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[0:00] Linedy Genao: Hello, everybody. My name is Linedy Genao and welcome to Entre Acts, your favorite podcast where we talk to your fellow Broadway artists about transitional periods in our lives. And I'm so excited to announce today's guest. You saw her recently as Ann Darrow in King Kong on Broadway, Alive on Broadway, as Jane in A Bronx Tale. She currently plays the role of Pernessa Reed on Starz Power Book, the third, Raising Canaan. Stars as Beverly Stratford in the film Resort to Love on Netflix, seen in so many other favorite TV shows. And I got to see her incredible performance as Robin Rainey in Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across New York. Please welcome Christiani Pitts.

[0:52] Christiani Pitts: Thank you for being here. Thank you so much for having me. We have a theme song, but we haven't made lyrics.

[1:02] Linedy Genao: Oh, okay. So not me. And just adding a little emphasis. I love it. Yeah. Thank you so much for being here. I'm so excited to have you.

[1:08] Christiani Pitts: Thank you. I can't wait. I'm very honored. Thank you.

[1:13] Linedy Genao: So I love to start all of my episodes with a fun little icebreaker game to like get things fun and started. So we have some dominoes in here, you know, like I wanted to bring some of my culture into here. And so dominoes is a big part of the Latin culture. And so I wanted to incorporate that game in here. So we're gonna shuffle these and you're just gonna sum up the number that you get. And that will pertain to a fun this or that.

[1:31] Christiani Pitts: Okay, and it's so funny. You know, dominoes is big in black culture, too.

[1:37] Linedy Genao: I didn't know that.

[1:40] Christiani Pitts: I never knew how to play. So anytime I don't know how to play either. Okay. And like, I don't know how to play spades either.

[1:43] Linedy Genao: I don't know how to play spades. So when it happened at the cookouts, I'd be like, off to the side y'all enjoy.

[1:50] Christiani Pitts: Okay, okay. I'm ready. I'm ready. Describe anyone? Yes. Okay. All right. 12. Okay, bold with your opinions or strategic with your silence?

[2:06] Christiani Pitts: Oh, oh, okay. The truth. Bold with my opinions. I wish I was strategic. I know my face. I can't hide my face.

[2:13] Linedy Genao: I can't either. It's a good one, though.

[2:17] Christiani Pitts: Thank you. That's good. I found that one today. Oh, I like that. I'm gonna try to be good with my silence. Silence of my intention. I like that. It's my eyebrows move and everybody knows what's going on.

[2:26] Linedy Genao: Yeah. Okay, next one. Here we go. Let's see. Let's see. All right. What is this? I haven't had enough coffee. Okay, great. Um, thin crust or deep dish?

[2:41] Christiani Pitts: It's giving thin crust.

[2:46] Linedy Genao: I was gonna say deep. It's a deep dish for you.

[2:49] Christiani Pitts: No, thin crust. Yeah. No, it's thin crust. Even though Okay, you know, the grandma slices. That's my favorite. Are those considered deep dish? No, right? No. Okay. Okay. So thin crust. What is the Oh, and you're I know you're from the ATL. My cousin lives there. I've been there a few times. I love it. What is there? Is there like a signature pizza down there? Anything like that?

[3:01] Christiani Pitts: I don't think so. I could be so wrong. And nobody don't flame me up in the comments. Y'all. I really don't know. I don't think so. We were a big wing.

[3:11] Linedy Genao: Yes. Yeah, wings. But yeah, I'll never forget my cousin took me to a club like an ATL club. And you know, those like, so I don't know what the proper genre is of the slower hip hop like the you know, and I was vibing.

[3:23] Christiani Pitts: Yes. But it was like 10 songs in a row like that. And I was like, I need some please.

[3:29] Linedy Genao: Everybody was just chilling. And I was just like, Oh, yes. Chilling eating wings. There was probably a hookah somewhere. And of course, yeah, of course. Same with the Latin culture. The hookah.

[3:37] Christiani Pitts: Okay, here we go. Okay, okay. Airport three hours early or running to the gate?

[3:46] Christiani Pitts: Bro three hours early. I am I do not play I do not play because I'm a I'm a late person. So I have to give myself hours. So in order to make it three hours, I'm starting six hours ahead just to be there. So three hours me if it's international, I'm usually three hours but if it's domestic, I because I have TLC pre check.

[4:05] Linedy Genao: Oh, it's just about to ask. You're responsible.

[4:10] Christiani Pitts: Okay, I cut it a little close but not crazy. Like I'm there at least an hour before.

[4:14] Linedy Genao: Oh, good. I'm not there running running to the gate.

[4:16] Christiani Pitts: Good. Okay, next one. Okay.

[4:22] Christiani Pitts: Here we go. Okay, again, let's find another one. Um, okay. What do you like in between your bread if you're making your perfect sandwich?

[4:27] Christiani Pitts: Oh, that's a good one. It's giving pesto, a little tomato, a little mozzarella, and no meat.

[4:34] Linedy Genao: What? Oh, um, what's the one I don't say it right? It has a rosemary.

[4:40] Christiani Pitts: Okay, we're late. Oh my god. We're in it. We're in it. Okay. Can I tell you when I order it? I always say it real fast.

[4:47] Linedy Genao: What do you say?

[4:50] Christiani Pitts: I'm like, can I get the pesto sandwich on the bread?

[4:53] Linedy Genao: I was on the way on.

[4:56] Christiani Pitts: Again, no, I'm a bear. Okay, no, no, no, no. This is focaccia. Got it. I think Italians, please don't come for me. Um, you know, what's funny? If you're ever free this summer, I live by the beach. Please come. Yeah. And there's an amazing bakery called blacksmith breads. I love y'all right by me. And I took my family there for focaccia baking class like how to make focaccia to dip your finger like it was so satisfying and like the olive oil and you could put whatever toppings you wanted on them. There was rosemary there was you know, garlic confit like super fancy. And yeah, I made some really.

[5:27] Christiani Pitts: Honestly, I would I would absolutely take you up on that. We can film it. We can let the people know that I know how to say it and I know how to make it because y'all not gonna come for me. You know, Nara Smith makes it and I watched her do it. It's so satisfying.

[5:38] Linedy Genao: Oh my god. Okay. Okay. Number two. Okay. Falling on your face or forgetting your line?

[5:47] Christiani Pitts: Oh, oh, Jesus. Um, I gotta say forgetting my line falling on my face. Maybe I would if I fell on my face. I'm staying down. I'm not getting up. I'm saying down curtain down. I'm not getting up. I'm not getting please hold. Because the shame. That's, that's real. I think I'm staying down. And I forgot my line actually recently. And it was so embarrassing. I started scatting and riffing and because yeah, during a lyric or like during a lyric during my song. This is the place. I don't know if you remember it. But is that an act two? It's an act one. I'm showing Dougal Flatbush. So yeah, what we do is hard.

[6:27] Linedy Genao: It is and people need to have grace.

[6:29] Christiani Pitts: It is. Thank you. Please. Okay, last one. Okay, game of dominoes. All right, here we go. Okay, number seven. Let's see. What are you binging these days?

[6:45] Christiani Pitts: Oh, my goodness. Okay. It's a it's a list. Is that okay? Yeah. Okay. Age of Attraction. It's a bit creepy. I'm not gonna hold you but it's good. It's a Netflix one. It's really good. Um, okay. Age of Attraction. Paradise. You know, I can't really binge it because they released them. Yeah, Paradise is my show. And Secret Life of Mormon Wives. I've heard amazing. Like I need to get on that. But I've heard amazing things.

[7:07] Linedy Genao: It's so messy. It's so messy in the best way. And Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Because I'm a housewife girlie. Yeah, yeah, I'm a housewife girlie. And I only watch the black one. So I only watch Potomac and Atlanta. And then someone was like, you got to watch Salt Lake. Like it's so messy. So I'm starting from the beginning.

[7:28] Christiani Pitts: Okay, you inspired me. I'm gonna do that. It's so good. It's so good. Those ladies are insane. Can you imagine if they did a Real Housewives of Broadway?

[7:38] Linedy Genao: I feel like someone has tried to do.

[7:44] Christiani Pitts: Really? I think so. Like I think there was an attempt at some maybe like putting up a show reality show or like putting up a tour or something that would be kind of it would be they should bring it back because we have the we have the legally blonde reality show. Remember, I was such a fan of that girl.

[7:54] Linedy Genao: I thought you're about to say you were on it.

[7:58] Christiani Pitts: And I was no, I would pass out. I would pass out right now. If I were on it. I was obsessed with you. I think that was probably the first tour. I only saw it on tour. That was the first tour I ever saw when I lived in Connecticut. And you know, watching it on TV to them watching in real life. I was blown away.

[8:12] Linedy Genao: Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah. All right. Well, we got through our game of dominoes. Thank you so much for entertaining me on that. You I love that.

[8:21] Christiani Pitts: Thank you. That'll be the only dominoes we know how to play. And that's okay.

[8:26] Linedy Genao: That's okay. Um, so I love to start with this question. So I was inspired to do this show. Because Alan and the Broadway Podcast Network was kind enough to invite me to have a Latin voice on the Broadway Podcast Network, which I'm so grateful for. So I was inspired because I found myself in a transitional period career wise personally, after Bad Cinderella, just, you know, not knowing what's next also reaching kind of like an apex in my career and like, putting pressure on myself feeling pressure from the outside and just all of that also being married, raising children, just so many transitional things going on. And I just didn't know where to go who to talk to you feel shame with that sometimes. So I wanted to ask you, what does the in between? What does that silence and pivotal moments in your life mean to you?

[9:13] Christiani Pitts: Oh, my goodness, it, it means everything. It is like, it's such a for me, anyway, it's like a judge of yourself, like a judge of your own character, because it's so hard, it can be so hard doesn't have to be, but it can be so hard. And it's that like reminder of like, you realize you're not what you do. Like you're you're not what you do. You are a whole human being. And then it's that that it sounds a little bit cheesy. But the whole thing about being a human being and not a human doing so when you are not doing something, you are still just as like valuable. And for whatever reason, I feel and I won't speak for all of us. I needed to hear that. So thank you. But as entertainers, sometimes I feel like when we're not doing the thing, it's like, well, we're worthless.

Who are we? Literally, who am I, especially if you're able to achieve something as incredible as like, starring in a Broadway show with a title character. That's just such an apex is such a great word. Like, it is this high. And then when it stops, it's like so easy to be like, that's who I was. So girl, I am I have been in such like work about being a full person outside of what I do. So I think for me, it just means that in between is just the best opportunity to like work on self and like finding things that you love about yourself that have absolutely nothing to do with what you do. That's a lot harder than it seems, though.

[10:34] Linedy Genao: It is. And it's like making me emotional hearing you say that because it's so true, especially, you know, we put that doubt and that all of that and on ourselves, but also how this industry kind of forgets you when the season's over. The new season is coming in. And it's just Yeah, it's it's a lot. It's a lot. So I I needed to hear that. Yes. Thank you so much. Yes. And how we have to work on ourselves. Above all, because we can't bring our best self to our artistry if we're not, you know, and that brings me to my next next question. Who are you outside of your artistry? How would you explain yourself to somebody that only knows you through your amazing work?

[11:11] Christiani Pitts: Oh, okay. So this is crazy, because I can't wait to hear. Listen, you're gonna blow your mind. And I'll tell you why. Because I'm not good at what I'm about to say. Oh, I'm not good at it. But honestly, outside of being an artist, like an entertainer, I would describe myself as like a painter. And I am not I am not good at painting. But y'all, I can't I'm obsessed. That is what I do. That is what I love to do. I have my horrible art all around my home. I paint a lot with my daughter. It is like, literally, like if I if there was a way for me to like sell my bad art and make enough to like pay a couple bills. That's what I would do like outside of but it's really bad. So no one would buy it. But no,

[11:51] Christiani Pitts: Like what I would describe myself as like, I'm a painter. I'm an over thinker. Like I love to deep dive on a topic that I don't have no business diving into. Nothing to do with me. I've got to take. I've got to take. I am. I feel like I'm a little part time private investigator. Aren't we all? Baby, when there's a case in the media, I'm on the case. Yeah, I get I have a little bit of like an obsessive personality. So when I'm not doing the artist thing, I'm like, I think I'm somebody's private investigator. I am fully a painter. And I'm a mom. And those are like, you know, those are my things. I love that. So what what are you painting on? What's your thing usually? Okay, so I started with paint by numbers, which is like, that's not my work.

It's, you know, a little sketch. But now I'm doing like full canvases, like, like, good old canvas, staple it to some wood and go for it. And you know, it's interesting. Some of it is like, no one would buy it. But I think it's amazing. I'm sure it's beautiful. Like, very simple. I'll show you. I'll show you pictures. They're gonna be like, I love this for you. Oh, my God. When did you start that journey? The pandemic, a transitional period in everybody's life. Girl, I love that it was the pandemic. And it was we were just so bored. And and a girl transparency. When I say we my family and I, there was just, there was so many bad things that I could start doing. So much drinking, so you know what I mean?

Because like, there was no time for anything else. Or there was nothing else you could do. And so I was like, actively trying to pull myself away from like, things that I was overdoing. And I realized I love painting. And I like I haven't stopped. It's Oh, okay, you've inspired me to start secret life. Wait, the secret life. I haven't had coffee today. Secret life of Mormon wives. Yes. Salt Lake City. Yes. Which clearly I'm obsessed with the Mormon girlies. Because that's really what it is. It's really cool. I have a few ex Mormon cast members that I work with. And just hearing the stories. I'm, I'm also fascinated with learning about religions and like cultures and sociology. I wanted to major in sociology in college.

So I love I love hearing anthropology. I loved hearing. I love learning and hearing about all of that. So I know I'm gonna love that show. And now painting. I've always loved the color, but I want to paint. It's so much fun. Okay, I can't wait. I can't wait. Messy, but fun. I love that. So okay. How? I know that this question is loaded, because everybody asks me this. And I'm like, I take it one day at a time, because I literally don't know. How do you balance being a Broadway actress and a mother? Because this industry, I, I will say, I can't remember if it was last year, two years ago, there were certain shows that provided free childcare during Broadway shows for specific performances. And I my mind was blown.

I was like, Oh my gosh, this is amazing. I wish that there was more of that. So how do you balance doing eight shows a week on top of press, you're in a brand new show. There's I can't wait to talk about press rehearsals, you know, all of that. And being a mom, girl, I don't I hope I'm balancing it. Like I feel like I'm balancing it because the second I'm not doing anything work related, I am like locked in on her on her name is Zora. She is y'all we're literally wearing matching fits right now. So beautiful. I wish you could see. She's my best friend. Like this Canadian tuxedo, right? That's what it's called Canadian tuxedo with a dock with it. Zora is also wearing y'all. I hate to say it, but she's gorgeous.

She's fly. She's just she's simply that girl. No, but when I'm not, when I'm not on stage or promoting the show, like I am we're locked in, which the reason I say I hope it's balanced is because Hi, Ladybug is because I realized that that I don't have any time for my own self anymore. Which I'm like, I don't know if that's the healthiest thing either, because I'm exhausted. But a part of me feels like everything's a season. Yeah. And like, this is the season where self is not really a thing. Like it's Robin, who's a character in two strangers, and it's Zora's mommy. And then like, there's gonna come a season where there's time for me. And and I'll be grateful for that. But like, right now, the balance is like mommyhood in the show.

And like, really not much else. But it's kind of it's fire. Also, people like you like, like, you know, she wasn't supposed to be here with us today. And then things changed. And and now we're all just rolling with the punches and she's hanging out. So I also find like, the community has been really like supportive. I like hid my pregnancy for a long time because I was like, Oh, the fear, the fear, like a perception, like, like, how are people? Oh, my God, I'm about to get real real. Oh, you can edit this out. If you're like, no, it's whatever you feel comfortable with. Okay. I have this fear. I've never said this a lot before. But whatever. I had this fear of like, if people know I'm a mom, are they going to see me as older?

And then is that then going to change the things I can play? Are they gonna not see me as desire? Like, I, I had all these ridiculous thoughts about how I was going to be perceived. And so I did, I just hid my pregnancy. I just didn't say I didn't tell anybody and I was actively doing a reading, then the reading was going to go longer than it than I thought. So I told my director, because I knew by the time we did this presentation, I was probably going to be showing and, and I expressed my like, fear behind it. And like, with tears in her eyes, she was like, Don't you ever be ashamed? Don't you ever hide? This is so exciting. She embraced me. She made me feel like, this is something like, you should be proud of, like, she just made me feel okay.

Shout out to Shelly. That was Shelly. She's a brilliant director. Y'all know, if you know, you know, you should know. Anyway, then I was like proud living in my living with my little belly. But yeah, it was it's the community has literally held me so high this whole time that I really can't complain. And it's hard, but I don't want to complain because I feel really blessed. That's oh my god, you're dropping gems, especially gems that I need to hear. So thank you. It's very inspiring to hear. I don't have children of my own yet. But even even with people, like I said, knowing that I raised children, it's like, yeah, I'm older, am I going to be able to play young anymore? You know, while I was in Dear Evan Hansen, I was playing 16 years old, but also raising kids doing virtual learning during COVID.

Like, and, you know, offstage, my cast members who are were 18 years old were like, Oh, my gosh, like, you're actually a mom. And I'm like, yeah. And how were you? Did you did you feel like you were having compartmentalize? Or did you feel like you were overwhelmed? Like, do you remember? Oh, everything? Yeah, I literally could only take it one day at a time. It was it was the whole cluster of COVID, you know, virtual learning, the world shutting down, not knowing what my career was, the show was gonna stay open, you know? Yeah. And then there's two people looking at you like, what's what are we eating? Like, yeah, yeah. It's so inspiring to hear your take on that. And how it takes a village.

Oh, goodness, it takes to feel that you feel supported by the community is, you know, me too. I could not have done it alone. Like, oh, all the times people offstage were hugging me and like, holding me and my feelings. So I can just have an outlet because I couldn't do that. Right, you know, right. So we come last, you know, as mothers and goodness, but it's a selfless thing. Yes, yes, which is beautiful. Oh, my gosh, I love that. Um, okay, so you're on to strangers carry a cake across New York. I'm so grateful. I got to see it. I know, you know, Dan was out. Yeah. Wait, how do you know Dan? Me and Dan. I love you. I love you, too. I love you down. So Dan is best friends with one of my really close friends, like my brother, Bradley Gibson.

Do you know Bradley Gibson? I think I just met Bradley Gibson at a birthday party. You probably did. You probably did. I think so. So Bradley is like my brother and he and I did Bronxville together, literally playing friends and then brother and sister in the show. Oh my god. And they're besties. And I so I've always loved him via via Bradley. But then we all took this trip years ago, a cab, we called it the cabin kiki. We were on this like cabin trip. And I just was like, I was like, Dan is my ace phone. Coon. I love him down. I love him. So yeah, y'all came out. Oh, that was such a bunch of us from Gatsby came to see the show during one of the previews. So I can't wait to go back to see like what's changed.

Oh yeah. But I was blown away by your performance. You're incredible. And just also I related so much as somebody who was born in Brooklyn, you know, I just with Robin's character and the struggle and also just like the hustle. It was really, really inspiring. So I went in blind, as I'm sure a lot of people do. Yeah. How do you describe like, I can't even I don't know how to describe the show to you because I don't want to give any anything away. But then I asked myself, how on earth do you describe this show? Oh, my goodness, I gotta know, I gotta get better at it. Sam is really good at it. Because he just, you know, he's so good at it. But I would describe it as a romantic comedy, which is very, very limiting description.

But it is what it is. I would describe it as a romantic comedy about two people who change each other for who they always were going to be not for who they think they should be. And it's just these these two regular people, like they're just so regular, but they're going through what they would consider to be like extraordinary, life altering things. And they meet each other and they change each other's lives. And then by the time it's over, you have no idea if they continue to change if they go their separate ways. It's a quintessential New York story. Because a lot of us who live here have had those experiences of like, did that just happen? And then it's, and then you get on your train and you're like, maybe not like, yeah, I mean, I know I have child.

I sure have people where I'm like, I hope I don't never run into them again. Like just but those like massive New York moments. And that's what our show is. It's this massive New York moment in time about these two people. And it's like a love story. It's so special. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. And literally, two strangers are carrying a cake across New York, and anything can happen. Like you have to go see the show. It's so so so amazing. Are you still having like, fun? Like how do you? Okay, I don't want to spoil the end. But I can't wait to talk off camera about the ending because my jaw was to the floor. I couldn't. Do you have your own story of what happens? Did the directors or the the playwrights share with you what they think?

No, no. So they didn't share what they think. Sam doesn't like to think about it. Because he doesn't want it to affect anything that happens on stage, which I think is really smart. Yeah. And then I can't help but think about it. And I think that's just because I'm such a hopeless romantic. So I have my own ideas of what happens. But then it's interesting because it changes. Some nights, the show is over. And I feel like it's definitely happening. If you know what I mean? Some nights, the show's over. And I'm like, I don't think that we'll ever see each other again. And it quite literally is. I know. I know. And it's and it's when I said that to Sam recently, he goes, Well, damn, what am I doing on those nights?

I don't know. It's not it's nothing. Nothing is wrong. But it's like the it's just the energy and it feels shout out to the writers because it's written in such a real way. Yeah, that like, these are really things that I would say. And depending on the mood, depending on the energy of the day, you just say it a little different. And then it all changes. But yeah, I don't know. So I do have theories, but they would fluctuate. Okay, I can't wait to talk about it off camera, because you have to go see the show. It's so so so amazing.

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[29:53] Linedy Genao: Okay, what's your perreo song?

[29:55] Linedy Genao: Perreo is what are you shaking to when nobody's watching?

[29:57] Linedy Genao: Not when nobody's watching.

[30:01] Linedy Genao: What were you dancing to at the Dream and what are you dancing to now?

[30:03] Linedy Genao: Correct. Okay. It's gotta be, okay, a little Meg the Stallion.

[30:07] Christiani Pitts: Specifically, what is that one song? It's her and the baby.

[30:11] Christiani Pitts: I don't remember.

[30:13] Christiani Pitts: Oh my God, what is the song? It's gonna kill me now.

[30:17] Christiani Pitts: If my friend Brian is watching, you're gonna be upset with me because I'm singing it. Okay, there's a Meg the Stallion and the baby. I forget the name of the song.

[30:25] Christiani Pitts: That. A throwback. A classic.

[30:27] Linedy Genao: Don't. By Soulja Boy.

[30:29] Christiani Pitts: Yep.

[30:31] Christiani Pitts: Yep. Yep.

[30:33] Christiani Pitts: It's one of those songs where all of a sudden you hear and you're like, yep.

[30:37] Christiani Pitts: I just ran off camera.

[30:39] Christiani Pitts: Literally, I'll be right back.

[30:41] Christiani Pitts: That? It's a throwback. It's an oldie but it's a goodie.

[30:45] Christiani Pitts: And no one plays it anymore.

[30:49] Christiani Pitts: And I'm gonna give a third one because I love a third one.

[30:51] Christiani Pitts: It would have to be... Honestly, it's his new song. Actually, ooh, sorry.

[30:59] Christiani Pitts: The baby has a new song right now that he just dropped and it's real ratchet and it's real... It's like a summer, like, we outside.

[31:07] Christiani Pitts: Oh, and summer's coming soon. Yeah, y'all.

[31:11] Christiani Pitts: You might know what I'm talking about. I also don't know the name of it.

[31:15] Christiani Pitts: I also am only playing Coco Melon in the house now. Coco Melon and Princess Tiana.

[31:21] Linedy Genao: Look, she's like, who plays Coco Melon?

[31:23] Christiani Pitts: So, those songs have to be played in my headphones on the way to work.

[31:27] Linedy Genao: To pump up.

[31:29] Christiani Pitts: To play Robin.

[31:31] Linedy Genao: Okay. What is your Roman Empire? What is something that you think about way too much?

[31:35] Christiani Pitts: We run through scenarios of things that will never happen. What's your...

[31:39] Christiani Pitts: Oh, gosh. I'm being so honest on this here couch. Okay.

[31:45] Christiani Pitts: Because... Apocalypse.

[31:51] Christiani Pitts: I'm a... What do they call those people? Conspiracy theorist? Me too.

[31:57] Christiani Pitts: But also, like, a planner. I have go bags in my apartment.

[32:01] Christiani Pitts: I have dry food. I have the straws that I can drink water from anywhere. I have a reserve.

[32:09] Christiani Pitts: That's what I'm saying. I need to get on it. I have it all in here, and I executed it.

[32:15] Christiani Pitts: But it's also a little, like, kooky. But it was something about when I became a mom, I literally was like, okay, if something happens, I gotta be able to give us 72 hours to get to where we gotta go.

[32:27] Christiani Pitts: And so, it's my Roman Empire because literally every day I leave my house, I think about, like, alright, what's the quickest way I can get to the West Side Highway? What's the quickest way I can get out of, you know, to the water or whatever?

[32:39] Linedy Genao: Isn't that crazy?

[32:41] Christiani Pitts: No, it's smart. Every day, girl. Every day.

[32:43] Linedy Genao: It's okay. You know what? I need to prep myself. It's in my cart, but I haven't bought it yet, like a fireproof box or whatever for you to put your documents and stuff like that because that's my fear.

[32:53] Linedy Genao: I'm like, if the house, you know, sets a fire, God forbid, like, all your stuff is lost, all your important documents.

[32:59] Christiani Pitts: That's really smart. But I think way too much about winning the lottery because I love to ask, as a former banker, I went to school for business, as a former business person, I'm like, what's the first thing you would do if you won the lottery? And everybody's like, buy a house. I'm like, no, you need to protect that money. You need to hire an attorney. You need to hire a business manager. You need to hire, like, that money needs to be protected first.

[33:17] Christiani Pitts: You know, like all these contracts and all this stuff. And I'm like, and then you can do your fun little spending.

[33:21] Linedy Genao: See, first thing I do is call you. That's my first move.

[33:25] Christiani Pitts: I win the lottery. I'm on the phone. Don't tell nobody. Call an 80.

[33:29] Linedy Genao: Oh my goodness. Right? It's just like, I think about that and I'm like, okay, I would pay all my family's debt.

[33:33] Christiani Pitts: You know, like, before I buy anything, I want everybody to be okay. Set aside money for everybody's college tuitions and blah, blah, blah. Ya tu sabes.

[33:41] Linedy Genao: See? That is, I know that's right. I know that's right.

[33:43] Christiani Pitts: Oh, that's beautiful.

[33:45] Linedy Genao: Thank you. Thank you so much.

[33:47] Linedy Genao: So my final, final, final question. I know I've already asked a lot. I love to ask, where are you going right after this? Like, what's your day right after this?

[33:55] Christiani Pitts: Yes. Yes. Okay. So right after this, my daughter and I are going to go to the museum and have a little kiki.

[34:01] Christiani Pitts: And the in between, between what, that and the show? That and the show or that, yeah, whatever.

[34:05] Linedy Genao: Will you go home and have dinner? Like, what?

[34:07] Christiani Pitts: Yeah, I think I'll go home and try to rest. Now, I say try because she's not a napper.

[34:13] Christiani Pitts: So it may not happen, but I'm going to try. I'm going to try to rest and cuddle because, like I said, the whole thing about like, what's the show? You don't get to see her. So I think I'll try to rest.

[34:25] Linedy Genao: Yay. I love that. Christiani, thank you so much for being here.

[34:29] Christiani Pitts: Thank you for having me.

[34:31] Linedy Genao: It's an honor to have you. You're a beautiful artist and person and human and mother inside and out. Thank you.

[34:39] Christiani Pitts: You've really inspired me today, so I really appreciate your time.

[34:43] Linedy Genao: Thank you, Queen. Everybody say thank you to Christiani.

[34:51] Christiani Pitts: Thank you, guys. Thanks for having me. Thanks for watching and listening.

[34:57] Linedy Genao: Entre Acts is created, hosted and executive produced by yours truly, produced in partnership with Alan Seals and the Broadway Podcast Network.

[35:05] Linedy Genao: Carlos E. Hernandez of IJIGAY Management and Media serves as our lead executive producer. Original music by Johan Beltré and Pedro F. Fortunato. And special thanks to welcometotimesquare.com, the billboard where you can be a star for the day. Don't forget to subscribe and follow Entre Acts so you never miss an episode.

[35:25] Linedy Genao: Nos vemos!