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[0:00] Linedy Genao: Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome to Entre Acts, your favorite podcast, Ya Tu Sabe. I'm Linedy Genao, and this is the podcast where we talk about everything with artists regarding the in-between, those in-between transitional moments in our lives as artists, as professionals, as human beings. And I am so excited to introduce this week's guest. She's a true force of nature in the entertainment world. A proud Latina, SUNY Purchase alumna, she has moved seamlessly from the elite world of concert dance to the bright lights of Broadway and major television sets. You've seen her in FX's Fosse/Verdon, and originating roles in Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But right now, señores, she is center stage in the production everybody is talking about, starring as Cassandra and Skimbleshanks in the hit Broadway revival Cats, the Jellicle Ball. Mi gente, please welcome the incredible Emma Sofia.

[1:05] Emma Sofia: Nena, I'm very happy. I'm very, very happy to be here. This is so nice. There's Domino in front of me, my little cafecito, the beautiful lights of Broadway. Outside is beautiful. Thank you so much for being here.

[1:23] Linedy Genao: Thank you for having me. Of course. So this show, we like to kind of describe it as a sandwichito, right? We have fun in the beginning, in the middle, we get into the hard stuff, ay Dios mio, media noche. 305 people, no. 305 till I die, eso. And then we have some fun in the end. So we're going to begin with Un Juego de Domino because we know in the Latin culture, dominoes, ya tu sabes, is huge, but we're not going to play the actual way. Because I don't really know how to, do you?

[1:51] Emma Sofia: I've only played a couple of times. We're going to get, we're going to get, we're going to get it.

[1:56] Linedy Genao: So we're going to play the entre acts way. So basically you're going to pick a domino, sum up that number and it'll pertain to an icebreaker question. Are you ready?

[2:03] Emma Sofia: I'm so ready. I've never been more ready for anything in my entire life.

[2:07] Linedy Genao: Vamono, vamono. Okay.

[2:09] Emma Sofia: Oh, that's a big one. That's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

[2:15] Linedy Genao: 11.

[2:16] Emma Sofia: No, it's not.

[2:17] Linedy Genao: Wait, 10.

[2:18] Emma Sofia: 6, it's 10.

[2:19] Linedy Genao: It's okay, senora. It's early. It's early and we're tired.

[2:22] Emma Sofia: You thought I was joking with counting one at a time.

[2:26] Linedy Genao: Texting or voice memos?

[2:28] Emma Sofia: Usually texting, but like just now on my way walking here, I listened to a seven-minute voice memo from my girl who's about to have a baby and feels for these moments, voice memo. So it depends.

[2:41] Linedy Genao: I'm a voice memo girl.

[2:42] Emma Sofia: Yeah.

[2:43] Linedy Genao: Do you play it at two times the speed?

[2:44] Emma Sofia: No.

[2:45] Linedy Genao: You play it at regular.

[2:46] Emma Sofia: No, I play it at regular.

[2:47] Linedy Genao: You're a real one.

[2:48] Emma Sofia: Yeah.

[2:49] Linedy Genao: I love speeding things up because then it's like, we live in Manhattan. It's too much. Everything's too fast. I got to slow things down.

[2:56] Emma Sofia: I love that. I need to, I'm taking that with me. So thank you. Thank you. Okay, next.

[3:02] Linedy Genao: Oh, another?

[3:03] Emma Sofia: See, we're going to do like four or five.

[3:06] Linedy Genao: Okay. Another big one. That's eight.

[3:10] Emma Sofia: In and Out or Shake Shack?

[3:12] Linedy Genao: In and Out. Hello. I'm from LA.

[3:14] Emma Sofia: I know. That's why I asked. Okay, I have a hot take.

[3:16] Linedy Genao: One day till I die.

[3:17] Emma Sofia: I have a hot take.

[3:18] Linedy Genao: Okay.

[3:19] Emma Sofia: The papitas french fries from In and Out. Do you like them?

[3:22] Linedy Genao: I was raised on them. So yes, I do.

[3:26] Emma Sofia: Now I understand. I know what's going to happen right now.

[3:28] Linedy Genao: There's no salt there. It tastes like, it takes like cardboard box.

[3:32] Emma Sofia: So you get animal style. The LA ones, no.

[3:35] Linedy Genao: You get animal style.

[3:36] Emma Sofia: I don't like the fries.

[3:37] Linedy Genao: Or you just get the spread. You get the spread on the side.

[3:38] Emma Sofia: Okay.

[3:39] Linedy Genao: LA people, no. In and Out, please add some salt to your papitas. Okay, next.

[3:44] Emma Sofia: I love you. My brother lives in LA. So every time I go, I have some In and Out and I hate the papitas.

[3:49] Linedy Genao: Okay, next.

[3:50] Emma Sofia: I'm dead.

[3:52] Linedy Genao: Not our producers from LA like giving me the dirtiest look. We are entitled to our own opinions, señores.

[3:59] Emma Sofia: Okay, next one.

[4:03] Linedy Genao: Another six, seven. Okay.

[4:05] Emma Sofia: Okay.

[4:06] Linedy Genao: Con Gris or Gallo Pinto?

[4:09] Emma Sofia: Gallo Pinto.

[4:11] Linedy Genao: Because that's more, that's my Nica side.

[4:15] Emma Sofia: That's my Nicaraguan side is the Gallo Pinto.

[4:17] Linedy Genao: I love that.

[4:19] Emma Sofia: Gallo Pinto with everything.

[4:20] Linedy Genao: With the Nica food.

[4:22] Emma Sofia: Yes.

[4:23] Linedy Genao: Okay, last one.

[4:26] Emma Sofia: Okay, that's six.

[4:28] Linedy Genao: Six. Okay. Another foodie, because I'm a foodie.

[4:31] Emma Sofia: Maduro or Tostones?

[4:33] Linedy Genao: Maduros.

[4:34] Emma Sofia: My mother was a Tostones woman.

[4:36] Linedy Genao: She was.

[4:37] Emma Sofia: She was a Tostones woman.

[4:39] Linedy Genao: She was always like, yeah, I get it.

[4:41] Emma Sofia: I love the crispy. I love the salty. I love it. But the Maduro.

[4:46] Linedy Genao: There's nothing like it.

[4:47] Emma Sofia: There's nothing like a Maduro.

[4:48] Linedy Genao: There's nothing like a Maduro. You got to know.

[4:50] Emma Sofia: You got to know how to cook them.

[4:51] Linedy Genao: You need to buy the plantain like basically black.

[4:54] Emma Sofia: That's right.

[4:55] Linedy Genao: Basically, if it's not like bruised to the bone, you can't.

[5:00] Emma Sofia: You're not going to get the Maduro that you want.

[5:01] Linedy Genao: Yeah. Have you ever had Mangu de Platano Maduro?

[5:04] Emma Sofia: I have, but I'm not as familiar.

[5:07] Linedy Genao: Okay.

[5:08] Emma Sofia: Yeah.

[5:09] Linedy Genao: Yeah.

[5:10] Emma Sofia: Those I get when they're more yellow.

[5:12] Linedy Genao: Yeah. We do more green plantain Mangu, but if I want a sweet Mangu, I'll do the same. I'll do.

[5:17] Emma Sofia: It has to be more yellow for the Mangu.

[5:20] Linedy Genao: Okay.

[5:21] Emma Sofia: Okay.

[5:22] Linedy Genao: A trick.

[5:23] Emma Sofia: But for the Maduro.

[5:24] Linedy Genao: Maduro needs to be black.

[5:25] Emma Sofia: Ya tu sabes.

[5:26] Linedy Genao: Black.

[5:27] Emma Sofia: Or else it's not going to work.

[5:28] Linedy Genao: No.

[5:29] Emma Sofia: No. Bueno, Emma. So that concludes.

[5:31] Linedy Genao: That was fun.

[5:33] Emma Sofia: Thank you.

[5:34] Linedy Genao: As you know, this podcast is called Entre Acts, right?

[5:36] Emma Sofia: Yes.

[5:37] Linedy Genao: In the in-betweens of our lives as artists, professionals, human beings, and in this industry, there's, unfortunately, a lot of shame in the in-between of like, what are you doing next? Where are you? What are you? Oh, you're not working. Oh, are you auditioning? And I wanted to create a space where we could talk about that in a positive light because any and every industry goes through that. But unfortunately, in ours, there's some sort of embarrassment or pressure or just,

[6:03] Emma Sofia: Yeah.

[6:04] Linedy Genao: Do you know what I mean? We live in an attention-based economy.

[6:07] Emma Sofia: Yeah.

[6:08] Linedy Genao: That's, you know, this is a business, ultimately. And the economy is, you know, contingent upon the attention that we have on ourselves as a business, as an entity. We are our person, our self, our body, our voice, our dance, our selves is the business.

[6:26] Emma Sofia: So, value.

[6:29] Linedy Genao: The value that we put on ourselves is based on what those people are hiring us for.

[6:37] Emma Sofia: So, it can really get in your head and you can create your identity based off of, what job did I book? Oh, what have I done on my resume? And that becomes your intrinsic value. And then, it throws you off course of your true purpose in life.

[6:54] Linedy Genao: It's a tough business, man.

[6:56] Emma Sofia: It's tough.

[6:58] Linedy Genao: That blew my mind.

[6:59] Emma Sofia: It's, no, it's so, so true.

[7:01] Linedy Genao: That's my TED Talk.

[7:02] Emma Sofia: No, that is so true. I could talk about this for a long time, Amida.

[7:05] Linedy Genao: That's why we're here.

[7:06] Emma Sofia: No, you're absolutely right. It's especially the part about what we create in our head and for our own image and everything like that. So, I wanted to ask you, what does that in-between space mean to you when you're not who you were or not yet who you're becoming, when you have a creative detour, an unexpected pause, when life yells intermission and forgets to tell you what's next? What does that space mean to you?

[7:32] Emma Sofia: Well, I have a pretty dramatic hero's journey odyssey from leaving the Broadway world in 2018 when Charlie and the Chocolate Factory closed. I had done ABC Showcase with Marcy Phillips and she changed my life and I joined the television world and I really made a conscious decision to not be a dancer, quote unquote, because I was kind of put in this category and my agents, I got new agents through ABC Showcase and they were like, we need to change these casting directors' minds that you are not a dancer. We had a meeting about my posture. It was like that.

[8:24] Linedy Genao: Why?

[8:25] Emma Sofia: So, I really, I stopped dancing. I just was doing yoga and I was just auditioning and self-taping and doing acting and I really to find myself and then I got really lucky and I booked two series regular jobs in February of 2020.

[8:43] Linedy Genao: Wow.

[8:45] Emma Sofia: So, literally, I was going to go start filming a series regular and a sitcom for ABC called Call Your Mother that 12 people watched.

[8:56] Linedy Genao: I didn't know about it.

[8:58] Emma Sofia: But it bought me a house for my grandmother.

[9:00] Linedy Genao: Hell yes.

[9:01] Emma Sofia: Because my abuela in Miami, she was getting really old and my mother passed away and her son passed away. So, she only had her nietas, her granddaughters. So, I was like, hey, I need to do something for her and then the pandemic happened and then I made a really rash decision to buy a house and move to Florida, to Miami, like Miami. And I had a mental health break because I wasn't dancing and dancing was my identity. Dancing was my whole life. I was in tights and leotard in front of a mirror every day of my life since I was four years old.

[9:44] Linedy Genao: Wow.

[9:46] Emma Sofia: And then I joined the acting thing and then the world exploded and then I didn't realize that I wasn't myself because I wasn't dancing because I was told by people, stop looking like a dancer. They need to take you seriously as an actor. So, that means shutting away that whole side of yourself, which was my spirituality. And I didn't know that. I had to find that out. So, I moved and I was with my grandmother and my sister. I went into a deep depression. I was not well. I really was not well, but my sister asked me, who are you? And I was like, I'm a dancer. She said, no, not your job. Who are you? I'm a good actor. No, no. Who are you? And the way that I found that out was by going to the ocean every day.

I literally was like a cashier at a juice, a vegan, a vegan juice place, vegan soul food, like making people's juices and at a cashier. And the owner of the place, it was a small little, he was like, weren't you on TV? And I was like, yeah. I'll never forget my birthday. I was filling single-use ketchup things and crying silently in the kitchen while like the two little young boys, they were in like high school, the cooks. And they were like, are you crying? And I was like, no. I can't. And they're like, are you sure? I was like, yeah. Yeah, no, I'm not crying because I thought my life was over, you know, but it was actually the best thing that could have happened to me was leaving New York, being with my family, healing my spirit, learning because what came back was me just putting on music and dancing in my room and in my backyard because we had like mango trees. We just sold the house, unfortunately, because my grandmother passed.

[11:45] Linedy Genao: I'm so sorry.

[11:47] Emma Sofia: No, it's good. It was a time that needed to happen. We got to have Christmases together. You know, it was amazing. It was amazing. And the ocean, truly, truly, nature is the only thing that brought me back to myself because I was like, I am a dancer first, always.

[12:06] Emma Sofia: Always and forever. And I'm an actor. And I'm a producer. And I'm a writer. And I'm a singer. And I'm this. And I'm that. And I'm this. And it took me losing everything and me picking myself back up to come back to the industry. And then this opportunity came and I freaking took it. And now I feel like, oh, okay, this is who I am. Okay, first of all, I was tearing up because that's so inspiring and real. And especially for you to be so vulnerable to share that because I have to share it. And people need to know the truth. It's not all good. I know I look cute. I know I do. I know that it looks fun and glamorous. But it has been a journey. Walking through the valley of the shadow of death, you got to do it.

And the journey is where this growth happens. You know, you have to trust that what's meant for you is meant for you. And even when you feel you're not. And sometimes we have to go through the trenches to rediscover ourselves and our purpose and our value. Because again, we are not defined by what society tells us that we are, or sometimes the limits we put on ourselves. I know personally, I get in my own way, so many times so many are our biggest critic, correct. And we respect these agents and casting directors and producers and all these things. And we think that they have the secret, but they're actually looking for the secret too, you know, so we get confused in this business. So it's really important to find your North Star, your Jiminy Cricket, you know, oh my God, that's nature, baby.

I love that. And the ocean is a real thing. My husband is born and raised by the water and like has all these tasks, these tattoos, really ocean related, because that was his therapy. He would go to the water every day to surf. You know, where's he from? Long Island.

[14:12] Linedy Genao: If I may ask what, after you went through that journey, that personal journey for yourself, when your sister if your sister asked you that question again, what was your answer? What did you discover?

[14:22] Emma Sofia: Oh, I'm a starseed, baby. I am. I know that I am a vessel and a channel of divine light and love. And that is through art and performance art. Oh my God, this is just that's who I really am. But it took a minute to find that out. It really did. Because I used to self-abandon a lot because I wanted people to like me.

[14:52] Emma Sofia: Don't we all girl? We live for the applause. You know, like we are that's we. Yeah, I mean, look at Broadway. And we get that instant gratification nightly. Yeah, the dopamine of that standing ovation when I left Broadway in 2018. I got withdrawals. I was having withdrawals from those standing ovations. I became a drug. I was like, Oh, I need that. But then at the same time, I didn't want it. It was very confusing. Broadway is confusing. It is. It is. And there's also a lot of times zero grace for us feeling those feelings because it's like, you know, how many people are lined up taking class, whatever? Yeah, I'll do it for free. But like doctors, any kind of industry, you're tired. Sometimes you don't want to go to work.

What we do is very hard. We get one day off. And then even on that day off, you have to do press and stuff and laundry, cooking, cleaning, there's so much to do. And if you are, you know, if you don't have a trust fund, it's pretty, you got to juggle a lot. People don't know this is not. This isn't TV. Yeah, I've done TV. Way more support there. Way more support. I wish that would transition into Broadway. And it will. Yeah, it will. Oh, holla. It needs to.

[16:12] Linedy Genao: I want to talk about your cabaret shows that you produce. Did that come from an in-between transitional period in your life? Where were you inspired to? How were you inspired to start that?

[16:18] Emma Sofia: Oh, my God. So my one-woman show tells this story. It's a little risque. There's a it's, it's more for, you know, 18 and over audience, the true story, the details that I will be posting on my website soon when I launch the website. I am now hiring looking for an assistant. If I'm now hiring, please submit your CV to the Broadhurst Theater. Because I have a lot of footage of said cabarets. So essentially, Tisler Bowie, he's a choreographer, you know, was a dancer, he's incredible creative director, he brought me on to the opening of the club, The Stranger, that it was the same producers as Queen of the Night, and Sleep No More and blah, blah, blah. And we ended up creating this, like, incredible nightlife immersive experience, The Stranger, if you know, you know, it was a moment, it was a time.

And I was his assistant. And that's not my gig. I'm not an assistant, you know, but he was like, I'm just not, hey, I know who I am now. But his arm was like, because he had an assistant. And he was like, No, you need to come in on this. And I was like, you know what, I'm gonna do this. Because both of us were like, God is telling us that we need to do that. Yeah. And so that kind of showed me because I had a lot of responsibility there. And just a lot of freedom. And I really found a new level of my artistry there. Because of the freedom and the joy. And it proved to me that I could do more than just perform. So I was doing The Stranger, then Cats came along. We did Cats off Broadway. Then I went on an Eat, Pray, Love trip in Europe.

And I, which you will see the details in my one-woman show on the website for the nightlife audience. But it's for everybody, you know, there's a little bit of that. So yeah, I came back from the Eat, Pray, Love trip. And I was like, I have to do a show. Because it was my 33rd year. My grandmother died, I shot Kiss of the Spider Woman. I did Cats. And I had this Europe solo trip where it was like, just a lot I was seeking myself and freedom and Bohemian Rhapsody joy, whatever. And so my dear friend Colin Cunliffe, who you know, right? He did Gatsby. He did Gatsby before you. Probably Colin Cunliffe. He's it was in KitKat. He's been in like nine Broadway shows. He's amazing. Um, we did cabarets together in like 2019.

And he's just amazing. And was actually Skimbleshanks in the Broadway revival. Oh my god. Um, he introduced me to this place Pangea in the lower the East Village on Second Avenue. And we used to do our cabarets there. They're amazing. They've been around for like 30 years, 40 years. Honestly, the same owner, Steven. I love you, Steven. You're the best. And I don't you're the best Cuban. So I did. I was like, Okay, I'm just gonna do my show. Chronicling my Jesus year, my 33rd year, because it was quite the year and it felt like my transformation. And then I just kind of did it. And then Claudia mullet. And Anna and Anna. Well, so Claudia mullet. She's another producer. She's another one to watch that Cuban that woman can do it all.

My Lord. There's a huge mural painting in my apartment. I commissioned hers. I commissioned her. And she put it up herself. If you see it, I'll post it or I'll send you a picture that she paints. She's an incredible, incredible. And her mom is also her mom is an artist from Cuba. They're from Havana. She's born in Havana. She got here her stories. She was in rent with Andy. So she was like, we need to do because my my one-woman show sold out. And it was amazing. We had like it was overflowing with people in the East Village. It was like such a cool moment. And she was like, we have to do a Cuban cabaret. And so we talked and we created we like went to a little coffee shop. And we came up with the idea of Tropicana Cuban cabaret.

And then it became Emma Sofia's Tropicana Cuban cabaret. And we did that at Pangea. Then I found an investor and then we got we brought it to 54 Below. We brought my one-woman show to the box. Hence the risque. You know, I'm clothed. Everybody calm down. All right. Yeah, no, no, I rented the box. You guys. I rented the space. Okay. Let's get it right. Let's get it right. Let's calm down. Um, I rented the space. So I ended up in one year last year of 2025. I produced 10 productions. We did my one-woman show Tropicana Cuban cabaret. Colin and I produced a pride concert. And I financed produced and starred and co-directed and collaborative short film that's in editing right now. So I really proved to myself through The Stranger that I could be a leader.

And then I was like, wait a minute. I've been in this business for a minute. I've been in the I've performed at the White House back with Michelle Obama did the Broadway. Yeah, it was amazing. I've done the Tony's I've done the Good Morning America as I've done that this I've done the series regular on a sitcom. I've, you know, been on a box in a dirty club, you know, in the West Village or what, you know, I've literally been at the bottom and at the top. And I was like, I think I want to do this myself and hire my friends and pay them what they deserve. I wish I could have paid you all more. But I we, you know, I paid people, you know, I love that. So that was my window into wait a minute. I don't need to wait for these big producer people to find me and discover me that was always where my grandma, you know, the immigrant, they're like, they're gonna discover you, they're gonna discover you.

And it's like, it creates this narrative of me sitting in a tower and just waiting. Yeah. And it's like, wait a minute. That's so patriarchal, misogynistic, women can't do anything. You know, I was like, Wait, no, that's not my story. I'm gonna do it myself. Yeah. I'm gonna tie my own shoes. Hell yes.

[23:38] Linedy Genao: Oh my god. That is that's so inspiring. That's so inspiring. So look out for the short film. Yes. Her new website, Mandala, your website, and the next Cuban Tropicana. Yes, Tropicana Cuban Cabaret. Which we're hoping to take to Prospect Park. That's the hope. Yeah, we'll be there. It's gonna be super fun. Oh my gosh. So I have two more questions for you. We know that you play Cassandra, and then you transition and then transition into Skimbleshanks. During intermission in your

[24:12] Emma Sofia: What are you doing, if anything, mentally, physically to transition to the fuego que tienes, Kimbo Jenks?

[24:19] Linedy Genao: I'm doing my makeup. I'm literally doing my makeup.

[24:24] Emma Sofia: Señora that's it, it's not that deep. Just your makeup.

[24:27] Linedy Genao: My wig gal, Kati, Kati, Dominicana, she changes my wig. If I have to pee, I go pee.

[24:35] Emma Sofia: I pop a Ricola. I sit down in my little vanity. They put a little curtain for me because I don't have privacy.

[24:45] Linedy Genao: 28 people in the Broadhurst, I don't have privacy. I said, hi, can I have a curtain?

[24:50] Emma Sofia: They were like, sure. They literally, the curtain is up with safety pins.

[24:57] Linedy Genao: Señores, we're on Broadway. Arreglen eso, por favor, Broadhurst. Please.

[25:05] Emma Sofia: But I like it because at the top of act two, I guess some of my cast members, they come and mess with me and we have fun.

[25:12] Linedy Genao: Sometimes, Primo gives me a massage. Thanks, Primo, the ballerino, the human tornado, I love you.

[25:17] Emma Sofia: Wow, that's real.

[25:19] Linedy Genao: I can joke around, but no, I literally use that entire time to do my makeup.

[25:23] Emma Sofia: And then roll out, like while Andre De Shields is singing the opening, that's when I roll out, that's when I change, and then I go on stage.

[25:32] Linedy Genao: Oh, my God. Mira eso.

[25:36] Emma Sofia: And then in three words, how would you describe the season of life you're stepping into right now?

[25:42] Linedy Genao: Three words?

[25:44] Emma Sofia: Five.

[25:45] Linedy Genao: The season of life that I'm stepping into?

[25:48] Emma Sofia: Yeah.

[25:49] Linedy Genao: Finally, I did it.

[25:52] Emma Sofia: Ño.

[25:53] Linedy Genao: Ño. Oh, my God. Señores, for those who don't know, Ño is short for coño, which means...

[26:02] Emma Sofia: Are we allowed to say that?

[26:03] Linedy Genao: Yes, which means shit in Spanish.

[26:06] Emma Sofia: Oh, my God.

[26:07] Linedy Genao: Oh, my God. I might have to bleep that out.

[26:09] Emma Sofia: Oh, no. Desgraciada.

[26:12] Linedy Genao: Wait, speaking of, did you ever, did you grow up with novelas?

[26:15] Emma Sofia: I did and I didn't. I grew up more with like Caso Cerrado and Laura.

[26:21] Linedy Genao: And Walter Mercado. Mucho, mucho amor.

[26:24] Emma Sofia: No, no, no. I think I wanted to be an attorney after watching Caso Cerrado.

[26:27] Linedy Genao: Oh, definitely. Definitely.

[26:29] Emma Sofia: Definitely.

[26:30] Linedy Genao: That's real.

[26:31] Emma Sofia: ¡He dicho Caso Cerrado!

[26:33] Linedy Genao: Yeah, my mom would be like, ¿Tú sabes que ella es una cubana? Ella es cubana.

[26:37] Emma Sofia: My mother was very proud.

[26:39] Linedy Genao: Cubans are very proud people.

[26:42] Emma Sofia: The pride is real.

[26:43] Linedy Genao: The pride is real.

[26:44] Emma Sofia: Okay, so now we're going to get into the segment of, because we're trying to keep a PG-13 here.

[26:49] Linedy Genao: Instead of the game, Mary Kill, it's Bed, Wed, Dead.

[26:53] Emma Sofia: Bed, Wed, Dead. That's smart. That's cute.

[26:55] Linedy Genao: I like that. Bed, Wed, Dead.

[26:57] Emma Sofia: Okay, ready?

[26:58] Linedy Genao: The 1982 original Broadway production of Cats, the 2019 CGI movie, or the current Jellicle Ball.

[27:05] Emma Sofia: I feel like that's really easy.

[27:07] Linedy Genao: That's easy. Dead, the movie.

[27:09] Emma Sofia: I never even saw it.

[27:10] Linedy Genao: Me neither.

[27:11] Emma Sofia: I didn't because I had a producer session for it, for Rumble Teaser, and I didn't book it, so I was mad.

[27:17] Linedy Genao: No.

[27:18] Emma Sofia: But then the reviews came out, and I was like, ¡Mentope! ¡Dungeable is there!

[27:26] Linedy Genao: No offense to any of you guys.

[27:28] Emma Sofia: We love all of you guys.

[27:29] Linedy Genao: Like Dame Judi Dench was in that movie.

[27:31] Emma Sofia: ¡Blessed! ¡Bow! ¡Blessed!

[27:33] Linedy Genao: Okay, so Dead, the movie.

[27:34] Emma Sofia: Dead, the movie.

[27:35] Linedy Genao: Bed, the 82, and Wed, the Jellicle Ball.

[27:40] Emma Sofia: The Jellicle Ball is my man's.

[27:42] Linedy Genao: Love that.

[27:43] Emma Sofia: My woman's. My they's, my them's.

[27:46] Linedy Genao: Okay, Bed, Wed, Dead.

[27:48] Emma Sofia: Anita, Maria, Consuelo.

[27:51] Linedy Genao: Dead, Consuelo.

[27:53] Emma Sofia: Sorry, you gotta go.

[27:55] Linedy Genao: I'm in a wed, Anita.

[27:57] Emma Sofia: She's my woman.

[28:00] Linedy Genao: That woman is gonna take care of me.

[28:02] Emma Sofia: Ride or die.

[28:03] Linedy Genao: She is going to be my ride or die.

[28:05] Emma Sofia: That woman is gonna give my black orchid bath ready when I get home from work.

[28:10] Linedy Genao: Listen.

[28:11] Emma Sofia: You know, and we're gonna have fun and giggle all around.

[28:14] Linedy Genao: Yeah, and you know, I'll bet Maria, she'll learn a thing or two.

[28:18] Emma Sofia: She's young.

[28:20] Linedy Genao: That is so real.

[28:22] Emma Sofia: That is so real.

[28:23] Linedy Genao: It'll just be a lesson for her.

[28:25] Emma Sofia: That is so real.

[28:26] Linedy Genao: That's so real.

[28:27] Emma Sofia: My God.

[28:28] Linedy Genao: This is hilarious.

[28:30] Emma Sofia: Yo, I'm dead.

[28:31] Linedy Genao: I'm dead.

[28:32] Emma Sofia: Okay.

[28:34] Linedy Genao: Ballroom in Harlem, a California beach, or a yacht in Neverland.

[28:38] Emma Sofia: Are there yachts in Neverland?

[28:40] Linedy Genao: There will be now.

[28:41] Emma Sofia: You heard it here first in Entreex.

[28:44] Linedy Genao: Entreex.

[28:45] Emma Sofia: There's gonna be a yacht in Neverland, and I'm gonna be the captain of it.

[28:49] Linedy Genao: All right?

[28:50] Emma Sofia: Exactly.

[28:51] Linedy Genao: All right?

[28:52] Emma Sofia: With my Skimbojinkz hat. Choo-choo.

[28:55] Linedy Genao: Next stop, Neverland.

[28:57] Emma Sofia: All right? Ya tu sabe.

[28:59] Linedy Genao: That's too difficult.

[29:01] Emma Sofia: That's too difficult.

[29:02] Linedy Genao: Repeat it.

[29:03] Emma Sofia: Ballroom in Harlem.

[29:04] Linedy Genao: Ballroom in Harlem.

[29:05] Emma Sofia: California beach.

[29:06] Linedy Genao: Okay.

[29:07] Emma Sofia: Ballroom in Harlem, bed.

[29:08] Linedy Genao: Correct.

[29:09] Emma Sofia: Absolutely.

[29:10] Linedy Genao: That's a one night.

[29:11] Emma Sofia: That's a really, that's one of those Friday nights you will never forget.

[29:14] Linedy Genao: It'll change your life.

[29:15] Emma Sofia: California beach.

[29:16] Linedy Genao: I'm gonna.

[29:17] Emma Sofia: Or a yacht in Neverland.

[29:18] Linedy Genao: Okay.

[29:19] Emma Sofia: I know what I'm gonna do here.

[29:20] Linedy Genao: I'm gonna marry the beach in California because ocean.

[29:25] Emma Sofia: And then I'm gonna dead Neverland because it's in a different dimension.

[29:31] Linedy Genao: And death is an illusion.

[29:33] Emma Sofia: So, once we dead the yacht in Neverland, we're all gonna go into that dimension.

[29:40] Linedy Genao: And then we're all gonna, you know, have a feast with the lost boys.

[29:44] Emma Sofia: Wow.

[29:45] Linedy Genao: Señora, this is blowing my mind.

[29:47] Emma Sofia: No.

[29:48] Linedy Genao: Why couldn't this episode be three hours long?

[29:51] Emma Sofia: It's the one tear.

[29:54] Linedy Genao: No, I know.

[29:56] Emma Sofia: There's one tear slowly rolling down your beautiful cheek.

[30:01] Linedy Genao: I'm dead.

[30:02] Emma Sofia: No, I'm not.

[30:03] Linedy Genao: I'm not lying.

[30:04] Emma Sofia: I can't.

[30:05] Linedy Genao: Oh my God.

[30:06] Emma Sofia: Señora.

[30:07] Linedy Genao: Emma, we're now at the finale of our sandwich.

[30:11] Emma Sofia: If you can imagine.

[30:12] Linedy Genao: If you can.

[30:13] Emma Sofia: Unfortunately, it's so sad.

[30:15] Linedy Genao: It's such a sad day.

[30:16] Emma Sofia: Okay, now we're into the cheese man.

[30:19] Linedy Genao: Hot take.

[30:20] Emma Sofia: Because, you know.

[30:22] Linedy Genao: Chimosa.

[30:24] Emma Sofia: It's part of our genetics.

[30:26] Linedy Genao: Sorry.

[30:27] Emma Sofia: It's not our fault.

[30:29] Linedy Genao: No, it's not. If you were a real New York City street cat, what neighborhood would be your territory and why?

[30:34] Emma Sofia: It would be the village. For sure. And or Lower East Side.

[30:37] Linedy Genao: Okay.

[30:38] Emma Sofia: No, we got to start the nest in the tree house is in the Lower East Side in Alphabet City.

[30:43] Linedy Genao: Okay.

[30:45] Emma Sofia: And then I'm going to take my little cat ass across town getting the little scraps and the churros and the, you know, the, the, the little cup of the dollar coke, the, the, the, the coconut, you know, she's going to jump onto the little cart, the, you know, and then she's going to go across to the West Village.

[31:06] Linedy Genao: And then I'm going to be at like Corner Bistro that area.

[31:11] Emma Sofia: You know, and that's when all you know, they throw out the like fancy food, but then it's also like the spirits of the Bohemians.

[31:19] Linedy Genao: Like, you know what I'm saying?

[31:20] Emma Sofia: No, I get to that.

[31:22] Linedy Genao: I got to go out with you downtown.

[31:25] Emma Sofia: Because I don't have that.

[31:26] Linedy Genao: I don't go down there often.

[31:27] Emma Sofia: Yeah, you got to start in Alphabet City.

[31:29] Linedy Genao: Oh my God.

[31:30] Emma Sofia: Okay.

[31:31] Linedy Genao: Yeah, there's really good community gardens there.

[31:33] Emma Sofia: So that would be the home for sure.

[31:35] Linedy Genao: I love that.

[31:36] Emma Sofia: Yeah.

[31:38] Linedy Genao: Should Jellicle Ball be the only way Katz is performed from now on?

[31:42] Emma Sofia: Are you trying to give me a trouble girl?

[31:44] Linedy Genao: No, okay, no, let's skip.

[31:45] Emma Sofia: We love you, Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[31:46] Linedy Genao: No, I mean, it's now an option.

[31:49] Emma Sofia: I love that.

[31:50] Linedy Genao: Any Katz chisme that we should know about?

[31:53] Emma Sofia: Obviously, there's always chisme.

[31:56] Linedy Genao: But what am I what I'm going to say?

[31:58] Emma Sofia: No, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got it.

[32:00] Linedy Genao: I gotta keep it locked up.

[32:01] Emma Sofia: Good. That's a real one right there.

[32:03] Linedy Genao: We a house of felines over there.

[32:05] Emma Sofia: We the feline house.

[32:06] Linedy Genao: We got to take out for each other.

[32:08] Emma Sofia: It's shiny and dandy over there.

[32:11] Linedy Genao: It's all happy, joy, joy, rainbows and sunshine.

[32:15] Emma Sofia: And that's how it always should be.

[32:17] Linedy Genao: All night long.

[32:18] Emma Sofia: All night.

[32:19] Linedy Genao: Hey.

[32:20] Emma Sofia: Yeah.

[32:21] Linedy Genao: A little Lionel Richie for you, baby.

[32:24] Emma Sofia: Yo.

[32:25] Linedy Genao: Okay, what's a rule you hated from your parents that you now fully support?

[32:29] Emma Sofia: Because you know, growing up in a Latin house.

[32:32] Linedy Genao: Growing up in a Latin house.

[32:34] Emma Sofia: That means it's wrong.

[32:35] Linedy Genao: It's rough.

[32:36] Emma Sofia: Many rules.

[32:37] Linedy Genao: There were so many rules.

[32:38] Emma Sofia: Probably the don't smoke cigarettes.

[32:40] Linedy Genao: That was even that wasn't even spoken about in my house because we knew better than to not.

[32:46] Emma Sofia: I was a little I was I was I was a little rebel girl.

[32:50] Linedy Genao: I tried it.

[32:51] Emma Sofia: How old were you?

[32:52] Linedy Genao: It's 13, 14, 15.

[32:56] Emma Sofia: I was like 21. I was I was bad.

[32:57] Linedy Genao: I was a bad girl.

[32:58] Emma Sofia: That's okay. Talk to my dad about it.

[33:01] Linedy Genao: He's like, oh, yeah.

[33:02] Emma Sofia: Yeah.

[33:03] Linedy Genao: Yeah.

[33:04] Emma Sofia: I stressed them out.

[33:05] Linedy Genao: I stressed my parents out.

[33:06] Emma Sofia: I think I did too.

[33:07] Linedy Genao: I'm are you the oldest or youngest?

[33:09] Emma Sofia: Well, now I'm the middle because I have a little brother, but I was I was the youngest.

[33:14] Linedy Genao: Oh, and my sister was like, what are you doing?

[33:17] Emma Sofia: He's like, we don't have to pay rent.

[33:19] Linedy Genao: Like she was like, I'm good.

[33:20] Emma Sofia: Like, what are you talking about?

[33:22] Linedy Genao: Very much.

[33:23] Emma Sofia: You don't have to pay rent.

[33:24] Linedy Genao: That's very much.

[33:25] Emma Sofia: I want to be alone.

[33:26] Linedy Genao: I can I can.

[33:27] Emma Sofia: I don't need them.

[33:29] Linedy Genao: I'm going to pack a bag and leave.

[33:31] Emma Sofia: I'm going to live on my own.

[33:33] Linedy Genao: I was horrible.

[33:34] Emma Sofia: It's okay.

[33:35] Linedy Genao: Aren't we all?

[33:36] Emma Sofia: Yeah.

[33:37] Linedy Genao: But that's why our parents love us.

[33:38] Emma Sofia: And that's why Latinas are raised fiercely, because we we told the line and then we go over it.

[33:42] Linedy Genao: No, no, it was horrible. She'd be like, swear on my grand.

[33:46] Emma Sofia: Right.

[33:47] Linedy Genao: No, no, no. Swear on my father's grave.

[33:49] Emma Sofia: Swear on my father's grave that you don't have cigarettes in your bag or that you didn't ditch class.

[33:55] Linedy Genao: And I'd be like, I mean, you can't.

[34:00] Emma Sofia: She used it.

[34:01] Linedy Genao: She used.

[34:02] Emma Sofia: Oh, yeah. The Cuban Castle.

[34:04] Linedy Genao: Say hello.

[34:05] Emma Sofia: Hello.

[34:06] Linedy Genao: Oh, my God.

[34:07] Emma Sofia: Okay.

[34:08] Linedy Genao: And if you make a girl.

[34:11] Emma Sofia: Last question.

[34:12] Linedy Genao: The most important one.

[34:14] Emma Sofia: What's your pet? I'll song right now. What's the song? You shake an ass to outside of Jellicoe ball because y'all shake an ass every night.

[34:21] Linedy Genao: That's tough.

[34:22] Emma Sofia: The album, the new ish album by Amare Blackstar.

[34:26] Linedy Genao: Amare is like Afrobeats.

[34:29] Emma Sofia: Like, she's from, I believe, South Africa.

[34:33] Linedy Genao: That whole album.

[34:34] Emma Sofia: There's like this one song with Pink Panthers.

[34:37] Linedy Genao: Yo, get into that.

[34:39] Emma Sofia: Okay. I was able to hold that right. Friends gave me lent me their house upstate when the album came out.

[34:45] Linedy Genao: And it's like all windows in their house because they're blessed.

[34:50] Emma Sofia: And I just, and they have a sound system. So I blasted it. I did do choreography and chairography and tableography.

[34:59] Linedy Genao: And it was a really, I recommend everybody.

[35:01] Emma Sofia: And I was by myself with their cats.

[35:03] Linedy Genao: So only the forest knows.

[35:05] Emma Sofia: Only the forest and the gatitos.

[35:07] Linedy Genao: And the gatitos.

[35:08] Emma Sofia: They were like, girl, what are you doing? Chill.

[35:10] Linedy Genao: Thank you so much for being here.

[35:16] Emma Sofia: You're the best.

[35:17] Linedy Genao: Thank you. Before we go, I'm going to ask you to help me with our tagline. Because life doesn't pause.

[35:24] Emma Sofia: It just moves.

[35:25] Linedy Genao: Entre AXE.

[35:31] Emma Sofia: Wait, we ate that.

[35:32] Linedy Genao: We ate that.

[35:33] Emma Sofia: We ate that.

[35:34] Linedy Genao: Love you.

[35:35] Emma Sofia: Thank you so much.

[35:36] Linedy Genao: Yo también. You're the best.

[35:39] Linedy Genao: Entre AXE is created, hosted, and executive produced by yours truly, Linedy Genao.

[35:44] Linedy Genao: Produced in partnership with Alan Seales and the Broadway Podcast Network.

[35:48] Linedy Genao: Carlos E. Hernandez of Ihigai Management and Media serves as our lead executive producer.

[35:53] Linedy Genao: Original music by Johan Beltré and Pedro F. Fortunato.

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[36:08] Linedy Genao: Nos vemos.

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