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[0:00] Erin Glass: Hi, I'm Erin Glass, and I am a friend of the show and the founder of the nonprofit Broadway Bound Kids.

[0:05] Erin Glass: And I'm excited to invite you to the third annual Broadway Bee on Monday, May 7th.

[0:11] Erin Glass: The Broadway Bee is a hilarious adult spelling bee between the Broadway community that's hosted by the original creators of the 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

[0:18] Erin Glass: And this year, actors from Chicago, My Fair Lady, Jersey Boys, The Play That Goes Wrong, Waitress, Beautiful, Angels in America, Dear Evan Hansen, Harry Potter, SpongeBob, and the TV show Rise will all be competing to win the coveted B Trophy.

[0:34] Erin Glass: All proceeds go to provide arts education for New York City youth.

[0:37] Erin Glass: Tickets are available at BroadwayBoundKids.org and Broadwaysted will post all the details on Twitter too.

[0:43] Erin Glass: We'll see you at the B.

[0:54] Bryan Plosky: Hello, and welcome to the official Broadwaysted Podcast where we're drunk on theater.

[0:58] Bryan Plosky: I'm your host, Bryan Plosky, and today's episode is going to be very amoosing.

[1:06] Bryan Plosky: We're grabbing some poutine timbits and trying to figure out the metric system as we head back to Canada.

[1:11] Bryan Plosky: No, it isn't Boxing Day.

[1:12] Bryan Plosky: It's just a time for us to use our universal healthcare to get better over maple leaves.

[1:18] Bryan Plosky: You enjoyed that.

[1:19] Bryan Plosky: Flames, Oilers, Canadians, or Jets game with a little Molson in my hand.

[1:23] Bryan Plosky: Maybe we'll run into Jim Carrey, Ryan Reynolds, Reginald VelJohnson, Seth Rogen, Pamela Anderson, Ryan Gosling, Mike Myers, Michael J. Fox, Anna Paquin.

[1:31] Bryan Plosky: Yeah, it's true.

[1:32] Bryan Plosky: And Michael's, yeah.

[1:34] Bryan Plosky: Neve Campbell, William.

[1:35] Kevin Jaeger: Is she in a Paquin?

[1:36] Bryan Plosky: I did.

[1:37] Bryan Plosky: She's Canadian.

[1:38] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[1:39] Bryan Plosky: Or Canadian.

[1:39] Kevin Jaeger: Uh huh.

[1:39] Bryan Plosky: Yeah.

[1:40] Bryan Plosky: William Shatner or Justin Trudeau.

[1:43] Bryan Plosky: Let's grab a beer, some bacon, borrow some grills, and help each other out.

[1:48] Bryan Plosky: Joining us today are the usual On the Edge of the World Cob Kissers, including Kevin, Looney Tooney Jaeger.

[1:55] Kevin Jaeger: Looney Jooney Tierney.

[1:56] Bryan Plosky: Loon and a tune.

[1:58] Bryan Plosky: Like Looney and a toonie are the coins.

[2:00] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, we like it.

[2:02] Bryan Plosky: Right?

[2:02] Kevin Jaeger: Now you get it.

[2:03] Bryan Plosky: I did, I like that.

[2:04] Bryan Plosky: The laugh grenade.

[2:05] Bryan Plosky: I love jokes.

[2:06] Bryan Plosky: They have to be explained like very clearly.

[2:09] Bryan Plosky: It's great.

[2:10] Bryan Plosky: Kimberly, our game master and unofficial babysitter V Hour is actually really babysitting.

[2:15] Bryan Plosky: So she's gonna hop in whenever she gets here.

[2:17] Bryan Plosky: Because with us today is somebody who you may have seen across this country in every show ever made.

[2:22] Bryan Plosky: Literally.

[2:23] Bryan Plosky: And a lot of them like five or six times.

[2:25] Kevin Jaeger: I like the times three, times five, times two.

[2:28] Bryan Plosky: And he made or is still making his Broadway debut in Come From Away as Oz.

[2:34] Kevin Jaeger: Did you make it already?

[2:37] Geno Carr: I continue to make it.

[2:39] Bryan Plosky: While you're in that one role in the show, like is it still your Broadway debut the entire time you're in it?

[2:43] Geno Carr: So let's roll with that.

[2:44] Geno Carr: Okay.

[2:45] Geno Carr: But I like the sound of it.

[2:46] Bryan Plosky: Yeah.

[2:46] Geno Carr: Your Broadway debut just keeps on going.

[2:48] Geno Carr: Yeah, baby.

[2:49] Geno Carr: It's like the Energizer Bunny of Broadway DB.

[2:51] Bryan Plosky: Absolutely.

[2:51] Bryan Plosky: And he gets home before 10.

[2:53] Bryan Plosky: Perfect.

[2:55] Bryan Plosky: He's in Come From Away as Oz and others.

[2:57] Bryan Plosky: Let's give a big Broadwaysted welcome to Friend of the Show.

[2:57] Bryan Plosky: Friend of the show.

[3:01] Bryan Plosky: Geno Carr.

[3:01] Geno Carr: Hello.

[3:02] Geno Carr: Hi.

[3:03] Geno Carr: You did it.

[3:03] Geno Carr: I really love on podcasts when guests talk before you introduce them.

[3:08] Geno Carr: That's like my favorite thing.

[3:09] Bryan Plosky: I did a little bit.

[3:10] Geno Carr: You did it great.

[3:11] Geno Carr: Good.

[3:11] Geno Carr: I feel I've good.

[3:12] Geno Carr: It was really good.

[3:13] Bryan Plosky: We are kicking you out now.

[3:14] Geno Carr: I can stay and drink.

[3:17] Geno Carr: You can kiss the cod with us.

[3:19] Bryan Plosky: You can follow him on social media at GenoCarr.

[3:22] Bryan Plosky: That's a car with two R's.

[3:24] Geno Carr: Um if I could roll my R's, I would, but there it is.

[3:29] Kevin Jaeger: I can't do it either.

[3:30] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[3:30] Kevin Jaeger: It's like a genetic thing, right?

[3:32] Geno Carr: I think it can be.

[3:33] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[3:35] Geno Carr: It can be?

[3:37] Kevin Jaeger: That was my answer.

[3:38] Kevin Jaeger: That's the answer when you don't actually know the answer, and you hope people don't remember it.

[3:42] Geno Carr: He said it so well that I just went, oh, okay.

[3:48] Bryan Plosky: On that note, let's do our first segment.

[3:50] Bryan Plosky: What are you drinking?

[3:52] Bryan Plosky: What did you see this week?

[3:55] Geno Carr: Okay.

[3:57] Bryan Plosky: Well, we're drinking.

[3:58] Geno Carr: Yeah, cool.

[3:58] Geno Carr: Well, Gino and I are drinking Hudson baby bourbon whiskey.

[3:58] Geno Carr: Baby bourbon.

[4:02] Kevin Jaeger: Yep.

[4:02] Geno Carr: And uh baby bourbon.

[4:05] Geno Carr: Exactly.

[4:06] Geno Carr: Um the Hudson baby bourbon whiskey, which is so good.

[4:11] Geno Carr: It's aged under four years in American oak.

[4:13] Geno Carr: Um, it goes on really smooth.

[4:15] Geno Carr: It's real nice.

[4:16] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, it's not even made ice in this bag.

[4:18] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[4:18] Geno Carr: I have a little ice in mine and you guys are both chasing it with a uh a burr.

[4:23] Geno Carr: With a burr.

[4:24] Geno Carr: I don't actually know what kind of beer it is because the tap was didn't have a label on it.

[4:28] Kevin Jaeger: It's just beer.

[4:29] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, just straight up beer.

[4:30] Kevin Jaeger: Generic beer.

[4:31] Kevin Jaeger: You're drinking Duff beer.

[4:32] Geno Carr: Duff.

[4:32] Kevin Jaeger: Duff, that's what it is.

[4:36] Kevin Jaeger: And Bryan, you're drinking the Hudson rye.

[4:38] Bryan Plosky: The rag, yeah.

[4:39] Kevin Jaeger: I'm having last of the rye.

[4:40] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, we finished the rye.

[4:41] Bryan Plosky: Yeah.

[4:41] Bryan Plosky: This is the end of the rag.

[4:43] Bryan Plosky: All right.

[4:43] Bryan Plosky: Well, on that note, let's do the segment that you were talking about.

[4:47] Bryan Plosky: What have you seen this week?

[4:49] Bryan Plosky: Or recently.

[4:50] Geno Carr: Oh my god.

[4:51] Bryan Plosky: So have you been out to the theater and seen anything lately besides your show?

[4:55] Geno Carr: Not recently.

[4:56] Geno Carr: It's horrible.

[4:57] Bryan Plosky: So have you seen your show?

[4:59] Geno Carr: Uh I've never actually seen my show.

[5:01] Bryan Plosky: Oh.

[5:01] Geno Carr: Really?

[5:01] Geno Carr: I've never swung out of it, or I've never I've always been there or been on vacation and not worrying about my show at all.

[5:07] Bryan Plosky: Yeah, yeah.

[5:07] Geno Carr: I do get to see some shows.

[5:09] Geno Carr: The last thing I saw was several weeks ago was Escape to Margaritaville.

[5:12] Bryan Plosky: Nice.

[5:12] Geno Carr: Did you have fun?

[5:13] Geno Carr: It was super fun.

[5:14] Geno Carr: Yeah, with the same director, Chris Ashley.

[5:16] Bryan Plosky: Oh, that's right.

[5:16] Geno Carr: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[5:17] Geno Carr: Kelly Devine.

[5:17] Geno Carr: And actually, Jimmy Buffett is an investor in our show as well.

[5:20] Bryan Plosky: Oh, really?

[5:21] Geno Carr: I get this really cool incestuous relationship with that show.

[5:24] Geno Carr: It was at La Jolla Playhouse, like ours was as well.

[5:26] Bryan Plosky: Right, right, right, right.

[5:27] Geno Carr: So that was the last thing I saw outside of the Schoenfeld doors.

[5:31] Bryan Plosky: Nice cool.

[5:32] Bryan Plosky: Well, speaking of La Jolla Playhouse, we saw Summer Digital.

[5:37] Kevin Jaeger: Which was also at La Jolla.

[5:39] Bryan Plosky: La Jolla, as some people might say.

[5:40] Kevin Jaeger: Like Joel.

[5:41] Bryan Plosky: Yeah.

[5:42] Bryan Plosky: Yeah, we saw because friend of the show, Jared Zarilli is in it.

[5:44] Kevin Jaeger: Okay.

[5:45] Bryan Plosky: And he was excellent.

[5:46] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, he's great.

[5:47] Bryan Plosky: His step choreography is on point.

[5:50] Kevin Jaeger: His step touch?

[5:52] Geno Carr: I actually I that was what I wanted to tell him.

[5:54] Geno Carr: Like when I saw I actually saw him running the other day in uh like between shows.

[5:58] Kevin Jaeger: Like working out, or like, oh no, I'm gonna miss the bus.

[6:01] Geno Carr: No, like working out.

[6:02] Geno Carr: Like I think he was like getting a quick run in between shows.

[6:04] Kevin Jaeger: I know.

[6:05] Kevin Jaeger: The young ones, right?

[6:08] Geno Carr: And I just wanted to be like your step choreography is on point.

[6:11] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[6:11] Geno Carr: Um it's just everything like the music is already infectious and fun.

[6:15] Geno Carr: And the women are wonderful, they're so good.

[6:18] Geno Carr: Like all three, uh obviously the Shans and Ariana DeBose are incredible.

[6:23] Geno Carr: Uh the newcomer Storm Lever.

[6:26] Geno Carr: All three women in that show are brilliant.

[6:27] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[6:28] Geno Carr: And the ensemble is brilliant.

[6:29] Geno Carr: It's a very female dominated cast.

[6:32] Geno Carr: Which is great.

[6:32] Kevin Jaeger: Um and it's it's they're just killing it, they're doing a great job.

[6:35] Geno Carr: Good.

[6:35] Geno Carr: There are three gals who play Gosh like throughout the chronology of it.

[6:41] Kevin Jaeger: Yes, exactly.

[6:42] Geno Carr: All these shows about these female pop stars.

[6:44] Geno Carr: Yeah, with three people playing them.

[6:46] Kevin Jaeger: It's kind of cool.

[6:47] Geno Carr: Yeah, but if you had to play a rock star on Broadway question, who would you play and which age would you play them at?

[6:57] Geno Carr: Ooh, gosh, that's difficult.

[7:00] Geno Carr: I would love to say, I don't know, like Billy Joel would be so cool.

[7:03] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[7:04] Geno Carr: Um, but like not now, Billy Joel, nor like early Billy Joel, like right in the middle, like River of Dream style.

[7:10] Kevin Jaeger: So would you wear the 90s?

[7:12] Geno Carr: Yeah, so would you wear like a super cool?

[7:14] Geno Carr: Oh, so you wouldn't have the you wouldn't have the like the curls wig?

[7:18] Geno Carr: No, no curls wig.

[7:19] Geno Carr: This is post-Curl's wig.

[7:20] Kevin Jaeger: Right, right, right.

[7:21] Geno Carr: Right?

[7:22] Geno Carr: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[7:23] Geno Carr: We're talking like with the cool um Ray Bans, kind of spiky hair.

[7:27] Geno Carr: He had like a black jacket on over a white t-shirt and like sitting in a pool of water.

[7:32] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, totally.

[7:33] Kevin Jaeger: See, I was ready to cast you in the Phil Collins musical.

[7:37] Geno Carr: Ooh, that would be good too.

[7:38] Geno Carr: Like in like the oh thing twice.

[7:40] Geno Carr: Like that time period.

[7:41] Kevin Jaeger: I actually want you playing Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel.

[7:45] Geno Carr: Can you imagine?

[7:46] Geno Carr: Like two-faced, like my face.

[7:48] Geno Carr: Like a Jekyll and Hyde kind of movie, like a confrontation song about the key clothes.

[7:51] Geno Carr: I want to see what it's like.

[7:52] Kevin Jaeger: Oh man.

[7:52] Geno Carr: And when Genesis breaks up, what a good scene.

[7:54] Geno Carr: That's your Tony winner.

[7:56] Geno Carr: That's your Tony winning scene.

[7:57] Kevin Jaeger: That's it right there.

[7:58] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[7:58] Geno Carr: I want money in that show.

[7:59] Kevin Jaeger: Let's do it.

[8:00] Geno Carr: Let's make this happen.

[8:02] Bryan Plosky: Right.

[8:02] Bryan Plosky: Well, let's talk a little bit about you.

[8:03] Geno Carr: Yeah, let's talk about it.

[8:04] Bryan Plosky: Well, I'm here.

[8:05] Geno Carr: You're here.

[8:06] Bryan Plosky: We don't want to waste this time.

[8:08] Bryan Plosky: So you're in Come From Away.

[8:10] Geno Carr: This is true.

[8:11] Geno Carr: Uh you're making your two-year Broadway debut.

[8:16] Geno Carr: Over a year, but um, so you've been with the show for the whole entire time.

[8:21] Geno Carr: Almost.

[8:22] Geno Carr: So World Premiere was at La Jolla Playhouse 2015.

[8:25] Bryan Plosky: Okay.

[8:26] Geno Carr: And it was a co-production.

[8:27] Geno Carr: We're just talking about La Jolla.

[8:28] Bryan Plosky: That's so crazy.

[8:30] Geno Carr: How'd that come up?

[8:31] Bryan Plosky: I don't know.

[8:33] Geno Carr: Um it was a co-pro with Seattle Rep.

[8:36] Bryan Plosky: Okay.

[8:36] Geno Carr: And I was hired as a local actor in La Jolla.

[8:38] Geno Carr: There were two of us.

[8:39] Bryan Plosky: Because you lived in the world.

[8:41] Geno Carr: Yeah, I've spent about the last 10, 11 years of my life living in San Diego.

[8:44] Geno Carr: Uh huh.

[8:44] Geno Carr: My wife and I relocated down there, have you know a nice life, a house, working, teaching a little bit, living the good life, surfing, all that junk.

[8:52] Bryan Plosky: Nice.

[8:52] Geno Carr: Um, so it was a co-pro, and I wasn't hired to go to Seattle.

[8:56] Geno Carr: Okay.

[8:56] Geno Carr: Ten of the twelve were gonna go, and then they had two local actors in each city.

[9:00] Bryan Plosky: So, and that was all we knew about the show.

[9:01] Geno Carr: Like that was the initial, like, this is what's gonna happen, we'll see after.

[9:04] Bryan Plosky: Did you audition for it out there or here?

[9:05] Geno Carr: I auditioned out there.

[9:06] Bryan Plosky: Oh, uh Chris.

[9:07] Geno Carr: A local actor, right?

[9:08] Kevin Jaeger: For Chris Ashley.

[9:09] Geno Carr: I'm not listening.

[9:10] Geno Carr: Okay.

[9:11] Geno Carr: It's okay.

[9:12] Geno Carr: I don't listen to my wife.

[9:14] Geno Carr: Um Yeah, so I auditioned for Chris Ashley and the local casting director, and that's it.

[9:19] Geno Carr: I never, I was like, that's never gonna happen.

[9:21] Geno Carr: You know, the whole artistic team should be here.

[9:23] Geno Carr: I had no callback, I had nothing else.

[9:25] Geno Carr: I just got a phone call that I booked it.

[9:26] Bryan Plosky: What?

[9:27] Geno Carr: And I was like, uh, okay, this little musical, fine.

[9:30] Geno Carr: And next thing we knew, I got a phone call, you know, after a couple months later after it had done Seattle, and I was sad I wasn't in it.

[9:35] Geno Carr: And they said, actually, the show's moving on.

[9:37] Geno Carr: We'd love to invite you back into the cast to go.

[9:39] Bryan Plosky: So you missed Seattle and missed Seattle.

[9:41] Geno Carr: Well, jumped back in.

[9:43] Bryan Plosky: In Toronto?

[9:44] Geno Carr: No, the next thing we did was a run at Ford's Theater in DC.

[9:47] Bryan Plosky: Right, right, right, right.

[9:48] Geno Carr: So we spent a good chunk of time there, and then we went actually went to Gander, Newfoundland.

[9:52] Bryan Plosky: Right.

[9:52] Geno Carr: And did like a concert version.

[9:54] Geno Carr: On the ice, right?

[9:55] Bryan Plosky: Like in the hockey.

[9:57] Geno Carr: Yeah, it was very cool.

[9:58] Geno Carr: It was really interesting and felt rock concert-ish and so much pride in the street.

[10:04] Bryan Plosky: Did you meet the person you're supposed to be?

[10:05] Geno Carr: Oh, yeah.

[10:06] Geno Carr: We met everybody.

[10:07] Geno Carr: I mean, basically everyone we've talked about in the show we've met at some point.

[10:10] Geno Carr: And some have come multiple times.

[10:11] Bryan Plosky: How does that how did that like inform what you were doing on stage?

[10:15] Geno Carr: Or did it not?

[10:16] Geno Carr: Well, the interesting thing about it is at first, Chris, our director, Chris Ashley, was very adamant about not doing impressions.

[10:22] Geno Carr: So we had seen some video of some people, but there wasn't a ton of footage at that point.

[10:27] Geno Carr: So we were just like, okay, I kind of oh, that that's Oz.

[10:29] Geno Carr: Okay, interesting.

[10:30] Geno Carr: But it wasn't about making any kind of an impression or an imitation.

[10:35] Geno Carr: And what was fascinating about it was as we made the discoveries ourselves as actors, and the script was so good, by the time we started meeting them, people would say, You're just like Oz, you captured him perfectly.

[10:44] Geno Carr: I'm like, I I just met him two minutes ago.

[10:48] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, so something in the writing, the direction, the energy, the you know, the that's one of the best directed musicals I've ever seen.

[10:53] Geno Carr: Oh my god, yeah.

[10:54] Geno Carr: Thank God he won the Tony for it.

[10:55] Bryan Plosky: Yeah, I was really happy.

[10:57] Geno Carr: Yeah, I was happy that that was the category that they recognized your show for in a year that um the love was spread across Broadway, which was really nice to see.

[11:08] Bryan Plosky: Yeah, especially after a year where Hamilton won everything.

[11:11] Geno Carr: Yeah, it was so nice to see shows winning for the categories that like every gets everyone exactly.

[11:16] Geno Carr: Yeah, I mean, that show is it it's so seamless from start to finish, and that is obviously a testament to you guys working well together, but there had to have been a strong anchor to like drive that all through.

[11:26] Geno Carr: Well, Chris Ashley and then and Kelly's work and then our whole the music team, and it really was this really cool symbiotic, you know, partnership collaboration, and the fact that we got to do it so many times together and refine it in multiple cities.

[11:36] Bryan Plosky: Yeah, like you never think you're gonna cry like watching a group of people just like one by one move a chair to another end, like when like those people are walking along to like it's like the just the scene that creates and stop the world is just like so simple, but so...

[11:36] Geno Carr: Oh, I've never seen that scene.

[11:52] Geno Carr: I keep falling asleep by that you were that lady in the front row tonight.

[11:56] Geno Carr: Oh what's happening?

[11:58] Geno Carr: No, that's the great thing about the show is it really focuses on the storytelling, it's not about anything besides that.

[12:03] Geno Carr: We have the chairs and the tables and just us and a couple costume pieces.

[12:06] Geno Carr: So it was a really strong directorial vision to keep it that simple and make it about the storytelling.

[12:12] Geno Carr: So now that you've been in the show for over a year now, or on Broadway still. Now that your debut is really at its end. At the pinnacle, yeah, apex, whatever you want to call it. Um, zenith. Do you how has the show changed for you, having been with it for so long? How do you see it now versus you did then? And then can be in La Jolla, then could be first pro preview on Broadway. Yeah, I mean the very first time we sat down and did like a table read of it and a sing-through, which was, you know, horrible, of course. We had just learned all the music, and there's a ton of music. We actually at that whole moment and the whole like La Jolla staff was all invited, and it's like, okay, we're gonna try this.

And we all kind of just stopped and said, okay, this is special. Yeah. You know, who knows in the world of theater what will hit and what we'll miss, but we knew we had something special on our hands. And as soon as we hit that first preview, the first audience, it was the most incredible electric energy I've ever felt. In La Jolla. And then every, I mean, I'm not getting the first time. Come in. La Jolla Playhouse. Plenty of parking. Yeah. Um, no, in every single show since then, it's been the exact same response. The audience leaps to their feet. The way it's just crafted, it's just gotten better and better and tighter and tighter, and again, a testament to the artistic team. And the fact that we've gotten to do it so many times together.

When we opened on Broadway, eleven of the twelve of us were still the same from La Jolla Playhouse. And now ten of the twelve are still the same a year. Yeah, that's crazy. Which never happens, and you never start, you know, spreading like cockroaches, you know, when you're absolutely because other opportunities pop up. Yeah. But this is such an amazing show that we want to stick with it. Um, okay, so your question. So how has it changed? It's still pretty amazing. I mean, you do anything a gazillion times, it starts to sometimes lose its luster. For sure. It's a job, and you know you gotta do your job. Yeah, yeah. But there's still those things. I hate Kevin, we've done 90 something of these.

Oh my god. There's a wall between them, you can't see it. Yeah. Kittle finger calls in the whole time. I'm not really here. That's right. He's just phoning it in quite differently. My past three appearances have just been an amalgamation of all my laughs from every other episode. No, but there are still nights where you go, oh yeah, that's right. This is that special a piece. Uh, and it does affect people. And the stage door experience going out, you connect with people in a different way. It's not sort of just the fangirls. It's I have a story about 9-11, or I have a story about, you know, I'm from Canada. There's this pride for, you know, their lineage there as well. So it's still really alive for all of us, and it's still really exciting.

I am so not sick of the show, which I was sure I would be. Yeah, interesting. I mean, on Broadway a little bit. Is it the longest one show? Yeah. Because you do a lot of regional productions. Do a lot of shorter runs. Yeah. Besides this, the longest run was like nine months, which was a non-union tour of Yes and Phantom. Ooh. Which was 300 times of doing that. Yes and Phantom. Yeah. Which was, you know, totally fine. Yeah. You know, it's like, all right, you know, but you know, on a bus and living in motels. Absolutely. Living the dream when you're 23 or 24. Yeah, yeah. Um, but this is a great show to do for this long, because I don't I don't get sick of it. I really don't. Yeah. So this is actually a great segue into stage door stories.

Um, I like that. We're keeping that. We're just gonna edit that into all the future episodes. I like it. Um, but my question for you is you kind of started talking about a little bit what the stage door is like there. Um, I would love to hear a story from the Come From Away stage door. Yeah. Uh, you know, whether it be funny or heartwarming or something that like has really stayed with you. But I'd also love to hear about your experience stage dooring kind of on tour or regionally. Yeah, how is that different? Is it not? Yeah, no, it depends on the theater. I mean, some of the places you have regionally, if I've done like multiple shows at a theater, you tend to attract a little bit of a following just because people see you and they know you're like, oh Gino, you're back.

It's great to see you again. So you see them. Most regional theaters, I don't feel there are as much of an active stage door presence. Right. You know, New York is a thing. Yeah. You know, they set up the barriers, and there's a big guy from the Schuebird organization with an earpiece in. Yeah, yeah. Making sure that you know, tackle. That's Kevin. Thank you for all your service. Um, but yeah, here in New York, it's always so interesting the different people that come to the stage door. Because some nights it's the younger fans, like the people who are really excited about it, the social media savvy. But we also get people who I'm not sure would necessarily be stage door patrons on a normal show.

Older people, people who kind of show up and are just, and you're like, really? You want me to sign that? They're like, and this is the best thing we've ever seen. This affected me. And we have gotten, you know, a gazillion stories about people's connection to the events of 9-11 and people who have, you know, I was a pilot on 9-11. You, it's just amazing the people that come um and tell us their story about people that they've either lost or, um, or you know, the experiences they had related to 9-11. It's, it honestly and truly goes across the boards. I bet you hear a lot, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I bet you hear a lot of the positive stuff as opposed to the sad stuff because that's what the show brings out.

Yeah, and a lot of people say, okay, this, there's a lot of heaviness in my life if there was a, you know, a negative experience that they and they lost somebody or whatever. But we often hear, thank you for telling the good about that day, because it helps not replace the bad, but it certainly helps make it easier. Absolutely better. Well, we've talked about it on this podcast before about my, the line that really always gets me every night in, um, in Come From Away, uh, is, um, at the end when he's talking about his dad and he's like, I didn't know how to tell him that I was okay. Yeah, like that I think that like all has, I mean, I'm getting chills right now mostly because the air conditioner's on but also because I'm naked.

It's a little awkward for me to actually have a lot of things. I'm actually Winnie the Poohing it. I have a shirt on, but it's visual. Winnie the Poohing it. Oh yeah, so you moved here? Yeah. That's amazing. It's cool, right? I mean, I used to live in New York City. I lived here for four or five years in the early 2000s. Yeah, and um my then girlfriend, now wife, and you know, we were we were here showman was it? It was. Oh wow. Uh, showman's at lasting? Yeah, yesin's phantom we met on yesterday's. Oh, you did? Wait, wait, for real. We did it, and then we did the Buddy Holly Story national tour together. Oh, wait, by accident? I mean, it was the same producers. Oh, did you audition together?

You're like, they didn't know we were dating. We were in secret at that point. Incognito dating. Behind closed doors. The Ramada Inn. Um, yeah, and so and so we get together, yeah, we did. We combined it. Combined the that glamorous non-union birthday. Honey, get the breakfast buffet. Um, yeah, so we uh we lived here for a while and then we kind of moved around the country a little bit. She was she moved on to DC and I followed her because she had a job there, and then I was teaching at a college in Missouri for two years, and so she followed me there and she started teaching there. And then it was her turn for grad school, so we went to San Diego, yeah. Uh where she got her MFA. Nice. There's a theater there.

Um, what's it called? I don't know. San Diego. Um, it's got two L's. No. Three? Yeah, maybe at least three. Yeah. La Jolla Playhouse. I'm sorry. You know what their motto is. Their motto is we've got three L's. Why aren't you here? Mr. Thinker. Everyone just take a second on that. Yeah, I was like, I feel like my brain is rotting as I'm trying to think about. The third L comes from Playhouse and La. Oh, they have four. Because La L A. Oh, right, La. Two in Hoya. They're Jala two. Two Jollas. And then Playhouse. Glad we got that one out of the way, guys. Wheel of Fortune. Well, you really are missing Kimberly. Yeah, she I don't know. Anyway, um, yeah, so you're in Kit in San Diego. San Diego.

And so we we were gonna stay there for the two years for her grad school, and we were just living life and enjoying. I mean, SoCal is just beautiful. I'm sure it's not a bad thing. No, I was kidding. I was like, yeah, bruh. Anyway, so I started working and auditioning, and it's there's really vibrant theater scene there. This place called The Hoya Playhouse. Oh, dumb. Um, you know, the old glow is a big big one there as well. And then there's tons of other theaters that hire, you know, union actors, and they're great places to work and do new stuff, and it's really cool. So we ended up sticking around and sticking around, sticking around, and that was about, you know, nine years, and then I auditioned for this little skit, and I got it called.

I got the skit and literally brought Chris Ashley, aka Broadway, yeah, called me. And he said, you know, we're the show's moving on, we want you to come do it, but I know you have a family. At that point we had a baby. Elliot um was in Nancy's belly, which is how babies are stored. Uh if you want to see um, a ma if you follow him on Instagram and Twitter. Check it out. It's awesome. First of all, his kid is adorable. Second of all, um I appreciate people who have children and are selective about what they share. So I'm not like I I feel like with your I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna throw some exciting things away. Um I think that you're the amount you post, like you you select. Yeah, so I don't feel overwhelmed by like pictures of your kid.

Like you get sick of seeing somebody's face. Yeah, like with yours, I'm like, what is Elliot up to today? Let's just log on here. Yeah. He has like the character in a children's book. I'm like, go follow his story for like these ten pages. Absolutely, because we all have those friends who are like, I'm like, I didn't need to see this picture. Yeah. Or it's like eight pictures of the same basic moment. Yep, yes. Yes, yes. It's like, oh, she smelled a flower. That's she's still smelling the flower. It's still the same as a few. Or mom and dad post the same photos on two different Instagram accounts. I don't need that. Like, maybe mom, maybe pet post one a little bit later about like bath time.

Maybe let's just like, you know, talk about our social media presence as a family. Yeah, I think so. Just make sure we don't overshare. We don't oversaturate the market. I want to make sure we keep people coming back for more. Maybe you share, you know, you share the exterior stuff. I'll do interior, or you're more serious, I'm more funny. In sickness and essay. Yeah, well, the cars have a cars have a strategy. Yes, we do. Um we're making it happen. Yeah, so um anyway, so he was in, he was in her belly while I was doing Come From Away. Because that's how it works. That's how it works. Apparently, I'm so I'm told. I don't really know. I'm an actor, I don't know. Um he was born about a month after we closed at La Jolla. Um, so he's great theater I hear. Yeah, let's jala. La Jolla Plan. Four L'Hugh. Um, but let's uh let's take uh a second to hear from our sponsors.

[23:01] Kevin Jaeger: Hey Bryan, how are you?

[23:03] Bryan Plosky: I'm good. How are you doing, brother?

[23:04] Kevin Jaeger: I'm great today. You know, I'm thinking, what I need to take a trip.

[23:08] Bryan Plosky: Oh, where should we go?

[23:09] Kevin Jaeger: I don't know.

[23:10] Bryan Plosky: Oh, gee, is that Geno Carr?

[23:12] Geno Carr: It is.

[23:12] Bryan Plosky: Oh, please, no pictures.

[23:13] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, oh yeah. Hi, Geno.

[23:15] Bryan Plosky: I'm Bryan.

[23:16] Kevin Jaeger: Hi, I'm Kevin.

[23:17] Geno Carr: Hey, gentlemen, how are you?

[23:18] Bryan Plosky: Good.

[23:18] Kevin Jaeger: We need to go on a trip somewhere, but we don't know.

[23:20] Bryan Plosky: We wanted to go to Southern California, potentially something that, you know, um is a little bit south of LA, but north of Mexico.

[23:30] Geno Carr: Sure.

[23:32] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, where should we go?

[23:33] Geno Carr: Well, they need to have a good theater scene, though.

[23:33] Kevin Jaeger: A good theater scene in Southern California?

[23:38] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[23:39] Kevin Jaeger: Let me just sift through my Rolodex of Southern California towns. Laguna Beach, mm-mm. Long Beach, hmm.

[23:46] Geno Carr: You know, I'm just gonna throw it out here. It's gonna be crazy.

[23:48] Kevin Jaeger: Great, yeah.

[23:50] Geno Carr: Santiago.

[23:51] Bryan Plosky: Really?

[23:51] Geno Carr: I believe is how they pronounce it.

[23:53] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, I know Santiago.

[23:54] Geno Carr: I haven't either.

[23:55] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah. You know, is there one specific thing about San Diego that we should really look into if we love theater?

[24:00] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[24:00] Kevin Jaeger: If you love theater and you love the letter L.

[24:02] Geno Carr: I do.

[24:03] Geno Carr: You should look into the La Jolla Playhouse.

[24:04] Kevin Jaeger: La Jolla Playhouse.

[24:06] Geno Carr: Yeah, plenty of parking.

[24:07] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah. What shows have started there that have come to New York?

[24:09] Geno Carr: None that I can think of.

[24:10] Kevin Jaeger: No, no, no.

[24:12] Geno Carr: Yeah, I don't think anything that, you know, mentioning.

[24:27] Bryan Plosky: And we're back.

[24:29] Kevin Jaeger: All right.

[24:31] Kevin Jaeger: Kevin looked at me like, what the hell are we doing?

[24:33] Bryan Plosky: I was like, we're going somewhere, but I don't know what we're doing. I'm on for the ride.

[24:36] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[24:37] Kevin Jaeger: Um, let's um let's do Kevin's Corner.

[24:40] Bryan Plosky: Uh Tuesday in the corner with Kevin.

[24:42] Kevin Jaeger: We've renamed Kevin's Corner Tuesdays in the corner with Kevin.

[24:45] Bryan Plosky: That scans a lot better.

[24:46] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, right? I like that.

[24:50] Kevin Jaeger: I've been from the marquee so much.

[24:54] Bryan Plosky: Great.

[24:54] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, so Gina.

[24:56] Geno Carr: Hello, Kevin.

[24:57] Kevin Jaeger: Welcome to Tuesdays in the corner with Kevin.

[25:00] Geno Carr: I'm happy to make my debut.

[25:01] Kevin Jaeger: You're welcome. It's gonna be about as long as your Broadway debut.

[25:05] Geno Carr: Okay, so I'm about to ask you three.

[25:07] Kevin Jaeger: This is a two-year segment.

[25:10] Geno Carr: Ellie will be like in kindergarten.

[25:12] Kevin Jaeger: All right. It's fine. I missed two years of his life.

[25:15] Geno Carr: Your wife will share the appropriate number of photos.

[25:19] Kevin Jaeger: And I'll be drunk.

[25:20] Geno Carr: Good. It'll be fine. So I'm about to ask you three highly researched questions from a combination of your website and Wikipedia and random things I thought of.

[25:31] Geno Carr: Okay, I love it. I'm scared, but I love it.

[25:33] Kevin Jaeger: Here we go. You are currently delighting audiences on Broadway as Oz and others in the smash hit Come From Away that is set in Canada.

[25:43] Kevin Jaeger: Canada is also mentioned in a song from Avenue Q when a character is pretending to have a girlfriend from Canada who no one has ever met. You actually met host of the show Bryan before, when you both appeared in the Merry Go Round production of The Drowsy Chaperone.

[26:00] Geno Carr: This is a true story. When Bryan was still showing off his performing chops.

[26:04] Kevin Jaeger: Chopped is a really good show on the food network where you get to watch chefs make fast meals that you can't eat because you can't actually eat food through the TV. But it's still fun to see people make really good food.

[26:15] Kevin Jaeger: So my question is, okay, what do you think is the best meal or food item that you can make in the kitchen? And why?

[26:22] Geno Carr: Yep, that's the question. Pizza.

[26:27] Kevin Jaeger: I love pizza.

[26:28] Geno Carr: You make your own pizza?

[26:29] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[26:30] Kevin Jaeger: Really?

[26:31] Geno Carr: Seriously. Yeah, we were all about the takeout, you know, and like trying everything. We know what we like. And when you know what you like, you can make it the way that you like it.

[26:37] Kevin Jaeger: Do you buy your own dough?

[26:39] Geno Carr: No. So my wife Nancy.

[26:41] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. Do you use Boboli?

[26:42] Geno Carr: I just want to say bubbly on it. Boboli, absolutely not. Lovely product. I love no, listen, nothing wrong with Boboli. Thanks for listening, Boboli.

[26:50] Geno Carr: Um. But no, my wife Nancy makes her own crust, and it's amazing. Because you can make it as thick as you want or as thin as you want. And we do our, and my little son Elliot loves to help make it. Because it's super easy. You know, you can like put the sauce on.

[27:03] Kevin Jaeger: Well, my nieces, nephews, their grandkids. They do like make pizzas together. And it feels like they're a part of something.

[27:08] Kevin Jaeger: Alright, you ready for question two?

[27:10] Geno Carr: No.

[27:11] Geno Carr: Yes, yes, yes.

[27:12] Kevin Jaeger: You played Vince Fontaine in Greece.

[27:14] Geno Carr: Yes.

[27:15] Kevin Jaeger: The musical that gave us our broadwasted ending cadence, Zooty Wa bum. My dad calls me a bum if I sleep past 10:30 or if I wear sweatpants for an entire day. Even though the best days are when you only get to wear sweatpants.

[27:28] Geno Carr: They call it a bum.

[27:29] Kevin Jaeger: You reverse one of you the poo it?

[27:31] Geno Carr: I do it all the time. That's like literally my uniform in my apartment.

[27:37] Kevin Jaeger: So they call it a pair of pants, yet you only have one article of clothing, so I don't really understand why it's called a pair.

[27:44] Geno Carr: A homophone for the word pear, a homophone for the word pear, P A I R.

[27:53] Kevin Jaeger: Is pear, P-A-R-E, which means to trim or cut away something's outer edge.

[27:59] Geno Carr: True. Edge of Glory by Lady Gaga is an upbeat, kick-ass anthem that is a staple part of my workout mix.

[28:06] Kevin Jaeger: Of course it is.

[28:07] Geno Carr: So my question is what songs are on your workout mix that really get you pumped up and ready to go?

[28:12] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, fair question. Thank you for that.

[28:14] Geno Carr: You're welcome. I accept it. Um I'm an 80s, like workout mix, Spotify kind of guy.

[28:20] Kevin Jaeger: Okay.

[28:20] Geno Carr: So almost anything that's got a beat in the 80s.

[28:23] Kevin Jaeger: Okay.

[28:23] Geno Carr: I mean, we're gonna go like Eye of the Tiger is clearly. I mean, like, let's just be honest here. You're not an American if you don't like Eye of the Tiger. Especially to run to, like, yeah. Yeah, you gotta get that beat going. That's that's a big one.

[28:34] Geno Carr: I love Eye of the Tiger, but yeah, Journey is great. That's a good one. I mean, go to go to the Spotify brought to you by Spotify. And 80s workout mix. That's all I need.

[28:43] Geno Carr: Okay. That's really what I listen to. 80s, that's still like Whitney Houston, like I want to dance with somebody. I wanna know.

[28:48] Kevin Jaeger: I'm like, yes, I want to know too. I'm gonna run it. It might be around the next corner.

[28:58] Geno Carr: Oh my god. I want you to be my trainer.

[29:03] Kevin Jaeger: Do you want to know?

[29:04] Geno Carr: Tell me if you want to know.

[29:08] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. Um, so this question is slightly like based on the fact that you have improvisation listed as one of your special skills.

[29:14] Geno Carr: Oh god, okay, you know. You have an MFA in acting and directing from Sarah Lawrence College. The school where Kat dreams of going to school in the teen rom com Ten Things I Hate About You, starring Julia Styles.

[29:27] Kevin Jaeger: Styles is not a common last name. So uh, which is what I realized when I was doing diligent research. And I found out there's actually also a former One Direction member with the same last name of Styles.

[29:41] Geno Carr: So I Googled it to see if they're related. But it turns out they don't actually spell it the same because Julia's styles with an I and Harry is styles with a Y.

[29:49] Kevin Jaeger: It's a homophone.

[29:50] Geno Carr: Right. Exactly. Homo homo homo, how are we gonna? Homophone.

[29:54] Kevin Jaeger: Thank you. It also turned out from my research that Harry Styles is British, which makes me wonder if the rest of the group of One Direction is British, and if they are what their music sounds like, because I've never heard it. I really actually haven't heard anything for the past few days, but the song that's stuck in my head on repeat for absolutely no reason, which is Bear Naked by Jennifer Love Hewitt.

[30:14] Geno Carr: Do you remember that song?

[30:15] Kevin Jaeger: I don't, but I love Jennifer Love Hewitt.

[30:17] Geno Carr: It's amazing. So my question is if you were hired to be the voice of a gentle but jolly grizzly bear in an anthropomorphic animated kids movie.

[30:27] Kevin Jaeger: Yes. What would that voice sound like if he had to tell us the plot of the movie Sleepless in Seattle?

[30:32] Geno Carr: Well, there are two people. They're they're in love, but they don't really know it yet. They think they might be, but there's only one way to find out. They have to stay awake and they have to go meet each other and find out. Now, one may or may not be America's sweetheart, Meg Ryan, and the other may or may not be Tom Hanks.

[30:54] Kevin Jaeger: Tom for short. That's what the kids call them around the barn. Anyway. Long story short, they get together, and all is well, and everyone lives happily ever after.

[31:07] Geno Carr: And they don't wear pants.

[31:09] Kevin Jaeger: Yay!

[31:12] Kevin Jaeger: And this has been Tuesdays in the corner with Kevin.

[31:15] Geno Carr: Thank you, Kevin.

[31:16] Kevin Jaeger: You're welcome. I don't really know what happened there.

[31:19] Geno Carr: So far.

[31:20] Kevin Jaeger: I think he did really well though.

[31:21] Geno Carr: Oh no, you did an excellent job.

[31:23] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. I actually don't even remember I know Sleepless in Seattle, I don't remember the plot.

[31:26] Geno Carr: Yeah, but it was pretty much what it was. You also nailed the two most important things about it. One, they can't go to sleep, apparently. Two, they don't wear pants.

[31:38] Kevin Jaeger: I'm pretty sure it was that period like the 90s where like women wore like really big shirts and no pants.

[31:43] Geno Carr: Sure. It's called a dress.

[31:46] Kevin Jaeger: Is that how girls wear?

[31:50] Geno Carr: And some pants suit?

[31:51] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, isn't it?

[31:52] Geno Carr: Alright, we did that. Checked.

[31:54] Kevin Jaeger: Check that out the list. What was it like performing in the Tonys?

[31:57] Geno Carr: Surreal.

[31:58] Geno Carr: Yeah. It's really crazy.

[32:00] Geno Carr: Crazy for many, many, many reasons. The first of which being just, you know, I grew up watching the Tonys and love musical theater and watching it on TV and to actually be a part of that. Kind of crazy.

[32:09] Geno Carr: That's layer one. Layer two of this parfait is you kind of, it's crazy backstage at the Tony Awards.

[32:18] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[32:19] Geno Carr: TV is amazing like that, you know, TV film, anything like that, because it just looks all polished and perfect and everything makes sense. And but backstage, it is, I'm not even kidding you. It is chaos back there.

[32:27] Kevin Jaeger: I don't know how someone doesn't lose a limb or get lost. You know, Lea Salonga, where are you? I can't find you. It's so crazy back there.

[32:36] Kevin Jaeger: Super fun though.

[32:37] Geno Carr: She was known to get lost.

[32:38] Kevin Jaeger: Well, trust me.

[32:39] Geno Carr: Oh my god. I know Lea very well. And she she'll be playing video games, is what she'd be doing.

[32:45] Kevin Jaeger: She'll explain video games.

[32:46] Geno Carr: Alright, thanks, Lea. Um but yeah, but when that for us we got out there, you know, we did two things in the Tonys. We did a little thing with a roquette and the opening number.

[32:55] Kevin Jaeger: Uh-huh.

[32:55] Geno Carr: Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah.

[32:57] Geno Carr: Um, which was kind of fun and scary at the same time because you're I was like bookmarked by Roquettes. You're tall and beautiful and lovely and very good dancers. And I have none of those things. But it worked out for everyone.

[33:07] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[33:07] Geno Carr: Um, dancer. Fishing.

[33:12] Geno Carr: Um, but then to actually do our number, our opening, our opening number, uh, you know, the big wall flew out, and it's just like thousands of people out there. It was insane. It was just nothing like I've ever experienced in my life.

[33:24] Kevin Jaeger: Um, and now I had another thing to say, but I can't remember what you're doing. Were you in the building, or did you go back to the theater when Christopher won?

[33:30] Geno Carr: Uh we were gone at that point.

[33:32] Kevin Jaeger: So you saw him win from away.

[33:33] Geno Carr: Yeah, we won he from away. We saw him win.

[33:36] Kevin Jaeger: You were drinking from away to Christopher.

[33:38] Geno Carr: One from away.

[33:39] Kevin Jaeger: One from away. Yeah, it was very, very cool.

[33:42] Geno Carr: Yeah, it was super fun. Let's uh let's play a game.

[33:44] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, let's do it.

[33:45] Geno Carr: Yeah, okay. Yeah, let's do um, I think we're gonna play dirty hands on a hard body.

[33:49] Kevin Jaeger: Let's do it.

[33:50] Geno Carr: Yeah. It's basically uh like categories, but your hands are like how we judge who's losing. So you put your hand so you put your hands on the hard body.

[33:58] Kevin Jaeger: I'm ready.

[33:59] Geno Carr: So everybody's two hands down. Yep. How about this? Uh Muppets.

[34:04] Kevin Jaeger: Fozzie.

[34:05] Geno Carr: Kermit.

[34:06] Kevin Jaeger: Miss Piggy.

[34:07] Geno Carr: Beaker.

[34:08] Kevin Jaeger: Bunsen.

[34:09] Geno Carr: Animal.

[34:11] Kevin Jaeger: Kermit.

[34:13] Geno Carr: Sam the Eagle.

[34:15] Kevin Jaeger: Dr. Teeth.

[34:17] Geno Carr: Uh Sweetums.

[34:18] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, that's a good one.

[34:20] Geno Carr: Thank you.

[34:22] Kevin Jaeger: Skeeter?

[34:23] Geno Carr: Yeah?

[34:23] Kevin Jaeger: Skeeter.

[34:24] Geno Carr: I think it's scooter.

[34:25] Kevin Jaeger: Skeeter is from the scooter.

[34:26] Geno Carr: The his sister.

[34:28] Kevin Jaeger: Muppet babies.

[34:28] Geno Carr: But just the animated.

[34:29] Kevin Jaeger: I guess that could count.

[34:31] Geno Carr: I think we should get a little.

[34:32] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, you know, your hand goes. Your hand goes up.

[34:35] Geno Carr: Wow.

[34:35] Kevin Jaeger: My hand goes up.

[34:36] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[34:37] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah. Wait, I don't know. I'll I'll Okay.

[34:39] Geno Carr: Okay.

[34:40] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. Because she's not an actual Muppet. She was in like a Muppet property, but she was like an animated form, but not like an act.

[34:48] Geno Carr: I'm gonna let it slide.

[34:49] Kevin Jaeger: But um one can really get to her, we'll make it we'll make a final call again last day.

[34:54] Geno Carr: Love it. Uh uh. Alright, cool.

[34:56] Kevin Jaeger: Alright.

[34:57] Geno Carr: Skeeter's category.

[34:59] Kevin Jaeger: No, I pick.

[34:59] Kevin Jaeger: Types of flowers.

[35:01] Geno Carr: Chrysanthemums.

[35:02] Kevin Jaeger: I was gonna say that.

[35:03] Geno Carr: Roses.

[35:04] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, it was a so weird. Everyone's brain but there.

[35:07] Geno Carr: Lilies.

[35:07] Kevin Jaeger: Daisies.

[35:08] Geno Carr: Irises.

[35:09] Kevin Jaeger: Daffodils.

[35:10] Geno Carr: Gardenias.

[35:11] Kevin Jaeger: Lily of the valley.

[35:13] Geno Carr: Okay, bringing back.

[35:15] Kevin Jaeger: Um at the show last week.

[35:20] Geno Carr: It's all good.

[35:20] Kevin Jaeger: That's pretty cool.

[35:21] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, it was very cool.

[35:22] Kevin Jaeger: Um weeds?

[35:26] Geno Carr: Crocus?

[35:27] Kevin Jaeger: What?

[35:28] Geno Carr: Are weeds a flower though?

[35:30] Kevin Jaeger: Do they flower or are they just uh amazing?

[35:32] Geno Carr: I mean, isn't it? Isn't it um sunflower? Not sunflower, a dandelion, a weed with a flower?

[35:37] Kevin Jaeger: That's true.

[35:38] Geno Carr: I'll put my other. I'll put my.

[35:39] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, so you just lost.

[35:40] Geno Carr: Yeah, I fell on my sword there.

[35:42] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, but now you can be the category master.

[35:44] Geno Carr: Okay.

[35:44] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, this is exciting!

[35:46] Geno Carr: Well, we're both kicking it.

[35:47] Kevin Jaeger: That's the fastest I've ever, yeah.

[35:49] Geno Carr: Yeah, you got out really fast.

[35:50] Geno Carr: Sure.

[35:50] Bryan Plosky: Horror monsters.

[35:51] Kevin Jaeger: Like bad guys in horror movies, whether it's a monster or not.

[35:54] Geno Carr: Freddie Krueger.

[35:55] Bryan Plosky: Jason Voorhees.

[35:57] Kevin Jaeger: Um, Jack Nicholson.

[36:00] Bryan Plosky: No, you can't just pick the actor.

[36:04] Geno Carr: But I mean, whatever.

[36:07] Kevin Jaeger: Two people that work here came or were leaving, and I was just like, will you sweat me in?

[36:14] Geno Carr: And they're like, do you work here?

[36:14] Kevin Jaeger: And I was like, no, but like my name should be on a post-it for security because it wasn't working, so thank God.

[36:22] Geno Carr: Yeah. And then they pick up this post-it and just go, how do you spell your last name? And then I quick had to be like, which last name did you put? And I was like, Brian Ganesh. So she's a lot of different names. It's good to know. But I'm an FDHM IDT, and I was like, I could get this wrong. So this is Gino. You know, this is Gimberlay. I just got married. That's why I have two different things.

[36:43] Bryan Plosky: Congratulations.

[36:45] Geno Carr: It's very confusing in what it's like. It's been a year, but yeah. Yeah, it's very similar to you making your Broadway debut.

[36:50] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[36:51] Geno Carr: We were trying to decide. Is he still making his Broadway debut stuff?

[36:54] Bryan Plosky: Every single night.

[36:54] Geno Carr: Right. I try. I try. So we thought. So we have a we have a weed a Drake. Okay, so Brian. Brian wants to check and see since you're the game master.

[37:03] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[37:03] Geno Carr: If we kicked him out for the right thing or not.

[37:06] Bryan Plosky: Well we don't. So we did Muppets.

[37:09] Geno Carr: Is this for anyone?

[37:09] Kevin Jaeger: No, that's what you. We were doing Muppets.

[37:12] Geno Carr: Okay. But I said Skeeter. Skeeter was only in Muppet Babies.

[37:19] Kevin Jaeger: The cartoon and was never actually a Muppet puppet.

[37:21] Geno Carr: Like a Muppet property. So she was never an actual Muppet. They just felt they needed a second girl for the animated show.

[37:29] Kevin Jaeger: But he's still a Muppet.

[37:29] Geno Carr: She's still a Muppet.

[37:33] Kevin Jaeger: Because she's not technically a Muppet.

[37:35] Geno Carr: She's not technically a Muppet. But she's still in the Muppet.

[37:38] Kevin Jaeger: She's canon.

[37:39] Geno Carr: Not characters in the Muppet Canon. She is a no, she is Muppet Canon.

[37:44] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, she was in a Muppet maybe.

[37:46] Geno Carr: That's what I'm saying. But I said Muppets, not like Muppet.

[37:50] Kevin Jaeger: But did you specify?

[37:53] Geno Carr: Muppet universe is an important thing.

[37:55] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, fine. We can have one more hand down and we'll play one more like a Muppet Cinematic Universe.

[37:59] Geno Carr: Yes. No, what I'll do is. What is this? Just because a beer, if you want.

[38:03] Bryan Plosky: No.

[38:03] Geno Carr: I'm gonna step back. I'm gonna because Kimberly's here, yeah. I'm gonna let her jump in.

[38:08] Kevin Jaeger: You want me to do a round?

[38:09] Geno Carr: And I'm gonna step back and just.

[38:11] Bryan Plosky: How many hands did you have?

[38:12] Geno Carr: Because I'm a gentleman.

[38:13] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, you were out?

[38:13] Geno Carr: He was now out.

[38:15] Bryan Plosky: Okay.

[38:15] Geno Carr: And I'm winning.

[38:16] Kevin Jaeger: Well, we're trying.

[38:17] Bryan Plosky: Well, no, hold on a second. Because we both have both hands planted currently on this hard body table.

[38:24] Geno Carr: Winning at this show just means beating Brian.

[38:26] Kevin Jaeger: Right.

[38:27] Geno Carr: Well, then we're both winning. Agree to agree. We're good. Alright, so I can't really jump in and Brian's gonna be the category master.

[38:33] Kevin Jaeger: Okay.

[38:34] Bryan Plosky: Children's TV shows.

[38:37] Geno Carr: But not does not have to be currently airing.

[38:40] Kevin Jaeger: Rugrats.

[38:41] Geno Carr: Dora the Explorer.

[38:42] Kevin Jaeger: Series of unfortunate events.

[38:44] Geno Carr: Sophia the First.

[38:46] Kevin Jaeger: Blippy.

[38:47] Geno Carr: Greenhouse Academy.

[38:49] Kevin Jaeger: Bill Nye the Science Guy?

[38:51] Bryan Plosky: I'll allow it.

[38:52] Kevin Jaeger: Little Einstein's.

[38:53] Geno Carr: Oh.

[38:54] Kevin Jaeger: Gulla Gullah Islands.

[38:55] Geno Carr: So good. Let's.

[38:56] Kevin Jaeger: Oh. That's so good.

[38:57] Geno Carr: How about it? Doug.

[38:59] Kevin Jaeger: Get ready for this. Muppet babies.

[39:05] Geno Carr: She's too cool for seventh grade.

[39:08] Kevin Jaeger: Um Looney Tunes.

[39:10] Geno Carr: Um.

[39:12] Kevin Jaeger: Which means I can't remember. I have a two and a half year old. That's the sad part.

[39:16] Geno Carr: Um I gotta put a hand up.

[39:20] Kevin Jaeger: Oh my brain, my brain.

[39:22] Geno Carr: I was prepped with brace case and I was like, because you have a two girl.

[39:24] Kevin Jaeger: No, seriously, yeah. Daniel Tiger.

[39:27] Geno Carr: Daniel Tiger, he loves that.

[39:28] Kevin Jaeger: Mr. Rogers.

[39:30] Geno Carr: Okay, I get it. There are other shows out there.

[39:32] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, new round, so but you get to come up with a category, Daniel.

[39:36] Geno Carr: A category. Um makes of cars.

[39:40] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, jeez.

[39:40] Geno Carr: That's a standard kind of scatter.

[39:42] Kevin Jaeger: Okay.

[39:43] Geno Carr: Not an automatic.

[39:43] Kevin Jaeger: Oh. Hey oh, what up.

[39:47] Geno Carr: Maserati.

[39:49] Kevin Jaeger: Oh.

[39:49] Geno Carr: Dodge caravan.

[39:52] Kevin Jaeger: Honda Odyssey.

[39:55] Geno Carr: We have to say that I don't know. It's make, right?

[39:57] Kevin Jaeger: Make is just like the overarching, right?

[40:01] Geno Carr: Right. Yeah, yeah. It's like Honda Odyssey make a model. So we just go with make. That's the thing.

[40:04] Kevin Jaeger: Tesla.

[40:05] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[40:06] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. So like Ford?

[40:08] Geno Carr: Yes.

[40:08] Kevin Jaeger: Yes.

[40:09] Geno Carr: Toyota.

[40:11] Kevin Jaeger: Kia.

[40:13] Geno Carr: Uh BMW?

[40:15] Kevin Jaeger: Subaru.

[40:16] Geno Carr: Volkswagen.

[40:18] Kevin Jaeger: Um.

[40:19] Geno Carr: Hyundai.

[40:21] Kevin Jaeger: Land Rover.

[40:23] Geno Carr: Cheap.

[40:25] Kevin Jaeger: Um.

[40:27] Geno Carr: Amiata.

[40:31] Kevin Jaeger: Actually, it's a Mazda Miada, so it'll be a Mazda.

[40:34] Geno Carr: Oh, that's true. Okay, good call.

[40:40] Kevin Jaeger: A Miata.

[40:44] Bryan Plosky: Kevin, you choose a category.

[40:46] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. The category is fairy tale characters.

[40:51] Geno Carr: Cinderella.

[40:53] Kevin Jaeger: Sleeping beauty.

[40:54] Geno Carr: Oh, Snow White.

[40:55] Kevin Jaeger: I'm gonna say Rapunzel.

[40:56] Geno Carr: Rumpel Stiltskin.

[40:57] Kevin Jaeger: Maleficent.

[41:00] Geno Carr: Um God, Bourbon.

[41:04] Kevin Jaeger: The bourbon's so good.

[41:04] Geno Carr: Why do you feed me bourbons?

[41:06] Kevin Jaeger: Well, it's purpose, exactly.

[41:08] Geno Carr: Right. Um, you hear that?

[41:15] Kevin Jaeger: Two.

[41:16] Geno Carr: Uh one. I'm so bad at this.

[41:18] Kevin Jaeger: Wow. Are you sure you have a kid?

[41:22] Geno Carr: It's bad. That's why we play the games in the end.

[41:25] Kevin Jaeger: No, I like it.

[41:25] Geno Carr: Yeah. Alright. And that's why I'm fresh. So you need to ride.

[41:29] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah. You choose a category for the two of them. And we'll just do this one round.

[41:34] Geno Carr: Okay, alright. Celebrity chefs.

[41:37] Kevin Jaeger: Whoa, good cool, good.

[41:38] Geno Carr: I'm really pumped again. Richard Blaze.

[41:40] Kevin Jaeger: Bobby Flay.

[41:41] Geno Carr: Oh no, you love top chef.

[41:43] Kevin Jaeger: I do. Um Padma.

[41:47] Geno Carr: She is chef.

[41:48] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, she cooks stuff. She has a cookbook.

[41:49] Geno Carr: David Chang?

[41:51] Kevin Jaeger: That's fucking she's a cookbook.

[41:53] Geno Carr: Okay, Kevin.

[41:54] Kevin Jaeger: Julia Childs.

[41:55] Geno Carr: Chrissy Teagan has a cookbook.

[41:57] Kevin Jaeger: Sure.

[41:57] Geno Carr: Martha Stewart.

[41:58] Kevin Jaeger: This is going off the rails.

[42:01] Geno Carr: Um Giada.

[42:04] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[42:06] Geno Carr: She has no last name.

[42:07] Kevin Jaeger: The Naked Contessa.

[42:09] Geno Carr: Barefoot.

[42:10] Kevin Jaeger: Thank you. I'll go out on that.

[42:17] Geno Carr: She would have been well on this podcast.

[42:20] Kevin Jaeger: Yes, correct.

[42:21] Geno Carr: I know you were like, oh, I know her. I bet a lot of people have watched The Naked Contessa.

[42:27] Kevin Jaeger: So do not. I'm not sure about the hygiene of that particular show, though.

[42:32] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[42:32] Kevin Jaeger: That's part of the risk.

[42:34] Geno Carr: Yeah. It's dangerous. What I did for love, Gino. What I did for love.

[42:38] Kevin Jaeger: Low health grade, high excitement.

[42:45] Geno Carr: Spice up your meal with a naked contessa.

[42:50] Kevin Jaeger: What's your favorite musical?

[42:52] Geno Carr: Oh, no. No. I don't know. No, I don't have a favorite. Yeah, there's no such thing. I just love so many for so many different reasons.

[43:00] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. So then I'll transition into Death Row show.

[43:03] Geno Carr: Yeah. You're on Death Row.

[43:05] Kevin Jaeger: Yes.

[43:05] Geno Carr: Oh, I'm so sad. Oh, what have I done? And before you go, you can see one show. It could be any version of that show. It could be anyone in it. What show are you seeing?

[43:17] Kevin Jaeger: I don't know. There's so many good, good musicals that I never got to see. I mean, some are preserved, you know.

[43:22] Geno Carr: Right.

[43:23] Kevin Jaeger: Like uh, hmm, like jellies and jams. I would like to see Nathan Lane in Forum.

[43:31] Geno Carr: Oh. Yeah, yeah.

[43:32] Kevin Jaeger: Never got to see.

[43:33] Geno Carr: That's a good one. Seen some pictures, you know?

[43:35] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[43:36] Geno Carr: You know? No. Cool. Yeah. Um, that's a great one. What is what was the first Broadway show you saw?

[43:41] Kevin Jaeger: Uh Ms. Saigon.

[43:43] Geno Carr: Who was? Original cast?

[43:45] Kevin Jaeger: Uh, I don't know at that point. It was ninety seven.

[43:48] Geno Carr: No, Leia called out to play video games that night. I'm sure you're gonna get it. I'm gonna get her to listen to this, dude. I love this. I'll love her. Oh no, what have we done? Um I'll get her on this next. She needs to be on that.

[44:00] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, yeah, we would love to have her.

[44:02] Geno Carr: This is an official invite invite. Alright. She's fierce. Is there a show that changed your life? That would like, oh, I want to do this. Or like, wow. The original that like made me think, okay, musical theater is awesome.

[44:12] Kevin Jaeger: Phantom of the opera.

[44:13] Geno Carr: Yeah. Oh yeah, I'm a kid of the of that generation. So not the best in one. Yeah, no, right. But no, that that one changed your life too.

[44:20] Kevin Jaeger: That did too.

[44:22] Geno Carr: That was pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. We're gonna miss that. That's where babies come from. The yes and can turn.

[44:35] Kevin Jaeger: You make so much sense.

[44:35] Geno Carr: So much sense. We've learned some weird lessons today.

[44:40] Kevin Jaeger: We have.

[44:41] Geno Carr: We have indeed. Should we should we play another game?

[44:43] Kevin Jaeger: Let's play another game.

[44:44] Geno Carr: We have the game, Master. Let's write it out.

[44:45] Kevin Jaeger: Oh god. I feel like I'm failing at the games.

[44:48] Geno Carr: But see, you can take all these games home with you to your child.

[44:51] Kevin Jaeger: This is true.

[44:51] Geno Carr: You played dirty hands of the hard body with your child. He's got the dirty hands already. So we're good there. This game is called I'm an Islander.

[45:01] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[45:02] Geno Carr: Can't imagine why.

[45:04] Kevin Jaeger: Can't imagine why. So I have some fact cards, basically, with different islands. Okay. And I've peppered just some fun facts onto these cards. So we're each gonna take one and then try and have everyone guess what island we are from.

[45:19] Geno Carr: Oh. So as someone from that island to be like, I do this all day. I'm being from this island, do this. Or like my island is known for such and such, depending on what random factoids Wikipedia shared with me. Or just some thoughts right off the noggin.

[45:35] Kevin Jaeger: I love it.

[45:36] Geno Carr: Or a few of them. This thing's fun. Yeah. So I have a shuffle. We'll see. Oh, goodness. While she's shuffling, um, I have a question.

[45:43] Kevin Jaeger: Answer it.

[45:44] Geno Carr: Has Dwayne Johnson ever come to see your show? And if so, what it would be like if you're singing Welcome to the Rock over and over again?

[45:51] Kevin Jaeger: We would just continue to point to point it. Welcome to the Rock. Welcoming the rock. That makes sense.

[45:57] Geno Carr: Yeah, totally. I wish you would come. Wouldn't that be great?

[46:00] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. Are you ready, friends?

[46:01] Geno Carr: Yep.

[46:02] Kevin Jaeger: Sure.

[46:02] Geno Carr: Hi, everyone. I'm part of the Republic of Ecuador. I'm actually. Well, also, I wrote these, so I won't guess. Right. Okay. I'm a little bit hot and steamy on a balconic island.

[46:15] Kevin Jaeger: Sure you are.

[46:16] Geno Carr: Um, but I'm actually known for this is what a most my resume. Like when if you like look me up. My special skills are. Uh I have a vast number of um species uh that were studied during the second expedition of the uh HMS Beagle.

[46:31] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, it's the um clue.

[46:34] Geno Carr: And I'm known for turtles.

[46:36] Kevin Jaeger: Galapagos.

[46:38] Geno Carr: Did I beat you on that a little bit? We were in the same place.

[46:41] Kevin Jaeger: Wow. Alright, ready. It's crowded on my island with a population of roughly 125 million people.

[46:50] Geno Carr: 21% of them feels like are old.

[46:56] Kevin Jaeger: It's actually 68,000. Nope. I lied for a second. It's actually this island has an identical. Two things I say are true, and what is a line? Um we have the world's most punctual trains, so it's not Manhattan.

[47:14] Geno Carr: And there are 6,800 islands that make it up.

[47:18] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, it's um it's Japan.

[47:19] Geno Carr: It's archipelago. Japan.

[47:22] Kevin Jaeger: Well done. These are archipelagoes. Alrighty, sir.

[47:26] Geno Carr: Okay, all right. Get it, Gino? Let's bring it home. Okay. This is a US island city.

[47:31] Kevin Jaeger: Okay.

[47:32] Geno Carr: Right. Okay. It's about 90-ish miles north of Cuba.

[47:37] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. Or some people say Cuba.

[47:39] Geno Carr: Key West?

[47:40] Kevin Jaeger: It is Key West.

[47:41] Geno Carr: Yeah. You didn't let him have his moment.

[47:44] Kevin Jaeger: Well, it's okay. We just it's all about him.

[47:46] Geno Carr: That's fine. Yeah. I've worked with him before. I know how he works.

[47:49] Kevin Jaeger: He does.

[47:51] Geno Carr: That's right. When you're when you're pastry chef number two. Sometimes the show is about you.

[47:56] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[47:58] Geno Carr: Who are you in that show?

[48:00] Kevin Jaeger: Uh, Underling the Butler.

[48:02] Geno Carr: You might come meet me at my capital city, or our capital city, of Antonanarivo. Um, also, we're the only natural habitat for lemurs.

[48:15] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, I know.

[48:16] Geno Carr: And we've been isolated for nearly seven million years.

[48:19] Kevin Jaeger: It's Madagascar.

[48:20] Geno Carr: Oh, Madagascar. Come to the also now it's lemas. Because they're the hilarious character from Madagascar.

[48:26] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah. I thought they were raccoons.

[48:28] Geno Carr: No, lemurs.

[48:29] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[48:30] Geno Carr: Um, I'm the 20th.

[48:32] Kevin Jaeger: I'm the 20th largest island in the world.

[48:35] Bryan Plosky: Uh Ireland?

[48:37] Geno Carr: Yeah, that was terrible.

[48:39] Kevin Jaeger: Terrible.

[48:40] Geno Carr: Oil.

[48:43] Kevin Jaeger: In the world.

[48:44] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[48:45] Kevin Jaeger: Most people.

[48:46] Geno Carr: You sounded like Willow.

[48:47] Kevin Jaeger: I know.

[48:48] Geno Carr: Wait. The last clue on this is most people believe fairies exist.

[48:52] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, that was a thing on Wikipedia.

[48:53] Geno Carr: They're like, most of the population believes the fairies exist.

[48:56] Bryan Plosky: Wow.

[48:56] Geno Carr: Ireland.

[48:58] Kevin Jaeger: Okay. This is the story of a girl.

[49:06] Geno Carr: Most northerly group of the coral islands in the world. Only 2,000 people in its biggest city, which is Hamilton.

[49:16] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, it's Bermuda.

[49:18] Geno Carr: Wow.

[49:18] Kevin Jaeger: Jesus. What's up, Rand McNally? How are you doing here, buddy?

[49:22] Geno Carr: Well, remember what I'm saying. The last fun fact.

[49:25] Kevin Jaeger: Oh.

[49:25] Geno Carr: Most social occasions and restaurant visits require jackets and top on Bermuda?

[49:30] Kevin Jaeger: I don't know.

[49:31] Geno Carr: That was on their like information site.

[49:33] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, there's one more.

[49:34] Geno Carr: Okay. Two.

[49:34] Kevin Jaeger: You have two.

[49:36] Geno Carr: He's at least three.

[49:37] Kevin Jaeger: One, two, seven, four, five, five, five.

[49:39] Geno Carr: Yes, five. Well, it's just, you know.

[49:40] Kevin Jaeger: Well, this one's worth six points.

[49:42] Geno Carr: Thank you. You might recognize this archipelago from the Mary Kate and Ashley vehicle, Holiday in the Sun.

[49:52] Kevin Jaeger: The Bahamas.

[49:53] Geno Carr: Yes! Yeah, I got six points.

[49:55] Kevin Jaeger: That's some straight up bullshit.

[49:57] Geno Carr: No!

[49:58] Kevin Jaeger: You're the biggest Mary Kate and Ashley fan in the world!

[50:01] Geno Carr: Yeah, I love them. So we talked about how you feel about uh ghosts.

[50:09] Kevin Jaeger: We didn't.

[50:10] Geno Carr: How do you feel about ghosts?

[50:11] Kevin Jaeger: I I don't know if I believe in them or not, but I'm scared if they're real.

[50:13] Geno Carr: Great. I think that's the right answer.

[50:14] Kevin Jaeger: I think that's definitely the right answer. But we also talked about Come From Away.

[50:20] Geno Carr: Never heard of it.

[50:21] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah. The other characters that you play on the on the stage.

[50:28] Geno Carr: Were you saying on ER?

[50:29] Kevin Jaeger: I think so.

[50:31] Geno Carr: So the other characters that you play on ER.

[50:33] Kevin Jaeger: Yes.

[50:34] Geno Carr: Dr. Johnson.

[50:35] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, you play Dr. Johnson.

[50:36] Geno Carr: Anesthesiologist, of course.

[50:38] Kevin Jaeger: Of course, yeah.

[50:39] Geno Carr: Yeah, yeah. Unknown for him, really.

[50:40] Kevin Jaeger: Right.

[50:40] Geno Carr: Yeah, when you did your research for uh Dr. Johnson, did you go undergo anesthesia? Did you just follow the anesthesia?

[50:45] Kevin Jaeger: Multiple times I gave it to myself.

[50:49] Geno Carr: Oh, right. Yeah, which was really interesting to feel like, okay, I'm counting backwards. Wait, who's counting? I don't know who's counting.

[50:54] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, yeah. Now I get why you did Little Shop of Horrors like four times.

[50:57] Geno Carr: Yes. Times four.

[51:01] Kevin Jaeger: So going back to what were we talking about?

[51:04] Geno Carr: Nope, nothing. Come From Away.

[51:06] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[51:06] Geno Carr: Come From Away. Multiple characters.

[51:07] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, characters. Other characters.

[51:09] Geno Carr: Yes. How do you how do you balance those characters in the show by making them different enough that they have their own, you know, spines and different characteristics, but not feel like this may sound weird, but that you're an actor trying to make them different.

[51:28] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[51:29] Geno Carr: Does that make sense?

[51:30] Kevin Jaeger: Totally makes sense, totally valid. And it was a big concern for a lot of the creation process of it, making sure that we were creating real people, whether it was multiple scenes, multiple lines, or if it's just one line on a plane.

[51:41] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, you're you're I I only bring this up because even though like Oz is the one that everyone remembers, I I vividly remember your rabbi character in that scene.

[51:50] Geno Carr: Yeah, thank you. It's a good scene, right?

[51:54] Kevin Jaeger: It's just it's kind of an incredible sequence. When are we going again?

[51:57] Geno Carr: I know. Let's go right now and we'll just get the ghost light on the stage and we'll get on there.

[52:04] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah. Um, no, it was a it was a big, it was very important for all of us to, as we created these characters, especially because most of them are still alive.

[52:13] Geno Carr: Yeah. Have either come to see it or will come to see it. And so it was a it was a big um important thing for us to make sure that we, you know, did them justice by not creating broad stroke one dialect for one line character that's right. Whoa, where'd that Australian guy come from?

[52:30] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[52:31] Geno Carr: Um so it was really important for all of us because we all play multiple characters to keep them as honest and truthful and uh, you know, with a fully formed spine, as you said.

[52:39] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[52:40] Geno Carr: Um but that's so much of the fun of what the show is as an actor, too, is we get to do that over and over again. Just change, change, change, put the hat on, do this accent.

[52:48] Kevin Jaeger: Yes.

[52:49] Geno Carr: Yeah. So it it's been it was an extremely gratifying part of the process to figure out okay, how do I make that one line be that? Be a real person that doesn't pop out as a whole, wait, who's that guy all of a sudden? But it's enough of a different different guy, different guy.

[53:06] Kevin Jaeger: No.

[53:06] Geno Carr: Yeah, we don't want to be actors. We want to be people.

[53:08] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah. And then sometimes like when you switch roles with Jen Kalella just for fun, like a whole different level to the show.

[53:14] Geno Carr: You should hear me sing "Me in the Sky."

[53:17] Kevin Jaeger: I mean, I don't want to say female empowerment anthem.

[53:22] Geno Carr: Her defense for rabbi is amazing.

[53:25] Kevin Jaeger: She's fantastic. That actually brings us to the end of our episode.

[53:28] Geno Carr: No, no, no, no. Don't miss the corner?

[53:30] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[53:31] Geno Carr: No, Tuesdays in the corner with Kevin.

[53:34] Kevin Jaeger: Wait until you hear. Wait until you experience it. It's intense.

[53:38] Geno Carr: We don't have to.

[53:38] Kevin Jaeger: We keep going.

[53:40] Geno Carr: No, if you're good.

[53:42] Kevin Jaeger: Listen. You want to go home, watch those kids shows?

[53:45] Geno Carr: It's still early.

[53:46] Kevin Jaeger: I like it.

[53:47] Geno Carr: That's right. 90-minute no intermission test.

[53:50] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, I'll tell you what, this show. Oh yeah. It's good. Of all the people that have come to see the show.

[53:55] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[53:55] Kevin Jaeger: Who are your top three? Like, I'm starstruck.

[53:58] Geno Carr: Manny Patinkin.

[53:59] Kevin Jaeger: Oh.

[54:00] Geno Carr: Yeah.

[54:00] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, yeah. Oh, he's he's here right now.

[54:08] Geno Carr: I also like bourbon. Now that we have you, Mandy, for just a moment, can I ask you a couple of questions?

[54:14] Mandy Patinkin: Sure.

[54:15] Geno Carr: Oh no. I wanted to just talk about we've talked about beard.

[54:22] Mandy Patinkin: No.

[54:22] Geno Carr: I'd love to hear about your um how you grow your beard for Homeland.

[54:32] Kevin Jaeger: Um Gino, thanks for joining us.

[54:34] Geno Carr: My pleasure is a good one. This is so fun.

[54:35] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, of course. Um go see Come From Away. Like, but actually. If you haven't seen the show, it's crazy because there's 12 of us and it's an ensemble show, but we're all principal actors. So we have six standbys, and they all cover like at least four or two.

[54:48] Geno Carr: Which is insane. And then you go see it, and like they're all real people, each cover is bringing something different. Like they're not just plugging themselves into like the actor that has left, they're plugging themselves into the characters that are.

[55:04] Kevin Jaeger: Multiple characters, multiple characters.

[55:06] Geno Carr: It's really cool because it's like oh, the show's different, but it's the same, but it's so good, but it um and how is that for you guys when you're obviously you trust them, so like there's there's no worry there, but in terms of the that's the scene dynamic changing a little bit because it's it's being conveyed by a different body.

[55:24] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[55:24] Geno Carr: Yeah, I mean the the good and bad thing about the show is it's so tightly constructed and it's like a it's like a little bit.

[55:31] Kevin Jaeger: Just like his debut, this episode's not ending. We keep going and going.

[55:34] Geno Carr: No, that's so much to talk about.

[55:37] Kevin Jaeger: No, but that's so interesting.

[55:39] Geno Carr: So yeah, yeah, no, it's because it is so tightly constructed and everything is timed so specifically. Um it's kind of crazy if people broke it down, you'd actually rehearse it.

[55:45] Kevin Jaeger: It's kind of crazy. I can't imagine like rehearsing it now. Sorry to interrupt, but like because you all created it kind of in the room, and now like there's companies that are just gonna be like, here's a script. Good luck.

[56:01] Geno Carr: Yeah, good luck with that. Insane. Go.

[56:04] Kevin Jaeger: It's crazy.

[56:05] Geno Carr: Yeah, no, but it is. I mean, it's it's that kind of show. When we first got the scripts for the show, I mean it just it's just the the lines. I mean, it wasn't. There's no like how is this gonna? I mean, we're flipping the pages? How's that gonna happen? Now we're on a plane. What are they gonna do with that? They're gonna fly in a plane, they're gonna use like CGI walls.

[56:20] Kevin Jaeger: No, just chairs.

[56:21] Geno Carr: Good luck. Yeah. Enjoy that.

[56:22] Kevin Jaeger: But also CGI walls.

[56:24] Geno Carr: But also there's some CGI walls. If you haven't seen the show, CGI is really brilliant. Bring it to your wife and you're like, there's gonna be a plane on stage, and there's gonna be honest holograms!

[56:32] Kevin Jaeger: We have a budget. Who needs a chandelier? We got plane.

[56:38] Geno Carr: Plane of the new helicopter on stage. It's so much fun when we get the standbys to go on because you know that it does, it brings a new energy, it brings but they're they fit in so perfectly into the world of what we're doing.

[56:49] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[56:50] Geno Carr: And yet there's that vibrant we need it too, because we've done it hundreds of times. It's always so exciting when, oh, oh, that's different. And I really like that.

[56:57] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, you know, it's not just one character that's different, it's like 12.

[57:00] Geno Carr: Yeah, yeah.

[57:01] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah. And it's not just that one scene you come on for, you know, they come on. These these standbys are playing.

[57:06] Geno Carr: You guys don't leave the stage much.

[57:08] Kevin Jaeger: It's crazy.

[57:09] Geno Carr: Yeah. Yeah. Because we talked about the first time we all saw it, and we were like, wait, where's the second half of the cast? We're like, that can't be it. That's not everyone.

[57:17] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[57:18] Geno Carr: Yeah, people often think that the there are more people. No, it's just us.

[57:23] Kevin Jaeger: What's the best audience reaction?

[57:24] Geno Carr: One day we just, and it was one of our first, we had a performance for first responders here in New York. It was like our kind of our first dress rehearsal or second dress rehearsal before the paying audiences came. It was really important to us, and we did this in DC as well, to invite these these groups of people who have you know really experienced this loss. Uh, so it's important to us to you know share the story with them and kind of get their blessing.

[57:48] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, and to have people in the room and these guys, these big firefighters, burly guys, but in their dressed, you know, they're beautiful series. Kevin's listening now.

[57:56] Geno Carr: Yeah, really. Um to bring a little gravitas maybe to the end of the performance here, the end of the podcast. There's that there's a point at the end where you find out one of the characters who had been waiting to find information about her son, who is a firefighter. Spoiler.

[58:11] Kevin Jaeger: Oh right.

[58:11] Geno Carr: He we find out that he has passed away, you know, that he he has not been found. He was lost in you know in the the carnage that day. And you know, to have that moment of she says that and you hear just uh from I mean hundreds of people. Yeah because they all either receive that phone call or they knew that phone call. They gave that phone call. You know, and it's it that helps me honestly on a on a almost a nightly basis to remember because it it's fun. What we do is fun, the show is fun, yeah. No, you know, discounting that, but there is a responsibility to this story and this city that we're telling it in that's really important to us.

[58:48] Kevin Jaeger: Absolutely. Because it's an amazing thing to be able to do to tell on a nightly basis a story that's so affecting to people in so many ways. Honoring and also hopefully lighting and bringing joy.

[59:00] Geno Carr: Oh, yeah. So well, I think that should definitely bring us.

[59:03] Kevin Jaeger: Bam, I'm out of here. Goodbye.

[59:05] Geno Carr: Oh, don't drop these, they're really expensive.

[59:07] Kevin Jaeger: No, um, so thanks again for joining us and sharing a lot of your stories. Um remember, follow him to uh see his son uh at Geno Carr.

[59:17] Geno Carr: An appropriate amount of time.

[59:19] Kevin Jaeger: Yes, yes. Um as we as we know, uh, we are sponsored every week by uh La Jolla Playhouse, Spotify, Bobley Pizza, um the Muppet Cinematic Universe.

[59:35] Geno Carr: You guys get paid when I'm not here. What's what happened there? We're just getting into trouble while you're done here?

[59:40] Kevin Jaeger: Um, and of course, um Hudson Bourbon Bourbon. Um but uh we end every episode with a quote.

[59:46] Geno Carr: We do.

[59:46] Kevin Jaeger: And he's so cute.

[59:48] Geno Carr: Thank you.

[59:48] Kevin Jaeger: Uh I made it myself. I'm gonna talk about these guys. This is the best response to like somebody telling you their kid is cute.

[59:56] Geno Carr: Thanks, I made it myself.

[59:58] Kevin Jaeger: Um, but our quote today is I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua. If wealthily, then happily in Padua. If my wife has a bag of gold, do I care if the bag be old? I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua.

[1:00:10] Geno Carr: But uh, as we end every episode, we raise our glasses and we say our favorite cadence Zoot Bob Cheers.

[1:00:18] Kevin Jaeger: Cheers, Gina, yeah, absolutely.

[1:00:21] Geno Carr: I'm drunk.