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[0:00] Jasmine Forsberg: My name is Jasmine Forsberg.

[0:06] Storm Lever: My name is Storm Lever and you're listening to Eleven, the official theatre podcast.

[0:17] William J Connolly: Hello, welcome to Eleven, the official theatre podcast that brings the biggest stars and creatives together in one place to discuss life in the arts. They are the iconic queens of Six that have gone from serving it up on the road to slaying it now on Broadway. And with other leading theatrical credits including Summer, the Donna Summer musical, and Here Lies Love, they're no stranger to life in the spotlight. So here in an exclusive conversation and direct from New York, just ahead of their final show of the week, we talk bringing the story of Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour to life as they help teach Broadway a remixed Herstory lesson all of their own. How their bond as a group has travelled across the country over the past two years as a sisterhood, and why Summer and Here Lies Love really did change their lives.

Doing the most? You bet. Please meet the queens singing the house down boots. Their words, not mine. It's Broadway superstars Storm Lever and Jasmine Forsberg here now on this, the next episode of Eleven, the official theatre podcast.

[1:25] William J Connolly: To ensure the safety of all involved in this episode of Eleven, Storm, Jasmine and I connected for this conversation digitally, so please forgive any brief moments while we wait for the internet to catch up. Enjoy. Please help me welcome to this the next episode of Eleven. They are the superstar queens of Broadway that are currently rocking it out nightly and bringing a touch of remixed British history to sell out audiences already dancing. This is going to be my sort of chat, so let's start at the top left of my screen and say hi Storm Lever, how are you?

[1:57] Storm Lever: Hello, I'm doing so well. I'm so excited to talk to you.

[2:00] William J Connolly: Thank you so much for agreeing to do this in this style of remixing up. Do you want to introduce that rather lovely extra person that's at the bottom of the screen there with the biggest smile in the world? Do you want to take the onus?

[2:10] Storm Lever: Oh my gosh, I would happily do it. So at the bottom of our screen, joining the podcast, we have the legendary, the incredible, the talented, the kind, the generous Jasmine who plays Jane Seymour.

[2:18] Jasmine Forsberg: Oh hi Storm, hi William, how's it going? That introduction was perfect. I would never have been as good as that, so bless you for doing that. Honoured Stormy, truly, thank you.

[2:31] Jasmine Forsberg: Thank you so much for agreeing to do this once again. It's a huge honour and I should say actually as I reach forward, this is a podcast so it's not actually going to be much use for people that can't see this, but I did come see your rather special show literally a week ago today. It feels like five minutes ago and I'm back on British soil, but just to say congratulations. It was insane, like it was so good. I've seen this show, surprise, surprise, with it originating here in London rather a lot of times, but it just felt so different, so special, so fresh. I just got completely lost in it. I mean Storm, is this just the best job you've ever had?

[3:03] Storm Lever: It is truly so, so special. It's one of those things, we were doing it on tour together and now we've moved to the Broadway company and I have a pinch me moment almost every night, just the fact that not only am I telling this amazing story, but it's also working beside these incredible, incredible women where I'm truly a fan of every single one of them, so I sit back and like, you know, the same experience that you had. I'm rocking out to their songs, I'm bopping my head, I'm in awe of all of their voices and then have a pinching moment every night of like, wait a minute, I'm on stage with them too? Someone let me sneak up here? That's been really special.

[3:38] Jasmine Forsberg: I couldn't agree more with everything Storm said and I don't know when this podcast will be released to the public, but we are approaching Valentine's Day, which is our two-year anniversary of meeting one another. We started rehearsals for the Eragon tour on Valentine's Day 2022 and it's just, it's bizarre to me how two whole years with these incredible women have passed and I've learned more than I could ever imagine from just, as Storm said, being alongside them, witnessing their star power on stage night after night after night, but then also getting to tour the United States with them as well. You really get to know people when you travel with them and I am so grateful to have found such a sisterhood in every single one of them.

[4:22] William J Connolly: What I love about you both talking about each other is the second the other starts talking about the other one, you just start smiling instantly. I was like, it's infectious and I felt like that was what I did at the show. I feel like just that space inside that theatre is just joy. I feel like it's something so special that you sometimes try and create and it just never happens in the way that it does authentically. Jasmine, is that how you feel when you go to work every day? Just like, oh and relax, I'm back in my happy space.

[4:42] Jasmine Forsberg: I don't know how Storm and I were chosen for this particular podcast, but we're also dressing room buddies, so every single day I walk into the space and we have a knock that we do and Storm will always go, enter! It is the perfect way of setting every single day up for just joy and success with this group of people. I mean, I think chemistry is something on stage that sometimes you have or you don't have it and sometimes you can work to create it, but we just inherently had it with one another and two years later it's only grown and so I'm so grateful to hear that you saw the show just a week ago to date because we, you know, this is two years of a relationship that we've created with one another and yes, every time, every time before we go on stage, Storm, maybe you can speak a little more to this, but we have an on-stage circle before the kabuki curtain drops open for ex-wives.

We're back there, we're holding hands, starting literally day one of our Galentine's Day dinner that we had together two years ago. We would always connect eyes with every single person in the circle and we pass along energy, we pass along a couple words and take some deep breaths together and just being able to center ourselves and have this sense of togetherness before individually having our own moments to shine and then obviously coming together at the end of Six, it's just oh so special. I wouldn't trade this experience for the world.

[6:15] Storm Lever: I also love that that tradition of the circle that we do because, you know, we've been doing this for two years now, so there are some days when somebody will come in with bringing on the energy that they have from their outside world and we get to honor like, hey, today I'm feeling a little tender, today I'm feeling a little this and we get to look that person in the eye, know that we're going to spend the show lifting them up and do the same thing for the audience. I'm happy to hear that that energy goes beyond the footlights where you can see some people come to the show, they just got off work or they're coming from whatever crazy energy that they were a part of and we, so much of the show is engaging with the audience, is asking the audience to participate.

It's very much a communal experience and so we get to take that energy and like invite them in to this world of like, look, for these 90 minutes we are going to release, we are going to laugh together, we are going to scream together, we're going to jam together and we're just going to let go of all the craziness that's happening outside of this theater and just like own this space and share this moment together and I think, yeah, just having a practice where we're honoring what happens in the theater and honoring that, yeah, honoring that release is really special.

[7:23] Storm Lever: I think the kids say today, like, it's like, it's giving, do you know what I mean? Like the show is and it was giving last week, like it was so special and, you know, I've had the real pleasure of seeing so many different iterations and casts of this show and one thing I think is so special about Six is that every time you go see a show, if it's a different cast in a different country, it does feel like something similar but it feels like you are experiencing it for that person on that day and their interpretation and I think what's incredibly commendable about coming to see in a different country is you see something so different. Storm, do you experience and feel, I know you referenced about energy, but do you feel the fact that actually this very specific part of British history, which could be quite niche to some, it's just people just want to know more, they're obsessed.

[8:05] Storm Lever: They are obsessed for sure and it's so fascinating too of doing a show like this where I've done other shows that are based off of real people where there's a real sense of let's gather as much information about them and let's get the families involved and let's honor their story and what's fascinating about these, I don't even want to call them characters, these women in particular, so much of the history that we have on them, we don't know what is true, we don't know what is fabricated, we know that so many of the stories told about them were in order to impress or to, you know, validate the king's experience. So much of the, when you go back and you read articles about them, you read books about them, you read all the different texts that's out there about them, it is in favor of Henry and you don't really get a sense of who these women are, you get them villainized often and here's this version of Six the Musical that's telling their stories that is so, an unapologetic version of them, this wild version of them, I'm sure you can even attest to seeing different women portray these characters, there's so many different directions that you can go in and all of them are valid in their own right because we don't know who these women were and are and I think that's just such a fascinating different way to look at how we can portray these different characters throughout history, that there's a way to honor the essence, we're not going to get all the details correct but we can honor that their stories are deserved to be told, that their perspectives are deserved to be told and it's important to like hold space for all different perspectives, not just one that is honoring the man that was in power, here's one that's for the girls, if you will.

[9:41] Jasmine Forsberg: Jasmine, how familiar were you with Jane's story before you first knew that this could be a character that could be coming into your life?

[9:45] Jasmine Forsberg: Truthfully, I wasn't, this sounds crazy but we hear oftentimes, being a part of Six, we hear that people know the rhyme, divorced but how to die, divorced but how to survive, I don't even know if I heard that growing up and to be fair, I did five years of virtual school and so who knows if that particular history lesson, I just didn't really absorb all that much but that being said, I remember before we started rehearsal, our director of the tour gifted us these materials to watch, one of them was a documentary, I believe it was a Storm, was it a BBC documentary?

[10:24] Storm Lever: It was, yeah.

[10:25] Jasmine Forsberg: Given a text to read as well, The Six Wives of Henry VIII by, who is the author? I'm going to be blinking on it, sorry to all those people listening on the podcast, Storm's gonna rescue me.

[10:35] Storm Lever: I mean, we were given such incredible source materials and I couldn't agree more that Storm, like this was all up for interpretation because as evidenced by so much of history, so much is written, not just to honor the king but also just so much is written from a man's perspective because oftentimes texts written, even biblical texts that were written by women are no longer in the Bible if that's something that you read and so it's just so fascinating to see that not only do we have six strong women taking a stand on stage and telling their own version but it's also six strong actors who get to tell their own story as well and infuse as much of themselves into this real life history and find themselves in this history.

[11:21] Jasmine Forsberg: And I mean, when I first auditioned for this show, I was going back, I was going in for four of the six queens. The only two queens that I didn't read for were Anne Boleyn and Anna of Cleves. It came down to another work session, so after the final callback, which I thought was going to be the last time I went in for the tour, they brought me in back again and it was down to Katherine Howard and Jane Seymour and at the final callback, I didn't even sing for Jane Seymour. I literally thought she was taken off the table. So when this work session came around and it was down to those two people, of course, I knew I wanted to be in the show, period. But when I got that glory call that I was going to be in it, I thought it was going to be for Katherine Howard.

I didn't think it was going to be for Jane Seymour. Now seeing Didi Romero, our Katherine Howard's portrayal of it, there's no one in history who I think could truly touch the gift that she has given our company. But it's just so interesting how, you know, when a strong woman comes into the room, you want her to tell a story, you just don't know which one. And I think our company was such a puzzle piece. I know I strayed from your question a little bit on the history, but I think we've just infused so much of ourselves into these roles while also trying to honour these incredible women for the contributions that they've made to this history. And so it's just so special to tell the story night after night.

[12:39] Storm Lever: Definitely. And I also think that the diversity of thought balls, the diversity of person on stage is what makes this show so different to everything else. So actually, almost the thing that I guess Broadway would steer against or the West End would steer against previously in history is actually the thing that makes this the most special, that makes this so incredibly unique and actually separate itself from so many other different shows that I think is the extra wow factor that you feel very connected to as an audience member. And I don't know if you've had the pleasure of seeing the show and not being part of it, but you watch it going, I really want to get to know those people on stage as well as the characters.

And I think that's incredibly difficult chemistry and relationship to make. But oh, it's so glorious to be an audience member. Like you said, there's so many shows that follow specific archetypes where you go and you see, I don't want to throw any show under the bus. This show is fantastic. So let's use this as an example. Wicked, for example, there's a very specific Elphaba type. There's a very specific Glinda type. And every time you see the show, you're going to see a similar type that's going to portray that role. Whereas Six, you go across the board and there's so many productions of this show going on right now. And no Anne Boleyn's look the same. No Jane Seymour's look the same or sound the same there.

And it makes it so you can see it over and over and over again. I'm sure you can attest to when you've seen it. Each version is so, so different. And each company has like a specific and different energy to them that I'm sure brings out something new in the show every time you go. I remember having the pleasure of having Danielle Steers, who played Catherine Parr on this podcast when the show re-opened at the West End. And her voice tone is considerably lower than anybody else that's ever played it. But when you sit in that theatre.

[14:11] Storm Lever: You hear, you hear that, you know, obviously a lot of highly pitched, and then you hear that, you think, oh, you get the tingles, and you go, that's why we do this. That's why don't, we don't want, respectfully, don't want a copy and paste of what we've seen before. So, you know, I think, and you know, that's a real testament to, to Toby and Lucy for the fact that they see, they see everybody. And I think, I think that's, I think that's incredibly important. And I will say, actually, I think that's reflective of why the audiences for SIX are incredibly varied, from socioeconomic backgrounds, gender, sex, race, I think it's incredibly important. And it's why I think everybody wants to see the show across the world.

I mean, can you get a ticket to SIX on Broadway? It's blooming hard. I don't know if you've tried. You can get tickets. There's, there's a standing room available every single night for $40. So there's affordable tickets available. They have a lottery available. There's, there's tickets out there. Nobody's standing by the way. It's a dancing ticket at the back. Nobody's standing still. Yeah, nobody's standing still during X, Y, or Z. I don't know, this isn't necessarily my story to tell, but I just wanted to launch something into the room. Storm, what was it like, speaking of blending of companies, and how, I mean, like, we have so many people who have approached these roles before us that we look up to so much.

And, and what was it like being on tour with Natalie? Because Natalie came to finish off the Eragon Company's run. And you know, she's OG Seymour. So what was, what was it like having somebody on stage who has truly helped, like, build the show from the ground up?

[15:40] Jasmine Forsberg: First off, I love, love, love Natalie. She couldn't have been more humble. She couldn't have been, you know, this is the OG creator of this show. And she could have easily came in with her feather boa, and like gloves, and sunglasses, and just been the queen of all queens. But she truly came, just the most humble, the most caring. And just, you know, in awe of her own legacy of getting to see it travel across the country, in the States. And you know, this was her first show in the States that she got to do. And just really, I got to watch her soak in her own legacy. And hearing her talk about, too, how her relationship to Jane Seymour has changed over the years, having to revisit the role, how she's changed as she stepped into the role, has been fascinating.

And we even, you know, we had been doing the show at that point for almost a year together. So us as a company had to adjust to, we had two new energies. We had Courtney Mack that came in as Catherine Howard, and Natalie Parris that came in as Jane Seymour. So we also had to adjust of how our roles fit into these new energies. Because there's very much, I don't know if you've felt this Jasmine, but there's very much some adjusting that we have to do, and finding like our own rhythm of how the scenes rise and fall, and how the jokes come and go. And so there's a lot of recalibrating of how to match each other's rhythm, how to blend with each other. And they both are so amazing and gracious, and they listen to us, and we found our own rhythm.

But it's a testament to just the people that they picked for the show are really selfless human beings on and off the stage. And so there was never an energy of like, the diva has arrived, I've been doing this for years. It very much is, yes, I get to like meld myself to new energies, and we get to find our own groove. And I will say it was pretty groovy.

[17:38] Storm Lever: Also, anybody that spent even five minutes with Natalie knows that she is incredibly naughty as well. There's a laugh a minute with her. She is so much fun. She is the best. And also the voice is ridiculous. Like the fact that that's a gift given to her. I mean, I mean, just ridiculous. We've all worn out that six cast album with her. Like it's ridiculous. I think it's part of that. That's an archetype. It's the same. If you're going to be Jane Seymour, you have to sing the house down boots. It is a requirement. Now, Jasmine, I feel like there's a very natural progression from that to you and obviously playing Jane Seymour and singing a certain song for you. Are you just like, yeah, I can do this? Or are you like absolutely utterly terrified? Because let's be honest, that's a big, big, big song. Like you, there's no off days playing Jane Seymour, right?

[18:22] Jasmine Forsberg: It is a big thing for sure. For sure, for sure, for sure. And I, from a dramatic standpoint, I think there is a world and it's not the world that I live in, but there's a world where like, you could get really, you could get like bored or you could be boring singing the ballad. If you're not dropped into the circumstance every single night, it could become the song that, that just kind of sits in, in, in a color. And it's, it's a little slower and it's like the audience gets a chance from high energy to kind of like calm down a little bit. And I, I love, I love feeling so connected as selfishly as an actor, when I get to go through an experience and hopefully have the audience go through an experience and a journey at night, it is so deeply fulfilling.

And for that reason, it never gets old to me. And similarly to Natalie and I've, you know, I took a six month period of time to work on a different show prior to rejoining Six on Broadway with the, with my girlies, but so much life has happened between when I, when I started this journey two years ago and now. And I guess similarly to Natalie, it's been incredible to see how Heart of Stone has evolved over the course of two years. I mean, I fell in love for the first time. I experienced this joy in my life and I experienced a loss in my life. Similarly, that, that makes me consider, you know, what it's like to say those lyrics, soon I'll have to go, I'll never see him grow. I didn't necessarily lose a child, but when your heart is so, when your heart takes on such transformations over the course of a couple years, it is so beautiful to see how much storytelling can evolve over that time.

And so from a dramatic standpoint, it is a gift to be able to sing that song. It's, it's slightly, slightly, perhaps at times I need to put my hand out for the, those who can't see me, I'm literally putting my hand out right now to keep a little bit of distance from, you know, my personal life in the role. And I have to really step into Jane for that. But there are other nights when like, I get to heal, me, Jasmine, I get to heal on stage. And I hope that the audience who gets to experience that with me feels that sense of evolution and journey. And that's, that's really special for this period of my life right now. And from a vocal standpoint, oh, Storm being my dressing room mate can attest.

Since, since the beginning of time, she'll just hear me like going, like, oh my god, I can't even believe I did that on the podcast right now. She's not warm right now. But at eight o'clock tonight, she will be. But the amount of vocal warmups that we do collectively in order to make sure that those, the particular stratospheric notes that I have chosen to be a part of, to know that they can be reached and to know that they can be supported. It is it is a journey, but we value our warmup time. That is for sure.

[21:26] Storm Lever: It is a journey that she makes look so easy. I'll come into that dressing room and I'll dust off the cobwebs from these cords. And this girl is sitting next to me just like, you would think that she woke up with the birds and is singing to this to the sky and just gorgeous. And I don't know when like when I'm matching Jazzy's tone, that's that's when we're warm. That's when we're ready to go. We are very thorough on our warmups, but this sis is ready to live in the stratosphere. She lives with the birds. The birds. Oh my gosh. Also, I completely feel like you did just own yourself there a little bit by saying that you chose to do. So the only person that's got to blame for any of this is you.

So to yourself, from yourself, what the fuck were you thinking? I came back for this version when we're doing it on Broadway. Her her rendition is already incredible and mind blowing. I get to watch the audience every single day. She hits those notes and I watch people collectively lose their ish, pee their pants, like just gobsmacked in the audience. And this woman, when we came back to do this version, she said, you know what, I'm already doing the most, but I'm gonna do the most and then some and add an even crazier riff, even higher. I didn't know those notes existed, but they are here and they're here to stay and she's nailing them eight shows a week.

[23:06] Jasmine Forsberg: Well, I thank you, Stormi. Thank you so much. I'm so glad that also as well with the show that you get to sit on stage and experience it. Obviously, I know that you are supporting as well, but like to get to be there and I'm sure you feel it as well that everybody is as a collective. It feels like a unit, but from the audience perspective, yeah, I don't know, this is very niche, but like, do you remember there was that viral clip from Wicked a while ago when Jessica Vosk did some like crazy notes and like Twitter went like, and it was like, I think someone called it like the gay gasp. That was me watching this show continuously every time it was like, oh, for God's sake, like if someone was recording me, they'd tell me to shut up.

[23:43] Storm Lever: No, that's the correct energy to bring this in. Stormi, like that song is quick. You gotta go. Like when it goes, you go and if you're not there, it runs off. Are you like, oh yeah, great. Ha ha ha ha ha. Or are you like, oh, fuck it. No, not this again.

[24:01] Jasmine Forsberg: Fine. Like that song is just like you said, like if you're not ready to get on the train, it's going to leave you. And so it's, it is, I'm already hyped because Kayla opens the show as Aragon and she is bringing you beast mode every single night. So I'm already locked in from like starting the show with no way. We're dancing our little faces off. I'm feeling myself. I think I'm a dancer who's been dancing down since dance was dance. So I'm already like, and then, you know, don't lose your head starts. I'm like, oh, right. This little old number, a little old me gets to go. And I, yeah, I'm already hyped up, I think because of her song, and it is too much fun to do. I, I also was when we first were auditioning for the show, was in for multiple roles. And Amberlynn was probably the last one on my radar. And now it baffles me. I can't imagine doing any other song. Like it just feels so right. It feels so fitting. It is so disgustingly fun.

[25:46] Storm Lever: How do you, how do you find that balance both of you between like, I guess, obviously, Anne's song comes a bit quicker, but there's like, it's fast. And then suddenly, it's very beautiful and petite and pretty. And the same with Jane, like, you do all of this dancing, and it's like, energy, energy, energy. And then it's you, like, how do you not, how do you not die? Like, it's what? Do you know what I mean? It's like, oh, okay. We said work. We said work for your money. Work for your money. Earn that paycheck.

[26:19] Jasmine Forsberg: Oh, I mean, I still have a vivid memory of when we were first learning the show. We went chronologically and the choreographer, our choreographer, beloved Carrie Anne, she came and worked with us for four weeks when we were learning the show back in 2022. And I still remember the first day we did, we kind of learned the show in chunks. And so we like ran from, I think it was the top to maybe through House of Holbein. And that was like our act one, if we could split it into two acts. And we had to do that once, maybe once or twice before we finished learning the rest of the show. And I remember, I don't know about you Storm, but I was like, that experience was daunting for me. And I still remember when we first learned Ex-Wives, which is giving seven minutes long, seven minute open number or so, like roughly.

I remember learning that and panting afterwards and being like, how do you do the rest of the show? How do you do it? But when you, you know, I think our bodies collectively have gotten so conditioned for the show. I can speak for myself in that if I only do the show, that's not enough. I have to do supplemental stuff on top of it because the show is so high energy and demanding cardio wise that like, I need to work on the strength in addition to that. And I think probably any athlete or so would incorporate those versatility workouts and training into their practice. But wow, it is, this show is, you are shot out of a cannon and we go on stage maybe in totality for like 60 seconds, maybe, maybe one minute, 20 seconds total spent off stage the entire time, maybe. What do you think Storm?

[27:59] Storm Lever: I mean, yeah, we have very, spend very little time off stage. And when we were off stage, we are chugging water. We recently added some like humidifiers to the side. So I'm also sticking my head in the humidifier, getting a little extra moisture on those cords before going back out. But I remember that rehearsal so vividly where we finished, I think there was one time we ran the show for the first time from top to bottom and we finished and we looked at each other and we were like, I'm not okay. They want us to do this in front of an audience, a paid, a paying audience in front of human beings. But now we're good. Now we can breathe. Now we can do things after the show. Now we're perky. We've come a long way.

We've definitely, our stamina has caught up with our nerve. Um, yeah, I, I'm, I'm in awe of you in particular Jazzy, because you have to go from no way to don't lose your head. And then after that, all of us get to sit down and watch the back of your head, give us life. And you, after doing those two high energy numbers, belt your little face off. And it is incredible. For a whole year and a half, I went that entire period, not getting water, not knowing that it was an option. I thought I couldn't, I thought the Seymour track couldn't get water before heart of stone. And it was only revealed to me two weeks ago that that's not the reality. And here in New York city, when you have...

[28:23] William J Connolly: Welcome back to eleven. I'm your host, William J Connolly, and today we have two incredible guests with us. Please welcome Storm Lever and Jasmine Forsberg, the queens of SIX on Broadway!

[28:38] Storm Lever: Thank you for having us! We're so excited to be here.

[28:43] Jasmine Forsberg: Yes, thank you! It's a thrill to chat with you about our experiences.

[28:48] William J Connolly: So, let's dive right in. You both have such unique journeys that led you to Broadway. Storm, can you share a bit about your background and how you got into theatre?

[28:58] Storm Lever: Absolutely! I grew up in a small town and was always drawn to performing. I started in community theatre and eventually moved to New York to pursue my dreams. It’s been a wild ride, but every moment has been worth it.

[29:13] Jasmine Forsberg: I can relate to that! I also started in community theatre. I was always singing and dancing, and I knew I wanted to make it my career. Moving to New York was a big step, but it felt like the right place for me.

[29:28] William J Connolly: That's amazing! What was your first impression of Broadway when you arrived?

[29:33] Storm Lever: It was overwhelming in the best way. The energy, the lights, the talent—it was like stepping into a dream. I remember seeing shows and thinking, "I want to be a part of this world."

[29:48] Jasmine Forsberg: Yes! I felt the same way. There’s something magical about Broadway that just draws you in. It’s inspiring to be surrounded by so many talented people.

[30:03] William J Connolly: And now you're both part of this incredible show, SIX. What has that experience been like for you?

[30:08] Storm Lever: It’s been life-changing. The show has such a powerful message about female empowerment, and being able to portray these historical figures is an honor.

[30:13] Jasmine Forsberg: I agree! Each performance feels like a celebration of these women’s stories. It’s a joy to bring their voices to life on stage.

[30:18] William J Connolly: What do you think sets SIX apart from other Broadway shows?

[30:23] Storm Lever: I think it’s the way it blends history with modern music and storytelling. It makes the characters relatable and gives them a fresh perspective.

[30:28] Jasmine Forsberg: Absolutely! The music is so catchy and fun, and it really resonates with audiences. Plus, the energy in the theatre is electric!

[30:33] William J Connolly: It sounds like such a unique experience. What has been your favorite moment in the show so far?

[30:38] Storm Lever: For me, it’s the finale. The audience is always so engaged, and the energy is just through the roof. It’s a moment of pure joy.

[30:43] Jasmine Forsberg: I love that moment too! But I also cherish the quieter moments when we connect with the audience on a deeper level. It’s a beautiful balance.

[30:48] William J Connolly: That’s wonderful to hear. It sounds like you both have such a strong connection to the material and to each other as performers.

[30:53] Storm Lever: We really do! It’s like a sisterhood on stage, and we support each other every step of the way.

[30:58] Jasmine Forsberg: Yes, we lift each other up, and that camaraderie makes the experience even more special.