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[0:01] Elliott Mattox: Hello, friends.

[0:02] Elliott Mattox: Elliot here.

[0:04] Elliott Mattox: Caleb and I hope you are healthy and safe at home right now.

[0:08] Elliott Mattox: I know that there's a lot of stuff going on right now, but Caleb and I, with the help of our friends at the Broadway Podcast Network, are hosting something each week to help brighten up your day.

[0:21] Elliott Mattox: Every Wednesday and Saturday at 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Caleb and I will be hosting a live video happy hour.

[0:30] Elliott Mattox: Um, courtesy of the Broadway Podcast Network.

[0:33] Elliott Mattox: We'll be sitting down with some of your favorite podcasters from other shows on the network, and we're gonna sit, have a cocktail, have some laughs, and uh take a break from watching Netflix for the day.

[0:46] Elliott Mattox: What you're about to hear is the audio from those video calls, but you can watch the whole thing for yourself on the Broadway Podcast Network YouTube channel.

[0:56] Elliott Mattox: And to tune in live, you can go to bpn.fm slash happy hour.

[1:04] Elliott Mattox: Again, that's bpn dot fm slash happy hour.

[1:10] Elliott Mattox: We hope you'll join us for the next one.

[1:12] Elliott Mattox: Cheers.

[1:18] Elliott Mattox: We'll take a glass together.

[1:22] Elliott Mattox: This is Equity One, Broadway's Happy Hour.

[1:25] Elliott Mattox: Pour yourself a drink and join us as we chat about life, theater, and everything in between.

[1:31] Elliott Mattox: I'm Elliott Maddox.

[1:33] Caleb Dicke: And I'm Caleb Dicke.

[1:34] Elliott Mattox: Join us for your Equity One.

[1:41] Caleb Dicke: Yes!

[1:42] Caleb Dicke: Cheers!

[1:45] Caleb Dicke: Clink!

[1:47] Elliott Mattox: Hi Caleb.

[1:50] Caleb Dicke: I can't hear you.

[1:51] Caleb Dicke: I think you might be muted.

[1:53] Caleb Dicke: Here we are.

[1:54] Caleb Dicke: Talk now.

[1:55] Caleb Dicke: I still can't hear you.

[1:57] Elliott Mattox: Well, while we figure this out, can we bring in our special guests for the week?

[2:02] Elliott Mattox: Uh from In the Room with Steven and Dana.

[2:05] Elliott Mattox: It's Steven and Dana.

[2:10] Dana Craig: Hi, friends.

[2:12] Steven Ferezy: Hello.

[2:14] Dana Craig: Welcome.

[2:15] Elliott Mattox: Caleb is figuring out the technology.

[2:18] Elliott Mattox: You know, we're making it work here.

[2:20] Dana Craig: So we'll God bless AB Cub.

[2:23] Steven Ferezy: Oh my God.

[2:24] Steven Ferezy: We I wish we I wish we had a cart to push down a hallway.

[2:29] Dana Craig: Oh remember those carts with they either had like the VCR or the overhead projector.

[2:35] Dana Craig: And they were always kind of like this.

[2:37] Dana Craig: This brown color, and the plastic was always so crappy that it had like little bits that you could pick off with your fingernails.

[2:44] Elliott Mattox: For school news.

[2:45] Elliott Mattox: Caleb, how's it going?

[2:47] Caleb Dicke: Speak.

[2:51] Caleb Dicke: Can we hear you?

[2:52] Caleb Dicke: Can you hear us?

[2:53] Caleb Dicke: Can you talk?

[2:56] Caleb Dicke: Oh no.

[2:59] Dana Craig: Well, Steven is a sign language interpreter.

[3:01] Dana Craig: So maybe I know.

[3:03] Dana Craig: We oh we were gonna get to that.

[3:05] Dana Craig: Like that that is so wild.

[3:07] Dana Craig: So Steven will just sign everything that he thinks Caleb is saying.

[3:11] Steven Ferezy: Whatever.

[3:12] Steven Ferezy: I'm not getting um.

[3:18] Elliott Mattox: So uh we will figure this out, but for now, welcome.

[3:22] Elliott Mattox: This is Broadway Podcast Network Happy Hour.

[3:26] Elliott Mattox: Um, I'm Elliott and Caleb is down below, and we are the hosts of Equity One, Broadway's Happy Hour, and um, we're so excited to sit with some of our favorite fellow podcasters here.

[3:38] Dana Craig: Uh, we're so excited to have you all join us.

[3:41] Steven Ferezy: Thanks for having us.

[3:42] Dana Craig: Happy hump day.

[3:43] Steven Ferezy: Of course.

[3:45] Dana Craig: Such a real production.

[3:46] Dana Craig: Like I might weep.

[3:47] Dana Craig: Like this is so professional.

[3:50] Caleb Dicke: Caleb's, you know, musing aside, but yeah, I feel like um, I feel like I'm on the Rosie O'Donnell show and Caleb is Adrian Warren in the bathtub with the studs.

[4:02] Steven Ferezy: What Steven?

[4:04] Steven Ferezy: This is um, this is like I live with Kelly and uh Ryan is always just on in the mornings in my house because it comes on after the news.

[4:12] Steven Ferezy: And um there Leslie Leslie Odom Jr. performed on there one day, and he is so talented, but oh my gosh, the Wi-Fi was so bad.

[4:22] Steven Ferezy: Like it it went, I think they went to commercial twice within his performance because it was just like it was just like not working.

[4:32] Dana Craig: Um, but you know, we're all figuring it out in this time.

[4:36] Dana Craig: Am I here?

[4:37] Caleb Dicke: My clay.

[4:41] Dana Craig: Look at your new arrangement too.

[4:44] Dana Craig: Like it's kind of I'm in this Airbnb in Connecticut, and this is the um the bunk bedroom.

[4:51] Dana Craig: Cute, cute, cute.

[4:53] Dana Craig: So I'm here.

[4:54] Dana Craig: I heard all that you call me Adrian Warren, Adrian.

[4:57] Dana Craig: So like I'm really like for that.

[4:59] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, we're big fans, so we'll take what we can get.

[5:03] Elliott Mattox: Um, where are you all isolating right now?

[5:09] Steven Ferezy: Washington Heights.

[5:11] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, my apartment where I live.

[5:14] Steven Ferezy: And yeah.

[5:16] Dana Craig: Yes.

[5:17] Dana Craig: How is the city?

[5:21] Steven Ferezy: Um I mean, I feel like you actually put it the best.

[5:26] Steven Ferezy: Uh we know what our parents know.

[5:29] Steven Ferezy: We s we learn from the news about where we live, and that's weird.

[5:34] Steven Ferezy: Weird.

[5:36] Steven Ferezy: It's weird finding out about your neighborhood on the news.

[5:40] Dana Craig: Totally.

[5:41] Dana Craig: It's like, and it's so bizarre.

[5:42] Dana Craig: You know, I've been talking a lot with my boyfriend about how much we miss being in the city, but also that like right now the city that we miss is not New York.

[5:52] Dana Craig: It's not the normal.

[5:54] Dana Craig: So there's no reason to, you know, it's it's hard for everyone, I'm sure, especially if you're in the middle of it.

[6:01] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, and it it almost doesn't feel like I'm in the middle of it because nothing's happening.

[6:07] Steven Ferezy: Right.

[6:07] Steven Ferezy: There's there's no sense of like something is happening that I can see.

[6:12] Steven Ferezy: It's this invisible happening.

[6:15] Steven Ferezy: Um it's very spooky.

[6:21] Dana Craig: How often are you going out to like the grocery stores and like what's your how are you keeping insane?

[6:28] Steven Ferezy: Well, we're spreading it out in my house.

[6:31] Steven Ferezy: Uh there's three of us here, so we kind of rotate.

[6:35] Steven Ferezy: Um go to the store as little as we can.

[6:38] Steven Ferezy: We try to stock up as much as we can in a trip.

[6:42] Steven Ferezy: Um and then if we have to go back, it's for odds and sods.

[6:48] Dana Craig: Sods for planting.

[6:57] Dana Craig: And it was delivered, and you can watch them as they are shopping for you.

[7:01] Dana Craig: And so you can be like, they swapped out this, they're refunding you this.

[7:06] Dana Craig: Um, so you kind of pre-pay, and then you actually pay at the end.

[7:11] Dana Craig: And so our 200 order was like a hundred dollars because half of it he couldn't find.

[7:17] Dana Craig: And that's like flour, bread, eggs, like dish soak, like it was just the most basic.

[7:24] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, our stock levels are pretty good.

[7:26] Steven Ferezy: I was gonna ask about in Astoria.

[7:29] Steven Ferezy: Um, our problem up here is not stock, it's there's you know, you wait 45 minutes to get into the market to then do your shopping to then stand on like a more spread out line.

[7:41] Steven Ferezy: Uh no complaints, it's just the problem up here is time not stock, which I am grateful for.

[7:47] Dana Craig: Um is that true where you all are?

[7:51] Dana Craig: Um, where I am is I'm in Kentucky, and the you know, a lot more space here, so spreading out is not that big of an issue.

[8:00] Dana Craig: I haven't had to wait to get into a store yet.

[8:03] Dana Craig: Um, the nice thing is um, yeah, the stock is not so bad here.

[8:08] Dana Craig: I'm able to find most of what I need usually.

[8:12] Dana Craig: There've been the grocery stores have been amazing at stocking and restocking, and there's just a lot less people in like concentrated in one space using the same stores.

[8:23] Steven Ferezy: So um lucky in that way, Caleb.

[8:27] Caleb Dicke: Um, here in Connecticut, we uh they started only letting five people in a store at a time.

[8:33] Caleb Dicke: So that's kind of nice because it's less people, but they also look at me crazy because I'm wearing gloves and a mask, and I'm like, listen, you guys, like you if New York sneezes, you guys get sick.

[8:42] Caleb Dicke: So like you need to like start wearing your masks and like take it seriously.

[8:47] Dana Craig: Yeah, we have signs up at our market, uh face mask required to enter.

[8:52] Dana Craig: There's certainly it's not five in the store at a time, some very small like pharmacies or mom and pops are doing that but um you know it's spooky to see face masks must be worn next to the lemon basket yeah yeah it's wild like well i i never thought to prepare for anything like this i just thought like we we've never been raised to get through a pandemic before no one has yeah yeah so we'll definitely know something i'm working on for work right now because i work in reality tv production is we're researching survivalists and this is their shit like this is what they've been waiting for so it's like wow it's so interesting there's there are they're kind of like a couple groups like there's off the grid people who are just crunchy and want to find their own berries you know and do yoga and susie yes and then um then there's the fear based these are all the guns you need bunker this is the bunker yeah the bunker like the end of the world uh disaster preparedness so it's been very interesting to research all that work I mean honestly good for them they're like they're like and what you know skin a deer next question well I'm glad that you all are safe and even though it's spooky, I'm happy to be sitting and having a cocktail, and let's get to some like giggling because it is it has been a day um so let's have a big news day.

[10:44] Elliott Mattox: It has big news day.

[10:46] Elliott Mattox: So let's all put this big news.

[10:48] Elliott Mattox: Cheers here from Nine to Five the Musical.

[10:51] Dana Craig: Cheers.

[10:52] Dana Craig: Mine has words on it.

[10:54] Steven Ferezy: Oh Wisconsin.

[10:58] Dana Craig: Love that.

[11:00] Dana Craig: Mine is a turvis um wine glass, so it's plastic and it it is in like insulated.

[11:07] Dana Craig: So cold.

[11:09] Steven Ferezy: I thought you said yours was a turban.

[11:11] Steven Ferezy: And then now looking at it, I guess if you turned it upside down, it I'll do it right now.

[11:17] Steven Ferezy: Could very well be a turban.

[11:19] Dana Craig: Yeah, yeah.

[11:20] Dana Craig: Um, what have you all been watching this this week?

[11:23] Dana Craig: What's your quarantine viewing been?

[11:26] Steven Ferezy: Steven, take it away.

[11:29] Steven Ferezy: Um well, I I'm fresh from the sofa where I just finished Schitt's Creek.

[11:34] Steven Ferezy: I'm with you.

[11:36] Steven Ferezy: Oh, that was this afternoon.

[11:39] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, the finale.

[11:40] Steven Ferezy: If my eyes are a little puffy.

[11:42] Steven Ferezy: Um it was beautiful.

[11:45] Steven Ferezy: It was beautiful.

[11:47] Steven Ferezy: It was a happy ending, right?

[11:51] Dana Craig: No spoiler the waves.

[11:53] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[11:54] Steven Ferezy: Nice.

[11:55] Steven Ferezy: Um so that was beautiful.

[11:58] Steven Ferezy: Uh am I doing uh Tiger King in chunks?

[12:02] Steven Ferezy: It is very I can't do two in a row, and I can't pay all of the attention.

[12:07] Steven Ferezy: I have to be doing something else.

[12:10] Dana Craig: Um makes sense, yeah.

[12:12] Steven Ferezy: I kind of it's fascinating, but it's awful.

[12:17] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[12:18] Dana Craig: I'm actually surprised you're watching it, everyone has.

[12:22] Steven Ferezy: Me?

[12:23] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, it doesn't seem like something you'd watch.

[12:27] Steven Ferezy: You know, I love the cats.

[12:29] Dana Craig: I know.

[12:32] Dana Craig: Exactly.

[12:33] Dana Craig: That's why.

[12:33] Dana Craig: Yeah, yeah.

[12:35] Steven Ferezy: There was conversation happening, and I wanted to uh have some context.

[12:39] Steven Ferezy: I mean, it is definitely sure of the moment.

[12:42] Steven Ferezy: Um, it's the binge de jour for sure.

[12:46] Dana Craig: Yeah, and I also watched the uh Madam CJ Walker, Octavia Spencer.

[12:52] Dana Craig: Oh, the um self-made or something like that.

[12:56] Steven Ferezy: Yes.

[12:57] Dana Craig: Yeah, how was that?

[12:58] Dana Craig: I don't know that one.

[12:59] Dana Craig: She's we love Octavia.

[13:01] Steven Ferezy: We love we love Octavia.

[13:03] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[13:04] Dana Craig: Everything else was like a solid um a solid.

[13:11] Steven Ferezy: I love that.

[13:12] Steven Ferezy: I love that.

[13:13] Steven Ferezy: It's solid.

[13:14] Steven Ferezy: Solid.

[13:15] Dana Craig: Dana, what have you been watching?

[13:18] Dana Craig: Um, I am watching uh Better Things. It's my favorite show. It was on FX and it is still on FX, but now it's also Hulu, so everyone can watch it. And this just hold on for just one second. Strap on in, buckle your seat belts, because this last week, oh my god, they went to so Pamela Adlon is the star of it, and you know, she took over that writer's room and she makes me weep. Um, it's her show. She's giving such a performance. Um, she's a single mom of three girls living in LA. She's like a Hollywood actress, so she's kind of like that's kind of her life in real life. Um, but this last episode starred Randy Rainbow, Molly Shannon, oh, and Steven's friend, Elizabeth Ashley.

[14:15] Steven Ferezy: And it was set in New Orleans.

[14:18] Dana Craig: And Randy Rainbow sang a Tom Waits song. Like it was it like blew my mind. It was so beautiful.

[14:24] Steven Ferezy: And there was a big game with it.

[14:26] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[14:26] Steven Ferezy: It's my favorite.

[14:28] Dana Craig: Beautiful.

[14:29] Steven Ferezy: Stacked.

[14:30] Dana Craig: I love that.

[14:31] Steven Ferezy: That's my favorite. And also Killing Eve, loving Killing Eve.

[14:35] Dana Craig: Catching up.

[14:36] Steven Ferezy: Oh, you're catching up.

[14:37] Dana Craig: I realized I realized I hadn't seen season two yet. So we're watching season two.

[14:42] Steven Ferezy: Uh, I'm watching some Instagram live moments.

[14:46] Dana Craig: Oh, tell us about what Instagram lives you've been featured.

[14:49] Steven Ferezy: Yes.

[14:49] Dana Craig: Okay, so Bette Midler's daughter Sophie has a podcast. It's called Having a Night. And it's all about the art of throwing a dinner party.

[14:57] Steven Ferezy: Oh.

[14:58] Dana Craig: And so they've recently gone live, and they're doing like dinner parties. Her and Ari, they're the two co-hosts. And they just like press play and like cook dinner and talk. And it's amazing. It's so cute. I love it.

[15:15] Steven Ferezy: That's cute. I would watch that.

[15:17] Dana Craig: I'm I've been against the lives lately. They're a little bit too much energy for me. But I think that one I would enjoy.

[15:24] Steven Ferezy: Dana was watching live at the same time Bette Midler was watching live.

[15:29] Dana Craig: There was like there was like 32 people watching, and it one of them was me, the other person was Bette Midler.

[15:36] Steven Ferezy: Oh my god, one degree, and 30 of your coaches cracked.

[15:39] Dana Craig: I'm dead. Like that to me is enough to like get me through the next couple months.

[15:44] Steven Ferezy: Oh, totally. That is life sustaining.

[15:47] Dana Craig: Like she she wrote cheers, and then someone else wrote something, and then I wrote cheers. And I was like, She probably saw it.

[15:53] Steven Ferezy: I think you cheersed.

[16:03] Dana Craig: My watches are food related as well. I've been watching, so I'm obsessed with the Bon Appétit YouTube channel.

[16:10] Steven Ferezy: Oh my god.

[16:12] Dana Craig: How didn't I know this?

[16:14] Steven Ferezy: I don't know. Now we know.

[16:16] Dana Craig: And that's the whole episode of it. Now you know. But they've been they've been um obviously they're all self-isolating, so they've been doing a series about their home kitchens, their favorite tools, and it is just I love it.

[16:30] Steven Ferezy: I've been dying to see their home kitchens.

[16:34] Dana Craig: I know, and they so make they so make sense. Like Brad's, you know, it's like so cute.

[16:43] Steven Ferezy: I'm obsessed. I live for the Bon Appétit um lifestyle.

[16:49] Dana Craig: I do.

[16:50] Steven Ferezy: Oh, same. I really style do.

[16:54] Dana Craig: Um my boyfriend for my birthday. We went to the Bon Appétit Best Weekend ever, and we got to watch um Miss Cracker and Carla Lally Music go back to back live and in person.

[17:09] Steven Ferezy: That is so cool. Best day of my life.

[17:12] Dana Craig: Um I'm so jealous. I love when drag and something else unite.

[17:17] Steven Ferezy: Like drag and story time with kids unite.

[17:22] Dana Craig: It's magic.

[17:23] Steven Ferezy: Yes, drag and Bon Appétit. Magic.

[17:26] Dana Craig: Yes. I was just I was re-listening to some of your your older episodes, and I was like listening to an Annaleigh Ashford episode, and she was like, she was like went into like a drag race tangent, and I was like, oh, our queen. You know what I mean?

[17:40] Steven Ferezy: It's like our queen she likes Miss Piggy and all those like unicorn special things yeah cheers I just it was so it was uh so lovely I was like oh my god gay rights Annaleigh Ashford is gay rights gay rights yeah one billion percent.

[17:41] Dana Craig: Well we'll move to like uh our quick like little interview section so we like to start every podcast by asking our guests what first got them interested in the arts as a young person so um Steven why don't you start us off.

[17:41] Steven Ferezy: Uh very easy answer burn it at Peter's performance in Into the Woods. Um my my grandma somehow knew how to navigate the VCR and I was I was a baby I had no uh verbal interest in the arts or musicals but she saw in you know probably the Jewish journal and the TV guide that PBS was going to be airing a musical about fairy tales okay so she recorded it on the VCR and I watched that tape to death mom would just have to rewind it every couple hours and I'd start over and I was self-sufficient um for the first few years of my life so that was that was my entrance.

[17:41] Dana Craig: I love that I what what were some of all of your like where worn out VCR tapes like for me it was the Lion King and and the and the um the ABC family Cinderella with Brandy, like those tapes just happened apartment, yeah, ruined.

[19:29] Steven Ferezy: Um I have to say that I recorded a lot of things. My version of First Wives Club is what I recorded off of TV, and so like as of a few years ago when I decided to watch it for real because I didn't know that it was the wrong version. There are things in the actual DVD movie that like I just didn't they they cut it out. There's like a good seven and a half minutes that are cut out.

[19:59] Dana Craig: I'm like yeah, my copy of First Wives Club was duped off of a laser disc, so halfway through the screen goes blue and it just says change laser disc for a couple of minutes.

[20:12] Steven Ferezy: I would say like hook, hook, and sanbot, and Milo and Otis, like love uh love a pet buddy movie, love a dog movie, homeward bound, love it, couldn't get enough of it.

[20:28] Dana Craig: I was a big fan of Air Bud Airbun, we would hide the case and we'd be like, okay, I'm putting in a VHS and guess what it is? And remember, it'd always be the same commercials beforehand, and you'd be like, Okay, well, I know this is either Cinderella or Snow White's game.

[20:45] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[20:47] Dana Craig: For sure.

[20:48] Steven Ferezy: So funny. All our we just lost all our entire um below 18 listenership.

[20:54] Dana Craig: Just they they're just all like, what whatever.

[20:58] Steven Ferezy: But they they should learn.

[21:00] Dana Craig: They shouldn't be on an equity one.

[21:03] Steven Ferezy: But this lives on YouTube after the fact.

[21:06] Dana Craig: Yeah, see.

[21:07] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, it has a life.

[21:10] Dana Craig: Dana, what about you? What first got you bitten by the arts bug?

[21:14] Dana Craig: Um, I would have to say at the very beginning, The Wizard of Oz. There's actual footage of me and my dog and my cat singing.

[21:25] Steven Ferezy: Which you're allergic to.

[21:27] Dana Craig: Both of which I'm allergic to now. Um, singing somewhere over the rainbow, and I'm two, two. So that was I was a friend of Dorothy at the very beginning, honey.

[21:37] Steven Ferezy: Yes.

[21:37] Dana Craig: And then I think it really it started to crank up more with Annie, the movie version. I thought Carol Burnett was you know God, actual God.

[21:51] Steven Ferezy: And then it really hit my cultural inside of myself was the Rosie O'Donnell show. That just really like she showed me who Will and Grace was. She showed me who Billy Porter was. He didn't just become famous, you guys. Like he's I've been since 1996. So TD to iconic.

[22:11] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I mean, she kind of she she was like, that's my original Bette Midler obsession and Barbara Streisand obsession, and just going to the library and digging every little thing, every album, every lyric, every breath, every just insane.

[22:29] Dana Craig: So she was what really lit a fire under my ass.

[22:32] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, it was a library like the original cast uh cast albums, the CDs you would rent from the library. I'd get like 10 a day, burn them onto my computer.

[22:44] Dana Craig: 10 at a time, 10 at a time. That was it.

[22:46] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[22:49] Dana Craig: Some queen liked you at that library.

[22:52] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[22:54] Dana Craig: We were at a one at a time branch.

[22:57] Steven Ferezy: Oh, ooh.

[22:58] Dana Craig: Where did you all grow up?

[23:01] Steven Ferezy: Thousand Oaks, California, which was in the Broadway briefing this morning because somebody's been embezzling the local theater.

[23:10] Dana Craig: Oh, I did read that.

[23:12] Steven Ferezy: Yes.

[23:14] Dana Craig: Oh no.

[23:16] Steven Ferezy: We love the Broadway briefing.

[23:18] Dana Craig: This emoji. Love the Broadway briefing.

[23:22] Steven Ferezy: Caleb said.

[23:25] Dana Craig: Oh, work. I love that.

[23:27] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[23:28] Dana Craig: Yeah. So it was my intro to Broadway and anything big city related.

[23:36] Steven Ferezy: Totally. Like, I I remember I remember coming home and watching watching Rosie after school. And also, like, like, as a as a gay person, like not knowing not knowing exactly what it was about Rosie that was so hateful. You know what I mean? I was like, I was like, I was like, why are like why are you my people? Like, I don't understand that. I thought it was just couchballs and and silly songs.

[24:01] Dana Craig: But no, there were brown pants suits, too.

[24:04] Steven Ferezy: I remember that. I remember the episode where she brought on Kristen Chenoweth for the very first time because she loved this new talent. She told everyone how cool Harry Potter was. Like she was a huge influence for this generation, especially.

[24:20] Dana Craig: Yeah, like and that time too. I mean, that was kind of like Oprah's heyday as well. Like the the kind of like uh afternoon talk show influence was huge. I mean, they told us what to what to watch, what to buy, what to read, all of those things were like very much influenced by that TV time in the afternoon.

[24:41] Steven Ferezy: Yep.

[24:41] Dana Craig: And I love that she had such an old soul. Like she didn't have just the new up and comers. She was like, these are who you need, these are the people you need to know in history. Like Ferry Manilo and Penny Marshall.

[24:53] Steven Ferezy: And yeah, it was never obsessed. Broadway specific, but the the seed was very much planted in New York. So she had on New York people, and I knew I wanted to be a New Yorker. So I would watch her, and I would know if Rosie O'Donnell said it or endorsed it or was into it, then that's what real New Yorkers were doing.

[25:16] Dana Craig: She was my touchstone to not only theater, but also the the city and what I needed to know so that when I showed up here, I wasn't uninformed.

[25:27] Steven Ferezy: And she wasn't too proud to be a fan. The fact that she was a fan.

[25:33] Dana Craig: Hello, yes.

[25:34] Steven Ferezy: You oh, you're allowing me to be a fan. Like is like it's okay to cry when Barbara Streisand comes on, you know?

[25:43] Dana Craig: Yeah. It's okay to cry and just tell her, like, you're my mom. Like this is what's happening now. Like, I just I loved that she was so smart. She was such a fan, and I think that that lacks in a lot of talk show hosts. You need to really be obsessed.

[25:59] Steven Ferezy: Obsessed.

[26:00] Dana Craig: Yeah. Because it's funny, it gives more, it makes it more authentic. Like, this is what I would be wanting someone to ask if I were in a room with with Bernadette Peters, or if I were in a room with these people. Like, I would want to get in there like a fan, not someone who's like, so I hear you're doing this.

[26:18] Steven Ferezy: Uh yeah, she didn't talk to anyone she didn't want to.

[26:22] Dana Craig: Exactly.

[26:23] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[26:25] Dana Craig: No, not interested.

[26:27] Steven Ferezy: Yeah. Well, and and Dana, wasn't she uh first, wasn't she driving the the welcome wagon for you into New York? Do you want to tell that story of meeting Rosie O'Donnell anymore?

[26:39] Dana Craig: How do you know that story?

[26:40] Steven Ferezy: Um I listened to the program.

[26:44] Dana Craig: Um great news. Okay, so um my it was like my second trip to New York, my first real venture. The first Broadway show I ever saw was in the Heights, and we went with our senior showcase for uh college. That's what that was. So it was like 2008, and uh this is such I might start weeping on your program right now. It is it was such a divine moment. I spotted Rosie O'Donnell's ex-wife Kelly across the balcony, and I'm like, hold on a goddamn minute, where's Rosie? And I whooped, I was like, there she is, there she is. Weeping, weeping, weeping the entire time I was watching Rosie O'Donnell watching In the Heights. The entire time. I was like, this she's my woman. She's my woman. At intermission, I went to go say hi, whatever.

Um, I also spotted Eric McCormick sitting next to our group, was in love with Will and Grace. Like, what a moment. Intermission, Rosie O'Donnell stands up, she's in the balcony. I don't know what for what reason she'll sit anywhere. So she was talking to someone down in the Mes, kind of screaming. It was fucking Martin Short.

[28:15] Steven Ferezy: Like it was just telling me that was not meant to be.

[28:19] Dana Craig: I love her so much.

[28:20] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[28:21] Dana Craig: I owe her a lot, actually.

[28:22] Steven Ferezy: Cheers.

[28:23] Dana Craig: Cheers to Rosie and Martin Short.

[28:27] Steven Ferezy: And Eric and Cormac, may he rest.

[28:30] Dana Craig: And the Stephen Mezzanine.

[28:32] Steven Ferezy: Sorry, the Mes.

[28:33] Dana Craig: I love the Mez.

[28:34] Steven Ferezy: No, we curse here.

[28:35] Dana Craig: This is can we use language?

[28:37] Steven Ferezy: I also love it.

[28:37] Dana Craig: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[28:39] Steven Ferezy: Can the adults please smoke?

[28:41] Dana Craig: Can the adults please curse?

[28:43] Steven Ferezy: Um so Steven, you grew up a dance competition kid, right?

[28:50] Steven Ferezy: I did.

[28:51] Dana Craig: Because that's how Caleb and I met was through dance competitions.

[28:56] Steven Ferezy: Yes.

[28:57] Dana Craig: So tell us like tell us like a good competition story. Like maybe you got like a high silver and stormed off stage, or like what's what was young Steven like uh going to like ADA.

[29:09] Steven Ferezy: First of all, within reach of my vanity is my pinboard with my American Dance Alliance.

[29:17] Steven Ferezy: Hi gentlemen, Aaaaaah. Ultimate.

[29:23] Steven Ferezy: Ultimate baby. Ultimate.

[29:25] Dana Craig: Please.

[29:26] Steven Ferezy: That was for.

[29:28] Steven Ferezy: Oh, I feel God. I just, it's not a Tony.

[29:32] Steven Ferezy: Um that was for that was for my solo when I was 13 or 14.

[29:42] Steven Ferezy: Uh I think it was 14. Arguable.

[29:45] Steven Ferezy: Um, choreographed by Mandy Moore. Uh Zoe's magical playlist and um La La Land.

[29:53] Dana Craig: And so you didn't know.

[29:54] Steven Ferezy: La La Land, all the things, yes.

[29:56] Dana Craig: Not Mrs.

[29:57] Steven Ferezy: Us Mandy Moore.

[29:59] Dana Craig: Not necessarily not a walk, not a walk it not a walk to remember.

[30:03] Steven Ferezy: Really.

[30:05] Dana Craig: Um so yeah, that's what that's was for. I mean, that's that's my big dance competition story. It's not really from a specific competition, but I got to train with Mandy Moore while she was, you know, just Mandy.

[30:21] Steven Ferezy: She was as old as I am now, uh, teaching a bunch of high schoolers who were taking this seriously enough uh how to dance. And yeah, we we were we were scrappy and we worked really hard and we had a lot of fun and we cried a lot, and uh the time spent with her and that group of people and all of that is um irreplaceable.

[30:52] Steven Ferezy: It's just it's a period of time that you know while while I don't know that I'd go back and do it again just because I'm old. Um you know, I'm it it was it happened when it was supposed to happen and it was perfect as it was. If anything were different, um it wouldn't have been right.

[31:12] Dana Craig: Yeah, yeah. I I agree that those years like doing dance were like so formative in like so many ways. Who knew? But also that's ability and like safety. I mean, like you gotta learn quick.

[31:23] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I was so weird. Like when I was when I had was like done with the studio and realized that meant done with dance competitions. I kind of had to wean myself off. So I would like choreograph my own solos and enter as an independent for anything that was close enough to drive. Because like oh my god, I love that care. I just wanted like I wasn't ready to give that part up because that was the performance part. That was that was the Broadway part. That was the dream part.

[31:52] Dana Craig: Um I had to wean that off of myself.

[31:57] Steven Ferezy: But I love that. I mean, that's like you know, starting young, like making your own way, like doing your finding your own ways to perform. If it's like entering as an independent at your dance competition, or you know, making a podcast or doing whatever, like you gotta like make your own way in the world.

[32:14] Dana Craig: Um I also love hello. I also love the um the story that like Mandy Moore was like your dance teacher, and then she's Mandy Moore. So, like always like, you know, that shows you like everyone's on the up, everyone's working, everyone's doing their thing. So just like work hard, be nice because you never know when your dance teacher is gonna be Mandy Moore.

[32:40] Steven Ferezy: And like Lise always says, say yes.

[32:40] Dana Craig: Say yes.

[32:47] Steven Ferezy: Life keeps happening every day, honey.

[32:50] Dana Craig: Every single day.

[32:52] Steven Ferezy: Ring them.

[32:52] Dana Craig: Yeah, ring them bells.

[32:56] Steven Ferezy: Um, would you all would you all please share a little bit of in the room with us? Do you have do you have a little segment to give us?

[33:06] Dana Craig: We will be uh certainly have a segment, and then we also kind of thought of a little game for you guys.

[33:12] Steven Ferezy: Perfect.

[33:13] Dana Craig: We don't always have a game, but sometimes we have a game, and this time we have a game.

[33:18] Dana Craig: Um our little segment goes like this.

[33:22] Steven Ferezy: Oh, Elliot froze.

[33:24] Dana Craig: I want to make sure he can hear it.

[33:25] Steven Ferezy: He did froze.

[33:27] Dana Craig: He got so excited that he was like he was doing time steps.

[33:31] Steven Ferezy: Eight.

[33:35] Dana Craig: Oh no. We might have to go on for sake of time.

[33:38] Steven Ferezy: All right. Uh there are seven very well-known dwarves in history.

[33:44] Dana Craig: Seven. If you were the eighth dwarf, what would your name be?

[33:49] Steven Ferezy: Oh. Something like gay dwarf. I don't know. Like we need to have a lens and why.

[33:58] Dana Craig: Wait, no one has ever said gay dwarf before. Can you believe?

[33:58] Steven Ferezy: Gay dwarf.

[34:02] Dana Craig: Gay dwarf. Does his name to be like gay or like I don't know.

[34:07] Steven Ferezy: No, it's please we mean there's Margaret Dwarf.

[34:10] Dana Craig: Yeah, the doc. Yeah.

[34:11] Steven Ferezy: Yeah. So I think there just needs to be like queen gay dwarf who needs to just be like, listen, ladies. We're working hard. Let's just keep washing our hands because we just did our nails. Like, we can't be working in these in this mine all day long. Like use that nail brush, honey.

[34:26] Dana Craig: Yeah. A gender fluid dwarf, maybe.

[34:31] Steven Ferezy: So that's my thought.

[34:33] Dana Craig: Fluid dwarf.

[34:35] Steven Ferezy: I love it.

[34:35] Dana Craig: Fluid dwarf.

[34:38] Steven Ferezy: Fluid.

[34:40] Dana Craig: Uh Elliot would say.

[34:42] Steven Ferezy: Elliot, I think would agree with me, because you know, he loves a drag queen.

[34:46] Dana Craig: So I think, oh my gosh, another drag queen. Like, can you imagine like one just like smoking in the corner and like drinking a cocktail while like everyone else is cleaning? That would be funny.

[34:55] Steven Ferezy: All right, let's see. Let's see what he would say.

[34:58] Dana Craig: I love this.

[34:58] Steven Ferezy: And we're back.

[35:01] Dana Craig: Hello.

[35:02] Steven Ferezy: Hi.

[35:04] Dana Craig: Say this question again, Steven.

[35:06] Steven Ferezy: Stephen will have to return. There are uh seven very well-known dwarves in history. If you were the eighth dwarf, what would your name be?

[35:15] Dana Craig: Um if I were the eighth Dorothe um oh uh uh merchy.

[35:25] Steven Ferezy: Smirchy. Very on brand, very not my answer.

[35:30] Dana Craig: What did you say?

[35:31] Steven Ferezy: I said that you would be like drag queen dwarf dwarf.

[35:34] Dana Craig: I'm not coming up with clever names, I'm just like giving you like stereotypes, you know, just like your essence.

[35:40] Steven Ferezy: I do love a queen. I feel like merch is it speaks to a lot of my essence. You know, it's I have like I have like kind of an obsessive personality. Like I like all I like over I watch things over and over again. I like to own like things that like show people that I'm a fan, so I think that that's

[35:53] Dana Craig: Wait, what do you collect?

[36:01] Steven Ferezy: Show shirts.

[36:02] Dana Craig: LOL Show shirt. Get out of here.

[36:03] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, show shirts.

[36:05] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[36:06] Steven Ferezy: I'm wearing a show shirt.

[36:08] Dana Craig: What is it?

[36:09] Steven Ferezy: Show shirt bean.

[36:12] Steven Ferezy: It's into the woods.

[36:13] Dana Craig: Liz. It's event. That's gorgeous.

[36:15] Steven Ferezy: Gorgeous. I'm that I'm that's my t-shirt now.

[36:18] Dana Craig: Thank you.

[36:19] Steven Ferezy: Oh.

[36:20] Dana Craig: Send it.

[36:21] Steven Ferezy: We'll send you the address in this in the chat.

[36:23] Dana Craig: In the chat.

[36:24] Steven Ferezy: In the private channel.

[36:26] Dana Craig: Live comments.

[36:28] Steven Ferezy: Never I won't send it in the live comments.

[36:32] Dana Craig: Listen, in the d in the Smurf Kingdom, there needs to be a merch dwarf. I just I can't believe we haven't established that already.

[36:40] Steven Ferezy: Oh yeah. Well now I have the monopoly, so cheers.

[36:46] Dana Craig: Cheers.

[36:47] Steven Ferezy: I'm having two. It's been a long day.

[36:49] Dana Craig: Alright. This is the strongest cocktail I've ever had in recent days.

[36:53] Steven Ferezy: Well, I knew I couldn't get up and get a refill, so I I Oh I brought the band for it. And I bring I carried that bottle from location one to location B. So like, you know, I was like, it was priorities.

[37:07] Dana Craig: Is that one to be?

[37:09] Steven Ferezy: One to be.

[37:10] Dana Craig: Like I quit with the numerals.

[37:14] Steven Ferezy: No, yeah, yeah.

[37:16] Dana Craig: Caleb's drunk. He he doesn't know numbers from letters.

[37:19] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[37:20] Dana Craig: I love. I love.

[37:22] Steven Ferezy: Okay, great. Um, let's let's do it. We thought of a game, and this is a game off of our wheel of Nancy Oplunity, uh, that we didn't get to play with her.

[37:33] Dana Craig: So we're playing it with you.

[37:35] Steven Ferezy: Fun.

[37:36] Dana Craig: Now, this is the episode from Broadway Con that people can find on your feed.

[37:40] Steven Ferezy: It is.

[37:41] Dana Craig: Yeah. We don't play too many games on our podcast, but this is one that we it's not really.

[37:49] Steven Ferezy: Um so this one is called Broadway Blind Spot.

[37:53] Dana Craig: And the game is you tell us a show that you maybe don't know so well. And we'll see if one of the other people in this uh broadcast can uh explain it to you. Or anything about like a classic that every time someone says Sweeney Todd, you're like Can I go for brave passing strange?

[38:19] Steven Ferezy: No idea what it's about.

[38:21] Dana Craig: Oh my god, passing strange is like one of my road trip music goals.

[38:25] Steven Ferezy: Road trip music goes take it away.

[38:28] Dana Craig: Oh wait, okay, so Passing Strange is in a nutshell in a nutshell. It's about a young black man who moves away from the States to go live in Amsterdam to like find himself and write music.

[38:43] Steven Ferezy: Um so it's all about his like struggle with his like family identity, um, and also like wanting to get away from that, but then also like struggling with the identity of being an artist in Amsterdam. He doesn't feel like that fits either.

[38:54] Dana Craig: So it's this like it's just this like narrative of this young artist like um torn between like two different cultures and finding where he fits.

[39:06] Steven Ferezy: Okay, I'm into that.

[39:08] Dana Craig: Is it pop?

[39:09] Steven Ferezy: It's rocky that as well because I also do not know Passing Strange.

[39:14] Dana Craig: Thank you.

[39:15] Steven Ferezy: It's rock so good.

[39:20] Dana Craig: It is so good.

[39:21] Steven Ferezy: It's amazing.

[39:23] Dana Craig: It's been that on my day.

[39:25] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, it's amazing.

[39:28] Dana Craig: I want to help someone know about a musical. What's the next musical?

[39:30] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, Elliot, your turn.

[39:32] Dana Craig: My turn.

[39:33] Steven Ferezy: Um, a musical I don't really know anything about. Um I don't know anything about um uh like Steel Pier.

[39:44] Dana Craig: I don't know one song from that.

[39:46] Steven Ferezy: A song from that came on Daily Mix One today.

[39:52] Dana Craig: And I pressed the heart on it.

[39:54] Steven Ferezy: Karen Zemba was telling me a story that I needed to hear.

[39:59] Dana Craig: Tony Award.

[40:01] Steven Ferezy: I didn't know Karenba was in it. I'm obsessed with Karen Zemba. Let me tell you what it was called.

[40:09] Steven Ferezy: It was called Daily Mix One.

[40:15] Dana Craig: We love a Daily Discovery, by the way. Come on now.

[40:18] Steven Ferezy: I'm new to Spotify.

[40:20] Dana Craig: It's okay.

[40:21] Steven Ferezy: Anyone in the still very exciting to me. If you love Steel Pierce, sound off in the comments. Tell me what I should know. Shout out!

[40:29] Dana Craig: Called Running in Place by Karen Zambai. I know that Kristen Chenowit was in it, but I don't know anything about it.

[40:38] Steven Ferezy: It came on after I want a long time daddy by Elaine Stritch.

[40:43] Dana Craig: Mmm. I love that.

[40:44] Steven Ferezy: Mm-hmm.

[40:46] Dana Craig: And don't we all?

[40:47] Steven Ferezy: Wow.

[40:48] Dana Craig: Those are my daily mixes.

[40:51] Steven Ferezy: Uh Steven, what is yours?

[40:53] Dana Craig: What's a show I don't know that?

[40:55] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, we're not off the mark. Embarrassed about.

[40:57] Dana Craig: Oh shit. Can you go first? I haven't thought of mine yet.

[41:01] Steven Ferezy: Yes. I was supposed to see this show last Friday. Caroline or Change.

[41:07] Dana Craig: I know nothing about it.

[41:10] Steven Ferezy: See, I dare I say I don't think I know um a song from it.

[41:14] Dana Craig: Tell me if I'm wrong, Steven, but I don't know.

[41:16] Steven Ferezy: Uh no, you probably don't.

[41:19] Dana Craig: Okay.

[41:20] Steven Ferezy: There there aren't like hits from Carolina Change. I mean like there are in my house.

[41:27] Dana Craig: I'm so sorry.

[41:30] Steven Ferezy: I'm sweaty too, don't worry.

[41:32] Steven Ferezy: Steven, tell us about Carolina Change.

[41:34] Steven Ferezy: All right. Oh I'm not good at summation. Okay. Caroline is a maid for some Jewish people in Louisiana.

[41:46] Steven Ferezy: She works in the basement and it's real hot down there. And um, there's a little boy that lives in the house named Noah.

[41:54] Steven Ferezy: And his ma, his parents, uh the Ann Cox, is trying to teach him not to leave change in his pocket and put it in the laundry.

[42:07] Steven Ferezy: Empty your pockets before putting your clothes in the laundry. Hard lesson to learn. So for Hanukkah, he gets 20 bucks.

[42:16] Steven Ferezy: Leaves it in his pocket. Now Caroline has been instructed by the Ancox to teach Noah lesson.

[42:23] Steven Ferezy: Any change he leaves in his pockets, you can have.

[42:26] Dana Craig: Well, Noah just left $20 in his pocket.

[42:30] Steven Ferezy: So she's struggling with the do I take this? And then there's all this drama about whether or not she takes it.

[42:39] Dana Craig: She's a black washing machine.

[42:41] Steven Ferezy: Totally.

[42:42] Dana Craig: And yes, so yeah, all the Caroline's friends, the washing machine, the radio, they are all characters.

[42:49] Steven Ferezy: They all have voices and come to life with her.

[42:54] Dana Craig: A soap operetta.

[42:56] Steven Ferezy: I'm um have convinced me I really want to see this musical now.

[43:00] Dana Craig: It's a good one to listen to straight through. The album is really great and full and complete.

[43:08] Steven Ferezy: Um and it's so good. I have tickets to it as well, and I'm waiting to reschedule.

[43:13] Dana Craig: I got tickets for a night that would be sign language interpreted.

[43:18] Steven Ferezy: Oh, cool.

[43:19] Dana Craig: So I have to find out if and when that's being rescheduled.

[43:24] Steven Ferezy: Yeah. I love it.

[43:25] Dana Craig: But it's great. It's so good. I got to the last time I saw it was in Astoria with Ladonna Burns as Caroline.

[43:34] Steven Ferezy: Work.

[43:35] Dana Craig: I was fierce. It's such a good show. I'm so looking forward to seeing it.

[43:40] Steven Ferezy: When we first started self uh isolating, I looked at my calendar. I'm like, when's the next time I have to really be anywhere? I'm like, changing jobs, so everything's very quiet around here. And I looked. And like May 5th. I was like, I just need till May 5th. I'm good till May 5th.

[43:59] Dana Craig: Well, no, and be honest. Steven, Steven, I know you just did a big solid for me in telling me all about Caroline, but you do have to say what your Broadway blind spot is.

[44:12] Steven Ferezy: You do I think my Broadway blind spot for today, and it's one that I recently just listened to straight through for the first time. So I'm really starting to try to learn about it. Is Kiss of the Spider Woman?

[44:25] Dana Craig: Oh wow.

[44:27] Steven Ferezy: It's a blind spot. I don't know the story of it, but I do know it. It's how Prince.

[44:33] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[44:35] Steven Ferezy: You got to learn how that to be. Like I know the cat. Like I know the variables of it. I know that like how Prince plus Cheetah plus eventually Vanessa Williams.

[44:48] Dana Craig: Do it. Pay attention to this.

[44:50] Steven Ferezy: I just having it.

[44:52] Dana Craig: Yeah. Work. Well, we maybe all have a blind spot there.

[44:56] Steven Ferezy: Do we really?

[44:57] Dana Craig: That makes me feel better. She does Cheetah's Tony Award performance of Where You Are from Kiss of the Spider Woman is one of my favorite things to watch on YouTube.

[45:07] Steven Ferezy: It's so hot. It's so good. She's in a in a white tux and a hat and a kid. There's a cane.

[45:15] Dana Craig: She's just like it's so tight.

[45:19] Steven Ferezy: It's so tight. Oh my god. And then they raise her up and she's like, you know, horizontal. Uh it's great. It's great.

[45:24] Dana Craig: The next time there is a production in the tri-state, I suggest that we all go see it.

[45:30] Steven Ferezy: We'll all go.

[45:32] Dana Craig: I love it. Great. It's a date. Let's correct our blind spots together.

[45:37] Steven Ferezy: Together.

[45:39] Caleb Dicke: Uh Caleb, uh, do you have a game for us?

[45:43] Caleb Dicke: I do, but I left it downstairs. Can you stall for one minute?

[45:47] Steven Ferezy: Yes, a quick minute. Hurry, we're on a time crunch. Go.

[45:53] Dana Craig: Tiny bitch. Which um, by the way, Dana, I watched, I had a I had a merge madness planned, but I don't think we have time. But I watched um Best Worst Thing last night.

[46:04] Steven Ferezy: You did.

[46:05] Dana Craig: And it is so fabulous.

[46:08] Steven Ferezy: Was it your first time?

[46:09] Dana Craig: First time seeing it. And I'm I don't know a ton about Marilee, so it was really good to see that.

[46:17] Steven Ferezy: So if you haven't watched it, uh, best worst thing that could have ever happened is on Netflix, and you should watch it.

[46:23] Dana Craig: It's the Merrily We Roll Along documentary.

[46:25] Steven Ferezy: Yeah. Close.

[46:27] Dana Craig: It's best worst thing that ever could have happened.

[46:29] Steven Ferezy: Um did that. Um, it's gorgeous. We were going to watch it last night too, but didn't.

[46:40] Dana Craig: Yeah. It's amazing. I really, really loved it.

[46:42] Steven Ferezy: Um yeah, yeah. All right, Caleb. Game time.

[46:44] Caleb Dicke: We're back.

[46:46] Caleb Dicke: Okay. So in between some easy questions, we're gonna play one of my favorite games called That Beautiful Sound, where I play a sound that I created myself. And you have to be very specific in what it is.

[47:01] Dana Craig: Okay, yes, thumbs up.

[47:03] Steven Ferezy: Uh-huh.

[47:03] Caleb Dicke: Okay, I know how the game works, so follow along.

[47:06] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so we're gonna start with some questions first.

[47:09] Caleb Dicke: Okay, your um, and this is just quick, don't you don't have to think heavy about it fire. Yeah, um, your go-to karaoke hits. What are they?

[47:20] Dana Craig: Part of your world. Um Don Cash and Wayne Newton. I paid a deep cut.

[47:30] Steven Ferezy: I don't know. Um, I I'm not a monster.

[47:33] Caleb Dicke: Okay, great. After um social distancing, what is the first restaurant you're gonna go to?

[47:43] Dana Craig: Takuba Astoria.

[47:46] Steven Ferezy: Work.

[47:48] Dana Craig: Um pack steakhouse.

[47:55] Steven Ferezy: I don't know. Wait. I think mine is going to be um Ariba Ariba, because I fucking love Ariba Ariba.

[48:02] Dana Craig: Yeah. So Easter's coming up on Sunday, you know.

[48:08] Steven Ferezy: Um chocolate honey, Starburst jelly beans, or peanut butter chocolate eggs. What's your favorite?

[48:13] Dana Craig: Starburst jelly beans.

[48:15] Steven Ferezy: Starburst Charlie Beans. Undisputed best Easter candy of all time. My actual favorite is whatever Val is serving for the record. We have our Easter dinner that we do every year.

[48:29] Dana Craig: Oh lovely.

[48:31] Steven Ferezy: Except this year. Okay, so we're gonna try this first sound. Are we ready?

[48:34] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[48:35] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[48:36] Caleb Dicke: Here we go.

[48:39] Caleb Dicke: Here we go.

[48:45] Steven Ferezy: An ice dispenser.

[48:47] Dana Craig: Oh the the twist at the end really got me.

[48:53] Steven Ferezy: An ice dispenser? Any other thoughts?

[48:58] Dana Craig: Uh someone dying getting murdered.

[49:04] Steven Ferezy: I can I hear the ice dispenser. It really screwed me up.

[49:09] Caleb Dicke: Okay.

[49:20] Steven Ferezy: Yahtzee?

[49:22] Dana Craig: Yaxi.

[49:25] Steven Ferezy: It's me making a cocktail. So I'm pulling out the ice and I'm twisting off the whiskey top.

[49:31] Dana Craig: Oh, understood. Okay, great. Nice. You were close.

[49:36] Caleb Dicke: Let's move on.

[49:38] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, questions.

[49:39] Caleb Dicke: Okay. Okay, um, back to questions. Easy questions. So would you rather have fresh, clean? This is uh three choices. You have to pick one bed linens, underwear, or towels.

[49:53] Steven Ferezy: Bed.

[49:56] Dana Craig: Fresh bed, nothing better.

[49:58] Steven Ferezy: What was the first one?

[50:00] Dana Craig: Bed linens.

[50:02] Steven Ferezy: Oh, fresh underwear or towels.

[50:05] Dana Craig: I think I would go with underwear. I hate when towels are wet and smelly.

[50:11] Steven Ferezy: That's where I'm at.

[50:12] Dana Craig: I mean, a fresh towel and a dry towel are different.

[50:17] Steven Ferezy: True.

[50:18] Dana Craig: Yeah, but like a warm dry. You know?

[50:24] Steven Ferezy: Okay.

[50:24] Dana Craig: As long as it's dry.

[50:27] Steven Ferezy: I'm dry. I'd like a martini. Very dry.

[50:30] Dana Craig: Um. What are your um? What are your top three drag queens for RuPaul this season?

[50:41] Steven Ferezy: I don't watch RuPaul's Drag Race.

[50:44] Dana Craig: Boo.

[50:46] Steven Ferezy: Uh GG Good. My girl Jan, my Astoria Queen Jan. You know Jan. Just Jan.

[50:52] Dana Craig: That's Jan.

[50:54] Steven Ferezy: Uh, she's my local queen. And then I also love my girl Britta.

[51:02] Dana Craig: I mean, it's just because I know them. And it's it's hard.

[51:02] Steven Ferezy: I know.

[51:07] Dana Craig: You know, it's hard. I, you know, I hope there's an arc.

[51:11] Steven Ferezy: Sure.

[51:12] Dana Craig: Yeah, I'm agreeing with Brittany is signing off in the comments, but Jackie Cox is my try.

[51:17] Steven Ferezy: Oh, Jackie Cox.

[51:19] Dana Craig: Yes. What a sweetie pie.

[51:20] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[51:21] Dana Craig: Real sweetie pie.

[51:22] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[51:23] Dana Craig: Hell's Kitchen Queen. There are a lot of New York queens.

[51:25] Steven Ferezy: A lot of New York Queens.

[51:27] Dana Craig: A lot of New York Queens.

[51:29] Steven Ferezy: Steven, get with it.

[51:30] Dana Craig: Steven, get with it.

[51:32] Steven Ferezy: Okay. He's in the grave.

[51:34] Caleb Dicke: Are we ready?

[51:35] Caleb Dicke: Yes, next sound.

[51:37] Caleb Dicke: The hat.

[51:38] Caleb Dicke: Okay, here we go.

[51:48] Dana Craig: Oh, oh, oh. That's making banana bread.

[51:50] Steven Ferezy: Oh, food. That's a stand mixer.

[51:56] Caleb Dicke: It is a machine, but it's not one more or stand machine.

[52:01] Steven Ferezy: What is it?

[52:03] Dana Craig: It is my thorough gun going on my IT bands.

[52:08] Steven Ferezy: Love that. You're an easy one.

[52:12] Caleb Dicke: Last question. What is the perfect method for making Easter eggs?

[52:18] Dana Craig: Have a kid do it.

[52:19] Steven Ferezy: I'm Jewish.

[52:23] Dana Craig: Perfect. I love that.

[52:25] Steven Ferezy: Eat Matza.

[52:27] Caleb Dicke: Okay. So um, what who is your number one celebrity that you would want to have in social distancing with you? Like in your apartment with you.

[52:38] Dana Craig: Oh god. Who do I love that most? Ooh, that's a different question than who's your favorite. Who do I want to be quarantined with?

[52:44] Steven Ferezy: I want to be quarantined with Andy Barragani from the Bone of Petit uh Test Kitchen.

[52:56] Dana Craig: I would want Pamela Adlon from Better Things. I know she's cooking.

[53:00] Steven Ferezy: She is doing Insta Lives.

[53:02] Dana Craig: She can cook. She's cool as shit. There's probably weed involved. I don't know. Let's do it.

[53:07] Steven Ferezy: Yeah. She's great.

[53:08] Dana Craig: Yeah. She was on the Bone of a Tea podcast, if you want to listen.

[53:12] Steven Ferezy: She was.

[53:13] Dana Craig: Yes.

[53:14] Steven Ferezy: Yes.

[53:14] Dana Craig: She was.

[53:15] Steven Ferezy: Okay, yeah. She's perfect. I don't know. That's a that's my I win.

[53:16] Caleb Dicke: I win.

[53:20] Dana Craig: Number one celebrity I'd like to be quarantined with. I'm I mean, to be honest, I'm a little bummed I'm not at Elizabeth Ashley's house right now.

[53:29] Steven Ferezy: I know that she will never run out of paper towels. And I know that anything I could possibly need is there, and I know where it is.

[53:40] Dana Craig: We love.

[53:42] Steven Ferezy: We love knowing your way together.

[53:43] Dana Craig: That's within arm's reach right now, Steven.

[53:46] Steven Ferezy: Uh your lighter leash.

[53:50] Dana Craig: The pug.

[53:52] Steven Ferezy: Elizabeth Ashley's old t shirt that I sleep in.

[53:58] Dana Craig: Mine's down in my drawer. That's how iconic.

[54:04] Steven Ferezy: Remember when we wore those for our um the Juds album recreation?

[54:11] Dana Craig: We need to put up some more pictures like that for you know some content.

[54:17] Steven Ferezy: Well, with that, we're gonna say goodbye.

[54:21] Caleb Dicke: Happy hours ending.

[54:23] Dana Craig: Wait, we don't have time for a merch madness.

[54:26] Steven Ferezy: No, we're running out of time. Brittany's a busy business woman, so she has to go produce another.

[54:32] Dana Craig: Can we hang out actually after this?

[54:34] Steven Ferezy: Sure.

[54:36] Dana Craig: Yeah, we'll we'll do a zoom call.

[54:38] Steven Ferezy: Yeah. Okay, great. I got nothing else to do.

[54:42] Dana Craig: Um, can you tell our listeners uh where they can find you on social media other than your handles that are right there? Where can you find the podcast?

[54:51] Steven Ferezy: Um search in the room with Stephen and Dana. Um at In the Room Pod.

[54:59] Dana Craig: At InTheRim Pod in the Room Pod dot com.

[55:03] Steven Ferezy: Which we just renewed today.

[55:06] Dana Craig: Hey.

[55:08] Steven Ferezy: And of course, the Broadway Podcast Network.

[55:10] Dana Craig: You can't do that.

[55:10] Steven Ferezy: Of course. We all live.

[55:12] Dana Craig: Yeah, we all live there.

[55:13] Steven Ferezy: It's a it's a bigger Broadway bunker.

[55:17] Dana Craig: Yeah, that's our that's our landing spot. That nothing will be more up to date than the Broadway Podcast Network website.

[55:25] Steven Ferezy: Followed by all the other things we've just given you.

[55:29] Dana Craig: Love it. Uh, you can find our podcast at equity one podcast on Instagram and Facebook, and at equity one underscore on Twitter.

[55:38] Steven Ferezy: And you can email us at equity email at equitybook podcast at gmail.com.

[55:43] Dana Craig: There it is.

[55:44] Steven Ferezy: Yes.

[55:45] Dana Craig: Yes.

[55:45] Steven Ferezy: Um, great. And uh coming up on Saturday on the Broadway Podcast Network Happy Hour, we have How to Be More Chill with Alana Levine and uh Sam Breaking.

[55:55] Dana Craig: Alana Levine was a guest on Bat Midler's daughters uh podcast having a night.

[56:02] Steven Ferezy: Full.

[56:02] Dana Craig: The first thing I ever ordered from Amazon.com was the original Broadway cast recording of your good man.

[56:09] Steven Ferezy: Your good man Charlie Brown.

[56:10] Dana Craig: Yes. Little known facts.

[56:12] Steven Ferezy: Um and with all-known facts.

[56:15] Dana Craig: That's it.

[56:16] Steven Ferezy: Cheers, everyone.

[56:17] Dana Craig: Cheers.

[56:19] Steven Ferezy: Cheers.

[56:19] Dana Craig: Cheers.

[56:22] Steven Ferezy: Thank you, Brittany.

[56:23] Dana Craig: Bye.

[56:24] Steven Ferezy: Bye, everyone.