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[0:09] Bryan Plofsky: Hello and welcome to the official Broadwaysted Podcast where we're drunk on theater.

[0:13] Bryan Plofsky: I'm your host Bryan Plofsky and uh cranberry happy Thanksgiving to you all.

[0:18] Bryan Plofsky: Gobble gobble.

[0:20] Bryan Plofsky: Today our episode is stuffed with goodies, and I'm not pulling your leg.

[0:25] Bryan Plofsky: Let's hop on the gravy train.

[0:27] Bryan Plofsky: Woo-hoo!

[0:27] Bryan Plofsky: And keep abreast of what's piping hot in the theater world.

[0:30] Bryan Plofsky: Don't whine about it.

[0:31] Bryan Plofsky: Make a wishbone.

[0:33] Bryan Plofsky: Because we're here for you on Broadwaysted.

[0:35] Bryan Plofsky: I mean Broadwaysted.

[0:36] Bryan Plofsky: I don't know.

[0:37] Bryan Plofsky: So join the parade because we're on top of the world as everything is golden.

[0:40] Bryan Plofsky: Let's carry the banner as we seize the day once and for all.

[0:43] Bryan Plofsky: The bottom line is that we need to watch what happens.

[0:46] Bryan Plofsky: This podcast should be everlasting, but we're not reinventing the wheel here.

[0:52] Bryan Plofsky: How long did that take you?

[0:54] Bryan Plofsky: Strong work.

[0:55] Bryan Plofsky: Are you done?

[0:55] Bryan Plofsky: Sorry.

[0:55] Bryan Plofsky: That's it.

[0:56] Bryan Plofsky: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[0:56] Bryan Plofsky: How long did that take you?

[0:58] Bryan Plofsky: Uh either too long or not enough time.

[1:03] Bryan Plofsky: All of the above.

[1:03] Bryan Plofsky: So yeah, I've been working on that all year.

[1:05] Bryan Plofsky: Um joining us today are the usual partners in crime, including Kevin, King of New York Jaeger.

[1:11] Kevin Jaeger: Hello.

[1:12] Bryan Plofsky: Uh Kimberly, our game master and unofficial babysitter for the hour.

[1:16] Kimberly Cooper: Hello.

[1:16] Bryan Plofsky: And with us today is a guest who, if you haven't seen on Broadway, you haven't been getting out of the house very much.

[1:22] Bryan Plofsky: Um, his Broadway credits include Beauty and the Beast, Seussical, Mary Poppins, Crutchy and Uzie's, and Tuck Everlasting.

[1:29] Bryan Plofsky: He is also the force behind the acclaimed web series Submissions Only.

[1:32] Bryan Plofsky: Let's give a big Broadwaysted welcome to Friend of the Show.

[1:32] Kevin Jaeger: Friend of the show.

[1:36] Kimberly Cooper: Hooray.

[1:36] Bryan Plofsky: Andrew Keenan-Bolger.

[1:38] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: You guys great to be here.

[1:41] Kimberly Cooper: Welcome.

[1:42] Bryan Plofsky: We're very happy to have you.

[1:43] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, amazing. I'm excited to get Broadwaysted.

[1:46] Kimberly Cooper: Yay!

[1:47] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And happy Thanksgiving to you.

[1:49] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, yes.

[1:50] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: To you and all your fam.

[1:52] Bryan Plofsky: Thank you.

[1:52] Kimberly Cooper: Fam damley.

[1:53] Bryan Plofsky: Our hashtag mom and dads of the show will really enjoy that.

[1:56] Kimberly Cooper: Aww.

[1:57] Bryan Plofsky: They'll be really excited.

[1:58] Kimberly Cooper: Yes.

[1:58] Bryan Plofsky: Um, you can follow Andrew on Instagram at Keenan Blogger.

[2:02] Bryan Plofsky: So spelled like his last name, but blogger.

[2:05] Kimberly Cooper: Or just spelled like blogger.

[2:07] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Spelled like blob.

[2:08] Bryan Plofsky: Yeah.

[2:09] Bryan Plofsky: Spelled like his last name then.

[2:10] Bryan Plofsky: He really makes it easy for you to follow him.

[2:13] Bryan Plofsky: Great.

[2:13] Bryan Plofsky: So let's just let's just go for it.

[2:15] Bryan Plofsky: What are you drinking?

[2:16] Bryan Plofsky: What are you trying to drink?

[2:18] Bryan Plofsky: Now is the time for the special drinking game.

[2:20] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[2:22] Kevin Jaeger: So we are.

[2:23] Bryan Plofsky: Are we all drinking almost the same thing?

[2:25] Kevin Jaeger: Yes.

[2:26] Kevin Jaeger: I think so.

[2:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay.

[2:27] Kevin Jaeger: All have Moscow mules.

[2:29] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Ish.

[2:29] Kevin Jaeger: Mine is with tequila, and everyone else has the standard vodka.

[2:33] Bryan Plofsky: So instead of saying what we're drinking, since it's all the same thing, we get to go around the table and create one rule for the entire podcast.

[2:41] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: A la Kings.

[2:43] Bryan Plofsky: So I'm going to start.

[2:45] Bryan Plofsky: We're creating it for ourselves.

[2:46] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: No, no, no.

[2:47] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: This is for everyone to play.

[2:48] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Like a general rule.

[2:49] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: A general rule.

[2:50] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Mine is.

[2:51] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: General rule.

[2:52] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And thank you for leading me into my rule.

[2:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Really?

[2:55] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Every time Bryan makes a pun, we gotta drink.

[2:58] Kimberly Cooper: Oh.

[2:59] Bryan Plofsky: So we're already tanked.

[3:01] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: You're glad we started now and not before.

[3:03] Bryan Plofsky: No, that's exactly right.

[3:03] Bryan Plofsky: I was like, not yet.

[3:04] Bryan Plofsky: It's broad stomach pumped.

[3:05] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Alright.

[3:06] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Perfect.

[3:09] Kimberly Cooper: Um, okay.

[3:10] Kimberly Cooper: My rule is.

[3:12] Kimberly Cooper: Or you can give someone else a rule.

[3:14] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I have one.

[3:14] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Every time that somebody gets to make a new drink, they have to give somebody a shot.

[3:18] Kimberly Cooper: Oh.

[3:19] Bryan Plofsky: Oh.

[3:20] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay.

[3:21] Bryan Plofsky: Sure.

[3:22] Bryan Plofsky: Great.

[3:22] Kimberly Cooper: Um mine is going to be anytime anybody mentions Thanksgiving or anything associated with Thanksgiving, um, you need to say gobble gobble and take a drink.

[3:32] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, okay.

[3:33] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, okay.

[3:33] Kimberly Cooper: So wait for the games to be a good idea.

[3:35] Kimberly Cooper: Or let's say let's say the word Thanksgiving.

[3:39] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay.

[3:39] Kimberly Cooper: The word Thanksgiving, you just say gobble gobble and take a drink.

[3:39] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And take a drink.

[3:43] Kimberly Cooper: Yes.

[3:43] Bryan Plofsky: Alright, I'm gonna up the ante.

[3:45] Bryan Plofsky: Anytime anyone says the word Broadway, take a drink.

[3:49] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, yes.

[3:51] Bryan Plofsky: Cheers.

[3:51] Kevin Jaeger: Cheers.

[3:52] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Cheers.

[3:54] Bryan Plofsky: Andrew Keenan-Bolger gets Broadwaysted and my guys.

[3:55] Kimberly Cooper: Oh god.

[3:56] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh god.

[3:57] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, so good.

[3:58] Bryan Plofsky: So let's just let's just um let's start with what have you seen this week.

[4:02] Bryan Plofsky: Sweet.

[4:02] Bryan Plofsky: What are you seeing this week?

[4:03] Bryan Plofsky: What have you seen this week?

[4:05] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[4:06] Kevin Jaeger: Um, Kev, you want to start?

[4:07] Kevin Jaeger: Sure.

[4:08] Kevin Jaeger: Um this week I had the esteemed pleasure to go and see Tick Tick Boom.

[4:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, cool.

[4:13] Kevin Jaeger: It was really, really incredible.

[4:15] Kevin Jaeger: The Keen Theater Company put it on, Nick Blaymeyer, uh, Sierra, and George Salazar.

[4:20] Kevin Jaeger: Um, and they were incredible.

[4:22] Kevin Jaeger: And I've actually never seen the show before.

[4:24] Kevin Jaeger: I obviously love the um soundtrack and have listened to it, but I didn't really know the show.

[4:29] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Was it dynamite?

[4:31] Kevin Jaeger: Drink!

[4:32] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh if you could see my eye roll through the microphone.

[4:37] Kevin Jaeger: It was no, it was really beautiful, and I think there was like a special feeling in the audience.

[4:41] Kevin Jaeger: Uh-huh.

[4:41] Kevin Jaeger: And just to be in a room and like watching somebody whose whole story is about creating something beautiful and fighting to be heard and say something new in a world that doesn't want to hear it.

[4:50] Kevin Jaeger: Um, was really, really powerful.

[4:51] Kevin Jaeger: And it was just really awesome to be in a room with everybody and see something beautiful, and just three people who were really giving it on stage and happy to be doing what they're doing on a night that we were all not really sure was gonna happen, so I loved it.

[5:01] Bryan Plofsky: Great.

[5:02] Kimberly Cooper: Um thumbs up, I assume.

[5:04] Kevin Jaeger: Yes.

[5:04] Kevin Jaeger: Cool.

[5:05] Kevin Jaeger: Two thumbs up.

[5:06] Kevin Jaeger: I'm very Thanksgiving that I saw it, gobble gobble.

[5:08] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, gobble gobble.

[5:09] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, gobble gobble.

[5:11] Bryan Plofsky: Um awesome.

[5:13] Bryan Plofsky: Andrew, did you see anything recently or yeah, I just saw uh falsettos.

[5:17] Kevin Jaeger: So did we!

[5:18] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I know, guys.

[5:19] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Guys, I've like done my homework.

[5:21] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I was like, oh, every episode they're talking about falsettos.

[5:24] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So like they're basically branded at this point.

[5:27] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: But oh my gosh, cried my eyes out.

[5:29] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Right.

[5:29] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So beautiful.

[5:30] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I was so worried because it was like one of my favorite musicals growing up, and I feel like one of the first musicals that kind of had like a queer reference for me as a kid.

[5:38] Bryan Plofsky: Had you seen it before?

[5:39] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I had never seen a production.

[5:42] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I was obsessed with that cast recording, and I was so worried that like it just was not going to live up to my memory of it.

[5:42] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And I was so wrong.

[5:50] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And anyone who is worried about it maybe being dated, I would say that is not the case at all.

[5:56] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: They could have honestly set that first act today and it would have felt just as resonant.

[6:01] Kimberly Cooper: So Kimberly and I were talking it's funny that you say that.

[6:03] Kimberly Cooper: Not funny, but a accurate.

[6:05] Kimberly Cooper: I don't know.

[6:05] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[6:05] Kimberly Cooper: Um Kimberly and I saw it and we said to each other that act one resonates more than thank God, because act two is outdated in that issue being a prominent issue.

[6:17] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So act one, like just the idea of like how do you normalize a family?

[6:21] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: How do you raise a family that's not the uh typical um what's the word?

[6:26] Kimberly Cooper: The new normal, if you will.

[6:28] Bryan Plofsky: Speaking of Andrew Rand, I'm not sure.

[6:31] Kevin Jaeger: Well, Kevin made that pun.

[6:32] Kevin Jaeger: No bun drinks.

[6:34] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um but absolutely like just that idea of um, you know, that I can't think of the term.

[6:41] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: What is it?

[6:42] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Central household um, sure.

[6:46] Kimberly Cooper: Wow, well done.

[6:47] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Tickle about the shit.

[6:48] Kimberly Cooper: But it's true, like I think people were worried that the second act, because especially people of our generation, thank God, were not affected by the AIDS crisis, yeah, it wasn't going to resonate with us.

[6:59] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: But in that way, we took to heart, at least I did, that first act, like bringing these people who were so real and who now more than ever we can relate to all sorts of just like because that is not a type of family that is hidden anymore.

[7:17] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Like that is something that is very like everyone has seen people go through struggles now.

[7:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And so I think we were all just connecting to them as people, and so then in the second act, especially people from our generation are just like, oh wait, that's what this is about.

[7:32] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And then like I personally was just like, How did people get through that?

[7:36] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Like, all like thinking about my friends now, just like, oh good lord.

[7:41] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And so then I cried, I think consistently for 45 minutes.

[7:44] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Like it was insane.

[7:47] Bryan Plofsky: Well, let's go with what's your favorite part of the show?

[7:49] Bryan Plofsky: Like, what was your favorite moment in that production?

[7:50] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh man.

[7:51] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Or song or whatever it may be.

[7:52] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um, you know what?

[7:53] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Honestly, what was your what was your parenthood moment?

[7:55] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh man, what do you think?

[7:56] Kimberly Cooper: Well, you know, I I went to the opening and I got to sit cool.

[8:00] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, I got to sit in the row behind all of the original cast.

[8:05] Kimberly Cooper: So it was a double show going on because I was like watching Barbara Walsh watch um like Stephanie Block and watching like Chip Zine being like cracking up at little things.

[8:15] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh wow.

[8:15] Kimberly Cooper: And that was like honestly, it was so tremendous, and especially knowing how integral the original cast was to the development of that and how groundbreaking that show was at the time.

[8:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Uh it felt a little bit beyond.

[8:29] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I was such a mess.

[8:30] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Like in the first act, even which is like not the place that I thought I was gonna be really moved.

[8:36] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, right.

[8:36] Kimberly Cooper: I mean, I I agree with that.

[8:38] Kimberly Cooper: Act one was like it's all exposition, but it really gives you because we were saying that at intermission, we were like, Oh, I thought I was gonna cry the whole time, and I haven't yet, but to that same point, especially we were sitting in the front row because we had lottery tickets, like we were just so invested in these people on stage because they're right in front of us, and no one was lying.

[8:55] Kimberly Cooper: Like you sometimes when you sit back close, you can see like where people are turning it on.

[8:59] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Uh uh tricks.

[9:00] Kimberly Cooper: No tricks there.

[9:01] Kimberly Cooper: They're there in the moment interacting with the city.

[9:03] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: No matter where they were on stage, like it was crazy.

[9:08] Kevin Jaeger: You gotta love that.

[9:09] Bryan Plofsky: Yeah.

[9:09] Bryan Plofsky: But my is my favorite moment a spoiler?

[9:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: The chess piece.

[9:13] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I think spoiler alert.

[9:15] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I mean I was just like, I thought I was done, and now it's continuing, and now I'm in the front row.

[9:25] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Just really holding his own.

[9:26] Kimberly Cooper: Oh my god, just him holding a baseball bat.

[9:29] Kimberly Cooper: I think I could watch hours of him driving.

[9:32] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Awkward dancing.

[9:33] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, oh yeah.

[9:35] Kimberly Cooper: Uh I'd go to his bar mitzvah any day.

[9:38] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That was well, so that was my favorite part of the favorite part was um when Marvin's looking him in the eyes in the in the hospital room, like when they're doing the bar mitzvah, spoiler alert.

[9:49] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And um, when he looks into the eyes, like all of my hopes and dreams are inside of you, and then the Trina character just starts to like cry in the background, and I lost it.

[9:59] Kimberly Cooper: I I that was like that really got me.

[10:01] Bryan Plofsky: It's the goods, guys.

[10:02] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, yeah.

[10:03] Kimberly Cooper: But we need to take a moment and truly talk about the magnificence that was the Stephanie J. Block breaking down breaking down the earth.

[10:14] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[10:15] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Especially sitting that close, I was like, that knife could come flying out of her hands and into my heart, and I'd love every minute.

[10:22] Kimberly Cooper: She like actually was slaying you, and you were okay with it.

[10:25] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: But heaven with tons.

[10:27] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, we don't have to drink for your I'll drink for it.

[10:32] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um yeah, completely.

[10:34] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: She was just a little bit more.

[10:36] Kimberly Cooper: I sat with Milha Gate like the whole time.

[10:40] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I was also just like, You're gonna cut a finger off, you're gonna cut a finger off.

[10:43] Kimberly Cooper: And then the banana.

[10:47] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That's some one of my favorite things is seeing an actor who you go in with total like preconceived notions of what their ability is and to have them just blow you out of the sea.

[10:57] Kimberly Cooper: And in that same way then Andrew Rannells, his song in the hospital room.

[11:01] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Man, oh man, that boy.

[11:02] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I was like, wait, you're in Book of Mormon.

[11:06] Kimberly Cooper: Also his thighs looking really on display.

[11:10] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Also sitting beneath him, those cheekbones.

[11:12] Kimberly Cooper: But to that point, they utilize his body well in terms of how they costumed him when he was healthy and how they costumed him when he was losing weight.

[11:21] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Was incredibly effective.

[11:23] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: He ran out in those big shorts, and I was like, Oh no.

[11:26] Kimberly Cooper: No, it's not gonna be because I had never listened to the cast album, knew nothing.

[11:31] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I knew a bunch of girls who sang "Holding to the Ground" in college.

[11:33] Kimberly Cooper: Of course.

[11:34] Kimberly Cooper: We all knew that girl.

[11:35] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[11:35] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I was one of them.

[11:37] Kimberly Cooper: Or in everyone.

[11:40] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And every baritone book or high baritone book had the uh proposal song.

[11:44] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[11:44] Kimberly Cooper: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

[11:45] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Those are like the two.

[11:46] Bryan Plofsky: Um, yeah, so we're giving a thumbs up to all of those.

[11:52] Bryan Plofsky: When is it closed?

[11:53] Kimberly Cooper: Do we know that?

[11:54] Kimberly Cooper: January.

[11:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Is that what it is?

[11:56] Bryan Plofsky: I I think so.

[11:57] Bryan Plofsky: Great.

[11:58] Bryan Plofsky: So let's um let's ask some questions.

[12:01] Kimberly Cooper: Questions.

[12:02] Bryan Plofsky: Oh, is that a new one?

[12:04] Kimberly Cooper: Questions.

[12:06] Bryan Plofsky: So dissonant.

[12:08] Kimberly Cooper: Because we just don't know what's gonna happen.

[12:09] Kimberly Cooper: That's my sexy cold voice, everyone.

[12:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: We're all like coughing in here.

[12:13] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I'm like a boss profundo.

[12:15] Kimberly Cooper: Um so Andrew, what's your favorite musical?

[12:18] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh man, I knew this question was coming.

[12:20] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um You know what?

[12:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I think the musical that I could just listen to always is Caroline, or Change.

[12:27] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Like, that'll be my road trip.

[12:29] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I love that album.

[12:31] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: What a good album.

[12:31] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That's always when I'm doing a road trip with someone, I'm like, okay, so I don't know how good of friends we are, but how would you feel listening to the entire Caroline, or Change all the way through?

[12:41] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And if they say yes, I know that it's gonna be a good road trip. And we're gonna listen to Lot's wife twice.

[12:47] Bryan Plofsky: Twice, yes.

[12:47] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And I hate the bus a few times because it's so short. Um that's a good one. We haven't heard that we haven't actually talked about I know it's so like recent that that's crazy to say that that's my show. No, but like also Sunday in the Park and like all the other good ones.

[13:01] Bryan Plofsky: But that was Tony Kushner.

[13:03] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah, and Janine Tsurry. She's brilliant. Such a good show. What is your favorite experience seeing a show? Not the first show, not your favorite show, but what like that truly affected you.

[13:13] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[13:15] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um I mean, this seems sort of biased because my sister was in it, but uh when I saw Glass Menagerie at ART for the first time, this most recent revival. Yeah, I was so just blown away with the artistry and the specificity of direction, and then just those four leads performances. And I uh came down to her dressing room afterwards and just saw her and like broke down, started crying, and like could not. I was like, I'm going to the bathroom because this is really embarrassing. Uh yeah, that was like the most beautiful thing I've ever seen on a stage, I think.

[13:52] Bryan Plofsky: That's very cool.

[13:53] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[13:54] Bryan Plofsky: I love that show.

[13:55] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah, me too, mate. I got into college doing Jim's monologue.

[13:58] Bryan Plofsky: Oh, betcha did.

[14:00] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um I'm picturing you. That was great. It was picturing like 18 year old Brian, like dealing with his emotions.

[14:07] Bryan Plofsky: Yeah, and then um, and then I was so nervous. Here's a good anecdote. I was so nervous when I was done with everything, because you did your songs in a different room than you did your monologue. So you you did your songs in front of the acting professors, and you did the music the songs in front of the musical theater professors. So I did my monologue. I did two monologues, I finished them, and then I it's funny, you think about it. I took the chair and I was like, um, do you want me to strike this? Do you do want me to strike this? Like, I know Quirky, I I've done this before. Oh my god. And they cracked, I was so nervous that I had to quit waiting for government. And they cracked up. And I'm I am 90% positive that that is the reason why I was accepted because they remembered me because I was just I was that your Ithaca audit?

[14:51] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That was my Ithaca audition, yeah, yeah.

[14:52] Bryan Plofsky: That's that is done. Cheers.

[14:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Cheers. To college. And you you're a Michigan boy, yeah?

[14:58] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I am indeed, yeah. Do you have a funny audition story?

[15:01] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, I have a yeah, I have a kind of nightmare audition story.

[15:05] Bryan Plofsky: Awesome.

[15:06] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I auditioned at um a school that shall not be named. Let's just say it's one of the harder ones to get into. Still Voldemort University.

[15:14] Bryan Plofsky: Yes, yes.

[15:15] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And um I I did my audition, and the uh department chair at the end of my audition looks me in the face and goes, So why do you want to go to the school? And me being like, I'm quirky and like sort of neurotic. I was like, Well, everyone needs a safety school. It's a complete joke. And he was stone faced. And I was like, I'm just kidding. I mean it's impossible to get in here and still like dead faced. And needless to say, I did not get into that school. And it has haunted me forever. And then I found out when I was doing newsies, one of the cast members went to that school, and he was like, Wait, you know that you're like lore at our school because the monitor at the audition watched it happen and then came and told everyone in the the in the department. And it was like right during their board, so like everyone was so like stressed out. Yeah.

[16:13] Bryan Plofsky: Yeah.

[16:13] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: They were like, wait, that kid's amazing. And so I have been able to not feel as terrible about that as well.

[16:19] Kimberly Cooper: You brought joy to kids prepping for finals.

[16:21] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I guess. Yeah, geez. That's fantastic. Yeah. Wow. Michigan was the only school that I got into though.

[16:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, really?

[16:29] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah, I just showed it a bunch. Nowhere else let me in.

[16:31] Bryan Plofsky: Interesting.

[16:32] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: All you need is one.

[16:33] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[16:34] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah. And look at you now, on a podcast on a Thursday night. Um, but actually, that leads me to my next question. So you in the original cast of newsies, you know, paper mill to Broadway, drink, chose.

[16:47] Bryan Plofsky: Broadway.

[16:47] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: How has that not been said before? I know. I've been listening for it, but no one said it.

[16:51] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, I'm not sure if we actually say that word a lot.

[16:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: No, we'll find out now.

[16:56] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, I know. Broadway?

[16:57] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh I've kind of never seen anything like it before, in terms of the fan response to it. Um can you speak a little bit about kind of what that show meant to you as an individual, probably growing up with that movie? And um or maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. And then um and then kind of that fan response and how it still kind of resonates throughout your personal life and career.

[17:19] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah. Well, I think newsies it had such an impact on people in my generation. I think because it was one of the first times that I saw boys dancing and doing musical theater and it being like a masculine cool thing that no one was judging, and I think Disney underestimated that impact on 90s kids. Uh and in terms of like the fan following, I thought it was so special. Uh I've been in shows where there have been stars and you go out of the stage door and you just walk right by the autograph line because they're waiting for like one person. And newsies was the first time that you would see people waiting there to like get their favorite newsie to sign their program who might be like a swing or like someone in the ensemble.

[18:05] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[18:06] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And it totally divorced the whole like kind of star mentality. Uh and everyone just got to be got to be a big part of it. And do you think that's why you had a lot of state door presence at something like Tuck?

[18:20] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Uh yeah, I mean, absolutely. I it it was it was weird because I I tried to sort of prepare people like just so you know, like the fans are very rabid, so get ready. And I think everyone was like, okay, whatever. Well, Kimmer and similar demographic too.

[18:35] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, oh totally shows.

[18:37] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And sure enough, they those newsy fans turned out. They were the people who would see the show like eight times.

[18:43] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[18:43] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah, we saw what the week before. Three hours right after close.

[18:47] Kimberly Cooper: Right after uh did you guys have a week notice?

[18:51] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[18:51] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, so they gave the notice and Kim and I were.

[18:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah, totally.

[18:55] Kimberly Cooper: And we got the ticks, and we have we've talked about it.

[18:58] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh yeah. Amazing. Uh good, good. We we made the comment on the show before, but we'll make it again. It's a shame that it closed so early. We really enjoyed it, and that I I don't remember the last time I saw uh a book called a ballet that effective.

[19:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah. I mean, it was really stunning. It was it's one of Casey Nicola, it's one of the first things that he choreographed. Um, right when he was becoming a choreographer, director, he did this big showcase. He was just an ensemble actor before, and he staged something similar to the ballet at the end of Tuck Everlasting, and it's sort of been like one of his life's work that he's been sort of working on, and to get a chance to do that. And what a cast you guys had.

[19:40] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh man, it was the greatest. And it was one of those cool things where like again, we didn't really have a star. Like obviously Terrence Mann and Caroline Carmel are s are are stars to me, but in a world.

[19:52] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, the world of people who listen to the world.

[19:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: But it's not like Eric McCormick. I don't know why I said that.

[19:56] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, it was no Eric McCormick.

[19:59] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: It was absolutely music. I thought of I thought of my. Somewhere Eric McCormick's managers like they're talking about you somewhere, dude. But what was it like growing up? Or I don't know if you grew up with or now it is a theater-centric family, let's say.

[20:15] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Sure. So like did you ever come did you come to New York a lot and see Broadway shows? Like how was kind of that infused into your upbringing?

[20:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah, well, you know, my oldest sister Celia, she's a little bit older than me, and I just grew up always watching her perform, and I honestly think if she were interested in something else, I would probably be doing that now too. Uh-huh. It was one of those things where it was easier for carpooling if we all were in a show together.

[20:40] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[20:41] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And Andrew, you can't play soccer. No, we need to go to the theater now. It's true. So I'm really good.

[20:47] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, exactly. Even for Michigan.

[20:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um Yeah, no, but I think I was lucky to have a sister who I really looked up to. And yeah, and I I would come to New York. I think the first time I came to New York was like on a whim to audition for a show.

[21:07] Kimberly Cooper: And was that your first Broadway show that you saw?

[21:09] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: It was, yeah.

[21:10] Kimberly Cooper: What was it?

[21:10] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Which was Le Miserable.

[21:12] Kimberly Cooper: Which version?

[21:13] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um the original one.

[21:15] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[21:15] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, duh, that's right. He was 12 in 2006. I don't know why I thought that you guys didn't really. I mean, he was 12 in 2006.

[21:23] Kimberly Cooper: So let's get some Thanksgiving questions, gobble gobble.

[21:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh man. And drink. What is your favorite King and Bulger Thanksgiving tradition? And do you go home?

[21:35] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, I don't actually. Have you ever had time? Do they come here?

[21:40] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: No, I usually do like a sibling Thanksgiving.

[21:44] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[21:44] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: All three of my siblings, we all live in New York. So all three. I there's three of us. I don't have three additional. There is not like some secret King of Bolger you've never heard of.

[21:54] Kimberly Cooper: Um we've unlocked a new character.

[21:58] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I got this a new shape.

[22:01] Kimberly Cooper: Yes, but what's your favorite tradition? Tradition. Is there a dish you have to have?

[22:07] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I mean, like mashed potatoes. I don't know. I'm so boring. I don't know what our traditions are. You know what? We all it's like all hands on deck with the cooking aspect of it, which I really love.

[22:19] Kimberly Cooper: Is there a Cooper tradition?

[22:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Wine.

[22:24] Kimberly Cooper: Heavy drinking.

[22:25] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That's a I can tell the crab rangoon story. That is a Schmidt tradition, which is the family I am marrying into. Ooh. In which one year they all got into the kitchen for appetizers. Mm-hmm. And Ann Schmidt had laid out some frozen crab rangoon just on a whim. She bought that in like the pack of frozen appetizers. And all three of her children went, crab rangoon. Oh. And they're like, These are really good, mom. This is a tradition now. You must always have crab rangoon. And so now at Thanksgiving and Christmas, I think.

[22:59] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: There's Crab Rangoon.

[23:01] Kimberly Cooper: So then when Jay came to my Thanksgiving for the first time, my mom texted me. She's like, is there a dish we could make Jay to make him feel more welcome?

[23:08] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh my god.

[23:09] Kimberly Cooper: Go to Costco. And basically we I text back and was like, he says crab rangoon. And then I forced him to tell me the whole story. And then my mother, gem that she is, went and got crab rangoon and was just like, here you go.

[23:25] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, what a love.

[23:26] Kimberly Cooper: That's amazing.

[23:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, see, that's crazy because like the Jager family is like scheduled tradition by like time of day all day long. So we all we all wake up to make sure we're up before the parade starts. My older sister who got married and moved out first has to come over before the parade arrives with two dozen donuts. My dad will have already started making coffee, and everyone sits and watches the parade and uh stares at me during the Broadway performances to ask what I think.

[23:53] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh my gosh.

[23:54] Kimberly Cooper: And as soon as that one's Broadway, cheers.

[23:56] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh right. Cheers. And Kimberly, on that note, can you pass me some more ingredients?

[24:01] Kimberly Cooper: And that means I get to get to give out a shot.

[24:03] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: You do. It does. Um and it's gonna it's gonna be real.

[24:07] Kimberly Cooper: Of course it is.

[24:08] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I knew that was gonna happen. Um so basically we do that. Uh we have donuts and watch the parade, and then as soon as the parade is over, um, my siblings and I go play tennis. Um I live I live in Florida, so this is the thing you can do with Thanksgiving. And then we uh have Thanksgiving, we sit down and we actually have to do the what are you thankful for before anyone's allowed to eat.

[24:30] Kimberly Cooper: Oh man.

[24:31] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: You have to dish out your plate and then do your what are you thank you for for? Staring at your food.

[24:34] Kimberly Cooper: That's funny.

[24:36] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um, and then we have You have to stare at your food, not at your family. Yeah, and then you after that you watch the Mother Christmas Carol.

[24:41] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, that's a good one.

[24:43] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: We're very regimented family.

[24:46] Kimberly Cooper: Alright, Kevin, you ready for your shot?

[24:48] Kevin Jaeger: Yes.

[24:49] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: One, two, three. So my Thanksgiving church is at the Plotski house. There's nothing kind of that stands out. We always watch football. We have pickles at the table.

[24:59] Kimberly Cooper: Sure.

[25:00] Kevin Jaeger: We have pickles at every doesn't matter what it is. It could be like a birthday party. The pickles on the table.

[25:02] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Is it like classic or is it like you make pickles?

[25:06] Kevin Jaeger: No, we don't make pickles. No, you go get the good pickles.

[25:08] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[25:09] Kevin Jaeger: Like from the barrel in the grocery store. That or the tempty, the with the red top. Yeah, I mean, watch football. Someone's watching the parade. My mom every year says, let's go around the table and say what we're thankful for.

[25:20] Kevin Jaeger: But you can't say family and friends, because that's like the easy answer.

[25:24] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Sure.

[25:24] Kevin Jaeger: So like you need to do something more specific than that.

[25:27] Kimberly Cooper: We've never done that tradition because my Thanksgiving always has like upwards of 40 people.

[25:32] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh wow.

[25:33] Kimberly Cooper: So like it would be the entire day.

[25:36] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Now I feel so bad. Like the KB Thanksgiving was so boring. What if I was like, guys, well, we're actually uh we practice Wicca, so we uh we make the turkey, then we like bite the heads off of bats, and we string together kitten teeth into a necklace and say what we're thankful for.

[25:53] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, so that's what you'll do this year.

[25:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Maybe Thanksgiving, yeah.

[25:54] Kimberly Cooper: Seasons every year.

[25:56] Kevin Jaeger: Perfect.

[25:57] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: It's your life.

[25:57] Kimberly Cooper: So here's a here's a thing. What's your favorite food item on Thanksgiving?

[26:02] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Cheesy mashed potatoes.

[26:04] Kimberly Cooper: Stuffing.

[26:05] Kevin Jaeger: Stuffing all the Stouffer's, stove top stuff.

[26:08] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: From the bird.

[26:09] Kimberly Cooper: I don't care if you make it fresh and bulk.

[26:11] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, I said Thanksgiving.

[26:12] Kimberly Cooper: Cheers.

[26:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh yeah.

[26:12] Kevin Jaeger: Cheers.

[26:13] Kimberly Cooper: Cheers, cheers.

[26:14] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I'm over here.

[26:16] Kimberly Cooper: I mean mashed potatoes for me.

[26:18] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[26:18] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Sorry about it.

[26:20] Kimberly Cooper: I feel so good.

[26:20] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I gotta go pickles.

[26:21] Kimberly Cooper: Mary mashed them.

[26:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I gotta go pickles.

[26:23] Kevin Jaeger: Gotta go classic.

[26:24] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Pickles.

[26:25] Kimberly Cooper: We are all going to the wedding.

[26:27] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, wait.

[26:29] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: We're going to come March.

[26:31] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, yeah, true.

[26:32] Kevin Jaeger: In December 12th, Monday, December 12th.

[26:35] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: If you haven't gotten your tickets, go see your tickets.

[26:37] Kimberly Cooper: We're going to see the Bright Star concert.

[26:38] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, I didn't.

[26:40] Kimberly Cooper: I need to go do that because I didn't get to see Bright Star.

[26:43] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: It's wonderful, and we're super happy they're doing that.

[26:45] Kimberly Cooper: So if you haven't gotten tickets, I don't know if it's sold out. If you haven't gotten tickets, get tickets.

[26:49] Kevin Jaeger: It's the cast. It's Steve Martin, it's Eddie Brickell.

[26:52] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um, it's a town hall.

[26:54] Kimberly Cooper: Let's play some games.

[26:55] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yes.

[26:55] Kimberly Cooper: Speaking of Thanksgiving.

[26:57] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh drink.

[26:59] Kimberly Cooper: Sorry, guys.

[27:00] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Get used to drinking.

[27:01] Kimberly Cooper: Because here come my games.

[27:04] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: How the quizzes work is I'll give each of you a question.

[27:07] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[27:07] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Three choices.

[27:09] Kimberly Cooper: And just keep track of your own scores.

[27:10] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: There is a tiebreaker. There are two rounds of questions. Who would like to go first?

[27:14] Kimberly Cooper: We.

[27:15] Kevin Jaeger: Wow.

[27:16] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Kevin really wants this.

[27:17] Kimberly Cooper: Kevin.

[27:18] Kevin Jaeger: Yes.

[27:20] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: In the 2002 Thanksgiving episode of Gilmore Girls.

[27:24] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, cheers, cheers.

[27:25] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, I've never seen that show.

[27:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Sorry, you have to do it again. Lorelai and Rory scramble to attend four Thanksgiving dinners.

[27:31] Kimberly Cooper: Cheers.

[27:33] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Including one that has Suki lamenting Jackson deep frying her beautiful turkey for which she had other plans. What does she drink to cope with the deep frying?

[27:43] Kevin Jaeger: Suki.

[27:45] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Melissa McCarthy's character so I'm not sure.

[27:46] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, I've never seen that show.

[27:47] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um it is on Netflix.

[27:49] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, and on Friday the new ones are coming out.

[27:51] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: On my mom's birthday, and I'm watching it with her at the whole time.

[27:53] Kevin Jaeger: And my mom and sister have a plan.

[27:55] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, I guess that's their tradition this year. They're sitting down drinking wine and watching all the episodes.

[27:59] Kimberly Cooper: Sorry.

[28:00] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I'm so excited. Like I can't.

[28:02] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[28:02] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay, so what is it? Did she drink?

[28:03] Kimberly Cooper: What did Suki drink?

[28:05] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Did she drink the Pinot Noir she picked out to pair with her turkey recipe?

[28:09] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[28:09] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Tequila shots chased with deep fried salt.

[28:12] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[28:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Or frozen margaritas.

[28:13] Kevin Jaeger: The second one.

[28:14] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Tequila shots chased with deep fried salt.

[28:17] Kimberly Cooper: She did drink frozen margaritas, though she makes a joke about Jackson trying to deep fry salt.

[28:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh.

[28:23] Kimberly Cooper: So do I win?

[28:24] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: No.

[28:24] Kimberly Cooper: No.

[28:24] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That wasn't you didn't get that right.

[28:26] Kimberly Cooper: Right.

[28:28] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: In the Thanksgiving episode of Crazy Ex Girlfriend.

[28:31] Kimberly Cooper: Rebecca weasels her way into Thanksgiving with a chance in an attempt to lure Josh away from Valencia because as she says, I give good parent.

[28:38] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: How does she say she usually spends Thanksgiving with her mother?

[28:42] Kevin Jaeger: I wish I have I've watched this like a year ago.

[28:45] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Does she usually go to three different Thanksgiving dinners of relatives her mother hates?

[28:50] Kimberly Cooper: Drink uh drink spiced cider and judge Broadway performances on the Macy's Parade, or roll craisins up into pieces of turkey and watch the dog show.

[28:59] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um I don't remember this answer, but I'm gonna go with C.

[29:02] Kimberly Cooper: You are correct. Rolling up crazy little pieces of turkey.

[29:06] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Rolling with crazy one, Kev.

[29:11] Kimberly Cooper: You're welcome.

[29:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: TV dinners have Thanksgiving to thank.

[29:14] Kimberly Cooper: In 1953.

[29:16] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Can we just all finish our drink after the over?

[29:19] Kimberly Cooper: Yep, you're done.

[29:20] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: In 1953, someone at Swanson misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving.

[29:25] Kimberly Cooper: And so someone decided, why not slice the meat up and repackage that with trimming us on the sides?

[29:31] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And that became the first frozen dinner.

[29:33] Kimberly Cooper: Wait, really?

[29:33] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh wow.

[29:34] Kimberly Cooper: How you know.

[29:36] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: How much extra turkey did Swanson order that year that caused them to repackage it?

[29:41] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, I know this.

[29:42] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I don't I don't need the Did they order 50,000 birds?

[29:50] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, more, sorry.

[29:52] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So how much extra turkey did Swanson got?

[29:55] Kevin Jaeger: 50,000 birds, 650 pounds, or 26 tons.

[30:02] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Those are all different measurements.

[30:03] Kimberly Cooper: My head hurts.

[30:04] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I know.

[30:04] Kevin Jaeger: That's why he did it.

[30:06] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And that's all the same amount.

[30:07] Kimberly Cooper: You're wrong.

[30:07] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: No, but I shouldn't have done that.

[30:09] Kevin Jaeger: Oh man.

[30:10] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Uh I'm gonna go with A.

[30:12] Kimberly Cooper: 50,000 birds.

[30:14] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: It was 26 tons.

[30:16] Kimberly Cooper: 26 tons of two.

[30:18] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Someone got turkey.

[30:20] Kimberly Cooper: Someone got fire.

[30:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: All right, Kevin.

[30:23] Kimberly Cooper: That's intense.

[30:24] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Turkey Lurky Time.

[30:26] Kimberly Cooper: I wish I got this question.

[30:28] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Though usually equated with Thanksgiving in my brain, because you know Turkey.

[30:32] Kimberly Cooper: Takes place at an office Christmas party, which is led by three secretaries, who were the original dancers.

[30:38] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Was it Kelly Bishop, Margo Sappington, and Donna McKechnie?

[30:42] Kimberly Cooper: Was it Margo Sappington, Margo Sappington, and Donna McKechnie?

[30:46] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Or was it Betty Buckley, Jill O'Hara, and Donna McKechnie?

[30:51] Kevin Jaeger: It was not that it was not C.

[30:52] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I know that.

[30:53] Kimberly Cooper: Promises promises, Kevin.

[30:55] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: B.

[30:56] Kimberly Cooper: You are correct, Margo Sappington, Margo Sappington, and Donna McKechnie.

[30:59] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Good one, Kev.

[31:00] Kimberly Cooper: I knew Betty Buckley was not in that.

[31:02] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I really didn't know.

[31:04] Kimberly Cooper: I know, right?

[31:05] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: She took over, she did the Jill O'Hara role in London.

[31:08] Kimberly Cooper: So technically all of these people were in Promises Promises.

[31:11] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I just met in the YouTube video I've seen.

[31:14] Kimberly Cooper: She wasn't in the version in camp, the film.

[31:17] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I was trying to find a question about like the camp performing, and that was no good trivia there.

[31:22] Kimberly Cooper: All right, Bryan.

[31:23] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[31:23] Kimberly Cooper: Anna Kendrick during the Ladies to Lunch.

[31:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So good.

[31:28] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, I love that movie.

[31:29] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay, Bryan.

[31:30] Kimberly Cooper: The Rapcats have been the last pre-parade performance every year beginning in which year?

[31:36] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: 1942, 1927, or 1957.

[31:41] Kimberly Cooper: 57 is correct.

[31:43] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, wow.

[31:45] Kimberly Cooper: And two for two.

[31:46] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yes.

[31:46] Kimberly Cooper: All right, Andrew.

[31:48] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Broadway Musicals began performing in the Macy's Day Parade in 1980 with what show?

[31:53] Kimberly Cooper: Whoa.

[31:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Ooh.

[31:55] Kimberly Cooper: The Pirates of Penzance.

[31:57] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: West Side Story.

[31:58] Kimberly Cooper: Or Barnum.

[32:00] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I mean, if it was 80 Barnum, the Pirates of Penzance.

[32:06] Kimberly Cooper: What?

[32:06] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That was the first one.

[32:07] Kimberly Cooper: I don't know.

[32:08] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That's what Wikipedia says.

[32:10] Kimberly Cooper: So it has to be true.

[32:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Prove me wrong.

[32:14] Kimberly Cooper: Wow, Pirates of Penzance.

[32:16] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: All right.

[32:17] Kimberly Cooper: So, Bryan, do you win?

[32:18] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I got two.

[32:19] Kimberly Cooper: I'm two for two.

[32:20] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Get it.

[32:20] Kimberly Cooper: You do.

[32:20] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Do you want to just do the tiebreaker?

[32:22] Kimberly Cooper: See if you know it.

[32:23] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: What year was the first Thanksgiving?

[32:26] Kimberly Cooper: When the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.

[32:28] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah, that first one.

[32:29] Kimberly Cooper: Um.

[32:30] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So if the if America was 1776 and then Columbus landed here in 1492, I'm gonna go with 1525.

[32:38] Kimberly Cooper: 1621.

[32:39] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[32:39] Kimberly Cooper: You're a century away.

[32:40] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: But still you won the quiz.

[32:43] Kimberly Cooper: Would you like a red hat or a green hat?

[32:46] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: She brought you a hat.

[32:47] Kimberly Cooper: A hat.

[32:47] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: A hat.

[32:48] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, those what are those from?

[32:50] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: These are from Othello the Remix.

[32:53] Kimberly Cooper: I want the green one.

[32:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay.

[32:54] Kimberly Cooper: Iago.

[32:56] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah, I'll take the Oh, you're Iago.

[32:58] Kimberly Cooper: Before the next quiz, let's ask another question to our guest.

[33:01] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Sure.

[33:01] Kimberly Cooper: So submissions only.

[33:04] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Sorry.

[33:04] Kimberly Cooper: I love submissions all the time.

[33:06] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, thanks.

[33:07] Kimberly Cooper: I watched it all.

[33:09] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, thank you.

[33:09] Kimberly Cooper: And everyone's a while I just like check back to see if there's more.

[33:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I guess the two questions I have are where did it come from? Where did the idea spring from?

[33:15] Kimberly Cooper: Um, and how did you actualize it?

[33:19] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And is there any chance we're gonna see more of that?

[33:22] Kimberly Cooper: Oh man.

[33:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Well, uh, it came into fruition. Kate Weatherhead and I, we were down in Dallas working on a version of It's a Bird, it's a play, and it's Superman's, and we were both headed back to New York, and we were both about to be unemployed, which is a great time to be creative.

[33:39] Kimberly Cooper: And randomly her husband suggested that we do a web series together.

[33:44] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And honestly, it was born out of scalability. We were like, what could we we have no money and like no real knowledge of filmmaking?

[33:55] Kimberly Cooper: So what could we make?

[33:56] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Obviously, it's not gonna be like a hospital drama because uh we don't know that, but we did know that we have like actor friends, and we could rent out studio space at like Ripley Greer, so that felt like it was something we actually could do, and we we shot one episode, and people sort of liked it.

[34:18] Kimberly Cooper: So we shot another one, and then before we knew it, we had a season.

[34:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And then in terms of will it happen again? I mean, I hope so.

[34:25] Kimberly Cooper: Awesome.

[34:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: New game?

[34:27] Kimberly Cooper: Again, just drink at the end of this game.

[34:29] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay.

[34:29] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, let's finish our drinks from the first game.

[34:31] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, right, right.

[34:32] Kimberly Cooper: Cheers.

[34:32] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: All right.

[34:33] Kimberly Cooper: I'm like really losing this.

[34:35] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I think your cup is bigger.

[34:36] Kimberly Cooper: It's okay, you're a sipper.

[34:37] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: No, yours is a bigger cup because it's from a um It's a magic bullet cup.

[34:37] Kimberly Cooper: It's a magic bullet, so it has more volume.

[34:42] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I know I don't have a show cup, which is sort of sad.

[34:45] Kimberly Cooper: It's okay.

[34:46] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay, so this is a true or false of Thanksgiving facts.

[34:49] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, oh.

[34:50] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So I'm going to read a fact, and then you just tell me if it is true or false.

[34:53] Kimberly Cooper: Whoever gets it right gets a point.

[34:56] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay.

[34:57] Kimberly Cooper: So do we just scream it out?

[34:58] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yes.

[34:59] Kimberly Cooper: Are you guys ready for some facts?

[35:00] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yes.

[35:01] Kimberly Cooper: Only male turkeys called Tom's gobble.

[35:04] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Females called hens cackle.

[35:06] Kimberly Cooper: True.

[35:07] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That is correct.

[35:09] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, wow.

[35:09] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So should we keep Yeah, keep your own score?

[35:12] Kimberly Cooper: I don't keep score.

[35:13] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for plumbers.

[35:17] Kimberly Cooper: False.

[35:17] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: True.

[35:18] Kimberly Cooper: True.

[35:19] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Wow.

[35:20] Kimberly Cooper: And they had a bunch of people over and like everyone had to go.

[35:23] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That's gross.

[35:25] Kimberly Cooper: Weird.

[35:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Get those candles burning.

[35:28] Kimberly Cooper: Texas consumes the most turkeys on Thanksgiving Day.

[35:31] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: False.

[35:31] Kimberly Cooper: Falsettos.

[35:33] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: If it's false, he gets too much.

[35:36] Kimberly Cooper: Sorry, that is.

[35:38] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: False.

[35:39] Kimberly Cooper: You are correct.

[35:41] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: California.

[35:41] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, okay.

[35:43] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Turkeys have heart attacks.

[35:45] Kimberly Cooper: When the Air Force was conducting test runs, breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys will just drop dead.

[35:50] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I mean, that has to be true.

[35:51] Kimberly Cooper: That's so specific, if not.

[35:53] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: This is true.

[35:55] Kimberly Cooper: What a twisted mind you have.

[35:57] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So Andrew's at two.

[35:58] Kimberly Cooper: I don't know.

[35:59] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Stop all the time.

[36:00] Kimberly Cooper: Andrew's at two, I'm at one, Kevin at one.

[36:03] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Great.

[36:04] Kimberly Cooper: A spooked turkey can run up to speeds at 20 miles an hour.

[36:07] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: False can also burst into flight at 50 miles an hour.

[36:11] Kevin Jaeger: False.

[36:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Kevin heard that number.

[36:13] Kimberly Cooper: Well, I'll say true, cuz.

[36:15] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: It's true!

[36:17] Kimberly Cooper: I'm going for that snapback hat.

[36:20] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I want it back.

[36:21] Kimberly Cooper: No, listen to that.

[36:21] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: This American life where the turkey chased the woman around Martha's Vineyard.

[36:25] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, I did listen to that.

[36:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah, that one was crazy.

[36:27] Kimberly Cooper: So in 1961, there was an outbreak of rabies among turkey farms on the East Coast, causing families to eat ducks and chickens instead.

[36:35] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: True.

[36:36] Kimberly Cooper: False.

[36:38] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: See, I can make twisted stuff up.

[36:43] Kimberly Cooper: Uh the first president to pardon a turkey was FDR.

[36:46] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: True.

[36:46] Kimberly Cooper: True.

[36:47] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: False.

[36:47] Kimberly Cooper: It was Truman.

[36:48] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh.

[36:49] Kimberly Cooper: We're getting housed.

[36:50] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: President Obama pardoned a 45-pound turkey named Courage.

[36:54] Kimberly Cooper: I was out of the False.

[36:56] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: True.

[36:56] Kimberly Cooper: Who was flown to Disneyland and served as Grand Marshal in Thanksgiving Day Parade.

[36:59] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That's true.

[37:00] Kimberly Cooper: Who said true first?

[37:01] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I said true.

[37:02] Kimberly Cooper: Great.

[37:02] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: What did you want to say, Bryan?

[37:03] Kimberly Cooper: I was gonna make a joke, something like a pun about true men.

[37:08] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: True man.

[37:09] Kimberly Cooper: Truman or falsetto, you got you must now say Truman or Falsettos for the next five questions.

[37:17] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Awesome.

[37:17] Kimberly Cooper: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade began in 1924 with 400 employees marching from convent to 145th Street.

[37:24] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: True men.

[37:25] Kimberly Cooper: False.

[37:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: No large balloons were at this parade as it featured only live animals from the Central Park Zoo.

[37:31] Kimberly Cooper: True Settos.

[37:33] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Totally true.

[37:34] Kimberly Cooper: Oh yeah, it's true, man.

[37:36] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[37:36] Kimberly Cooper: That's cool.

[37:37] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Andrew can eat our ass right now.

[37:40] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[37:40] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Last question.

[37:43] Kimberly Cooper: We can't win, so he's.

[37:44] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Andrew Jackson named Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1832.

[37:48] Kimberly Cooper: False.

[37:48] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I would say definitely falsettos.

[37:50] Kimberly Cooper: That guy hated Indians.

[37:51] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[37:51] Kimberly Cooper: That is true.

[37:52] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: It is Falsettos.

[37:53] Kimberly Cooper: It was Lincoln in 1836.

[37:55] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, that makes more sense.

[37:56] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, you were saying it was true that it was Falsettos?

[37:59] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yes, because that was false.

[38:01] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: You guys, I'm gonna wear it right now. Oh, wait, I have headphones on. It looks crazy.

[38:10] Kimberly Cooper: Brills.

[38:11] Bryan Plofsky: That was a fun game.

[38:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So good. Thank you. Um, a couple more questions before we play our last game.

[38:13] Kevin Jaeger: More questions.

[38:17] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: More questions. Yeah, I'm feeling no pain at this point, you guys. What's your favorite thing to do in New York City?

[38:23] Kimberly Cooper: Besides related.

[38:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, okay. Um, I feel like the city is so massive that whenever I can, I try to live my like time out New York, realness, truth. And just go explore a new neighborhood because it's truly never ending. Every time I see something new in New York, it's really mind-blowing that I get to live in the city and see all of this crazy diversity and like incredible culture just right outside my doorstep.

[38:58] Kimberly Cooper: Um, then I guess what's the best advice you've ever gotten and the worst advice you've ever gotten?

[39:04] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um, you know, I think going to Michigan was amazing for a number of reasons, but I think most of all their department really tries to guide you on a path that does not just include musical theater. They are all about the whole college experience and to really not get super myopic about just the business of theater. So I took so many different classes that had nothing to do with what I was studying. And like, I mean, I took all of these creative writing classes, and my best friend at school was Benj Pasek and Jake Wilson, who are both now big-time writers in like TV and on Broadway. And we took all these writing classes that we were like, this probably won't end up being anything, but we have this little itch that we want to scratch.

And I think that expanding your world just beyond musical theater, especially when you're at that age, is so great, and it makes it takes a little bit of the pressure off whenever you're auditioning because you know that there's something else really cool that you can do, and you will never believe the ways that sort of those outside influences influence the way that you approach acting.

[40:19] Kimberly Cooper: Worst advice?

[40:21] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah. Um, like change your nose, boy. Yeah, I feel like someone convinced me to get highlights before I took my first set of headshots. That was a mistake. It was not great. It was like a lot of frosting.

[40:36] Bryan Plofsky: Oh, I've got a whole box of them because I was like, I'm gonna go through these puppies. Look out, world.

[40:41] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: The worst picture you take, you order like a hundred of them, and then you're like, what am I gonna put?

[40:48] Kimberly Cooper: Guys, I realize I'm wearing the sweater that I have out of my head. It's not great.

[40:53] Bryan Plofsky: I'm throwing this to Kevin. Kevin, last second. You got a question for Andrew?

[40:59] Kevin Jaeger: Sure. What was it like when you know looking?

[41:02] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, oh actually, it was really, really, really cool. Especially because I was early on in the season, right when they didn't really know what the show was going to be, and it was in a super small set. It was like shooting an indie film. I think there were only like three or four people in the room, and luckily I knew Jonathan Groff from before, and so as soon as I got into town, he like took me out with all the boys, and we had like a fun San Francisco evening before I like got on screen. So it was really fun.

[41:31] Kimberly Cooper: Okay. This game is a bit of a surprise.

[41:35] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay.

[41:36] Kimberly Cooper: I have put a number of slips of paper in the middle of the room. I'm handing Andrew a Lights of Broadway show.

[41:42] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, a fresh pack. You can hear it. Fresh, fresh, fresh.

[41:45] Kimberly Cooper: He's going to look through his pack and hand each of us one card.

[41:49] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: You and you keep two.

[41:51] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, now, everyone, pick a piece of paper from the middle.

[41:54] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: What?

[41:55] Kimberly Cooper: It's our card.

[41:55] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Wait, you found it?

[41:56] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[41:57] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Wait, what?

[41:59] Kimberly Cooper: Wait, you guys have a card win.

[42:01] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Wait, this is live.

[42:02] Kimberly Cooper: That's us.

[42:05] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, show me, show me, show me now.

[42:09] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, it wasn't in the recording.

[42:11] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay, I'm only I'm gonna say this really, really fast. It's just because somebody tweeted at us like a DM like a message and was like, I'm a master fan of the show. How can I get one of your cards? I just saw it on this press release and sent this message. And I just flipped through and saw our card and we're like, You guys, that's so cool. Just think back to your like 13-year-old self.

[42:29] Kimberly Cooper: I know.

[42:30] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: You would be freaking out. I called my dad when we found out, and I was like, Dad, it's like I'm a sports card.

[42:36] Kimberly Cooper: Oh my gosh.

[42:37] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh my god. He's like, only different.

[42:41] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I'm on a trading card, Dad.

[42:42] Kimberly Cooper: Anyway.

[42:43] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So we each have a light surprise show card. That was real reactions to seeing our card for the first time.

[42:49] Kimberly Cooper: And it's he made my hair so red.

[42:51] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And I just want to say that thank you, Squigs and Lights of Broadway. That's so an honor.

[42:56] Kimberly Cooper: Thank you so much.

[42:58] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That's so fine.

[42:59] Kimberly Cooper: You can Carmen.

[43:00] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I'm gonna Carmen my face off.

[43:02] Kimberly Cooper: That's so f cool.

[43:04] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That's really fing cool.

[43:06] Kimberly Cooper: Alright, everyone, pick a slip of paper from the middle of the table.

[43:09] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I will take one too.

[43:11] Kimberly Cooper: Andrew, you get two because you have two cards left.

[43:14] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Gotcha, gotcha.

[43:15] Kimberly Cooper: Okay. Now, if you look at what is on your slip of paper, I want you to give me a piece of a meal that one might call a Thanksgiving meal based on the card you've been given. Describe your dish.

[43:27] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: This is so good.

[43:30] Kimberly Cooper: And how it relates to the card you've drawn. We have an appetizer, a first course, an entree, a dessert, and a specialty cocktail.

[43:40] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay, so who has appetizer?

[43:42] Kimberly Cooper: And you go first.

[43:43] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I do.

[43:44] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[43:44] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So I just make up a meal based on what I have, the card wise. Like an appetizer dish.

[43:47] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, perfect.

[43:50] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So I have appetizer and my card is uh my Lights of Broadway show card is Side Show.

[43:55] Kimberly Cooper: Ooh.

[43:56] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And so I'm gonna make the We Share Everything platter.

[44:01] Kevin Jaeger: Oh Kevin!

[44:03] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Adorves. Which is gonna just be like a little collection of like turkey rolled mac and cheese balls and all that kind of good stuff, but there's two of each, and it's on a big plate so we share everything.

[44:15] Kimberly Cooper: Oh.

[44:16] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay, I have the first course.

[44:18] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[44:18] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And I have Roger Bart.

[44:20] Kimberly Cooper: Ooh.

[44:21] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay. So, as back of the card is reminding me he wasn't Desperate Housewives. So I'm going to give you a housewife first course. I'm going to give you a very traditional Caesar salad made with fresh eggs and anchovies.

[44:36] Kimberly Cooper: Oh.

[44:36] Kimberly Cooper: Oh.

[44:36] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And I'm going to pair it with a delicious Sauvignon Blanc.

[44:41] Kimberly Cooper: Sounds delicious.

[44:42] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I love you like saving a blanket, yeah.

[44:46] Kimberly Cooper: Does anyone have an entree?

[44:48] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I do have an entree.

[44:49] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, so I have Rogers and Hammerstein Cinderella.

[44:53] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I'm gonna give you a spaghetti and the princess giving a meatballs.

[45:00] Kimberly Cooper: Oh yeah.

[45:02] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: That's amazing.

[45:05] Kimberly Cooper: Uh my turn?

[45:05] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, yes, dessert, please.

[45:07] Kimberly Cooper: Dessert.

[45:07] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So I have Raúl Esparza.

[45:10] Kimberly Cooper: I'm gonna take a leap of faith.

[45:13] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: This might be a little taboo.

[45:15] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[45:15] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Everyone just waterfall your drinks right now.

[45:19] Kimberly Cooper: And like, like I'm gonna do this quick, like bang bang.

[45:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Of the chitty chitty kind. Um, I'm gonna do um.

[45:27] Kimberly Cooper: I'm gonna do a um pineapple tart.

[45:32] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um cabaret style.

[45:35] Kimberly Cooper: Um a pineapple tart.

[45:36] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, he was a pineapple tart. I actually saw him in that production.

[45:39] Kimberly Cooper: Um, so I'm gonna, but I'm gonna top that pineapple tart with a rocky horror road.

[45:43] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Ice cream.

[45:44] Kimberly Cooper: Ice cream.

[45:44] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh, it's cute.

[45:49] Kimberly Cooper: Interesting flavors.

[45:50] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So what's our menu?

[45:52] Kimberly Cooper: Pineapple and Rocky Will.

[45:53] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And now we need our specialty cocktail.

[45:54] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, specialty cocktail.

[45:55] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Okay, so I'm gonna do um it's uh it's a Bacardi with a splash of Sprite, and it's called In the Rum Where It Happened for Lin-Manuel Miranda.

[46:09] Kevin Jaeger: Kevin Verham gave me a ticket.

[46:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: We have fans who do it for you.

[46:14] Kevin Jaeger: I do it for you.

[46:15] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: My mother does it for me.

[46:16] Kevin Jaeger: There's a girl at DM me to tell me that she joins lottery every day to take me to the show, and I'm like, that's sweet.

[46:21] Kimberly Cooper: Um, so we always end with a quote.

[46:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I can't see I think there's a quote coming.

[46:24] Kimberly Cooper: We're gonna end with a quote. You ready, Andrew?

[46:26] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[46:26] Kimberly Cooper: Great. A million lights are dancing.

[46:30] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And there you are, a shooting star, an everlasting world.

[46:34] Kimberly Cooper: And you're here with me, eternally.

[46:37] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Xanadu.

[46:39] Kimberly Cooper: What?

[46:39] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I was like, I don't know that.

[46:41] Kimberly Cooper: That comes out of do I'm kind of embarrassed that the T gay boys at the table did not pick up a Xanadu right away.

[46:46] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: No, I did not see it.

[46:50] Kimberly Cooper: Did you guys see Xanadu?

[46:52] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I did, yeah.

[46:53] Kimberly Cooper: I did too.

[46:53] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I saw that on Sunday.

[46:56] Kimberly Cooper: Me too.

[46:56] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: It was funny.

[46:58] Kimberly Cooper: So we're coming to the end of our episode.

[47:00] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yeah.

[47:00] Kimberly Cooper: And before I zoot to up bum.

[47:02] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh.

[47:03] Kimberly Cooper: Um, so I just wanted to remind us um all to remember to take a moment on Thanksgiving to absorb your family, your friends, and the community that you've chosen to build around you.

[47:16] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: At the dinner table, or sitting palms coming up, so drink.

[47:20] Kimberly Cooper: Um, so at the dinner table, or sitting next to them watching football or the parade, or listening to Past the Football, or talking to how you want a parade revival. Just take a second to remember how lucky you are, but seriously, to have people around you, to have art around you, because art is the game changer.

[47:38] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So I just want you to take a minute this Thanksgiving to look in your mom's eyes, look in your dad's eyes, look in your best friend's eyes, text your best friend, sit at the table, sit in the couch, sit, look at your uncle, look at your aunt, look at your sister, look at your brother, look at the next door neighbor, and just be like, thanks for making me who I am.

[47:56] Kimberly Cooper: Because we're all gonna really have to rely on each other for a long time.

[48:00] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: And I just feel like as artists, it's our responsibility right now to create art that tells the story of the underrepresented stories of people of color, of women, of gay people.

[48:15] Kimberly Cooper: We love you.

[48:16] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: We do, we love you.

[48:17] Kimberly Cooper: Absolutely.

[48:18] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um, so from our Broadwaysted family to your family and friends, we want to give you a big end of magic changes.

[48:29] Kimberly Cooper: Ha!

[48:30] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Booya, zoot do up, bum.

[48:33] Kimberly Cooper: Thank you so much.

[48:35] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: You'll listen to us next week. We're gonna have an awesome show for you.

[48:38] Kimberly Cooper: He said, not knowing what the next week's show was.

[48:40] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Um, we love you all.

[48:42] Kimberly Cooper: Happy Thanksgiving.

[48:44] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Cheers.

[48:44] Kimberly Cooper: We said Thanksgiving.

[48:45] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Cheers, cheers.

[48:46] Kimberly Cooper: If you say zoot to up with your family and you tweet it to us, you win.

[48:46] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: You win.

[48:51] Kimberly Cooper: I don't know what you win, but I'll give you a prize.

[48:53] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: All listeners, if you take a video and share it with us on Instagram or Facebook of you and your family cheers to zoot to up bump, we will give we will we have awesome prizes for you.

[49:05] Kimberly Cooper: Kimberly always has awesome prizes in her.

[49:08] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: I got stuff.

[49:08] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[49:09] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Just do it.

[49:10] Kimberly Cooper: I actually, I have one really good one, so we'll get that one.

[49:13] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: We love you all.

[49:14] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, before I forget, sorry.

[49:16] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Everybody watch the Transliteracy Project.

[49:18] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, yes.

[49:19] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: This is a web series that I created with my sister's theater company called Honest Accomplished Theater. It is a web series that is telling the stories of trans people, and it's really important in a great way, especially in the current climate, to make sure that minority voices have a place at the table.

[49:39] Kimberly Cooper: Transliteracy Project, check it out.

[49:41] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: We will.

[49:42] Kimberly Cooper: So, recap.

[49:43] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: See Falsettos, Love Your Family, Transliteracy Project, Tick Tick Boom, Alcohol.

[49:50] Kimberly Cooper: AKB.

[49:52] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: AKB, the Tuck Recording, Bright Star, Kevin.

[49:58] Kimberly Cooper: Great.

[49:59] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Booyah.

[49:59] Kimberly Cooper: Booyah.

[50:01] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Oh god.

[50:01] Kimberly Cooper: I love everyone.

[50:12] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: You can get your own um Broadwaysted Lights of Broadway card.

[50:17] Kimberly Cooper: Woo!

[50:17] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Yes.

[50:18] Kimberly Cooper: Props to the press.

[50:18] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: Thanks, Squigs.

[50:19] Kimberly Cooper: Broadwaysted now has their own.

[50:22] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: But if you are a light catcher out there, you will not find it in a pack of cards.

[50:26] Kimberly Cooper: You have to contact us directly to get one.

[50:28] Andrew Keenan-Bolger: So go to our website, Broadwaysted.com, the contact page.

[50:33] Kimberly Cooper: And we'll have all the information so that you can get your own Broadwaysted Lights of Broadway card.