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[0:06] Elliott Mattox: We'll take a glass together.

[0:10] Caleb Dicke: This is Equity One, Broadway's Happy Hour.

[0:13] Elliott Mattox: Pour yourself a drink and join us as we chat about life, theater, and everything in between.

[0:19] Elliott Mattox: I'm Elliott Mattox.

[0:20] Caleb Dicke: And I'm Caleb Dicke.

[0:22] Elliott Mattox: Join us for your Equity One.

[0:30] Caleb Dicke: Woo!

[0:31] Elliott Mattox: Hello!

[0:33] Caleb Dicke: Cheers!

[0:36] Elliott Mattox: Oh, I got some water on my laptop.

[0:38] Caleb Dicke: Hopefully we don't mess up.

[0:39] Elliott Mattox: Okay, we'll just like wipe it, wipe it down.

[0:42] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, there you go. Be careful.

[0:44] Elliott Mattox: Um, welcome to Broadway Podcast Network Happy Hour.

[0:48] Elliott Mattox: My name is Elliott.

[0:49] Caleb Dicke: And I'm Caleb.

[0:50] Elliott Mattox: And we are the hosts of Equity One Broadway's Happy Hour.

[0:54] Elliott Mattox: Here on Broadway Podcast Network Happy Hour, we sit down with some of your favorite Broadway Podcast Network podcasters to chat, have a little drink, and distract you from whatever you're watching on Netflix.

[1:07] Caleb Dicke: Um, uh, Caleb, how are you doing? You have a new background today.

[1:09] Elliott Mattox: I do have a new background. This is I'm changing location a little bit while still social distancing.

[1:14] Caleb Dicke: So this is more woody.

[1:16] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, very like, very like basement.

[1:19] Caleb Dicke: Basement.

[1:20] Elliott Mattox: But we're still above ground. You might hear some um lawn work going on, but we're gonna we're gonna ignore that.

[1:26] Caleb Dicke: We love a manicured lawn.

[1:28] Elliott Mattox: Yes, yes, we really do.

[1:29] Caleb Dicke: Uh-huh. Um, this week we are very excited to have our friends from Page to Stage Podcast.

[1:35] Elliott Mattox: Brian and Mary are here.

[1:40] Brian Sedita: Hello, friend.

[1:42] Mary Dina: Hello.

[1:43] Elliott Mattox: Welcome. Thanks for coming on the show.

[1:45] Brian Sedita: Thank you for having us.

[1:46] Mary Dina: Thanks for having us.

[1:47] Elliott Mattox: Of course. Let's cheers all together.

[1:50] Caleb Dicke: Call the water.

[1:52] Elliott Mattox: Oh my gosh. Four away.

[1:55] Mary Dina: What are you drinking? Because I think we might be drinking the same thing.

[1:59] Brian Sedita: I'm asking a mule.

[2:00] Mary Dina: Yes, indeed. I don't have a proper glass, but that's what's in here.

[2:05] Brian Sedita: Cheers.

[2:05] Mary Dina: I don't have mint, so we're improvising.

[2:09] Brian Sedita: I know mine's just like I don't have ginger beer either. So it's like a really like poor man's mule.

[2:14] Mary Dina: You know, it's how did you make it?

[2:16] Brian Sedita: Just vodka, ginger ale, simple syrup and lime.

[2:20] Mary Dina: Okay. Yeah.

[2:21] Brian Sedita: Yeah. Um, I showed them backstage, but this is my cooler right now. It's a um measuring cup filled with ice.

[2:25] Mary Dina: We love with my Stella. It was just a little bit warm, and I just need something quick.

[2:31] Brian Sedita: So that's super cute.

[2:32] Mary Dina: It is cute. I love that.

[2:33] Brian Sedita: Country chic.

[2:35] Mary Dina: Yeah, we love we love a Pyrex.

[2:37] Brian Sedita: Yes, love a Pyrex.

[2:39] Elliott Mattox: Brian, what about you?

[2:41] Brian Sedita: I've got an orange old fashioned. So I'm I'm drinking um Angels Envy Bourbon, which is one of my favorites.

[2:49] Brian Sedita: Uh it's actually like um soaked in barrels of port wine, and that's how it gets the flavor.

[2:56] Mary Dina: That's how it's aged.

[2:57] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[2:58] Mary Dina: We love Angels Envy that that bottle.

[3:00] Brian Sedita: Oh, yeah. Hold on, here it is.

[3:02] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[3:03] Brian Sedita: Very pretty.

[3:04] Mary Dina: Yeah, gorgeous.

[3:05] Brian Sedita: In case I need a refill.

[3:07] Elliott Mattox: Uh hello. As we say, as we say at Equity One, if your glass is never empty, it's still just one.

[3:14] Caleb Dicke: Oh, like that skills.

[3:17] Brian Sedita: I'm gonna adopt that.

[3:17] Caleb Dicke: I'm gonna adopt that rule.

[3:19] Brian Sedita: Yeah, it's a good, it's a good uh good rule.

[3:22] Elliott Mattox: It just started producer micro. Um, yeah, he's watching it, and I think it just started on his end. It's just a little delayed.

[3:28] Caleb Dicke: No worries. Um, so uh what what have you all been doing to stay entertained throughout this uh this time?

[3:38] Elliott Mattox: I know Mary, you're very busy.

[3:40] Mary Dina: Mary is just so busy.

[3:42] Elliott Mattox: It's hard to it's hard to get a hold of her.

[3:44] Mary Dina: No, but actually today is my first weekend off in like seven weeks.

[3:49] Elliott Mattox: So yay!

[3:51] Mary Dina: And you're here with us, thank you.

[3:53] Elliott Mattox: Also on a live stream, it's great.

[3:56] Mary Dina: No days off.

[3:58] Elliott Mattox: No, it's great. Um, I guess I'll just jump in, but I've I mean I've just been I freelance social media stuff, so I've been working with a company for that still, and then I also still am doing my work with Ken Davenport.

[4:12] Mary Dina: So he goes live every single night at 8 p.m. Um, so yeah, been doing that a lot.

[4:18] Elliott Mattox: Really cool live streams.

[4:19] Mary Dina: Yeah, it's been really fun.

[4:21] Elliott Mattox: That's a lot of work though.

[4:23] Mary Dina: I mean, he really committed to doing a lot.

[4:25] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, yeah.

[4:26] Mary Dina: He's great. I mean, he also was really good about being like, well, maybe we should stop doing weekends just to like kind of have a little bit of life.

[4:33] Elliott Mattox: So very happy to have a lot of time.

[4:36] Mary Dina: Yeah. And don't forget, we've still been podcasting.

[4:39] Brian Sedita: Of course, remote recordings, which we've never done before.

[4:43] Elliott Mattox: Did you guys have any experience with that before all of this?

[4:46] Brian Sedita: No, no.

[4:47] Mary Dina: No remote?

[4:49] Brian Sedita: We did one when I was in St. Louis.

[4:50] Mary Dina: Oh, yeah, of just us two. Um never like with a guest.

[4:55] Brian Sedita: Um, but uh yeah, it's interesting. I mean, Caleb and I haven't really done any remote recordings.

[5:01] Caleb Dicke: We've mainly been doing um this show, um, which is great.

[5:06] Elliott Mattox: And I've been telling everyone this is like the most fun I've ever had doing the podcast because it's just like it's like just show up and and drink and have fun.

[5:15] Brian Sedita: And there's a little bit of a edit it.

[5:18] Elliott Mattox: Exactly. It's like what happens, what happens?

[5:21] Brian Sedita: Yeah, exactly. I just throw a little intro on it and boom, send out that audio to the feed.

[5:27] Elliott Mattox: It's fun.

[5:28] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, it's a good time. Um, but yeah, we haven't we haven't done the remote recordings.

[5:33] Brian Sedita: Have you how have you all been uh yeah?

[5:36] Mary Dina: We've done a couple. Um they've they've went really well. Honestly, I think they're easier to edit than any of the other episodes we've had.

[5:43] Brian Sedita: Oh, really?

[5:44] Mary Dina: Yeah, yeah.

[5:46] Brian Sedita: Brian edits, Brian edits.

[5:47] Mary Dina: So I don't Mary does social media.

[5:49] Elliott Mattox: Elliot edits and Caleb does social media.

[5:53] Brian Sedita: Yes, it's all about teamwork.

[5:56] Mary Dina: You just gotta like you gotta like split things up.

[5:59] Elliott Mattox: Yeah. Um yeah, I I like the I like the um how everything is everything is a little bit easier to edit when everyone's audio is coming through from separate places because even though there's like weird different mics, everyone's gonna have a similar like volume quality, like so it is it does it does make sense that it all kind of is a little bit easier remotely.

[6:24] Brian Sedita: Yeah, um, I've been yeah, I've just been like doing the podcast and I've been working from home. I work uh for a library.

[6:33] Mary Dina: I do I do work at library, um, and um so we've been just working at home and like doing virtual programs with kids and like online initiatives and stuff like that.

[6:44] Brian Sedita: So um, but like the days and times just blend together.

[6:48] Mary Dina: It's it's hard.

[6:50] Elliott Mattox: What library do you usually work at?

[6:52] Mary Dina: Which library?

[6:52] Brian Sedita: I work in I work in New Jersey actually, because I I grew up and live right outside of the city, like 20 minutes away, 25 minutes away.

[7:00] Mary Dina: Um, so I work at the Totua Public Library.

[7:03] Brian Sedita: Ooh, cool.

[7:04] Mary Dina: Yeah, it's my hometown library.

[7:06] Brian Sedita: Okay, yeah.

[7:08] Elliott Mattox: That's so fun. Are do you have like online books or like audiobooks? Like what's the...

[7:11] Mary Dina: We do, yeah.

[7:13] Mary Dina: We have like uh, yeah, so we're promoting our digital collection because that's what people can access now. So like audiobooks and ebooks and been listening to audiobooks myself.

[7:22] Mary Dina: I just started one on the office. It's like a it's like a documentary style book about the office.

[7:31] Brian Sedita: So it's all like behind.

[7:34] Mary Dina: I've never TV show.

[7:37] Brian Sedita: Oh, it's a good one. Honestly, just finished it this past January. It's great.

[7:41] Mary Dina: Um, yeah, that's very meta to have like a documentary book about the office, which is like mockumentary.

[7:49] Brian Sedita: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[7:50] Mary Dina: Very on brand.

[7:51] Brian Sedita: Yeah, yeah.

[7:52] Elliott Mattox: That's good stuff. I don't love audiobooks. Like when I'm driving, people are like, love an audiobook, but they actually like I can't focus on the words while I'm driving.

[8:00] Brian Sedita: I only do nonfiction for that reason.

[8:02] Elliott Mattox: Oh, okay.

[8:03] Brian Sedita: Because I feel like it's like a podcast.

[8:05] Elliott Mattox: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

[8:07] Brian Sedita: Like fiction, I can't like imagine the story happening while I'm trying to do drive, you know, or something like that.

[8:12] Mary Dina: I tried to do Harry Potter from Oklahoma to Ohio and I was like, stop, we can't do this. Like I wasn't listening.

[8:19] Elliott Mattox: Caleb, what have you been up to?

[8:21] Caleb Dicke: Um, I just sent a picture to Brittany, Britt, and I want to see if she can put it up because we just did it today. This is my garden.

[8:26] Brian Sedita: Ooh.

[8:30] Caleb Dicke: So back there in the tires, we have cucumbers and cantaloupe, we have peppers up front, and then over there we have a whole bunch of herbs.

[8:37] Mary Dina: Isn't that cute?

[8:38] Brian Sedita: Very cool.

[8:39] Caleb Dicke: Cantaloupe.

[8:40] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[8:41] Caleb Dicke: So interesting. Not sure if any of it's gonna grow, but you know, it's a good idea.

[8:44] Mary Dina: Yeah, do you know what if like you're in like season?

[8:47] Caleb Dicke: It's all in season, but it takes like 45 to 50 days. So if I'm still in Ohio after 50 days, which might be um, and I'm also like, hey mom, dad, I'm making you this garden. Hopefully, you guys like it.

[9:04] Elliott Mattox: If we're yeah, something to like something to plant, uh hi Kelly, yes, friends, friends of the podcast, just like chiming in.

[9:18] Caleb Dicke: We love when your comments come in and we can just see them and share them. So keep those coming.

[9:23] Mary Dina: Um I want to start a garden. Is this the first year you've been able to do one since you're not in the city?

[9:28] Caleb Dicke: Yes, I have like some pots on my fire escape, but like those are probably dead now. Um but um first, like real garden, yes.

[9:40] Brian Sedita: That's cool.

[9:41] Caleb Dicke: I'm not excited, it's a trial and error. It's fine.

[9:43] Mary Dina: Yeah, I dyed my hair, it's lovely.

[9:48] Brian Sedita: Thank you so much.

[9:49] Mary Dina: Thank you so much. And Michael cut my hair, which it let me give you the back view.

[9:53] Mary Dina: He did a very good job.

[9:55] Brian Sedita: Yes, oh yeah, yeah, got the fade.

[9:58] Mary Dina: I see it.

[9:58] Brian Sedita: Yes, it's very, very good.

[10:01] Caleb Dicke: Um, so shout out to my new barber.

[10:04] Mary Dina: Yeah, um, my my boyfriend also cut my hair.

[10:07] Brian Sedita: How to go the sides in the back.

[10:09] Mary Dina: It went it went good.

[10:11] Brian Sedita: It went good.

[10:11] Mary Dina: I was very happy. We didn't touch the we didn't touch the top at all, but same sides in the back.

[10:16] Brian Sedita: You just have like the ears done.

[10:17] Mary Dina: That's what I feel like around the edges in the back.

[10:20] Brian Sedita: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[10:21] Mary Dina: Yep, yeah, it's the tricky time, but we're making it happen, you know.

[10:26] Brian Sedita: Yeah, if we're here for another 50 days, I'm gonna have to start to cut my hair because it's just way too long already.

[10:31] Mary Dina: It's it's one of those things where we're just kind of like, oh, this is really taking a long time.

[10:36] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[10:37] Mary Dina: Like how long can I? How much longer? But we don't need a haircut that bad, okay.

[10:42] Caleb Dicke: Protest. You can go to you can go to Georgia this weekend, the hair salons in Georgia.

[10:46] Brian Sedita: And you can also get a tattoo this weekend.

[10:48] Mary Dina: Oh.

[10:49] Caleb Dicke: So if you want both, Georgia is the place to go.

[10:52] Mary Dina: Road trip.

[10:53] Caleb Dicke: Mary, I'll pick you up on the way.

[10:54] Mary Dina: You're on you're on the way.

[10:57] Brian Sedita: Maybe not too.

[10:59] Mary Dina: Woof.

[11:00] Caleb Dicke: Um send us peaches.

[11:02] Brian Sedita: That's all we want.

[11:03] Mary Dina: Peaches.

[11:04] Brian Sedita: That's all we want.

[11:05] Elliott Mattox: Yeah. I love a peach.

[11:07] Caleb Dicke: Um, what if you all been watching any entertainment? Any any uh Netflixing, any binging going on?

[11:15] Brian Sedita: Yeah, I oh go ahead, Brian.

[11:18] Brian Sedita: Oh we uh my boyfriend and I just watched the um Miss I got on 25th anniversary last night, you know, the West.

[11:28] Mary Dina: It was really interesting because I didn't realize that they shot it like a uh they tried to shoot it like a a film on stage, not like the stage pictures.

[11:37] Brian Sedita: Right.

[11:38] Mary Dina: So that was interesting.

[11:39] Brian Sedita: But I think the best thing I've watched so far in quarantine is Snowpiercer by the um director Bong Joon-ho.

[11:45] Mary Dina: Yeah, I did Parasite.

[11:47] Brian Sedita: Yes, I saw uh like an ad for that on Hulu.

[11:51] Mary Dina: Netflix I think it was on or something, yeah.

[11:53] Brian Sedita: I saw an ad for it somewhere on TV.

[11:56] Brian Sedita: It was unbelievable.

[11:56] Mary Dina: Oh, that might be the um the TV show that's coming out next month with David Diggs, which is set 10 years before the action of the movie.

[12:05] Brian Sedita: Oh, so you're talking about the movie, yes, with uh starring like Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton.

[12:10] Mary Dina: I've heard of this before.

[12:12] Brian Sedita: Yeah, it's really really good. I think all isn't all of at somewhere, all like all of um Bong Joon-ho's uh like work is available somewhere.

[12:24] Mary Dina: Yeah, um there's a lot on Netflix.

[12:26] Brian Sedita: Parasite, I know is on Hulu now, so if you haven't seen it, you gotta go to Hulu, watch Parasite immediately.

[12:33] Mary Dina: Um I need to get into it.

[12:36] Brian Sedita: Have you you haven't seen it?

[12:37] Mary Dina: No, I haven't.

[12:39] Brian Sedita: Oh my god, you have to watch it like tonight.

[12:42] Mary Dina: Like really good.

[12:43] Brian Sedita: I don't have anything to do tonight, so here we go.

[12:46] Mary Dina: Oh my god, it is so good.

[12:48] Brian Sedita: Uh okay, cool.

[12:50] Mary Dina: That's what I've heard from a ton of people.

[12:52] Brian Sedita: It's so so so good. Um, Mary, what about you? What have you been watching?

[12:55] Mary Dina: I'm so bad with movies. Brian is such a movie buff, and he'll talk about something he seems more excited about, and I'm like, I've never heard of it, or I've heard of it, but I've definitely not seen it.

[13:08] Mary Dina: So I'm just I haven't I don't think I've watched anything besides maybe like well, okay. So a few years ago or maybe a few months ago, my parents got and gave them like a way to like convert home movies, and we finally got it back.

[13:22] Mary Dina: So we've just been watching those, but I haven't really watched it.

[13:24] Brian Sedita: That's fun.

[13:25] Mary Dina: Yeah, that's really cool.

[13:27] Mary Dina: It's been really weird, let me tell you.

[13:33] Brian Sedita: I don't know if I've had any of those moments, but I'm one of six kids, and so watching like different stages of like just growing up has been really weird.

[13:44] Mary Dina: That's fun though.

[13:45] Brian Sedita: That's what a cool that's like a cool thing to like do during this time is like it's very reflective.

[13:51] Mary Dina: So to really go back and look, that's kind of a fun thing.

[13:54] Brian Sedita: Yeah, for sure.

[13:55] Mary Dina: And to see everyone's like little personalities is like babies or children, and then like, oh, you're an adult now, and this is how you actually are.

[14:03] Brian Sedita: Right.

[14:05] Mary Dina: We uh we start young with how we're gonna be.

[14:09] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[14:11] Caleb Dicke: What about you, Caleb?

[14:12] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[14:13] Caleb Dicke: Um, I just finished um making the cut.

[14:16] Brian Sedita: The hype.

[14:17] Caleb Dicke: So good.

[14:17] Brian Sedita: So good.

[14:18] Caleb Dicke: I have to watch the finale, but I know who won.

[14:20] Brian Sedita: Okay, yeah.

[14:21] Caleb Dicke: Because I looked on Amazon.

[14:22] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[14:23] Caleb Dicke: I mean, you saw his their stuff.

[14:25] Brian Sedita: Oh their stuff, yeah.

[14:27] Caleb Dicke: Um, I didn't love the finale.

[14:29] Brian Sedita: I didn't love the winner.

[14:31] Caleb Dicke: I thought their design was kind of basic.

[14:33] Brian Sedita: Interesting.

[14:34] Caleb Dicke: That designer that one is my pick was my.

[14:36] Brian Sedita: Oh, really?

[14:37] Caleb Dicke: Okay.

[14:37] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[14:38] Caleb Dicke: I think it's very commercial.

[14:39] Brian Sedita: I think it's great for Amazon, but as like fashion the next in fashion, I don't believe that it's the most.

[14:45] Mary Dina: Well, it's not next in fashion.

[14:47] Caleb Dicke: That's on Netflix.

[14:48] Brian Sedita: I know, I know.

[14:49] Caleb Dicke: I couldn't get through one episode of that.

[14:51] Brian Sedita: You couldn't?

[14:52] Caleb Dicke: No.

[14:52] Brian Sedita: It's too, it's like so chaotic.

[14:54] Caleb Dicke: I was like, this is a mess.

[14:56] Brian Sedita: There's too much going on.

[14:57] Caleb Dicke: Like the Yeah, next in fashion is with Tan France.

[15:03] Brian Sedita: Um clear eye.

[15:04] Caleb Dicke: And it and it's on Netflix.

[15:06] Brian Sedita: And it it I was I one episode and I was like, ugh, I don't like this.

[15:11] Caleb Dicke: But making the cut I really loved on Amazon.

[15:14] Brian Sedita: Um it's like um Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are back together again.

[15:18] Mary Dina: Hmm.

[15:19] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, that's been really good.

[15:20] Brian Sedita: We have to watch the finale.

[15:21] Caleb Dicke: We're doing that tonight.

[15:22] Brian Sedita: Okay.

[15:23] Caleb Dicke: Um, I of course watch Drag Race every week, and this week we had a a three and a half hours of drag race on Friday because Celebrity Drag Race premiered.

[15:38] Brian Sedita: Um which was I thought really, really fun.

[15:43] Mary Dina: I missed it.

[15:44] Brian Sedita: Do you do you guys watch?

[15:46] Mary Dina: No, I've never gotten into it.

[15:47] Brian Sedita: I know everybody's like, you have to stand up to watch it.

[15:50] Mary Dina: It's very it's just very fun.

[15:52] Brian Sedita: I love it.

[15:52] Mary Dina: I see you know it's my it's our passing of time show.

[15:55] Brian Sedita: It's like every Friday, we know we made another week.

[15:58] Mary Dina: Um but is that how you're measuring time for quarantine?

[16:03] Brian Sedita: Yes.

[16:04] Mary Dina: Yeah, yeah, through drag race.

[16:05] Brian Sedita: We're like, oh, we made it to Drag Race.

[16:07] Mary Dina: Okay.

[16:07] Brian Sedita: Maybe another week.

[16:09] Mary Dina: Um and uh but celebrity drag race, so they bring on three like celebrities, and then three of the like three um queens from past seasons that are like fan favorite queens, and then they like mentor the celebrity, and then they do like a whole thing.

[16:09] Brian Sedita: They do like a mini challenge, a maxi challenge that we know in love on drag race, and then like a lip sync, and they all compete for charity.

[16:37] Mary Dina: Oh, great.

[16:38] Brian Sedita: Um so it was really fun, and I will say the best part was watching like the past contestants like interact with each other because they were they're just so funny, and there's like no stakes for them.

[16:49] Mary Dina: So it's very like they're all very like fun and relaxed.

[16:53] Brian Sedita: Um, so I was very entertained for it.

[16:56] Mary Dina: Um were the celebrities.

[16:59] Brian Sedita: Um Nico Tortorella from Younger, uh-huh.

[17:04] Mary Dina: And then there was a guy from Riverdale.

[17:08] Brian Sedita: Uh I don't watch, but was he redheaded?

[17:10] Mary Dina: No, like dark skinned, kind of like football player build.

[17:14] Brian Sedita: Okay.

[17:15] Mary Dina: I forgot his name.

[17:16] Brian Sedita: Riverdale.

[17:17] Mary Dina: Um, and then uh there was uh comedian um Jeremiah Fowler.

[17:26] Brian Sedita: Something Jermaine Fowler, Jermaine Fowler.

[17:29] Mary Dina: We aren't nailing the celebrities here.

[17:31] Brian Sedita: Yeah, yeah.

[17:32] Mary Dina: There were two of them where I was like, I don't want to say B-list celebrities, but maybe well, maybe like maybe like maybe you know I'm I'm like a new I'm like I'm like a New York liberal theater gay.

[17:47] Brian Sedita: So like famous to me is like very a different famous than like maybe like the rest of the world.

[17:52] Mary Dina: So maybe these people are more famous.

[17:53] Brian Sedita: Like like Riverdale is a big show, yeah.

[17:56] Mary Dina: I've never seen it.

[17:57] Brian Sedita: Never have I ever watched it, so I'm keeping my finger up.

[17:59] Mary Dina: Yeah, me too.

[18:01] Brian Sedita: Um but it was really entertaining.

[18:03] Mary Dina: So I'm excited for like next week.

[18:05] Brian Sedita: It's new Queens, it's three new celebrities.

[18:08] Mary Dina: So I think it's fun.

[18:10] Brian Sedita: It's just like lighthearted, very silly.

[18:13] Mary Dina: So I enjoyed that.

[18:14] Brian Sedita: I enjoyed that.

[18:15] Caleb Dicke: Well, let's move to like our little interview portion.

[18:20] Caleb Dicke: We always start every show at Equity One by asking our guests what first got them interested in the arts as a young person.

[18:28] Caleb Dicke: Um so Mary, why don't we start with you?

[18:31] Mary Dina: Sure. Um so my earliest memory was I want to say I was like four or five, and when I saw Lay Miz for the first time, and I was fucked like immediately. Like I I was waiting for the video to pop up on the home movies where I was in my living room with or in the living room with like um a broom as a microphone, singing a little to the epine song for like the 10th anniversary on VHS. Like that's like when I knew that I was in it for the long haul, I think. And my parents were probably like, what did we do? But yeah, so that and I just kind of like that show, it's just been like a through line throughout my entire career since, which has been really great.

[19:14] Caleb Dicke: How how so? How's it how's it been a through line?

[19:16] Mary Dina: Just because when I like through different shifts in my in my life, I was doing I directed it at one point, which was really cool, and it was like not planned at first. When I first came to the city, I saw the revival like right when I came back, and or when I came up here. And so, you know, just different points of my life. It's come back, I guess when I needed it. I don't know. But yeah, but it's been cool. It's been cool to see it in different phases of my life.

[19:40] Brian Sedita: It's like a drag race of your whole life, like at each point.

[19:45] Mary Dina: Right.

[19:49] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, exactly.

[19:50] Brian Sedita: Brian, what about you?

[19:52] Brian Sedita: Uh when I was really little, I really was into Beauty and the Beast. And my parents, you know, they took me to it on ice. I memorized like the I recited the prologue over and over again. Um, you know, when it went back to theaters in IMAX, they took me. And then my first Broadway show was uh Beauty and the Beast when I was like five. Um so I yeah, I think I think that was like my intro to it.

[20:20] Caleb Dicke: Would your parents bring you into New York a lot because you're in New Jersey?

[20:24] Brian Sedita: Yeah, oh yeah. We like at least once a year. Um and then when I got into high school, I was uh like my dad used to take me like a couple different times a year, like every every month or something to see something. And then um, and then when I was a sophomore, I was able to go in by myself with friends.

[20:42] Caleb Dicke: Oh yeah, 15.

[20:46] Brian Sedita: Oh my gosh, that's like big time.

[20:49] Brian Sedita: Yeah, well, we have like an express bus that's like a half hour right from like a mall that's like a two and a half minute drive away. So very accessible.

[20:58] Mary Dina: And then we used to do like the student rush uh back when that was really big.

[21:02] Brian Sedita: Yeah, and um the lotteries and all that kind of stuff.

[21:06] Caleb Dicke: I'm always jealous of like Long Island, New Jersey people who grew up because they could come in all the time, and I'm like, I didn't go till I was a sophomore in high school for the first time and and get out all the time.

[21:06] Brian Sedita: Yeah exactly.

[21:06] Mary Dina: Yeah, where are you from?

[21:06] Brian Sedita: Um I'm from Delaware.

[21:06] Mary Dina: Okay not too far but you know but not too close right yeah like we when I was in high school we came up once a year with my uh drama club or whatever like the musical cast came up for a day and you had the choice of whatever you wanted to do it during the day and I always saw a matinee and then we all saw an evening show so.

[21:06] Brian Sedita: Oh yeah you gotta like sneak in those like extra shows when you can.

[21:06] Mary Dina: I think that's so cool that you were able to see two in one day like when my drama club would go they would take up because we were so close to the city and we didn't have to worry about getting in with enough time they would only take us to the evening show so they would wait until like halfway through the school day to take us out of school we'd go have dinner and then go see the show.

[22:10] Brian Sedita: Oh wow yeah this was like what felt like a 24 hour experience because we'd get up really early take the bus from our high school all the way into New York and then we'd come back at like 1 a.m we'd get back to Delaware.

[22:22] Mary Dina: Oh my god that's so fun yeah it was definitely like a great moment to have every year singing like show tunes on the bus on the way home or like oh yeah you know it going through the playbill yes we we used to um I used to come up to the city to like get my like dance solos choreographed and we would always do like a weekend in the fall but like Friday Saturday, Sunday, and we would see evening matinee s evening, matinee, evening. Like it was, I was like, I have to see as much as possible.

[22:50] Brian Sedita: I like it.

[22:55] Mary Dina: Gotta get your fix for the whole year.

[22:58] Brian Sedita: Those are always like so much fun getting to like pack those shows in and like running around, like yeah, getting to like rush. I remember rushing in college. I have like shirts for merch madness for of things me and Caleb have seen together. And it just it reminded me of like all our like times in the rush lines early mornings, like during college, and um and it's gotten so different. That whole landscape because even just like the lotteries, they're all online now. I mean, some of the rush, too. It's crazy. It's like, no, give it to the people that are dedicated and are going there in person.

[23:36] Mary Dina: It's cold, they're waiting in the line it's freezing, it's raining, it's snowing, they're there.

[23:41] Brian Sedita: It's uh 4 a.m.

[23:43] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[23:44] Brian Sedita: It was definitely like a but it also it also has gotten so much bigger. Like, I remember like rush lines did not used to be as crazy as they are now. It was like the best kept secret.

[23:53] Mary Dina: Yeah, yeah.

[23:54] Brian Sedita: It was like they were like the most people you'd ever see in line were like 20 people, you know what I mean? And like uh now it's now the show that no one's rushing has 20 people in line. Like it's um it's wild.

[24:08] Mary Dina: Rush and lottery policies have really changed, just like the stage doors, everything's gotten bigger because of social media.

[24:15] Brian Sedita: Um it's an interesting thing.

[24:19] Mary Dina: Brittany said Hamilton changed that.

[24:21] Brian Sedita: Oh, yeah.

[24:22] Mary Dina: Oh, yeah.

[24:23] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[24:24] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[24:25] Brian Sedita: Everything that like everything that's been like, I think too, like, we've talked about how the stage door evolved too, but like once people saw on you know Instagram or Facebook or whatever that someone was like meeting the actors, that just kind of like gets around where it used to kind of be like an inside secret. You'd like sneak around at the stage door and then like little barricade.

[24:45] Mary Dina: And that's when I, you know, as a young theater fan would actually like meet people and like have conversations with the actors. Like it seemed like a little bit less like hectic, whereas now it can get it can get like very, very like big.

[25:01] Brian Sedita: But I think people still find that community there.

[25:03] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[25:04] Caleb Dicke: Well, I also have you worked with anybody that you've met at the stage door, like when you were younger and told them.

[25:10] Brian Sedita: Oh yeah.

[25:11] Mary Dina: Oh yeah.

[25:12] Brian Sedita: Like um uh like Rob McClure when when I saw Chaplin, um, I'll try and get that picture to Brit, but like Rob McClure when I saw Chaplin, um was yeah, it was huge for me meeting him and then getting to like work with him again. A couple times I've gotten to work with him, it's just been like huge.

[25:34] Mary Dina: So there have been those moments.

[25:36] Brian Sedita: Um crazy.

[25:40] Mary Dina: I remember meeting Kristen Chenoweth at Promises Promises and being like, I'm going to Oklahoma City University. And she was like, Great, I loved it. And I was it was just like I love that connection you make as a kid. It's like it makes you so happy. You think about it for like weeks on end, like you're holding your playbook home on the bus ride, and you're like, Kay Chen, sign this and she talked to me.

[25:58] Brian Sedita: Like, yeah, amazing.

[26:00] Mary Dina: At the stage door, like you're at least back when I was stage dooring in high school, you were having conversations, and like maybe you like got up the courage to ask for a photo, but like it was all about the like talking with them, where I feel like now, whenever I'm like walking down like 46th or 44th, whatever, I feel like it's just like just selfies galore.

[26:18] Brian Sedita: I can't even imagine what it's like for the actors these days.

[26:21] Mary Dina: Like, I don't know how they handle it.

[26:24] Brian Sedita: I mean, it's definitely like I I don't know, it's exciting to see, especially like, you know, I was working on Beetlejuice, and that was that stage store was pretty wild. Um, and but I mean it was exciting to to see um enthusiasm.

[26:39] Mary Dina: Yeah, it's amazing.

[26:40] Brian Sedita: And it's really cool to think that like something we're doing is having an impact the same way something else had an impact on us.

[26:47] Mary Dina: I mean, have you all had those moments where you're like, oh my god, like high school theater me would like literally be freaking out right now?

[26:55] Brian Sedita: Oh, a hundred percent.

[26:56] Mary Dina: Yeah, it's more so like in the last year with the podcast.

[27:01] Caleb Dicke: I don't know if you have the same experience, Mary.

[27:03] Mary Dina: Yeah, I the most recent one was the first night of Ken's live stream, or the second night, technically, we interviewed Steven Schwartz, and that was just like oh yeah, crazy.

[27:12] Brian Sedita: I had to coordinate with him, and he's like the nicest person, and like getting to chat with him like backstage before we went live, and he was just super generous.

[27:20] Mary Dina: And then we did a Godspell revival at like on Easter, and we surprised the cast with him again, and he was like super chill about it.

[27:28] Brian Sedita: Like I emailed him the night before, and he's like, "Whatever you need, I'm here."

[27:31] Mary Dina: And I was just like, "Oh my god."

[27:33] Brian Sedita: Yeah, yeah, it's very cool.

[27:36] Mary Dina: Uh Brit, I got that picture of me and Rob from college.

[27:40] Brian Sedita: There, there we are.

[27:42] Mary Dina: Of chapel, little babies.

[27:46] Brian Sedita: Love me and I I see I was rocking a quarantine cut before it was cool.

[27:50] Mary Dina: Yeah, that's me in the back, as Lia in drag.

[27:53] Brian Sedita: I'm the black bob and the red coat.

[27:56] Mary Dina: That was me in drag.

[27:58] Brian Sedita: Right.

[28:00] Mary Dina: Oh, that's for sure, I'm sure.

[28:01] Brian Sedita: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[28:04] Mary Dina: Um, um, we're gonna go on to like some of our segments.

[28:09] Brian Sedita: Why not?

[28:09] Mary Dina: Let's like let's get to games.

[28:11] Brian Sedita: Let's do it.

[28:12] Caleb Dicke: Uh, do you have a blonde girl moment for us?

[28:15] Brian Sedita: I have a funny one.

[28:16] Caleb Dicke: Let's hit that real.

[28:18] Brian Sedita: All right.

[28:22] Caleb Dicke: Oh a gi.

[28:26] Brian Sedita: Maybe I better go.

[28:35] Caleb Dicke: Okay.

[28:36] Brian Sedita: So this one is from B E E underscore Zolot Z-E-A-L-O-T.

[28:45] Mary Dina: Zealot.

[28:46] Brian Sedita: Zealot underscore.

[28:48] Mary Dina: Simon Zellot, yeah.

[28:49] Brian Sedita: So B Zella.

[28:51] Mary Dina: They say, um, would you rather be always five minutes late or 35 minutes early?

[28:56] Brian Sedita: Please mention me if you answer.

[28:59] Mary Dina: So there is the mention for B Zelot.

[29:03] Brian Sedita: And um from Oklahoma City, we learned five minutes early is 10 minutes late.

[29:08] Mary Dina: But you know, I kind of like coming late to a party because like you gotta let the party build a little bit.

[29:14] Brian Sedita: It definitely depends on what we're talking.

[29:17] Mary Dina: Like work, professional, anything, like dinner, dinner with a friend.

[29:23] Brian Sedita: Those things are like we need to be on time.

[29:26] Mary Dina: Yeah, not but for a party by far I would say 35 minutes late.

[29:32] Brian Sedita: Like I'm not, I don't wanna I wanna come late, leave early.

[29:35] Mary Dina: Yes, I'm always like, or I like doing the first one there and the first one to leave.

[29:39] Brian Sedita: I'm always like oh, I love that.

[29:42] Mary Dina: I know a lot of friends that do that that will like party starts at eight, they are there at eight, they have one drink, and then it's like boop boop boop boop boo, gotta go.

[29:50] Brian Sedita: Like I love that.

[29:51] Mary Dina: It's like what are your guys' uh thoughts?

[29:53] Brian Sedita: Five minutes early or thirty five minutes late 10 minutes early.

[29:57] Mary Dina: Oh, there it is.

[29:58] Brian Sedita: Neither.

[29:59] Mary Dina: I'm like yeah yeah I get up like to just to paint the picture my alarm goes off I'm usually up before it but if it goes off I'm up without a snooze wow yeah even yeah I've been getting up and during quarantine it just gets me going I have to be like okay let's get up let's get going because if I lay in bed all day I'm like exhausted now what's what's your normal wake up time Brian?

[29:59] Brian Sedita: I don't have to be work till nine usually so I get up at 8:30.

[29:59] Mary Dina: Oh great I live three minutes drive to my job that is so nice yeah just like grab the coffee run out the door I'm not a coffee person I have to say okay not a coffee person water no I get up and I go no nothing recently water water is very important in the morning it is yeah replenish you know do as I say not as I do I don't really drink it in the morning except for like here and there you know if I'm feeling like hung over but but it's very important in the morning Michael chugs an entire bottle of water every every single morning I can't find I heard that if you start it with eight ounces it's like you have to yeah yeah it's the way to go yeah Mary what would you do five minutes early or 35 minutes late?

[29:59] Mary Dina: I mean I probably would say I mean I agree with what you guys were saying before like five minutes early for most things, but like for a party, I'll like I want says five minutes early.

[31:35] Brian Sedita: I feel like for certain things I might kind of be a little bit late for, but as a whole five minutes early, probably.

[31:42] Mary Dina: Yeah, just a presentation.

[31:44] Brian Sedita: Thanks, Alan.

[31:46] Mary Dina: I also don't bring coffee.

[31:48] Brian Sedita: So there we go.

[31:49] Mary Dina: Oh no, can't trust Mary and I.

[31:53] Brian Sedita: No.

[31:53] Mary Dina: So I think overall, I would say five minutes early.

[31:56] Brian Sedita: That's my opinion on this one.

[31:57] Mary Dina: Yeah, early, I think is better.

[31:58] Brian Sedita: Yeah, I think it's better too.

[31:59] Mary Dina: Especially in New York, you know, you never know what the subway's doing.

[32:02] Brian Sedita: I'm always like happy to be early because then I can stop by Dunkin' and get me a sandwich.

[32:08] Brian Sedita: Oh.

[32:09] Mary Dina: Ugh, I missed my commute.

[32:12] Mary Dina: Mm-hmm.

[32:12] Brian Sedita: Do you see I I flip between like I don't really miss the trains so much.

[32:20] Mary Dina: But I miss my commute.

[32:22] Brian Sedita: I miss my like walking New York time.

[32:24] Mary Dina: Like I like I'm so behind on podcasts.

[32:28] Brian Sedita: Like it's I'm so behind.

[32:31] Mary Dina: And like I miss that kind of time.

[32:33] Brian Sedita: It's like my like time with my thoughts and just chilling.

[32:36] Mary Dina: And yeah.

[32:37] Brian Sedita: I don't know.

[32:38] Mary Dina: I haven't done my Sudoku in over a month, and I'm like an avid.

[32:41] Brian Sedita: I love Sudoku.

[32:42] Mary Dina: Yeah, it's my favorite.

[32:43] Brian Sedita: And I haven't done it all month because I'm not traveling.

[32:46] Mary Dina: I know my game, my like Homescapes game.

[32:49] Brian Sedita: Oh, the house is just sitting and nothing's being finished.

[32:53] Mary Dina: Oh my god, that's like I was starting.

[32:54] Brian Sedita: I started this like airline manager game on my phone.

[32:58] Mary Dina: Wait, what?

[33:00] Brian Sedita: No, like I just love planes.

[33:01] Mary Dina: So I started this airline manager game, and I was like really getting into it, and then like quarantine happened, and I was and I looked back at the app and I'm like, oh no, I've neglected you.

[33:10] Brian Sedita: You're all breaking down.

[33:11] Mary Dina: All my flights are canceled.

[33:14] Brian Sedita: Wait, there's a game where you can like manage you build your own airline pretty much, and you make a hub, you make routes, you make you you buy planes, and yeah.

[33:24] Mary Dina: What is this app called?

[33:25] Brian Sedita: Because I'm very intrigued because it's called Airlines Manager, pretty much.

[33:29] Mary Dina: Okay.

[33:29] Brian Sedita: Also, also this is this is an expose.

[33:33] Mary Dina: We just turned X full expose.

[33:35] Brian Sedita: I'm gonna drag everyone, including myself.

[33:37] Mary Dina: Have you ever spent money on a game on my phone?

[33:41] Brian Sedita: Yeah, that one.

[33:42] Mary Dina: That one.

[33:42] Brian Sedita: I didn't you didn't even need to finish that sentence.

[33:45] Caleb Dicke: No, because I because I'm like a hashtag budget.

[33:52] Brian Sedita: But I loved Merge Dragons.

[33:55] Caleb Dicke: It was I was obsessed with it in the fall, and I showed to my boyfriend, and then he oh he got addicted to it, and he was like, "Caleb, I think I've spent fifty dollars on Merge Dragons."

[34:07] Brian Sedita: That's a lot of money.

[34:08] Caleb Dicke: It's a lot of money for a game.

[34:10] Brian Sedita: Uh like you just have to wait.

[34:12] Caleb Dicke: Like I did for Pokemon Go as well when that first came out.

[34:15] Brian Sedita: That was huge.

[34:16] Caleb Dicke: Okay, that was a big you had to buy, you needed a jump start.

[34:20] Brian Sedita: Yeah, I was um I was uh spending money, I have spent money on Homescapes before, but usually it's like they're like there's the sale of a bundle, and it's like 99 cents for so many coins, and I'm like, "Well, I can't resist, it's a dollar."

[34:35] Brian Sedita: There you go.

[34:36] Caleb Dicke: That's how they get you.

[34:38] Brian Sedita: Yeah, not doing that now.

[34:40] Mary Dina: Well, I'm glad I wasn't alone.

[34:41] Brian Sedita: Thank you, Elliot.

[34:42] Mary Dina: Oh no, I mean, I'm happy to like really really keep it real here with everyone.

[34:47] Brian Sedita: Um there's no shame in it.

[34:50] Mary Dina: There is shame, but we won't change moderation, right?

[34:54] Brian Sedita: Mary, do you have you spent any money on an app like that?

[34:57] Mary Dina: Not a game, but there's an app called One Second Every Day, and I've been.

[35:02] Brian Sedita: Oh, yeah, like the video.

[35:04] Mary Dina: Yeah, you collect like literally one second video of your day, and you can drop it into like the calendar, so I could drop it in for today or I could drop it in for tomorrow, and I've been doing it for probably five years now.

[35:17] Brian Sedita: And so I have a bunch of like seconds.

[35:19] Mary Dina: And so I think I at the time I spent like two dollars on it, but now I think it's going for like $15.

[35:26] Brian Sedita: Oh, like maybe I'm lying.

[35:28] Mary Dina: I don't know.

[35:29] Brian Sedita: But so once you got it, you don't have to they don't charge you again if they raise the price, right?

[35:35] Mary Dina: Oh, that's great.

[35:36] Brian Sedita: Have you recorded your second for the day?

[35:38] Mary Dina: No.

[35:39] Brian Sedita: Can we be the second for the day?

[35:41] Mary Dina: Yeah, let's do it now.

[35:42] Brian Sedita: That's a lot of pressure on her for this one second, but like I'm very like happy.

[35:47] Mary Dina: I'll capture like a few seconds and then I'll go in like later.

[35:50] Brian Sedita: I'll edit it.

[35:51] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[35:52] Brian Sedita: Everyone do something cute.

[35:53] Mary Dina: I'm gonna drink.

[35:56] Brian Sedita: Oh, Brian is posing while we're like moving.

[35:59] Mary Dina: You're like six seconds.

[36:04] Brian Sedita: I'm honored to have four.

[36:07] Mary Dina: I get to go back and like I can like go back and look at them.

[36:10] Brian Sedita: So I haven't done it since I've been in quarantine because I feel like it's like a little depressing, but yes, totally.

[36:15] Mary Dina: It's like yeah, what's happening here?

[36:18] Brian Sedita: In 2010 and 11, Elliot and I did 365, which is a picture a day for 365 days.

[36:25] Mary Dina: Yeah, and it's exhausting because you have to pretend like your day is amazing every single day because you're posting and sharing it, and the anxiety of it was getting to be too much.

[36:34] Brian Sedita: It would be a lot of back in 2010, like we didn't even have to pay for apps back then.

[36:39] Mary Dina: Yeah, and it was like digital, like that's the time where like we had maybe an iPhone two, maybe, but like, but like the um I digital camera camera, so you had to have your camera with you always.

[36:54] Brian Sedita: Um that was a lot.

[36:55] Mary Dina: That was a crazy job.

[36:56] Brian Sedita: I'm glad we did it, but that was that was a lot.

[36:58] Mary Dina: Yeah, that's all hidden by the way on the internet.

[37:00] Brian Sedita: Yes, can't we find that?

[37:03] Mary Dina: Um wait, how did you all meet?

[37:08] Brian Sedita: Yes.

[37:09] Mary Dina: Yes.

[37:09] Brian Sedita: Um so I mentioned earlier I freelanced for a company, and the company is called Broadway Teaching Group, and it's like a professional development thing for teachers, and they do student workshops during the school year.

[37:21] Brian Sedita: And I was doing social, I was shooting like a workshop and Brian was an intern, and we reconvened in the school like in the following year, is that right?

[37:32] Brian Sedita: Yeah, so I interned um summer of 2018, like right after my senior.

[37:38] Mary Dina: No, actually was going into my senior year of college, um, my last semester.

[37:42] Brian Sedita: And then during that winter, following winter, um, they do the student summits, which Mary mentioned.

[37:50] Brian Sedita: So I did the teachers workshop for the summer, and then the student summits were in the winter.

[37:54] Mary Dina: I volunteered at a couple of those, and we went to go see um, so they let you go see the show if they have enough extra tickets for the workshop.

[38:02] Brian Sedita: So you know, I signed up for Dear Evan Hansen because I'm a big Dear Evan Hansen fan.

[38:08] Mary Dina: So we went to go see that together, and we ended up sitting like she was right behind me.

[38:13] Brian Sedita: And we were just talking about podcasts, and uh think like right before the curtain, like your lights went down.

[38:21] Mary Dina: I said, "We're gonna start one" or something like that.

[38:24] Brian Sedita: Um but actually Brian and I went to the same school.

[38:27] Mary Dina: So Brian went to Montclair State for his undergrad, and I went there around the same at the same time for my master's, and we didn't cross paths, but we had all mutual friends from a show that I assist and directed.

[38:40] Brian Sedita: So, so you know, yeah, kind of weird, but it's so interesting that like we went to the same school for a period of time in the same department and didn't cross paths.

[38:49] Mary Dina: Never interacted.

[38:50] Brian Sedita: That's crazy.

[38:52] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[38:52] Brian Sedita: And yeah, so that we were by Dear Evan Hansen.

[38:56] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[38:57] Brian Sedita: They'd love that.

[38:59] Mary Dina: And then we just like uh had like a a day where we went and got drinks and like an appetizer and and talked about some ideas for what we would want to do for a show.

[39:09] Brian Sedita: My favorite, my favorite thing though is like when we sat down for that for the drinks in the meeting thing.

[39:13] Mary Dina: I was like, oh, like in a couple of months we'll get discarded.

[39:15] Brian Sedita: And Brian's like, no, now I was like, okay, great.

[39:19] Mary Dina: Now I'm gonna ask the hard-hitting questions that everyone wants to know.

[39:23] Brian Sedita: Where uh did you have drinks and and appetizers?

[39:26] Mary Dina: Very important.

[39:27] Brian Sedita: Five Napkin Burger.

[39:28] Mary Dina: Love great choice.

[39:30] Brian Sedita: Perfect.

[39:31] Mary Dina: Great meeting place.

[39:32] Brian Sedita: Love it is.

[39:33] Mary Dina: Yeah, it's good.

[39:34] Brian Sedita: I miss Five Napkin.

[39:36] Mary Dina: I miss everything.

[39:40] Brian Sedita: I know.

[39:43] Mary Dina: Um, all right.

[39:43] Brian Sedita: Well, I'm gonna uh I think it's time for a little bit of merch madness, right?

[40:01] Mary Dina: Okay.

[40:02] Brian Sedita: So this is a merch madness.

[40:04] Mary Dina: Um oh, let me get my uh image back up.

[40:07] Brian Sedita: There we go.

[40:08] Mary Dina: Uh this is a merch madness of uh shows that Caleb and I have seen together, and also like there, we were talking earlier about like rush lines, kind of that thing.

[40:19] Brian Sedita: These are all things we saw.

[40:21] Mary Dina: We either lined up for or we got hip ticks and we saw like on the cheap as uh as poor students or or recent grads.

[40:30] Brian Sedita: Love that.

[40:30] Mary Dina: I'm so excited.

[40:31] Brian Sedita: So this is from Caleb and I's trip that uh that we just showed the picture of Rob McClure and I.

[40:38] Brian Sedita: In that same trip, we saw the mystery of Edwin Drude at the Roundabout Theater Company.

[40:44] Mary Dina: I think New Year's Eve, right?

[40:46] Brian Sedita: Something like that.

[40:48] Mary Dina: New Year's Eve, no, New Year's Eve.

[40:49] Brian Sedita: We saw Peter and the Starcatcher, the matinee.

[40:51] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[40:52] Brian Sedita: Um, this we saw one night, and we were up at the very top of Studio 54.

[41:01] Mary Dina: And then it was a hip tech scene, yeah.

[41:05] Brian Sedita: Of course, we moved down at intermission, and that show was so great.

[41:10] Mary Dina: We loved it.

[41:11] Brian Sedita: Loved it.

[41:12] Mary Dina: Um, who wait, who was the murderer? Was it Cheetah that night?

[41:14] Brian Sedita: Um, I don't remember.

[41:19] Mary Dina: I think it was.

[41:21] Brian Sedita: It was, I think it was either Cheetah or Betsy Wolf.

[41:25] Mary Dina: I can't remember.

[41:26] Brian Sedita: Yeah, I don't remember either.

[41:27] Mary Dina: Oh my god, that's like, yeah, they're so similar.

[41:32] Brian Sedita: I love that you get to vote for that for that show.

[41:34] Mary Dina: I know, but also we were like the orchestra was in the boxes, so we were like peeking to see like what confession was on the music stands.

[41:47] Brian Sedita: Could you sing or no?

[41:48] Mary Dina: I don't remember, probably. Um, so I love this shirt. I wear this shirt all of the time, like all the time.

[41:56] Brian Sedita: This is a classic for me.

[41:57] Mary Dina: I love the color, this like salmon color. It's really, really fun, it's a great logo, very graphically interesting.

[42:07] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[42:07] Mary Dina: Like almost postcard-esque. Like it's really, really just like a striking visual, and then, of course, Roundabout on the sleeve.

[42:15] Brian Sedita: I love this shirt. It's a classic. I wear it all the time.

[42:19] Mary Dina: Now, when we graduated from college, um, we were all very excited to go see Dames at Sea when that opened at Second Stage.

[42:30] Brian Sedita: And they were doing a promotion before the first day the box office opened. That was like 1934 was when this opened.

[42:40] Mary Dina: So come get your $19.34 tickets.

[42:43] Brian Sedita: So we stood in line outside Second Stage, and um, you, Emily Tanner, and I were all together getting tickets to see Dames at Sea.

[42:53] Mary Dina: Now, this is one of another one of my favorite shirts. I love the little lights.

[42:59] Brian Sedita: Oh, yeah. Everyone knows, everyone knows.

[43:02] Mary Dina: I love a dark gray shirt. You just can't go wrong with the dark gray.

[43:06] Brian Sedita: It looks good on everyone. The graphics are gonna be really cool.

[43:09] Mary Dina: And then on the back, there's a little airplane, and it says Broadway's biggest little musical.

[43:16] Brian Sedita: An airplane, what an interesting choice.

[43:19] Mary Dina: Yeah, I don't remember an airplane in the show.

[43:22] Brian Sedita: So it looks like one of those airplanes that would fly over the beach.

[43:26] Mary Dina: Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[43:28] Brian Sedita: Okay. I would have, an airplane's an interesting choice.

[43:33] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[43:34] Brian Sedita: You know, it's an interesting choice of a show to put on Broadway.

[43:38] Mary Dina: It's very cute.

[43:39] Brian Sedita: Yeah, loved it though.

[43:41] Mary Dina: Loved it. It was really fun.

[43:42] Brian Sedita: Yeah. Great cast.

[43:44] Mary Dina: Yes. We love Randy.

[43:46] Brian Sedita: Great cast, great dancing. Um, I love this shirt. This is a great shirt, a classic. I'll wear it all the time.

[43:53] Mary Dina: But I gotta say, the winner of this week's merch madness is the mystery of Edwin Drude. It's just you can't beat this salmon color.

[44:02] Brian Sedita: The graphic is so strong. And it's a really good memory of that trip. Nostalgia always wins.

[44:10] Mary Dina: Always.

[44:11] Brian Sedita: So there we have it. There's merch madness for the week. Boom.

[44:16] Mary Dina: All right. Now I understand that you all brought a game to share.

[44:21] Brian Sedita: We did.

[44:22] Mary Dina: We brought a game. I'm gonna put it in another window so I can have it on my phone.

[44:28] Brian Sedita: Oh, that's really smart, Mary.

[44:31] Mary Dina: Oh my god. I didn't want to have to worry about flipping through it.

[44:35] Brian Sedita: What celebrate?

[44:39] Mary Dina: Do you want to do the first one?

[44:41] Brian Sedita: Okay, so we'll explain it. And you can do the first one while I get it up on my phone.

[44:46] Mary Dina: Okay.

[44:47] Brian Sedita: Do you want me to explain it?

[44:49] Mary Dina: Sure.

[44:50] Brian Sedita: Okay. So we are doing most likely to theater edition. So this kind of ties back to our podcast. And our format is we're really interested in learning about an artist's process and how they work on their craft on any given show or multiple shows.

[45:07] Mary Dina: And so some of the questions are tied back to an artist's process, and we'll kind of go through there. But basically, it's a quiz between the two of you to see who's most likely to do something between Elliot and Caleb.

[45:22] Brian Sedita: Great.

[45:23] Mary Dina: Great. Great.

[45:23] Brian Sedita: Wait. Oh, you guys got really artistic. I love that.

[45:26] Mary Dina: Oh, not really. Mine's just like white paper.

[45:27] Brian Sedita: Caleb's are fancy.

[45:30] Mary Dina: They're actually you have nice penmanship, Elliot.

[45:32] Brian Sedita: They're donation cards to my Catholic church.

[45:35] Mary Dina: Oh my god. Would you call that a Hail Mary?

[45:40] Brian Sedita: Uh, yeah.

[45:42] Mary Dina: Amen. Okay, go on.

[45:44] Brian Sedita: Okay. Kick us off, Mary.

[45:46] Mary Dina: I'll do the first one. So most likely to learn their lines right away.

[45:56] Brian Sedita: Oh, ding ding ding.

[46:02] Mary Dina: Great. Are you a slower learner, Caleb?

[46:05] Caleb Dicke: Um, you just procrastinate.

[46:08] Brian Sedita: I'm a physical learner, so I like to like be in the space and be like, okay, I'm moving over here, so I'm thinking about intention and the story behind it.

[46:17] Caleb Dicke: So I don't know, I like that. I think Elliot just also just, I don't know, get it done.

[46:22] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[46:23] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. You tend to be like mostly memorized or familiar with the script before you hit rehearsals, Elliot.

[46:29] Elliott Mattox: Um, I mean it depends on the process, really. Like if I'm doing like a role regionally, I try to be, but it just depends. I'm a quick memorizer. I'm very, very auditory.

[46:44] Brian Sedita: How so?

[46:44] Elliott Mattox: I can learn things pretty quickly.

[46:49] Mary Dina: Nice.

[46:50] Brian Sedita: Yeah. Great. Who is most likely to pick up choreography faster?

[46:59] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. No, let me know.

[47:03] Brian Sedita: No cheating next time.

[47:04] Caleb Dicke: You both, I was gonna say me, but Caleb, so Caleb is like, I would say Caleb is the more technically proficient dancer.

[47:12] Elliott Mattox: Yes.

[47:13] Caleb Dicke: But I, Elliot can pick up choreography better because I sprinkle myself into it too much, I think. I like try and like make it fit on my butt. I'm not good at, if I'm, I'd be a terrible rocket because I'm not good at following exactly what the count is. I like say like, oh, I like doing this on my body. So I don't think I'm good at picking up other people's choreography. Does that make sense?

[47:39] Elliott Mattox: Yeah. Makes sense. Would you agree, Elliot? What would you say?

[47:42] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, I would say that like I also like, um, going back to like my ear. I have a very in-tune musical ear, like really hyper in tune. And so I think that helps me be able to pick up choreography really quickly. And I fancy myself like a choreographer as well, so that is like a very helpful thing.

[48:03] Mary Dina: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Next question.

[48:06] Brian Sedita: Cool.

[48:06] Mary Dina: Okay. Um, who's most likely to have a pre-show ritual?

[48:12] Brian Sedita: Ready? I'll count.

[48:14] Mary Dina: Oh, but it's okay.

[48:19] Brian Sedita: It looks like it.

[48:20] Mary Dina: It's Caleb.

[48:22] Brian Sedita: What is the ritual?

[48:23] Caleb Dicke: What's the ritual? It depends on the show, but it's always like it always includes like a warm-up. I always like to have my station exactly the right way. I like to say hi to the same people. It's the little things. It's show to show. Like Caleb is like, um, more of like this, the superstitious kind of person. So like he would really make sure to do the right things before a show.

[48:47] Elliott Mattox: Yes. Like in Boy from Oz, I hid Judy Garlands everywhere. And so like I would always like tap this one on the stairs before I would go down. It's like little stuff like that. I love routine.

[49:00] Mary Dina: Hmm. Yeah, I'm a lot of card.

[49:03] Brian Sedita: Yes. Who is most likely to stay out late the night before a matinee?

[49:14] Caleb Dicke: Three, two, one.

[49:15] Brian Sedita: Three, two, one.

[49:21] Caleb Dicke: You guys are good.

[49:22] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[49:24] Caleb Dicke: You guys know each other so well.

[49:25] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[49:26] Caleb Dicke: That's never happened, of course.

[49:28] Brian Sedita: No.

[49:29] Caleb Dicke: No. But Elliot likes to go out and talk with people, and I'm like, okay, like I've had my fill.

[49:34] Brian Sedita: Yeah, I do like to go out.

[49:36] Caleb Dicke: And Caleb's a real, Caleb is like a total morning person too. So like he, like I feel like he likes that. Again, that routine, that like said I'm more, I'm more of a party animal.

[49:46] Brian Sedita: More of a night owl.

[49:48] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. Oh, but you never let it affect your show.

[49:50] Brian Sedita: Never.

[49:51] Caleb Dicke: No, I'm a professional.

[49:52] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[49:53] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. Performance.

[49:55] Brian Sedita: Okay. Yeah. Um, I'm gonna skip down.

[50:01] Mary Dina: I know.

[50:05] Brian Sedita: I'm gonna do a fun one, hopefully. Who is most likely to play MC in cabaret?

[50:11] Mary Dina: Oh.

[50:12] Brian Sedita: All right, one.

[50:13] Mary Dina: Yeah, we can go out of order. We'll figure it out, Mary.

[50:17] Caleb Dicke: Bitch.

[50:18] Brian Sedita: I say you like I want to play it.

[50:20] Mary Dina: Over my dead body.

[50:22] Brian Sedita: I want to play. I think you would be a lot of fun to play.

[50:24] Mary Dina: So I see that there's dream roles here.

[50:26] Caleb Dicke: Dream roles, both of ours.

[50:27] Brian Sedita: I think we would take two different views on it.

[50:32] Mary Dina: Approaches.

[50:32] Brian Sedita: Appropriate.

[50:37] Mary Dina: Okay. Just putting that out there.

[50:40] Brian Sedita: And we're going to be able to do that.

[50:41] Mary Dina: We see where they get competitive in there.

[50:43] Brian Sedita: Yes. Someone, someone bring us both in.

[50:48] Mary Dina: Most likely to eat a large meal before a show.

[50:53] Brian Sedita: Ready? Three, two, one, two, one.

[50:58] Caleb Dicke: Is it part of your ritual?

[51:00] Brian Sedita: Um, yes, because I had to have energy to eat the show, like to get through the show. So I gotta eat.

[51:06] Caleb Dicke: I, Caleb's an eater.

[51:08] Brian Sedita: Never wanted to eat before shows.

[51:10] Caleb Dicke: He will eat. But when we go to dinner, like, uh, he's gonna finish it.

[51:16] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[51:17] Caleb Dicke: And I'll finish Elliot's too that he doesn't finish.

[51:20] Brian Sedita: That's what I meant.

[51:21] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[51:25] Brian Sedita: Oh my god, that's amazing.

[51:27] Caleb Dicke: Um, we're pretty in sync, Caleb.

[51:31] Brian Sedita: Yeah, I think so too.

[51:32] Caleb Dicke: Yeah. Who's most likely to call line?

[51:33] Brian Sedita: Call line?

[51:38] Caleb Dicke: Oh, line.

[51:39] Brian Sedita: Yeah, line.

[51:40] Caleb Dicke: Three, two, one.

[51:45] Brian Sedita: Oh.

[51:46] Caleb Dicke: What's your reasoning, Caleb?

[51:48] Caleb Dicke: Um, Elliot probably has more lines than I do, so he has more to worry about.

[51:53] Brian Sedita: Ah.

[51:55] Caleb Dicke: So I know my, my, I come in, I'd be, I'm a sidekick. I'm a supporting character, so I know my lines because I come on and I steal the scene. Well, Elliot has to carry the show. And so I feel like he would be more, he has the frequency of him calling line is just more.

[52:12] Brian Sedita: I almost, I almost said me, just because like also you would like improv your way through it instead of being like stop, ask for line. I feel like you'd be like, This is what it is.

[52:26] Caleb Dicke: But I don't think Elliot would ever call line. I feel like I don't think either of us would ever call line, maybe like in a rehearsal, but like on stage. I don't know.

[52:33] Brian Sedita: Never say number.

[52:34] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, we'll see.

[52:35] Brian Sedita: Knock on wood.

[52:38] Mary Dina: Have you guys ever worked together on anything?

[52:42] Caleb Dicke: Uh, summer stock. We did summer stock together.

[52:45] Brian Sedita: And then in college, we like we were never in a show together, but we, we like I like was an assistant director when he was in the show. So like we would work together in that sense. We've like worked on dance stuff together, um, but never like never a show together.

[53:02] Mary Dina: Yeah. So fun. A long-running show would be a lot of fun.

[53:06] Caleb Dicke: Oh my god.

[53:07] Mary Dina: A what?

[53:08] Caleb Dicke: To do another show together.

[53:10] Mary Dina: That'd be so much fun.

[53:11] Brian Sedita: Then you could guys could really record every matinee.

[53:15] Mary Dina: Oh my god.

[53:16] Brian Sedita: Everybody maybe turn them out.

[53:23] Mary Dina: Who is most likely to be cast as Mama Rose?

[53:28] Brian Sedita: Three, two, one.

[53:34] Mary Dina: Wow.

[53:35] Brian Sedita: Okay.

[53:36] Mary Dina: I'm a little shocked by this, but you know what, I'm either.

[53:38] Brian Sedita: I'm a little shocked too.

[53:40] Mary Dina: You're shocked that we got it, or that we're like that.

[53:42] Brian Sedita: That you both said the same person.

[53:44] Mary Dina: Well, oh, there's a clear Rose here.

[53:49] Brian Sedita: Obviously, I'm Gypsy.

[53:52] Mary Dina: No, you're in June.

[53:53] Brian Sedita: Oh, I am June. Act one and out. Get me out there.

[53:58] Mary Dina: You're totally June.

[54:00] Brian Sedita: I am the Mama Rose of, I think of the podcast, of our friendship.

[54:07] Mary Dina: Yes. I wear it with pride.

[54:10] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[54:10] Elliott Mattox: We all need one.

[54:12] Caleb Dicke: That's amazing.

[54:14] Elliott Mattox: Should we do one more?

[54:16] Caleb Dicke: Yeah.

[54:18] Elliott Mattox: Let's look.

[54:20] Brian Sedita: Oh my god.

[54:21] Mary Dina: Shout out to Donate to Caleb's church, everyone.

[54:27] Elliott Mattox: Um Lincoln bio.

[54:33] Caleb Dicke: Okay, last one.

[54:34] Elliott Mattox: Who's most likely to play a plastic in Mean Girls?

[54:39] Caleb Dicke: Three, two, one.

[54:43] Brian Sedita: Both of us.

[54:46] Mary Dina: Okay.

[54:46] Caleb Dicke: Who that's a great.

[54:47] Elliott Mattox: So who would we be?

[54:50] Brian Sedita: You're Gretchen and I'm Karen.

[54:52] Mary Dina: That's what I would say too.

[54:53] Elliott Mattox: Yeah.

[54:55] Brian Sedita: Neither of us are um what is her name?

[54:57] Mary Dina: We're not Regina.

[54:58] Elliott Mattox: No, we're not Regina.

[55:00] Caleb Dicke: Okay.

[55:02] Elliott Mattox: I think Elliot would be a good Regina, though.

[55:04] Brian Sedita: I feel like if like if you give any character to Elliot, he will come with an interesting perspective.

[55:10] Elliott Mattox: Thanks, Caleb.

[55:11] Caleb Dicke: It's great.

[55:12] Elliott Mattox: I would love to play Regina because she has the best part in the whole show.

[55:16] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[55:16] Brian Sedita: With the copier.

[55:19] Elliott Mattox: She doesn't even have to walk in for her entrance.

[55:23] Mary Dina: It was so brilliant.

[55:24] Elliott Mattox: Just it's wheeled.

[55:25] Brian Sedita: Just a Bond villain never never touching the floor.

[55:28] Mary Dina: So it's hot.

[55:29] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, we love.

[55:30] Caleb Dicke: We scan.

[55:32] Elliott Mattox: Yes.

[55:32] Caleb Dicke: Um, great.

[55:34] Elliott Mattox: That was so fun.

[55:35] Mary Dina: I love that.

[55:36] Caleb Dicke: Yeah, I think we did great.

[55:37] Elliott Mattox: Yeah.

[55:38] Caleb Dicke: Well, we don't usually do like we like Mary said, we don't usually do segments on our podcast.

[55:41] Elliott Mattox: So we just kind of came up with this one and thought it'd be fun.

[55:45] Brian Sedita: It was great.

[55:46] Mary Dina: Pull it out again for future ones.

[55:48] Caleb Dicke: Oh, yeah.

[55:49] Elliott Mattox: It's really good.

[55:49] Brian Sedita: What's the name of it?

[55:50] Mary Dina: Can may I borrow it in another one and give shout out to you guys?

[55:53] Caleb Dicke: We aren't as creative as you.

[55:55] Elliott Mattox: It's just called most likely to.

[55:57] Mary Dina: Love that.

[55:58] Caleb Dicke: You know, sometimes I come up with stupid names and sometimes I have no names.

[56:01] Elliott Mattox: So yeah.

[56:03] Caleb Dicke: Like one of our games is chandelier, and it doesn't have anything to do really with the game.

[56:07] Mary Dina: No.

[56:08] Caleb Dicke: Basically, this game, but it's about the a chandelier.

[56:12] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[56:13] Caleb Dicke: Anyway.

[56:14] Elliott Mattox: Uh Caleb, do you have a

[56:16] Caleb Dicke: Yeah?

[56:16] Elliott Mattox: So these are just quick questions.

[56:18] Caleb Dicke: You don't have to take any thought and just have fun.

[56:21] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, cool.

[56:22] Caleb Dicke: Okay.

[56:22] Elliott Mattox: So um after quarantine, where are you going to vacation to?

[56:27] Brian Sedita: Because it's so cheap.

[56:29] Elliott Mattox: Okay, let me let me just start by saying today was the day I was supposed to land in London for a London Amsterdam trip.

[56:37] Mary Dina: Oh well.

[56:38] Brian Sedita: For yeah, for a for like a 12-day trip.

[56:41] Elliott Mattox: And uh obviously that has been postponed slash cancelled.

[56:45] Brian Sedita: So we we rebooked it for end of July, but there's just no way.

[56:51] Mary Dina: There's not gonna be any West End shows, so it's not gonna make a difference.

[56:54] Brian Sedita: Oh they're close to September now, right?

[56:57] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, I think they they pretty much are September.

[57:01] Caleb Dicke: Um so I mean hopefully London and Amsterdam soon, but um I think domestically, like I don't know.

[57:10] Brian Sedita: I I said Grand Canyon or Hawaii.

[57:15] Mary Dina: Because like you could isolate those places.

[57:18] Brian Sedita: Totally.

[57:19] Mary Dina: Oh yeah.

[57:20] Caleb Dicke: Mary.

[57:20] Mary Dina: Um I'm really dying to go to Greece.

[57:24] Brian Sedita: It's like been on my list for a long time, and so I I mean, probably not realistic, but I would love to just peace out.

[57:32] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, Elliot's shirt, Mamma Mia.

[57:35] Mary Dina: Mm-hmm.

[57:36] Caleb Dicke: So here we go again.

[57:38] Brian Sedita: Yes.

[57:39] Caleb Dicke: Okay, um sneakers or tennis shoes?

[57:39] Mary Dina: Tennis shoes.

[57:46] Brian Sedita: I don't know if I know the difference.

[57:48] Mary Dina: No, just like what do you call it is a couple of them, yeah.

[57:51] Brian Sedita: Oh, sneakers.

[57:54] Elliott Mattox: Ellie, what are you?

[57:54] Elliott Mattox: Are you tennis shoe?

[57:56] Brian Sedita: Tennis shoe?

[57:57] Mary Dina: Okay.

[57:58] Caleb Dicke: Um, okay.

[58:02] Elliott Mattox: Um, so three musicals that were a book before a musical.

[58:06] Brian Sedita: Go.

[58:07] Mary Dina: Three that were a book.

[58:09] Brian Sedita: A book before a musical.

[58:11] Elliott Mattox: Oh, a musical.

[58:12] Mary Dina: Oh god.

[58:14] Brian Sedita: A book.

[58:15] Elliott Mattox: A book.

[58:16] Brian Sedita: Stuzical.

[58:18] Mary Dina: Sure.

[58:20] Brian Sedita: Was Dr.

[58:21] Elliott Mattox: Chivago?

[58:24] Brian Sedita: It was a movie and a book.

[58:25] Mary Dina: So yeah.

[58:26] Elliott Mattox: Yeah.

[58:27] Brian Sedita: Okay.

[58:34] Mary Dina: Hamilton.

[58:35] Brian Sedita: Hamilton, yes.

[58:36] Elliott Mattox: Okay.

[58:38] Brian Sedita: Very um unique answers.

[58:40] Mary Dina: I immediately go with um third one.

[58:42] Brian Sedita: Wait, and your third one, right?

[58:43] Elliott Mattox: Don't I?

[58:45] Caleb Dicke: Cool.

[58:45] Brian Sedita: Wait, yeah.

[58:46] Mary Dina: They were answering together, Hank.

[58:47] Brian Sedita: That was good.

[58:48] Elliott Mattox: My immediate one is is um picnic, which was hot September.

[58:52] Mary Dina: Yes.

[58:53] Brian Sedita: Lame is title of show, reference there.

[58:56] Elliott Mattox: Of course.

[58:57] Caleb Dicke: Uh but um what restaurant are you gonna go to after quarantine?

[59:03] Brian Sedita: There's a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen called Rita's.

[59:06] Mary Dina: Love Rita's.

[59:08] Brian Sedita: I've been craving my whole family knows this because I've been talking about it nonstop.

[59:11] Mary Dina: I've been craving their sweet potato tacos.

[59:14] Brian Sedita: So that sounds great.

[59:17] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[59:17] Brian Sedita: Um boy, this is always like the hardest thing, and I think Mary knows this, like choosing a place to eat.

[59:25] Mary Dina: God, this is just difficult.

[59:26] Brian Sedita: I I'm gonna say the last place Mary and I went to the day that the shutdown happened and we were supposed to see emoji land, we went to Bear Burger.

[59:35] Mary Dina: Oh love Bear Burger.

[59:38] Brian Sedita: Oh, Bear Burger.

[59:40] Elliott Mattox: I know.

[59:41] Caleb Dicke: Okay, um, only two more questions.

[59:43] Mary Dina: Um, Simon says or Bop It.

[59:47] Brian Sedita: Simon says.

[59:48] Mary Dina: I'm gonna say Bop It.

[59:50] Brian Sedita: I loved Bop It as a kid.

[59:52] Mary Dina: A little stressful, but I'm really here for it.

[59:54] Brian Sedita: Stressful.

[59:55] Mary Dina: Yes.

[59:55] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[59:56] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[59:58] Brian Sedita: Um, and then last one.

[59:58] Mary Dina: What is the best thing about New Jersey for Brian and Delaware for Mary?

[1:00:03] Brian Sedita: Like you must go to.

[1:00:05] Mary Dina: Oh, best thing in New Jersey?

[1:00:07] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[1:00:08] Mary Dina: Like if I'm on an Airbnb trip to New Jersey and I must go to this.

[1:00:14] Brian Sedita: Oh my god.

[1:00:15] Mary Dina: Getting on a bus and going to New York City.

[1:00:20] Brian Sedita: No, I I guess I would say what's like oh, you have to have to go try Taylor Ham if you're in New Jersey.

[1:00:27] Mary Dina: Taylor Ham, yes.

[1:00:28] Brian Sedita: Okay.

[1:00:29] Brian Sedita: So it's the big debate of pork roll versus Taylor Ham.

[1:00:32] Mary Dina: Yes.

[1:00:33] Brian Sedita: Where uh in my area, it's the mindset of Taylor Ham.

[1:00:36] Mary Dina: South Jersey is a little more pork roll, but you have to get yourself to a New Jersey bagel shop and have Taylor Ham.

[1:00:43] Brian Sedita: Okay.

[1:00:44] Mary Dina: On a bagel with cheese.

[1:00:48] Brian Sedita: Lovely.

[1:00:49] Mary Dina: Okay.

[1:00:50] Brian Sedita: Mary, best in Got Delaware.

[1:00:54] Mary Dina: That's it.

[1:00:55] Mary Dina: It's always food related for me.

[1:00:57] Brian Sedita: Always.

[1:00:59] Mary Dina: I'm gonna say the beaches, like the Delaware beaches, but also like no sales tax.

[1:01:07] Brian Sedita: Oh so I just feel like you can't go wrong.

[1:01:11] Mary Dina: Just buy a bunch of shit.

[1:01:13] Brian Sedita: School supplies.

[1:01:14] Mary Dina: Like, you know, when you're going back to school.

[1:01:16] Brian Sedita: Oh.

[1:01:16] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[1:01:17] Brian Sedita: Saka.

[1:01:20] Mary Dina: That's me shoving things off a shelf.

[1:01:21] Brian Sedita: Yes.

[1:01:22] Mary Dina: Yeah.

[1:01:24] Caleb Dicke: And that's my questions for the day.

[1:01:26] Mary Dina: Thank you, Caleb.

[1:01:28] Elliott Mattox: Now, on page to stage.

[1:01:31] Brian Sedita: That's exactly what I would try to avoid sales tax on.

[1:01:36] Caleb Dicke: Finally.

[1:01:39] Brian Sedita: On page to stage, you all close your episodes uh with a question.

[1:01:44] Mary Dina: So would you would you do that here?

[1:01:47] Brian Sedita: Yeah.

[1:01:47] Mary Dina: So we over usually have a question, which is let Mary ask.

[1:01:54] Caleb Dicke: Okay.

[1:01:55] Mary Dina: We typically ask our guests, what is the last great piece of theater that you guys have seen?

[1:02:02] Brian Sedita: Well, the day before Broadway shutdown, I saw the inheritance all day.

[1:02:10] Mary Dina: Beautiful.

[1:02:11] Brian Sedita: In one day.

[1:02:14] Mary Dina: I just want to say one thing.

[1:02:17] Brian Sedita: Oh I want both of you guys to answer first and then go into it.

[1:02:23] Mary Dina: Okay.

[1:02:24] Brian Sedita: So maybe first.

[1:02:25] Caleb Dicke: You give your answer and then you can explain it.

[1:02:29] Brian Sedita: Okay.

[1:02:30] Caleb Dicke: Um I would say uh the most recently I think I'm really delayed.

[1:02:35] Brian Sedita: I'm sorry.

[1:02:35] Caleb Dicke: It's okay.

[1:02:36] Brian Sedita: You're fine, you're great.

[1:02:37] Caleb Dicke: Listen, I was going through this in Connecticut, and it was Elliot was a saint to me.

[1:02:42] Brian Sedita: Mama Rose.

[1:02:43] Caleb Dicke: Yes.

[1:02:44] Brian Sedita: Um, I saw I love that Oklahoma revival.

[1:02:48] Caleb Dicke: I it was just a I Oklahoma is near and dear to my heart.

[1:02:52] Brian Sedita: I loved the whole production.

[1:02:54] Caleb Dicke: I sat right in the front row with my good friend Darius, and we had a chilly good time.

[1:03:00] Brian Sedita: Loved it.

[1:03:02] Mary Dina: That's okay.

[1:03:03] Brian Sedita: And then Elliot, explain the inheritance.

[1:03:06] Mary Dina: You saw it in one day.

[1:03:07] Brian Sedita: In one day.

[1:03:08] Elliott Mattox: Yes.

[1:03:09] Brian Sedita: Um yeah, it was a long day, but honestly, it didn't feel long.

[1:03:14] Elliott Mattox: And I I know people always say that about those two parter plays, but I actually felt that about the inheritance.

[1:03:20] Brian Sedita: And um I had really no idea what to expect.

[1:03:24] Elliott Mattox: I knew it was about, I knew it, I knew kind of the premise of what it was about.

[1:03:28] Brian Sedita: I mean, you know, it's a gay two-part play, so you know, we can usually put two and two together there.

[1:03:34] Elliott Mattox: Um, but it was so much more uh like joyful and positive than I anticipated it being, and I just thought it was really amazing, and I am so so glad that I got to see it.

[1:03:46] Brian Sedita: And turns out I saw the very last performance of it ever.

[1:03:49] Elliott Mattox: So um so I was so grateful to get to go see that.

[1:03:57] Brian Sedita: That's awesome.

[1:03:58] Mary Dina: And I want to like read it.

[1:03:59] Brian Sedita: Like it's one of it's one of the plays where I'm like, I want to it's not even like I can ask, like how we're here.

[1:04:23] Elliott Mattox: Can you guys are am I like in time now?

[1:04:25] Brian Sedita: Yeah, you're in time now.

[1:04:26] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, just ask your question.

[1:04:29] Brian Sedita: Oh, okay.

[1:04:31] Elliott Mattox: Um, yeah, actually, um, I was trying to get my boyfriend to see it before it closed, and um they just read the play instead.

[1:04:39] Brian Sedita: Oh, yeah, that'd be fun to do.

[1:04:41] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, I did.

[1:04:42] Brian Sedita: I'm so confused.

[1:04:44] Elliott Mattox: It was um, it was great.

[1:04:46] Brian Sedita: I mean, and in a really amazing, amazing play, and and again no, don't quit, don't quit.

[1:04:53] Mary Dina: Totally unexpected.

[1:04:54] Brian Sedita: Um, and really, really um very powerful.

[1:04:58] Mary Dina: Really glad I got the opportunity to get to see it.

[1:05:00] Brian Sedita: Yeah, definitely.

[1:05:02] Mary Dina: Can we flip the script on YouTube?

[1:05:06] Brian Sedita: Well, the last thing that we actually I think we saw together.

[1:05:11] Mary Dina: We saw six together the weekend before, and then yeah, so that was the last thing that we saw before the shutdown, which was such a good fun time.

[1:05:21] Brian Sedita: I knew nothing.

[1:05:21] Mary Dina: I mean, I knew like the basics going into it, but I didn't really know too much about it.

[1:05:28] Brian Sedita: I haven't heard any of the music.

[1:05:29] Mary Dina: I'm like, I'm wanting to wait to see it and experience it.

[1:05:34] Brian Sedita: Yeah, I know.

[1:05:35] Mary Dina: I was really into six.

[1:05:38] Brian Sedita: Yeah, I love it.

[1:05:40] Caleb Dicke: Well, we can't wait until we can all see six.

[1:05:44] Brian Sedita: Yeah, um I would say six um myself.

[1:05:48] Mary Dina: Oh good.

[1:05:49] Brian Sedita: Six so good.

[1:05:50] Caleb Dicke: I thank you all so much for coming on the show.

[1:05:54] Brian Sedita: Um and uh Brian.

[1:06:00] Mary Dina: We really, really appreciate it.

[1:06:02] Brian Sedita: Um where can people find you and your podcast?

[1:06:06] Brian Sedita: Yeah, so our podcast Instagram and Facebook is Page to Stage Podcast.

[1:06:13] Mary Dina: Um I think, yeah, we're we're just on Instagram and Facebook right now.

[1:06:17] Brian Sedita: Um and I'm at, if you want to follow me, I'm at the Mary Dina, and then Brian, if you're gonna answer.

[1:06:25] Elliott Mattox: I can answer for you.

[1:06:27] Brian Sedita: Answer for him.

[1:06:28] Elliott Mattox: Okay at Brian.

[1:06:30] Brian Sedita: At Brian Tedo.

[1:06:32] Elliott Mattox: Yeah, you're um you can find uh so much more of content like this on the Broadway Podcast Network Town Hall.

[1:06:43] Brian Sedita: Uh and Brittany, is that uh bpn.fm slash broadway together.

[1:06:48] Mary Dina: I think it's slash um town hall, but yes, you can find it on the Broadway Together.

[1:06:52] Elliott Mattox: Great, perfect.

[1:06:53] Brian Sedita: Brittany holding it down over there.

[1:06:55] Mary Dina: Thank you so much.

[1:06:58] Elliott Mattox: Um you can find our show at equity one podcast on Instagram and Facebook and at equity one underscore on Twitter.

[1:07:06] Caleb Dicke: And send us an email at equity one podcast at gmail.com.

[1:07:10] Elliott Mattox: We love to hear feedback and also give us a rate and review.

[1:07:13] Caleb Dicke: Yes, please rate and review us on iTunes.

[1:07:16] Elliott Mattox: I know you're behind on your podcast.

[1:07:17] Caleb Dicke: I am too, but it takes two seconds and boy, it'd make me happy to see that number go up this week.

[1:07:24] Elliott Mattox: Um great.

[1:07:25] Caleb Dicke: Uh Caitlin, where can people find you?

[1:07:28] Elliott Mattox: Right here at Caleb Dicke on everything.

[1:07:30] Caleb Dicke: And you can find me at Elliott Mattox on everything.

[1:07:33] Elliott Mattox: And until next week, cheers.

[1:07:37] All: Thank you.