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This week on Odd Woman Out, Tutz sits down with Broadway icon Ann Harada—and we are getting into ALL of it.

From originating Christmas Eve in Avenue Q to entering the wonderfully unhinged world of Schmigadoon!, Ann has built a career by doing something that sounds simple but definitely isn't: knowing who she is and refusing to pretend to be anyone else.

Recorded at the Welcome to Times Square Studio, we go back to Avenue Q and talk about the role that changed everything. Ann gets candid about playing a character that she personally felt comfortable with—even when some people in the Asian community didn't feel the same way. We talk representation, stereotypes, changing conversations, and what happens when something can feel completely okay to you and completely NOT okay to someone else.

Because two things can be true at once.

Then there's Schmigadoon!—the TV series, the musical, the comedy, the chaos—and Ann takes us behind the scenes of getting to live in that deliciously weird world.

And yes... we go there.

Ann opens up about her dispute with September L. Davis, what happened, and what she learned from finding herself in a situation she never exactly planned on being in.

Through all of it, Ann is refreshingly Ann: funny, opinionated, self-aware, and completely uninterested in becoming the version of herself somebody else thinks she should be.

We get into:

• The Avenue Q audition that changed everything
• Becoming the original Christmas Eve—and everything that came with it
• Representation, stereotypes, and being comfortable with something other people weren't
• Why you can hear someone else's perspective without pretending it's your own
• Staying true to yourself when people have opinions about who you should be
• Going from Schmigadoon! on Apple TV+ to Schmigadoon! onstage
• What really goes into making that ridiculously fun world work
• Her dispute with September L. Davis—and yes, we talk about it
• Navigating uncomfortable conversations without losing your sense of humor
• Why Ann Harada is still doing things her own damn way

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If you've ever wondered whether you need everyone to agree with you in order to trust yourself... you don't.

Sometimes being the odd woman out is kind of the whole point.

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