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[0:20] Bryan Plopsky: Hello, and welcome to the official Broadwaysted podcast where we're drunk on theater. I'm your host, Bryan Plopsky, and we're gonna chop to the top because we have no control. Does Daddy know best, or should I look to the super sea star savior? Ugh, poor pirates. They were having the best day ever until they realized that I'm not a loser. Whatever. Tomorrow is when the going gets tough. So let's say that here is my middle name. Admit I guess I miss you and say aye, Captain. Don't worry, I can hear you. Joining us today are the usual BFFs, including Kevin, just a simple sponge Jager.

[0:55] Kevin Jaeger: Ah, such a good song.

[0:57] Bryan Plopsky: Kimberly, our bikini bottom boogie game master and unofficial babysitter for the hour.

[1:01] Kimberly Cooper: Wearing bikini bottoms as we speak.

[1:03] Bryan Plopsky: Just kidding. Yeah, it's a perfect zoom outfit. No. Yeah, exactly. Uh, and with us today, we have two magical Tony nominated people. One is a returning guest, you may have seen in Tootsie, Spring Awakening, The Wildness, Wicked, and SpongeBob the Musical. The other is a first Broadwaysted first timer who you may have seen in Bag Daddy, Fosse/Verdon, and also SpongeBob the Musical. Let's give a big Broadwaysted welcome to friends of the show, Lilli Cooper and Ethan Slater.

[1:37] Lilli Cooper: So good to be here.

[1:44] Ethan Slater: Nailed it.

[1:45] Lilli Cooper: Yeah.

[1:46] Ethan Slater: Just so smooth stringing them together.

[1:48] Lilli Cooper: Ugh.

[1:49] Ethan Slater: Worked very well.

[1:50] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, it did actually.

[1:52] Ethan Slater: I think very cohesive. Um, cool. Well, welcome. Welcome back, Lilli. Welcome to the show, Ethan. We're super excited to have you both. And uh let's get started with what are you drinking? Ethan, let's start with you. You're a first timer. What are you drinking?

[2:09] Ethan Slater: So I decided to go with something visually recognizable for this clearly visual medium, which is a little bloody Mary.

[2:19] Bryan Plopsky: Yeah, beautiful.

[2:21] Ethan Slater: That's why I disappeared for a while. I had to stir it up.

[2:24] Bryan Plopsky: That's great. Uh, Kimberly, what are you drinking?

[2:29] Kimberly Cooper: Um, I have just, you know, a standard gin and tonic with lemon instead of lime.

[2:35] Bryan Plopsky: Lilli, what are you drinking?

[2:37] Lilli Cooper: Um, I was so thirsty. I grabbed the first thing in my fridge, which was a very stale bottle of seltzer. So it's quite disappointing.

[2:45] Ethan Slater: And I might beautiful.

[2:48] Bryan Plopsky: Um, Kevin, what are you drinking?

[2:50] Kevin Jaeger: Uh, angry orchard crisp apple cider.

[2:52] Bryan Plopsky: Yum yum. Beautiful. Uh, and then I am drinking polar black cherry seltzer, and uh with my classy, I poured some tequila into it into the can.

[3:02] Kimberly Cooper: Perfect.

[3:03] Bryan Plopsky: That's very high school of you.

[3:04] Ethan Slater: Yeah, I know.

[3:06] Bryan Plopsky: Um, like yeah, you know, it's during this uh during this alone time. I just like got in touch with my uh you know, my high school drinking self. You know, I don't have to leave the house, it's great.

[3:15] Lilli Cooper: Hanging out in a basement, yeah.

[3:17] Ethan Slater: I hang out in a basement, I hang out in a basement.

[3:19] Bryan Plopsky: It's very I now sound like a serial killer. Um but on uh that note, uh, what are your favorite musicals?

[3:29] Lilli Cooper: Oh wow. Um Sweeney Todd.

[3:35] Ethan Slater: Right, uh speaking of serial killer, yeah.

[3:38] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, really smart.

[3:42] Ethan Slater: That's a good idea. I feel I feel like just I I can't answer that question without saying Jesus Christ Superstar.

[3:48] Lilli Cooper: Like I'm not 100% sure that it's true.

[3:50] Ethan Slater: Uh but I do love it so much. And if anybody asks, that's uh that's just the first thing that pops into my mind.

[3:57] Lilli Cooper: I don't think we've ever had anyone say Jesus Christ Superstar is their first choice.

[4:01] Ethan Slater: That's that honestly shocks me.

[4:03] Lilli Cooper: Yeah.

[4:04] Ethan Slater: But that's also I like that you when you I I like that you want me your gut. It's such a gut feeling because what the first thing that I think of when I think of a musical is the opening shot from Jesus Christ Superstar zooming in on Carl Anderson.

[4:17] Lilli Cooper: Sure, sure.

[4:18] Ethan Slater: And then just like starting over and then just like starting over 15 times before the song starts. It's I I just I don't know who made that decision, but it's the best decision in the history of cinema. I just love it so much.

[4:34] Lilli Cooper: Um that's amazing. Um let's uh I let's talk about SpongeBob a little bit, if you don't mind just starting from there. Um to you, both of you answer them together separately. Like, what's the legacy of the stage show? Like what like being a little bit further out from it, um, and kind of like having time to maybe breathe and look back on it. What do you think the legacy of that specific show is? Whether that you think a bit from a um, you know, a larger perspective or just like something smaller for yourself.

[5:03] Lilli Cooper: I I think that so many people loved it so deeply um and were really inspired by it and the way that it was created, and uh just curious what someone who was in it and was with it for such a long time with the journey. What is your what's your take on it now looking back?

[5:18] Ethan Slater: Great question.

[5:19] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, it's such a nice question too. Cause like I do think that I I feel really uh I feel like everything has morphed as I've gotten further away, so that I'm I'm remembering um like little moments in a in just totally in a totally different context. And I think that that's like some version of nostalgia um and like longing because it was such a good experience. But I think it's also it also like crystallizes like the truthfulness of it, which is like it was a show that was surprising because it led with creativity and it led with hope and it led with sort of love in this weird way, and it could have been something totally different, and it ended up being this like joyful beacon, at least for me and the people that I got to talk to about it. So I think like that's it's such a general vague uh thing, but it feels like the for me it's just this creativity can come in so many different forms.

[6:15] Ethan Slater: Um yeah, and I think it's surprising in a lot of ways because I I know so many people who came to the show or you know, thought of the show before they had seen it with such preconceived notions and thought that they were gonna see something and ended up seeing something completely different, and loved that we broke those boundaries and said, No, actually walk into the theater and and watch it first because it's gonna be something completely different. And I just I love that um as a legacy to be like don't just assume that this show on a cartoon is gonna be one thing because it's gonna be something totally creative and heartwarming and and profound. And in addition, I think the fandom is truly a legacy. Like it's a fan base that I have never been a part of before or since.

[7:12] Lilli Cooper: It's massive and so incredible. And like, like I I did, I did like a meet and greet the other day with two young girls who were in different parts of the world who became friends as fans of SpongeBob.

[7:29] Ethan Slater: I know it's like the it's the best thing ever.

[7:32] Lilli Cooper: That's like it's so beautiful.

[7:36] Ethan Slater: Stop it.

[7:38] Lilli Cooper: Um, that's amazing. Actually, from there, let's go into stage door stories.

[7:43] Ethan Slater: Stoor story.

[7:44] Lilli Cooper: Um, I'm sure that you have some pretty phenomenal stage door stories from from either uh regionally or when you came to Broadway. Um, and you don't even have to use SpongeBob as an as an example. There are other shows you have, but something that like, I don't know, is something that's heartwarming, something that's hilarious, something that was like you learned a lesson, or something that kind of represents the stage door uh to you, like the experience of being a performer and and coming out and uh greeting the fans.

[8:12] Ethan Slater: Oh man, I I don't know. There were just like so many amazing moments at the stage door. I feel like I feel like I had like dozens of times where I would come out and there would be like uh, you know, grandparents standing at the very front of the line and would be like, I was dragged here by my by my you know grandkids and I really didn't want to come. I was doing it for them, and I've already bought tickets to bring the rest of the family. You know, it's like happening all the time, which was so beautiful.

[8:40] Lilli Cooper: But I feel like the best moments were like I feel like the best moments were coming out and seeing. I'm I'm gonna speak to the SpongeBob moments because I again like the fandom was like just so beautiful and like so such a community, and like coming out to the stage door and seeing people dressed in the most amazing SpongeBob like cosplay. That's just like unbelievable.

[9:01] Ethan Slater: Um and then getting to talk to people like for whom it was a jumping off point for them to be like I'm you know doing this kind of art because of SpongeBob. I'm doing like this kind of thing and handing us like the most beautiful pictures and paintings, like that was so so meaningful to me.

[9:18] Lilli Cooper: It was really hard to move out of my dressing room because the walls were plastered with just awesome fan art.

[9:23] Ethan Slater: That's very cool.

[9:25] Lilli Cooper: So I just I love that so much.

[9:27] Ethan Slater: Yeah, the fan art was next level. I have a whole um kind of like memory book filled with it, and I straight up have artwork hung on my walls on my home of amazing artists who gave us the gift of their art at the stage door, which is so cool to be able to like give something in a show and then walk out of the stage door, and it has inspired other people to create things.

[9:55] Lilli Cooper: That's just so special.

[9:56] Ethan Slater: That's kind of what fear is all about, right?

[9:58] Lilli Cooper: Yeah.

[9:59] Ethan Slater: I feel like one of the other really fun things about SpongeBob stage door was when Tina would be at the show and she would be like, she would be like standing down at uh at the base of the stairs, just being like, Are you gonna go out now? Are you gonna she'd be like waiting for each person to be like, Are you gonna go out? Okay, I'm gonna announce you. And she would like walk and she would like run up the stairs, like open the door, she would close the door and be like, hide here, be like, all right, everyone.

[10:22] Lilli Cooper: Like we all loved each other and we all loved hanging out, and sometimes we'd hang out backstage and chill a little bit after the show, you know what I mean? And like wind down. And Tina would like come around and be like, Hey, uh, hey guys, so um, there are people, you know, there are people at the stage door. Are are you gonna are you gonna go out?

[10:35] Ethan Slater: Yeah, Tina.

[10:39] Lilli Cooper: We're she was such a she would hype them up.

[10:44] Ethan Slater: It was so great. There's there's like no no feeling quite like going out to the stage door after a Tina hype show.

[10:49] Lilli Cooper: And like how cool is it that the fans got that too?

[10:53] Ethan Slater: Like, I don't never been in another show where a director went to the stage in my life, and she loved it, and people would ask for her autograph and pictures and stuff. It was so cool.

[11:01] Lilli Cooper: Sure.

[11:03] Ethan Slater: That's cool.

[11:04] Lilli Cooper: That's awesome. Um my god, that's so good. I I just have one quick question. So uh speaking about like the artistry and everything, SpongeBob was such a beautiful show because of like the visual aspect, like the music was incredible, you guys were great.

[11:19] Ethan Slater: Um, but like the visuals, like the costumes and the sets really developed and made that world.

[11:25] Lilli Cooper: So, what was it like that first like rehearsal when you were actually like in the world seeing all your like castmates in their costumes on stage and like the world around you coming to life?

[11:38] Ethan Slater: Like was what do you remember that experience of that first kind of run through like that?

[11:43] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, totally. I remember it so vividly being walked through the theater for the first time. I specifically remember being walked into the theater in Chicago in our out-of-town tryout because of course seen sketch up sketches of things and everything. And you know, you get to the theater on the first day of tech, and they wouldn't let us into the actual house, like we'd go to our dressing rooms and stuff, and then they gathered us out in the hall in like you know, um out in the house, and so then they would bring us into the actual theater, and we all walked in at the same time and were just like it felt like kids in an aquarium, yeah.

[12:18] Ethan Slater: Literally did.

[12:19] Lilli Cooper: Because we were just surrounded, because David Zen is so brilliant and encompassed the entirety of the theater into this and created this world.

[12:28] Ethan Slater: Uh it was so magical.

[12:31] Lilli Cooper: And you just kept discovering new things. And they like really wanted us to have that immersive experience that the audience would have, which was just so gr I'm so great, like so grateful that they did that. Because I remember at the time I was like, I just want to see it. Like, don't make us go to the dressing rooms first. And then we walked in, we're like, oh, it was, you know, it's everywhere.

[12:50] Ethan Slater: That's cool.

[12:51] Lilli Cooper: I have a follow-up question to that.

[12:53] Ethan Slater: Um, do you still have Foley artists following you around every day?

[12:58] Lilli Cooper: He will not get out of my apartment.

[13:00] Ethan Slater: Um I wish.

[13:03] Lilli Cooper: I have to say, one of one of the most amazing what are you saying?

[13:06] Ethan Slater: No, I'm just saying he can't sneak up on anybody.

[13:10] Lilli Cooper: I try.

[13:11] Ethan Slater: It's like so loud.

[13:15] Lilli Cooper: That's so well synced.

[13:17] Ethan Slater: So I can't be mad about it, you know?

[13:18] Lilli Cooper: It's like probably like my my best memory, memory that will like linger in for the rest of my life was on closing night.

[13:28] Ethan Slater: Um, we were like backstage and it was like emotional and whatever, just like hanging out, and then um all of a sudden the audience just starts going wild, like screaming, like just going so so loud.

[13:41] Lilli Cooper: And we're like, what is going on? What's going on? We like run over to stage management, and they're like, um Mike Dobson just entered the theater.

[13:49] Ethan Slater: And like he like our foley artist Mike Dobson, who like, you know, is on stage and has been with us since the beginning.

[13:57] Lilli Cooper: He's like such an integral part of the show. He is the thing that ties it together, but you don't know if that's being noticed.

[13:58] Ethan Slater: You don't know if that's being picked up on.

[14:04] Lilli Cooper: You know, sometimes design elements and and musical elements sort of fade into the texture. But the fact that our our community, our fans and our the audiences at these shows were so like tuned in to how important he was.

[14:19] Ethan Slater: It was just like so beautiful.

[14:20] Lilli Cooper: Um, and they gave him like a three-minute long standing ovation, and then everyone like then he was like, Okay, okay, like you know, that's good, that's good, thank you.

[14:30] Ethan Slater: That's amazing.

[14:31] Lilli Cooper: That's awesome.

[14:32] Lilli Cooper: Um, he was like so fun to just watch. Like he because he's like so in it, he's like so engaged and in it. Yeah, and he's doing so much. Like at any given moment, you look over and he has like five things in his hand.

[14:44] Ethan Slater: Would you believe that during the workshops he was doing all of that plus playing the full drum kit?

[14:51] Lilli Cooper: No, wait, really?

[14:53] Ethan Slater: That's wild.

[14:54] Lilli Cooper: Oh wild. He would just be like playing like a like a tight groove for like a Cindy Lauper song, and going just like out of rhythm, like hitting the snare and then a rubber chicken, you know.

[15:06] Ethan Slater: It was outrageous.

[15:08] Lilli Cooper: Wow. That's crazy. But I'm just like, can you imagine getting that sub book? Being like you're just gonna submit the day.

[15:16] Ethan Slater: Just a drum kit.

[15:21] Lilli Cooper: Right, it's like notated with like little doodles on top of it.

[15:23] Ethan Slater: Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's like it's like the picture of feet as opposed to like honk horn here.

[15:29] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, yeah. Something I also wanted to bring up is Lily. Um, this is more of just a shout-out because you're wonderful. But uh, one thing that I'll never forget is when we saw Tootsie in Chicago, the first time that you said, well, the first time we heard you sing "There was John," is like something I will never forget.

[15:48] Lilli Cooper: How did you were spectacular? And even though we saw it again on Broadway, just like perfection. Um, so we'll talk about Tootsie for just a second. Um, I just wanted to hear kind of what was for such an intimate song that really is just like you and the audience and you and whatever you're picturing.

[16:04] Lilli Cooper: Um, I guess what's your process? How do you create that such a in such a big showy, you know, comedy musical, you really create this microcosm that says so much about the character while also feeding plot? Like, how do you how do you as an artist kind of take that moment and and and and push it out and convey it?

[16:23] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, great question. I mean, I think that that was one of the most challenging things about Tootsie. I um really in the scheme of things was kind of the straight man in that show, which I think is one of the hardest parts in comedy.

[16:34] Lilli Cooper: And uh, you know, it's a lot of setting up jokes and letting them fly uh from for someone else. And that moment I loved so much, and because it was the song that I sang for my audition, and I remember just falling madly in love with this song, and it's challenging, it's it's not an easy song.

[16:53] Lilli Cooper: It like flips between registers, there are like 11th jumps, it's really crazy. But once I kind of like honed it and got it into my voice, it felt like David Yazbek wrote it for me, and he 100% didn't, but it felt like that.

[17:09] Lilli Cooper: I think mostly because of the subject matter, it's about being an artist and it's about the things that you sacrifice. And it's like, how do you not relate so deeply to that concept? Um, so it felt really close to home.

[17:24] Lilli Cooper: Uh so I think that that really helped me delve deep into that kind of like intimate moment, but in terms of like allowing my character to kind of go those to those places, I think it was vital for a comedy like that, right?

[17:40] Lilli Cooper: We need you need kind of these polarizing moments because if it that was a pretty slapstick, hilarious, ridiculous show. But you need these grounding moments to bring us back down to reality and to also remind us that these characters are real and they have real human traits and flaws.

[17:59] Lilli Cooper: And I just thought that that song did that so so so beautifully. It was one of my favorite yeah, definitely one of my favorite moments in that show, especially because of the contrast, and you also were wonderful.

[18:09] Ethan Slater: Um, flipping it back to you, uh, what did you do to play Joel Gray as the MC in Fosse/Verdon? Like, where do you even start like with iconic and like how much of yourself did you bring to it?

[18:24] Ethan Slater: And how much was like were you supposed to just like kind of just like be him for these moments? Like what was that process like?

[18:30] Ethan Slater: That was probably wild. It was super super fun. I think it was it was like a big beat, just like be Joel Gray right now, kind of thing.

[18:39] Ethan Slater: But I feel like that um there definitely was, but you know, I think whenever you're doing an impression, uh, or whenever you're doing an impersonation of somebody, I don't know, you you always are asked and want to um like have it so in your body that you can do your own thing and it feels lived in because otherwise it'll just feel not lived in.

[19:00] Ethan Slater: So I guess what I would like to say is that I was doing a Joel Gray, but I was just I just felt so much like Joel Gray.

[19:08] Lilli Cooper: And um, maybe that's true.

[19:10] Ethan Slater: You were living your best life as Joel Gray.

[19:13] Ethan Slater: 100%. I was in the moment, I was living the truth of the moment, I was in the reality of the moment, but just being Joel Gray.

[19:22] Ethan Slater: Um that's yeah, yeah, yeah.

[19:26] Lilli Cooper: Um, but no, it was mostly I was just sort of watched it and was like, okay, what does he do here?

[19:33] Ethan Slater: That could be your memoir, being Joel Gray.

[19:37] Lilli Cooper: Oh my goodness.

[19:39] Ethan Slater: It's being John Malkovich, but it's someone climbing into my head as I climb into Joel Gray's.

[19:45] Lilli Cooper: Yeah.

[19:46] Ethan Slater: Um, but do you know where else we climb into people's heads?

[19:49] Lilli Cooper: Oh god.

[19:49] Ethan Slater: Oh dear Tuesdays in the corner with Kevin.

[19:55] Kevin Jaeger: Kevin's Corner.

[19:56] Kevin Jaeger: So welcome to Kevin's Corner, where I get to come up with really fun questions by doing stupid internet research. So today we're gonna be playing a game called Who Knows Who More according to Wikipedia.

[20:08] Kevin Jaeger: So I am gonna ask Ethan five questions about Lily based on her Wikipedia page, and then Lily I'll ask you five questions about Ethan based on his Wikipedia page, and we'll see who knows who more.

[20:21] Kevin Jaeger: So each question will be worth one point, and then there's a round two, which is worth five points, so that way we'll see who wins overall.

[20:30] Kevin Jaeger: So we'll start with questions for Lily about Ethan.

[20:34] Kevin Jaeger: Right. Pressure's on her.

[20:36] Kevin Jaeger: All right. Question one. According to Wikipedia, Ethan grew up in this alliterative two name city in Maryland.

[20:46] Lilli Cooper: Oh two names.

[20:51] Lilli Cooper: I was gonna say Bethesda.

[20:53] Kevin Jaeger: But that's my name.

[20:55] Lilli Cooper: Wow.

[20:56] Kevin Jaeger: Wow.

[20:57] Lilli Cooper: Wow.

[20:58] Kevin Jaeger: Wow, LC.

[21:00] Kevin Jaeger: Unfortunately.

[21:01] Lilli Cooper: Are we allowed to help guess?

[21:03] Kevin Jaeger: Uh, Bryan can help you for like a half credit.

[21:07] Lilli Cooper: You said alliterative. My guess is Chevy Chase.

[21:11] Kevin Jaeger: Wow. Super close too.

[21:13] Kevin Jaeger: That's a good guess, but not right.

[21:17] Kevin Jaeger: No?

[21:18] Ethan Slater: Well, he is from wait.

[21:20] Ethan Slater: Maryland?

[21:21] Kevin Jaeger: It's what?

[21:22] Kevin Jaeger: Is Chevy Chase a town in Maryland?

[21:25] Ethan Slater: It is.

[21:26] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[21:26] Ethan Slater: Is it really?

[21:28] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, yeah.

[21:28] Kevin Jaeger: Chevy Chase, the actor founded a town in Maryland.

[21:31] Kevin Jaeger: Um, sort of like as like a second career kind of thing.

[21:35] Kevin Jaeger: It didn't pan out, but the town really flourished.

[21:37] Lilli Cooper: Oh, wow.

[21:38] Kevin Jaeger: That's incredible.

[21:39] Kevin Jaeger: Um, real facts here in Kevin's Corner.

[21:43] Ethan Slater: Yeah.

[21:44] Kevin Jaeger: Ethan, you want to give us the real answer?

[21:46] Ethan Slater: So if I had to guess, because it's an alliterative uh place and it's in Maryland, my I'm gonna go with Silver Spring.

[21:53] Kevin Jaeger: That is correct. Silver Spring.

[21:56] Kevin Jaeger: What's up?

[21:56] Ethan Slater: I like that you I like that you only got that from the alliteration not growing up there.

[22:01] Ethan Slater: I just know geography really well.

[22:02] Kevin Jaeger: That's something that's really important to me.

[22:04] Kevin Jaeger: I like to read maps.

[22:06] Kevin Jaeger: I love it.

[22:07] Kevin Jaeger: All right, question two. According to Wikipedia, Ethan played this role in the 2015 web series Redheads Anonymous.

[22:17] Lilli Cooper: Um, he played Sam.

[22:26] Kevin Jaeger: That is correct.

[22:29] Lilli Cooper: What?

[22:30] Lilli Cooper: Yes, you did.

[22:31] Kevin Jaeger: You knew it.

[22:32] Lilli Cooper: I know he did it.

[22:34] Kevin Jaeger: And I knew that one.

[22:36] Kevin Jaeger: Here we go.

[22:37] Kevin Jaeger: According to Wikipedia, Ethan lit up the small screen as this original sentimental man in this critically acclaimed Fosse/Verdon show.

[22:50] Lilli Cooper: He played.

[22:51] Lilli Cooper: Wait, he played the MC in Cabaret.

[22:56] Lilli Cooper: Who was the original sentimental man?

[22:59] Lilli Cooper: Oh, Joel Gray.

[23:00] Kevin Jaeger: There you go. Boom.

[23:01] Kevin Jaeger: Boom.

[23:03] Kevin Jaeger: Uh, next question.

[23:06] Kevin Jaeger: The Broadwaysted career was legit shook when we watched Ethan as Jerry Samuel die in a violent manner, enhanced by impressive stage magic in this 2017 off Broadway show at St. Luke's Theater.

[23:22] Lilli Cooper: Who's your bag daddy?

[23:23] Kevin Jaeger: That is correct.

[23:25] Lilli Cooper: I saw Who's Your Bag Daddy.

[23:28] Lilli Cooper: That was so crazy.

[23:29] Lilli Cooper: Spoiler alert, sorry guys, but that was crazy when you died, but like the magic was so good.

[23:36] Ethan Slater: I that was so fun.

[23:37] Ethan Slater: And would you believe that it didn't work every time?

[23:40] Lilli Cooper: Oh, it worked when we saw it.

[23:44] Ethan Slater: Once we were open, it worked.

[23:47] Ethan Slater: It worked really, really well.

[23:48] Lilli Cooper: Yeah.

[23:48] Kevin Jaeger: I thank the thank you for the donuts.

[23:50] Lilli Cooper: Yes, very nice of you.

[23:52] Ethan Slater: Of course. My pleasure.

[23:55] Kevin Jaeger: And uh last question uh for Lily.

[23:58] Kevin Jaeger: Besides one honoree theater world award, according to Wikipedia, how many awards did Ethan win for his performance in the titular role in SpongeBob SquarePants?

[24:11] Lilli Cooper: Um, I think he won like a Broadway World like audience choice award or something.

[24:21] Lilli Cooper: Uh so that's one.

[24:26] Lilli Cooper: And wait, did you list another one?

[24:29] Lilli Cooper: You said besides?

[24:31] Lilli Cooper: But there was one, he it says he was an honoree for a theater world award.

[24:37] Lilli Cooper: Does that does that count as winning?

[24:39] Kevin Jaeger: So besides, I didn't know, so that's why I said besides being an honoree, how many awards did he actually win?

[24:45] Lilli Cooper: So you have one so far.

[24:47] Lilli Cooper: How many more do you think he actually won?

[24:49] Lilli Cooper: Um, I think he won two.

[24:54] Kevin Jaeger: The answer is he won four.

[24:57] Kevin Jaeger: He won the drama desk for outstanding actor in a musical.

[25:01] Kevin Jaeger: That's what I knew.

[25:02] Kevin Jaeger: He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actors Act.

[25:05] Lilli Cooper: Outer Critics Circle?

[25:06] Lilli Cooper: Oh my god, you're amazing.

[25:08] Lilli Cooper: How did I not remember this?

[25:09] Kevin Jaeger: And he won two Broadway.com audience awards.

[25:13] Kevin Jaeger: Uh one for favorite breakthrough performance male, and one for favorite leading actor in a musical.

[25:19] Lilli Cooper: Oh my god.

[25:19] Lilli Cooper: Wow.

[25:20] Lilli Cooper: How come those aren't your background, Ethan?

[25:24] Ethan Slater: Because I want to be looking at them, so they're right behind my computer.

[25:28] Ethan Slater: Yeah.

[25:29] Ethan Slater: Those are for me.

[25:31] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, so Lily, you got three points.

[25:34] Kevin Jaeger: That's pretty solid.

[25:35] Lilli Cooper: Okay.

[25:36] Lilli Cooper: I could have done better.

[25:37] Lilli Cooper: I'm quite disappointed in myself, to be honest.

[25:39] Kevin Jaeger: All right, Ethan, you ready for this?

[25:41] Ethan Slater: I just I do want to say, like, I'm pretty I'm pretty bad with like sort of names and things.

[25:45] Ethan Slater: Like I'm I'm like, okay, but like now I'm like pretty nervous.

[25:49] Lilli Cooper: Yeah.

[25:49] Kevin Jaeger: There's a lot of there's a lot of names in the questions.

[25:53] Kevin Jaeger: This one is this one's very namey, so sorry.

[25:56] Kevin Jaeger: Oh according to for no reason, but do you know how to chat on Zoom?

[26:02] Ethan Slater: Just like for no reason.

[26:03] Kevin Jaeger: I'm just kidding.

[26:06] Kevin Jaeger: That's like been two years of experience.

[26:10] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, let's do it.

[26:11] Kevin Jaeger: According to Wikipedia, Lily Cooper's years active as a musical theater artist are blank to the present.

[26:21] Ethan Slater: Okay, hold on.

[26:26] Ethan Slater: Gosh, I don't even know that one.

[26:28] Ethan Slater: Yeah, hold on, hold on.

[26:29] Ethan Slater: Here's what I'm thinking.

[26:29] Ethan Slater: I'm trying to do some some reverse engineering, right?

[26:31] Ethan Slater: Like, so when did I first hear the OBC?

[26:35] Ethan Slater: You know what I mean?

[26:35] Ethan Slater: Yeah.

[26:36] Ethan Slater: And then like, so when did it come out?

[26:39] Ethan Slater: Um, and then like, but then would your years active have started like let's say 2007?

[26:47] Ethan Slater: Is that your guess?

[26:49] Ethan Slater: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

[26:53] Ethan Slater: You know what?

[26:55] Ethan Slater: What do I have to lose?

[26:56] Ethan Slater: 2007, final answer.

[26:58] Kevin Jaeger: That is incorrect.

[26:59] Lilli Cooper: Lily, do you know the answer?

[27:01] Lilli Cooper: I'm gonna guess 2005.

[27:04] Kevin Jaeger: You also don't know your life.

[27:06] Bryan Plopsky: And Kimberly, do you have an answer?

[27:08] Kimberly Cooper: 93.

[27:11] Kevin Jaeger: According to Wikipedia, you became active starting in 2006.

[27:17] Lilli Cooper: Does that mean that we each get half a point?

[27:20] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[27:21] Kevin Jaeger: Yes, actually.

[27:24] Kevin Jaeger: That actually makes sense.

[27:26] Kevin Jaeger: Wait, talk talk me through why it makes sense.

[27:29] Lilli Cooper: Well, because that's when Spring Awakening opened on Broadway, but when it was off Broadway was 2005.

[27:33] Kevin Jaeger: Ah, see.

[27:34] Kevin Jaeger: That makes sense.

[27:34] Kevin Jaeger: So I guess Wikipedia just doesn't count off Broadway.

[27:41] Kevin Jaeger: Wikipedia got real pretentious.

[27:43] Kevin Jaeger: All right.

[27:44] Kevin Jaeger: So next one.

[27:45] Kevin Jaeger: Quick question two. According to Wikipedia, Lily began 2014 as Lucy Brown in the Atlantic Theater Company's Off-Broadway production of this classic show whose 1956 production won a Tony Award for the lead.

[28:03] Ethan Slater: The only time an off-Broadway performance has ever been honored with a Tony.

[28:09] Lilli Cooper: What?

[28:09] Ethan Slater: Wow.

[28:10] Lilli Cooper: Didn't know that part.

[28:12] Ethan Slater: I learned this.

[28:14] Lilli Cooper: In 2014.

[28:16] Ethan Slater: In 2014, Lilli did this show at the Atlantic Theatre Company, and she played Lucy Brown.

[28:22] Lilli Cooper: It's um, oh my god, it's a it's is it a Brett show?

[28:26] Ethan Slater: Um my god, come on, Ethan.

[28:29] Lilli Cooper: Come on, you've got it.

[28:31] Ethan Slater: The good the three penny opera.

[28:36] Lilli Cooper: There it is.

[28:38] Ethan Slater: Isn't that by myself?

[28:42] Lilli Cooper: Apparently, Lottie Lenya won a Tony Award for her off-Broadway performance.

[28:48] Ethan Slater: Whoa.

[28:48] Lilli Cooper: How was that possible?

[28:50] Ethan Slater: I don't know.

[28:51] Lilli Cooper: They made it happen.

[28:52] Ethan Slater: That's awesome.

[28:54] Lilli Cooper: Good for her.

[28:55] Ethan Slater: Um, here we go. Question three.

[28:57] Lilli Cooper: All national tours have names, like, for example, the Hamilton Tour legs are known as the Philip Tour, the Angelica Tour, stuff like that.

[29:04] Kevin Jaeger: So, according to Wikipedia, what was the name of the National Tour of Wicked that Lilli was on here in the United States as the Alpha Understudy and Standby in 2014 before she jumped to the Australian tour and then to Broadway?

[29:20] Lilli Cooper: Classic.

[29:21] Lilli Cooper: I think I have a good hint.

[29:23] Lilli Cooper: I have a good hint for this one that won't give it up, but I think it's a good hint.

[29:26] Lilli Cooper: I would love it.

[29:27] Kevin Jaeger: I will take the hint.

[29:28] Lilli Cooper: It is a location within the world of Oz.

[29:32] Ethan Slater: That's great.

[29:33] Kevin Jaeger: That's a good one.

[29:34] Lilli Cooper: Is it the OzDus ballroom tour?

[29:38] Kevin Jaeger: That's amazing, but you get one more guess.

[29:40] Lilli Cooper: I get one more guess.

[29:40] Lilli Cooper: It's a location in Oz.

[29:43] Ethan Slater: Uh uh.

[29:44] Lilli Cooper: Okay, so there's like is that Munchkin land?

[29:47] Kevin Jaeger: That's perfect.

[29:50] Lilli Cooper: What? Can I tell can I tell a really really really quick story? Which is that I had an audition for Bach uh maybe ten years ago. Uh I was doing the sides and I said uh Munchkinville, and they were like, Hey, can you take it back from the top? Loved what you did, super super good. Um, everyone knows what it's called. You just can't you just can't say it wrong. I'm so sorry. You just can do my take it from the top.

[30:18] Kevin Jaeger: So did you know what you had said wrong?

[30:21] Lilli Cooper: I was in a full fugue state, uh terrified. I had never had like a like a big scale Telsi audition till that point.

[30:32] Ethan Slater: He booked right, you booked it.

[30:34] Lilli Cooper: Mm-hmm.

[30:37] Kevin Jaeger: I turned it down for scheduling reasons, right?

[30:40] Lilli Cooper: Of course.

[30:41] Lilli Cooper: To pursue more TV. Um, I saw the production of this Jonathan Larson musical two days before Lilli stepped into the role of Susan, a role I saw performed by Sierra Renee. Tick tick boom, and she rocked it so hard, it was so good.

[30:59] Lilli Cooper: Yes, you were so good in that.

[31:02] Ethan Slater: Thanks.

[31:03] Kevin Jaeger: And the last question in this round I have seen two shows in Chicago before their Broadway runs that I then saw on Broadway. Both productions featured Lilli Cooper. What were the two shows?

[31:15] Lilli Cooper: I'm gonna go ahead and say the formerly known as the SpongeBob musical and uh Tootsie.

[31:22] Kevin Jaeger: That is correct.

[31:24] Kevin Jaeger: Boom.

[31:24] Kevin Jaeger: Yes, it was all right. So it was so Ethan has four points and Lilli has three, but everything can change in round two because this is worth five points. So this is where we'll determining the leader. And this question is my cousin is getting married at the end of next month. What is her name?

[31:43] Lilli Cooper: Oh so here's how we're gonna do this. You each get one yes or no question, and then we'll let you go back and forth four times, and if you haven't gotten the name yet, I have a final clue.

[32:00] Ethan Slater: Amazing.

[32:00] Kevin Jaeger: All right, so let's go first. So you get a yes and no question starting with Ethan.

[32:04] Ethan Slater: God, I really want to waste it on a funny question, but then I'm gonna not be able to answer. So I'm gonna go with her name more than two syllables.

[32:24] Kevin Jaeger: Dang, I left I left the door way too open.

[32:29] Kevin Jaeger: All right, Lily, you had a question.

[32:31] Lilli Cooper: Okay, wasted on specifying it. So what we have decided is the name can be one, two, or three syllables. No one or two.

[32:40] Lilli Cooper: One or two more than two.

[32:42] Ethan Slater: Oh, I thought you said more than three. I thought more than three. I think that's where you got that from.

[32:50] Lilli Cooper: Okay, one or two syllables. Uh does her name start with a vowel?

[32:57] Ethan Slater: Smart.

[32:58] Lilli Cooper: No.

[32:59] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. All right. So now you're going back and forth, four guesses each. So we'll start with Ethan.

[33:05] Ethan Slater: Is her name Jen?

[33:07] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[33:10] Ethan Slater: Is her name Sarah?

[33:12] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[33:14] Ethan Slater: But look at look at the response.

[33:17] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, is her name Dana?

[33:20] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[33:21] Lilli Cooper: Oh, now I can't read you anymore.

[33:23] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[33:25] Ethan Slater: Is her name Kelly?

[33:35] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[33:38] Ethan Slater: Is her name? Wild Gina.

[33:46] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[33:51] Lilli Cooper: More guesses. You just get you just get two.

[33:53] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, you get two more.

[33:54] Ethan Slater: Is her name. Oh, wait. Is her name? Is her name? Um yeah.

[34:16] Ethan Slater: Is her name Becky?

[34:19] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[34:20] Kevin Jaeger: All right, final guess round before I give you a big clue.

[34:23] Ethan Slater: Okay, great, great, great great. Okay, so we've got two bits of information here. That it's two or fewer syllables, and that it starts with a consonant.

[34:31] Lilli Cooper: Yes.

[34:32] Kevin Jaeger: Yes.

[34:32] Ethan Slater: Okay. There's only one possible answer. Is her name Pam?

[34:40] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[34:47] Ethan Slater: Really, your final guess?

[34:50] Ethan Slater: Is her name Mary?

[34:54] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[34:55] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, your big clue. Her name is a palindrome.

[35:04] Lilli Cooper: Oh.

[35:07] Ethan Slater: Oh, that's a good clue.

[35:10] Lilli Cooper: Name race car.

[35:12] Ethan Slater: Race car, right.

[35:15] Lilli Cooper: Your name is race car.

[35:17] Kevin Jaeger: You're correct.

[35:19] Lilli Cooper: It's like madam on Adam.

[35:24] Ethan Slater: Poundrum names.

[35:27] Lilli Cooper: Oh, oh, I have one. Oh no. But it starts. It starts with a consonant. Damn it.

[35:32] Ethan Slater: Oh, this one does.

[35:34] Lilli Cooper: Exactly.

[35:35] Lilli Cooper: That's right. My idea did not start with a consonant.

[35:44] Kevin Jaeger: Wow.

[35:46] Kevin Jaeger: This is tough.

[35:49] Lilli Cooper: It's a good clue, but it's tough.

[35:51] Lilli Cooper: It's a it's a good. I'm very excited to figure this one out.

[35:54] Kevin Jaeger: Let's start at the beginning of the alphabet.

[35:56] Lilli Cooper: B.

[35:57] Kevin Jaeger: B.

[35:59] Lilli Cooper: B.

[36:00] Kevin Jaeger: Bob Bob.

[36:02] Lilli Cooper: Bob Bob.

[36:03] Kevin Jaeger: B A.

[36:06] Lilli Cooper: Bab Bab.

[36:08] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, that's nothing.

[36:10] Lilli Cooper: C.

[36:11] Lilli Cooper: Um.

[36:13] Kevin Jaeger: Oh no, no, no.

[36:15] Lilli Cooper: D.

[36:17] Kevin Jaeger: Not T. Not C D.

[36:21] Lilli Cooper: Okay. I'm just gonna sing a song while I'm thinking.

[36:25] Lilli Cooper: A B C P P F G H sh.

[36:35] Kevin Jaeger: There it is.

[36:38] Lilli Cooper: That's not fair.

[36:39] Ethan Slater: You got it.

[36:40] Lilli Cooper: You got it.

[36:44] Lilli Cooper: That uh Lily won Kevin's corner.

[36:47] Kevin Jaeger: Yay!

[36:50] Lilli Cooper: I got too excited. I like I really I really couldn't have stopped myself from saying it if I'd meant to.

[36:56] Lilli Cooper: Which I didn't mean to. I wanted to say it, but I couldn't have if I right. I was so excited that that you didn't that you counted.

[37:05] Kevin Jaeger: Uh that's been Kevin's Corner. That was a wild, wild corner today.

[37:10] Lilli Cooper: You're welcome.

[37:11] Kevin Jaeger: Um so we we are here to talk a little about the town halls um Broadway by the years that the two of you are participating in. Um just before so you can uh you can stream those at thetownhall.org on April 26th. That's the Cold Porter Years that features Lily along with Alexander Geminiani, Canina Miller, and friend of the show Danny Gardner and more.

[37:34] Kevin Jaeger: Uh May 10th, you can check out the Candor and Ebb Years, Beth Level, Tony Asback and Friend of the Show Danny Gardner and more. And then um May 24th is the Andrew Lloyd Weber years. Ethan is on that one.

[37:44] Kevin Jaeger: Uh Max Von Essen, friends of the show, Liz Callaway, and then Danny Gardner again and more. Um and uh each each uh each one of those streams is nine to ten songs with a dance number uh featuring and choreographed by Danny Gardner, friend of the show.

[38:01] Kevin Jaeger: And um uh each one of those on the dates that I had mentioned streams at 7 p.m. on each of those dates uh and then is available for 72 hours on the site afterwards.

[38:13] Kevin Jaeger: So go to the town hall.org uh in order to um purchase uh the viewing rights or whatever they're calling them now to those. Um but I wanted to talk to both of you about kind of uh two things. I don't know if you're allowed to share what you're saying, if you know, um, but also um you know, these are called Broadway by the year. What through your eyes, what is Broadway by the year?

[38:36] Lilli Cooper: It's like I know they're doing cold porter, Kendra and Ebb, and Andrew Lloyd Weber, but like, you know, your experience through theater, what you've seen, what you listened to, like to you, what is Broadway um by the year? What what pops out to you and and and and if so, why do you connect to the one that you're doing, or they were just like, here, sing this.

[38:55] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, Broadway by the year is actually uh it's this series, and my dad has been involved in it for years.

[39:01] Lilli Cooper: Cool.

[39:01] Lilli Cooper: So it's something that I had actually gone to and listened to and heard, you know, kind of since I was a kid. So I've always loved it because it really opens your eyes and ears to other generations and decades of music that we don't hear anymore, really. Such a great kind of like flashback to what the old age of Broadway was.

[39:22] Lilli Cooper: Um I'm singing Cold Porter, so that's what it really feels like. It feels like this kind of classic old school musical theater, which is so fun to delve into because we don't get a lot of that anymore. So I love kind of like honoring the tradition of musical theater and um honoring, you know the the amazing composers and artists that created a kind of groundwork for for what Broadway has become.

[39:52] Ethan Slater: Yeah, totally. And I feel like um, well, first of all, I neglected to say like Mazatov to Hannah. Like, that's so exciting.

[40:00] Lilli Cooper: Yeah.

[40:02] Ethan Slater: I just realized like we got into so so into guessing Hannah's name that we were like, oh there's like a reason for it.

[40:08] Lilli Cooper: Um how amazing. Uh but no, but I think that like I think that's like that is it for me too, is like being able to look back at these different eras of musical theater and and these eras of of Broadway.

[40:20] Ethan Slater: And I think I've become a lot more aware in the past, you know, couple of years of my creative life about how much each musical that we like grew up loving and grew up like being fans of actually like really spoke to a specific moment.

[40:35] Ethan Slater: Um, and that they weren't written just as you know, pure entertainment, but like a lot of these musicals that we think of as um as sort of like the old you know standbys or whatever were written in response to the political climate of the day, or uh, you know, these social issues that were coming up that were being expressed in various ways that that aren't always successful, um, and uh sometimes you know fed into some other sort of you know problematic growth things, but um it's really important to see how musicals are how art is created and why it's created, and I think that obviously we're um these three concerts are done by composer, which is also its own sort of really cool peek into a composer's mind.

[41:21] Ethan Slater: But I think sort of the concerts that I've been a part of in the past that I've seen in the past where you're looking at 1956, you're looking at 1974 and the musicals of that year, you can start to be like, oh, right, like these musicals that were written right in the wake of the JFK assassination are are speaking to that. Camelot is speaking to that.

[41:39] Lilli Cooper: Um, and I think that that's a really important frame to look at, you know, to understand this music through.

[41:51] Ethan Slater: Yeah, absolutely.

[41:53] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, the dramaturgy, like taking things like contextually, how they were impacted by what was going on in the world. Also, I think something that is so cool that doesn't really happen anymore.

[42:03] Lilli Cooper: Is that musical theater at one point was popular music. And I was I listened and and learned about a lot of songs through artists who would sing those songs outside of the context of the shows.

[42:24] Lilli Cooper: So like the two songs that I'm singing, the two Cole Porter songs that I'm singing, I actually knew the most from Ella Fitzgerald's versions of those.

[42:33] Ethan Slater: For sure.

[42:34] Lilli Cooper: Which I just love that they're on these different albums of different artists and different pop artists and popular culture.

[42:42] Lilli Cooper: And it was so ingrained in the musical culture of the world. And it was so these songs and this music was so well known by everyone, not just music, quote unquote musical theater fans. And I love that's awesome.

[43:01] Kevin Jaeger: Um yeah, so Kevin.

[43:03] Kevin Jaeger: I was just gonna say, um, Ethan, how have you been preparing knowing that you're taking on like such an iconic role as like the chandelier from the Phantom of the Opera? And do you have like a costume at home to wear to be the chandelier?

[43:15] Ethan Slater: Yes, I've I've actually built my own costume.

[43:18] Ethan Slater: Um I'm gonna be uh I'm gonna be hovering. What's amazing about the opportunity to film at home is that I can do some like really cool screen magic, which is not worth it because no one's gonna watch this Zoom call, right?

[43:31] Ethan Slater: So never mind. Uh yeah, what a what a privilege.

[43:36] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, totally.

[43:38] Bryan Plopsky: Um, should we so so um check out go to the townhall.org, uh check out that again. Uh check out Lilli on April 26th, the Cole Porter years, and then May 24th, the Andrew Lloyd Weber years uh for Ethan. Um and then uh you'll get dance numbers by Danny in both of them. So like really what a what a what a home run there. Um and then after that, it's 72 hours on the site. Um so check that out. But uh on that note, should we play a game?

[44:08] Lilli Cooper: Let's do it.

[44:10] Ethan Slater: Absolutely.

[44:11] Kevin Jaeger: Speaking of, we can play a game called Broadway by the ear.

[44:16] Lilli Cooper: Oh, oh no, by the ear.

[44:20] Ethan Slater: Um, I was going to try and like audio share and like make myself a playlist.

[44:26] Lilli Cooper: Sure.

[44:26] Ethan Slater: Instead, I'm just gonna um real straight tone read some lyrics.

[44:30] Bryan Plopsky: Oh my god.

[44:31] Lilli Cooper: How much few bars?

[44:33] Ethan Slater: Yeah, I thought about whistling. You can guess by a whistle. Um, but we're just gonna go for the straight-toned, uh, very deadpan lyrics. Um, and to get points in this game, I will read just a short snippet of a song, and then you there are two points available, the name of the show the song is from, and the year that show premiered on Broadway.

[44:57] Lilli Cooper: Oh god.

[45:01] Kevin Jaeger: Yes, and that will get you two points, or one of each will get you one point. And um, this list is weird. So here we go.

[45:11] Ethan Slater: Okay.

[45:13] Lilli Cooper: It begins with um don't laugh at my jokes too much.

[45:20] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, um, it's big bing bing bing. Ding in whenever. Big ding ding.

[45:25] Lilli Cooper: It's from Oklahoma, and it's people will say we're in love, and it's from uh 19 oh god, 56.

[45:35] Kevin Jaeger: No, 40, 40, 40.

[45:38] Bryan Plopsky: No.

[45:39] Kevin Jaeger: Kevin stops guessing. Anyone know when Oklahoma premiered and changed the face of musical theater?

[45:46] Lilli Cooper: It changed the legs too.

[45:49] Bryan Plopsky: Thank you. Changed the body of work. Really. Go for it, Ethan.

[45:56] Ethan Slater: I mean, you know, why not? Why not stab in the dark? 1958.

[46:02] Kevin Jaeger: No, I'll just go down.

[46:05] Lilli Cooper: 952.

[46:10] Kevin Jaeger: Is it like 30? Is it?

[46:11] Lilli Cooper: No, it's like 41 40s.

[46:16] Kevin Jaeger: 40 42?

[46:17] Lilli Cooper: 4040?

[46:19] Kevin Jaeger: 43?

[46:19] Lilli Cooper: 1943.

[46:21] Kevin Jaeger: No way, really?

[46:22] Lilli Cooper: Wow. I always thought it was post-World War II.

[46:26] Ethan Slater: What did I? No. Right in there back of it. Wow. Wild. See? Look at that dramaturgy. How interesting.

[46:34] Lilli Cooper: Yeah. And then, as my husband will make fun of me constantly, um, I will now say that we will get to live through the 100th anniversary, and isn't that cool? Anyway.

[46:43] Ethan Slater: So cool.

[46:46] Lilli Cooper: Um crickets wander murmuring.

[46:52] Kevin Jaeger: Ding ding ding ding ding.

[46:54] Lilli Cooper: Spring awakening.

[46:58] Kevin Jaeger: Correct. Which debuted on the Broadway in 2006.

[47:03] Ethan Slater: As we learned earlier today.

[47:05] Lilli Cooper: What? This is really full circle.

[47:07] Ethan Slater: Full circle. Perfect. When Lilli became active.

[47:14] Lilli Cooper: I was just asleep in my shell.

[47:16] Ethan Slater: Yeah.

[47:18] Lilli Cooper: Activated.

[47:19] Kevin Jaeger: Yes.

[47:23] Lilli Cooper: Oh, here's a fun random series I created. Uh, first one. Money, money, money, money, money, money.

[47:32] Kevin Jaeger: Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.

[47:33] Lilli Cooper: Yes, Lily.

[47:35] Lilli Cooper: The SpongeBob musical, which debuted in 2016.

[47:43] Kevin Jaeger: Incorrect.

[47:45] Ethan Slater: Really?

[47:47] Kevin Jaeger: Whoa.

[47:47] Lilli Cooper: Ding ding ding later rounds.

[47:49] Kevin Jaeger: Ding ding ding ding.

[47:51] Ethan Slater: Uh it's cabaret.

[47:57] Kevin Jaeger: Correct. Um I'm trying to think. I wrote the year down wrong. I think I wrote the movie year. So the movie 72, the musical 66, and the revival is 98. I don't remember which one it premiered in. Gross.

[48:13] Bryan Plopsky: I'm pretty sure it's from the movie.

[48:12] Kevin Jaeger: So you could say 72 because you knew it all.

[48:17] Lilli Cooper: Fine. Right was negative. Bryan gets negative five points from eating overachiever.

[48:22] Ethan Slater: I agree. Um next.

[48:25] Lilli Cooper: Did I get a half point because those lyrics were also in Spongebob?

[48:29] Kevin Jaeger: Um, yeah.

[48:31] Lilli Cooper: Cool. Also, uh, Mamma Mia.

[48:37] Kevin Jaeger: Say it correctly.

[48:38] Lilli Cooper: I missed that one.

[48:39] Kevin Jaeger: Mamma mia.

[48:40] Lilli Cooper: Sorry.

[48:41] Kevin Jaeger: Mamma mia. Give me your money.

[48:46] Lilli Cooper: Give me your money.

[48:47] Kevin Jaeger: Uh, I got it. It's it's um, it's uh Avenue Q.

[48:52] Lilli Cooper: And it that premiered on Broadway in 2003.

[48:56] Kevin Jaeger: Correct.

[48:57] Lilli Cooper: Boom. Wow. Um, and then next we have money, money in this drawer. Money, money round the store.

[49:06] Kevin Jaeger: Uh-huh.

[49:06] Lilli Cooper: Money, money from the floor.

[49:08] Kevin Jaeger: Lily, might you know this one?

[49:10] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, I just wanted to give it to somebody else because I have so many points for it. But I'm just gonna say Spongebob 2016.

[49:17] Kevin Jaeger: Great, yes.

[49:19] Lilli Cooper: I started writing the first one to SpongeBob, and then I was like, but it's also cabaret, and it's also these things.

[49:24] Ethan Slater: Yeah, yeah.

[49:27] Lilli Cooper: Okay. Randomly. I keep covering the camera for fun.

[49:30] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. Life upon the wicked stage ain't ever what a girl supposes.

[49:39] Ethan Slater: That's uh showboat.

[49:43] Lilli Cooper: Correct. Uh and it premiered in 1936.

[49:52] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[49:54] Lilli Cooper: Anyone else know what showboat?

[49:56] Kevin Jaeger: Huh?

[49:57] Lilli Cooper: 42.

[50:04] Kevin Jaeger: Uh 39.

[50:04] Lilli Cooper: 38.

[50:13] Kevin Jaeger: 37.

[50:14] Lilli Cooper: Uh 36?

[50:16] Kevin Jaeger: 27.

[50:18] Lilli Cooper: 27 is correct.

[50:20] Kevin Jaeger: What?

[50:21] Lilli Cooper: What?

[50:22] Kevin Jaeger: 1977?

[50:26] Lilli Cooper: Back then. It was just at the beginning. They had just come out with the piano forte. They had just invented the stage, and what else could we do but sing on it?

[50:40] Ethan Slater: Exactly.

[50:42] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. All helpful urges should be circumvented.

[50:48] Lilli Cooper: Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.

[50:50] Kevin Jaeger: Yes. Wicked, the musical, which premiered also in 2003.

[50:56] Lilli Cooper: That is correct.

[50:58] Kevin Jaeger: Okay.

[50:59] Lilli Cooper: So good.

[51:00] Ethan Slater: But for the record, I've known all of these answers. I just have to slowly react.

[51:04] Lilli Cooper: Totally.

[51:05] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, yeah. That's why I've been quiet.

[51:06] Lilli Cooper: Um heart. Stop racing.

[51:13] Ethan Slater: Oh.

[51:14] Lilli Cooper: Yeah.

[51:16] Ethan Slater: Is that from Anastasia?

[51:19] Lilli Cooper: Quite close, but no.

[51:21] Lilli Cooper: Oh. That's art, don't fail me now.

[51:25] Ethan Slater: Yeah. Yeah.

[51:26] Lilli Cooper: Heart stop racing. You were so proud of yourself though, if it was.

[51:31] Ethan Slater: Yeah. I was sheepishly proud.

[51:35] Lilli Cooper: Is this heart stop? Heart's already. Is heart is that uh waitress?

[51:43] Ethan Slater: Yes.

[51:44] Lilli Cooper: Oh.

[51:45] Kevin Jaeger: It is.

[51:46] Lilli Cooper: Well, that was Hamilton season. So what is that? 2015.

[51:48] Kevin Jaeger: Anyone else?

[51:51] Lilli Cooper: 2014.

[51:55] Kevin Jaeger: It's 2016.

[51:57] Lilli Cooper: 2016.

[51:58] Kevin Jaeger: Was that the season after?

[51:59] Lilli Cooper: That was the same season?

[52:00] Kevin Jaeger: It was the same season, but they opened in the spring.

[52:02] Lilli Cooper: Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[52:06] Kevin Jaeger: Right. Um, next on my list, heart. Don't fail me now.

[52:13] Lilli Cooper: That is that one, waitress.

[52:21] Kevin Jaeger: You know what year?

[52:24] Lilli Cooper: 20 15.

[52:28] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[52:29] Lilli Cooper: It's not right.

[52:30] Kevin Jaeger: 2016.

[52:31] Lilli Cooper: 2017?

[52:33] Kevin Jaeger: 2014.

[52:34] Lilli Cooper: 2017.

[52:36] Kevin Jaeger: Wait, what?

[52:37] Lilli Cooper: I know. Doesn't that feel too not worth?

[52:39] Kevin Jaeger: When did Spongebob come out?

[52:41] Lilli Cooper: 2016.

[52:41] Kevin Jaeger: 2016.

[52:42] Lilli Cooper: 2016.

[52:43] Kevin Jaeger: No, 2017.

[52:47] Lilli Cooper: Was that the same Tony season?

[52:49] Kevin Jaeger: It's the same. No, we were the next Tony season.

[52:51] Lilli Cooper: I think we were we were December 2017. Tony season 28.

[52:55] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[52:57] Lilli Cooper: March 2017.

[52:59] Kevin Jaeger: So yeah, different season. Tricky. I would have known if Anastasia.

[53:08] Bryan Plopsky: All right, and so rounded out. In the heart category. You've got to have heart.

[53:14] Lilli Cooper: Ding ding ding ding ding.

[53:16] Kevin Jaeger: That's damn Yankees.

[53:18] Lilli Cooper: And what is that? Like 52.

[53:22] Kevin Jaeger: Anyone else?

[53:25] Lilli Cooper: 58.

[53:26] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[53:27] Lilli Cooper: I think it's I think it's like I'm gonna be way wrong. I'm gonna go big and I'm gonna go big and then I'm gonna stay home. Um like 73?

[53:34] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[53:38] Lilli Cooper: Isn't that isn't that isn't the movie from the 70s?

[53:41] Kevin Jaeger: Maybe.

[53:43] Lilli Cooper: Look, I I feel really good about my answers. I'm gonna stay with it. And you know it's wrong.

[53:50] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I feel like the YouTube video has 1973 in the parentheses.

[53:55] Lilli Cooper: It's I know for a fact it's 50s.

[53:59] Kevin Jaeger: 54 close.

[54:02] Lilli Cooper: 55.

[54:03] Kevin Jaeger: Correct.

[54:04] Lilli Cooper: Yay! 54. The movie was 58.

[54:07] Ethan Slater: Come on.

[54:08] Kevin Jaeger: Come on, Ethan.

[54:09] Ethan Slater: I don't know what to tell you.

[54:11] Kevin Jaeger: 78.

[54:14] Lilli Cooper: Ethan, didn't you even watch Flossy Verdon?

[54:16] Ethan Slater: Here's the thing is I did, and I thought it took place in the 70s.

[54:21] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, your episode?

[54:23] Ethan Slater: Well, yeah, you did.

[54:25] Lilli Cooper: Oh, right. Yeah, good point.

[54:27] Kevin Jaeger: It's all about you, Ethan.

[54:29] Ethan Slater: Yeah.

[54:29] Lilli Cooper: Oh, I played Joel Gray. I'm so cool. I think it's all about me.

[54:35] Kevin Jaeger: Thank you for putting it in that perspective.

[54:37] Lilli Cooper: You're welcome.

[54:38] Kevin Jaeger: You are all of a sudden we all get kicked out of the Zoom. It's just you that's left.

[54:41] Lilli Cooper: This is even the show now.

[54:44] Ethan Slater: Oh goodness. Well, that has been Broadway by the ear.

[54:47] Lilli Cooper: Yeah.

[54:49] Kevin Jaeger: So good. Welcome for not whistling. Who won?

[54:53] Lilli Cooper: I think Lily won.

[54:54] Kevin Jaeger: I wasn't really paying, I wasn't taking too much cap, but you talked the most.

[54:58] Lilli Cooper: So I'm gonna say I like that Lily innocently asked who won with knowing. Who won?

[55:09] Bryan Plopsky: Uh before before we end the episode, Lily. I know you have something super cool coming up that we're all really excited for.

[55:15] Lilli Cooper: Yeah, I'm so excited about this. We are doing a virtual wildness reboot, which is a production of this fabulous, wacky, crazy, fun musical that I did at Arsenova um several years ago. And it is interactive and it's amazing music by Kyle Jaro. Um, we have the original cast coming back, the original band coming back. Skypony. That is, I believe, on May 26th, the Wednesday night, May 26th. The wildness reducts, and it's gonna be super fun. So tune in.

[55:54] Bryan Plopsky: The light, see the light now.

[55:58] Lilli Cooper: See the light.

[55:59] Kevin Jaeger: So good.

[56:02] Bryan Plopsky: Very excited. We are huge Sky Pony fans. We love the wildness here on Broadway. So we will absolutely get behind that. Everyone find tickets for that. We'll post about that as well. Um, but in the meantime, check out Lily on April 26th. So think of two dates April 26th, then May 26th. On April 26th, check out the Cole Porter Years with Lily. May 24th, check out Ethan, and then May 26th, check out the wildness. Again, go to the town hall.org for more information on those Broadway uh by the year uh concerts. Um thank you both for so much for joining us. This was so fun.

[56:38] Lilli Cooper: Thanks for having us.

[56:40] Ethan Slater: Yeah, thanks.

[56:41] Bryan Plopsky: Um, and we end every episode with a quote. And today's is I'm just going with best day ever. This was so fun.

[56:48] Lilli Cooper: Yay. Best day ever.

[56:51] Kevin Jaeger: Um, you can find us at Broadwaisted on all social media platforms. Uh, you can also find us on Facebook, join our Facebook group, uh, and then Patreon. We do fun stuff on Patreon. That's really great. Uh, then you can of course find us wherever you put your podcasts to put in your ears. Uh, and that is Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Rate and review us there. Five. Five stars, please. Thank you.

[57:17] Bryan Plopsky: Um, thank you both so much for joining us. Lily, thanks for coming back. We we always get nervous when we're just like, Do you want to come back? And they and they say yes, yay!

[57:25] Lilli Cooper: Thank you.

[57:25] Bryan Plopsky: Um Ethan, I hope you will come back. Um great. Uh, well, we're gonna turn you down, but we just want to know that like good.

[57:35] Ethan Slater: Oh, sorry. I have so much respect.

[57:37] Bryan Plopsky: Thank you, thank you. Uh, but seriously, thank you both for taking the time. We really, really appreciate it. Um, everyone tune in to Broadway by the year. But as we end every episode, we raise a glass and we say Zudu Wap Blah Bye. Um thank you all so much.