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[0:00] Unknown speaker: Did you bring wine? I got the glasses. You guys, I made a quiz! No, I didn't bring anything, but I'm here to have fun!

[0:20] Bryan Polofsky: Hello, and welcome to the official Broadwaysted podcast, where we're drunk on theater. I'm your host, Bryan Polofsky, and my friend the dictionary has the first goodbye. Now, I'm not that smart, but when it comes to pandemonium, I skip the second goodbye and ask for a prayer of the comfort counselor. Woe is me? No. Jesus says the I love you song is how you speak six languages, so if my unfortunate erection is my favorite moment of the spelling bee, can second be better than the champion while we padded? The last goodbye. Joining us today are the usual 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Spellers, including Kevin Magicfoot Jager.

[1:03] Kevin Jager: Oh, it's very magical. Thank you for noticing, Bryan.

[1:08] Bryan Polofsky: You're welcome. I don't think I expected that response from you. I don't know why. Kimberly R., the Spelling Bee Rules Game Master and unofficial babysitter for the hour.

[1:14] Kimberly R.: I do love rules. Thank you.

[1:19] Bryan Polofsky: I know. And with us today is a gaggle of new guests and a returning guest, all a part of the musical improv troupe Schitt's Probe. Let's give a big, Broadwaysted welcome to friends of the show! Kiki Mikkelsen, Ali Reed, Adrien Pellerin, and Josh Lamon!

[1:36] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yay! Bryan, that was so impressive.

[1:45] Bryan Polofsky: Thank you. I improv'd it.

[1:53] Ali Reed: Oh, that is not true. I read that verbatim.

[1:59] Bryan Polofsky: But thank you all so much for joining us. We really appreciate you taking the time. I'm super, super, super excited to talk about what you do, why you do it, how you do it, where we can see you do it. But first, what are you drinking? What are you drinking? Kevin, let's start with you. What are you drinking?

[2:15] Kevin Jager: I had some whiskey in the freezer, which I'd forgotten about until I moved some vegetables. And I was like, ah, the good stuff. So we're having like super duper cold whiskey in the mug that I got from BroadwayCon like six years ago that had like Coke in it. I mean, Coca-Cola. It was a fast gorilla. I remember I had that cup. But it now has secret freezer whiskey, which is fantastic.

[2:41] Bryan Polofsky: Amazing. Kimberly, what are you drinking?

[2:44] Kimberly R.: I am being lame because I'm getting over a fun Thanksgiving stomach bug. And I'm just going to drink a lot of water.

[2:52] Bryan Polofsky: Sure. Returning guest Josh, what are you drinking?

[2:57] Josh Lamon: Oh, hi. I'm drinking one of those Manhattan in a bottles.

[3:02] Kevin Jager: Oh, cool. You gotta rub it the right way.

[3:04] Josh Lamon: You gotta rub it the right way. And Kevin, I like I literally was like, did you buy like one of the Gaston mugs from Beauty and the Beast? Because that's what I thought that was. I was like, that's Susan Egan commitment.

[3:18] Kevin Jager: It was this like stand at BroadwayCon that was just like selling like their brand of cola.

[3:24] Josh Lamon: Yeah, it was like a soda truck.

[3:26] Kevin Jager: It's called like Wild Bill's Root Beer or something like that.

[3:29] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, it does. Sorry. It's this wild beers, old fashioned soda pop company. They were at BroadwayCon like the first or second year.

[3:37] Ali Reed: It was at the Hilton. I remember this vividly.

[3:39] Kevin Jager: And when you bought when you bought like a cola, you could pay like five dollars extra and it came in this mug.

[3:45] Kiki Mikkelsen: And this has been the best investment of my life because this cup keeps things like colder than like any it's ridiculous.

[3:53] Ali Reed: So you keep it in the freezer. We keep ours in the freezer.

[3:56] Kiki Mikkelsen: What? Keep it in the freezer.

[3:58] Kevin Jager: It's just going to go next to the secret freezer whiskey.

[4:03] Ali Reed: It's just so wild that they chose BroadwayCon of all places like we got a launch. In the back of the marketplace, like not near any of the other vendors, we happened upon a soda shop. It was they were also real.

[4:18] Kiki Mikkelsen: I don't know. It's like a group of guys who are like, there's a space in this convention. You just want to see people buy our stuff. It's right next to the in-transit booth. You'll love it.

[4:31] Kevin Jager: It probably was. They were they were so they were at New York Comic-Con as well. I bet you that year they made the rounds of like to see how they would do like on the floor at certain cons. And I guess BroadwayCon like fell on their list.

[4:46] Bryan Polofsky: Well, did you go to them at Comic-Con? Did you bring the cup? Because I know there was a refill discount.

[4:50] Kevin Jager: Yeah, if I had known I would have brought it, but I saw them there and I was and I thought to myself, why didn't I bring my cup?

[5:00] Bryan Polofsky: Why? What are you drinking, Bryan?

[5:03] Kevin Jager: Yeah, well, let's go to Adrien and Kiki and Ali. What are you all three drinking?

[5:09] Kiki Mikkelsen: Well, we are enjoying a delectable gin and soda cocktail. We got we got hooked on gin. We were all in Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival this August.

[5:21] Ali Reed: And gin is just the drink there.

[5:23] Kiki Mikkelsen: Gin is my drink.

[5:25] Ali Reed: Yeah, I didn't know that gin was popular in Scotland.

[5:28] Kiki Mikkelsen: I mean, why wouldn't it be? That's so right. Like, I didn't know that Scottish people like gin.

[5:34] Ali Reed: It's a very British drink, like a UK drink.

[5:38] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, like when I'm here, I usually drink like tequila sodas and stuff. But when I'm in over there, gin is the local thing.

[5:44] Ali Reed: So it's the cheapest thing to get.

[5:45] Kiki Mikkelsen: Now you told us this and I don't think it was any cheaper than any other.

[5:50] Ali Reed: I don't think so.

[5:51] Kiki Mikkelsen: He was really short and I started drinking them. And I was like, oh, I was more of a vodka girl. And I was like, oh, gin is vodka with a little more taste.

[5:59] Ali Reed: Yeah.

[6:00] Kiki Mikkelsen: So I was like, yeah, sure. I guess. No, I mean, I like at the grocery store. If you're going to go get like a big old bottle.

[6:05] Ali Reed: I thought you were talking about at the bar.

[6:08] Kiki Mikkelsen: No, well, I get it. But like, I feel like gin is like vodka that someone poured their perfume into.

[6:14] Ali Reed: Oh, it's fragrant.

[6:17] Kiki Mikkelsen: The juniper.

[6:18] Ali Reed: The botanicals of it all.

[6:20] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yes. It's sort of like your rival in your childhood, like junior theater, you know, like your vodka. And then you're like, oh, fucking gin got the part. I hate them.

[6:30] Ali Reed: I want to be young because that.

[6:33] Kiki Mikkelsen: Her name is like that.

[6:35] Ali Reed: Yes. And that's how we start an improvised musical with a simple one.

[6:42] Bryan Polofsky: And y'all were the stars of Edinburgh, by the way.

[6:46] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yes.

[6:47] Ali Reed: Oh, Edinburgh is a magical place to be with lots of different types of artists, and it's a place to get your brain all juiced up and like ready to come back. So I feel like we all came back and we were like, we're ready to do all of the musical improv. Put us in.

[7:01] Kiki Mikkelsen: But first, more gin.

[7:06] Bryan Polofsky: Do you perform while drinking the gin?

[7:09] Ali Reed: Well, depends on how late the show is.

[7:12] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[7:14] Adrien Pellerin: I'm drinking a little bit of tequila with some on the rocks with a splash of soda. So I went the opposite direction. But yeah, let's jump right in. Like, just straight up. Tell us what you do. Like, let's just start from there, because a lot of people know or understand the basics of what kind of musical theater improv is. But I don't know how many people have actually like gone to a show or seen something outside of like a YouTube video or listen to a podcast with it. Tell us like a little bit of background on what it is that people can expect from going to a show featuring what you do best.

[7:52] Kiki Mikkelsen: Well, if we back up just a touch. So we all started doing improv in different ways. And I think the three of us all saw a group called Baby Wants Candy, which is this musical improv group that is all over the place. We are that they're the group that we toured with over to Edinburgh with. But once we saw that improv could also be musical improv, so you could make up a musical in the moment. The three of us being all musical theater nerds were like, this is what we have to do. So we got into the art form when it was still comedians coming in to do musical improv. And as musical theater performers, we were like, we want to up the music. We want to up like the juicy little acting bits. We want to like take it to the next level. And so we started taking classes and creating different things for ourselves, different forms. And as we kept doing that, we came up with Schitt's Probe.

[8:52] Adrien Pellerin: You take it away now.

[8:55] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, my turn. Well, what we do is we improvise musicals. So that means that we usually get a suggestion. Usually it's the title of a musical that doesn't exist. And then we make up the musical from there. We do an opening number. We have a protagonist who has a want. We have antagonists, love interests, you know, big production numbers. What else? And an incredible band led by Adrien.

[9:24] Adrien Pellerin: Yes, the real genius in the room.

[9:27] Kiki Mikkelsen: But yeah, we just make up a musical on the spot. And it's magic every time.

[9:33] Ali Reed: It really is. So many people come up afterwards and are like, so did you know the song and you just didn't know the words and you made them up? And it's like, no, like Adrien's there making shit up as we go along, like creating a full like music, like composing on the spot. And then all of us just go for it. And it's it really is like watching a magic show. That's the best way that I can describe it. It feels like being in a magic show when I don't even know how the tricks work.

[10:01] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, it just keeps working.

[10:04] Ali Reed: Yeah, you just build the cards.

[10:07] Kiki Mikkelsen: We saw her in half and somehow she stayed together.

[10:12] Bryan Polofsky: So in my head, this question makes sense, but I'm afraid it's going to come out weird. But what I OK, so a lot of people may have seen like an improv show or like a like a sketch comedy, like that kind of a show. And obviously, like what happens, it's different with your show is that there's music. But as performers, as an improv performer, what do you think is like the number one thing that is different as like how you handle that? Not just like, well, we're singing. That's obviously different. But but as performers, like what do you think is like the skill or the strength that is like most important to be able to handle improving in both like speaking and musical mediums?

[10:55] Kiki Mikkelsen: I think something that we do that's a little different from regular improv or sketch comedy is that we do a full narrative musical. So we are we're always telling the same story, even though there might be different scenes and different bits within the show. It's always serving the same story. And so I think having an understanding of how musicals work or just how storytelling works is great, but it's also relying on your partners to to help you make that story and for them to have your back as well. Does that make sense?

[11:27] Ali Reed: Absolutely. It's it's all about teamwork. It's all about listening. And I think what's different is that like when you go see an improv show, yes, you're going to see amazing people, but this takes it to a new level where you're not just seeing some of the best improvisers in New York. You are seeing some of the best musicians, some of the best singers, some of the people that just you know, there are special people in this world that know how to communicate through song that know how to hear a harmony and come in. And when I say it's like a magic trick, when we all just start randomly doing the backup vocals and harmonizing or, you know, like coming in after somebody's like, the lady's a bitch. And then three of us would be like a bitch, you know, at the same time. It's just it's that trusting. And yeah, it's it's just really, really special, I think.

[12:19] Kiki Mikkelsen: Totally. And like what what I love so much about the show we do is we're bringing in a Broadway star who's never done improv before and thrusting them into this experience for their very first time, you know, surrounded by the amazing cast. We got Ali and Kiki and we got Josh. We got a bunch of other cast members who are incredible improvisers. But our Broadway star guest has never done this before. And it always blows us away like how good they are, like every single time they just hit it out of the park. And it's because they've got musical theater in their bones and their muscles. They grew up with it. And it's like it's so incredible to see that, like, yeah, they didn't even think they knew how to make up a whole song.

But like once they just open their mouth and start singing like magical musical genius comes out, it's crazy. And I feel like you can't really do that in a regular improv show. Like if you just like brought someone random into your like, I mean, I guess it would just like derail the world.

[13:11] Ali Reed: Yeah. Like having musical theater. I don't I'm a big nerd for music, musical improv. So very excited to come see our next show is like a good musical improv. Like they're like my husband, I say it all the time because he's an improviser. I'm like, there's nothing worse than a bad improv show. There's nothing better than a good one.

[13:32] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yes, it is better when there's music.

[13:35] Ali Reed: Every time.

[13:37] Kiki Mikkelsen: One of the things that I think is really cool about the magic trick part of it, which is, you know, highlighted in our show where we have someone do it for the first time is like it it is so magical and it's like incredible. And people are like, how do you do it? Whatever. But then like if you get past the fear of like standing up there and like just letting go, like most people can do like a pretty decent job at it and a really good job if they're good singers and like, you know, no musicals or whatever, because it's like, you know, all the parts of a song, you know, what a chorus is, you know, what a verse is. And it's just like letting yourself play. Everybody can kind of do it. And so it's like a magic trick that everyone could do if they just let themselves.

[14:21] Adrien Pellerin: It's an interesting. Well, the best thing about improv is that you're doing it as a team. There's no like you're doing this alone. And I think that's what I try to tell, you know, like our guests when we have them, when people are nervous, it's just like you're not.

[14:36] Kiki Mikkelsen: They're alone, like we've got you. There are seven people or whatever that like truly have your back.

[14:43] Ali Reed: And, you know, you can't go wrong like that.

[14:45] Adrien Pellerin: Yeah, if you dive, I'm going to dive too. So don't worry.

[14:49] Kiki Mikkelsen: My favorite was when we had Izzy McKayla guest at the show. And before the show, she's like, I'm so nervous. I can't. And then you introduced her and Adrian, you were playing music and she just came out and like did the splits. Yeah. And it was like, oh, you bet your.

[15:07] Josh Lamon: That's amazing. Now, you guys said you take a suggestion from the audience.

[15:13] Kiki Mikkelsen: What? Frankenstein's Cheese Shop.

[15:20] Ali Reed: It's usually my favorite part of the night, like Allie and Kiki, you know, the two of the three founders of this beautiful thing. We get three suggestions. Here we go.

[15:37] Adrien Pellerin: Oh.

[15:45] Kiki Mikkelsen: What's happening here? Look out the window, all you can see is fear.

[15:53] Ali Reed: The people don't like him. He scares them all the way.

[16:23] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh.

[16:45] Kevin Jaeger: That was your question, right, Kevin?

[16:47] Bryan: That was absolutely my question. Thank you for finishing up right. I was going to say what what are hints for your audience, like our listeners who can come see you? What are like really great? What makes a really great suggestion?

[17:04] Kiki Mikkelsen: So sometimes the suggestions can be like the butterflies first flight or something. So something like innocent and lovely. And then other times we'll get punny titles. We got Dear Evan Handjob one time. Honestly, one of my favorite shows we've ever done. It was I had a great time. I mean, some other fun titles, something that evokes like a I don't know. Yeah, I personally my I don't love the pun one sometimes because I don't love having to feel like I have to reference something for the audience to feel like we honored their suggestion. Um, but yeah, something that something, yeah, something evocative, something that has like drama built into it is always fun. Or I also really have like a soft spot for like dumb, like pelvis, like it just just like a word or something kind of random where it's like, oh, we can we can just go completely. My weird little mind can just make all these associations.

[18:05] Adrien Pellerin: Yeah, I don't know if I have any sort of specific formula for like what I like in a title. I, unlike Kiki, love the pun titles. I'm just sitting behind the piano.

[18:16] Kiki Mikkelsen: I don't have any reference material.

[18:21] Adrien Pellerin: Yes, I have reference. I love having reference material. No, but like, I mean, truly any sort of title. And what we do is, you know, we ask the audience for a few ideas of different titles. We'll get an idea from this person, that person and this person, and we'll let the audience vote on which one they want to see.

[18:33] Kiki Mikkelsen: Which is always so much fun. One of my favorites. We had three of the stars from Come From Away. We had Astrid and Petrina and Emily, and they were such amazing guests. And the audience member who shouted out a suggestion, like put some sass into it, too. They said, can she even walk in heels? And Josh comes out and sets this amazing chorus. And the whole place just exploded. It was so fun. It was such a fun show. Also, like just where it went, where where the Come From Away people took it like it sort of started if I remember correctly, like at a beauty patent, like a kid's beauty patent. And then Petrina was like, and we're vampires. And like, we hold these patents to kill the kids. And all of us are like, oh, okay, that's the show we're doing. It was incredible. It was amazing. So good.

[19:26] Kiki Mikkelsen: That's fantastic. Do you know what else takes suggestion sometimes?

[19:33] Bryan: What, Brian?

[19:40] Kevin Jaeger: It's Kevin's corner. And he doesn't take suggestions.

[19:43] Bryan: I don't usually. No, he's not.

[19:45] Kiki Mikkelsen: I could see Brian trying to use the segue of, you know what else eats your mind.

[19:50] Bryan: I was going to do You Know Where Else is like visceral and overly dramatic.

[19:56] Kevin Jaeger: But we moved past that moment.

[19:58] Kiki Mikkelsen: We did. We did.

[20:00] Kevin Jaeger: So we're in Kevin's corner now, which is my favorite part of the show, because it's my part of the show. And I can do whatever I want, which obviously makes it the most evocative and brilliant part of the show. And today, since you guys are improvers, I'm going to improv it. So my thought is we're going to go. My first question for all of you is in musical theater canon, if there is one character that you just hate what ends up happening to them or like where their story goes and you wish you could improv them a new ending in their show, they don't feel like the main character. They don't have to be like a huge part. But if there's one character like, oh, I just wish that that like Diner Waitress, who sings Don't See May in like Best Little Whore House, like won the lottery and just like walked out of that place. And that was the end of the song, like something like that. It's just like your moment. You wish you could improvingly change musical theater canon. What would that be? And I'm going to start with.

[21:01] Josh Lamon: OK, I mean, I've got a few of them, but fucking Fosca and Passion, like let it go. You're dying. Why not just be like, I think you're really hot, but I'm dying and there's no hope for us. You know, something like that. And just being like, so chill with me while I die and you can get married to Mary Maisie Russell, you know, like, what the fuck? Yeah. So that's what I'm going to go with.

[21:27] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. Hospice and chill.

[21:36] Josh Lamon: Yeah, I think. Yeah, that's what I think.

[21:49] Kiki Mikkelsen: OK, I I think I would love. OK, no spoiler alert. I would love Sarah Brown to not get shot. Oh, she just like goes and tells the president that she needs help. And he's like, oh my gosh, I'm listening to you because I care about you, one of my constituents. And then and not die. And they all lived happily ever after.

[22:10] Josh Lamon: That I mean, that slightly changes the narrative. But like, no, I think then the whole play would have to improvise the rest of the entire end of ragtime.

[22:16] Kiki Mikkelsen: So, you know, when you said Sarah Brown eyes, I immediately went to Sarah from like Guys and Dolls and I was like, she gets shot.

[22:29] Josh Lamon: Well, maybe that's the only change that I would make is I would have her get shot.

[22:32] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, we have to. Yeah, sure. When she's in Havana.

[22:38] Josh Lamon: Yeah. My time of day is a very dangerous one. Be careful of your surroundings. Bam.

[22:46] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. If I were a bell, I would get shot. Ding, dong, ding, dong, bam. It's a perfect point for it, too.

[22:54] Josh Lamon: Yeah, exactly. And then he like changes his ways and becomes like part of the mission because like he carries on her thing.

[22:59] Kiki Mikkelsen: I love it.

[23:06] Ali Reed: Oh my God. What a guy.

[23:06] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, I can't.

[23:06] Ali Reed: OK, I know again that this would change things, but what if Fontaine didn't die? Hmm. What if Fontaine was alive and she came back? Like, let's say she had to go away for a little while, but then she comes back, not as the ghost, but like as the mother that's always been watching from the shadows. But she does let Jean Valjean go get Cosette and she comes back and Cosette is an adult.

[23:33] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, because she's ready. She's ready now.

[23:39] Ali Reed: Wow. She had her rehabilitation. She went back to school. She's like, I'm a social worker now.

[23:44] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm proud of her because like she needed me time. And maybe it was the 18 years that she happened to have a child in the formative years. But like she needed me time. So thank you. We all need a little reset.

[24:01] Kevin Jaeger: All right, Peter, man, what you got for me?

[24:06] Adrien Pellerin: OK, I may have been swayed by the incredible intro of this episode, but I did play Chip Tolentino in 25th Annual when I was in college and he gets out of the spelling bee way too early. I mean, come on.

[24:13] Kiki Mikkelsen: Agreed. Totally agree. Like, come on.

[24:23] Adrien Pellerin: OK, maybe. Sure. Maybe he gets kind of out for the exact same reason that he did. But then by the end of the show, you know, maybe he learns to embrace his erection and that becomes kind of the way that he you know, he comes back in and he and Barfay have a dueling match.

[24:32] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. Just the patriarchy taking over.

[24:37] Adrien Pellerin: Yes, he gets really alpha. It's super alpha.

[24:44] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, he gets like a 10 years later epilogue kind of thing. I love that.

[24:51] Ali Reed: But I was going to say like saying embracing. That was amazing. Embracing erection and then the patriarchy taking over was quite a metaphor.

[24:59] Kiki Mikkelsen: What if Evan Hansen just said, sorry about your son?

[25:07] Ali Reed: Oh yeah. I mean, that's a great one. Like one act. He just tells the truth right up front.

[25:14] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. Yeah. Credits roll.

[25:19] Ali Reed: Yeah. This cast when it's cut off and just like and then it's like, wow, I did a really nice thing for these grieving people. And I'm going to write these letters a little more seriously.

[25:24] Kiki Mikkelsen: But then I wouldn't have had my experience in the theater of crying because I felt bad.

[25:31] Kevin Jaeger: My answer probably would have been old Deuteronomy at the beginning of the show just goes, I pick her. I pick her. The one over there that's sad and smelly. I pick her.

[25:41] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. Of all the cats like let her die. Get on the tire, girl.

[25:45] Ali Reed: It's literally her. She sings the favorite song seven times.

[25:49] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. And Mistoffelees doesn't want to die. He's magical.

[25:53] Ali Reed: Yeah. And so so youthful.

[25:57] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. Why is he in the competition at all?

[26:03] Ali Reed: That girl's plaits are amazing. This woman is done doing those. She is over it.

[26:08] Kiki Mikkelsen: She's exhausted. She starts to say memory and then he's like, no, no, it's all good.

[26:13] Ali Reed: Oh yeah. It's you. OK. Come on. Midnight. Wait. Get on the tire.

[26:17] Kiki Mikkelsen: You already got a direct offer. We don't need this. This part's done.

[26:23] Kevin Jaeger: Wait, Kimberly, what's yours?

[26:29] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, I don't know. I hadn't thought of me. Who do I think? I want to pick someone like random in the background. It's just like, oh, Eugene from Greece.

[26:37] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. And Patty Simcox. They both deserve that.

[26:45] Kimberly Cooper: Beautiful. I appreciate that.

[26:45] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, this is easy.

[26:51] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah. Sophie finds out who her dad is.

[26:57] Kiki Mikkelsen: Whoa. Don't give me this. All three of them can raise me. Take them. Take a paternity test.

[27:03] Kimberly Cooper: Figure out who the father is, who is financially responsible to help this person like get off of this Grecian island and like go to somewhere we can go to school. Like like Sophie needs to find out who her biological father is. It's a different type of Sophie's choice.

[27:10] Kiki Mikkelsen: Absolutely. Also, if we're if if if here we go again is canon, then like once spoiler alert, once Donna is no longer there, I know that Pierce Brosnan sticks around. But and that's wonderful. And I think you're supposed to assume that he's the actual father. He takes the responsibility. But like, I don't know.

[27:29] Kimberly Cooper: Colin Firth in the Stellan Sarsgaard got off the hook pretty easy on that one.

[27:34] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, I was going to say, because like the the way that Sophie acts in the second one, she definitely the gay, the gay one might be the dad.

[27:39] Kimberly Cooper: Like she's got a flair of gay in her.

[27:44] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, that's true. I've never seen one.

[27:51] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah. I've never seen the second one, but I realized we watched it for this podcast.

[27:54] Kiki Mikkelsen: So yeah, I was going to say, OK, but Josh, you've never seen Mamma Mia number one.

[28:01] Josh Lamon: No. Well, I mean, I've told you this. I was so obsessed with with Abba in high school that I was like, this is going to be a great musical. I know I'll do this. It's in World War Two or whatever. And then Mamma Mia came out and I was like, they somehow stole my idea. Granted, like there was no Internet or anything yet. I was just like, somehow they got into my parents' house and knew.

[28:17] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. And so I was sort of bitter about it.

[28:24] Josh Lamon: Understand. Anyway, but I wish them I wish the creatives all well. And to end out Kevin's corner, what character musical theater canon would you not touch their story because they have the absolute perfect, most perfect musical theater arc?

[28:39] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, and I know it's hard to pick one, but if you had to pick the one character, you're like, nope, they do every it just it's all the right notes.

[28:46] Kiki Mikkelsen: OK, keep vamping. I need a second.

[28:58] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, that's a really good. That's an excellent question because like you could also pick someone who has a negative arc and but it still makes sense within the context of what show they're in, what they're trying to say thematically with those, you know, two acts. That's a really that's this is way, definitely way harder.

[29:13] Kiki Mikkelsen: Because I don't think about the perfect ones. I constantly think about the ones that I would prefer to change. Because I would say like, my answer to this, just to give her more time to think, my answer is Caroline from Caroline or Change, I think has a perfect arc. Because I think that the way that her musical, like, I just, I was a music major in school. So like, I love how musically the show plays through. So she goes through different styles that are softer and start getting more and more edge. And so by the end of the show, she finally gets to do what she never got to do in society, which was basically scream. So she gets to let out her aggression in like that final, like, B flat kind of slamming on that, like, belt note over and over again.

So she gets to just kind of scream for the first time, which I feel like was the whole theme of the show was like, these women who are working as maids to the white society had to be quiet and not seen. And so for her to scream at the end, it's just like, so musically perfect. That like, by the end of that show, you've just really felt her full emotional arc. So that would be that makes me think of mother and ragtime with that note and back to before, when she sings like, strong and like, that was the first time that she actually belted in the show. Like that makes me think of that too, which is very cool. Like when you can figure out like all the musical stuff like that. It's so nerdy and great. And I love it.

[30:38] Ali Reed: Oh, that's a good. That's actually a really good answer.

[30:41] Kiki Mikkelsen: Thank you. Uh, who's next?

[30:44] Adrien Pellerin: I think maybe Pippin. I really love the story. I think it's so relatable. I think that we're all just like lost. Granted, I'm still lost and Pippin like figured shit out when he was like a twink. Asshole. But um, you know, I always just sob my eyes out when I see Pippin. I think it's so perfect. It lets me know that like, you know, you'll, you'll be okay. You'll figure it out. Yeah, you can be in your 40s and still in your slut phase, you know, like whatever, that's fine. Not that I am. I'm having a going out of business sale. It's still a good journey, I think.

[31:26] Kiki Mikkelsen: I love that. Amen. Amen. Uh, who's next? Piano Man?

[31:33] Adrien Pellerin: Um, yeah, this is this is a toughie, but...

[31:37] Kiki Mikkelsen: It's Chip, isn't it?

[31:43] Adrien Pellerin: Um, no, it's Jesus from 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He has a quick cameo, and after Chip gets out, I got to play him for like two seconds, and it was the perfect arc.

[31:57] Kiki Mikkelsen: I mean, that's a full ascension.

[31:59] Adrien Pellerin: Exactly. It's a full ascension. Absolutely. And it's literally just like a 30 second bit, but I loved every second of it. That's more of a bit, sir, but that's all I got written.

[32:13] Kiki Mikkelsen: I'm here for it. And last but not least, Miss Kiki.

[32:17] Kiki Mikkelsen: Okay, so I recently, not to brag, but I recently saw Cabaret in London. That production is unbelievable. So good. And I was really, like, struck by, like, Sally's journey. And I like, it's like, you keep thinking, like, maybe she'll and then she keeps, like, she can't stop being herself. Like, she can't stop doing the same thing that she keeps doing. Until it's just like, she's just so sad. And like, in a sad way. I think it's like a beautiful, um, I don't know, at the time, and maybe I really was like, Oh, I'm Sally. I also paint my fingernails green.

[33:06] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, I think I mean, that's like the, the, at the crux of what everything you're trying to do with like a story like that is like, have the audience walk away being like, that was so me or like, you call your friend, like, that was so you like, yeah, calling your friend like, wow, you're Sally Bull. I figured it out. Yeah, I know who you are now. Kimberly and Brian, do you have one?

[33:32] Bryan: Oh, I mean, this is so difficult. Because then you have you have things like, that like, like, like a sad one, like, but it's full, like a Sweeney Todd, then you also thinking Sweeney Todd. Yeah, you also have another sad one, like Tevye, like, like, he kind of accepts a lot of the things happening around him. But are you just saying the optional answers is a way to say more than one answer, Brian, you only ask for one answer. So don't be a cheaty cheater.

[34:01] Kiki Mikkelsen: First of all, I do this and we have 300 episodes. I've done this in 75% of I know you're not used to it by now. That's on you.

[34:07] Bryan: Yeah. My real answer is she goes from orphan to adopted into a rich billionaire's house. How is it not Annie? That's the dream. Perfect. Perfect. Our Yeah, so true. Yeah, the dream and she has her dog the whole time. She outsmart to like ruffians. Like this is like, that is that is the arc of dreams.

[34:30] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. Oh, no. Daddy Warbucks is like a Stark.

[34:37] Adrien Pellerin: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Oh, Noah has the best arc.

[34:48] Kiki Mikkelsen: And if that were our improvised musical, though, we'd all come out as animals.

[34:53] Adrien Pellerin: I know. I'm ready to be a hippopotamus.

[35:00] Kiki Mikkelsen: I'm a lonely anteater.

[35:03] Ali Reed: Oh, my God. Kimberly, you got one before you go.

[35:06] Kimberly: Oh, I was just also thinking of Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett, though, because she has like a change of heart right before the end. What a perfect, perfect journey. And it's like, granted, she takes things a little to the extreme. But like, you know, I empathize. I mean, I would never tell somebody that I had a crush on, like, Oh, no, your boyfriend's poisoned himself. But I'm here. Yeah. You know, but in the end, when she's singing like, I love you, then I'd be twice the wife she was. I love you. And it's like, oh, my God, that's great. Fucking theater.

[35:39] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. Yeah. It's so good. I can't wait. Oh, revival next year. I'm very excited. The market is up. It is. Yeah. I walked past it the other day.

[35:47] Adrien Pellerin: Oh, wow. And they're improvising the entire thing. They're not using the written music.

[35:53] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, it's crazy. Somebody actually dies.

[35:56] Ali Reed: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sweeney from the audience.

[36:00] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. It's a snuff musical.

[36:09] Adrien Pellerin: Yeah. Yeah. Try something new. Bring in the people.

[36:18] Kiki Mikkelsen: Absolutely. We're sick of Broadway being problematic. So we're going to make a snuff musical.

[36:23] Ali Reed: Yeah. Ponchos. Ponchos for the first couple of rows.

[36:29] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. Ponchos.

[36:30] Bryan: Oh, God. Go into day takes to see if you can win the dying ticket.

[36:39] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, on that note, this has been Kevin's Corner.

[36:48] Kevin: You know, Kevin's Corner always ends that way. It's so fun, though. Does Kimberly like? Welcome to Kimberly's Castle.

[36:57] Kiki Mikkelsen: Well, on that note, Electra's Castle. What was that TV show?

[37:02] Bryan: My dream. Eureka's Castle.

[37:06] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah. No, I have to play the games.

[37:11] Kevin: Yeah. Should we just great transition? Better than I could have done. Let's play a game. Can we call this Kimberly's Castle, though, for now on?

[37:17] Kiki Mikkelsen: Kimberly's Castle. Is this a drinking game?

[37:22] Kevin: Oh, it can be. Anything's a drinking game if you have a drink in your hand.

[37:28] Kiki Mikkelsen: Okay, pass the gin. Pass the gin. We need more gin. The main thing I'm realizing about this game is I counted on everyone having different zooms. Because one thing has to be a secret. So it's like you. Okay. So I have two decks of lights of Broadway show cards in my hands. I've created a game called Everything Taboo.

[37:34] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, and so in my mind, what would happen is you secretly would draw a show card. So I would like type it to you in the chat. So can the three of you pretend to not?

[37:41] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, yeah. Are we hiding now?

[37:49] Ali Reed: No. When you said draw, I was like, I don't have any paper and pen. I'm a terrible artist.

[37:55] Kiki Mikkelsen: You know, we love a podcast Pictionary. It really just translates beautifully to the audio medium.

[38:02] Adrien Pellerin: Yeah, exactly what it was intended for. Actually, a podcast called Pictionary would be very funny. Just actively describing what someone is drawing.

[38:09] Kiki Mikkelsen: They're drawing an arc, no, an oval.

[38:18] Adrien Pellerin: Oh, an oval again. They're pointing at the oval. It has a nose. And eat her.

[38:24] Kiki Mikkelsen: But see, the only way it would work is if the person never gets it right. So it's just like a minute long of someone guessing something they can never get right. Since they can never see it.

[38:35] Ali Reed: I love these games.

[38:39] Kiki Mikkelsen: All right. So the rest of this game. So you'll receive secretly a show. I have many shows in this deck. And then for everyone to see, you'll cast your lead actor out of this deck of actors. And so taboo style, explain how that person would be cast in the show without saying anything about the show. And then we all have to guess what show they've been cast in.

[39:03] Kiki Mikkelsen: Okay, I just don't want to go first.

[39:10] Kevin: Oh, so Kevin will go first because it'll explain itself.

[39:17] Kiki Mikkelsen: Okay, great. We love an example. We love it.

[39:22] Kevin: Okay, spirit fingers to say that I was going first. I don't know why that Yeah, because you got spirit.

[39:34] Kevin: Okay, you see your show?

[39:41] Kiki Mikkelsen: I do.

[39:41] Kevin: Okay, now say when again, I'll give you an actor.

[39:50] Kiki Mikkelsen: When?

[39:50] Kevin: Oh, that was weird.

[39:53] Kiki Mikkelsen: Okay.

[39:53] Kevin: Donna Murphy.

[39:57] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, I'm obsessed. Every moment is perfect with Donna Murphy.

[40:01] Kevin: Okay. I would cast Donna Murphy in my show in one of the two romantic leads. She would be playing a part that the first time we're introduced to her, we would have to have a two other versions of her with her to kind of show the track.

[40:07] Ali Reed: Yes.

[40:19] Kiki Mikkelsen: That was amazing. I am so impressed because I there's so many shows nowadays where it's like three versions of the main character. So that was well done.

[40:24] Kevin: Yeah, I tell you, I have tried to figure out how to do an improvised. I know it's today for so many so long, so long. It's all I want to do. I want to see the beginning of a show our pro tag as a little baby. And then I want somebody else to come in and we'll see them as teenager and then see them as the adult and be on our way. I have tried to figure that out many times.

[40:44] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yes. It'll happen.

[40:44] Kevin: You got that right. You get to go next.

[40:53] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, all right. Close your eyes.

[40:53] Kevin: Closing my eyes.

[40:53] Kiki Mikkelsen: OK, say when.

[40:56] Kevin: Now.

[40:56] Kiki Mikkelsen: You didn't say when.

[40:59] Kevin: That's when.

[41:02] Kiki Mikkelsen: OK, great. Don't look, everybody.

[41:11] Kevin: Got it. OK, say when.

[41:11] Kiki Mikkelsen: OK, now you can look now. You can look.

[41:19] Kevin: Yeah. BD Wong.

[41:23] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, great.

[41:24] Kevin: OK, BD Wong would be in my musical in a little. We would do a little switching of the genders. BD would play a older figure to one of the younger main characters. There are multiple main characters in this show, which is currently running on Broadway. And the BD would be an amazing, authoritative figure. They could throw things into the yard with gusto and say, get out there and clean it all up because I'm going away and you have to stay here. But I'm going to go to the fancy place and you have to stay here and clean up all those things while I go to the fancy place. And then we'll cut to another another scene.

[42:05] Kiki Mikkelsen: Into the woods?

[42:06] Kevin: Yes.

[42:13] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, BD Wong's a stepmother. Yes. I love that casting.

[42:19] Kevin: Thank you. I was like, is Bad Cinderella running yet? I love those ads, by the way. I can't get enough of them. Like, I'm not just Cinderella. I'm Bad Cinderella. I'm like, all right, Bad Cinderella.

[42:25] Kiki Mikkelsen: I can't wait for next Halloween when all the gays are Bad Cinderella.

[42:29] Kevin: Next Halloween when all the gays are Bad Cinderella. I'm going to be DJ Lloyd Webber.

[42:38] Kiki Mikkelsen: Sneak onto the top of the marquee.

[42:45] Kevin: OK, Josh, since you got it right, it's your turn.

[42:45] Josh Lamon: Oh, OK.

[42:45] Kevin: OK, don't look, don't look.

[42:49] Josh Lamon: Don't look, don't look, don't look.

[42:49] Kevin: When?

[42:56] Josh Lamon: Oh, so sorry. That was also into the woods. Let me take that out of the deck again.

[42:56] Kevin: OK.

[43:06] Josh Lamon: When?

[43:06] Kevin: Oh, I hope I know the show. I just saw your gamble face, Josh.

[43:14] Josh Lamon: OK, I'm really bad at gambling, but OK. OK, I could do this. OK. And then let's hope you know this person.

[43:19] Kevin: Does Josh have a tell when he gambles?

[43:23] Josh Lamon: Yeah.

[43:23] Kevin: OK, say when.

[43:25] Josh Lamon: When?

[43:29] Kevin: Cynthia Erivo.

[43:33] Josh Lamon: OK. All right. Cynthia, I think would be great in this role because she she's a powerful, powerful woman and it takes a powerful woman to defy not only your father, but every single thing that your people have done for generations to come. And when you fall in love with somebody

[43:50] Kiki Mikkelsen: Might not make a lot of money, but it's really good at sewing. Fiddler on the Roof. That's right!

[44:00] Ali Reed: Yeah, Cynthia Seidl. She'd be like, Hado, Hado!

[44:08] Adrien Pellerin: What a matchmaker scene. Yeah. Can I tell you, with the pun titles for our suggestions, we get more Fiddler on the Roof pun titles than anything else. Like other things on the roof?

[44:19] Josh Lamon: Fiddler on the Roof! That was a great one. I think we've done that show multiple times.

[44:23] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, yeah. We did get, we didn't do it, but it was suddenly Seaman last time. They voted against it, but it was there. It's always there. Yeah. We'll always have that.

[44:39] Ali Reed: I think we've gotten the Riddler on the Roof at one point. Oh! Fiddler's on the Roof!

[44:44] Adrien Pellerin: Fiddler's on the Roof. There's a lot of rhymes. The Fiddler on the Roof. That's the same show.

[44:55] Bryan: All right, Brian, you got Fiddler, so it's your turn. Okay. Ready? Yeah. When?

[45:02] Kiki Mikkelsen: So excited for you. Oh, no.

[45:04] Bryan: All right. Okay. Ready? Yeah. When?

[45:16] Ali Reed: Oh, this one I can play. It's Carmen Cusack. Yeah. Carmen Cusack.

[45:23] Adrien Pellerin: Okay, so Carmen Cusack, in this musical that I got, is going to win a Best Supporting Actress Tony for this revival. It's coming to Broadway next year. It's not, actually, but in my head it is. She plays a character who really doesn't want to take care of their kid, and so they decide to leave that responsibility to somebody else. That somebody else takes care of the gestation of this kid, and it's very colorful. There's a circus involved.

[46:00] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, Seussical. Yeah!

[46:11] Ali Reed: Yeah, amazing. I was like, Blood Brothers? But she wants the kid, anyway.

[46:18] Adrien Pellerin: But I also was like, I want a revival of Blood Brothers.

[46:23] Kiki Mikkelsen: I would love Seussical to come back.

[46:28] Ali Reed: Me, too. Me, too. Such a sweet show.

[46:33] Adrien Pellerin: Horton is like a dream role. Oh, my gosh. It's so good. It's my dream. Let's put that out into the universe.

[46:45] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yes. If you don't put it out, don't put it out into the universe. It'll be all alone.

[46:50] Ali Reed: Should we just go to your show and suggest Seussical?

[46:55] Adrien Pellerin: When we get something like that, we say, oh, that one already exists, actually. Thank you. But thank you. Archie, you got that right, so it's your turn.

[47:03] Josh Lamon: All right. They went. I'm still impressed. Oh, that was so fast. I know. I forgot what I was doing.

[47:12] Kiki Mikkelsen: Where's my typo? Okay. It's fabulous. Did you exit out? I didn't yet. Here I go.

[47:21] Ali Reed: Yes. Amazing. Who do I have? Oh, you. Okay. Ready? Say when. You can look. Okay. Quinn.

[47:29] Adrien Pellerin: Jefferson Mays. Oh. Oh, I don't know who that is. Oh, let's pick another. I simply can't cast them.

[47:37] Kiki Mikkelsen: You know Jefferson Mays. He's currently doing a one man. Christmas Carol. Christmas Carol.

[47:43] Ali Reed: Oh, he was in Gentleman's Guide. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's okay. Next artist.

[47:49] Adrien Pellerin: Was he also in Oslo? No, you're not. Maybe. Was that him? He's very gifted.

[47:54] Kiki Mikkelsen: He could. Yeah. Are you familiar with Ben Platt?

[48:02] Adrien Pellerin: Oh, yes, I am. Mama just saw Parade and she loved it. Jealous. So good. Oh, it was unbelievable.

[48:11] Ali Reed: It was unbelievable. He was incredible. Okay. I have to think about the show that you had typed in the thing. And I'm thinking about it. And I'm thinking about it.

[48:23] Kiki Mikkelsen: Well, I mean, oh, okay. Okay. Hear me out. Okay, it's gender swapped. Okay, great. Oh, okay. Good start. He is. He's like a bitch. He's a bitch. And he's very concerned about the way that he looks. And he's not cool with the way that somebody else looks. And it's like, I am supposed to be the star of this dancing show. And you are not right. Yes.

[48:54] Ali Reed: Oh, wow. And Ben is Amber. Yeah. Girls.

[49:02] Adrien Pellerin: Yes, of course. Do you think there's a show card for show girls? I don't know why I thought that there should be and hear me out. This is our plea to squigs.

[49:13] Kiki Mikkelsen: My God, I would see Ben Platt in a gender swapped show girls musical.

[49:19] Adrien Pellerin: Yes, that's for him to throw the fries and be like, you know, for those of you at home that don't know show girls, and you should know me Malone, the Ben Platt role in this version gets where are you from? And the character throws their French fries and yells different places. Anyway, incredible. It's a treasure. So good.

[49:47] Kiki Mikkelsen: All right, Adrian, are you the only person who hasn't had a turn? I think so. And I have so much anxiety that I'm not going to know the show or the performers. So here we go. But you're wearing your Pippin sweater. So I'm like, I'm really bad with names of people when and so when it comes to people, I'm I might need help with who they are.

[50:01] Ali Reed: Look, Bernadette Peters.

[50:10] Adrien Pellerin: Okay, I can go. Okay. Are you familiar? Do you want to try again? Give me one more.

[50:17] Kiki Mikkelsen: Okay, I'll give you the one that was behind it because I know the music but I don't know the story very well or nothing. Double or nothing. Don't look double or nothing. Oh my god, I feel terrible.

[50:25] Adrien Pellerin: They'll cut it out and post. We can go with that. We can go with that. Okay, great. Okay, ready? I'm so embarrassed.

[50:36] Kiki Mikkelsen: Are you familiar with Stephanie J Block? Oh, yeah. We can go with Stephanie J Block.

[50:42] Adrien Pellerin: Okay. You better be familiar. Every casting director ever has always said we can go with Stephanie J Block. Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Are we gender swapping? We're gender swapping, baby.

[51:01] Kiki Mikkelsen: Okay, we're gender swapping and Stephanie J Block is playing like a hard hitting police officer. Yeah, the kind of police officer who goes up and down all corners of Manhattan. I'm talking the up part, the bottom part, the right part, and most importantly, the left part.

[51:26] Ali Reed: West Side Story. Yeah. Oh.

[51:30] Adrien Pellerin: Is Stephanie J Block officer Krupke? Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Stephanie. Is it like Wicked, though? And it's like from Krupke's point of view. And he's like, I always wanted to help these kids. I'm not a monster. Would never lay a finger on any one of them. Gender swapped officer Krupke spin off music. I'm interested. Broadway, give me my check.

[52:00] Kiki Mikkelsen: I'm interested. You know, she wants to do a gender swapped nine with her in the lead. And I'm like, so fucking for it. Nine is one of the best scores ever. I think that would be incredible. But all of the all of the three women now men should.

[52:14] Adrien Pellerin: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. What I mean is that the role is gender swapped. Everybody else is still a woman.

[52:18] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, I love that. Just that one role. Got it. Yeah. Which I think is genius. And I'm here for. And, you know. Yeah. Do you think that there are other musicals besides Company that could actually be gender swapped and be.

[52:30] Ali Reed: I think all of them really. Yeah. You know, why not? Yeah. I think that's the other thing that we love about musical improv is that we can play whoever we want.

[52:42] Adrien Pellerin: Yeah, that's true. So freeing. You just get to pick. Yeah. We're going to play a baby and hope somebody else will be the teen.

[52:49] Kiki Mikkelsen: Exactly. Moments later.

[52:54] Ali Reed: Well, he does that constantly. She's starting every time a baby. I'm only this many. Yeah. Come on. Get my back. What's the most outrageous care? Like the most outrageous? Like, I cannot believe this is happening right now. Character you've ever played in one of these.

[53:10] Adrien Pellerin: There was a show that I got labeled as Mr. Dipstick. Oh, wait. Yes. And I was like an art teacher. And it was like beefsteak, beefsteak. Kiki looks at me straight in my face. She says, well, Professor Beefstick. I said, yes, that's my name. Beefstick. And then had to do the whole show as beefstick and did this whole like vaudevillian dance number as Professor Beefstick. And the song was any medium will do. Beefstick says any medium will do like any artistic medium.

[53:50] Kiki Mikkelsen: I mean, great. Honestly, a great professor really empowering the students.

[53:54] Adrien Pellerin: Yeah, it seems like that. This seems like a Mr. Holland type. Yes. Thank you.

[53:59] Kiki Mikkelsen: Thank you. I just want to write my symphony.

[54:10] Adrien Pellerin: We're coming to your next show and giving you that as the title.

[54:15] Ali Reed: A very niche reference.

[54:17] Kiki Mikkelsen: Allie rolls her sleeves up. She's like, well, he's coming back.

[54:22] Adrien Pellerin: Praising the role.

[54:23] Ali Reed: Little shop of beefsteak.

[54:28] Kiki Mikkelsen: Beefsteak on the roof.

[54:30] Adrien Pellerin: On that note, that does bring beefsteak on the roof. That brings the end of our episode. Tell us about where we can find you, where we can see you, how we can get tickets to find you and see you. Let us know all the details. I'll also put them in the description of this episode. If you're listening, check the description. There'll be links to the website, the Instagram, all that stuff. But if you want to talk a little bit about that, that'd be great.

[54:54] Kiki Mikkelsen: Yeah, amazing. You can find our show. It's called Schitt's Probe. It's like the word probe, but with an H at the beginning. So it's S-H-I-T-Z-P-R-O-B-E dot com. That's also our Instagram. And our next show is on December 12th. It's a Monday night because that's the night that Broadway doesn't perform most of the time. And it's at 7:30 p.m. at Asylum NYC. And we have an amazing special guest. We have Katie Geraghty from Into the Woods joining us. We are so excited.

[55:34] Ali Reed: Oh my god, it's gonna be an amazing show. And yeah, we'll be announcing our schedule for the new year also very soon. We play monthly. So come check us out.

[55:45] Kiki Mikkelsen: I love that. That's fantastic. It's gonna be amazing. Katie is one of the best performers I've ever met. She's so funny. She's so kind. And her little red, if you have not seen it, it's unmatchable. It's so good. It's brilliant. And I'm just so excited to have her. It's gonna be amazing. And selected by Sondheim himself.

[56:08] Adrien Pellerin: It's true. It was in his last will and testament. It was his last words. Bring me Katie Geraghty. She will do Schitt's Probe. That was the wish. That's my Sondheim impression. Is it good?

[56:28] Kiki Mikkelsen: My eyes were closed and I was like, is he on this Zoom right now? This is wild. He's back.

[56:36] Bryan: Well, thank you all so much for taking the time. We really, really appreciate it. Again, follow them at Schitt's Probe. Schitt's Probe.com. Get your tickets. Go see them. I mean, if this is 1% of what you'll see, then you know you're gonna have a good time, because we had a blast today. So thank you so much. You can follow us at Broad Wasted on all social media. Instagram, Twitter. Follow our Facebook group. And of course, join our Patreon. We're doing some theater nerdy stuff there. That's always a good time. You can, of course, find us wherever you get podcasts. Things like Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. Rate and review us there. Five stars, please. And thank you.

[57:22] Kevin: And of course, we end every episode with a quote, as Kevin remembers, every single week for 300 and something episodes. He is completely on it. Um, woe is me, woe is me, which is why I got to win this spelling bee. It's our quote for today. Seriously, the four of you, thank you so much for joining. This was an absolute delight and pleasure. We cannot wait to see you in person, knocking it out of the park with the beefsteak opus.

[57:52] Kiki Mikkelsen: Oh, I can't wait for you to come. It's gonna be so much fun.

[57:58] Bryan: But as we end every episode, we raise a glass and we say, Zoodoowa!

[58:03] All: Cheers!

[58:27] All: Cheers!