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[0:01] Quincy Brown: Hey sentimentals.

[0:03] Kevin Bianchi: As you've probably realized by now, this is not the next non-Wicked episode you were expecting today.

[0:08] Quincy Brown: Life happens.

[0:10] Kevin Bianchi: So what we've decided to do is make this month's bonus episode, which is usually only available to the Green Circle subscribers, public to all listeners.

[0:19] Quincy Brown: We hope that this ties you over and we hope it's a fun glimpse into what goes down in the Green Circle.

[0:24] Kevin Bianchi: Thank you so much for listening, as always, and we'll be back with a guest episode in just a clock tick.

[0:34] Quincy Brown: It is this month's bonus episode.

[0:37] Kevin Bianchi: We're smack in the middle of the season.

[0:40] Quincy Brown: Kevin, how do you feel like this era is going so far?

[0:44] Kevin Bianchi: I've been enjoying it. What's been interesting is like this is the first era. I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing, but this is the first era of Sentimental that we've had where I feel like the podcast can kind of be in like autopilot mode. Not that it's like any less work or anything, but it feels like we've gotten better at like fitting in the way the podcast happens and what we need to get done for the podcast into our normal lives.

[1:09] Quincy Brown: Yeah, we've got a flow.

[1:11] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah. The flow still takes some time, but like I think we're used to it, and it's not as present on my mind all the time, like, oh my god, what are we gonna do? How do we do this? I'm just like, it'll happen, you know?

[1:22] Quincy Brown: Yeah, it feels like it can operate in the background, which is nice.

[1:27] Kevin Bianchi: I guess we're comfortable, that means. It's just because we're getting so good at it. Um, Quincy, what is on the is for anyone who doesn't know, Kevin fully plans these bonus episodes. So, what is on the agenda for today, Kevin?

[1:41] Kevin Bianchi: Okay, so Quincy, I actually am really pumped for today's topic. It comes to us from not only a listener, but from our IRL friend Jack.

[1:51] Quincy Brown: Ugh.

[1:52] Kevin Bianchi: So we all know that Kevin and I met because I interned for Kevin at a theater company in New York. Jack Tommy was my same intern class year or intern grade year. I don't know how you'd say it. Jack Tommy was in a different department, but he and I still were able to forge a friendship, and he was part of the fun group of interns that I hung out with.

[2:13] Quincy Brown: Anyways, so Jack gave us this great prompt of if Wicked were being presented in like a Funny Girl style concert, and we were casting it, who would we pick to sing each song?

[2:29] Kevin Bianchi: What a terrific question. Which I love this as a concept. I really feel like Wicked LLC should do this. Quincy, you love those like concert presentations, right? Like you're a big fan of the genre.

[2:40] Quincy Brown: I really do, and I've never been to, I've never been to any live. And I so I think the reason I love it is because it provided access to me. All those film concerts and stuff that you could find online provided access to theater for me when I was younger. So I think I have an affinity with them.

[2:56] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, definitely. And I think part of it too, remember when Julia Murney was on and she was like saying how her like career existed in like these couple cast recordings? And I think like back in like whatever year, like high school me, to be able to listen to like the Hair concert recording and hear like 20 Broadway voices that I wouldn't hear on any other cast recording was like such a good educational like treasure chest handed to me by the Actors Fund.

[3:33] Quincy Brown: My favorite of those concert genres, keep in mind, I have not seen actually a single one.

[3:38] Kevin Bianchi: So sure.

[3:39] Quincy Brown: Me neither, actually, but grain of salt with my opinion. But my favorite for vibes and from what I was getting from bootlegs and online clips and stuff is Thoroughly Modern Millie, which I know is out of left field.

[3:53] Kevin Bianchi: Oh my god. I never would have guessed that that was what you were gonna pick.

[3:57] Quincy Brown: Like that in a million years, I was like, he's gonna say Chess.

[4:01] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, sure, no.

[4:02] Quincy Brown: Oh, sure.

[4:03] Kevin Bianchi: No. Was Chess a benefit though, or was it just like for fun?

[4:09] Quincy Brown: I think the Julia Murney Chess was a benefit. The Adina Menzel Chess feels like it was for fun.

[4:14] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That feels correct. Okay, so I chose Thoroughly Modern Millie because I was in it in eighth grade. So I think I have an emotional connection.

[4:25] Kevin Bianchi: Sure. And there's something in that era, I don't even, I couldn't even tell you what year it was, but when that was happening, I remember when those clips were released of like the short little B-roll performance clips that we got of San Foster and that kind of like sheer red dress.

[4:43] Quincy Brown: Yeah, yeah.

[4:44] Kevin Bianchi: It like really did something to me and got me jazzed up in a way that I like hadn't been in a while. About like musical theater in general, and I was like, oh damn, I like love this show. And I didn't realize that I like had such an affinity with it. It's such a good show. That's one that I like kicked myself for not going to because I believe I was like actively in New York at the time, and I just was convinced myself, much like Ariana Grande's Sweetener Thank You Next Tour, convinced myself that I didn't need to buck up the money.

[5:10] Quincy Brown: Oh, we convinced ourselves that we didn't need to buck up.

[5:12] Kevin Bianchi: We did for Ariana Grande.

[5:14] Quincy Brown: God, we are so stupid.

[5:16] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, that's right. Because we were like planning to go. Are you going to Chromatica?

[5:20] Quincy Brown: So, okay, so that's the thing where it's like, I didn't buy Dua Lipa tickets at the time that they went on sale because I was like, Quincy, you'll be fine. You don't need to see Dua Lipa. Then when the concert actually was happening and every day I knew it was going, I got such major FOMO.

[5:32] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[5:32] Quincy Brown: I ended up getting a ticket to her New Jersey concert.

[5:35] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[5:36] Quincy Brown: And I feel like the same thing's gonna happen with Chromatica where I convinced myself I didn't need to go, but I'm gonna be really jealous when it's actually happening.

[5:43] Kevin Bianchi: You're going, right?

[5:45] Quincy Brown: Yeah, we both are. Come, be our young person.

[5:49] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, I know. And I would love nothing more than to be your young person at Chromatica.

[5:56] Quincy Brown: Um, did I answer the question that needed to be answered?

[5:59] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[6:00] Quincy Brown: Okay, what about you?

[6:01] Kevin Bianchi: Um, for me, does it have to be Actors Fund?

[6:05] Quincy Brown: Whatever concert you want.

[6:06] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, well, in that case, the Chess concert counted.

[6:09] Quincy Brown: But it's fun.

[6:10] Kevin Bianchi: Sure. Well, okay, so my Actors Fund answer is definitely, and again, did not see this, um, but definitely the Hair cast cast recording, concert cast recording. Um, because it's as a kid, it was like another version of that show to consume. Now, like looking back at it, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. That is like a cast of the best singers on Broadway.

[6:36] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[6:37] Kevin Bianchi: Singing these wild arrangements. That was Hair All Stars.

[6:40] Quincy Brown: That was Hair All Stars.

[6:42] Kevin Bianchi: Nobody went home for seven weeks.

[6:46] Quincy Brown: You know what I would love the Actors Fund to do as like a benefit concert? The Wild Party.

[6:54] Kevin Bianchi: I think that could sound with alumni or with like a different person singing each song, or would it just be like the original cast coming back to do it?

[7:05] Quincy Brown: I think Wild Party, you have to do original cast. Because that original cast, one would sell that concert out, but two, like everyone wants to hear that, you know.

[7:14] Kevin Bianchi: If they get Adina back to do an Actors Fund concert, tickets would be a bajillion dollars, though.

[7:19] Quincy Brown: The Adina and Tay reunion of it all, that's a press angle right there. Sell the show out. Julia Murney coming back and doing Queenie.

[7:26] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, so good.

[7:27] Quincy Brown: Oh so good. And we did, I mean, we can say with certainty that it would be so good.

[7:33] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, we did see, we did see her do How Did We All Come To This at 54 Below, which I was not expecting, so I was really grateful for it to have it.

[7:33] Quincy Brown: I was not expecting my Quincy, as you uh know, my friend Carrie was Julia's backup singer that night.

[7:50] Kevin Bianchi: Um, and when Julia was introing the song, Carrie's making eye contact with me, and they start mouthing, you're never gonna believe it. I'm like, what? What?

[8:03] Quincy Brown: And then Julia starts singing, and I was like, that's funny. I didn't know.

[8:11] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, no, I think that would like really sell. And it feels like the perfect show, like for the Actors Fund to do as a reunion concert.

[8:18] Quincy Brown: Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah. It'd be great. You know what?

[8:21] Kevin Bianchi: Non-Actors Fund benefit I saw.

[8:24] Quincy Brown: Do tell.

[8:24] Kevin Bianchi: It was a benefit for like Everytown or like Gays Against Guns or something. Some sort of like gun control charity, and I feel bad that I can't remember it. But it was Cynthia Erivo and Josh Henry doing The Last Five Years.

[8:42] Quincy Brown: Oh my god, was it good?

[8:45] Kevin Bianchi: I'm jealous, you see.

[8:46] Quincy Brown: Oh, it was so good.

[8:48] Kevin Bianchi: Because it was like Cynthia fresh off the Color Purple train.

[8:52] Quincy Brown: That's another instance where I was like, you'll be fine not going to this Quincy, don't do it.

[8:56] Kevin Bianchi: And then when everyone went, I was so jealous and was like, why didn't you buy tickets to this?

[9:01] Quincy Brown: I guess moral of the story is buy tickets to things when you think you might want to go.

[9:06] Kevin Bianchi: She sounded so yummy on that, and honestly, so did he.

[9:09] Quincy Brown: And it was kind of funny because Josh Henry was giving big like, I've been singing this song in my room since college.

[9:19] Kevin Bianchi: Like it was very, it was ready.

[9:22] Quincy Brown: You know what I mean? Like he had his beats ready, and then like the contrast of Cynthia being very like fresh on the material.

[9:29] Kevin Bianchi: Like it I think like she I think she learned probably most of the show, like, not learned, but sure.

[9:37] Quincy Brown: Went deeper into the show.

[9:38] Kevin Bianchi: Learned what Capital Larry, yeah.

[9:40] Quincy Brown: Um, so that was kind of cool.

[9:42] Kevin Bianchi: It was like a cool angle.

[9:44] Quincy Brown: That's something that struck me about Josh Henry is how like passionate he is for like the craft.

[9:51] Kevin Bianchi: I never not that I would think he wouldn't be, but like he's really into it in a very genuine, like authentic way.

[9:59] Quincy Brown: That was very admirable, I thought.

[10:01] Kevin Bianchi: Because I feel like to broad stroke it, I feel like male act like men actors, male actors usually are less vocal about that.

[10:11] Quincy Brown: Sure.

[10:12] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, maybe that's yeah.

[10:13] Quincy Brown: And so I feel like whenever you get somebody like Josh Henry who's really like openly in love with it, it's like refreshing.

[10:23] Kevin Bianchi: Okay, so wait, what was the question?

[10:25] Quincy Brown: The question from Jack, our friend Jack, is how would we cast a Wicked benefit concert?

[10:34] Kevin Bianchi: Like song by song.

[10:35] Quincy Brown: So can I do okay? Can I do Big Three Alpha and you do Big Three Glinda?

[10:39] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, that feels fair.

[10:40] Quincy Brown: I don't want to cast like I'm not that girl reprise.

[10:43] Kevin Bianchi: Are we casting girly pops who have done Wicked or girly pops who haven't?

[10:46] Quincy Brown: Or both?

[10:47] Kevin Bianchi: I could do one of each.

[10:49] Quincy Brown: Let's do both.

[10:50] Kevin Bianchi: Okay, that's fun.

[10:51] Quincy Brown: Listeners, this is how I'm feeling in this moment.

[10:54] Kevin Bianchi: I could feel different in two seconds, okay?

[10:56] Quincy Brown: So don't hold me to anything I say on this podcast.

[10:58] Kevin Bianchi: I feel like that's a good rule of thumb in general for this podcast.

[11:01] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[11:02] Kevin Bianchi: Okay.

[11:02] Quincy Brown: Now that I've said my piece, please don't cut that.

[11:04] Kevin Bianchi: Oh well.

[11:05] Quincy Brown: So are we going in show order?

[11:07] Kevin Bianchi: Does that mean I'm first with No One Mourns the Wicked?

[11:10] Quincy Brown: You thought about that in a way that my brain would never even like go.

[11:15] Kevin Bianchi: But I love that.

[11:16] Quincy Brown: No one mourns the wicked.

[11:18] Kevin Bianchi: If I'm pulling from the alumna, I would say.

[11:22] Quincy Brown: Right? Isn't that the right way to say it?

[11:24] Kevin Bianchi: I'm sorry if it's not.

[11:26] Quincy Brown: I'm gonna say, and boy, actually, ooh.

[11:31] Kevin Bianchi: Ooh, did I just change my own mind, right?

[11:33] Quincy Brown: No.

[11:36] Kevin Bianchi: Um, I'm gonna say Katie Rose Clark is who I would trust to open the concert.

[11:42] Quincy Brown: Yeah, I feel like it's more fun if we don't give opinions on it.

[11:45] Kevin Bianchi: I think we should accept it.

[11:47] Quincy Brown: Ooh, okay.

[11:48] Kevin Bianchi: Each other's picks and just let it be what it is.

[11:50] Quincy Brown: Okay, okay.

[11:52] Kevin Bianchi: And so don't feel the need to overexplain.

[11:54] Quincy Brown: Ooh, okay.

[11:55] Kevin Bianchi: For a non-Wicked girly to sing No One Mourns the Wicked, to welcome us to the Actor's Fund benefit.

[12:02] Quincy Brown: Easy.

[12:02] Kevin Bianchi: Sierra Bogus.

[12:04] Quincy Brown: Wow.

[12:06] Kevin Bianchi: That'd be beautiful, actually.

[12:08] Quincy Brown: Her and good Nesnos.

[12:10] Kevin Bianchi: I can hear it.

[12:11] Quincy Brown: It'd be butter.

[12:12] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, I love that.

[12:13] Quincy Brown: That's gorgeous.

[12:15] Kevin Bianchi: Okay, so for me, the Wizard and I, Wicked Alumna, gotta be Adina Menzel because the song was written for her.

[12:23] Quincy Brown: I was gonna say her and Kristen would close it with For Good.

[12:26] Kevin Bianchi: I thought we were talking about big three, which for sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.

[12:31] Quincy Brown: Go ahead.

[12:32] Kevin Bianchi: But now I feel pressured to pick Kristen for one.

[12:35] Quincy Brown: Listen, don't.

[12:36] Kevin Bianchi: If that's not where your heart is leaning, you Kevin, don't feel the need to do that.

[12:41] Quincy Brown: Anyways, so I'm gonna respect the original and cast Adina as the Wizard and I Alphaba.

[12:48] Kevin Bianchi: Uh non-Wicked is so difficult.

[12:53] Quincy Brown: But I think I have an angle that I'm gonna use to like help me narrow in.

[12:59] Kevin Bianchi: Okay.

[12:59] Quincy Brown: And that's gonna be Pop Girlies that I think I would like to just hear sing the material.

[13:05] Kevin Bianchi: Okay.

[13:06] Quincy Brown: So for the Wizard and I, I'm going to give Jesse J The Wizard and I.

[13:13] Kevin Bianchi: Ooh!

[13:14] Quincy Brown: I was not expecting that.

[13:15] Kevin Bianchi: Ooh, that's good.

[13:17] Quincy Brown: Okay, so Popular is your next song?

[13:19] Kevin Bianchi: Yes.

[13:19] Quincy Brown: Okay, so for Popular, I'm gonna give it to Brittany Johnson.

[13:24] Kevin Bianchi: Popular is a hard one to give to a random.

[13:26] Quincy Brown: I know.

[13:26] Kevin Bianchi: I'm struggling with it a little bit.

[13:29] Quincy Brown: I would like to see what Erica Henningson would do with it.

[13:33] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, that's interesting.

[13:34] Quincy Brown: I feel like Erica Henningson is one that could go either way.

[13:39] Kevin Bianchi: Like she could do Alpha, but she could do Glinda.

[13:41] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[13:42] Kevin Bianchi: Much like I think Taylor Lauderman would be, which if you're not believing me, that is just because she's blonde.

[13:47] Quincy Brown: Because I think if she wasn't blonde, she would be much more of a she could be Alphaba or Glinda.

[13:53] Kevin Bianchi: Sure, sure.

[13:53] Quincy Brown: That's interesting.

[13:55] Kevin Bianchi: For Defying Gravity, I'm gonna give it to Jessica Vosk.

[14:00] Quincy Brown: Mm-hmm.

[14:01] Kevin Bianchi: Because I think the way that she vocally executes Defying Gravity is really something to be witnessed.

[14:08] Quincy Brown: And it's like crystal clear tone.

[14:11] Kevin Bianchi: It's just like so good on Defying Gravity, and I think she really shines in Defying Gravity.

[14:16] Quincy Brown: I can't remember what type of Alphaba she said she was.

[14:19] Kevin Bianchi: But I just think the way that Jessica Vosk is able to execute Defying Gravity pretty much to score, except for when she belts on that kiss me goodbye part, which I love when an Alphaba does that to begin with.

[14:32] Quincy Brown: I'm gonna give it to Jessica Vosk.

[14:34] Kevin Bianchi: For a non-Wicked girly singing Defying Gravity, I'm gonna give it to Demi Lovato.

[14:39] Quincy Brown: Oh my god, that's a great idea.

[14:42] Kevin Bianchi: This is like if Wicked has like a budget to produce sure, sure, sure.

[14:47] Quincy Brown: Not a budget.

[14:50] Kevin Bianchi: But Wicked does have a budget, so they sure do.

[14:54] Quincy Brown: Okay, so as you know, Quincy, thank goodness is near and dear to my heart, and there's no one I could give it to.

[15:02] Kevin Bianchi: Nobody except the thank goodness Glinda, Megan Hilty.

[15:10] Quincy Brown: If we're doing this in concert, we have to have the no-breath bridges.

[15:15] Kevin Bianchi: Are you ready for a spicy take?

[15:17] Quincy Brown: Okay.

[15:18] Kevin Bianchi: My non-Wicked thank goodness would be Sutton Foster.

[15:26] Quincy Brown: Oh, interesting.

[15:27] Kevin Bianchi: And I'll tell you why.

[15:29] Quincy Brown: Because in the using the framework of our podcast, if we were thinking like the big three, like which Alphaba is she, energy-wise, to me, she's a popular Glinda.

[15:41] Kevin Bianchi: That's like the goofy energy she gives off.

[15:44] Quincy Brown: I agree.

[15:45] Kevin Bianchi: She's funny, she's like, yeah, I th that's an opinion I've held for a long time.

[15:51] Quincy Brown: I think Sutton would be a popular Glinda because she is that goofy energy.

[15:56] Kevin Bianchi: However, I do agree in that she would sell thank goodness, like no other.

[16:00] Quincy Brown: Yes.

[16:01] Kevin Bianchi: Because I think we always forget that she has the dramatic acting chops.

[16:04] Quincy Brown: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[16:06] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, that would be yummy.

[16:07] Quincy Brown: I'm into that.

[16:08] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[16:09] Quincy Brown: Cute.

[16:10] Kevin Bianchi: Thank you so much.

[16:11] Quincy Brown: Oh, oh, I have no good deeds still.

[16:12] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[16:13] Quincy Brown: I gotta give it to Eden Espinoza just because she is the no good deed Alphaba.

[16:17] Kevin Bianchi: You know?

[16:18] Quincy Brown: I would have said that too.

[16:19] Kevin Bianchi: For non-Wicked girly in my big budget concert.

[16:24] Quincy Brown: I already know.

[16:25] Kevin Bianchi: Miley Cyrus for No Good Deed.

[16:27] Quincy Brown: I knew it.

[16:28] Kevin Bianchi: I knew it.

[16:28] Quincy Brown: I knew it.

[16:29] Kevin Bianchi: I was this whole time I was like, I know he's gonna say Miley for No Good Deed.

[16:34] Quincy Brown: And Miley could also be a Wizard and I Alphaba.

[16:38] Kevin Bianchi: She could turn it out, I think, but I think No Good Deed is where she would really sink her teeth into.

[16:42] Quincy Brown: Yeah, I yeah, yes, 100% agree.

[16:45] Kevin Bianchi: Miley's also just like I gotta see Miley's Alphaba at some point, so I don't know like what that's gonna look like.

[16:50] Quincy Brown: I don't know if that's a Hollywood Bowl situation or like I just really feel like Miley Cyrus could be a great great Alphaba.

[16:58] Kevin Bianchi: She's got it.

[16:59] Quincy Brown: I yes, I fully agree.

[17:01] Kevin Bianchi: Thank you for saying that because that is the hill I will die on.

[17:03] Quincy Brown: So and I feel like I've been saying it since we started this podcast.

[17:08] Kevin Bianchi: That was fun.

[17:09] Quincy Brown: That was fun.

[17:10] Kevin Bianchi: Thank you, Jack, for that terrific prompt for this month's Jack.

[17:15] Quincy Brown: Bonus episode.

[17:16] Kevin Bianchi: Um see you guys next time.

[17:20] Quincy Brown: See ya.