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[0:13] David Alpert: Welcome to E-Ticket to Broadway, where Broadway meets Main Street.

[0:19] David Alpert: Here's your host, my pal, David Alpert.

[0:23] David Alpert: Uh-huh. Thanks everyone for being here. We're gonna get to chat about happy things. Um, and I'm really glad to invite to the stage Broadway's Nic Rouleau. Come join. Here's Nic.

[0:35] Nic Rouleau: Thank you, thank you. Um we're gonna chat for a bit. We've got some games. This is super interactive. Uh, but uh I just want to share briefly, E-Ticket to Broadway is a podcast where I interview Broadway stars about their love of the Disney theme parks. Um it started in 2020 when everything shut down, not just Broadway, but also the Disney parks, and it truly was an uh an outlet to spread joy. And from the beginning of uh the podcast, it was really about bringing joy to people. There's so much negativity when it comes to just what makes people happy. Um and in the dark days of the pandemic, we this came out, and Alan and Dory were super helpful in kicking it off at the Broadway Podcast Network.

Um it was supposed to be 10 episodes. It's up to over 60. Um guests on the podcast include um Adina Menzel, Vanessa Williams, Titus Burgess, Annalie Ashford, Susan Egan, Jonathan Freeman, Jodie Benson, Andrew Barfeldman, Jesse Mueller, Kayla Settle, so many more, including Nick, who's gets to join me in person now.

[1:31] David Alpert: Yes, right in the middle of Times Square, the Museum of Broadway. Uh who here loves the Disney Parks? Okay, by show of hands, though, who is Teamland? Yes, thank you. And who prefers the humidity of Florida? Listen, uh I went to Florida, I've gone a couple times now. I'm gonna have to spread out a little bit. Are we too close? We're too close. All right. Um I've been there a couple times, and it is, but I'm I'm fiercely team land. Um anyone else like love Disneyland versus Disney World? Anyone have thoughts? Yeah. Absolutely. Um Magic Kingdom before Magic World. Okay, we heard. We heard that Magic Kingdom Magic Kingdom is smaller. Um but Nick, thanks for being with me today at the Museum of Broadway.

[2:17] Nic Rouleau: Thanks for having me, David. It's the first time here. Do you remember the first Broadway show that you ever saw?

[2:22] David Alpert: I do. Um it was Nine, starring I know, I know. And how old were you?

[2:28] Nic Rouleau: Uh like 16. But it was at the Eugene O'Neill Theater where I made my Broadway debut. Um but that trip I saw three shows. We saw Nine first, uh, then we went across the street and saw Chicago. And at the time it was so it was Melanie Griffith. And so it was Melanie Griffith and her husband, um, Antonio Banderas across the street at Nine. So they were like working across the street, which was so cute.

[2:48] David Alpert: That's sweet. And then we went up a few blocks and saw Hairspray at Neil Simon. Yeah. It was a great trip. My first ever trip to New York, and I came out to see college. Like fun, uh I used to work on BroadwayCon, and the idea is like no one goes to Broadway as a backup career, right? It's we're like, you know, if it doesn't work out, I'm gonna try Broadway. So those of us that have the privilege to work on Broadway shows, it's always like we love it and we we grew up loving it. Um what is a Broadway album that you listen to as a kid like nonstop?

[3:16] Nic Rouleau: Well, uh there's so many. Um that was like when when Amazon was like kind of like new-ish, and like I would just order cast album after cast album and just like really sit on the floor of my bedroom and put on CDs of Broadway cast albums. But like my first ever obsession was The Sound of Music. You know this. Um, and that was pre-CDs. It was you know, tapes and VHS. Um, but then I was a big Jason Robert Brown stan when I was in high school. So it was all like The Last Five Years, Songs for a New World. Uh, I loved that. It's funny, I loved Barnum, which no elementary school kid knew no one knew. I was like, Sally Coleman is really great. And they were like, No, I was like, no. No. I was listening to the cool things, David, like Jason Robert Brown. Uh, I was listening to Aida. I mean, come on, I'm not sure. Come on. Heather Hedley, I was like perfecting that, you know.

[4:08] Nic Rouleau: Yeah. It's funny, I'm from Muskegon, Michigan. And from our hometown is Jill Shisson, who was in the original cast of Rent, but also Carly Gibson, who starred in Hairspray and Crybaby, Kate Reinders, um, Disney Plus star now. But when Rent came out, my whole town was like, oh my gosh, musical theater and Broadway and Rent. And I was like, I've been liking this before Rent came out. Um, but it's great to be in the museum in Broadway. We're gonna take a look and see all that.

[4:34] David Alpert: So speaking of like watching stuff as kids, as we shift into the Venn diagram of the podcast. Um, when you were on my podcast, you shared a lot about how much the movies and music of Disney films really impacted you.

[4:47] Nic Rouleau: Yeah, um, specifically The Little Mermaid.

[4:49] David Alpert: Oh, Hercules, and the Goofy Movie.

[4:54] Nic Rouleau: I love the Goofy Movie. So I mean, for so many of us, like, and what I've learned over the years with the podcast is Disney movies, Disney Parks is so often the gateway to theater. Yeah, you know, it's kind of the first time we we we hear an I want song. Yeah. It's the first time that we like understand structure. Um, but like for Little Mermaid, 1989, the same writers as Little Shop. Right. So it it all kind of blended together. What specifically about The Little Mermaid do you remember?

[5:24] Nic Rouleau: I mean, I can I literally remember this tiny little 10-inch television that I convinced uh my brother to lend me in my in my bedroom, and I can remember like it had a built-in VHS player, and it would like put in the VHS and like sit there like cross-legged on my floor on the carpet and watch The Little Mermaid. I can just like see myself doing that over and over and over again.

[5:44] David Alpert: Did you sing along?

[5:45] Nic Rouleau: I did, I think. I don't remember singing along to that one as much as I do Hercules in a Goofy Movie. I mean, Stand Out!

[5:53] David Alpert: You do prefer Stand Out.

[5:55] Nic Rouleau: I love that song. I think I prefer Eye to Eye.

[5:57] David Alpert: Yeah, see, this is where we do not see eye to eye. I'm gonna stand out.

[6:02] Nic Rouleau: Um do you all know these two tunes? If you haven't listened to the Goofy Movie soundtrack in years, the Goofy Movie is is a low-key bop, and I can't believe it's not been somehow like adapted to either like it probably Broadway's not the ideal place for it, but like never in the parks or anything was there like a Goofy Movie thing. And I even worked on the cruise ship, and there was never even there's so many shows of medleys of Disney things, and yeah, that's never even made an appearance in there. And the songs are really good.

[6:29] David Alpert: They are and the story is beautiful, and I mean I could go on and on. I really can you tell I love the movie.

[6:34] Nic Rouleau: It's sweet. Um what's funny is in the Goofy Movie movie, the the singing voice of Max is a guy named Aaron Lore who married another Disney voice over artist.

[6:46] David Alpert: Who?

[6:47] Nic Rouleau: Anyone know who that is? Give your hands. She's been on my podcast.

[6:50] David Alpert: Susan Egan.

[6:51] Nic Rouleau: It's not Susan Egan.

[6:53] David Alpert: We hear someone in the back thinks they know?

[6:56] Nic Rouleau: It's Adina Menzel. So if you like call their house and it's on speakerphone, you're like, is that Elsa and the voice of Max from a Goofy Movie? They're married?

[7:04] David Alpert: Yes.

[7:05] Nic Rouleau: What? Things you learn. I love that. Um, I also loved Hercules. That movie was great. And also it um Susan Egan was the first guest who, of course, not only, you know originated Belle on Broadway, but the voice of Meg.

[7:17] David Alpert: Yeah. Disney legend.

[7:18] Nic Rouleau: Yep. She always said that Hercules was interesting because it was anachronistic. Where like Beauty and the Beast, they're not referencing Nikes. Right. You know? Aladdin with the genie, it did become a little anachronistic, but Hercules really went for like a teenage audience.

[7:34] David Alpert: Yes.

[7:35] Nic Rouleau: And she'll say that Meg is not a villain, but not a princess. She's one of a kind.

[7:39] David Alpert: Yeah.

[7:39] Nic Rouleau: Which is true, but I love Hercules. I love that. Do you have any favorite songs from Hercules?

[7:43] Nic Rouleau: Well, obviously Go the Distance, which I sang yesterday in Times Square for another event that you and I did together. And I sing that song as much as I can.

[7:52] David Alpert: Yeah. That's it's the best song in the whole movie.

[7:54] Nic Rouleau: It's great in the whole movie.

[7:55] David Alpert: I disagree.

[7:56] Nic Rouleau: Okay. Oh, well, actually, there are some actually, yeah, you're right.

[7:58] David Alpert: There's a lot of good ones.

[7:59] Nic Rouleau: But like Zero to Hero.

[8:00] David Alpert: Zero to Hero, I Won't Say I'm in Love.

[8:02] Nic Rouleau: I mean, there's Star is Born.

[8:03] David Alpert: Oh.

[8:03] Nic Rouleau: Is it called The Star is Born?

[8:05] David Alpert: Star is, yeah.

[8:06] Nic Rouleau: Yeah. Interesting. But also like all the little muses.

[8:09] David Alpert: Mm-hmm. If you haven't seen Hercules recently, give it a listen. Give it a watch. And hopefully coming to Broadway 2025, six. We'll see. Um, so all of these kind of movies, have you ever like wished like did you ever put on shows in your house where you're like, I am starring right now as Ariel?

[8:27] Nic Rouleau: I would put on a lot of shows.

[8:29] David Alpert: Yeah.

[8:29] Nic Rouleau: Uh I don't know that they were Disney themed. There's a there's a great photo of me, and I don't know what I what I was thinking, but in this little t-shirt and like tidy whiteies and like a little beanie, and I was clearly putting on a show in front of the fireplace for my family, and I just no idea what it was. But I know my friend one of the things.

[8:45] David Alpert: It was The Last Five Years.

[8:48] Nic Rouleau: The scenery wasn't incredible. Um, but I do remember I used to put on a production of Peter Pan with my best friend Emily Bliss.

[8:55] David Alpert: Yeah.

[8:55] Nic Rouleau: And we would do the we just loved that Tender Shepherd song.

[9:00] David Alpert: Oh, that's a deep.

[9:01] Nic Rouleau: From the stage version, right?

[9:02] David Alpert: Yeah.

[9:06] Nic Rouleau: And we would, and it's in a it's a round. You can sing it in a round, which we loved. So we would get all our friends together and teach them the song, and then we would go and do that.

[9:13] David Alpert: Yeah.

[9:14] Nic Rouleau: You know. News alert. I was I was a gay little boy. I was like, no one was surprised.

[9:19] David Alpert: Yeah, this overlap of like Disney parks and theater. There's a lot of gay people.

[9:23] Nic Rouleau: Yes. Um anyway. Let's also talk about characters that you love because I love that you have a love of Chip and Dale.

[9:29] Nic Rouleau: I do love Chip and Dale. But Chip and Dale, so you know this, but uh I worked on uh Disney Cruise Line for a year out of college. It was my first job out of college. I went directly on a ship and uh and I played Woody in Toy Story the Musical.

[9:42] David Alpert: Um, but part of working for Disney Cruise Ship is you have a job of escorting characters around in sort of like you have to do it's like 10 to 15 hours a week of character escort is how they get all these people to do the job.

[9:54] Nic Rouleau: Um, and so I would walk all the characters around and I had always like you know liked Chip and Dale, but I happen to always be on Chip and Dale duty walking them around the ship, and I fell in love with them. I don't know what it was, they're not real. Are they?

[10:11] David Alpert: Um, but uh just seeing the kids interact with them. Um, you know, uh the people who do I mean, we can talk about this. I don't work for Disney anymore. The people that do that character work are so incredible, and and they really have personalities based on each character, and the personality they were able to sort of exhibit through Chip and Dale was always so fun, so mischievous. They were always getting into trouble. One was always sneaking off and doing something while we're like trying to sign autographs and take photos, and he'd be like, Where'd Chip go? Where'd Dale go? And then they'd come back and like have stolen some guests' like phone or like kids' little toys. And I just loved the playful nature of it.

[10:47] Nic Rouleau: Someone's medication on the cruise.

[10:49] David Alpert: I hope not. Um, can you tell the difference between Chip and Dale and how do you how do we tell the difference?

[10:54] Nic Rouleau: Well, does anybody here actually know how to tell the difference?

[10:56] David Alpert: Yeah, I see a couple had it's it's in the nose.

[10:59] Nic Rouleau: Yes. Uh Chip has a chocolate chip nose.

[11:02] David Alpert: Yes.

[11:03] Nic Rouleau: These are things Dale's nose is red.

[11:07] David Alpert: I think it's yeah.

[11:08] Nic Rouleau: It's more probably yeah. What's funny is like of the Fab Five, there's you know, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto, and Goofy. Chip and Dale also are part of that now.

[11:16] David Alpert: Yeah.

[11:18] Nic Rouleau: But shouldn't they shouldn't they? Shouldn't they be the Fab 7? Claire Bell's also making an appearance into that group now.

[11:26] David Alpert: Claire Balcow.

[11:28] Nic Rouleau: Claire Balcow is a rising queer icon at the parks.

[11:31] David Alpert: It's true, it was like the mascot of the park.

[11:33] Nic Rouleau: I actually have heard this. And you know, my my queer icon of the parks is do you remember this?

[11:38] David Alpert: No.

[11:38] Nic Rouleau: Um, from the Aristocats?

[11:40] David Alpert: Marie.

[11:41] Nic Rouleau: Marie. Marie is another person who I only met and fell in love with while working for Disney Cruise Line.

[11:46] David Alpert: Yeah.

[11:47] Nic Rouleau: Um, let's talk more about the parks. Um, you're from California originally.

[11:52] Nic Rouleau: I am.

[11:52] David Alpert: But you you have been to both parks.

[11:54] Nic Rouleau: Yes.

[11:54] David Alpert: Um, but you love roller coasters.

[11:56] Nic Rouleau: And this is a great time to give our merchandise a little shout out. So there's a lot of merch in the podcast shop. This one is a tribute to Sound of Music, as well as there is literally not a more perfect shirt in the world. You love it. We were doing the podcast, and I was telling you, I was like, Well, my favorite movie is a kid with The Sound of Music. And I was like, and my favorite roller coaster is Space Mountain. And you're like, Well, I have a t-shirt for you. And no joke, a week later, in my mailbox comes this t-shirt, and it's Climb Every Mountain with Space Mountain and Little Mouse.

[12:30] David Alpert: With Mouse. But it's not just Space Mountain. There's also Big Thunder.

[12:31] Nic Rouleau: That's true. And then there's uh Splash Mountain, also coming soon as uh Tiana's Bayou Adventure. And the Matterhorn, which could look like Expedition Everest if you have a different angle.

[12:42] David Alpert: And I would prefer it to be Expedition Everest.

[12:44] Nic Rouleau: What's the term I'm gonna I'm I can't I don't know the actual word when you go to like a therapist's office and there's the black the Rorschach test? That's what it is. I look at them like that's the Matterhorn, and you're like, that is actually Expedition Everest. Could be either. Or someone's gonna be like, that's actually my childhood, and I'm crying in a corner of the feeling.

[13:06] David Alpert: Um I'm wearing the very uh uh popular line. People are very um protective of their own parks. So I'm wearing a a land boy shirt, but you can get team land and team world. Anyway, so let's talk about the parks.

[13:16] Nic Rouleau: Okay. You love the thrill rides. We're gonna rate these five in order of your preference. I know it's kinda hard. Okay. We've got Space Mountain, yes, Matterhorn, yes, Expedition Everest, yes, Big Thunder, yes, and the Incredicoaster. Oh, this is of those, anything popping up is like that's my favorite.

[13:35] Nic Rouleau: Well, no, I know immediately what's my least favorite.

[13:38] David Alpert: The Matterhorn.

[13:39] Nic Rouleau: The Matterhorn's your least favorite.

[13:40] Nic Rouleau: The Matterhorn, pardon my language, sucks.

[13:42] Nic Rouleau: Oh and I didn't realize this.

[13:46] Nic Rouleau: This is harsh, I know, but I didn't realize this until I went back on my 30th birthday, and it hurts.

[13:53] David Alpert: It does hurt.

[13:54] Nic Rouleau: It hurts, it is not an enjoyable ride.

[13:56] Nic Rouleau: Um, it's a tubular steel roller coaster in the world.

[14:00] David Alpert: Yes.

[14:01] Nic Rouleau: Really cool, and it's not been updated since.

[14:03] Nic Rouleau: And what we've learned is that truly, and that if they were to build that today, the area of the mountain would have to be so much bigger.

[14:11] David Alpert: Because the codes today are much safer than 1955.

[14:15] Nic Rouleau: Yeah.

[14:15] Nic Rouleau: Uh not that Metalhorn was opening day, but Metalhorn.

[14:18] David Alpert: Okay, so that's like coming in number five.

[14:20] Nic Rouleau: Is bottom.

[14:20] Nic Rouleau: And then and then second to last would be Big Thunder.

[14:24] David Alpert: Why?

[14:24] Nic Rouleau: I know just because I like the other because I just like the others more.

[14:28] David Alpert: Fair.

[14:28] Nic Rouleau: Big Thunder's great.

[14:29] Nic Rouleau: We also have a t-shirt because there's that goat, which we have a shirt that says Hyana Hill was a lonely goat.

[14:35] Nic Rouleau: Because we love Julie Andrews when he took it to Broadway.

[14:38] Nic Rouleau: And we love goats from Big Thunder.

[14:40] Nic Rouleau: Okay, so at five is the Matterhorn, four is Big Thunder.

[14:44] Nic Rouleau: We've got space, Incredicoaster, and Exposition Everest.

[14:47] David Alpert: Okay.

[14:47] Nic Rouleau: Only because I had I've had a very traumatic experience on this ride, and you you know the story from the first time I was on the podcast.

[14:54] Nic Rouleau: Uh third place will go to the Incredicoaster.

[14:57] Nic Rouleau: Uh I once got uh stuck on that ride for an hour in a torrential downpour.

[15:06] Nic Rouleau: Um we went we went off with they loaded us in, it was like kind of starting to rain.

[15:11] Nic Rouleau: We're sitting there waiting, and if you know the Incredicoaster, they shoot you off at like, I don't know.

[15:14] Nic Rouleau: Fast.

[15:15] Nic Rouleau: 80 miles per hour, 100 miles per hour.

[15:16] Nic Rouleau: Uh that's probably very wrong.

[15:18] Nic Rouleau: We work in theater.

[15:18] Nic Rouleau: Yeah, 60.

[15:19] Nic Rouleau: It's probably six.

[15:21] Nic Rouleau: It's like five five miles per hour.

[15:23] Nic Rouleau: So they shoot you off into a into a giant hill, so you can like, you know, go crazy.

[15:27] Nic Rouleau: And we're sitting there waiting to be shot off, and all of a sudden, it starts pouring rain, and we're like, oh no.

[15:35] Nic Rouleau: And when you get shot off into pouring rain, um, it hurts.

[15:40] Nic Rouleau: It pelts your face.

[15:41] Nic Rouleau: So it's my husband and I, and we're being shot off, and we're like, oh my god, oh my god, are they gonna let us go?

[15:46] Nic Rouleau: And then they do, and we're like laughing because it hurts so bad.

[15:48] Nic Rouleau: And we basically do the whole coaster and we're like laughing the whole time, being like, This is so ridiculous.

[15:53] Nic Rouleau: Ha ha ha ha.

[15:53] Nic Rouleau: And we get to the end right before they unload you, and we get stopped, and and we're like, oh, okay, this is just where they stop before then you go under and and get off the ride.

[16:04] Nic Rouleau: But um, no, they were like, ooh, so sorry, uh, we're experiencing some technical difficulties, we'll we'll get moving in a minute.

[16:10] Nic Rouleau: And we were five feet away from like a covered little overhang where we would have been saved from the rain, but instead we were back.

[16:17] David Alpert: Yeah.

[16:18] Nic Rouleau: And uh, and we sat there for 60 minutes in a downpour, soaking wet.

[16:24] Nic Rouleau: Splash mountain.

[16:25] Nic Rouleau: Literal splash mountain.

[16:27] Nic Rouleau: Um, and I and I told you this, but like I get nervous on roller coasters, even though I love them so much that I always put my shoulder harness like one click too tight on the side.

[16:34] Nic Rouleau: Because I'm like, oh, because whatever, it's two minutes, I'll I'll be fine.

[16:37] Nic Rouleau: So it's not fine when it's 60 minutes and you're sitting there, and I'm like, I can't breathe.

[16:41] Nic Rouleau: And it was my birthday.

[16:42] David Alpert: Oh.

[16:42] Nic Rouleau: So screw the Incredicoaster.

[16:44] David Alpert: Okay, rude.

[16:46] Nic Rouleau: It's a great ride, otherwise, but I but I I do think of you every time I come back.

[16:50] David Alpert: Yeah.

[16:50] Nic Rouleau: Well, okay, so that's number three.

[16:52] Nic Rouleau: So now it's between Expedition Everest and Space Mountain.

[16:54] Nic Rouleau: And if you had asked me when I was like a teenager, it was pre-Expedition Everest, I would have said Space Mountain would be number one.

[17:01] Nic Rouleau: But I'm actually gonna say that Space Mountain is second place.

[17:04] David Alpert: Okay.

[17:04] Nic Rouleau: And Expedition Everest is a perfect roller coaster and it's number one.

[17:08] David Alpert: Now are you putting Florida Space Mountain in that list or Disneyland?

[17:12] Nic Rouleau: Because the land, no, those are two different rides.

[17:15] David Alpert: Have you experienced both?

[17:16] Nic Rouleau: If you've been to Disney World, they haven't really updated it.

[17:18] Nic Rouleau: There's no soundtrack, it's wooden.

[17:20] Nic Rouleau: It feels like a carnival ride.

[17:22] David Alpert: At Disneyland.

[17:23] Nic Rouleau: At Disney World.

[17:23] Nic Rouleau: Disney World.

[17:24] Nic Rouleau: In Disneyland, they updated it in 2005.

[17:26] David Alpert: That's right.

[17:26] Nic Rouleau: Which was the summer that I worked there, so I got to ride it a bunch of times.

[17:29] Nic Rouleau: And that track is smooth.

[17:31] Nic Rouleau: There's a soundtrack.

[17:31] Nic Rouleau: It is nice.

[17:32] Nic Rouleau: It is nice.

[17:33] Nic Rouleau: It feels a little more modern.

[17:34] Nic Rouleau: But but but Expedition Everest is amazing because you get a whole, you get a whole story, you get indoors and outdoors.

[17:41] David Alpert: Yeah.

[17:41] Nic Rouleau: You start off, and it's like, I always love it.

[17:43] Nic Rouleau: It's like you're like going through like a lovely little ink stroll through the through the Himalayas.

[17:47] Nic Rouleau: Himalayan countryside.

[17:49] Nic Rouleau: It's like so nice, so nice.

[17:50] Nic Rouleau: And then the Yeti comes and attacks you, and then it becomes like a horror.

[17:54] Nic Rouleau: And it's amazing.

[17:55] Nic Rouleau: It's like the story of that ride is amazing.

[17:58] Nic Rouleau: And that's what I love.

[17:58] David Alpert: Okay, good.

[17:59] Nic Rouleau: Even like the whole line.

[18:00] Nic Rouleau: I mean, obviously, this is where Disney shines, like walking through a queue, like you get a whole world.

[18:05] Nic Rouleau: Which leading up to again, it's like the similar is like a pre-show of Broadway show.

[18:09] David Alpert: Yeah.

[18:09] Nic Rouleau: Like the revival of Cabaret's opening today with how long is that pre-show?

[18:13] David Alpert: A long time.

[18:14] Nic Rouleau: That's similar to walking into a theater.

[18:16] Nic Rouleau: It's why I don't love when people post photos from inside the theater.

[18:19] Nic Rouleau: Because you know that moment when you walk into an auditorium and you see that for the first time, it's special.

[18:25] Nic Rouleau: And when people put that on social media, it kind of ruins it.

[18:27] David Alpert: I get that.

[18:27] Nic Rouleau: But that's to me similar to a cue, like helping tell a story.

[18:31] Nic Rouleau: Um when I was at Disney World two summers ago, I got to go with Adina and we got a very special tour.

[18:37] David Alpert: Oh, I bet.

[18:38] Nic Rouleau: So we got to go right on Expedition Everest, and they said, Do you want to go again?

[18:41] Nic Rouleau: We said, sure.

[18:42] Nic Rouleau: There's a reason that you have to wait in line to go on rides because if you go on it back to back, it it's too much.

[18:48] Nic Rouleau: Yeah.

[18:49] Nic Rouleau: We got off the second time, and I was like, that was not good.

[18:52] Nic Rouleau: I'm sick.

[18:52] Nic Rouleau: So in the future, if you ever get to ride again, give yourself a 10-minute buffer.

[18:56] Nic Rouleau: Go wait in line.

[18:56] Nic Rouleau: Or just walk through.

[18:57] Nic Rouleau: Everest is intense.

[18:58] David Alpert: It is.

[18:58] Nic Rouleau: It's a really intense ride.

[19:00] Nic Rouleau: Um, good.

[19:01] Nic Rouleau: I'm just checking the time because we've got so much more fun to have.

[19:04] David Alpert: Um so we're uh you worked on the Disney cruise line.

[19:07] Nic Rouleau: I did.

[19:08] Nic Rouleau: You played Woody, and you were also friends with a prince.

[19:10] David Alpert: I was.

[19:11] Nic Rouleau: Can you share that with us?

[19:12] Nic Rouleau: I was.

[19:12] Nic Rouleau: I was I was very good friends with Prince Philip.

[19:14] David Alpert: Yes, you are.

[19:15] Nic Rouleau: Uh, from Sleeping Beauty.

[19:17] David Alpert: Did what were those some of the things that you got to say that stayed in the character of Prince Philip and Sleeping Beauty?

[19:22] Nic Rouleau: No, so well, so that was just in that was just in uh a variety show called The Golden Mickey.

[19:27] Nic Rouleau: So I really just sang one number.

[19:29] Nic Rouleau: You never interacted with guests.

[19:30] Nic Rouleau: I never was out.

[19:31] Nic Rouleau: I never had to do the sort of like out in public as a Disney character thing where you had to, you know, have all those special roles.

[19:38] Nic Rouleau: Um because with Woody, there was Woody on the ship, and I was not friends with Woody.

[19:43] Nic Rouleau: I'm sure all of you are familiar with friends with.

[19:45] Nic Rouleau: Um I was the actor portraying Woody and Toy Story the musical on stage, whereas Woody would actually walk around the ship and meet and greet people, the real Woody.

[19:53] David Alpert: Right.

[19:53] Nic Rouleau: So I was just friend I was just, you know, acquaintances with him.

[19:57] David Alpert: That's right.

[19:57] Nic Rouleau: Acquaintances, friends with.

[19:59] David Alpert: Yeah.

[19:59] Nic Rouleau: Um well, we're gonna play a game, and this is actually a mad lib.

[20:04] Nic Rouleau: Ooh, I love mad lib.

[20:05] David Alpert: We're gonna play a mad lib.

[20:06] David Alpert: So um I'm not gonna tell you what we're gonna put these words into in a second.

[20:10] David Alpert: Um, but I'm just gonna ask you, and again, I know we're in theater, but I'm gonna, if you need help with like grammar lessons, like what's an adverb versus a gerund.

[20:19] Nic Rouleau: Uh-oh, uh-oh.

[20:20] David Alpert: Well, do I have to know what a gerund is?

[20:21] Nic Rouleau: Yeah, but I'm gonna help you.

[20:22] David Alpert: It's just a verb ending with ing.

[20:24] Nic Rouleau: Oh, okay.

[20:25] David Alpert: Remember that?

[20:25] Nic Rouleau: You all know what a gerund is?

[20:27] Audience: Yeah.

[20:27] David Alpert: Did any of you think this morning you're like, I'm gonna go to the museum of Broadway and talk about gerunds?

[20:30] Nic Rouleau: I have a degree in musical theater.

[20:32] Nic Rouleau: Yeah.

[20:32] Nic Rouleau: I mean, it's very schoolhouse rock.

[20:34] David Alpert: Oh, okay.

[20:35] David Alpert: Okay, Nick.

[20:36] David Alpert: So I just need from you, and if you ever need help from the audience, feel free.

[20:40] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[20:40] David Alpert: Okay, we need an adjective.

[20:42] Nic Rouleau: Hmm.

[20:43] Nic Rouleau: Are we thinking like Disney related here or just anything?

[20:45] David Alpert: It's whatever you want.

[20:46] Nic Rouleau: Oh.

[20:47] Nic Rouleau: I think if you think non-Disney, it'll be more fun.

[20:49] David Alpert: Okay.

[20:50] Nic Rouleau: Um, oh no.

[20:51] Nic Rouleau: Are you thinking X-rated or not?

[20:53] David Alpert: No, you gotta keep it family friendly.

[20:55] Nic Rouleau: All right, someone give me an adjective.

[20:57] Audience: Bubbly, we love.

[21:01] Nic Rouleau: Bubbly.

[21:03] David Alpert: Okay, I need a noun.

[21:06] Nic Rouleau: Ooh.

[21:06] Nic Rouleau: A person, place, or thing.

[21:08] Nic Rouleau: I I'm aware.

[21:09] Nic Rouleau: Um I'm sitting in one, a chair.

[21:13] David Alpert: Chair.

[21:15] Nic Rouleau: You're not pleased.

[21:16] David Alpert: No, it's a stupid.

[21:17] Nic Rouleau: It's fine.

[21:18] Nic Rouleau: Uh the next one is uh something that you refer to like a group of people.

[21:22] Nic Rouleau: Like if you saw a group of people, you could like a a posse.

[21:27] David Alpert: Okay.

[21:28] Nic Rouleau: Again, not pleased.

[21:30] Nic Rouleau: No, it's just delightful.

[21:32] David Alpert: Um I need a type of room.

[21:34] Nic Rouleau: A type of room.

[21:35] Nic Rouleau: All right, let's get one from the audience.

[21:36] David Alpert: A type of room.

[21:37] Audience: I feel like we're in like UCB or like I know.

[21:40] Nic Rouleau: We need a suggestion if we like it.

[21:42] Nic Rouleau: Type of room, any type of room.

[21:44] Audience: Kitchen.

[21:45] Nic Rouleau: Yes.

[21:48] David Alpert: Okay, and then we need another adjective.

[21:50] Nic Rouleau: Another adjective.

[21:51] David Alpert: Let's go with smelly.

[21:55] Nic Rouleau: Wow.

[21:56] David Alpert: Okay.

[21:57] Nic Rouleau: Uh then we need a sense.

[22:00] Nic Rouleau: Like it could be one of your five sense, six senses?

[22:04] Nic Rouleau: The sixth sense.

[22:05] Nic Rouleau: Yeah.

[22:06] Nic Rouleau: Yeah.

[22:06] Nic Rouleau: Um, sight.

[22:09] David Alpert: Okay.

[22:13] Nic Rouleau: And then we need a term used for a transition.

[22:17] Nic Rouleau: Ooh, ooh, a switcheroo.

[22:20] David Alpert: Great.

[22:21] Nic Rouleau: That's really good.

[22:22] David Alpert: Thank you.

[22:26] David Alpert: Hopefully you're getting a good sense of the content on E-Ticket to Broadway.

[22:29] David Alpert: We're talking about switch or something.

[22:31] David Alpert: Very serious podcast.

[22:32] David Alpert: And beignets and goal whips.

[22:33] Nic Rouleau: Um then I need a gerund.

[22:35] David Alpert: Oh, this we're gonna ask the audience for.

[22:37] Nic Rouleau: All right, gerund.

[22:38] David Alpert: So it's a IG verb.

[22:40] David Alpert: A verb ending in ing.

[22:42] Audience: Anybody?

[22:43] Audience: Anyone?

[22:44] Audience: Pleasing.

[22:44] Nic Rouleau: Pleasing.

[22:48] Thank you, Nick.

[22:49] David Alpert: Uh another adjective.

[22:51] Nic Rouleau: Alright, one more adjective out there.

[22:53] David Alpert: Shout it out.

[22:54] Audience: We're in the Museum of Broadway, so it can be something like jazzy or I like that.

[22:59] Nic Rouleau: Jazzy?

[23:00] David Alpert: Yeah.

[23:01] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[23:02] David Alpert: And then we need a type of animal.

[23:05] Nic Rouleau: Favorite animal.

[23:06] Nic Rouleau: A humpback whale.

[23:10] Nic Rouleau: It's very specific, I know, but it's very true.

[23:13] Nic Rouleau: Come to my apartment, you'll see that I have an embargo against buying anything with whales on it.

[23:18] David Alpert: And then something you find in a theater.

[23:26] Nic Rouleau: An orchestra.

[23:31] David Alpert: Okay.

[23:32] Nic Rouleau: Another adjective.

[23:33] David Alpert: We're almost there.

[23:34] Nic Rouleau: We're almost there.

[23:34] David Alpert: All right, one more adjective out there.

[23:37] Audience: Someone, come on.

[23:40] Audience: Sparkly.

[23:41] Nic Rouleau: We love.

[23:44] David Alpert: And finally, a nonverbal, nonverbal reaction, like laughing or crying or something.

[23:51] Nic Rouleau: Mm-hmm.

[23:52] Nic Rouleau: Burping.

[23:54] David Alpert: Does that work?

[23:55] Nic Rouleau: You might react that way.

[23:59] David Alpert: Great.

[24:02] David Alpert: So this is uh I'm gonna have you read this.

[24:04] Nic Rouleau: Okay, great.

[24:06] David Alpert: But because you're a actor.

[24:08] David Alpert: A trained actor.

[24:09] Nic Rouleau: A trained actor.

[24:10] David Alpert: I'm gonna ask you to deliver it as like as though you're the ghost host on the haunted mansion.

[24:15] David Alpert: So it's a little spooky.

[24:16] David Alpert: It's a little Vincent Price.

[24:18] David Alpert: It's a little Patrick Page.

[24:20] Nic Rouleau: Can you give me a couple line readings?

[24:22] Nic Rouleau: No.

[24:22] David Alpert: Oh, bad director.

[24:23] Nic Rouleau: Good director.

[24:24] David Alpert: Good director.

[24:25] Nic Rouleau: I like line readings.

[24:27] Nic Rouleau: They just speak a little slower and a little dramatically.

[24:31] David Alpert: Is it a little deep too?

[24:32] Nic Rouleau: I don't know.

[24:33] David Alpert: And this is going to be our new version of the haunted mansion stretching room speech.

[24:38] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[24:38] Nic Rouleau: You ready, everyone?

[24:39] Nic Rouleau: So I want you to think you just walked into the elevator, the stretching room.

[24:42] Nic Rouleau: All right.

[24:43] Nic Rouleau: It's very dark.

[24:44] Nic Rouleau: There's portraits on the wall, and it's stretching.

[24:45] Nic Rouleau: But over the loudspeaker, you actually hear this, and it's very scary.

[24:50] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[24:51] Nic Rouleau: Welcome, bubbly mortals, to the haunted chair.

[24:56] Nic Rouleau: I am your host, your ghost host.

[25:00] Nic Rouleau: Kindly step all the way in, please, and make room for a posse.

[25:07] Nic Rouleau: There's no turning back now.

[25:09] Nic Rouleau: Our tour begins here in this kitchen.

[25:14] Nic Rouleau: Where you see paintings of some of our guests as they appeared in their smelly mortal state.

[25:23] Nic Rouleau: Your cadaverous pallor betrays a sight of foreboding, almost as though you sense a disquieting switcheroo.

[25:33] Nic Rouleau: Is this haunted room actually pleasing?

[25:37] Nic Rouleau: Or is it your imagination?

[25:40] Nic Rouleau: Hmm.

[25:41] Nic Rouleau: And consider this jazzy observation.

[25:46] Nic Rouleau: This chamber has no humpback whales.

[25:52] Nic Rouleau: And no orchestras, which offers you this sparkly challenge to find a way out.

[26:03] Nic Rouleau: I can't burp on command.

[26:05] Nic Rouleau: Why did I bitch you?

[26:07] Nic Rouleau: Of course, there's always my way.

[26:10] David Alpert: Yes, thank you, Nick.

[26:15] Nic Rouleau: I really like there's no humpback whales or orchestra.

[26:17] Nic Rouleau: That's my favorite line.

[26:18] David Alpert: I'm so glad.

[26:19] Nic Rouleau: No, I loved that um the tour begins in the kitchen.

[26:23] Nic Rouleau: It's very spooky.

[26:24] Nic Rouleau: Uh, or their smelly mortal state.

[26:26] David Alpert: Yeah.

[26:27] Nic Rouleau: No, it's funny, is like these are things I think about.

[26:29] Nic Rouleau: I was watching the eclipse a few weeks ago with some friends, and I was like, what if we did like mad libs for it's amazing.

[26:35] Nic Rouleau: And this is the actual speech that you just removed.

[26:38] Nic Rouleau: Oh yeah.

[26:38] David Alpert: You're clever, David Alpert.

[26:40] Nic Rouleau: You know, E-Ticket to Broadway.

[26:42] David Alpert: Oh, we'll be right back.

[26:46] Nic Rouleau: Oh, right from the board.

[27:03] David Alpert: We've got a little bit more time.

[27:04] David Alpert: We're gonna play a new activity.

[27:05] David Alpert: Okay.

[27:06] David Alpert: This is a match game for friends.

[27:08] David Alpert: Ooh. So um I thought there'd be a table, so we're gonna make this work. But basically, uh, I'm gonna give us a prompt. Okay. And you've got some pieces of white paper. Let me clip for you. Oh, you got it? Okay. And basically, we're gonna write down the answer that you think I'm gonna say. For instance, if the question was posed of like, you know, what is my favorite, I don't know, that's a Disney character. Well, if I were to say my favorite Disney character, you would try and write down what I would say. Sure. Okay. So you get a few cards.

[27:46] David Alpert: We're recycling paper because we're green. We love that. Thank you, Broadway Green Alliance. Uh, special shout-out. So there's your five. Thank you. Do you want a clipboard? No, I'm good. You use it. You ease it. You use it. Okay, we're gonna grab two sharpies that are on the ground. You got them. Thank you. Okay, so we're gonna see, and if we get them right, we win. Get a point. We get a point.

[28:10] David Alpert: Okay. Oh, I realized I put it on my script. I'm gonna give you this. How do we film directors do it? I don't know, but I love this. Two mics. One Nick. Two mics, one Nick. Three bucks. Two bags. One meeting. Okay, here's the first one. Even though Nic Rouleau was already had. You're gonna write down your favorite, the uh favorite Disney character. So you're gonna write down what you think my favorite Disney character is, and I'm gonna write down what I think your favorite Disney character is.

[28:38] Nic Rouleau: Wait, but they're not gonna match.

[28:40] David Alpert: Right, but you're I'm gonna say it and you're gonna hold the bigger.

[28:42] Nic Rouleau: Oh, I see what you mean. Did you mean to watch the match game?

[28:45] David Alpert: I mean, like the rules were pretty game streaming. I used to watch the game show network as a kid. Okay, so you're gonna write down what you think I'm gonna write.

[28:52] Nic Rouleau: Oh, I know what your reminiscence is. This is a cheating one because I know your favorite Disney character.

[29:00] David Alpert: Okay.

[29:01] David Alpert: Okay, so you wrote down your answer. So I'm gonna answer first. So my favorite Disney character is Dopey.

[29:09] Nic Rouleau: What did you write down?

[29:10] David Alpert: Dopey!

[29:11] Nic Rouleau: Yay! I had a heads up. I've been to your apartment. This man has incredible artwork of Dopey.

[29:18] David Alpert: I love Dopey. A whole wall dedicated to Dopey, it's amazing. And who is your favorite character?

[29:23] Nic Rouleau: Oh, I didn't think about this. Uh, I think my favorite Disney character is Woody.

[29:29] David Alpert: Oh, yeah.

[29:31] David Alpert: Okay, okay. We're starting off easy.

[29:33] Nic Rouleau: Okay, good. The next one is favorite Disney princess.

[29:36] David Alpert: Favorite Disney princess. Who I think you, who I think yours is. So you're gonna do that.

[29:40] Nic Rouleau: I only think about mine.

[29:41] David Alpert: Uh huh.

[29:42] Nic Rouleau: I know.

[29:43] David Alpert: Okay.

[29:46] Nic Rouleau: I know we're both you can hear us whispering who's the favorite Disney princess. I I'm gonna take a guess.

[29:57] David Alpert: Okay.

[29:59] David Alpert: Who you go first? Who did you write down?

[30:01] Nic Rouleau: Who was my favorite?

[30:03] David Alpert: Who was your favorite Disney princess? This is really, really tough for me. Um, I think I'm gonna go, uh, I think I'm gonna say Tiana.

[30:12] Nic Rouleau: Oh no.

[30:13] David Alpert: Oh, I wrote Aurora.

[30:15] Nic Rouleau: Oh, I yeah, yeah, no.

[30:18] David Alpert: Okay. And I have no idea who yours is.

[30:21] Nic Rouleau: So it's not far off from my favorite character. It's Snow White.

[30:24] David Alpert: Oh, it's Snow White.

[30:25] Nic Rouleau: I should have I went, I went different.

[30:27] David Alpert: I went Mulan.

[30:28] Nic Rouleau: Oh, I love Mulan.

[30:30] David Alpert: Because Mulan is probably my second favorite Disney princess.

[30:32] Nic Rouleau: Yeah, Mulan's great.

[30:34] David Alpert: But yeah, I have to go OG.

[30:36] Nic Rouleau: I should have known that.

[30:37] David Alpert: Yeah, that's okay.

[30:38] David Alpert: Okay, uh here's this one's a little tricky. What would if what would people say if I asked what Disney character reminds them of you?

[30:48] Nic Rouleau: So I'm basically gonna say, I'm gonna tell you who I you're you're following.

[30:53] David Alpert: Yeah.

[30:53] Nic Rouleau: Like if someone was like, you know, Nic Rouleau, you remind me of this Disney character. So I'm gonna write down what I think you're gonna say.

[31:00] David Alpert: Oh no.

[31:01] Nic Rouleau: I know.

[31:04] David Alpert: Or of you.

[31:05] Nic Rouleau: Uh, you're gonna write it for what people would say of me.

[31:07] David Alpert: Of you.

[31:08] Nic Rouleau: So I have to think like, what do people think Nic Rouleau? And hopefully you're thinking this too in the audience. If you're like, wow, Nic Rouleau, he really reminds me of that one Disney character. This could go bad.

[31:17] David Alpert: It could go bad.

[31:19] Nic Rouleau: And it will, and it will.

[31:21] David Alpert: Okay, I'm gonna write down what I think.

[31:23] Nic Rouleau: What people think they would say of me.

[31:34] David Alpert: That's right.

[31:36] Nic Rouleau: This is so wrong.

[31:37] David Alpert: Okay. So I'm gonna go first. So I would say, like, Nic, what Disney character do you think people are reminded of when they talk to you?

[31:46] Nic Rouleau: Of me.

[31:46] David Alpert: Yeah.

[31:49] Nic Rouleau: I didn't think about this.

[31:50] David Alpert: I mean, uh, can I repeat? I I'm gonna say Woody.

[31:54] Nic Rouleau: Because I've played it, but also like I feel like we have a lot of similarities in our lives.

[32:00] David Alpert: Okay.

[32:00] Nic Rouleau: Is there a snake in your boots?

[32:02] David Alpert: There's always a snake in my boots.

[32:03] Nic Rouleau: I wrote Cusco.

[32:04] David Alpert: Oh.

[32:06] Nic Rouleau: Can you explain?

[32:07] David Alpert: From Emperor's New Groove?

[32:08] Nic Rouleau: Yeah. Because they're like fun and silly and you take a look at it.

[32:10] David Alpert: I like folks.

[32:11] Nic Rouleau: Oh, that's sweet.

[32:12] David Alpert: Yeah.

[32:12] Nic Rouleau: Oh, I love.

[32:13] David Alpert: And you might turn into a goat.

[32:14] Nic Rouleau: And you're a llama.

[32:16] David Alpert: Llama, excuse me, a llama.

[32:17] Nic Rouleau: Okay. What about you?

[32:18] David Alpert: And so who do you think people think of?

[32:20] Nic Rouleau: Here's the deal. People have told me often, and it's the most special thing anyone can ever say. They're like, you remind me of Mickey Mouse.

[32:26] David Alpert: Oh.

[32:27] Nic Rouleau: That's not what you wrote that.

[32:28] David Alpert: That's not what I wrote.

[32:29] Nic Rouleau: Um, I wrote Scuttle from the Little Mermaid.

[32:34] David Alpert: Who I love.

[32:35] Nic Rouleau: Yeah, I think.

[32:37] David Alpert: No, he's not.

[32:39] Nic Rouleau: Oh, okay.

[32:40] David Alpert: I just think you're I liked it. I've also heard Christopher Robin for me.

[32:45] Nic Rouleau: Oh, okay.

[32:46] David Alpert: Because like I most of my friends are performers and I love them. And I'm like, you guys do that. I'll just make sure you're safe.

[32:53] Nic Rouleau: I just had Scott along mine.

[32:54] David Alpert: Okay. Um here's one. Of all of the Disney theme parks, including the four in Walt Disney World.

[33:00] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[33:00] David Alpert: The two in California.

[33:01] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[33:02] David Alpert: The multiple international ones.

[33:03] Nic Rouleau: Yes.

[33:04] David Alpert: Which one does the other person like the best?

[33:07] Nic Rouleau: So you're going to write down which one you think I like the best. I'm going to write down the one I think you like the best.

[33:12] David Alpert: Uh-huh.

[33:13] Nic Rouleau: So it could be in Florida, there's Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios.

[33:17] David Alpert: Right.

[33:18] Nic Rouleau: California, there's Disneyland, and California Adventure.

[33:21] David Alpert: Yeah.

[33:22] Nic Rouleau: Paris is changing their second park.

[33:25] David Alpert: And then there's Tokyo Disney Sea as well as Tokyo Disney.

[33:27] Nic Rouleau: Right.

[33:27] David Alpert: Shanghai, Hong Kong.

[33:29] Nic Rouleau: Right?

[33:29] David Alpert: I mean, so I'm gonna write down what I think is your favorite.

[33:38] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[33:38] David Alpert: Hopefully we're all thinking about what your favorite is.

[33:41] Nic Rouleau: You want to go first this time?

[33:42] David Alpert: Well, I feel like I know what yours is.

[33:43] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[33:44] David Alpert: What do you think it is?

[33:44] Nic Rouleau: I'm gonna say it. It's Disneyland.

[33:47] David Alpert: It's Disneyland OG.

[33:48] Nic Rouleau: OG!

[33:48] David Alpert: Oh wow. Disneyland OG.

[33:50] Nic Rouleau: Yours is definitely that.

[33:51] David Alpert: Yeah, totally.

[33:52] Nic Rouleau: And um What is yours?

[33:54] David Alpert: Mine, oh, it's really close. Uh, it's between two, but I'm gonna go with Epcot.

[34:00] Nic Rouleau: Yes, an Epcot!

[34:01] David Alpert: It's really it's a tie between Epcot and Animal Kingdom. I just know you like to drink.

[34:05] Nic Rouleau: I do like to drink around the world.

[34:07] David Alpert: Thank you. It's so much fun, but Epcot is so magical. I mean, have you been on Cosmic Rewind?

[34:12] Nic Rouleau: The new ride?

[34:13] David Alpert: No.

[34:13] Nic Rouleau: Has anyone been on Cosmic Rewind?

[34:16] David Alpert: It's the Avengers ride in Epcot. It's really cool.

[34:18] Nic Rouleau: No, I've not done that one yet.

[34:19] David Alpert: There's a lot of fun. The last time I was there, I did the uh the Avatar ride.

[34:23] Nic Rouleau: Oh yeah, Flight of Passage.

[34:25] David Alpert: Before I even Avatar.

[34:26] Nic Rouleau: Yes. Beautiful ride. Loved it. It was amazing.

[34:29] David Alpert: Here's our last one.

[34:30] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[34:31] David Alpert: What Disney movie does the other person not like?

[34:36] Nic Rouleau: So you're gonna choose a movie that you don't you think that I don't like.

[34:39] David Alpert: Yeah. We'll do the same.

[34:40] Nic Rouleau: Yeah.

[34:42] David Alpert: Let me think.

[34:43] Nic Rouleau: And again, we're not saying they're good or bad. We're just saying if we like them or not.

[34:56] David Alpert: Okay.

[34:57] Nic Rouleau: Oh, I haven't. Oh gosh. There's I'm trying to th I you're you're a tough critic.

[35:02] David Alpert: I am a tough critic.

[35:08] Nic Rouleau: I know this is a I mean, there's so many Disney films.

[35:10] David Alpert: Okay.

[35:11] Nic Rouleau: Okay. I'm gonna go first.

[35:14] Nic Rouleau: Okay. And I'm gonna tell you that I don't like I don't love Tangled.

[35:20] David Alpert: Oh okay.

[35:22] Nic Rouleau: I went really new and I said Wish.

[35:25] David Alpert: Isn't that the new one?

[35:26] Nic Rouleau: Yeah I did not say that.

[35:29] David Alpert: I was not a fan of the movie Wish.

[35:31] Nic Rouleau: You can say whatever you want.

[35:32] David Alpert: Yeah.

[35:32] Nic Rouleau: Um I that's I I I kind of figured You're right. But um I I and I'm also not the biggest fan.

[35:39] David Alpert: Uh but I that's rude because I haven't finished it because I put it I was flying back from China recently.

[35:44] Nic Rouleau: Yeah, yeah.

[35:45] David Alpert: And I put it on to watch, and within 10 minutes I was um asleep for the next nine or something.

[35:50] Nic Rouleau: What I do like about Wish is that the seven dwarfs are represented in the movie.

[35:53] David Alpert: Oh, are they?

[35:54] Nic Rouleau: Yeah.

[35:55] David Alpert: I missed that part.

[35:56] Nic Rouleau: Which one, which Disney movie do you not like?

[35:58] David Alpert: Uh the Disney movie.

[36:00] Nic Rouleau: Oh, okay.

[36:00] David Alpert: The Disney movie that I don't like. Believe it or not, because I love one of the characters specifically. I don't care for the Aristocats.

[36:12] Nic Rouleau: I wrote Cinderella.

[36:13] David Alpert: Oh, I yeah, that's I know you don't love like the the golden age.

[36:17] Nic Rouleau: I don't love the golden age of that that early golden age of Disney.

[36:21] David Alpert: I love the 90s golden age of the Renaissance.

[36:23] Nic Rouleau: The Renaissance.

[36:25] David Alpert: The Renaissance.

[36:26] Nic Rouleau: Um well thank you, Nic, for playing that. That was fun.

[36:28] David Alpert: We did pretty well at first.

[36:29] Nic Rouleau: We did okay.

[36:30] David Alpert: We did pretty badly.

[36:32] Nic Rouleau: No, I mean like we got we got correct the Disney characters.

[36:35] David Alpert: Yes, that's favorite park.

[36:36] Nic Rouleau: There we go. Those were easy.

[36:38] David Alpert: And yeah.

[36:39] Nic Rouleau: Yeah.

[36:39] David Alpert: That's okay.

[36:40] David Alpert: Um in our main time, okay. We're gonna do a quick little Tweedledee or Tweedledum.

[36:44] Nic Rouleau: I'm gonna give you two options.

[36:46] David Alpert: You're gonna tell me which of these two you prefer. Ready?

[36:48] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[36:48] David Alpert: Pirates of the Caribbean or the Haunted Mansion.

[36:50] Nic Rouleau: Pirates of the Caribbean.

[36:52] David Alpert: Right away.

[36:52] Nic Rouleau: Yeah.

[36:53] David Alpert: What do you like about Pirates?

[36:54] Nic Rouleau: Uh well, I like the the redo they did to it. Like the the faces, like adding in um Johnny Depp. Like it looks so real. You feel like he's actually there. It's impressive.

[37:04] David Alpert: Would you prefer the Haunted Mansion if the ghost host speech was changed to what you did?

[37:08] Nic Rouleau: Absolutely.

[37:08] David Alpert: They mention Humpback Whales.

[37:10] Nic Rouleau: Exactly.

[37:11] David Alpert: Um second Tweedled or Tweedledum. Watching the parade or watching fireworks.

[37:16] Nic Rouleau: Fireworks.

[37:17] David Alpert: Yeah. Absolutely.

[37:18] Nic Rouleau: I think I'm a parade person.

[37:19] David Alpert: You are.

[37:20] Nic Rouleau: I I like a parade. I get bored after about like three minutes.

[37:23] David Alpert: Well.

[37:25] Nic Rouleau: Yikes.

[37:25] David Alpert: But fireworks are magical.

[37:27] Nic Rouleau: Okay, this was is uh really an overlap of Broadway and Disney. Which song do you prefer? I Believe or Go the Distance?

[37:38] Nic Rouleau: I Believe is a perfect song.

[37:41] David Alpert: So I'm gonna go with I Believe.

[37:43] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[37:43] David Alpert: There's literally nothing to change in that song.

[37:46] Nic Rouleau: And then the last one for Tweedledee or Tweedledum. It's a Small World or the Teacups.

[37:54] Nic Rouleau: I'm not a fan of either.

[37:57] David Alpert: And I'm gonna choose It's a Small World because you won't throw up.

[38:01] Nic Rouleau: Teacups, well depends.

[38:04] David Alpert: It depends.

[38:06] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[38:06] Nic Rouleau: I love Small World.

[38:07] David Alpert: People hate it.

[38:08] Nic Rouleau: I don't not uh I don't love it.

[38:11] David Alpert: What do you not like about it?

[38:14] Nic Rouleau: I feel like it's one of those rides where like once you've done it, you've done it, and you there's no point really to go back.

[38:19] David Alpert: Well it's not a throw ride.

[38:20] Nic Rouleau: No.

[38:21] David Alpert: It's a sweet and nostalgic.

[38:22] Nic Rouleau: I mean the song is cute, but I feel like every time I go on it, you get stuck on it.

[38:26] David Alpert: Like it it breaks or pauses, and you're on it for like 45 minutes.

[38:29] Nic Rouleau: Right.

[38:30] David Alpert: And that's the last ride you want to be on with that song on repeat.

[38:33] Nic Rouleau: But it's nice and quiet.

[38:35] David Alpert: Sure.

[38:35] Nic Rouleau: Air conditioned.

[38:37] David Alpert: Sure.

[38:37] Nic Rouleau: The line moves quickly.

[38:39] David Alpert: The line moves quickly.

[38:40] Nic Rouleau: They've added Disney characters to the one in California.

[38:43] David Alpert: Have they?

[38:44] Nic Rouleau: It's sweet.

[38:44] David Alpert: And then apparently in oh gosh, one of the international parks, maybe Paris, if anyone knows this, they're adding some Marvel characters to the ride.

[38:51] Nic Rouleau: Weird.

[38:52] David Alpert: And the feedback was like some of those Marvel characters uh destroy people in their movies.

[38:57] Nic Rouleau: And are they still like little figurines?

[38:58] David Alpert: Yeah.

[39:00] David Alpert: Yeah, they're in the like the Mary Blair style. But like they're like one was, I think it was gonna be like um, you know, because some of the Avengers cr do violent actions.

[39:09] Nic Rouleau: They do, yes.

[39:09] David Alpert: And they're like, maybe that's not the right message for Small World.

[39:13] Nic Rouleau: Yeah, it is all sort of like Kumbaya, let's all get along.

[39:16] David Alpert: Exactly. Um the next time you go to the parks, what's the first thing you want to do?

[39:20] Nic Rouleau: Well, which one am I going to?

[39:22] David Alpert: Uh I I would really like to ride uh I'd love to do all the new stuff that I haven't done.

[39:28] Nic Rouleau: So I haven't done any of the um what were we just talking about? The Cosmic Rewind and Epcot.

[39:34] David Alpert: That's really fun.

[39:34] Nic Rouleau: Yeah, I want to do that. Frozen Ever After is new, Ratatouille is new. Never done that.

[39:39] David Alpert: The last new thing I did was Avatar, and before that was the uh Seven Dwarves Mine Train.

[39:44] Nic Rouleau: Ooh.

[39:44] David Alpert: Which hot take, I didn't like.

[39:48] Nic Rouleau: It's fun.

[39:48] David Alpert: We like some dark.

[39:49] Nic Rouleau: But I know that you love the Seven Dwarves.

[39:51] David Alpert: I do. I think it's a fun, it's it's a roller coaster, I think, aimed at actually at younger people.

[39:55] Nic Rouleau: Yeah.

[39:56] David Alpert: It was fun, but it'd be like for waiting in line for two hours.

[39:58] Nic Rouleau: It was a long way.

[39:59] David Alpert: It is a long way.

[40:00] Nic Rouleau: Do you what you think Space Mountain is still truly your favorite?

[40:04] David Alpert: That in Everest. It's it's a really it's a really close call.

[40:07] Nic Rouleau: Okay.

[40:07] David Alpert: That's good. Well, Nic, thank you for joining me.

[40:09] Nic Rouleau: Thank you.

[40:10] David Alpert: Today on E-Ticket to Broadway at the Museum of Broadway from the Broadway Podcast Network. Thank you everyone for being here.

[40:16] Nic Rouleau: And we'll see you at the parks.

[40:18] David Alpert: Yeah, see you at the parks. Thanks, everyone.