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[0:00] Linedy Genao: Hello, hello everybody. My name is Linedy Genao and welcome to Entre Acts, Ya Tu Sabe, your favorite podcast, where we talk to your favorite artists about the pauses in our life, the transitional periods in our life. And I'm so excited to announce today's guest. We're literally meeting for the first time today and we have so many friends in common. It's actually insane. So, she is a master of the high-stakes vocal shapeshift. The world knows her as a Broadway chameleon, from the pristine bubble wrap soprano of Glinda in Wicked, to the grit and hairspray of Rock of Ages, to the comedic, campy brilliance of Rose in Titanic, to most recently, originating a role for the legendary Dolly Parton herself, as Dolly Parton, mind you. And very, very soon, we'll be starring as Sandra Dee in Just in Time on Broadway. Mi gente, please welcome Carrie St. Louis.

[1:00] Carrie St. Louis: Thank you. Wow, what an introduction. I'm going to bring you with me everywhere. How are you doing?

[1:05] Linedy Genao: I'm doing great. I'm so excited that we're finally meeting and having this chat.

[1:10] Carrie St. Louis: Me too. Thank you so much for being here.

[1:15] Linedy Genao: Of course. So, before we get things started, I like to start each episode with a fun little game, an icebreaker game, with a game of dominoes. Have you ever played dominoes?

[1:20] Carrie St. Louis: I have.

[1:21] Linedy Genao: Me too, but I've said this every time, but I don't really know how. I know how to play, but I don't, which is a cultural, like, no-no. Pero ya tu sabes, we're going to play it the entre-axe way.

[1:29] Carrie St. Louis: Okay, great.

[1:30] Linedy Genao: So, basically, you're going to grab a domino and sum up that number, and that'll pertain to an icebreaker fun question.

[1:39] Carrie St. Louis: Okay, I'm ready.

[1:40] Linedy Genao: All right, here we go. Okay, so just grab any one. Yes. Okay, let's see. Oh, four. Number four. You're stuck in a 12-hour rehearsal. What's the one snack in your bag you refuse to share?

[1:51] Carrie St. Louis: Oh, wow. Ooh. It's probably an apple and goldfish. That has a combo. I love that.

[1:58] Linedy Genao: Yeah, cheese and apples. It's kind of like a mini charcuterie, but less fancy. Listen, señores, a mini charcuterie in your bag for rehearsal. You heard it here at entre-axe. I'm obsessed. I'm not sharing. Sorry, yeah. And the sweet and salty too. No compartir. No compartir. No vamos a compartir. Oh, my God. Lo siento, pero no.

[2:21] Carrie St. Louis: Okay, pero ya habla español, señores. Ay, ay, ay. Oh, my God. Okay, seguimos. Okay, let's see. Oh, six. Six. Okay. The safety of a sure thing or the thrill of a total pivot?

[2:29] Carrie St. Louis: Ooh, I think the thrill of a total pivot.

[2:37] Linedy Genao: Me too. Yolo. Yolo. I'm a Sagittarius, so I'm all about that sort of, yeah.

[2:43] Carrie St. Louis: I love that. I'm a yes and person, and I love to just sort of be open to anything and see what happens.

[2:48] Linedy Genao: I love that. Yeah. Me too. All right. Next. Oh. I was like, yes. Nine. Nine. Okay. Dolly's rhinestones or Sandra's pastel knits?

[2:57] Carrie St. Louis: Oh, that's so hard. I know. That's so hard. I mean, I haven't started a Sandra Dee yet, and I've gotten to wear Dolly's rhinestones, so I'm going to say Dolly's rhinestones just because, yeah, I've been working on that for a while, so I feel like it's sort of a part of me now.

[3:14] Linedy Genao: Yes, I can't wait to talk about that.

[3:16] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. I love Dolly.

[3:18] Linedy Genao: Oh, look at me too. I mean, who doesn't?

[3:20] Carrie St. Louis: I know, literally. Okay, last one. One more. Okay. Six. Six. Is a taco a sandwich?

[3:27] Linedy Genao: This is the hardest question of them all. Is a taco a sandwich?

[3:30] Carrie St. Louis: Yes. Right? What do you think?

[3:35] Linedy Genao: I don't know. I bow down to whatever your answer is. I don't know, because when I think of a sandwich, I think of two separate pieces, two separate ends, right, of each piece of bread, and a taco is one. So would a sandwich be more like a moleta, as opposed? Maybe.

[3:54] Carrie St. Louis: We're going to have a test your Mexican later.

[3:58] Linedy Genao: Oh, no. We're going to talk about that.

[4:00] Carrie St. Louis: Oh, no. My husband's going to be like, Cherry. Bueno, señores. I don't know. Is a taco a sandwich? Please let us know.

[4:10] Linedy Genao: Yeah, let us know. Let us know what you think. Bueno. Thank you for indulging me in our game of dominoes. So to get things started, entre acts, right in between acts, I wanted to start the show to talk about those pauses in our life when life yells intermission and forgets to tell us what's next, metaphorically, and just what that means to all of us, especially as artists, you know, we're, we often feel defined by our roles and what we're our work. But I also want to just talk about this as human beings, as women, as wives, right? Just what does the in between period mean to you?

[4:43] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah, it's I mean, it's so interesting, because we all go through it in this industry. And when you're first starting out, you sort of expect that it's just going to sort of be a uphill climb, you know, and you're just going to keep winning. But there's definitely it feels way more like a hilly road, and it goes up and it goes down. And I think the thing that was most fascinating to me with being entre acts was that, you know, we get so used to an audience standing up and applauding us at the end of a show. And there's no other real career where that happens. You don't leave the office in a nine to five. And everyone's like, you did your job. Great job making your queues and clearing your emails.

And so, and it's weird, because when someone isn't doing that, we sort of feel it in a way and my husband would always be like, you know, I get the zoomies late at night and he's like, Okay, you need to be back on a stage like you need to be performing because I start acting out my day and you know, I get I get so silly, but it's just sort of this need to perform and be in front of people. And I'm just a professional clown is what I always do. I love that. That's my profession, just clown. So yeah, it's it's sort of learning how to stand up and applaud yourself at the end of the day.

[5:51] Carrie St. Louis: And realizing that the work can also exist in taking classes, it can be in finding your sort of side hustle. For me, I'm a vocal coach. So it's in my growing my vocal business, you know, my coaching business, and it's sort of finding our lanes where we aren't reliant on a performing job, but we can still be performing and still be working at our craft and applauding ourselves at the end of the day.

[6:13] Linedy Genao: I love that. I love that so much. We have to be able to applaud ourselves and find that audience within ourselves.

[6:17] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah, if not, it's Yeah, and then you're feeling like you're wasting your time or you're not being successful. But there's so much about it. That is the training, you know, and the staying and working on it and so that you can continue to up level and everything that you do. It's not just you're only working when you have a job, right? So and we're always auditioning and all of that. I mean, people don't see that. But you can spend so much time and energy on an audition and get to the very, very end. And then you don't get it. And you're not able to put a callback on your resume. You're not like, hey, I got really close. And I was almost that part. You know, I've never thought about that.

[6:58] Linedy Genao: Yeah, you know, only we could do that, y'all. And it's so much work and that people don't see. And you just sort of have to go, okay, well, that wasn't that one wasn't for me. I really think that should have been for me. But it wasn't, you know, you kind of have to like sort of self soothe and and kind of learn how to yeah, like a grieving process, for sure, at least for me.

[7:20] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. But you're absolutely right about that. And also, it's, it's another industry where from the moment you wake up, I mean, at least for me from the moment I wake up, if I'm doing a show, I'm like, yeah, okay, I have some work to do today or like, Oh, I feel pretty good. I'm chilling. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I didn't do that when I worked at a bank. No, I didn't. If my foot hurt, if my body hurt, I'm there. You know, yeah, it's, it's an all day everyday thing.

[7:42] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. I always say it's like the closest relationship I've ever really had, besides my husband now, but it's just every day where I'm checking in. I'm like, where are you at? You know, and people don't see also on top of shows. It's things like this, like you're running a podcast, you're running a business, you also have rehearsals, you have put ins, you have press you have, it's just never ending. And you're always auditioning for the next thing. So it's Yeah, it's ongoing. But yeah, it's a balance. It's a balance some days better than others. But yeah, literally, but it's also what we love. And so you know, it's all encompassing.

[8:16] Carrie St. Louis: It's I have moments all the time where I go, how lucky am I that today I got to have a rehearsal for something. I got to teach some lessons because I love coaching. You know, I had maybe a press event for something and then you get to do a show. I'm like, this is my dream life, you know, literally, and it doesn't last forever. It doesn't last for nothing does. But these, this industry, this moment, yeah, none of this is guaranteed forever.

[8:40] Linedy Genao: So you've spent the last year in the world of Dolly Parton. I can't wait to talk about that. And you're about to spend the next year in the world of Sandra Dee. In this exact moment, this interact, who is Carrie St. Louis when she isn't wearing someone else's iconic wig is so interesting.

[8:57] Carrie St. Louis: Great question. Um, well, it's this is interesting, because every role I've played in the past has been a fictional character. And in the past year, I'm playing two real people, which has been fascinating to in terms of the research and the preparation for the role. One of them is, is, you know, has passed on Sandra Dee. But one of them, Dolly Parton is sitting right in front of me as I'm playing her in front of her. So that has been also a huge learning lesson.

[9:23] Carrie St. Louis: Um, but I think me outside of all of that, you know, I just it's, it's honestly been a huge lesson in trusting myself. Especially when you're playing someone else who's living in front of you. I didn't ever want it to be an impersonation or that I was, you know, just trying to exactly be Dolly Parton. I want to be me with an essence of Dolly Parton so that it feels honest and truthful to the role. And so a lot of the work I've done is just been like, picturing myself in these situations that she was in, you know, in certain scenes that I have in the show, and thinking, how would I act? And how did she act? And how do we how are we the same? And how are we different? And where where are those similarities and differences?

And I think I saw a quote one time of Meryl Streep, you know, saying, it's not about becoming another person. It's about finding myself within them. That's how she establishes her characters. And so that takes a lot of trust and a lot of just being like, okay, I trust myself to know what I would do in a situation and how I can color that to be sort of similar to what Dolly, you know, what how Dolly would feel or how Sandra Dee would feel. And thankfully,

[10:33] Carrie St. Louis: So yeah, I guess I don't know if that answers. No, no, that's great. It's finding myself in these characters. And then at the end of the day, you know, being able to sort of take these characters off and put them away. And, you know, I'm still learning that figuring that out. I think when I got back from being Dolly out of town this past summer, I would be singing in front of my students, and they'd start laughing. And I was like, What? And they're like, Well, you're doing your Dolly voice. And I was like, No, I'm not. But it just started, you know, because I worked so hard on finding my voice within her voice, and her voice sits up here. So there's a lot of this. I know. It's great.

[11:34] Linedy Genao: So good. I can't wait to see Dolly.

[11:37] Carrie St. Louis: I'm possessed by Dolly Parton, which honestly, who better to be possessed by in the whole world? But um, but yeah, it just it's a totally different like larynx placement, everything is higher and lifted and in a different pocket. So I from doing that for three months straight, it started to infiltrate my actual voice, which you can hear is a lot lower and a lot different. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I'm a low, low speaker. So I'm a vocal fryer. But yeah, oh my gosh, I love that. I share that with you in the sense of I was a part of On Your Feet, the Gloria Estefan musical. And I was in the original Broadway company and the ensemble and I understudied the role of Gloria. So to play her in front of her and that'd be my Broadway debut.

Yes, I had only had theater experience from high school. So I was shot out of a cannon. So it was a lot for me and a lot of pressure that I put on myself and a lot of external pressure that I felt. But you're absolutely right. Even being so young and not understanding. I always tried to be myself as much as I could because I trust yourself. Yeah, like I can't pretend to be somebody else and not bring those other qualities of myself that bring you know, but that's honest and truthful to you. And audiences will feel that and they'll relate to that instead of being like, Oh, she's just doing an imitation, you know, and it's also a lot of trust because you got to work with Gloria Estefan. Like, I also have to trust myself because there's for sure pressure and it's easier said than done.

It's hard for me because I'm like, I want everybody to like me, you know, and that's just like never gonna happen. But I just have to trust that like Dolly Parton sees it in sees herself in me, Gloria Estefan saw herself in you. And that is all the trust I really need at the end of the day. I'm kind of like, okay, it's helpful. I mean, I still do care. I care way too much. But I'm getting better. You know, yeah, it's because I care and I want to do it right. But it's also remembering that like, maybe there will be a handful of people that are like, Oh, that doesn't she doesn't feel like Dolly to me. Okay. But Dolly herself, Dolly Parton. So if I don't trust myself, I at least trust her. So listen, yeah.

[13:43] Linedy Genao: Trust in Dolly Parton. Trust in Dolly Parton. And I think you'll be okay at the end of the day.

[13:45] Carrie St. Louis: W W D P D. Oh, no. This is why I'm in theater. I was worried about adding up the dominoes. So that's where we're at. No, I'm kidding. So in originating Dolly, right in a world premiere, there's a specific messy middle in creating a new musical where sometimes things are working, sometimes things are not and having to shift and rewrite everything. How do you stay grounded in it all?

[14:16] Carrie St. Louis: Oh, wow. It's it was so fascinating, because this is my first time originating a role. And so you learn so much. I mean, that being your Broadway debut, I'm sure you were just like, eyes wide open, because at the end of the day, I always say I'm like, I'm amazed that any musical gets made at all. I have so much respect for anybody that makes musicals. It is like, it's impossible. Because truly, you could have the perfect everything, you know, everything could line up. And then one thing is kind of not exactly right. And so they go to fix that one thing, and then something else suffers. It's like this puzzle. And you it's just trying to get lightning in a bottle, truly. And everybody's working so hard on it.

It takes so many people and so much work. And everyone really wants it to be successful. But like, you know, there's just so much outside factors. And it's a business at the end of the day. And so there's there's a lot of that that comes in. And, you know, it's just it's it's fascinating, really, like putting together a new show.

[15:30] Linedy Genao: What was the question, though?

[15:31] Carrie St. Louis: I gotta do you stay grounded with Oh, again, previews y'all in previews. Oh, my gosh, you're performing in front of a paying audience, but you're rehearsing in the morning changing things that you might implement that same night, or the next night or the next night. So it is a piece for our brain.

[15:44] Linedy Genao: Yeah. Yeah. How do you navigate that? And what what did you do to kind of ground yourself and just be present and trust yourself to know that?

[15:50] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah, I think I think it was really just at a certain level, it's it's all you're doing. So in a way, I was just so tired at the end of the day, it was like, I would wake up. So you're just laser focused. Because like you said, we would be we change things constantly, we change things the night before opening night, we the show was not frozen. So we were changing things, which was like really crazy. And also, put in mind that we're also in Nashville, which is Dolly is the mayor of Nashville, like the she is on everybody's license plates, like she is everywhere.

[16:14] Linedy Genao: Oh yeah, there's a lot you can get a license plate with Dolly's picture on it. And it's everyone has that because why would you not?

[16:17] Carrie St. Louis: Correct. Correct. That's the answer. So it's like you're just seeing her everywhere. And then I'm just, you know, I'll be driving by the street, there's a huge mural of Dolly and I'm like, Hey, girl, and then I just go see her. No big deal that day. No big deal. But also, you know, her dressing room was next to mine. She was there every single day. Morning tonight, she was working nine to five that one. She is. She is a hard worker, so involved, and so collaborative. She's so wonderful. And really, it was just she wants it to be the best it can be. And so she's, you know, constantly like, all right, let's try that. Or she'd come up with new lyrics on the spot. And she'd be like, okay, and these are the new lyrics that are going in tonight.

And you're like, okay, I'm the first person to ever sing something that Dolly Parton has written, which is a wild when you sit back and think about it, but it moves really fast. Like we would every day be in there, you know, in rehearsals, changing things, cutting scenes, cutting songs, adding songs, you know, and then that night, I'm playing Dolly Parton in front of 2000 people in Nashville and Dolly Parton. So it was it was a lot I honestly, I got home. And I think just being so tired and just sort of like so hyper focused, I didn't have time to really think to get to in my head. It was just like, we just go there's no other option. But when I got back after three months, I sat on the couch at home.

It was a Sunday and I just went and I realized that it was like the first deep breath I had taken in three months just because everything was moving so fast and you just you just get on the ride and you just go and you you don't ask questions and you don't you just like, stay focused. But when I got home, I sort of was like, Oh, wow. Oh, wow. That was a lot. My body just went through a lot. But but again, the biggest blessing in the world I wouldn't I would like never exchange it for anything.

[18:03] Linedy Genao: Absolutely. I understand that completely. And now you're about to step in to be Sandra Dee in Death and Time. And like, now you don't have to have that pressure of creating anything. You get to go do your thing. Have fun.

[18:16] Carrie St. Louis: Yes. How excited are you to be on Beyond? It's my favorite show. I loved it. When I saw it, I left the theater and was just, you know, I know you just saw it, but I it's one of those musicals that really like reminds you why you love musical theater. Like I was like, Oh my god, I love musicals. I'm such a nerd. You know what I mean? So I'm super, super excited. And also, you know, Alex Timbers, I've only had one rehearsal, I'm starting rehearsal this week. So we did like a read through and Alex said, you know, at the end he said, you know, these are real people. But we also we want we picked you guys individually because we love what you bring to the role. And we want we don't want an impersonation of these characters.

We want your interpretation of them. So there really is a lot of freedom in that to like find my own version of Sandra Dee, which is really wonderful. When a director says that, I mean, we trust you go, you know, so and for the director to be Alex Timbers, I know is casual, casual, you know, come on. What a dream.

[19:16] Linedy Genao: In three words, or however many words you want. How would you describe this season of life you're stepping into right now?

[19:22] Carrie St. Louis: Oh, I'm so excited. I mean, you're catching me like right before it all kind of goes, which is so exciting. It's like the calm before the storm. But it's like, my dream storm. Like I just can't even believe because you know, when I was in three acts, it was, you know, you sort of go, am I ever going to work again? Am I ever going to be cast in anything again, because it is a hustle. And it's a timing thing. And I do think that everybody's moment comes, you know, we all sort of trade off and some things are meant for us and some things are not. This feels very serendipitous. So maybe serendipitous is one. I just I'm so excited is another word. And I guess I just want to be focused. I think I want to Oh, present.

I want to be very present. Because again, I think in the moments when I wasn't in a show, whenever you're not in a show, all you want is to be in a show. And then when you're in a show, you're kind of like, I would kind of like a break. I literally just talked about that how we're begging for time off when we're working. And when we're not working, we're begging.

[20:30] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I have sort of am going into this chapter being like, I want to soak up every moment of this because I love performing live. And I love being in New York City and being able to do that. And like, what a blessing and I've worked really hard for a long time. So I just want to enjoy it now as opposed to being so nervous about like, what's next? Or how do I prove myself? I think it's just now existing and being present and enjoying it.

[20:53] Linedy Genao: I love that.

[20:54] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah, I love that. Because it goes so fast, too. It goes so fast.

[20:57] Linedy Genao: Yeah. And then you're like, when you know, and then you're like, Oh, it's been eight years since I was in that show or 10 years. I'm like, where does time go? Because how long have you been against me now?

[21:04] Carrie St. Louis: Over a year into the month, it's gonna be a year a year.

[21:08] Linedy Genao: I feel like my hip does not feel like I just started. Let's get that right because I fall on stage like it's been 84 years. Come see the Great Gatsby to see why my hip hurts. But um, yeah, it goes by so fast. Yeah, I know. You're like, Oh my god, I'm at the end of my contract. You're like this time has passed. Where has time gone? So it's crazy.

[21:25] Linedy Genao: Um, but something else that you did in the acts that I'm so excited to talk about is you got married.

[21:30] Carrie St. Louis: I did. Senora Franco. Senorita. Or no, senorita is not married. Right?

[21:41] Linedy Genao: Oh, but it's because we're young and beautiful.

[21:45] Carrie St. Louis: Exactly, exactly. For some reason. We love you senoras, pero nosotros, nosotras somos senoritas. Senoritas.

[21:52] Linedy Genao: Okay. So, so your wedding photos. Freaking magazine. Like, and your husband is a Mexicano.

[22:12] Carrie St. Louis: We're in for a surprise. But I get nervous because it's no, I always want my husband to practice with me. And he's always like, well, your personality is completely different in Spanish, which his is too. It's way more. Everybody is way cheekier in Spanish. Everything's like, everything's a joke. Right? And I love it. I love it. But he, you know, he'll ask me a question. I'm like, No, no. And he's like, I'm not talking to you like that. I'm like, that's just who I am. Just let me be. Let me be whether it's in Spanish. Let me be.

[22:47] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. So I get un poco nerviosa porque no puedo practicar mas con mi esposo. Desafortunadamente. My jaw is on the floor y'all. Keri St. Louis. Mi hermana latina aqui. Mi hermana latina. Mi sueño.

[23:03] Linedy Genao: So speaking of latina. Yes. Oh gosh. We're gonna, we're at the end of our sandwichito. Okay. Where we have some fun.

[23:09] Carrie St. Louis: Oh great. And now I'm gonna test you on your Mexican. Okay. Oh my god. Here we go. Tacos or tamales?

[23:14] Carrie St. Louis: Tamales. Because my husband's mother, Martha, Martha Franco, shout out. She makes, oh my gosh, her tamales over Christmas. I'm just, oh, the best.

[23:27] Carrie St. Louis: Marta Franco, if you ever want to send tamales to, um, Marta Franco, if you're, Franco or Franca?

[23:32] Linedy Genao: Franco.

[23:35] Carrie St. Louis: Marta Franco, if you ever want to send tamales to Entrex?

[23:38] Linedy Genao: Yeah. She sends, she sends us back with them sometimes.

[23:41] Carrie St. Louis: Llama a Keri. Keri me llama a mi.

[23:44] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. Although above and beyond chilaquiles. Chilaquiles are my favorite. They're so good. Chilaquiles. I'm obsessed. I could eat them all day, every day. No, I might have to get Mexican food after this.

[23:49] Linedy Genao: Same. Okay. Tequila or mezcal?

[23:55] Carrie St. Louis: Ooh. Depende. Pero pienso que tequila porque de margaritas, pero me gusta mezcal también. I just recently in the last few years had mezcal for the first time because my cousins would get it and I'm like, it's a little too smoky for me. Cause I know that there's different like levels and kinds, but lately mezcal hits y'all. Or like a mezcalita with like passion fruit. Those are, those are the bomb. I need to, I need to actually.

[24:25] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. Those are the bomb. I can't get that after because I have a show tonight, but yeah, yeah. I'll get that maybe after my show tonight.

[24:31] Linedy Genao: Okay. Um, this is, this is the hard hitting one. Selena or Yolanda. There's only one right answer. Carrie, please think carefully.

[24:39] Carrie St. Louis: I mean, I'm going to say Selena.

[24:46] Linedy Genao: Wait, do you know who Yolanda is?

[24:51] Carrie St. Louis: Not as, not as much.

[24:51] Linedy Genao: Okay. This is where I'm in trouble.

[24:57] Carrie St. Louis: No, no, no. You picked the right answer. Thank God. Yolanda was who murdered Selena.

[25:02] Carrie St. Louis: Oh no, no. Have you seen the Selena movie?

[25:07] Carrie St. Louis: Yes, but it was a long time ago.

[25:13] Linedy Genao: Okay. But you got the right answer. Oh my God. Okay. Ooh. Yeah. No. Justice for Selena. I didn't know that. Her, I think her manager or something. Her name was Yolanda and was who murdered her.

[25:27] Carrie St. Louis: Okay. No. Selena forever.

[25:30] Linedy Genao: Selena forever. Because I'm dreaming of you tonight till tomorrow.

[25:36] Carrie St. Louis: Yes. Carrie knows what's up. Okay. We're going to do a duo show. Just us singing Selena. Just combined duets.

[25:42] Linedy Genao: What is your song? Like the song that you are shaking your.

[25:46] Carrie St. Louis: Ooh. Well, I mean, I know this is very popular right now, but bad bunny is, I mean, you can't help it. I feel like all of the whole world.

[25:48] Linedy Genao: Yes.

[25:52] Carrie St. Louis: If they didn't know, now they know.

[25:56] Carrie St. Louis: And it was impossible even during the super bowl to like, and no one was sitting. Like everyone was like, okay. And we're up and we're dancing. So maybe I think bad bunny.

[26:03] Carrie St. Louis: Correct. Yeah. Sometimes my husband will put that on as like a pump pump up. It's either that or he'll say, do you want to pump up song? And I'll say, yeah. And then he turns on. I'm like, thank you. And that's marriage. And that's love being trolled by your husband. Only married folks will understand.

[26:22] Linedy Genao: So if you're married, raise your hand.

[26:26] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. We all know. We all know. We all know.

[26:30] Linedy Genao: So, okay. We're going to get into this game. Okay. We can't, we kind of try to keep a PG 13 here. So instead of bleep Mary kill, you know, it's bed, wed, dead, bed, wed, dead. Okay. Are you ready?

[26:40] Carrie St. Louis: Yes. Oh gosh. Bed, wed, dead. Glinda Lauren Rose.

[26:51] Carrie St. Louis: Oh, oh, bed, wed, dead. Oh no. Okay. I think wed Lauren. She's the best. Lauren is so great. She's just, she's just a solid gal who means so well and is so smart and helps Charlie out tremendously. So we're going to wed Lauren. Glinda has moments. Rose though. Rose is so silly. I think we're going to bed Glinda.

[27:16] Carrie St. Louis: We're going to bed Glinda and maybe dead Rose. I know the gasps clutch your pearls at home or those are switched. I don't know. I can't dead any of them, but, but Glinda.

[27:30] Linedy Genao: Yeah.

[27:30] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. Glinda at the end of the show.

[27:34] Linedy Genao: No, no, not at the beginning.

[27:40] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. Rose roses. I don't know. She makes a lot of mistakes. I think.

[27:47] Linedy Genao: Yeah. Don't we all in Titanic? We're supposed to like Rose from Titanic.

[27:51] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. Maybe.

[27:52] Linedy Genao: Yeah.

[27:55] Carrie St. Louis: Okay. Bed, wed, dead phantom cats or Evita.

[27:57] Carrie St. Louis: Ooh. Okay. I'm going to dead phantom. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everybody. I'm sorry. I don't know. We have some support in the studio, but we won't show their faces. I saw masquerade. So impressed. I was amazed. It's incredible. Everyone should go see it. I just phantom. It kind of weirds me out. I think it's always weirded me out a little bit, even though I love phantom and masquerade are two separate.

[28:07] Linedy Genao: Well, yeah, masquerade is phantom, but it's, it's a new version of immersive version.

[28:13] Carrie St. Louis: I think the story of kind of the opera is a little like, I don't know. I don't know if it aged as well as like, maybe we hoped we're going to, we are going to wed Evita and we're going to bed cats. Cause how fun.

[28:39] Linedy Genao: Especially now the Jellicle ball. That sounds like a great time.

[28:44] Carrie St. Louis: Listen, that was the right answer.

[28:48] Linedy Genao: Yeah. I feel like bedding Evita is strange, but yeah.

[28:55] Carrie St. Louis: Okay. Bed, wet, dead.

[28:56] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. Dolly's rhinestones. Okay. Dolly's energy. Dolly's nails.

[29:01] Carrie St. Louis: Okay. Well, I'm a wedding Dolly's energy because I need that at all times. She is unbelievable. She just turned 80.

[29:07] Carrie St. Louis: She's there again all day, every day. She is. She's just saying, well, I think it's just sound like this. Start singing. It's it's unbelievable. She's unbelievable. I don't actually understand how she exists and she's even better than you think she is. So we will wed Dolly's energy forever because if, if I have that energy when I'm 80, we're doing all right.

[29:27] Carrie St. Louis: Her nails and then her rhinestones. Ooh, I think we can dead the nails just cause they're long and it's, I, I'm learned how to play guitar with them and they're, it's hard. She's amazing for being able to do that, but it's hard. And then we're going to bed the rhinestones cause it's fun. Go back to the rhinestones.

[29:45] Linedy Genao: Yeah. Carrie, thank you so much. We'll spare you all at home. So unless y'all want to like three hour episodes, we will stay here and talk forever as a guest again and again. But we need Martha's um, Tamales, chilaquiles, chilaquiles, mescalitas. And we need to know if a taco is a sandwich. Cause that's going to haunt me.

[30:06] Carrie St. Louis: Yeah. We need the soft tacos and the hard tacos so that we could decipher which ones are sandwiches.

[30:11] Linedy Genao: Yeah. I'm getting some, some looks. I'm getting some looks about the soft tacos.

[30:16] Carrie St. Louis: Okay. Sorry. That's very American. Um, the, the corn tacos. Is that correct?

[30:20] Linedy Genao: Yeah.

[30:28] Carrie St. Louis: Okay. Okay. Corn said that let's said that way. Corn. Very American.

[30:34] Linedy Genao: Before we end, I always like to end with this, our little catchphrase. If you okay.

[30:42] Carrie St. Louis: Of course. Because life doesn't pause. It just moves.

[30:47] Linedy Genao: Okay. It doesn't pause. It just moves.

[30:52] Linedy Genao: It just moves. Okay. And we look right at the camera right here.

[30:55] Carrie St. Louis: Oh, this one.

[30:56] Linedy Genao: Okay. Two because life doesn't pause. It just moves and three acts.

[31:02] Carrie St. Louis: Gary St. Louis everybody. Thank you for having me. You're the best.

[31:08] Linedy Genao: Entre Acts is created, hosted, and executive produced by yours truly Linedie Hanau. Produced in partnership with Allen Seals and the Broadway Podcast Network. Carlos E. Hernandez of Ihigai Management and Media serves as our lead executive producer. Original music by Johan Beltré and Pedro F. Fortunato. And special thanks to welcome to timesquare.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. Nos vemos!