so many amazingly talented, beautiful people. We did a gorgeous production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. And um, you know, and they decided they kind of from that they wanted to kind of retool where the the show was kind of going and make it a different vision, which Michael Mayer came on, and um I was the only one to stick with it, and everybody I'm such good friends with them, and a lot of them are Oregon-based, have been so supportive and loving and excited for the show, which was overwhelming and amazing. Um, to just feel supported, there's no weird feelings, which is really nice.

Yeah, um, but I had to kind of go through that to feel like is this okay to feel happy? Is this okay? You know, like it's a weird thing, and then to be with it from the beginning, and the team has really been lovely with me, and have respected me so highly, like asked my opinion on things and make sure everything's kind of kosher, and it it's just been the myriad of emotions. I will say. It's been all the feelings you can imagine in one, um, but overwhelmingly beautiful is the word for it.

[30:02] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, we should probably go somewhere else.

[30:04] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, so I'll go to Tuesdays in the corner with Kevin.

[30:10] Kevin Jacob: Kevin's Corner. I have a new drink. So it's nice. Welcome to Kevin's Corner. Thank you. Uh, where I have three highly researched questions that start off about you and then deviate into really crazy places. Uh, today's Kevin's Corner is inspired by numbers.

[30:28] Kevin Jacob: So each question begins with a number.

[30:31] Kevin Jacob: Question one.

[30:32] Bonnie Milligan: Like numbers.

[30:35] Kevin Jacob: Are you ready?

[30:36] Bonnie Milligan: I'm into numbers, yeah.

[30:37] Kevin Jacob: Question one.

[30:39] Kevin Jacob: The CBS show starring uh.

[30:40] Bonnie Milligan: I've never seen this.

[30:42] Kevin Jacob: Oh my god.

[30:43] Bonnie Milligan: Okay.

[30:45] Kevin Jacob: Question one.

[30:46] Kevin Jacob: Sixth and twenty-fifth.

[30:49] Kevin Jacob: Your home state of Illinois is the sixth most populous state and the 25th largest in terms of land area. The land where John Deere's invention of the self-scouring steel plow turned the rich prairie into some of the world's most productive and valued farmland, attracting immigrants, farmers from both Germany and Sweden.

[31:07] Bonnie Milligan: Sweet.

[31:08] Kevin Jacob: In the musical Legally Blonde, Orface Paulette mistakenly thinks that Laura Bell Bundy's Elle looks like a poster for Ireland before realizing she actually more accurately resembles the poster for Sweden on account of her long blonde hair and sweet sunny face.

[31:22] Bonnie Milligan: Yes.

[31:23] Kevin Jacob: Faceoff is an American reality television show.

[31:26] Kevin Jacob: Also a great movie with Nicholas Cage.

[31:28] Bonnie Milligan: That's where it's a great movie, but it's also an incredible reality TV show on Sci-Fi Network.

[31:35] Kevin Jacob: Oh, I've watched it, yes. Where the group of uh prosthetic makeup artists compete each week to uh create prostheses, such as those found in science fiction and horror films, and it's my favorite, and I totes really sad that the season is the last season.

[31:48] Bonnie Milligan: What's her face?

[31:48] Kevin Jacob: McKenzie Westmore.

[31:49] Bonnie Milligan: I used to watch Was it Passion?

[31:52] Kevin Jacob: Yes.

[31:52] Bonnie Milligan: Oh yeah.

[31:54] Kevin Jacob: She's a passion.

[31:55] Bonnie Milligan: She was so passionate about the doll, right?

[31:57] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[31:58] Bonnie Milligan: Timmy, Jimmy Passion.

[32:01] Kevin Jacob: She was totally on that show.

[32:03] Kevin Jacob: Where's the passion pod?

[32:04] Bonnie Milligan: Sorry, I did not have to DV, but we had to bring it up.

[32:07] Kevin Jacob: But we can bring it back to the deviation's work in this thing.

[32:12] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah.

[32:13] Kevin Jacob: You're welcome.

[32:15] Kevin Jacob: Broadway.

[32:15] Kevin Jacob: The passing of the seasons in the montage of Hugh Grant walking down the street in Notting Hill, feeling alone without Julia Roberts, Anna Scott, set to "Ain't No Sunshine" when she's gone, is one of my favorite movies or moments in a romantic comedy. So my question is please pick your favorite genre of movie.

[32:28] Bonnie Milligan: Oh my.

[32:34] Bonnie Milligan: And then share three moments or segments from different films that you love from that genre.

[32:39] Bonnie Milligan: That is so intense.

[32:42] Bonnie Milligan: Um, okay.

[32:43] Bonnie Milligan: Well, I oh god, I love all movies.

[32:47] Kevin Jacob: You can pick a favorite genre.

[32:49] Bonnie Milligan: A favorite genre.

[32:50] Bonnie Milligan: Okay, I love oh god.

[32:54] Bonnie Milligan: When you said share your favorite genre, I was like, is Cher a genre?

[32:58] Kevin Jacob: Cher is uh Moonstruck, Mermaids, Mamma Mia 2.

[33:04] Bonnie Milligan: Listen, I do love comedy.

[33:05] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[33:05] Bonnie Milligan: So let's go with that.

[33:06] Kevin Jacob: Comedy, great.

[33:07] Bonnie Milligan: Three best moments in comedy movies.

[33:09] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[33:10] Bonnie Milligan: Three best moments.

[33:11] Bonnie Milligan: Oh my god, this is so such high pressure.

[33:13] Bonnie Milligan: Okay, Bridesmaids.

[33:15] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[33:15] Bonnie Milligan: Yes.

[33:16] Bonnie Milligan: After the Brazilian steakhouse.

[33:19] Kevin Jacob: Yes.

[33:20] Bonnie Milligan: And it's literally, I mean, I could actually pick all three from Bridesmaids, but it's literally when you have Melissa McCarthy on a sink being like, it's like hot.

[33:32] Kevin Jacob: And Maya Rudolph is in the street.

[33:34] Bonnie Milligan: It's happening.

[33:35] Kevin Jacob: It's happening.

[33:36] Bonnie Milligan: Oh God.

[33:37] Bonnie Milligan: Um.

[33:39] Bonnie Milligan: I mean, also, let's, I'm just gonna pick three moves.

[33:41] Bonnie Milligan: Can I just pick them from the same movie?

[33:42] Kevin Jacob: Of course.

[33:43] Bonnie Milligan: Own rules, I'm doing it.

[33:44] Bonnie Milligan: Okay, that's one.

[33:45] Bonnie Milligan: The next is when um at on the plane, and Kristen Wiig has taken all.

[33:53] Kevin Jacob: These are all my answers, too.

[33:56] Bonnie Milligan: And she's like, all right, stove.

[33:58] Kevin Jacob: What kind of name is Stove?

[34:00] Bonnie Milligan: And he's like, it's Steve.

[34:02] Bonnie Milligan: She's like, whatever.

[34:03] Bonnie Milligan: And every moment of her, I mean she's like, I'm the cyclotheat.

[34:06] Bonnie Milligan: And all the all the craziness of her, which is amazing.

[34:11] Bonnie Milligan: And also her later at the um the party that like uh what's her name?

[34:17] Kevin Jacob: Uh gorgeous one, uh, from Rose Byrne.

[34:21] Bonnie Milligan: Rose Byrne.

[34:22] Bonnie Milligan: And she's like, this is well, that's actually pretty good.

[34:28] Bonnie Milligan: She's like just trashing the folks.

[34:30] Bonnie Milligan: Like, oh God, I just bridesmaids is good.

[34:34] Bonnie Milligan: So good.

[34:34] Bonnie Milligan: I don't watch it in so long, and now I need to go watch it.

[34:37] Bonnie Milligan: That should be a musical.

[34:38] Bonnie Milligan: It's literally been so long since I've watched it, and it's all like viscerally like burned into my head.

[34:44] Bonnie Milligan: We've said comedies and I was like, Maya Rudolph in the street.

[34:48] Bonnie Milligan: Also, there's like anything Melissa McCarthy ever does ever.

[34:51] Kevin Jacob: You need her to come see my show.

[34:52] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah.

[34:54] Bonnie Milligan: Please come see her.

[34:55] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[34:55] Bonnie Milligan: She listens all the time.

[34:56] Kevin Jacob: You know, I heard that.

[34:57] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, I know.

[34:58] Kevin Jacob: All right, question two.

[35:00] Kevin Jacob: Fourteen or fifteen.

[35:02] Kevin Jacob: Fourteen is the number of letters in your name, and 15 is the number of characters your name occupies if you include the space.

[35:10] Bonnie Milligan: You did warn me these would be silly today.

[35:12] Kevin Jacob: All right.

[35:13] Kevin Jacob: The Space Between is the song by a relatively unheard of band led by a man named David Matthews, who also sang another song you might not know if you don't follow the super underground indie music scene.

[35:26] Kevin Jacob: The song is called Crash.

[35:28] Bonnie Milligan: I was going to make a joke about me liking the movie Crash because obviously this question is absurdity, but I couldn't even do that because that movie was just so bad.

[35:35] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[35:36] Bonnie Milligan: It is.

[35:36] Kevin Jacob: Bad boys, bad boys, what you're gonna do, what you're gonna do when they come for you, bad boys, bad boys, is what you hear when you usually sit up on the couch and think, Jesus, what time is it?

[35:47] Bonnie Milligan: What time did I fall asleep?

[35:51] Kevin Jacob: So my question is what three musical theater songs created for a character who identifies as a man, would you love to get the chance to sink your teeth into on the Broadway?

[36:02] Bonnie Milligan: I'm I want to do something.

[36:06] Bonnie Milligan: That happens to me all the time I wake up and I'm like, I'm not watching cops, so what time is it?

[36:12] Bonnie Milligan: What you want?

[36:14] Bonnie Milligan: What you're like, oh god, no, we have to turn this off.

[36:17] Bonnie Milligan: You feel dirty about being awake.

[36:19] Bonnie Milligan: I know that they're about doing it not dirty.

[36:22] Bonnie Milligan: Um, in the West End, but I've always wanted to do Bobby in Company.

[36:26] Bonnie Milligan: I don't know being alive.

[36:27] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, and Sondheim signed off on that.

[36:29] Bonnie Milligan: Sondheim was excited about it.

[36:30] Kevin Jacob: I know.

[36:31] Bonnie Milligan: And Bonnie, baby.

[36:32] Bonnie Milligan: Listen, you don't even have to change it to the body.

[36:34] Bonnie Milligan: Belgium.

[36:37] Bonnie Milligan: And as I've gotten older, shh, it's fine, I'm like 19.

[36:41] Bonnie Milligan: Um especially from the Midwest, where I should be like married with like four kids by now.

[36:46] Kevin Jacob: Right.

[36:46] Bonnie Milligan: It's so I identify so hard with Company at this point.

[36:49] Bonnie Milligan: I'm like, oh god, like the pressure.

[36:51] Kevin Jacob: And I'm like, probably because you when you go home, you probably a lot of your friends from home are on that track.

[36:56] Bonnie Milligan: So what two other ones would you go for?

[36:58] Bonnie Milligan: Listen, Noelle.

[37:00] Bonnie Milligan: You know what?

[37:01] Bonnie Milligan: Why not?

[37:01] Bonnie Milligan: I've always wanted to do Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd.

[37:05] Kevin Jacob: Hell yeah.

[37:06] Bonnie Milligan: Like Sweeney.

[37:07] Kevin Jacob: Yes.

[37:07] Bonnie Milligan: Oh.

[37:08] Kevin Jacob: Who would be Lovett?

[37:09] Bonnie Milligan: Yes.

[37:09] Kevin Jacob: If you were Sweeney, who'd be your Lovett?

[37:11] Bonnie Milligan: Laura Benanti.

[37:13] Kevin Jacob: Oh, I'm not sure.

[37:14] Bonnie Milligan: I just want to work with Laura Benanti because I think she's so good.

[37:17] Bonnie Milligan: I've already bought it.

[37:17] Kevin Jacob: And Matt Doyle can be your Joanna.

[37:19] Bonnie Milligan: Yes.

[37:19] Kevin Jacob: Perfect.

[37:20] Bonnie Milligan: I'd go adopt him.

[37:24] Bonnie Milligan: You're like, that's fine.

[37:25] Bonnie Milligan: He was now he's the beggar woman.

[37:27] Kevin Jacob: Oh, that's a good one.

[37:29] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[37:30] Bonnie Milligan: Ah, Maddie.

[37:31] Bonnie Milligan: Um, ooh, you know what?

[37:33] Bonnie Milligan: Why not um Seymour in Little Shop?

[37:35] Kevin Jacob: I will do you ask.

[37:39] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah.

[37:39] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[37:40] Bonnie Milligan: I'm totally into this season now.

[37:41] Bonnie Milligan: 54 Below.

[37:42] Bonnie Milligan: I'm gonna do all these things.

[37:43] Bonnie Milligan: I would also give you a good baker in uh Into the Woods.

[37:46] Kevin Jacob: Oh, yeah.

[37:47] Bonnie Milligan: Because I want to do I want to do a rep version of Into the Woods where I get to switch off, and during one production, I like depends on the night.

[37:56] Bonnie Milligan: I'm either um the baker's wife, the witch, or little red.

[38:01] Kevin Jacob: Why limit?

[38:02] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah.

[38:04] Bonnie Milligan: I've talked with like Natalie Walker and Julia Madison.

[38:07] Bonnie Milligan: We're like, we should like do this where the three of us cycle in and out of these.

[38:11] Kevin Jacob: I'm in.

[38:12] Bonnie Milligan: Love it.

[38:13] Kevin Jacob: Producers make this happen.

[38:14] Kevin Jacob: Okay, question three.

[38:15] Kevin Jacob: Eight hundred and seventy-one thousand four hundred and eighty-nine.

[38:20] Kevin Jacob: That's the number of people who have watched your incredible YouTube video of the Disney Princess Medley with hashtag friend of the show, Laura Osnes, from your 54 Below concert, Belting Bonnie's Bon Voyage.

[38:31] Bonnie Milligan: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a high fantasy novel for children by C.S. Lewis that is the third of seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia that sees the youngest siblings, Lucy and Edmund, and cousin Eustace Scrubb, magically transported to Narnia in the only book in the series that doesn't include a central villain.

[38:49] Kevin Jacob: That's my favorite one.

[38:50] Bonnie Milligan: Really?

[38:50] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah.

[38:52] Bonnie Milligan: Um, I think mine was I always liked Prince Caspian, because I imagine it'd be really high.

[38:56] Kevin Jacob: I watched the wardrobe sequels.

[38:57] Bonnie Milligan: Thank you.

[38:58] Bonnie Milligan: There you go.

[38:58] Bonnie Milligan: Villains were always my favorite growing up, and my favorite of all time was Maleficent.

[39:03] Bonnie Milligan: She had this incredible staff, and in one scene, when she's really mad, she slams it down and yells, incredible.

[39:09] Bonnie Milligan: But at four years old, I thought that she was saying my credible.

[39:12] Bonnie Milligan: So I decided that that staff was called a credible, and I stole my mom's bastard from the kitchen, and it became my credible.

[39:18] Kevin Jacob: That's cute.

[39:20] Kevin Jacob: A credible interval is a range of values within which an unobserved parameter value falls with a particular subjective probability in Bayesian statistics.

[39:33] Bonnie Milligan: That was English.

[39:35] Kevin Jacob: Cool.

[39:35] Kevin Jacob: So my question is who would you cast in the following roles in a fantasy musical adaptation of Jurassic Park told entirely from the dinosaur's point of view?

[39:48] Kevin Jacob: So the first would be Trevor the T-Rex.

[39:48] Bonnie Milligan: Trevor the T-Rex.

[39:53] Bonnie Milligan: They're all women.

[39:53] Kevin Jacob: Brian Darcy James.

[39:55] Bonnie Milligan: No, but they aren't all women because they're having babies.

[39:58] Bonnie Milligan: Life finds a way.

[39:59] Bryan Plovsky: That's true.

[40:00] Kevin Jacob: Which means that's the whole thing.

[40:02] Bonnie Milligan: Because they were blending them with frog DNA, which in certain populations, the frog's gender would change so that their population could get.

[40:10] Kevin Jacob: So they like some of them became boys.

[40:12] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. So this one became a boy, and he's Trevor.

[40:14] Bryan Plovsky: So who would it be?

[40:15] Kevin Jacob: Brian Darcy James.

[40:16] Bonnie Milligan: Perfect.

[40:17] Bryan Plovsky: All right. The three Velociraptor sisters, Veronica, Valor, and Vicenia.

[40:23] Bonnie Milligan: Um, Mary Testa, Beth Level, and Christian Abersaw.

[40:28] Kevin Jacob: Oh my god. This is the greatest we've ever.

[40:31] Bonnie Milligan: Oh my god. I got kind of like that. Like, you know when you like jump in the pool too quickly and you're like the wind gets knocked out of you?

[40:38] Kevin Jacob: That's just what happens.

[40:39] Bonnie Milligan: You're welcome.

[40:40] Kevin Jacob: Okay. Number three. The dinosaur that spits in the guy from Seinfeld's face.

[40:44] Bonnie Milligan: His name is Spitter.

[40:47] Kevin Jacob: Chris Fitzgerald.

[40:49] Bonnie Milligan: Perfect. Really great. The sick dinosaur that Laura Dern gets all up in their poop.

[40:54] Kevin Jacob: Oh, that poor Triceratops.

[40:56] Bonnie Milligan: That poor, poor dinosaur. Um, I'm gonna go with what's his name, Balky from Perfect Bronson Pinch.

[41:11] Kevin Jacob: Yes.

[41:12] Bonnie Milligan: All right. I mean cuts. And the last role is the featured ensemble with a solo, and it's the cow that gets fed to the Velociraptors.

[41:20] Bonnie Milligan: Me. And that is Jurassic Park, the musical told by dinosaurs.

[41:27] Kevin Jacob: Yes. And you've made it through Kevin's Quarter.

[41:31] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. And I know people will be upset.

[41:34] Kevin Jacob: And so it's a goat.

[41:36] Bonnie Milligan: The cow is twister.

[41:37] Kevin Jacob: It's definitely a goat.

[41:38] Bonnie Milligan: Oh I just I know you're gonna get added at, and I wanted to save you that pain.

[41:41] Kevin Jacob: It's raised. Well, are you okay with playing a goat as well? If we change like amend your writing.

[41:43] Bonnie Milligan: I will pay a goat for sure.

[41:47] Kevin Jacob: But you can be Milky White in your version of goats.

[41:49] Bonnie Milligan: What's it called?

[41:51] Kevin Jacob: I love you.

[41:52] Bonnie Milligan: I can't believe I didn't cast Faith Prince in that.

[41:54] Kevin Jacob: It's she's one of them. She can be the standby.

[41:56] Bonnie Milligan: She's definitely standby for everything.

[42:00] Kevin Jacob: No, she's actually just the person who survives it all.

[42:02] Bonnie Milligan: Like she's just screaming and goes through.

[42:04] Kevin Jacob: She's the human.

[42:05] Bonnie Milligan: She's Jeff Goldblum.

[42:07] Kevin Jacob: Yes.

[42:07] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, yes. Faith Princess Jeff Goldblum. We've done it!

[42:10] Kevin Jacob: As Dr. Ian Malcolm.

[42:12] Bonnie Milligan: She've done it. Amazing. We've really done it.

[42:13] Kevin Jacob: And Laura Jernas Lord.

[42:15] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, she's staying.

[42:16] Kevin Jacob: She's staying.

[42:18] Bonnie Milligan: Don't be rude.

[42:19] Kevin Jacob: She's dead.

[42:19] Bonnie Milligan: She gets to do a scene with Balkie.

[42:21] Kevin Jacob: Okay. I don't know why, but literally, I couldn't get his face out of my brain.

[42:28] Bonnie Milligan: I was like, I'm just gonna have to say Valkyrie because I can't think of his name.

[42:32] Kevin Jacob: Bronson.

[42:32] Bonnie Milligan: He's doing musicals, it's putting it together.

[42:35] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[42:35] Bonnie Milligan: Um it's on DVD. Speaking of putting it together.

[42:39] Kevin Jacob: What's your favorite musical?

[42:40] Bonnie Milligan: That was a bad transition.

[42:43] Kevin Jacob: Yeah. Unless your favorite musical is putting it together.

[42:48] Bonnie Milligan: Oh god. Let's put together some answers. What's your favorite musical?

[42:52] Bonnie Milligan: I really do love Sweeney Todd.

[42:54] Kevin Jacob: Yes. It's a good choice. Did you see it at Barrow Street?

[42:57] Bonnie Milligan: I've seen it three times.

[42:59] Kevin Jacob: So good.

[43:00] Bonnie Milligan: So good. Did you see different casts?

[43:02] Kevin Jacob: Yes.

[43:02] Bonnie Milligan: So I went first for Matt.

[43:04] Kevin Jacob: Right.

[43:04] Bonnie Milligan: Um, Doyle. And then I went back.

[43:07] Kevin Jacob: Because you guys have done like multiple concerts together.

[43:09] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, we're like good friends. We met doing Jasper and Deadland off Broadway. Um, and then became very good friends and we're always singing together.

[43:16] Bonnie Milligan: And then I went back when Carol Carmelo was in, because it's Caroline Carmelo.

[43:19] Kevin Jacob: And why would you also did you see Carolie?

[43:23] Bonnie Milligan: I saw her. It was amazing.

[43:25] Kevin Jacob: Amazing.

[43:27] Bonnie Milligan: I don't because it's that's top five things I've ever seen.

[43:30] Kevin Jacob: Yes. It's something that like that role has been like done so much. And she just did things with it that were like, I don't know. I was like floored.

[43:36] Bonnie Milligan: I did the 1776 all female concert with her.

[43:40] Kevin Jacob: And I was like, Who are you?

[43:41] Bonnie Milligan: I was um The six.

[43:44] Kevin Jacob: I'm done with you.

[43:46] Bonnie Milligan: I was Richard Han Riley.

[43:48] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[43:48] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, you had that great. Virginia said it's Barney.

[43:50] Kevin Jacob: Virginia.

[43:51] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, exactly. It's on YouTube. Look it up. Um, and I was dying because it was Caroline Carmelo and Mary Testa.

[43:57] Kevin Jacob: Uh huh.

[43:58] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. Are we kidding? And Andrea Burns, I'm dead. And I waited until everything was done before I like could fangirl because I was like, I have to be like cool and professional. And we're like, we're like co-stars. It's fine. And then later I was like, I can't with you.

[44:09] Bonnie Milligan: John and Jen, I'm obsessed with. Come on. So anyway, um, I had done that one thing with her, and like a year later I went to see it, and then like she saw me at the back and she's like, Bonnie, and I was like, she remembers she's everything. I love her.

[44:24] Bonnie Milligan: Um she is so genius. Oh my god, she's such a genius actress.

[44:27] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[44:29] Bonnie Milligan: Um, so I went back for her. I had to see her before she left. Matt had already gone. And then I went back a third time because I know the current love it, um, Sally and Triplets.

[44:38] Kevin Jacob: But that's who I saw.

[44:39] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. Oh, and I adore her. She's everything. What was your first Broadway show you saw?

[44:44] Bonnie Milligan: First Broadway show I saw was Rent.

[44:46] Kevin Jacob: What?

[44:47] Bonnie Milligan: I came on a trip with friends and we went cast.

[44:50] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[44:50] Bonnie Milligan: Uh oh God, I don't even remember. I went back when Adam and Anthony went back in.

[44:57] Kevin Jacob: Yes.

[44:57] Bonnie Milligan: But I don't remember who with the cast was, to tell you the truth. Um, but uh that trip I saw Rent and Aida and Heather Hedley and um Adam Pascal had both went back in for the end of the run.

[45:11] Kevin Jacob: That is no big deal.

[45:12] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. One heck of a trip.

[45:13] Kevin Jacob: Yeah. That's a lot of belting.

[45:16] Bonnie Milligan: It was a lot of fun. I was mad.

[45:19] Kevin Jacob: That's crazy. What would be if for the listeners out there who are aspiring beltresses?

[45:24] Bonnie Milligan: Yes. What would be like your three like go-to golden rules of belting?

[45:29] Bonnie Milligan: Well, I kind of didn't belt till I was in college, and I kind of discovered it on my own. I was doing a um Kristen Linklater voice class.

[45:39] Kevin Jacob: Oh yeah.

[45:41] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, that name. We're familiar with that maybe I just got like free your natural voice.

[45:50] Bonnie Milligan: Oh my gosh. 20 minute warm-up and shaking. Because I went to school for acting, not musical theater. So I was taking this voice class, like acting, and we were working on resonators, and we were doing like a mouth resonator. And I was sitting there, like, this kind of sounds like I'm singing. And I was like, huh. And then I just started being like, I feel like I could take this into the idea of like singing and belting. And it was literally, I approached it in a different way.

[46:14] Bonnie Milligan: So like, um, I don't know. I mean, the things I say it should feel like it shouldn't hurt ever. Like, move your breath, use your breath and keep everything open, honest, and connect with your lyrics. I'm more of like a natural instinct kind of a singer. I haven't had a lot of vocal training. So I just kind of I was talking with somebody like, well, how are you placing that? And I'm like, um, I don't know. But then like I I have enough working knowledge of like how where my resonators are and where like where the the mask is where like things like I've done choirs, I've done plenty of things where I've like heard these things.

[46:54] Kevin Jacob: Right.

[46:54] Bonnie Milligan: Um but it should never hurt, you should never push. Um, and so breath is the key of everything. Like a high high belt takes a lot of breath, which is why I'm like, which was like the Whitney sweats. It's like you're like the working of the breath.

[47:12] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, because you're breathing, breathe, breathing, and then you're like, I'm pouring sweat at the end because I've used so much breath that it should come from like the base of you and diaphragm was probably made of steel.

[47:22] Bonnie Milligan: You were because you were doing some high belting in this show.

[47:26] Kevin Jacob: Oh my god. I was on the reason. I heard it like without your mic cut. Every day I'm like, I'm such an idiot. Like I'm so dumb because I'm part of like why this track is this way.

[47:40] Bonnie Milligan: Like you're making it hard for anyone to cover you.

[47:44] Kevin Jacob: One day in rehearsal and you were like, yeah, I can option up. And then you're like, oh, like the crazy number I do at the end of Act One. Um but we were in rehearsal, and I'd said, I would love to maybe think I think maybe we just done the lab last year. And so when we were in rehearsal, I was like thinking about doing this eight times a week. How should I be smart? Yeah. So I said, maybe we could start this lower, like a half a step, or like, can I start on an A rather than the B.

[48:17] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[48:18] Bonnie Milligan: And I did it for a while, and everybody was like, it's not as good. Like, because it just didn't have the tension of like, you, it's like it's one of those. You're living on the edge. It's like two minutes and 45 seconds of like balls to the wall, temper tantrum. So like you it it loses the energy because you're popping up and you're losing your mind. And if it's like a step lower, it doesn't sound as exciting and dangerous. And I was like, okay. So it's been an interesting thing. Like, and it is something because that number has been the hardest number to find because I have to think of it almost like an opera singer. Because I I literally have to strategize when I can swallow, when I can almost like clear my throat, when I could like need to reset things.

But the whole number is me running around with like my mouth open, like which dries you out. But there's so much happening, and it's so physical. And um, Spencer Liv helped me with all that, like the choreography of things, but I would be like, Can we cut some of that music? And I'm like, I have to be able to like swallow and like reset my throat, though, like for the next time. And they're like, uh, so it's been that kind of like report. But literally every time, because I spoiler alert, crawl under the bed before the curtain rises, and I literally pass week I've said to myself, just sing it. Yeah, and because I have to remind myself, you don't have to scream, like go into this idea of a temperature where you want to yell, but we'll never be able to do eight shows a week. So I have to go just sing it, just sing it to remind myself like chill out. Cool. It's crazy. Incredible.

[49:52] Kevin Jacob: Let's uh let's play another game.

[49:53] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah.

[49:54] Kevin Jacob: Okay. This game is called Broadway Vacation.

[49:57] Bonnie Milligan: That's all I ever wanted.

[49:58] Kevin Jacob: Oh my god. Sweet.

[50:00] Bonnie Milligan: So this is also while me getting excited for Bachelor in Paradise happening soon.

[50:05] Kevin Jacob: Great.

[50:05] Bonnie Milligan: So it's called Broadway Vacation.

[50:07] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[50:07] Bonnie Milligan: So I would like everyone to pick two cards from my Lights of Broadway deck. These people that we pick are all on a Broadway reality show.

[50:18] Kevin Jacob: Cool.

[50:18] Bonnie Milligan: In which they're in a tropical place.

[50:21] Kevin Jacob: Got it.

[50:22] Bonnie Milligan: And just like Bachelor in Paradise or any other reality show that is a competition, one person will need to leave this show each week.

[50:31] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[50:31] Bonnie Milligan: So each round will be one week of competition.

[50:35] Kevin Jacob: Cool.

[50:36] Bonnie Milligan: Okay. Great. In which we have to vote someone off. And then until one lone victory. But you know, see how they might strategize. We might be friends with each other. So let's just go around and say who who's on this island.

[50:46] Kevin Jacob: Great. Who's in Tulum, Mexico?

[50:48] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, we say who we have.

[50:49] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[50:49] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, great. Well, speaking of Victor, Brandon Victor Dixon.

[50:52] Kevin Jacob: Oh, and Tina Landau.

[50:56] Bonnie Milligan: Oh, that's a good one.

[50:58] Kevin Jacob: That's a good hand. I have Norm Lewis and Cecily Tyson.

[51:01] Bonnie Milligan: Oh.

[51:02] Kevin Jacob: I have Lisa Howard and Jen Kalola.

[51:05] Bonnie Milligan: Yes.

[51:06] Kevin Jacob: I have Betty Buckley and Benjamin Walker.

[51:09] Bonnie Milligan: Can we super fun on it? Can we just do a show on this?

[51:13] Kevin Jacob: China will direct.

[51:14] Bonnie Milligan: She's there.

[51:16] Kevin Jacob: She's in.

[51:17] Bonnie Milligan: She will. She's very familiar with nautical references.

[51:22] Kevin Jacob: She really gets it.

[51:24] Bonnie Milligan: Um, all right. So week one, someone needs to leave.

[51:28] Kevin Jacob: Let's say that this week's competition or lack of competition is just that there's drama between two people.

[51:35] Bonnie Milligan: Okay.

[51:36] Kevin Jacob: And one person decides to leave on their own because it's the first week, and they're like, you know what? I'm just gonna take myself out of the situation.

[51:42] Bonnie Milligan: Okay. I'm actually gonna I I think that Norm Lewis would say he doesn't want to be here anymore because he's so nice.

[51:49] Kevin Jacob: He is really nice. That's true.

[51:50] Bonnie Milligan: He would just be like, you know what? I want to keep these relationships strong. I I think I I'm I'm okay. And he would want to do that.

[51:57] Kevin Jacob: Well, I was gonna say that or Lisa Howard, because she's a good one.

[51:59] Bonnie Milligan: I was gonna say that too. Yeah, she's very nice.

[52:01] Kevin Jacob: Maybe the two of them have a conversation about just like this isn't what we thought it was gonna be.

[52:05] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, everyone's but Lisa Howard decides to stick it out.

[52:08] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, yeah. Well, I think they both decide to leave, and then Lisa Howard at the last minute. Like Norm says I'm gonna leave with Lisa, and then she's like, I'm not leaving.

[52:16] Bonnie Milligan: So Norm.

[52:16] Kevin Jacob: And then Benjamin Walker takes his shirt off, and she'd like, oh, she's like, I'm gonna stay.

[52:21] Bonnie Milligan: I'm gonna stay. Great. So Norm is leaving.

[52:23] Kevin Jacob: So Norm has got Norm.

[52:24] Bonnie Milligan: Okay. Okay. Week two.

[52:25] Kevin Jacob: Week two.

[52:27] Bonnie Milligan: So week two, let's say that there's some sort of um off island excursion.

[52:33] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[52:33] Bonnie Milligan: Right. And they're all having fun on the beach.

[52:36] Kevin Jacob: Great.

[52:37] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. And then maybe they decide to have like a race along the beach.

[52:38] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[52:38] Bonnie Milligan: A race.

[52:45] Kevin Jacob: Like a foot race?

[52:45] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, it's like a foot race.

[52:46] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[52:47] Bonnie Milligan: It's a race.

[52:48] Kevin Jacob: It's a race.

[52:48] Bonnie Milligan: I don't know that many of these people are racing on a beach.

[52:51] Kevin Jacob: Right.

[52:51] Bonnie Milligan: No, literally it's just shaving walker.

[52:54] Kevin Jacob: Cecily's not running.

[52:56] Bonnie Milligan: He's actually just playing a race against himself.

[52:57] Kevin Jacob: Him and Brandon probably would race.

[52:59] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah. Yes, absolutely. Jen Kalella might stick up with them too.

[53:02] Kevin Jacob: She probably would.

[53:03] Bonnie Milligan: The three of them are racing.

[53:04] Kevin Jacob: There we go. That's the storyline.

[53:06] Bonnie Milligan: Okay. What's next?

[53:07] Kevin Jacob: Great. So who do we think wins the race?

[53:12] Bonnie Milligan: I think Brent Benjamin Walker wins the last one.

[53:14] Kevin Jacob: He's got those long legs.

[53:16] Bonnie Milligan: Just from height. We've seen them in American Psycho.

[53:20] Bryan Plovsky: We've seen his legs.

[53:21] Kevin Jacob: So let's say Benjamin stays.

[53:24] Bryan Plovsky: Okay, so he wins the race.

[53:25] Kevin Jacob: And like he just decides to say he's doing well.

[53:27] Bryan Plovsky: But maybe he'd like takes it too far.

[53:29] Kevin Jacob: Maybe.

[53:29] Bryan Plovsky: Like he is not a good winner.

[53:31] Kevin Jacob: I think he'd makes Brandon and um Jen feel bad.

[53:34] Bryan Plovsky: And Jen feel like really bad about losing.

[53:36] Kevin Jacob: And I think there's a lot of and everyone's a little upset that like this was just a fun foot race, and then you made it a big deal.

[53:42] Bryan Plovsky: Oh, should he go for that?

[53:43] Kevin Jacob: I think he should.

[53:44] Bryan Plovsky: He should go back.

[53:44] Kevin Jacob: I think he starts.

[53:46] Bryan Plovsky: Everyone else is like really like communal and communicative, and they're like, you know what?

[53:49] Kevin Jacob: Okay, so he's gone.

[53:50] Bryan Plovsky: And they're like, too much.

[53:52] Kevin Jacob: Great, yeah.

[53:53] Bryan Plovsky: All right, week three.

[53:54] Kevin Jacob: Week three.

[53:55] Bryan Plovsky: Uh I'm really proud of Betty.

[53:56] Kevin Jacob: She's really hanging in on this island.

[54:00] Bryan Plovsky: She's like, I'm on hiatus from Preacher, I'm doing well.

[54:02] Kevin Jacob: She's not.

[54:02] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah, I'm getting ready for Hello Dolly.

[54:04] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, just on a quick backs.

[54:05] Bryan Plovsky: Totally don't wait.

[54:06] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[54:07] Bryan Plovsky: So week three, they let's say falls into our sweet spot in the schedule.

[54:11] Kevin Jacob: Right.

[54:11] Bryan Plovsky: For sure.

[54:12] Kevin Jacob: Week three, they airlift a bunch of um food items onto the island.

[54:17] Bryan Plovsky: Right.

[54:18] Kevin Jacob: And they have a cooking competition.

[54:21] Bryan Plovsky: Oh, okay.

[54:21] Kevin Jacob: Kevin's an expert at Tina.

[54:23] Bryan Plovsky: Who do we think?

[54:23] Kevin Jacob: Yes, I watched that other time.

[54:25] Bryan Plovsky: Might make the best entree.

[54:27] Kevin Jacob: Tina Landau.

[54:28] Bryan Plovsky: She's about to direct it.

[54:33] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, yeah.

[54:33] Bryan Plovsky: Who do we think probably like wouldn't know their way around a campfire and couldn't make a meal?

[54:41] Kevin Jacob: I think.

[54:42] Bryan Plovsky: I mean Cecily Texan definitely can cook.

[54:44] Kevin Jacob: 100%.

[54:45] Bryan Plovsky: She can cook too.

[54:46] Kevin Jacob: Maybe Brandon.

[54:48] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah.

[54:48] Kevin Jacob: Maybe Brandon.

[54:49] Bryan Plovsky: Maybe.

[54:50] Kevin Jacob: Because maybe he's like too busy like chatting with everyone and like being a good friend and helping that he doesn't get his dish finished.

[54:56] Bryan Plovsky: Well but here's a question.

[54:57] Kevin Jacob: Who would criticize him for that?

[54:59] Bryan Plovsky: And does that person get a lot of flack for being mean spirited about it.

[55:02] Kevin Jacob: Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

[55:04] Bryan Plovsky: Well that's true, because this is an emotional.

[55:11] Kevin Jacob: So she's like, if I can do a whole musical in 85 minutes, you should be able to make a pot roast in 35.

[55:15] Bryan Plovsky: Wow.

[55:15] Kevin Jacob: So like, yeah, I can see that.

[55:17] Bryan Plovsky: That is physically impossible, but correct.

[55:18] Kevin Jacob: Right.

[55:18] Bryan Plovsky: Do so people turn on Jen for being very strict or Brandon for not just doing what he's supposed to do.

[55:24] Kevin Jacob: I feel like nobody's turning at this point.

[55:26] Bryan Plovsky: Because the right, because they all just got over the like the meanness of bad.

[55:29] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, I know you're right.

[55:30] Bryan Plovsky: Everyone votes based on their so I feel like it was like the rules of the island.

[55:33] Kevin Jacob: He didn't finish it so he has to go.

[55:35] Bryan Plovsky: And they're like maybe this is how the games are going to keep in the play.

[55:38] Kevin Jacob: They'll be saying and hugging him and they all love each other.

[55:40] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah but he's also wearing his mesh shirt from Jesus Christ Superstar.

[55:44] Kevin Jacob: This is how I pictured him from how that truly happens.

[55:49] Bryan Plovsky: So it's like oh the drama hasn't like reemerged yet.

[55:54] Kevin Jacob: For sure.

[55:54] Bryan Plovsky: I'll get there.

[55:55] Kevin Jacob: Great.

[55:55] Bryan Plovsky: So this week on the island um there's a big storm.

[55:59] Kevin Jacob: Oh no.

[56:00] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah.

[56:01] Kevin Jacob: What happens?

[56:01] Bryan Plovsky: And they're quote unquote shelter that they've been living in, one of you know those big hotels that they pretend are camping.

[56:08] Kevin Jacob: Great.

[56:11] Bryan Plovsky: Is glamping it's called they're glamping is mysteriously destroyed.

[56:15] Kevin Jacob: And the next morning, they need to create shelters for themselves for that evening, just in case there's another storm.

[56:23] Bryan Plovsky: But they're locked out for some reason because clearly it didn't actually, it's the producer's doing this.

[56:29] Kevin Jacob: But they are locked out for the evening and they need to go into the island and grab some things and make themselves shelter and fire on the beach.

[56:38] Bryan Plovsky: And so they can choose to team up and make one big shelter, or they can choose to make their own.

[56:44] Kevin Jacob: I feel like Cecily's just gone.

[56:45] Bryan Plovsky: She's like, I can't do this.

[56:47] Kevin Jacob: See, too disappointing.

[56:48] Bryan Plovsky: I was about to say it's and everybody's like, she needs her health.

[56:52] Kevin Jacob: Like, let's let her go.

[56:53] Bryan Plovsky: Right.

[56:53] Kevin Jacob: I just think that's just health.

[56:56] Bryan Plovsky: We all are like, you know what, bring the copter in.

[56:58] Kevin Jacob: It's less about not wanting her there, but nothing.

[57:01] Bryan Plovsky: Oh my god.

[57:01] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, yeah.

[57:02] Bryan Plovsky: Again, another tearful side set ship.

[57:05] Kevin Jacob: That's like a perfect move.

[57:07] Bryan Plovsky: As Kimberly says, stay safe.

[57:08] Kevin Jacob: Right.

[57:09] Bryan Plovsky: They say it's in responsible.

[57:11] Kevin Jacob: Okay, so we're getting into the tumultuous week five.

[57:13] Bryan Plovsky: Okay, so we're down to the bottom.

[57:14] Kevin Jacob: I can't believe Betty and Tina haven't fought yet.

[57:17] Bryan Plovsky: I know.

[57:19] Kevin Jacob: Um let's see.

[57:20] Bryan Plovsky: We're down to the bottom four.

[57:22] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[57:22] Bryan Plovsky: And all of the things.

[57:23] Kevin Jacob: Or the top four.

[57:24] Bryan Plovsky: Or the top four.

[57:25] Kevin Jacob: Correct.

[57:27] Bryan Plovsky: Ah!

[57:28] Kevin Jacob: Yes!

[57:30] Bryan Plovsky: Right.

[57:31] Kevin Jacob: Um, all of the electricity has gone out.

[57:34] Bryan Plovsky: Oh no.

[57:35] Kevin Jacob: And they need to entertain themselves for an evening.

[57:37] Bryan Plovsky: Uh huh.

[57:37] Kevin Jacob: And they need to split into teams to create a very short cabaret act for um for some tourists that have found themselves locked on lost on the island, and their applause is gonna generate who wins.

[57:51] Bryan Plovsky: Okay.

[57:52] Kevin Jacob: So who teams up, and then who do we think wins?

[57:56] Bryan Plovsky: I'm worried about Betty.

[57:57] Kevin Jacob: Where is she gonna go?

[57:58] Bryan Plovsky: I feel like Betty wants to direct Jen.

[58:00] Kevin Jacob: I was gonna say literally.

[58:03] Bryan Plovsky: Because she does not want Tina.

[58:05] Kevin Jacob: No.

[58:05] Bryan Plovsky: She's like, I know what I'm doing.

[58:06] Kevin Jacob: Come here, young.

[58:07] Bryan Plovsky: And Jen would be like, yes.

[58:09] Kevin Jacob: And then Lisa's like, okay.

[58:10] Bryan Plovsky: And they're all like, nice, but these two win.

[58:11] Kevin Jacob: Totally for sure.

[58:12] Bryan Plovsky: Totally.

[58:13] Kevin Jacob: So Betty and Jen win is what she's doing.

[58:14] Bryan Plovsky: Betty and Jen will for sure win.

[58:15] Kevin Jacob: And I think for this one, Lisa takes the bullet because she's like, Tina gave me a great show.

[58:21] Bryan Plovsky: I just didn't give it a hundred percent because I'm tired of being on this island and I didn't have AC.

[58:26] Kevin Jacob: Oh, she takes herself away.

[58:27] Bryan Plovsky: She's got her kids.

[58:28] Kevin Jacob: So Lisa's like, I'm I'm I'm done with this.

[58:31] Bryan Plovsky: Great.

[58:31] Kevin Jacob: So we're down to the finale.

[58:32] Bryan Plovsky: She's escaping this island.

[58:34] Kevin Jacob: And she was like, it should have been you, but it's me.

[58:37] Bryan Plovsky: I'm gonna kill you.

[58:39] Kevin Jacob: So halfway through the finale, we lose one person unexpectedly.

[58:43] Bryan Plovsky: Oh, what a happy.

[58:44] Kevin Jacob: That's up to you.

[58:48] Bryan Plovsky: I'm just saying that one person leaves unexpectedly.

[58:50] Kevin Jacob: I think that I was gonna say Jen Kallella gets a call to be in the Come From Away movie.

[58:56] Bryan Plovsky: Oh, and she has to leave.

[59:00] Kevin Jacob: She has to Come From Away.

[59:01] Bryan Plovsky: You're done.

[59:01] Kevin Jacob: I'm yes, I'm really gonna be able to do it.

[59:04] Bryan Plovsky: I wanted this soon to be the end of this show.

[59:07] Kevin Jacob: This one is like I'm not giving up.

[59:09] Bryan Plovsky: So we're at the second half of the finale.

[59:11] Kevin Jacob: There's Betty Buckley and Tina Landau in a head for head um high tea on this island.

[59:18] Bryan Plovsky: How do you do high tea head to head?

[59:20] Kevin Jacob: This is such a good head to head because neither of them are like letting go at this moment.

[59:25] Bryan Plovsky: It's just emotional warfare and like they emotional warfare.

[59:30] Kevin Jacob: It's like big brother meets Bachelor in Paradise.

[59:33] Bryan Plovsky: I guess I've waited for this.

[59:34] Kevin Jacob: Um the final challenge is a is what an obstacle course.

[59:38] Bryan Plovsky: Everybody comes back and votes for the winner.

[59:40] Kevin Jacob: That's exactly what I was going to say.

[59:41] Bryan Plovsky: Everyone comes back and votes for the winner.

[59:44] Kevin Jacob: I'm I'm gonna read off the name of the person, and each of you will tell me who they voted for too much.

[59:51] Bryan Plovsky: Just to win.

[59:55] Kevin Jacob: Betty Buckley.

[59:55] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah.

[59:56] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, Betty Buckley.

[59:58] Bryan Plovsky: Team Betty goes here.

[59:59] Kevin Jacob: 100%.

[1:00:00] Bryan Plovsky: Okay.

[1:00:02] Kevin Jacob: Lisa Howard.

[1:00:02] Bryan Plovsky: Tina.

[1:00:04] Kevin Jacob: Tina, just partners.

[1:00:06] Bryan Plovsky: She feels bad for letting her down.

[1:00:06] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[1:00:07] Bryan Plovsky: Cecily.

[1:00:07] Kevin Jacob: Betty Buckley, because she's going for the old broads.

[1:00:09] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah.

[1:00:11] Kevin Jacob: Brandon.

[1:00:13] Bryan Plovsky: Um Betty.

[1:00:14] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[1:00:14] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah.

[1:00:14] Kevin Jacob: Because legends.

[1:00:19] Bryan Plovsky: Benjamin Walker.

[1:00:20] Kevin Jacob: Tina.

[1:00:21] Bryan Plovsky: Tina.

[1:00:21] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[1:00:22] Bryan Plovsky: He wants to work with her.

[1:00:22] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[1:00:23] Bryan Plovsky: Okay.

[1:00:26] Kevin Jacob: And then Norm Lewis.

[1:00:26] Bryan Plovsky: Ooh.

[1:00:26] Kevin Jacob: Ooh.

[1:00:27] Bryan Plovsky: Oh, this is it could tie.

[1:00:29] Kevin Jacob: I think Tina.

[1:00:30] Bryan Plovsky: And now it's a tie.

[1:00:31] Kevin Jacob: It's a tie.

[1:00:32] Bryan Plovsky: But all of a sudden, Beth Malone shows up on the island.

[1:00:36] Kevin Jacob: And everyone's like, what?

[1:00:37] Bryan Plovsky: In her um Angels in America.

[1:00:40] Kevin Jacob: Yes.

[1:00:42] Bryan Plovsky: She's a JSX mock.

[1:00:44] Kevin Jacob: And she says, you creatures of the island.

[1:00:48] Bryan Plovsky: I vote for you to win.

[1:00:49] Kevin Jacob: Who does she vote for?

[1:00:51] Bryan Plovsky: Everyone.

[1:00:52] Kevin Jacob: Betty.

[1:00:53] Bryan Plovsky: Oh, interesting.

[1:00:54] Kevin Jacob: I was going to say maybe Tina.

[1:00:56] Bryan Plovsky: But maybe Betty.

[1:00:57] Kevin Jacob: Kimberly.

[1:00:58] Bryan Plovsky: What do you say?

[1:00:59] Kevin Jacob: You're the deciding factor.

[1:01:01] Bryan Plovsky: We went Betty, Tina.

[1:01:02] Kevin Jacob: Go.

[1:01:04] Bryan Plovsky: I'm going to say Betty.

[1:01:06] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[1:01:06] Bryan Plovsky: Betty Buckley has just won.

[1:01:09] Kevin Jacob: Proud of her.

[1:01:10] Bryan Plovsky: Vacation.

[1:01:12] Kevin Jacob: And I know you did it a little bit before, but do you have any stage door stories?

[1:01:16] Bonnie Milligan: Ooh, yeah, the favorite.

[1:01:18] Kevin Jacob: Of like me at the stage art meeting people or meeting out.

[1:01:21] Bonnie Milligan: Either or okay.

[1:01:23] Kevin Jacob: Well, I went to it was like a Broadway Barks event at the Minskoff Theater.

[1:01:28] Bonnie Milligan: And um, I had met Bernadette Peters during one of the um Shubert Alley uh flea market situations where I like paid to get a picture with her and I cried and it was fine.

[1:01:39] Kevin Jacob: Then I went back and I was like, it was magical, she was so nice.

[1:01:43] Bonnie Milligan: I don't want to like ruin anything, like because I love her so much.

[1:01:46] Kevin Jacob: And my friend hadn't met her though, and he was like, but I want to meet her.

[1:01:49] Bonnie Milligan: And I'm like, okay, all right, I'm worried.

[1:01:51] Kevin Jacob: All right.

[1:01:52] Bonnie Milligan: And we go, and it was like people were lined up behind, you know, like the barricades, whatever, and then there was nobody up until like the street.

[1:01:59] Kevin Jacob: Great.

[1:02:01] Bonnie Milligan: And so people were lining up behind them, you know, keeping the line.

[1:02:02] Kevin Jacob: There was like two people, and then my friend Eric and I.

[1:02:05] Bonnie Milligan: And she came out, she was like signing, she was taking pictures, and she got to the end of the barricade, and like security was like, Let's go to take her like the next like 30 feet to the car.

[1:02:13] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[1:02:13] Bonnie Milligan: And she looked at me, and I and I had like a camera out because I was gonna take a picture of definitely with my friend, because he hadn't met her before.

[1:02:22] Kevin Jacob: And I was like, Oh, so no picture, like sad little puppy.

[1:02:26] Bonnie Milligan: And she was like, I'm sorry, and I was like, that's okay, that's okay.

[1:02:29] Kevin Jacob: And I immediately I thought, I know I shouldn't do this, like I don't want it ruined, and oh no.

[1:02:33] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, and she starts walking towards her car, and as she's walking, she kept like looking over her shoulder back at me.

[1:02:38] Kevin Jacob: And I was like, I think maybe I'm hallucinating, like I feel like she's looking at me, but like maybe she's not.

[1:02:43] Bonnie Milligan: And everybody else follows her to the car, but I see planted because she was done.

[1:02:47] Kevin Jacob: Yeah, so she was like with like a sad face, like, oh no.

[1:02:52] Bonnie Milligan: And she gets all the way to the cart, the security like opens up the door, and she I see her be like, no, and like wave her hands, shake her head, and she goes, I need to take a picture with and points to me.

[1:03:03] Kevin Jacob: And goes through like 30 people to get back to me, who was standing there, and I was like, Oh my and I start crying because it was like, oh my god.

[1:03:12] Bonnie Milligan: And then she like turns and I was really for my friend.

[1:03:17] Kevin Jacob: We'll take a selfies.

[1:03:18] Bonnie Milligan: So like the three of us get in the shot, and it was like a camera camera.

[1:03:23] Kevin Jacob: Thank God it came out beautifully.

[1:03:25] Bonnie Milligan: But like we take a quick photo, just like thank you, and then she left, went right back to the car, like went through all these people.

[1:03:30] Kevin Jacob: That's an awesome story.

[1:03:32] Bonnie Milligan: That's a great story.

[1:03:35] Kevin Jacob: Cheers to Bernadette.

[1:03:36] Bonnie Milligan: Yeah, that's class right there.

[1:03:38] Kevin Jacob: I know, mine's empty too.

[1:03:39] Bonnie Milligan: But here we go.

[1:03:40] Kevin Jacob: Cheers.

[1:03:41] Bonnie Milligan: Cheers to Bern.

[1:03:44] Bryan Plovsky: Well, that actually brings us to the end of our episode.

[1:03:46] Kevin Jacob: Oh, that was a good one.

[1:03:47] Bryan Plovsky: That's a good end.

[1:03:48] Kevin Jacob: Thank you so much for joining us.

[1:03:49] Bonnie Milligan: Thank you so much.

[1:03:50] Bryan Plovsky: Um, but we end every episode with a quote.

[1:03:52] Kevin Jacob: Okay.

[1:03:52] Bryan Plovsky: And today's quote is we gotta get out of this place.

[1:03:56] Kevin Jacob: If it's the last thing we ever do, we gotta get out of this place, girl.

[1:03:59] Bryan Plovsky: There's a better life for me and you.

[1:04:01] Kevin Jacob: So I know you recognize that from Beautiful because it's Barryman and Cynthia Vile.

[1:04:06] Bryan Plovsky: But the reason I chose it is it's because it's from Return to the Forbidden Planet, which is, you know, Shakespearean text set to, you know, pop songs.

[1:04:17] Kevin Jacob: You never explain your quotes.

[1:04:19] Bryan Plovsky: No, those days.

[1:04:20] Kevin Jacob: Oh yeah, that was interesting.

[1:04:21] Bryan Plovsky: Because it has double meaning.

[1:04:23] Kevin Jacob: Double meaning.

[1:04:24] Bryan Plovsky: You wanted everyone to know you're smart.

[1:04:25] Kevin Jacob: No, no, no, no.

[1:04:26] Bryan Plovsky: Everyone already knows that.

[1:04:28] Kevin Jacob: You heard my intro.

[1:04:31] Bryan Plovsky: Anyway, thank you so much for joining us.

[1:04:34] Bonnie Milligan: I know you're so busy with the show, and we really appreciate you hanging out with us.

[1:04:37] Kevin Jacob: I'm so glad this was fun.

[1:04:38] Bryan Plovsky: Again, you can follow her at Belting Bonnie on Twitter and Belt and Bonds.

[1:04:42] Kevin Jacob: Well, Belting, sorry, Belting Bonds on Instagram.

[1:04:46] Bryan Plovsky: She's got all the flavor on it.

[1:04:48] Kevin Jacob: Don't add your own.

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[1:04:52] Kevin Jacob: That's us.

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[1:05:01] Bryan Plovsky: Kevin posts so many videos.

[1:05:04] Kevin Jacob: And uh and don't forget, find us on Fondas?

[1:05:07] Bryan Plovsky: Fondas on things like Spotify.

[1:05:10] Kevin Jacob: I do it.

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[1:05:17] Kevin Jacob: Five stars, please.

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[1:05:19] Kevin Jacob: Um, it helps uh other people find this podcast, and you know, we want people to see shows like Head Over Heels.

[1:05:25] Bryan Plovsky: Uh so make sure they find us here.

[1:05:26] Kevin Jacob: Um, but another way you can go see Head Over Heels is by using the Broadwaysted code uh at Goldstar.

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[1:05:37] Bryan Plovsky: Oh hey.

[1:05:38] Kevin Jacob: And we would highly suggest goes to go and see you Head Over Heels, yeah.

[1:05:42] Bryan Plovsky: It's so much fun.

[1:05:43] Kevin Jacob: And that theater alone, like it's a good show, but it happens to be a great theater.

[1:05:47] Bryan Plovsky: Yeah.

[1:05:47] Kevin Jacob: They have four bartenders.

[1:05:49] Bryan Plovsky: So at intermission, there really isn't a line.

[1:05:52] Kevin Jacob: Yeah.

[1:05:52] Bryan Plovsky: And you can get the biggest frosé ever wanted in a real glass because they trust you there.

[1:06:00] Kevin Jacob: They class a goldstar.com backslash Broadwaysted.

[1:06:04] Bryan Plovsky: Do it.

[1:06:05] Kevin Jacob: Um then save $17 for your frosé.

[1:06:07] Bryan Plovsky: And it's like a pint glass, so you're fine.

[1:06:09] Kevin Jacob: Like a double pint.

[1:06:11] Bryan Plovsky: Like it was more than I needed.

[1:06:14] Kevin Jacob: Okay, Frontier.

[1:06:15] Bryan Plovsky: Loved it.

[1:06:16] Kevin Jacob: Thank you so much for joining us.

[1:06:17] Bryan Plovsky: Thank you.

[1:06:18] All: And as we end every episode, sudo.

[1:06:22] All: Cheers.

[1:06:23] All: Cheers.