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[0:00] Bryan Plosker: Hello again.

[0:00] Kevin Jager: Hey everybody.

[0:01] Kimberly Cooper: Hi!

[0:02] Bryan Plosker: We have a very special episode for you today.

[0:05] Bryan Plosker: We recorded live from The Astor Room in Astoria to release Michael Mott's new album.

[0:11] Bryan Plosker: Abandoned Heart.

[0:12] Bryan Plosker: Hashtag abandoned Heart M M.

[0:14] Bryan Plosker: And we recorded this a little bit earlier, so a lot of our references are super dated.

[0:19] Bryan Plosker: Um, but we hope you talk about the 80s for a long time.

[0:24] Bryan Plosker: Um see Bay Watch.

[0:28] Bryan Plosker: Oh, that is kind of a new reference too.

[0:30] Bryan Plosker: That's true.

[0:32] Bryan Plosker: Even if fresh.

[0:33] Bryan Plosker: We actually do talk about Cheers.

[0:36] Bryan Plosker: Amazing.

[0:37] Bryan Plosker: Anyway, we wanted to remind you that we are looking for the punniest, craziest five-star review on iTunes.

[0:45] Bryan Plosker: We're gonna read our favorites live to take.

[0:50] Bryan Plosker: Yeah.

[0:51] Bryan Plosker: Here on the podcast, listen up for yours, and then we'll have a special surprise for who we review as the greatest reviewer.

[0:59] Bryan Plosker: The reviewed review with the best review.

[1:01] Bryan Plosker: A review review.

[1:03] Bryan Plosker: On the view, yeah.

[1:04] Bryan Plosker: The Prince of Broadways.

[1:12] Bryan Plosker: Oh god.

[1:13] Bryan Plosker: Oh, you win.

[1:15] Bryan Plosker: Um, but enjoy.

[1:16] Bryan Plosker: Don't forget that Michael Mott's album Abandoned Heart is now available on iTunes as well as Spotify.

[1:22] Bryan Plosker: So go check that out.

[1:23] Bryan Plosker: We're gonna give you a fun, fun sneak peek.

[1:27] Bryan Plosker: A sneak peek.

[1:30] Bryan Plosker: We're done here.

[1:30] Bryan Plosker: Okay, we're done.

[1:32] Bryan Plosker: Alright, go listen to some girls sing pretty sad, and let's ruin it with jokes.

[1:49] Bryan Plosker: Guys, welcome to The Astor Room!

[1:56] Bryan Plosker: Guys, are you guys excited?

[1:58] Bryan Plosker: We got Michael Mott debuting a whole bunch of music tonight.

[2:04] Bryan Plosker: We got this weird internet radio show where they get drunk and talk to Broadway people.

[2:12] Bryan Plosker: Yeah, that's gonna be fun.

[2:13] Bryan Plosker: Okay, at any point when Bryan, Kimberly, or Kevin up here, at some point they're gonna be doing a lot of drinking.

[2:20] Bryan Plosker: It's kind of the temple of the show.

[2:21] Bryan Plosker: There's a lot of like, you know, funny moments, but it's a lot of drunk moments.

[2:25] Bryan Plosker: At any point, any of them are gonna go, Cheers.

[2:28] Bryan Plosker: And I need all of you guys in unison with your drinks to respond.

[2:32] Audience: Cheers!

[2:33] Bryan Plosker: Alright, I'm gonna do it one more time.

[2:35] Bryan Plosker: Cheers!

[2:36] Audience: Cheers!

[2:37] Bryan Plosker: Hey, what was my favorite show starring uh Woody Harrelson in the 80s?

[2:42] Audience: Cheers!

[2:43] Bryan Plosker: Okay, cool.

[2:44] Bryan Plosker: Alright, guys.

[2:45] Bryan Plosker: Are you guys ready?

[2:47] Bryan Plosker: Can you give me that big 10?

[2:49] Bryan Plosker: Can you give me that big 10?

[2:51] Bryan Plosker: Can you feel it?

[2:52] Bryan Plosker: Can you feel it, audience in The Astor Room?

[2:54] Audience: Woo!

[2:55] Bryan Plosker: Oh yeah!

[2:56] Bryan Plosker: Please welcome to the stage!

[2:58] Bryan Plosker: Kimberly Cooper, Kevin Jager, and Bryan Plosker of Broad Wasted.

[3:09] Bryan Plosker: I love how we of all of all the people in Cheers, he said Woody Harrelson.

[3:17] Kevin Jager: Ted Danson, Shelly Long.

[3:19] Kimberly Cooper: The guy who's in all the Pixar movies.

[3:22] Kevin Jager: Oh, John Ratzenberger.

[3:23] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[3:23] Bryan Plosker: Anyway.

[3:25] Bryan Plosker: Hi guys.

[3:26] Kimberly Cooper: Hey, everybody.

[3:27] Bryan Plosker: Welcome.

[3:27] Bryan Plosker: Let's test it.

[3:28] Bryan Plosker: Cheers!

[3:29] Audience: Cheers!

[3:30] Bryan Plosker: Awesome.

[3:31] Bryan Plosker: Hello, and welcome to the official Broad Wasted Podcast where we're drunk on theater.

[3:35] Bryan Plosker: I'm your host, Bryan Plosker, and I'm alive.

[3:38] Bryan Plosker: I mean, we're live from the famous Astor Room in Astoria, Queens.

[3:43] Bryan Plosker: The house is packed for Michael Mott and friends, and we're ready to hear some of the tunes off of his brand new album for the very first time.

[3:51] Bryan Plosker: Let's give it up.

[3:56] Bryan Plosker: A sneak peek of his secret garden, if you will.

[4:01] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, we will, Chase.

[4:08] Bryan Plosker: We've got some fun home tricks up our sleeves.

[4:12] Bryan Plosker: So get ready for the life to begin.

[4:15] Bryan Plosker: Now, the sh, yes.

[4:17] Bryan Plosker: And it's a line from Bright Star.

[4:19] Bryan Plosker: Double entendre.

[4:21] Bryan Plosker: Now, today's show isn't your average everyday rapture, so don't be quiet.

[4:25] Bryan Plosker: Just break down those riffs.

[4:26] Bryan Plosker: We've got the voices and a little bit of glee because this is where the sky ends.

[4:31] Bryan Plosker: Hashtag teamadom.

[4:32] Bryan Plosker: Uh we're not paying rent tonight, but we're grateful and have a lot of heart.

[4:38] Bryan Plosker: All I want for Christmas is y'all here having a great boozy time.

[4:43] Bryan Plosker: And if you need anything, just ask your waitress.

[4:49] Bryan Plosker: Joining us today are the usual.

[4:51] Kimberly Cooper: Oh wow.

[4:51] Kimberly Cooper: Sounds good.

[4:53] Kimberly Cooper: Or terrible.

[4:53] Kevin Jager: I like it.

[4:54] Bryan Plosker: Joining us today are the usual Greek food loving Astoria chillin', NRW riding Queens.

[5:00] Bryan Plosker: Including Kevin, never getting rid of me Jager.

[5:04] Kevin Jager: Nope, you can't get rid of me.

[5:05] Kevin Jager: I'm always here.

[5:06] Bryan Plosker: And Kimberly, our game master and unofficial babysitter for the hour.

[5:10] Kimberly Cooper: Hello.

[5:11] Bryan Plosker: Now, just want to let you know, this is like a super sneak peek.

[5:14] Bryan Plosker: We're actually, not airing this until the fall.

[5:17] Bryan Plosker: So pretend it's a little brisk outside.

[5:23] Bryan Plosker: But um with us today, for our first guest is the composer that you all know behind the hit album Where the Sky Ends, and has us all anticipating album number two.

[5:33] Bryan Plosker: Let's give a big Broad Wasted welcome back to friend of the show.

[5:33] Audience: Friend of the show!

[5:37] Audience: Friend of the show!

[5:38] Bryan Plosker: Michael Mott.

[5:43] Michael Mott: Hey oh the show.

[5:53] Michael Mott: Oh my gosh.

[5:54] Michael Mott: Last time you gave me a big Mariah Carey welcome.

[5:57] Bryan Plosker: I did.

[5:59] Michael Mott: I prefer that to this, but I put all I want for Christmas is you and the.

[6:04] Michael Mott: And I was having her New Year's Eve sound check earlier today, so it's fine.

[6:08] Bryan Plosker: Touche.

[6:10] Michael Mott: It's okay.

[6:11] Michael Mott: So, Michael, can you explain a little bit more about Michael Mott and Friends?

[6:17] Michael Mott: So we've been doing this up until July.

[6:20] Michael Mott: We have done this every single Wednesday.

[6:22] Michael Mott: And in July, we started doing it once a month.

[6:26] Michael Mott: So now it's a monthly cabaret show where we feature singer-songwriters from the musical theater community, and they showcase themselves.

[6:33] Michael Mott: And I'd like to give people an opportunity to sing, show songs they've written, and uh, you know, have a gay old time here at The Astor Room.

[6:42] Bryan Plosker: Now, can you kind of explain what's happening tonight?

[6:45] Michael Mott: Because this is very different from what you've done before, as well as what Broad Wasted has done before.

[6:50] Michael Mott: Okay, so what is going on tonight is my album just came out a few days ago.

[6:57] Audience: Woohoo!

[6:58] Michael Mott: Yeah!

[6:59] Michael Mott: So excited!

[7:00] Michael Mott: Yeah.

[7:01] Michael Mott: Yeah, fall time.

[7:02] Michael Mott: Put on those jackets.

[7:03] Michael Mott: The response has been so great.

[7:05] Michael Mott: So thank you so much.

[7:06] Michael Mott: Um, and um yeah, number one on Billboard, right?

[7:10] Audience: It's number one.

[7:11] Michael Mott: Yeah, everywhere.

[7:11] Michael Mott: Yeah.

[7:12] Michael Mott: Unbelievable.

[7:13] Michael Mott: Yeah.

[7:13] Michael Mott: Who says sophomore slump?

[7:15] Audience: Am I right, everyone?

[7:16] Audience: Cheers!

[7:17] Michael Mott: Cheers!

[7:18] Michael Mott: Just Jason Mraz, that's really it.

[7:22] Michael Mott: No, he wrote about the sophomore slump.

[7:24] Michael Mott: Wordplay?

[7:24] Audience: Anybody?

[7:25] Michael Mott: 2008?

[7:26] Michael Mott: I love him.

[7:27] Michael Mott: It was praise.

[7:27] Michael Mott: Not shade.

[7:29] Bryan Plosker: Okay.

[7:30] Michael Mott: So what's basically happening is this album just dropped a few days ago, and we're gonna do five songs acoustically tonight.

[7:37] Michael Mott: I couldn't bring the entire 12-piece band.

[7:40] Michael Mott: We just decided to do piano, vocals, and uh a little cajon for the rhythm.

[7:44] Michael Mott: A cajon is a drum played by my amazing drummer, Mr. Adam Wolf.

[7:49] Michael Mott: The Adam Wolf fan club back there.

[7:52] Michael Mott: He took the night off from his Broadway show Bandstand to be here.

[7:55] Michael Mott: He's a drummer from Bandstand.

[7:57] Audience: Oh, see Bandstand.

[7:57] Michael Mott: And he's here to play for us and keep me in tempo because I like to rush.

[8:01] Michael Mott: So just this is my era of key changes.

[8:05] Michael Mott: I'm gonna bring back key changes.

[8:07] Audience: Yeah.

[8:07] Michael Mott: Oh, but did they go somewhere?

[8:11] Michael Mott: In 20 years, when looking back at the history of key changes.

[8:13] Michael Mott: Like Michael Mott is the reason for key changes.

[8:16] Michael Mott: But uh before we start, um we need to do our first segment as we always do.

[8:21] Bryan Plosker: What are you drinking?

[8:22] Michael Mott: What are we drinking?

[8:24] Michael Mott: I did that differently.

[8:25] Michael Mott: That was good.

[8:25] Kevin Jager: Yeah, Kev, what are you drinking?

[8:27] Kevin Jager: I'm drinking a whiskey- No, I'm not.

[8:28] Kevin Jager: I'm drinking a tequila ginger ale.

[8:30] Bryan Plosker: Maybe you should stop.

[8:31] Kevin Jager: Keels, I love keels.

[8:33] Kevin Jager: I love keels.

[8:35] Kevin Jager: A tequila ginger ale.

[8:36] Kimberly Cooper: I'm also drinking that.

[8:37] Kimberly Cooper: Gin and tonic.

[8:39] Bryan Plosker: You're that's because it's fall.

[8:42] Michael Mott: Yeah.

[8:43] Michael Mott: Uh Michael, are you drinking anything tonight?

[8:44] Michael Mott: Hell no.

[8:45] Michael Mott: You would think I'm drunk, but no.

[8:46] Michael Mott: Um, I'm drinking water and then I didn't want to be lame, so I have a seltzer here.

[8:49] Michael Mott: Only because he also has a lime.

[8:54] Michael Mott: Okay, well, okay.

[8:55] Michael Mott: No, because um, you know, if I gotta play, I mean, sometimes I will.

[8:58] Michael Mott: My bad, my piano teacher, which you won't know that I had piano lessons tonight, but I did take lessons.

[9:04] Michael Mott: Um, and he was like, you do better when you have a shot, so he makes me drink a shot of whiskey, but I'm too nervous to do that now.

[9:09] Bryan Plosker: So that's fair.

[9:10] Michael Mott: But I actually have to say that like there are so many people here who I know that are like my ride or dies, who've been here since the beginning, since 2013.

[9:16] Michael Mott: And I'm actually not nervous.

[9:18] Michael Mott: I was like peeing my pants downstairs, and now I'm like, oh, but it's all love in this room, so thank you.

[9:22] Michael Mott: I like needed this.

[9:26] Bryan Plosker: Awesome.

[9:27] Michael Mott: So the name of the album is Abandoned Heart.

[9:32] Audience: Cheers!

[9:36] Michael Mott: Um, and the hashtag is hashtag abandoned heart m-m.

[9:39] Michael Mott: Like Michael Mott.

[9:41] Michael Mott: So A-B-A-N-D-O-N-E-D H-E-A-R-T M-M.

[9:46] Michael Mott: Because everyone listen to that.

[9:48] Michael Mott: Um Richard, our amazing producer of this album is also the sound guy here tonight.

[9:54] Michael Mott: Give him a round of applause.

[9:56] Michael Mott: We have been working on this album since we started planning it last October, and it's you know, been a year since it's come out.

[10:05] Michael Mott: And uh we're gonna start, but Michael, I'd love for you to introduce um the backup singers tonight.

[10:10] Michael Mott: Yes, my motley crew.

[10:13] Michael Mott: Oh, that's funny!

[10:14] Michael Mott: That's so good!

[10:15] Michael Mott: Um, one of the people in the No, no, no, she's not here.

[10:15] Michael Mott: There's a ride or die named Renee, and she named them the Motley Crew.

[10:21] Michael Mott: And this is for her.

[10:22] Michael Mott: She's in Florida right now.

[10:23] Michael Mott: She sent me a Facebook message.

[10:24] Michael Mott: Devastated, she can't be here.

[10:26] Michael Mott: Um please welcome my rocks.

[10:29] Michael Mott: Damian Baret, Lauren Devine, and Lindsay Ryder.

[10:33] Audience: Woo!

[10:34] Michael Mott: The Motley Crew.

[10:39] Michael Mott: And singing the first song, Genuine, it's real.

[10:39] Michael Mott: Genuine (It's Real).

[10:45] Michael Mott: Uh please welcome Natalie Weiss.

[10:57] Natalie Weiss: Yeah.

[10:58] Natalie Weiss: Should we try this?

[10:58] Natalie Weiss: Yeah.

[10:59] Natalie Weiss: Just because I'm I can see you standing there avoiding my gaze.

[11:30] ♪ Musical number: "Abandoned Heart" — performed by Michael Mott ♪

[12:17] ♪ Musical number: "Prove Your Love" — performed by Natalie Weiss ♪

[15:03] Natalie Weiss: Natalie Weiss, everybody.

[15:13] Bryan Plosker: That's one hell of a voice.

[15:18] Michael Mott: I wanted to have a throwback to the nineties dance divas. That's what that was. Can you hear it?

[15:22] Natalie Weiss: Yes.

[15:23] Bryan Plosker: That works well with my game, Michael.

[15:25] Natalie Weiss: I just talked into my Prosecco like it was a mic.

[15:29] Michael Mott: Who says it's not? Cool. So thanks for joining us.

[15:32] Natalie Weiss: Thank you for having me.

[15:33] Bryan Plosker: Yeah, of course. So you're the queen of riffs.

[15:36] Natalie Weiss: So I'm told.

[15:37] Bryan Plosker: That's what YouTube tells me.

[15:38] Natalie Weiss: Okay, that's nice of you.

[15:42] Kevin Jager: So, Kevin, I'll let you take this one.

[15:45] Kevin Jager: Um, um Bryan makes fun of me because I've been watching your videos for a very long time. Um back to the day when you're doing like the I Am Not Alone from the.

[15:53] Natalie Weiss: Oh, that was eleven ten years ago.

[15:55] Kevin Jager: Yeah, but yeah. The crazy like upper riff and all that nap stuff.

[15:58] Natalie Weiss: Yeah, I copied that from someone else. Nobody knows that.

[16:02] Kevin Jager: So if you were gonna talk to somebody and you were only allowed to give them three like the rules of riffing, what would the three like top rules of riffing be?

[16:11] Natalie Weiss: Um I would say like pitch of the note. Like you pitch is number one, so like it's not about like moving fast necessarily, but like accuracy of pitch. Um I like to chart it in my head, like the like map it out so I know like what direction the notes are going, just like scaling. Um people can just like they were born in church, so they can just make it up. I don't prefer that because then I do something and then I end in the wrong key. So I don't like to do that. Um then third is um do it from your heart.

[16:47] Bryan Plosker: A riff from the heart.

[16:48] Natalie Weiss: No, I mean riff from your soul. I don't know. But my method is.

[16:52] Kevin Jager: I hate a heartless riff. Don't do it.

[16:55] Natalie Weiss: My third advice would be don't do it unless it comes from an emotional place. But like my whole system is not based on like really like meaningful riffs. It's just map it out, make it technical, but like sing it from your heart.

[17:13] Bryan Plosker: Exactly. Don't let them know you map. Don't crop the pitches, but singing from your heart, yeah.

[17:19] Natalie Weiss: Awesome. I love that. Um I have an idea. Let's play a game.

[17:21] Bryan Plosker: Yes, I love it.

[17:22] Natalie Weiss: Oh, before we play a game, what are you drinking?

[17:22] Bryan Plosker: What are you drinking?

[17:26] Natalie Weiss: Prosecco, apparently.

[17:27] Bryan Plosker: Yes, yeah.

[17:27] Natalie Weiss: Okay. That's also your microphone.

[17:29] Bryan Plosker: Cheers.

[17:30] All: Cheers!

[17:31] Bryan Plosker: Cheers!

[17:33] Kimberly Cooper: Cheers, dear. Let's play a game.

[17:34] Natalie Weiss: Thanks, girl.

[17:35] Kimberly Cooper: What game are we playing?

[17:36] Natalie Weiss: I'm obsessed with games.

[17:37] Kimberly Cooper: We're gonna play a game of plot points.

[17:37] All: Plot points!

[17:41] Kimberly Cooper: Pop points. Or Kevin, will you hold my drink?

[17:44] Kevin Jager: I will, lovely.

[17:45] Kimberly Cooper: Because this has props. I have in one hand a list of 90s pop songs.

[17:50] Natalie Weiss: Oh.

[17:50] Kimberly Cooper: I have in another hand a list of like fun CW-esque TV shows I like. What's gonna happen is one at a time, we're each gonna take one slip of paper from each hand, and you're gonna try and tell me the plot of the TV show to the tune of the song.

[18:10] Natalie Weiss: Oh, we're gonna guess the song and the TV show.

[18:12] Kimberly Cooper: And then you have to guess the song and the TV show. We don't usually have funny.

[18:17] Bryan Plosker: That's a great in the room when we do it.

[18:19] Kimberly Cooper: It's a great master. Go for it.

[18:22] Natalie Weiss: Or you can just like it. I'll go first.

[18:23] Kimberly Cooper: Is it good?

[18:27] Natalie Weiss: Okay.

[18:27] Kimberly Cooper: And they have to they have to guess?

[18:29] Natalie Weiss: Yeah, so we're guessing, but you guys guess too, because we don't usually have other people in the room.

[18:34] Kimberly Cooper: Here we go. This show is at a high school.

[18:39] Natalie Weiss: Yeah.

[18:40] Kimberly Cooper: They sing.

[18:42] Natalie Weiss: They sing about their slur slushies.

[18:45] All: Yeah.

[18:50] Kimberly Cooper: This is Glee.

[18:50] Natalie Weiss: Out in the gym room floor.

[18:54] Kimberly Cooper: Lee.

[18:55] Natalie Weiss: Yeah.

[18:57] Bryan Plosker: There you go. I pictured a girl walking down the stairs, and I was like, I know this song.

[19:01] Natalie Weiss: Yeah.

[19:02] Bryan Plosker: Nobody. She's all. She's all that. Um.

[19:04] Natalie Weiss: So much fresher.

[19:07] Kevin Jager: Jamie Lee.

[19:09] Natalie Weiss: Leah Michelle.

[19:12] Kevin Jager: Umbop.

[19:16] Natalie Weiss: Oh, Umbop and um.

[19:18] Bryan Plosker: That was it.

[19:19] Kevin Jager: Stream Queens, yeah, yeah.

[19:20] Natalie Weiss: That was brilliant of them.

[19:21] Kimberly Cooper: Oh.

[19:22] Bryan Plosker: I wrote that in. Didn't know who was in that show.

[19:26] Kevin Jager: Kevin, did you pick some while I had them behind my back?

[19:28] Kevin Jager: I did.

[19:28] Kimberly Cooper: Okay. Okay. Um she was your girlfriend once. Now she's not. You broke up with her.

[19:34] Kevin Jager: Uh crazy ex girlfriend, living La Vita Loca.

[19:38] All: There you go. Boom!

[19:39] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, I didn't get any. How the heck?

[19:44] Kevin Jager: That's the end of the night. Thanks for coming, everybody.

[19:47] Kimberly Cooper: I didn't mean we're how did you do that? You guys cheated.

[19:49] Kevin Jager: No cheating.

[19:56] Kimberly Cooper: I'm kidding, Kevin. I'm kidding.

[19:57] Kevin Jager: It's alright.

[19:59] Kimberly Cooper: It's alright. I accidentally picked the funniest thing to like five people in this room.

[20:03] Kevin Jager: Let's see.

[20:04] Kimberly Cooper: So I'm I'm gonna let it be funny to those five people, and they're gonna yell really loud. Great. Um it goes, what's my name again? What's my name again?

[20:13] Kevin Jager: Oh, unbreakable.

[20:17] Kimberly Cooper: So it's Kimmy Schmidt.

[20:18] All: Yes. That is my name.

[20:19] Kevin Jager: Her name is actually Kimmy Schmidt.

[20:20] Kimberly Cooper: What was the song?

[20:23] Kevin Jager: I literally changed one word. Do it again.

[20:25] Kimberly Cooper: What's my name again?

[20:28] Kevin Jager: Oh, is that 23?

[20:31] All: Yes!

[20:31] Kevin Jager: Yeah, 23. Freshman year.

[20:34] Kimberly Cooper: Oh man. Here we go.

[20:38] Kevin Jager: XOXO late mister.

[20:44] Kimberly Cooper: There it is.

[20:48] Kevin Jager: Yeah, I just finished my second drink by accident.

[20:52] Kimberly Cooper: Do you want to play another round?

[20:53] Kevin Jager: Yeah, we can No sex, but she had a baby.

[21:02] Kimberly Cooper: No sex, it didn't hurt.

[21:04] Kevin Jager: Oh, come on.

[21:06] Kimberly Cooper: Don't speak.

[21:07] Kevin Jager: Don't speak.

[21:08] Kimberly Cooper: There you go.

[21:09] Bryan Plosker: And on that note.

[21:11] Kimberly Cooper: On that note, everyone give a huge round of applause for Halloween.

[21:18] All: Thank you for joining us. That was plot points.

[21:22] Kimberly Cooper: And next we have a minefield of love.

[21:28] Kimberly Cooper: As sung by Jenna Ushkowitz.

[21:31] Bryan Plosker: So that's a big round of applause. Let's bring everybody back up.

[21:37] Bryan Plosker: Hi Jenna.

[21:38] Jenna Ushkowitz: Hi, Michael.

[21:39] Michael Mott: How are you?

[21:40] Jenna Ushkowitz: I'm good. How are you?

[21:41] Michael Mott: Good you ready?

[21:42] Jenna Ushkowitz: Yeah.

[21:53] Jenna Ushkowitz: Get up and go.

[21:57] Jenna Ushkowitz: Or stay and drown. My mind is racing as the choice is hope me down.

[22:10] Jenna Ushkowitz: You don't want me to go nowhere. You say you're loving can't compare. But what we had is lost and can't be found.

[22:18] Jenna Ushkowitz: You say we gotta save our love. Cause I'm the one you're dreaming of. And we keep going round and round and round.

[22:27] Jenna Ushkowitz: We're walking through my feel of love. We should lean at the front line of us.

[22:56] Jenna Ushkowitz: So here we are so here we are the fight of war But when we're face to face I want you more and more I look into your eyes and see the people that we used to be But now we're in a race to hear the round You wanna give it one more chance Or we gon' do the same old death and keep on going round and round and round walking through my feel Waiting for the bomb we should run up creeping through ourselves Meaning at the front My feel my feel This is the end is the end Our time is come our time is come just look away Just look away saying for the bomb we wave for so meaning at the front line unless my feel I feel I Great job.

[25:08] Audience: Yeah, so let's give it up.

[25:09] Audience: That was awesome.

[25:13] Audience: Slay it.

[25:14] Audience: Slate it.

[25:15] Audience: Yeah.

[25:16] Bryan Plosker: So thanks for joining us.

[25:17] Jenna Ushkowitz: Thanks for having me.

[25:18] Bryan Plosker: This is very exciting.

[25:19] Jenna Ushkowitz: Yeah, I'm glad you're here.

[25:20] Bryan Plosker: Um, before we start, what are you drinking?

[25:23] Jenna Ushkowitz: A bag of soda.

[25:24] Bryan Plosker: Yeah, that's that's a very big bag of soda.

[25:30] Jenna Ushkowitz: Sorry.

[25:30] Bryan Plosker: But we we have a couple questions for you.

[25:32] Bryan Plosker: We're gonna play a game, it's gonna be super fun.

[25:33] Jenna Ushkowitz: Okay.

[25:34] Bryan Plosker: Uh our question for my question for you is one of my source This is a really good day for me, you guys.

[25:45] Jenna Ushkowitz: So good.

[25:45] Bryan Plosker: Sorry.

[25:46] Jenna Ushkowitz: No, that's okay.

[25:48] Bryan Plosker: No, you're good.

[25:49] Jenna Ushkowitz: So many jokes.

[25:50] Bryan Plosker: I know, I know, I know, I know.

[25:54] Bryan Plosker: So walk away, Brian.

[25:55] Bryan Plosker: Walk away.

[25:56] Bryan Plosker: So if you didn't know, Jenna was uh recently in Waitress.

[26:01] Bryan Plosker: You also may remember her from uh Glee.

[26:05] Bryan Plosker: One of the things that I couldn't never get past on Glee is how good you guys were at sight reading.

[26:15] Bryan Plosker: Like, Mr. Shoe would be like, here's a here's a 20-page song, and you'd be like, I know all of it.

[26:21] Bryan Plosker: And chore. Like, let's go.

[26:23] Bryan Plosker: Like, you know.

[26:24] Bryan Plosker: And it really matched in colors, like.

[26:27] Jenna Ushkowitz: Yeah, and I could like you just like went to your locker and like, we're all wearing yellow and purple.

[26:31] Jenna Ushkowitz: Um I mean, it's kind of similar to like the way we were shooting because uh there was like no time to learn the music.

[26:37] Jenna Ushkowitz: So we they would send it to us like overnight and we would listen to it and then do it.

[26:41] Jenna Ushkowitz: And we lip sync while we were shooting, you know, we would record first and then lip sync.

[26:46] Jenna Ushkowitz: So the funny part is we were doing, I think it was Whitney Houston's My Love is Your Love when Darren Chris did that number.

[26:52] Jenna Ushkowitz: Uh-huh.

[26:53] Jenna Ushkowitz: And nobody knew the chorus to or the words at all.

[26:56] Jenna Ushkowitz: But we were standing in like line rows of three.

[26:59] Jenna Ushkowitz: So I feel like something on my back, and I was like, what is happening?

[27:03] Jenna Ushkowitz: And the kids pinned the lyrics onto the back of my dress.

[27:08] Jenna Ushkowitz: So they were singing, and they were looking at the back of my head the whole time.

[27:13] Jenna Ushkowitz: And I'd be like, stop moving.

[27:15] Jenna Ushkowitz: So then we caught on, and I used to do that to Kevin's wheelchair, and he had a backpack on it.

[27:19] Jenna Ushkowitz: So I would always put the lyrics there, and we'd be like, they're like, wow, you really did your homework last night.

[27:26] Bryan Plosker: Sure.

[27:27] Bryan Plosker: That's incredible.

[27:28] Bryan Plosker: I was gonna ask you how you justified it as your character, but like that's the answer.

[27:34] Jenna Ushkowitz: There it is.

[27:35] Jenna Ushkowitz: It's like magic.

[27:37] Bryan Plosker: Awesome.

[27:37] Bryan Plosker: Yeah.

[27:37] Bryan Plosker: So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna play a game with you.

[27:40] Jenna Ushkowitz: Okay.

[27:40] Bryan Plosker: Kimberly's gonna explain the game and go through it.

[27:43] Bryan Plosker: I'm gonna ask you some more questions while she's tabulating.

[27:45] Bryan Plosker: Don't you worry, very exciting.

[27:47] Bryan Plosker: But I'll I'll hand it over to Kimberly.

[27:49] Kimberly Cooper: I like the word tabulating.

[27:51] Bryan Plosker: You're welcome.

[27:53] Kimberly Cooper: This is a game that we like to call Gypsy Rob.

[27:56] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, Gypsy Robe!

[28:03] Kimberly Cooper: So this is basically the Broadway version of MASH.

[28:06] Kimberly Cooper: Did we all play MASH in middle school?

[28:08] Audience: I like this.

[28:09] Kimberly Cooper: Sure.

[28:10] Kimberly Cooper: So robe instead of the MASH thing.

[28:13] Kimberly Cooper: It stands for regional off Broadway, Broadway, or Experimental.

[28:18] Kimberly Cooper: But you've changed that.

[28:19] Kimberly Cooper: Yes, it used to be West End and then Broadway, and I like justify that like that's how you could also pronounce probe, but we're done with that.

[28:25] Kimberly Cooper: So I figured.

[28:28] Kimberly Cooper: So basically, you are going to, we're gonna figure out the co-star and the show of your next either regional off-Broadway experimental project.

[28:39] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[28:39] Kimberly Cooper: And I will ask a number for reasons I'll uh divulge later.

[28:43] Audience: Ooh.

[28:45] Kimberly Cooper: Spooky.

[28:46] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, so the things that I need from you are what is a co-star you would love to work with?

[28:54] Jenna Ushkowitz: Um Ben Platt.

[28:56] Kimberly Cooper: Cool.

[28:57] Kimberly Cooper: Tony Winner.

[28:58] Kimberly Cooper: BP.

[28:59] Kimberly Cooper: Um 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Day.

[29:04] Jenna Ushkowitz: You can actually be really good in that.

[29:05] Bryan Plosker: I want to see this!

[29:07] Kimberly Cooper: Cast.

[29:07] Kimberly Cooper: Actually, yeah.

[29:08] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[29:08] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, so I need three more co-stars and three more shows, but we can open it up to y'all in the audience if you'd like.

[29:16] Audience: Alright.

[29:17] Kimberly Cooper: Love it.

[29:18] Kimberly Cooper: Definitely.

[29:18] Kimberly Cooper: Alright, let's stay on co-stars.

[29:20] Kimberly Cooper: Anyone else?

[29:20] Audience: Spice Girls.

[29:22] Kimberly Cooper: The entire Spice Girls.

[29:24] Audience: All of them.

[29:25] Jenna Ushkowitz: Honestly, I don't care what this show is, I'm going.

[29:27] Jenna Ushkowitz: If JJ's going back to the Spice Girls, I'm in.

[29:31] Kimberly Cooper: Alright, one more co-star.

[29:34] Audience: Say it again.

[29:35] Audience: Oh, G Specter?

[29:37] Kimberly Cooper: Three more shows.

[29:37] Audience: S-P-E-K-T-O-R.

[29:39] Audience: I did a K.

[29:40] Audience: Oh, good.

[29:41] Audience: I'm like Paul Shay.

[29:42] Kimberly Cooper: I feel like I'm Paul Schaeffer over here in the corner.

[29:45] Kimberly Cooper: Wait, what was Rosie's?

[29:47] Audience: Michael, uh, John McDe and the McDLTs.

[29:48] Audience: John McD and the DLTs.

[29:49] Kimberly Cooper: We need shows.

[29:50] Kimberly Cooper: Let's do a three shows.

[29:52] Audience: Oh, great's good.

[29:55] Audience: Uh, what about get to the woods?

[29:56] Audience: Because I've done that like seven times already.

[29:58] Kimberly Cooper: So what's one more?

[29:59] Audience: And um.

[30:00] Audience: Yeah, another one?

[30:01] Audience: No, keep going.

[30:02] Audience: Somebody help.

[30:03] Audience: Last idea.

[30:04] Audience: Oh, nice.

[30:05] Audience: I would love to see Jenna and the Spice Girls in the last year.

[30:10] Audience: That would be so good.

[30:12] Audience: Yes.

[30:13] Audience: But scary spices, I'm still hurting would like slay everybody in the audience.

[30:19] Audience: I feel like you throw in some Spice Girl songs so you're like, I'm still hurting, and then you hear like wannabe.

[30:24] Audience: It would be tell me that I'm hurting that I'm really really hard.

[30:27] Audience: Tell me that I'm hurting that I'm really.

[30:28] Audience: I want to hurt, I want to hurt, I want to hurt, I want to hurt.

[30:32] Audience: No, I'm just thinking of like the and I compilation video.

[30:36] Audience: I can't stop.

[30:37] Kimberly Cooper: Alright, and it was four random numbers.

[30:39] Kimberly Cooper: 23.

[30:40] Audience: 23.

[30:42] Kimberly Cooper: What's your favorite number?

[30:43] Audience: What's your favorite number?

[30:43] Audience: 28.

[30:44] Audience: 28.

[30:44] Audience: 28.

[30:46] Audience: 12.

[30:47] Audience: Great.

[30:47] Kimberly Cooper: Great.

[30:48] Kimberly Cooper: So I'm just gonna ask you to uh close your eyes and say when.

[30:51] Jenna Ushkowitz: When.

[30:52] Kimberly Cooper: Perfect.

[30:53] Kimberly Cooper: Alright, now I'm tabulating.

[30:54] Bryan Plosker: You guys go.

[30:55] Bryan Plosker: Great.

[30:55] Bryan Plosker: So I have a question for you while she's tabulating.

[30:58] Bryan Plosker: So you jumped into Waitress as Dawn.

[31:01] Jenna Ushkowitz: Yeah.

[31:01] Bryan Plosker: Did anyone see Waitress?

[31:05] Audience: Don't forget to tip your waitresses tonight.

[31:07] Audience: Sure.

[31:08] Audience: Sure.

[31:09] Bryan Plosker: Only only male servers tonight, but you never know.

[31:12] Bryan Plosker: There's never no.

[31:13] Bryan Plosker: We're all in this together.

[31:14] Bryan Plosker: You're waiting.

[31:16] Bryan Plosker: We're all in this together.

[31:18] Bryan Plosker: So I'd love to hear about.

[31:21] Bryan Plosker: Yeah, great.

[31:22] Bryan Plosker: We're all on this together.

[31:23] Bryan Plosker: I'd love to hear about what it was like kind of jumping into a show, learning the part while it's still going on, not originating it, but trying to add your own spin and flair to it.

[31:31] Jenna Ushkowitz: Yeah, it was really fast.

[31:32] Jenna Ushkowitz: They put me in in um nine days, the show.

[31:35] Jenna Ushkowitz: Yeah.

[31:35] Jenna Ushkowitz: So um it was really, really quick.

[31:37] Jenna Ushkowitz: I mean, I was watching the show, and they hadn't even told the cast that I was in the show yet.

[31:43] Jenna Ushkowitz: Whoa.

[31:43] Jenna Ushkowitz: Um, I was the first replacement in there, and so it was pretty scary, but and it's such a well-oiled machine at that point.

[31:50] Jenna Ushkowitz: So it was tough, but you know, you do what you can, and all the the girls were amazing, like Kayle and Jesse Mueller.

[31:57] Jenna Ushkowitz: You know, like it's it's crazy to go and work with them.

[31:59] Bryan Plosker: For Waitress in general, what did you kind of take from that?

[32:02] Bryan Plosker: Like, that must have been a crazy experience.

[32:04] Jenna Ushkowitz: The audience is so passionate about the show.

[32:06] Jenna Ushkowitz: What did you kind of take when leaving that?

[32:09] Jenna Ushkowitz: Yeah, it was it was a quick run.

[32:10] Jenna Ushkowitz: Um you know, I left with like two new best friends and the like an incredibly tight cast that no drama backstage, none of that, and like such beautiful music, and Sara Bareilles was like our you know hero and our leader, fearless leader.

[32:24] Jenna Ushkowitz: So um, you know, like the song, everything changes.

[32:28] Jenna Ushkowitz: You know, it was a quick run, and that to me, like it's everything is sort of short and you know, life is short.

[32:34] Jenna Ushkowitz: So I just was very grateful to be a part of that cast for the show.

[32:38] Bryan Plosker: So cool.

[32:38] Bryan Plosker: That's awesome.

[32:39] Bryan Plosker: Would you like to know the next cast you're gonna be a part of?

[32:43] Jenna Ushkowitz: Yeah, I can't wait.

[32:45] Bryan Plosker: Yo, what a good segue!

[32:47] Bryan Plosker: Yes!

[32:48] Bryan Plosker: Great.

[32:49] Bryan Plosker: Jenna will be starring in an experimental production of Parade.

[32:54] Audience: Oh opposite Regina Spectre.

[32:57] Audience: Yes, oh, I love this.

[32:59] Bryan Plosker: Which will garner 12 good reviews.

[33:03] Audience: Oh, yeah.

[33:04] Bryan Plosker: Out of how many?

[33:06] Audience: How many people reviewed it?

[33:07] Bryan Plosker: It's experimental, so I'll be playing personality.

[33:10] Audience: I don't know.

[33:11] Audience: I would see that.

[33:14] Bryan Plosker: I never very experimental.

[33:16] Audience: It's experimental.

[33:17] Bryan Plosker: So thanks for joining us.

[33:18] Jenna Ushkowitz: Thanks for having me.

[33:19] Bryan Plosker: Thank you.

[33:20] Bryan Plosker: Jenna, everybody.

[33:22] Audience: Yeah.

[33:24] Bryan Plosker: Thank you.

[33:26] Bryan Plosker: We have more singing for you.

[33:29] Bryan Plosker: And next up we have Single City.

[33:32] Bryan Plosker: We'd love to welcome the wonderful Loren Allred up to this stage.

[33:41] Loren Allred: Hi, baby.

[33:43] Michael Mott: So I'll just give you a little insight.

[33:46] Michael Mott: I wrote this song for Lauren in December of 2015.

[33:51] Michael Mott: And we've done it out at concerts.

[33:53] Michael Mott: And um this is like I'm not not to single her out at all, single city her out, but like I just feel like this is like magic here.

[34:01] Michael Mott: And we're we're we're working on some other stuff together, and I and I just adore her, and I'm excited.

[34:06] Michael Mott: Thank you for doing this.

[34:08] Loren Allred: Musical soulmates, yeah.

[34:10] Michael Mott: So I'm excited for this.

[34:11] Michael Mott: Um have it all in a single city.

[34:48] ♪ Musical number: "Single City" — performed by Loren Allred ♪

[36:21] Audience: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[36:49] ♪ Musical number ♪

[37:58] Loren Allred: I love you so much.

[37:58] Audience: Thank you.

[38:02] Bryan Plosker: That sounds so good. Thanks for joining us and hanging out and singing and dancing. You didn't dance, but I don't know, maybe you will. Let's give another round of applause. That was awesome. Actually, we haven't done this in a bit. Cheers.

[38:27] Kimberly Cooper: Cheers.

[38:29] Bryan Plosker: So what are you drinking?

[38:32] Loren Allred: I'm drinking a wastey ginger.

[38:34] Bryan Plosker: Yeah. Love it. We have a couple of questions for you before we play a game.

[38:38] Loren Allred: Okay.

[38:38] Bryan Plosker: So the rumor is that you were on The Voice.

[38:41] Loren Allred: I was. That rumor is true.

[38:43] Bryan Plosker: Yes. Oh, great. We've had other reality show stars show. Yeah, I got that right. Whoo, tenth tequila. Um?

[38:53] Loren Allred: No, that'd be terrible. I was like, where have I been?

[38:57] Bryan Plosker: So can you explain exactly how that show influenced how the show has influenced you as an artist?

[39:06] Loren Allred: Yeah. There's a different learning curve to something like that as opposed to just like taking voice lessons without a camera in your face.

[39:12] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, totally.

[39:13] Loren Allred: Like television performance is a whole other beast that you don't realize until you're there. Because uh what am I saying? Like when it's on a stage, it's okay to just like be in the moment, but if it's on TV, everyone is such a harsh critic at home. You guys don't even realize it, but you're waiting for this groundbreaking moment, every single performance where it just blows the top off everything. So when you're performing on TV, you have to think about a camera this close to your face, this close to your face. You have to basically model the whole time. And then you just have to worry about like a TV spectacular moment every single performance. Um yeah, I guess I just keep in mind everything I learned from the show, even to this day.

[39:57] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah. When you went out there for the first time, what was that feeling when like someone hit the button and they turned around?

[40:03] Loren Allred: You were like, Oh, are they turning around? That's what I felt like exactly. Oh my god!

[40:16] Kimberly Cooper: No, it really is.

[40:17] Loren Allred: I am a good interviewer. It really is that feeling. It's almost like, oh my goodness, I've been doing all of these, like there are preliminary rounds and all these things, and it all leads up to this uh audition in front of the judges. And then as soon as you get one person to turn around, then you know you're on the show, so you almost are able to sing like regularly because you're so relieved. But but honestly, you black out because you're so nervous on the city. Like me, like us right now. If you ask if you ask anybody after their blind audition, like, so how did it go? I every single one of us was like, I don't know, I wasn't even like a few. It's a literal blind audition.

[40:56] Kimberly Cooper: Were you hoping for someone to turn around specifically?

[40:58] Loren Allred: Or I wanted Adam to turn around and he did. It was perfect. Hashtag team Adam. I was so happy about it.

[41:04] Bryan Plosker: That's awesome. Do you want to play a game?

[41:05] Loren Allred: Yes.

[41:06] Kimberly Cooper: Let's play a game.

[41:07] Bryan Plosker: Let's do it. So I'm going to hand you a Mad Libs game that Kevin has created that I actually haven't looked at, which now that I'm thinking of it, might be a terrible idea.

[41:18] Kimberly Cooper: We did not proofread Kevin. And we also have the Lights of Broadway show cards, which if you don't know.

[41:23] Bryan Plosker: Do you guys know what the Lights of Broadway show cards are?

[41:26] Audience: An applause bring for this?

[41:28] Bryan Plosker: They are trading cards of Broadway performers that you can uh buy at a lot of the stores in Midtown area. They are drawn by Squiggs, Justin Squiggs Robertson, who is uh very famous caricature artist for Broadway stuff. Yeah. So I have a whole stack. Um this is about what, like a tenth of my collection at this point. Uh so basically there is a mad libs, and every time in red it says L O B card, you're just gonna draw a card from the pile.

[41:55] Loren Allred: Okay, and then read it aloud. Are you guys ready? Dear Diary. Today was my first day at the magical Broadway High, and before I forget it, I wanted to write down the most important thing I learned today, the layout of the lunchroom.

[42:17] Kimberly Cooper: It's always mean girls.

[42:20] Loren Allred: That's what I was watching this morning.

[42:21] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[42:22] Loren Allred: Not surprised. At the head table.

[42:24] Kimberly Cooper: Which is coming to Broadway soon, he said in the fall.

[42:29] Loren Allred: What?

[42:30] Kimberly Cooper: It is?

[42:30] Loren Allred: Yeah.

[42:31] Kimberly Cooper: Oh my god.

[42:32] Loren Allred: Next spring. Okay, listen. At the head.

[42:44] Kimberly Cooper: At the head table ruling the school like mythic royalties sit the clique called the perfect. Their leader.

[42:59] Loren Allred: And is always followed by their minions.

[43:03] Kimberly Cooper: Broadwasted podcasts.

[43:05] Loren Allred: Hey.

[43:08] Kimberly Cooper: That worked out.

[43:09] Loren Allred: You're really in this. That's amazing. That was real.

[43:18] Kimberly Cooper: Well. Okay, okay. Um, and oh, okay, followed by their minions, broadwaisted, and Rory O'Malley.

[43:27] Loren Allred: Ooh.

[43:28] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[43:28] Loren Allred: Yes, please. I heard that this one time a kid from the nerd table, Lonnie Price, actually tried to sit down at their table just to hang out. They shut him down faster than Glory Days.

[43:50] Kimberly Cooper: Wait, just so everyone knows, Lauren is not a theater girl, and this is the best.

[43:58] Loren Allred: This is rich right now. Natalie will tell me all the deets later.

[44:02] Natalie Weiss: Okay.

[44:02] Loren Allred: She'll tell you. The table next to the perfect is filled with a secondary crowd of popular folks all vying for a place at the perfect table. The leader of the table are the power couple of Heather Headley.

[44:14] Kimberly Cooper: I know who that is.

[44:16] Loren Allred: And Betsy Wolf. Though they don't ever eat lunch as much as they just make out the whole time. Next comes the jock table, where I say hi to my summer camp friend, Fred Applegate. At the jock table. After that is the Stoner table, Leslie Kritzer. Are you guys following that's an old reference? And they said, I have a real shot of making it to the perfect table, or at least to one of the surrounding tables. I shook my head and said, whatever, but inside I couldn't stop smiling. Maybe one day, Diary, maybe one day. More tomorrow. Love John Goodman.

[45:14] Bryan Plosker: Lauren, all right, everyone. Thanks so much for joining us. Alright, you ready?

[45:22] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, you ready for the next song?

[45:24] Bryan Plosker: Yay! Alright, next up we have the wild ones. We've been up here all night, though. Um we have.

[45:34] Kimberly Cooper: I only tell these jokes for Kevin. Um with Crystal Monee Hall.

[45:42] Michael Mott: So this is exciting for us because we wrote this song last year, and this is the first time in everyone's anyone's going to be able to hear it, and I'm real excited about this one. We wanted to do an anthem. We wanted to write an anthem, and I think we succeeded with that. Yeah, it's our first baby. And I'm very, very, very excited. The genius Crystal Monee Hall. Get your phones ready, that's all I'll say. Um, also, I walked through the audience, and two people asked me how they can get the album. Um, it's released on iTunes and Spotify everywhere.

[46:32] ♪ Musical number: "Wild Ones" — performed by Loren Allred ♪

[48:28] Bryan Plosker: Wow! That was amazing! Thank you, Loren!

[48:58] ♪ Musical number: "Freedom Song" — performed by Crystal Monee Hall ♪

[51:06] Crystal Monee Hall: You're kind of good.

[51:08] Audience: That's the rumor.

[51:09] Crystal Monee Hall: She's all right.

[51:11] Audience: Yeah, we have a drink for you.

[51:12] Crystal Monee Hall: You're kind of good. Guys, how lucky am I to work with these amazing singers? Woo! The best of the best in the business. All of them.

[51:21] Kevin Jager: Oh yeah. Crystal, what are you drinking?

[51:24] Crystal Monee Hall: Um, Tito's martini up with a twist no vermouth.

[51:28] Audience: Yes.

[51:29] Crystal Monee Hall: There was a hot second in there where I was like, I ordered the wrong thing. I ordered the wrong thing. I ordered the wrong thing. But I did not. I worked at a place called Pastici. It's a delicious phenomena restaurant in Harlem. Go there if you're in Harlem. Um, but we're gonna we're gonna straight up play a game with you, but it's called Rapid Fire Questions.

[51:47] Audience: Oh Lord, okay, okay.

[51:48] Kevin Jager: What's your favorite musical?

[51:51] Crystal Monee Hall: Rent. I was in it, so I'm biased.

[51:55] Kevin Jager: When you were in Rent, a show I'm sure you grew up with, as we all did. What was the feeling you had when you're in it? Go.

[52:01] Crystal Monee Hall: Freedom.

[52:04] Audience: Oh.

[52:06] Kevin Jager: If you were stranded on a desert island and you could only see one show before you went, what would you see?

[52:12] Crystal Monee Hall: Damn, I'm not answering these as rapidly as the name of the game seems to require. One show before I go, what would it be? Um, Jesus, help me, Lord. Three, two, one, Shuffle Along.

[52:32] Audience: Oh, that's such a good one.

[52:35] Kevin Jager: It changed my life. What's your favorite pizza in the city?

[52:38] Crystal Monee Hall: Like place to go?

[52:39] Kevin Jager: Yeah.

[52:40] Crystal Monee Hall: Um. Um, three, two, one, pizza.

[52:46] Audience: Pizza.

[52:47] Crystal Monee Hall: Uh no, no, no. It's in Brooklyn, and the name escapes me, right? Spaboni Gardens?

[52:53] Audience: Emmy, yes.

[52:54] Crystal Monee Hall: Emmy Squared.

[52:55] Audience: That's a good one. What slice do you get there?

[52:58] Crystal Monee Hall: Oh, damn. Um, follow-up. It has pesto on it.

[53:03] Audience: Great.

[53:04] Crystal Monee Hall: And this is stressful. I'm sweating.

[53:08] Kevin Jager: If you could tell if you someone was like, yo, what TV show should I watch next? What would you say?

[53:13] Crystal Monee Hall: I would say The Handmaid's Tale.

[53:14] Audience: Oh.

[53:16] Crystal Monee Hall: I'm addicted. If we're gonna play Brook. This is called Broadway Regrets. What show did could you have seen but didn't see on Broadway and you regret it?

[53:27] Crystal Monee Hall: What show could I have seen? Um, you're rephrasing the question.

[53:32] Kevin Jager: It's my favorite part of this whole segment.

[53:33] Crystal Monee Hall: Yeah, I'm better at that than answering the question. What closed? And I meant to get there. Um, that's the answer.

[53:45] Audience: All of last season except for him is the answer.

[53:49] Kevin Jager: That's so good. Uh, and then last question. So you toured with uh Maggie Hart from the Grateful Dead.

[53:55] Crystal Monee Hall: Yes.

[53:56] Kevin Jager: When you explain one word that describes those concerts.

[54:01] Crystal Monee Hall: Acid.

[54:04] Audience: That's Crystal for you, everyone.

[54:06] Michael Mott: So Michael's gonna do a song. Um, get on my feet. Get on the floor. Enjoy your thoughts. You earned it. This is the end of the album, and I am fortunate enough to have all of my favorite people in the world singing on it. And we put a big old party on it, which you'll hear if you check it out. Um, features all three of these people, the lovely Jackie Burns, the lovely Brad Greer, and we had a very fun time. And uh, this kind of sums up the whole experience I had with the most amazing people. I'm grateful to all of them, I'm grateful to all of you for being here. And uh, I wanna end with this song.

[54:52] Michael Mott: I could be a pioneer, for to another new frontier, straight into the stratosphere for love. Understand it's been a while, but let me try to make you smile. I will go the extra mile for love. Maybe you're a temporary lover. Or could you be the one I learned to trust? Well, this is how we learn and we discover how to choose the better half of us. You make me wanna get up on my feet and learn to dance around and never touch the ground. This is love. You make me wanna get up on my feet and learn to dance around and never touch the ground. This is love. Get up, get up, get up, get up. So here we go into the blue, bringing something tried and true, but with you, it's something new, it's love. Twenty-nine and twenty-three, doesn't seem so bad to me.

Is it just a fantasy flow? I love the way you slowly let me love you. The war you will was high all the truth. The more it falls, the more I learn to love you. And maybe that's thinking a sense of youth. You make me wanna get up on my feet and learn to dance around and never touch the ground. This is love. You make me wanna get up on my feet and learn to dance around and never touch the ground. This is love. The sea make part the world may love a real conqueror. I'm feeling kinda lonely when you leave me. Then you go, then you come. You make me wanna get up on my feet and learn to dance around, and never touch the ground. This is love. You make me wanna get up on my feet and learn to dance around, and never touch the ground. Cause this is love, this is love, this is love. Give a hand to the singers.

[57:45] Michael Mott: I hope you never replace it. Them other ones are so basic, but you're all I need. You make me wanna get up on my feet and learn to dance around and never touch the ground. This is love, make me wanna get out of my feet and learn to dance around and never touch the ground. This is love, cause this is so much. Have a great night. Thank you so much.

[58:22] Bryan Plosker: Thank you so much for joining us tonight. Let's give it up for Michael again.

[58:36] Bryan Plosker: So we'd love to invite Natalie back up. We'd love to invite Loren back up, Jenna and Crystal. Come on up, everybody.

[58:44] Audience: Cheers.

[58:54] Bryan Plosker: Um, we end every episode with a quote. And that quote tonight is Cheers.

[59:02] Audience: Cheers.

[59:03] Bryan Plosker: Yeah. Making the way in the world today. No. Um, it's getting to know you. Putting it my way, but nicely. You are precisely my cup of tea. But thank you all for joining us. Thank you to all the singers. Amazing. Thank you to Michael. Um, if you enjoyed what we gave you tonight, please follow us at Broadwaysted on all social media. You can download us on iTunes, subscribe to us. That's super cool. Five stars, please. But yeah, rate and review us with five stars. Um, if you don't want to give us five stars, don't really rate and review us. Um, but in all seriousness, thank you all for joining us in The Astor Room tonight for Michael Mott and friends. His album is out. It's phenomenal. Get it, right? That's what I'm supposed to say at this point. Right. Um, but seriously, like the critics loved it. Billboard number one, kind of crazy. But in all seriousness, thank you so much for joining us tonight. And as we end every episode, sudo.

[1:00:13] Bryan Plosker: Thanks so much for joining us. Have a great night. Tip your waitress and waiter. Thank you to everybody.

[1:00:21] Bryan Plosker: You want to still be a problem? Hey, Brian here. Did you enjoy that? Well, awesome. Wanted to let you know that Michael is doing an album release concert on Monday, October 9th at 9 p.m., uh, right at the Cutting Room in New York City. Uh, you should definitely check that out. Uh, live performances and a lot of fun. So tickets are available at MichaelMott.net, and hope you go.