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[0:00] Eli Tokash: Hello everyone and welcome to episode 106 of Take A Bow.

[0:04] Eli Tokash: I'm your host Eli Tokash, and this week we have another very exciting episode for you all.

[0:09] Eli Tokash: We have a former Broadway kid but now Broadway adult.

[0:14] Eli Tokash: Um, question mark.

[0:15] Eli Tokash: I guess you could say um it's a very exciting episode, and I'm excited because I'm bringing back some people my age.

[0:23] Eli Tokash: We haven't had like a kid, or I guess like a younger person on a podcast for a minute.

[0:28] Eli Tokash: So it was uh it was fun to chat uh with this week's guest, and uh we have a great episode coming your way.

[0:37] Eli Tokash: But first, we have to talk about some Broadway news, shall we?

[0:40] Eli Tokash: Um, there were a couple shows that closed since then, and then of course a big little cast uh or of wa, I guess you could say, um since the last time I talked to you all.

[0:54] Eli Tokash: Broadway said happy trails to Mrs. Doubtfire on Broadway, which leads me into this week's guest, uh Jake Ryan Flynn.

[1:03] Eli Tokash: I didn't mention his name.

[1:04] Eli Tokash: Jake Ryan Flynn is joining the podcast, and he's talking about literally saving the final weeks of Mrs. Doubtfire and so much more.

[1:14] Eli Tokash: Very excited to talk to him, and uh you all will love this conversation.

[1:18] Eli Tokash: I already know.

[1:19] Eli Tokash: Um, and then New York said aura vois and happy trails to Soufs, the musical, which hopefully we will be seeing down the line on Broadway or some sort of um in some sort of facet.

[1:34] Eli Tokash: I'm sure this will not be the end of SUFs, which is why I say until we meet again for SUFS.

[1:40] Eli Tokash: And then, of course, Andre de Shields left Hades Town.

[1:43] Eli Tokash: I mentioned all of this last week, but it did happen Sunday, so I wanted to say it again, and I wanted to introduce Jake Ryan Flynn.

[1:50] Eli Tokash: Um, congratulations to everyone involved in in both of those companies, and then of course Andre de Shields on an incredible run.

[1:58] Eli Tokash: Um loved all of those performances, all three of them.

[2:03] Eli Tokash: The whole cast of Doubtfire, the whole cast of Subs, and Andre DeShields and Hades Sound.

[2:07] Eli Tokash: Um, definitely not the same without it.

[2:09] Eli Tokash: I definitely think that Doubtfire flew under the radar uh a good bit with all of the the new um stuff that was being written.

[2:17] Eli Tokash: And it's unfortunate that it happened the way it did and the way that COVID affected it, and uh it was just an unfortunate timing for the show.

[2:24] Eli Tokash: But I'm glad that it's gonna go out on tour and everything uh because it's definitely a show that uh should be around and should be seen, especially during these times, which they are difficult.

[2:35] Eli Tokash: Um, so I'm excited to bring uh Jake Ryan Flynn on to continue that Doubtfire legacy and to talk about uh all the things uh about Mrs. Doubtfire and uh get you all excited for for the Tony Awards, which is if you see me next week, which you will, of course, but uh I'll be here.

[2:55] Eli Tokash: Hopefully, you'll tune in, is what I'm trying to say.

[2:57] Eli Tokash: Um, you will be hearing a whole Tony preview and a whole Tony rundown.

[3:02] Eli Tokash: It's literally gonna be an episode that I'm gonna have some special guests on and talking about the Tonies and giving our predictions of who will win, kind of talk about it, and then the following week we'll kind of see how we do.

[3:14] Eli Tokash: I'm very excited.

[3:15] Eli Tokash: So um, that's that.

[3:17] Eli Tokash: Moving on, there's some major announcement that happened literally the day that the podcast came out um last week with Douglas Lions.

[3:27] Eli Tokash: Uh Into the Woods is officially going to be coming to Broadway.

[3:32] Eli Tokash: It's going to be a very, very, very limited run as it's only two weeks long at the St. James Theater.

[3:39] Eli Tokash: Um, the Into the Woods will will have a mix of the City Center Cast and then new a new cast.

[3:46] Eli Tokash: Um, so Sarah Bareilles will be returning.

[3:49] Eli Tokash: Brian Darcy James is going to be playing the Baker.

[3:51] Eli Tokash: Patina Miller will be the witch.

[3:53] Eli Tokash: So that was uh Neopatrick Harris, and then uh Heather Headley as the witch there.

[3:58] Eli Tokash: So those two are switching.

[3:59] Eli Tokash: Uh Philip Assou will be Cinderella, uh, Gavin Creel will be playing The Wolf slash Cinderella's Prince.

[4:06] Eli Tokash: Joshua Henry uh will be Rapunzel's Prince.

[4:09] Eli Tokash: Um, Annie Golden, all of these wonderful names.

[4:12] Eli Tokash: Julia Lester from High School Musical the Music of the Series.

[4:15] Eli Tokash: I know that's kind of you guys.

[4:16] Eli Tokash: You're you you listening know that name for sure, as Little Red Riding Hood.

[4:20] Eli Tokash: Um, and there's a ton of other wonderful it this cast is amazing, and uh I cannot wait.

[4:27] Eli Tokash: I'm so excited that we have another opportunity to see the show.

[4:31] Eli Tokash: Hopefully, they are not as expensive.

[4:33] Eli Tokash: I mean, I'm sure they will be expensive because Broadway is expensive.

[4:37] Eli Tokash: Um, but Broadway is hard, so I understand.

[4:39] Eli Tokash: Um, but hopefully it's a little uh less excess uh expensive, but hopefully it's a little less expensive uh than it was at the city center.

[4:49] Eli Tokash: So hopefully I'll be able to go, and hopefully you all will be able to go.

[4:53] Eli Tokash: I'm so excited for this show.

[4:54] Eli Tokash: I really, really want to see it, and I love this cast that they're bringing in.

[4:57] Eli Tokash: I mean, it's I'm kind of bummed that you know I heard Heather Headley was just insane, but like Patina Miller is is amazing as well.

[5:05] Eli Tokash: So um, I got to meet her a few times while I was in Pippin, and she's so talented.

[5:10] Eli Tokash: And I got to watch the original Broadway cast because they had their archive um and all that.

[5:15] Eli Tokash: So I have no doubt that she will be amazing.

[5:17] Eli Tokash: Love Brian Darcy James, love Philip Pasue, love Joshua Henry, love Sarah Bareilles.

[5:21] Eli Tokash: I mean, so the cast is still stacked and it's gonna be amazing.

[5:24] Eli Tokash: So I I'm really really looking forward to it.

[5:27] Eli Tokash: Once again, it's two weeks long from June 28th to July 20th.

[5:30] Eli Tokash: But the good news is that we don't have to wait that long because it's literally like the end of this month.

[5:36] Eli Tokash: Thank you, Lord, because there was some major speculation, and then I even mentioned it that last week, and then of course the news dropped, and I was like, oh my god, that's crazy.

[5:46] Eli Tokash: Uh, anyways, moving on.

[5:48] Eli Tokash: I want to say huge congratulations to Gabby Pizzolo, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, and everyone involved in Stranger Things, uh, because this season is just ridiculous.

[6:03] Eli Tokash: Uh, I was able to watch all of season four already.

[6:07] Eli Tokash: I know.

[6:08] Eli Tokash: Um, hopefully, you were able to too.

[6:10] Eli Tokash: I'm not gonna spoil anything.

[6:11] Eli Tokash: I'm all I'm gonna say is it's ridiculous.

[6:14] Eli Tokash: I'm so glad that, and this is not a spoiler because if you follow her, which you probably do, uh, Gabriella Pizzolo is back, and she's a big friend of the podcast.

[6:24] Eli Tokash: Um, we've had her on before.

[6:26] Eli Tokash: Uh, wouldn't be surprised if we'll have her on again here shortly.

[6:30] Eli Tokash: Um, I'm just so excited, and I'm so glad that she was able to return to this season and kind of still be with the show and with the story.

[6:40] Eli Tokash: I think it's wonderful.

[6:41] Eli Tokash: I love what every I love everything that they're doing.

[6:43] Eli Tokash: I mean, just the acting in the in this season is just ridiculous.

[6:49] Eli Tokash: Everyone really turned it up a notch this season from the writing, from the acting, from the editing, from the cinematography, from all aspects.

[6:58] Eli Tokash: It's just it's wild.

[7:00] Eli Tokash: And uh, if you have seen it, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

[7:05] Eli Tokash: And uh, huge congrats to everyone.

[7:07] Eli Tokash: And they are smashing and breaking all of the records as they so deserved, so well deserved.

[7:13] Eli Tokash: Um, just incredible stuff.

[7:15] Eli Tokash: So, congrats again.

[7:17] Eli Tokash: I literally like want to rewatch it all because it's just so good, but it's so freaky.

[7:21] Eli Tokash: I don't know if I can put myself through it again.

[7:23] Eli Tokash: Um, but yeah, congrats to all of them, and hopefully we can have one of them on soon.

[7:29] Eli Tokash: So we'll continue to do some work and try to try to figure something out.

[7:35] Eli Tokash: But uh, I think it could be something really cool, and especially with Gaten now going to be in Dear Evan Hansen.

[7:40] Eli Tokash: I definitely want to do something uh with him at with Stranger Things and all of that.

[7:45] Eli Tokash: So stay tuned.

[7:46] Eli Tokash: Hopefully, we can get something in the works.

[7:48] Eli Tokash: But uh, yeah, it's just it's incredible.

[7:50] Eli Tokash: So love the show.

[7:52] Eli Tokash: Uh, huge fan of all of them and congrats to them.

[7:55] Eli Tokash: Moving on, we're gonna move into the drama dictionary word of the week because honestly, there hasn't been like other than like you know, happy trails and into the woods breaking, um, there hasn't been anything, you know, eye-catching in the headlines this week.

[8:12] Eli Tokash: So we're gonna talk about some drama dictionary and we're gonna move on.

[8:15] Eli Tokash: Um, we are gonna talk this week.

[8:18] Eli Tokash: We're gonna keep it into in the theme of the episode with Doubtfire and SUFs and all of these shows closing, unfortunately.

[8:28] Eli Tokash: Um, we are gonna talk about a strike.

[8:31] Eli Tokash: It's where like the sets are deconstructed and they are loaded out of the theater and they are removed from from the theater, whether it's literally all parts of the stage, the set, the props, the costumes, the lights, the sound equipment, all of that.

[8:46] Eli Tokash: Um, everything it gets flipped over, and it's gonna be an empty theater just with seats.

[8:53] Eli Tokash: Um, for as they await what's going to be in the Stephen Sondheim theater next.

[8:58] Eli Tokash: Um, so load-ins are when they bring everything into the theater, and then a loadout is kind of when they move everything.

[9:06] Eli Tokash: And I wouldn't be surprised if this is going to be like a loadout strike because they are going on tour, so they may be able to keep some of the equipment.

[9:14] Eli Tokash: Um, obviously, they won't be able to keep all of it because the theaters differ.

[9:18] Eli Tokash: Um, yeah, but uh that's basically what it is.

[9:21] Eli Tokash: It's currently going on at the Stephen Sondheim right now.

[9:24] Eli Tokash: You can go walk past it and they'll be taking down the marquee, they'll be taking down all the posters and everything that you see, they'll be taking down um this.

[9:32] Eli Tokash: You you'll see like trucks and and big black boxes uh or like just big boxes in general, um, and crates and stuff that uh has all of that stuff as they uh are striking the the set in the show.

[9:47] Eli Tokash: So that's what a strike is in the theater world.

[9:50] Eli Tokash: Um, that's this week's drama dictionary word of the week.

[9:53] Eli Tokash: I hope you learned something, and uh, if not, sorry about it, but uh there you have it anyways.

[9:59] Eli Tokash: Um, all right.

[10:00] Eli Tokash: That's all I have for you folks this week, as far as the news and the intro and everything like that.

[10:05] Eli Tokash: So, with that being said, let's turn it over to Jake Ryan Flynn because this is such a fun interview, and I know you all are gonna love it.

[10:11] Eli Tokash: And we have some fan questions in this one, so this is really really fun.

[10:15] Eli Tokash: So I hope you enjoy.

[10:16] Eli Tokash: Jake Ryan Flynn, curtain up.

[10:35] Eli Tokash: Alright, so this week we have a fellow young adult actor on the podcast today.

[10:40] Eli Tokash: You may know him for his performance on Broadway in Mrs. Doubtfire and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or on Netflix's Sack Lunch Bunch.

[10:48] Eli Tokash: So everyone, welcome to Take A Bow, the superhero himself, Jake Ryan Flynn.

[10:54] Eli Tokash: Welcome to the podcast.

[10:55] Jake Ryan Flynn: Oh my God.

[10:56] Jake Ryan Flynn: So excited to have you on.

[10:58] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's been long overdue.

[10:59] Eli Tokash: Thank you for having me.

[11:00] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yes, of course.

[11:01] Eli Tokash: Very excited to be here.

[11:03] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yes, I know there's a lot going on right now with you.

[11:05] Eli Tokash: You have finals this week.

[11:07] Jake Ryan Flynn: You have uh you're doing an Instagram takeover today, and you're doing this, and you're getting ready for a show.

[11:13] Eli Tokash: Like, thank you for doing this.

[11:14] Jake Ryan Flynn: Thanks for fitting me in, and I'm like so happy that this is happening when we're gonna be able to talk about like with Doubtfire closing.

[11:20] Eli Tokash: I'm so excited to talk about Doubtfire.

[11:22] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, I'm glad to be here.

[11:23] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's um yeah, just finals, you know.

[11:25] Jake Ryan Flynn: Just I'm so glad to be finished with school because it feels like it's been a long year with school.

[11:30] Eli Tokash: Was today the last day?

[11:31] Jake Ryan Flynn: I have no, I have tomorrow today's Wednesday, so I have my final, I have my math and history final tomorrow and then my math final on Friday, and I'm done.

[11:40] Eli Tokash: Oh that's sick.

[11:41] Eli Tokash: So exciting.

[11:42] Jake Ryan Flynn: And then what?

[11:43] Jake Ryan Flynn: What what grade is that?

[11:45] Jake Ryan Flynn: I will be so yeah, freshman year, so I'll be sophomore next year.

[11:49] Eli Tokash: Oh wow.

[11:50] Eli Tokash: Okay, that's awesome.

[11:51] Jake Ryan Flynn: Which is uh crazy.

[11:54] Jake Ryan Flynn: I'm going to normal high school.

[11:56] Eli Tokash: You seem so much older.

[11:57] Eli Tokash: You're so mature.

[11:58] Jake Ryan Flynn: Please.

[12:00] Jake Ryan Flynn: Please.

[12:01] Eli Tokash: Um, well, the way I usually like to start these things is I like asking people, you know, what kind of inspired them to to get into theater and to s want to tell stories and entertain people.

[12:14] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh well, I wasn't an athletic child.

[12:17] Jake Ryan Flynn: We'll put it that way.

[12:18] Jake Ryan Flynn: And um, so uh I tried all the sports.

[12:21] Jake Ryan Flynn: I just didn't I just didn't like it.

[12:23] Jake Ryan Flynn: And uh I but I my parents noticed that I was singing all the time, so they put me in uh Neverland Theater, which was a community theater kind of by my house.

[12:32] Jake Ryan Flynn: And I I did shows there, I did like musical reviews, Peter Pan, and then um one of the one some of the people there were like, Oh, you should audition for North Shore Music Theater, which is a regional theater, uh, which was really right by my house.

[12:44] Jake Ryan Flynn: Mom was like, I didn't even know they did auditions, so I ended up auditioning there, and I did a bunch of shows at North Shore.

[12:50] Jake Ryan Flynn: From there, uh uh an actor named Dwayne Clark, who's in Paradise Square right now, um, hit he filmed a video of me uh singing a song at like a bar.

[12:59] Jake Ryan Flynn: It was like our night the actors sing a song. I mean, you know, starting at a bar at age eight. And uh so singing uh the uh the donkey song from Shrek, and he sent it to his agent, and that's how I got an agent, and that's how I got the audition for Charlie. So um it was really all like North Shore Music Theater is where it all started. Uh and I was uh it was such such a joy to be able to work there because that's where it all that's how I got my audition for Charlie.

[13:23] Eli Tokash: Wow, that is wild. It all started at a theater and at a bar.

[13:28] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, I mean that's I mean that's pretty much that's that's life. I mean that's that is life. That is live theater. Um I love it. That's hilarious. That's crazy though, because you you started I mean you live in Massachusetts, right?

[13:43] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, I live out I live outside of Boston.

[13:46] Eli Tokash: So then like what what is that like? Because I mean Broadway's New York, so like that's a commute, you know. Like what is it like coming back and forth to places?

[13:57] Jake Ryan Flynn: Well, when I'm in a show, we usually have we get an apartment um and my mom, dad, and grandparents all switch off with me. So, like, let's say they're there for like a week or two, and then they switch off, so then everyone's seen the family. Um, and then my brothers and then they're on vacations, they come up and see the show, or they come and just hang out with me. Um, and then when I'm auditioning, it's like going there and back kind of for the I mean we've gotten the ride down, we speed, so it's three and a half hours instead of like four and a half. Uh but uh we go there and back for like auditions, but now a lot of it's virtual. So um it's it's been a lot of uh doing it in my home with uh uh a ring light and trying to figure out what the heck we're doing because we're not filmmakers.

Uh so yeah, which has been in a way easier because uh we're really only like going, I mean, most of the callbacks are on Zoom as well, so it's so I don't really have to like we don't have to be away or miss school really. It's just kind of about doing the audition.

[14:55] Eli Tokash: Totally. That's awesome. That's crazy though. We I love the I went through the same thing with my family with traveling back and forth from out of state to come and audition. Like, that's real stuff. Like you literally come in back for a day, and like at the end of the day, you're like drained. You know, it's crazy. I remember um the audition, my final audition for Charlie, like the final one, I had auditioned six times, and I had bought the I'd seen Something Rotten the day before my audition.

[15:21] Jake Ryan Flynn: Oh, yeah. And so on my way back, I this was the first cast recording I bought, and I was just like so I was in the car just belting out Something Rotten, listening to the cast recording because that was that was my way that was my way back because it was just a crazy, crazy week because we had it was like one of those things where like the audition, let's say whatever my callback was was on Friday, but then they wanted me to stay till Sunday for like the final. So we ended up having to stay. It was like uh, but yeah, so it's it's crazy going back and forth and doing it.

[15:49] Eli Tokash: It is. My drive, so like I would I came from West Virginia, so my drive is like seven hours one way. It was not fun, so my parents would be like can we like try to move it like so that there's like three auditions in one day and then we can go back that way we don't have to like stay and then like sometimes it would work out sometimes it doesn't so like really like the parents are the superheroes for any child you know I'm lucky that my parents are so supportive in in doing this because I mean it's easy I mean it's really hard it's easy to just be like we can't do that like it's four and a half hours away we have I mean I have three other brothers that are younger than me and they all play sports so like it's crazy Pat my brother Pat is hockey and my brother was football and lacrosse brother Michael is across in baseball so it's like it's one of those things that's like um it can get crazy and I'm lucky that we I have my grandparents who stay with me a bunch.

[16:43] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah because they're super helpful so my mom and dad can see games and then be with me. So yeah it takes a village it takes a village it's interesting that you say that because I I was at Doubtfire I saw you guys the in the last week and uh sitting next to me was a a girl and her mother and she kind of said are are you a performer because you're cheering so loudly and I was like oh like I I never heard that but I mean I get yes I am and she was like so is she and she was pointing to her daughter and her daughter wants to come and audition to New York and they live in Philadelphia and it's an hour and a half but but they don't want to do the commute and so that was like it that like hit me having that conversation, it's an hour and a half, and like to me that's nothing, but like to someone that's like a huge commitment, and it's really difficult for some people.

[17:39] Jake Ryan Flynn: So, really, it's so easy to say no, like we can't do that commute. So it's crazy what happens with with the families of child actors and everything.

[17:48] Eli Tokash: Yeah, it's interesting because it's like a lot of people like definitely want to be an actor, but they don't even really get their chance to their eight till they're an adult when they can drive themselves because uh their parents have to work or um or they can't miss school. So it's it's interesting. It's interesting that you say that because like I've always been able to, I've always had just a great opportunity to be able to do it, but like I know there's some people that are like we just can't do that audition.

[18:10] Jake Ryan Flynn: Right, and and it's crazy to me because like I've never thought of it in that way that like it's something that is weird, or like not necessarily weird or it's challenging, you know, because my parents have always been so oh we can make it work, we'll do it, we'll we'll figure out a way, or like or like special in a way, like oh, an audition is like a big thing to go in like an audition is kind of like oh another audition, you know, like a normal almost, you know.

[18:36] Eli Tokash: Yeah, for sure. Yeah, definitely. Um it's fascinating. So then you mentioned so you got an agent, and then was Charlie in the Chocolate Factory your first ever professional like audition then, or like Broadway audition?

[18:48] Jake Ryan Flynn: It was I had oh actually Finding Neverland. I auditioned for Finding Neverland. Oh my god the tour, I think about about five times for the tour. And I also had auditioned for Fun Home, oh yeah, as well. But uh but a replacement for Fun Home, I didn't get that well, I didn't get that part. And Finding Neverland, it was like because Charlie, the way it worked, it was like I auditioned for the workshop, uh-huh, but three times I didn't get it. Wow, and then later down, like I want to say like four months later when it was coming to Broadway. I auditioned three times for Broadway and got the part.

[19:25] Eli Tokash: That's crazy. So, like, in between that, I auditioned for Finding Neverland again.

[19:29] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah. So it was like so it was like Finding Neverland. We're like, oh my god. And once I didn't get Finding Neverland, I was like, and Charlie were like, I d I don't know. This just is like heart like it was like three no no no getting so far and then not getting it. And I think even Fun Home I had a callback. At least I think I had I I was in the final as well. Um so it was like heartbreak, heartbreak, heartbreak. And then Charlie came back, we're like, like, really, like it was so it was a like a wild ride to get to Charlie doing it again after not getting it. And yeah, so yeah, it was like my third like really big professional audition.

[20:02] Eli Tokash: Sure, sure. I mean the no's stink. They're they're try hard to deal with, but the it makes those yeses so worth it and so familiar. Feelings are exciting. Yeah, you know, uh so worth it. But yeah, you mentioned it. You kicked us out, you guys, you Charlie at the Java Factory kicked us out and Finding Neverland the Love Fontaine. Um no, this is getting awkward. But it's fine. Um then Tina Turner kicked us out.

[20:27] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, what the heck, man? But also another great show. Um I was I was actually like hesitant seeing Charlie for for the longest time because I was like, no, they replaced us. But I did see it and I loved it. I actually loved Charlie of the Chocolate Factory, and I thought it would definitely have like a wonderful run on Broadway, and it totally did. I mean it it ran for 10 months. We had like 10 months, which is like a long time for for shows nowadays. And um at that time I it was like blah it was Broadway debut, and so I was like wanted to be back home by the time it closed.

[21:00] Eli Tokash: Really?

[21:01] Jake Ryan Flynn: So it was actually, though I obviously didn't want the show to close, it was nice for me because it'd be able to like do the 10 month run, close the show, but then be back home and you know, be with my brothers and my friends, you know, like because I had I would I was missing them. By the time we were at after the 10 month run. Because actually it was a full year of the time I was back with rehearsals and previews.

[21:20] Eli Tokash: Right.

[21:21] Jake Ryan Flynn: So it was it it was it was nice, though I wish it would have ran longer, was really nice experience for me.

[21:25] Eli Tokash: That's awesome. Yeah, and I mean you said it, Broadway debut. What was that like? You know being in on Broadway for the first time on a stage and performing.

[21:34] Jake Ryan Flynn: Amazing and terrifying. Yeah, I bet. Uh no, it was it was I mean it was it was crazy. I remember on opening night, the performance in opening night, I was like up at 7 a.m. with just anxiety, like and then I've never experienced before. I would never forget. I I I it was after the fact when my dad was like, for a second, I was like worried. I was like, is he even gonna be able to do the show? Like I was so ner like it was like just the I always say it's my process, like in quotes, like it's like the anxiety, and then like is he gonna be able to do the show, and then I go out and somehow he does it. Like, um, but yeah, so it was it was no, it was so exciting and so nervous. I mean I remember at the at the opening night party, um, it was like I had like got to the party, it was crazy, and I was one of the first people to leave because I was just like, I'm tired. This was the most insane day ever. Like, there was just so much emotions happening all at once.

[22:28] Eli Tokash: And you're also how old? How old were you when you made your Broadway debut?

[22:32] Jake Ryan Flynn: I was 10.

[22:33] Eli Tokash: 10.

[22:33] Jake Ryan Flynn: 10.

[22:34] Eli Tokash: Unreal.

[22:35] Jake Ryan Flynn: Which was nuts. Yeah. Um, like one of my teachers, uh uh a mis uh I think it was Mrs. Cullen, said, uh, because I always said, Oh, I'll be on Broadway. She was like, and I I I b I believed him, but I never thought it would be when he was 10.

[22:48] Eli Tokash: Yes, right.

[22:50] Jake Ryan Flynn: She had me in k in like kindergarten and stuff.

[22:52] Eli Tokash: That's so sweet. So talk to me because like you said, I mean, you're 10 years old, you're super young, and you're playing Charlie Bucket on Broadway, which is like huge. I mean, it's a huge role. It's like the title role basically. Um, so you obviously, because of the the labor laws and everything, you had to split the the role with three with two others, because it was three of you, uh, with two other actors. Um talk to me about like how that rotation kind of worked. Was it like a set schedule in that time, like when you weren't on, did you have to be at the theater? Were you able to go home to like Massachusetts and visit? What was it like?

[23:30] Jake Ryan Flynn: It was interesting. Um it wasn't until like uh after the nominations for the Tonies came out, um, that it was set. Because a lot of times we just find out the week before. Uh it was like pretty different uh it was it was like especially during previews, it was like we only knew like the first four shows, and then we would know like it wasn't set for a while until like so. If we opened we opened April 29th, so the Tony nominations would have came out 23rd we opened, so the Tony Nominations would have came out like May 1st or like 5th or something, so like it wasn't till and we started previews like in March, so it wasn't until like all of that was over until we had a set schedule. And it was actually it was a really great schedule for me, because it was like so.

Let's say uh I would stand by uh as just in case if one of the other Charlie's got sick, okay, had a show, day off, stand by, had a show. So it was like oh cool, a day and a half off, if you will. Like I would have a day off, then I would just be there just in case, and then I would do the show the next day. Right. So it was a really great schedule, and then sometimes we'd do like five shows in a row one week, like a Charlie would do five shows in a row. But I mean, it was great. I got to see other shows.

[24:38] Eli Tokash: Yeah.

[24:39] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh well, I mean, which is rare because Doubtfire, I uh never got to see other shows because it was eight times a week. Uh which was which also was a different experience because I had done eight times a week before. Yep. So that was like crazy, like being like, I have to do a Wednesday match. Um what are Madame? So uh that was an interesting experience, but like, yeah, the Charlie schedule was great.

[25:00] Eli Tokash: That's so cool. I I it's fascinating when the the shows that like have the multiple uh people playing one part because it's like how does that work? How do they put that in? Is it it it's I don't know. I'm curious to know how that I can't even imagine Matilda because Matilda was four. Right. So it would probably be with the eight, like it'd be like two days off almost or something, which is interesting. And with Neverland, I mean you you No, yeah it was the same thing because I don't know when you auditioned for it, did you audition for just one role?

[25:30] Jake Ryan Flynn: It was rare that it was like one role. I auditioned for the the littlest kid.

[25:35] Eli Tokash: Oh, you did.

[25:36] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like I was but but I was too old, like I wasn't that age. Like I I was I was ten and I don't know I don't know how old the part was supposed to be, maybe eight or nine. Yeah. But uh I don't know. Uh yeah, because there was like there's like yeah, that's crazy switching. It's so interesting. Yeah, it's especially yeah, because especially because like with Finding Neverland, so like there were four of the seven, or four of the six of us, because we had seven originally and then we had six.

[25:59] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh, but four and the six of us played two characters, so like we wouldn't know the whole scheduling thing until uh like is so interesting.

[26:10] Eli Tokash: So you would you you had you played two parts, right?

[26:13] Jake Ryan Flynn: And it was different on every given day.

[26:16] Eli Tokash: Yeah, wow.

[26:16] Jake Ryan Flynn: That's so interesting. I was actually the only one to play all four parts in the show, and I only played all four parts for one and a half shows. So I love to mention that. Um it was a total that I was playing that fourth part, but I'm all for it. It was actually the little one, the little Michael. Um, but yeah, it was crazy because you same boat, like we wouldn't know until literally like Tuesday morning we would get the schedule for the week. Like we had no idea what was happening, what character we were gonna be. Sometimes during the show we were like, who are we right now? Like, what's going on? Um yeah, it was it was so fun. But like that, it's the beauty of it. Like, that's so it's something that like it's just an added thing of like keeps you on your toes, you know, like on your days off.

[26:58] Eli Tokash: Added excitement.

[26:59] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, totally. Like with Charlie too, like on standby and stuff, you were able to listen to the show, so it kind of keeps things fresh, but it's also like you're kind of resting and relaxing, which is cool. Like, I don't know.

[27:09] Jake Ryan Flynn: I actually went to Finding Neverland while I was auditioning for Charlie originally. And I loved it. Oh my god. I saw it, I got I waited in line to get a rush seat at 10 a.m. That's it. And I was in the like the fourth row at fourth or third row. It was very exciting. I loved it.

[27:21] Eli Tokash: Oh, it's so fun.

[27:22] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh yeah. I remember those rush days. I would wait in line.

[27:25] Eli Tokash: That's exactly how I got my Charlie.

[27:28] Jake Ryan Flynn: To try and get that to get the ticket close up.

[27:31] Eli Tokash: Right? It's exactly and for like 40 bucks, like that's how I got my Charlie ticket because I knew the house people. I was like, I'm gonna come in, I'm gonna say hi to the people at the box office and be like, hey, can I get a ticket for Charlie Rush ticket?

[27:43] Jake Ryan Flynn: That's the best. When you get when you get friend when you're friendly with the box office people, it opens a whole new world.

[27:48] Jake Ryan Flynn: Well, because that's how I would get tickets to my the owner, my own show, Finding Neverland. Like my family and I would just be waiting because like, yeah, you can't pay five people to go see a Broadway show at full price every time you go see it. It's pretty too expensive.

[28:01] Eli Tokash: Yeah, right.

[28:02] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um, okay, so I I want to talk about like you're you're a young performer, and you you've been into Broadway shows, and you have incredible experience in everything, but you've worked with some of the best actors in those two shows. Um I mean, these companies have been led by Christian Borle and Rob McClure, who are like Broadway icons. Um I wanna ask you, like, what is that leadership like and how important is that for you as like a young performer in having someone that you can look up to and kind of just like watch.

[28:36] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh I would say Rob McClure and Christian Borle are the two greatest ad-libbers I've ever seen in my entire life. It they are absolutely the things that they've come up with in the rehearsal room, like just the like just the jokes and the added bits, like uh Charlie with Christian and Rob, it is absolutely incredible. They're the best leaders.

[28:57] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh in times of stress, they are nothing but kind. I have never, they have never I I and I obviously I know they're under a lot of pressure because they're just the lead of the show. And but they don't show it. You wouldn't know. He's just just doing the show with ease. Uh they're doing the show with ease, which is amazing, but they're just so talented. It's just like to watch them like do it as if it's like it's like they're they're doing the show as if it's like, oh yeah, you know, just an average like they're just doing like uh um Rob, they're the and they're the nicest people ever.

[29:27] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's amazing. Like and Rob and Delfire, the track is just absolutely the quick changes and the stuff.

[29:34] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's nuts and the props and the just the ah there's just so there's so much stuff. I remember there was there was one moment where like he was dropping that she was like, up propel, propel, prop hel. Oh my god. Like that was always a joke because he has so many props with the brooms and then the spatchcock chickens.

[29:50] Eli Tokash: Yep.

[29:50] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um, but it's yeah, they they are they're amazing to watch.

[29:53] Eli Tokash: Yeah.

[29:54] Jake Ryan Flynn: And um amazing people.

[29:55] Eli Tokash: Yeah, and and uh the I don't know, it's just something it's so cool to like listen to your story and say, you know, on your way back to Charlie in the Chocolate Factory audition, you were listening to Something Rotten, which obviously Rob and Brad Oscar and like it kind of like full circle there is they were in it.

[30:12] Jake Ryan Flynn: That was the um I remember when I was did the reading for for Doubtfire, and it's the same creative team as Something Rotten, like the same writers, the Kirkpatrick brothers.

[30:22] Eli Tokash: That's awesome.

[30:23] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, the Kirkpatricks wrote Something Rotten, it was Rob, it was Michael James Scott, who was the original uh bard in um it was um Brad, who it was Mario Orcanto in the reading, but now it's Brad Oscar, which was who was one of my favorite is one of my favorite actors ever.

[30:38] Jake Ryan Flynn: Oh my god. When I saw Something Rotten. I mean it was like the something, it was the ensemble of Something Rotten. So like it was like crazy to me that I was like placed in like a cast, but it's like it was like me and the Something Rotten cast, and it was just absolutely amazing because that is my my favorite Broadway show ever. Favorite musical comedy.

[30:57] Eli Tokash: That's awesome.

[30:59] Jake Ryan Flynn: So um it's like one of those things it was crazy to happen because I was gonna go see Wicked, but when I was like nine, I was too nervous to sit not with my mom because they only had single seats. And so we're like, all right, let's go see Something Rotten. That was the best decision that has ever happened.

[31:14] Eli Tokash: Thank you.

[31:14] Jake Ryan Flynn: Because it closed. It was at the end of its run, so I wouldn't have seen the show.

[31:18] Eli Tokash: Wow.

[31:19] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um, just to be in that room with people that I've admired for for uh admired all during Charlie and to just be like working with them and to consider them friends is just like amazing.

[31:32] Eli Tokash: Yeah.

[31:32] Jake Ryan Flynn: And you talk about not being able to see the show. Um, I just want to mention we're obviously gonna get into the process of Doubtfire. I would not have been able to see Mrs. Doubtfire if it wasn't for you. The superhero, Jake Ryan Flynn.

[31:46] Eli Tokash: Um you saved the show.

[31:48] Jake Ryan Flynn: You literally gave the show a final week. Because otherwise it would have had the show, their final show without even knowing they had their final show.

[31:57] Eli Tokash: Um talk to me about what it was like to we'll get into like the whole g coming in, coming out, all of that stuff. But just like the final week, give me a rundown and how special it was to to actually be able to share that. I mean, you were in the original Broadway cast to share the final weeks with with your original Broadway cast.

[32:18] Jake Ryan Flynn: Well, uh, so I found out at 6 a.m. I was woken up by my mom at 6 a.m. On Tuesday. Uh on on Sunday.

[32:25] Jake Ryan Flynn: So I did I it wasn't it was so I had I had to be there for the three o'clock matin. No.

[32:32] Jake Ryan Flynn: So I wake up at it was crazy. So I wake up at 6 a.m. I tapped up, so I'm waking, they're like, Dow Far I need you. I'm like, it doesn't even seem real. It still doesn't seem real because it's like this only happens in movies. Like, it's it doesn't seem like it would happen in real life.

[32:46] Jake Ryan Flynn: So I'm wake up, I get in the car at 8 a.m. I'm driving, I'm I I'm texting with my stage manager, like, what's your ETA? Uh, let me send you the new script, because it had changed since January 9th.

[32:57] Jake Ryan Flynn: So we went when we close and then reopen. So I'm like reading through those. I'm like, well, that's the same. I think that oh, here's some new lines. So I'm like learning that. Whilst warming up, yeah, because I have to be because I knew I wouldn't have time because I have to rehearse.

[33:08] Jake Ryan Flynn: I get there at eleven forty five. I'm pulling in, still don't have a hotel yet, because you know they're figuring that out. So I'm pulling in, we have our bags, we pull into the parking lot across the street from the theater, we're putting it at the stage door.

[33:21] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh um our covert safety person comes out with this crazy test. Oh my god. And I had done a rapid before just to make sure I didn't drive all the way there to be positive, which would be terrible. Because my dad and my brother Joe had it.

[33:33] Eli Tokash: Oh wow.

[33:33] Jake Ryan Flynn: So it's insane I made it through the whole week.

[33:35] Eli Tokash: Yeah.

[33:36] Jake Ryan Flynn: She comes up with this crazy test. Now I'm like, I'm gonna fail this. This is this there's no way I'm gonna make it out of it. Come it comes back negative, so I can go in.

[33:44] Jake Ryan Flynn: I get there, I go in at 12.30, and my Lisa, my dresser Lisa, is like uh, like, okay, let's see what fits like a 10-minute quick what fits in the show, like pulling out costumes that weren't supposed to be used, and then uh, so I'm uh and so Lisa and Michael, the wardrobe people are just putting this stuff on me, and then we get a knock like uh we need Jake for rehearsal, and Lisa's like, okay.

[34:07] Jake Ryan Flynn: And so I'm running to rehearsal from like 12.45 to 2.30, I'm rehearsing the show and the new stuff, and then I went on for the show at three.

[34:14] Eli Tokash: Wow.

[34:15] Jake Ryan Flynn: So no put in or anything. It's like rehearsal. And some scenes I didn't even get to do. It was just like, you know it.

[34:21] Eli Tokash: Wow.

[34:22] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh that's insane. I've been four and a half months. So it's like, sure.

[34:25] Jake Ryan Flynn: I remember like sitting down and one scene being like, I haven't done this yet.

[34:29] Eli Tokash: Oh my god.

[34:30] Jake Ryan Flynn: Did it cut did it kind of come back to you like when you were on the stage though?

[34:34] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like No, yeah, I wasn't, uh it wasn't I it came back to me. It was just like the new things, and I felt found like me like second guessing and forgetting things that were never changed because I was thinking about the new things.

[34:45] Eli Tokash: Right.

[34:46] Jake Ryan Flynn: So like it'd just be little blocking changes. I'm like, I just gotta remember that. And I had like my I had the first line in the show now, but it was too music.

[34:53] Jake Ryan Flynn: So if I was too slow, it would mess up Rob's entrance. So I'm like, I can't screw up this line. That's like the curtains there, and there's all these people, and I'm like, gosh!

[35:02] Eli Tokash: That's uh amazing.

[35:03] Jake Ryan Flynn: But it was it was it was good. I was kind of like, let's just see what happens, you know.

[35:07] Eli Tokash: Totally.

[35:08] Jake Ryan Flynn: Well, there was we'll fix it for Tuesday. That was my mindset.

[35:11] Eli Tokash: Yeah, that's crazy.

[35:13] Jake Ryan Flynn: Did you ever like I don't know, did you kind of plan on coming to the closing show? Like, did you ever think that you were gonna be able to share the closing of the show with the with the company again?

[35:24] Jake Ryan Flynn: I mean, at least definitely not on stage. I mean, I didn't think I'd be performing in the show, and also I I I was living in I mean I live in Boston, so it wasn't like I was like being able to just walk. We would have to plan it.

[35:35] Jake Ryan Flynn: So uh not really. I really didn't think I'd be that. We we hadn't planned it yet.

[35:39] Eli Tokash: Right.

[35:40] Jake Ryan Flynn: And then phone call.

[35:41] Eli Tokash: Well, I I must say, I mean, we're talking about closing, but I have to say it made me think about the opening where you had these iconic shoes.

[35:49] Jake Ryan Flynn: The the Doubtfire custom made shoes, these Chuck Taylors, it was everything.

[35:54] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh so yeah, so my parents surprised me because Custom Broadway, uh you can follow them on Instagram, custom underscore Broadway, like literally took Converse shoes and just painted my mom was like, Oh, just do something Doubtfire.

[36:07] Jake Ryan Flynn: She's like, Oh, I'll just make it up. And just creates the greatest thing, like just oh, I'll make it up. Totally like like that's just oh, whatever. I'm just putting it together.

[36:16] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like just the greatest shoes ever. Like, it has all of our faces on there.

[36:21] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's amazing. It has a signature from Doreen, who is a cast member who passed away during COVID.

[36:26] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh it was like just like uh just like just amazing. And um, it was great to wear them to opening night because they it and and I forgot him, you know.

[36:35] Jake Ryan Flynn: I wasn't expect I should have brought him for closing, but I wasn't expecting.

[36:38] Eli Tokash: Oh my god.

[36:39] Jake Ryan Flynn: You know, it it's okay. They they made the one appearance.

[36:42] Eli Tokash: You don't want to get them dirty.

[36:43] Jake Ryan Flynn: That's a thing.

[36:44] Jake Ryan Flynn: Well, yeah, exactly. You don't want to, you don't want to overuse it. It's gotta be like a special thing.

[36:48] Eli Tokash: Uh I I'm on your side with that.

[36:49] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's it was like you gotta bring them out for the photos and everything, the big blue carpet moment, all of that fun stuff.

[36:56] Eli Tokash: Peter Mania, yeah, exactly.

[36:58] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um so talk to me about this whole process with Doubtfire. When did you join the show? Did you was it in Seattle or were you in the readings? When did you join it?

[37:07] Jake Ryan Flynn: I did the first like official reading in May 2019.

[37:11] Jake Ryan Flynn: 2019, wow.

[37:12] Jake Ryan Flynn: And then we went to Seattle.

[37:15] Jake Ryan Flynn: Well, so I assume so when I did the reading, I didn't like it wasn't like I did the reading of ooh, it's going to Broadway, or oh, it's like I didn't know going into the reading. I just, you know, ooh, the reading, Mrs. Doubtfire.

[37:24] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh and so then we heard it was going to Seattle.

[37:30] Jake Ryan Flynn: And at the end of June, I assumed I was gonna have to re-audition. Like I wasn't, and if it was going to Seattle, who know Seattle was in the fall.

[37:37] Jake Ryan Flynn: I mean, Broadway was so far, like, who even knows if I could be in the party.

[37:40] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh uh, so then I got a call that they were offering me Broadway in Seattle.

[37:44] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like a month later, and I'm like, what?

[37:47] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh so we go, so that was crazy.

[37:50] Jake Ryan Flynn: So we go to Seattle. We started rehearsals in October.

[37:53] Jake Ryan Flynn: We went in November. We started performances in Seattle in November, and we did performances on January 9th, 2020.

[38:01] Eli Tokash: Oh my god. Fun year for us all.

[38:03] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah.

[38:04] Jake Ryan Flynn: And 2020. Uh then we were supposed to open April 5th, and we started previews March 11th or March 12th.

[38:10] Jake Ryan Flynn: And we had three previews before we shut down on the 15th.

[38:14] Eli Tokash: Right.

[38:15] Jake Ryan Flynn: We did three shows for a month. It was supposed to be a month.

[38:17] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah. And then we obviously the whole whole COVID thing.

[38:23] Jake Ryan Flynn: And then we came back. Not thinking I was coming back, because like my voice had changed and I was like six inches taller.

[38:29] Eli Tokash: Right.

[38:30] Jake Ryan Flynn: But I c I couldn't believe the creative team and everyone they brought all the kids back.

[38:33] Jake Ryan Flynn: It was amazing. Like they didn't have to do it, and they did, and it was incredible.

[38:38] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh so then we came back in our first preview was October 21st, 2021.

[38:45] Jake Ryan Flynn: Then we had six weeks of previews and opened December 5th, 2021.

[38:49] Jake Ryan Flynn: Then Omicron hit, and I got COVID along with multiple of the other casts, and we had to close for like s 10 days.

[38:58] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh so that happened. Then we reopened in December. Then people weren't coming to a lot of the shows, and uh we lost a lot of money from COVID, so we had to close January 9th.

[39:10] Eli Tokash: Right.

[39:10] Jake Ryan Flynn: Go on hiatus to reopen in March, but then it was moved to April, so then they uh I was too old for the part even before, so at this point I was way too worried.

[39:20] Eli Tokash: Right.

[39:21] Jake Ryan Flynn: So they brought in new I mean at this point it was like, so then they brought in new kids. I did the cast recording on April 5th.

[39:27] Eli Tokash: Wow.

[39:28] Jake Ryan Flynn: Which is coming out soon.

[39:29] Eli Tokash: Yes.

[39:30] Jake Ryan Flynn: I don't know when, but it's soon. I'm so excited. Uh uh, and so then I thought I was done after the cast recording. I was like, this will be the last time I'll sing, what the hell? And then I was wrong, because then a short month later.

[39:44] Jake Ryan Flynn: Short month later. Doing the show again. So it was a great full circle moment to be there, to open it even after COVID, and then to close it with the cast was amazing.

[39:55] Eli Tokash: Yeah.

[39:56] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um, and it was like amazing. Uh the cast were saying that it was emotional for them because they watched me grow up with the show. Like I started off 12. I was 12 when I did it originally, and now I'm 15 and a half.

[40:05] Eli Tokash: Right.

[40:05] Jake Ryan Flynn: So it was like a full uh uh watch me grow up. So it was it was an amazing experience.

[40:11] Eli Tokash: Yeah, I mean, that's such a wild but unforgettable experience, you know. All of the things for that has happened with the show. Um I wanna ask you when you came back to the show, like with your voice changing and everything, and they had to like re- they obviously had to rewrite the music, yes?

[40:31] Jake Ryan Flynn: No, they didn't. It is in the original key.

[40:32] Eli Tokash: No way.

[40:34] Jake Ryan Flynn: I sing the song in the original. I sing the song in the original key, with the exclusion of one note, which I take an alternate down. But for the most part, it is all in the key that Annalise Scarpaci sings.

[40:47] Eli Tokash: Oh my god.

[40:48] Jake Ryan Flynn: So I totally said that. It's not low. We'll just we'll call it a journey. It's not low.

[40:54] Eli Tokash: And I have to say, I saw the show and I was like, his voice, like, it's it's changed. We know that, but it's like it's sitting really well.

[41:03] Jake Ryan Flynn: Thank you.

[41:04] Eli Tokash: I was like, this is impressively high for like a just changed voice.

[41:09] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh so yeah, it was uh I thank my vocal coach Noelle Smith uh who um really helped me through we worked on it all during COVID uh so it would be easier and it as I did it it got easier and easier and um Chris York also helped me very uh much too.

[41:25] Jake Ryan Flynn: So it was uh it was a great journey. And even I on uh after January 9th, even coming back to the show, it was even better.

[41:32] Eli Tokash: Right.

[41:33] Jake Ryan Flynn: Because I had worked, I had been like, oh, I'm done with the show. I'll just sing songs that an adult should uh uh male should sing that's not like that I would just sing normally. And so that really opened the voice up to be able to do it.

[41:44] Jake Ryan Flynn: So um it was it was great to be able to do it and in the mask up high, you did it.

[41:51] Eli Tokash: Hey, it's over now. You can just celebrate it's good. Now no matter what we say it, but then it's going to London, they might call me.

[41:57] Jake Ryan Flynn: I mean, for for all we know, literally.

[41:59] Eli Tokash: Oh my god, that would be amazing.

[42:01] Jake Ryan Flynn: I totally see that. London, that's sick. Go do it.

[42:05] Eli Tokash: Um that's do it in ish action.

[42:07] Jake Ryan Flynn: Maybe maybe they'll like be like, Hey Jake, do you wanna play Doubtfire?

[42:10] Eli Tokash: Like that would be Please, whatever they want.

[42:14] Jake Ryan Flynn: I mean, uh pull my arm, I guess, you know.

[42:17] Eli Tokash: Um, incredible.

[42:19] Jake Ryan Flynn: I I don't know.

[42:19] Eli Tokash: Like that.

[42:20] Jake Ryan Flynn: I want to ask you about the the first time you saw him in those Rob that is in the Mrs. Doubtfire look.

[42:26] Jake Ryan Flynn: Cause that's that's literally I still can't get over it. It's amazing, and the process of how quickly they do it is just even more impressive.

[42:35] Jake Ryan Flynn: The first time I saw it, we had uh because out front of the theater there's photos of us playing guitar. Uh we did, which are different than what we end up taking different photos, but before we went to Seattle, okay, we had a photo shoot with Rob as Doubtfire and uh the family, pretty much.

[42:51] Jake Ryan Flynn: And uh so I walked, I walked in and I saw them putting on the makeup and the mask, and it was when he was it was shocking.

[43:01] Jake Ryan Flynn: It does not look like Rob. Yeah, he it's a full transformation.

[43:05] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's uh it's it's amazing what they can do with the mask and then like blending his makeup with the mask and then the wig and the glasses, like fully transforms.

[43:15] Jake Ryan Flynn: It was amazing. Like it was so exciting to be like the whole time during rehearsals, you're like, Whoa, what is it gonna look like? What's it what's what's like I mean, that's what you're waiting for.

[43:24] Eli Tokash: So it was so exciting to see him.

[43:26] Jake Ryan Flynn: And when we were tech, remember in Seattle when we were teching the show, we'd see him only in the Doubtfire for so long that when we were coming down with the hotel me and Annalise, Rob got off at his floor and came out.

[43:36] Jake Ryan Flynn: We're like, your face! Your face hadn't seen his face for so long because we had been teching all the scenes with Doubtfire.

[43:42] Eli Tokash: I love it.

[43:43] Jake Ryan Flynn: So um, yeah, it was um it was amazing seeing it for the first time.

[43:47] Eli Tokash: I'm like so curious from from seeing the show.

[43:51] Jake Ryan Flynn: I am so curious.

[43:52] Eli Tokash: Like, it looks so real and so uh incredible, like from the audience. Like, I'm dying to be like, what is it like close up?

[44:00] Jake Ryan Flynn: And I wonder like it how I mean because I feel like you may be able to tell like closer up, but from the audience, it's like no, there's literally once he puts it on, there's nothing on him.

[44:11] Jake Ryan Flynn: You like totally forget it's like makeup.

[44:13] Eli Tokash: It's yeah, it's amazing the tricks they can do because the mask, it's really like just like a pull-off thing.

[44:17] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's not like it's like this whole because you just rip it off.

[44:20] Eli Tokash: I mean, his fastest quick change is 18 seconds.

[44:22] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, I think.

[44:22] Eli Tokash: And and I love the fact that he does it on the stage.

[44:25] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like they totally like reveal the secret of it, you know.

[44:28] Eli Tokash: The quick change on the on the at the end of act one.

[44:31] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, that that's cool.

[44:32] Eli Tokash: It's and it's like so fast and like it's so choreographed, especially like um even in so in the in Fire, Charity's number the Doubtfire's dressing him.

[44:44] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's like on the music, it's I am putting my pants on. Hold the shirt out for him.

[44:50] Eli Tokash: Like, I I heard them when they were rehearsing, like it's all like put the shoes on now, line.

[44:55] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's like it's so cool how they like how they did that.

[44:59] Eli Tokash: Like it's it's amazing that they do it on stage.

[45:01] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like so cool.

[45:02] Eli Tokash: It's unbelievable.

[45:03] Jake Ryan Flynn: And and I can't believe like, cause obviously, like they they have like professionals doing it like b backstage, you know, like makeup people and everything, but like on the stage, it's like it's on Rob or it's on the ensemble.

[45:15] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's like it's wild.

[45:17] Eli Tokash: It's so cool.

[45:18] Jake Ryan Flynn: Truly that show was was fascinating. And I'll be shocked if Rob doesn't win the Tony, I have to say.

[45:23] Eli Tokash: I think he's like my leader for this season.

[45:26] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, so he is he's so so good.

[45:29] Eli Tokash: He's literally playing two roles in one show.

[45:32] Jake Ryan Flynn: I no one else is doing that this season. That's all I gotta say.

[45:35] Eli Tokash: And no, no break.

[45:36] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's not like I I think the only the only break he has in the show is during what the hell, which is the three kids' numbers.

[45:42] Eli Tokash: Yeah.

[45:42] Jake Ryan Flynn: So the first three minutes that's within the first 15 minutes of the show.

[45:46] Eli Tokash: So like he's really doing it.

[45:47] Jake Ryan Flynn: Exactly.

[45:48] Eli Tokash: It is crazy.

[45:49] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah.

[45:49] Eli Tokash: It's literally like one scene into the next.

[45:52] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like he just doesn't leave.

[45:53] Eli Tokash: And if he's leaving the stage, he's changing.

[45:55] Jake Ryan Flynn: Right.

[45:55] Eli Tokash: So it's not like.

[45:56] Jake Ryan Flynn: And even in intermission, he's like putting new makeup on, getting ready for act two.

[46:00] Eli Tokash: It's like he doesn't stop.

[46:01] Jake Ryan Flynn: Unbelievable.

[46:02] Eli Tokash: Jake, I Tony!

[46:03] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, Tony, come on.

[46:04] Eli Tokash: I I want to know.

[46:05] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like, have you so I didn't realize that the beatbox, like the the what is it called?

[46:10] Jake Ryan Flynn: The the loot machine?

[46:12] Eli Tokash: The loot machine.

[46:12] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know that was like actually him doing it on stage until like he he had shared it on his social media.

[46:20] Eli Tokash: Have you ever tried that?

[46:21] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like, I feel like that would be so cool.

[46:22] I have not tried it, but I was once in his dressing room, and uh there's a joke because I wrote a musical called a surprise party for Sue that was like a joke among the cast.

[46:30] Jake Ryan Flynn: So he I was just in his dressing room talking, and he took the loot machine and started playing with it to be like a surprise party for Sue.

[46:39] Jake Ryan Flynn: And it's like it's crazy. I I want to buy one of those machines because that's like something that like for like creative writing songs that sounds like amazing to like just punch it on that because it's so interesting.

[46:50] Jake Ryan Flynn: I remember him like it was he even did it since the reading. He like learned it and just figured it out, and it's gone the loop song has gone through many, many iterations, but like I mean it's it's all live.

[47:01] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's crazy that he does it live and it's on him.

[47:04] Eli Tokash: And sometimes it doesn't work like there's been shows where like it just something skips or repeats.

[47:09] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like I remember Rob once came off stage, he was like, It was great, good act one, the loot machine made me poop a bit.

[47:14] Eli Tokash: No my god, I'm ready for two.

[47:15] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like it literally, it's like every like sometimes when you hear it going off, everyone's so nervous.

[47:20] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like, oh my god, fix, fix, go back together.

[47:23] Eli Tokash: Right.

[47:24] Jake Ryan Flynn: That's nuts.

[47:25] Eli Tokash: That's hilarious.

[47:26] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's so fascinating.

[47:27] Eli Tokash: I I totally was like, okay, this is like the sound guy, obviously.

[47:31] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like, this is just Rob doing like really great timing with like hitting the button, and like it's crazy that that's actually him.

[47:39] Jake Ryan Flynn: Nope, it's all live.

[47:40] Eli Tokash: Yeah, that's wild.

[47:42] Jake Ryan Flynn: And he's like hitting buttons with puppets on his hands.

[47:44] Eli Tokash: Yeah.

[47:45] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like you're how does that not give you anxiety?

[47:47] Eli Tokash: Like, I'm sitting there like, how was he doing it?

[47:49] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, like I mean, no wonder it can sometimes go wrong.

[47:52] Eli Tokash: I mean, it's just there's so much going on.

[47:54] Jake Ryan Flynn: Exactly.

[47:54] Eli Tokash: Tony, anyway.

[47:55] Jake Ryan Flynn: Tony, anyway, moving on.

[47:56] Eli Tokash: J.

[47:57] Jake Ryan Flynn: Cry and play.

[47:57] Eli Tokash: I'm just gonna keep placing it.

[47:58] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[47:59] Eli Tokash: Seriously.

[48:00] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's so cool.

[48:01] Eli Tokash: So in the process is that I didn't realize that like once you did the reading, you got offered both Seattle and Broadway.

[48:08] Jake Ryan Flynn: So when you did Seattle, it was coming back to Broadway.

[48:10] Eli Tokash: So when did you find out like during the pandemic?

[48:13] Jake Ryan Flynn: So like once Doubtfire was open on Broadway for like four previews, um, then a pandemic hit and we had to shut down.

[48:20] Eli Tokash: So when did you find out that you would be um in the show and and what was that process like for you waiting for in with the anticipation and everything?

[48:30] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like what was that experience like for you? Uh there it was. It was like June 2021 that the show was coming back, and then I found out that they were gonna keep me no matter what I looked like or what I sounded like.

[48:41] Eli Tokash: Wow.

[48:42] Jake Ryan Flynn: And then we did like something in July, just like see what they needed to change or anything. And uh yeah, it was because I didn't expect I did I really didn't, like I just was shocked.

[48:52] Jake Ryan Flynn: Like, I mean I was I mean the parts 12, I'm 15, like I didn't expect to um do the part so just just like it w I'm like, I'm taller than Rob now, so it was like amazing to be able to like to be able to come back and like do the show.

[49:06] Eli Tokash: Right.

[49:07] Jake Ryan Flynn: And so it uh just to open it, like it was incredible.

[49:10] Eli Tokash: When when I saw the show and it's like, I mean, obviously, like it was after your like fourth time around with the show.

[49:19] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um it was uh you were taller than Rob, and I I think that it added something to the story of like I I don't even know what it was, but like it it's so rare to see that on Broadway where like it seems like all these kids have to be like in a slant, depending on like the ages and all of that, like everything's so particular, but in the real world, it's like I'm taller than both of my parents, so like it's possible, you know, like it it Yeah, it's interesting because like I mean, even like being taller than Annalise, most brothers, even younger brothers are taller than the rover sister.

[49:53] Jake Ryan Flynn: I mean, that's just how it is. And like, I mean, my neighbors, my neighbor Brynn, like she's taller than she's gonna be taller than her dad, and uh, he's five seven, she's and her mom's five nine or something, and she's gonna be taller than him.

[50:05] Eli Tokash: So it's not unrealistic, it happens.

[50:07] Jake Ryan Flynn: Exactly.

[50:08] Eli Tokash: And and I think that you and the producers of Doubtfire, of course, um that it was so brilliant that that that they were able to be accepting of that and and kind of welcome that because like that is something that happens and it's n it never happens on Broadway, but it happens in real life, and like it's okay that that happens, like you know.

[50:27] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um I know that that was the best part, like to be to be like a kid whose voice changes and is taller than the part is supposed to be, but still doing the show.

[50:37] Eli Tokash: Right.

[50:38] Jake Ryan Flynn: And like because that doesn't I mean the only time that's really happened is 13 the musical.

[50:41] Jake Ryan Flynn: Was when there was kids with voice changes on the stage.

[50:43] Eli Tokash: So it's really rare to see a kid with a voice change totally that's not 18 playing an adult, paying playing a kid.

[50:49] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah it totally so um it was that that was a great thing.

[50:52] Eli Tokash: It's awesome, and and I was so curious, like what would they were gonna do moving forward?

[50:57] Jake Ryan Flynn: Obviously, they brought in uh people that were pretty short uh a couple other performers that are super young and yeah there was a it was a 10 and 11 year old so they went back to like right the original um the what I was when I was in the reading pretty much right and I was curious to see like what they would do would they keep your kind of look and height and everything or would they go back to that but it was cool that they had it for that for that a period of time with you in the show.

[51:22] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah it was sick.

[51:24] Eli Tokash: I was like this is so cool and I wish more shows would do it and hopefully now that you did it more shows will be willing to do it you know be nice yeah for sure.

[51:32] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um all right moving on I have some fan questions for you I have two fan questions for you um okay we have one from Archie Ansdale uh Arch at Arch Archie underscore Ansdale um he wants to know or they want to know what it's like being an original Broadway cast um and you were with two so you have experienced two different experiences so it's incredible because it's like you're the only one that's ever done that part.

[52:02] Jake Ryan Flynn: So it's like you're introducing the part to the audience, if you will, and it's like to be that and also just to be a part of the creative process, like to come in and building the show, like seeing a show in different iterations, like seeing it from the reading to what it is to what it was when we closed. It's incredible to be a part of that process and do the previews and like feeling out the laughs and like feeling fixing what works and adding new changes.

[52:30] Jake Ryan Flynn: It can be crazy and can be stressful, but it's the best part, and it's my favorite part of doing a Broadway show is the leading up to opening the show, rehearsing it and doing the previews and adding things.

[52:43] Jake Ryan Flynn: Ooh, did that go well? Oh, the note sessions and all that. Like that's the best part of it for me.

[52:48] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, yeah. And doing the cast recording.

[52:49] Jake Ryan Flynn: Oh yeah. Like when I heard myself in the cast recording, that was an amazing moment to hear myself like on an original Broadway cast album. Like that is really cool. Doesn't get much better than that.

[52:59] Eli Tokash: It doesn't get old, I'm sure either.

[53:01] Jake Ryan Flynn: So it's awesome. So cool. Um, you kind of talked about it earlier, like with especially with those leaders like Christian Borle and Rob McClure, like learning from them and seeing how they are willing to take the risk in the preview and rehearsal process. Um, obviously, like if you're not an original Broadway cast, you don't necessarily have that sort of freedom to play with the role like that. So I definitely agree with you. Like that is one of the coolest things about it, and like now forever, like you could say like you originated Christopher Hilliard, and like this character was kind of based on the choices that you made and what felt right in your body and everything else is that you laid the blueprint.

[53:40] Jake Ryan Flynn: I have a joke that I left a show and then replaced myself.

[53:44] Eli Tokash: Yes, in a way.

[53:46] Jake Ryan Flynn: Oh my god. Brilliant. They just missed you so much that they needed you back.

[53:50] Eli Tokash: I just, I had to replace myself.

[53:52] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, you just had to replace yourself. Um, I also jokingly called it a tour because I like got paid per deep.

[53:58] Eli Tokash: Yeah.

[53:58] Jake Ryan Flynn: So, uh, I was in Boston, like it's the touring production.

[54:01] Eli Tokash: The touring production, that's hilarious.

[54:04] Eli Tokash: Um, moving on. We have one more fan question.

[54:07] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um, it says, What is your, oh, this one is from at Diana Damore underscore. Um, she wants to know what your funniest story from Mrs. Doubtfire is.

[54:18] Jake Ryan Flynn: Funniest story from? Well, there was a phone call at 6 a.m.

[54:22] Eli Tokash: No.

[54:23] Jake Ryan Flynn: Oh my god, but uh, but uh, uh, like a funniest, funniest, uh, well I'll share a mishap. Okay, that's fair, um, that happened. Uh, because, uh, it was so, uh, there was one time where there's the apartment sets, it's like two pieces that come on from the right and left side of the wing and they connect to make the whole thing, but they track on. And uh, the nightmare scene with all the Doubtfires in Seattle, they all entered from behind the apartment because it used to take place in the apartment. So we all shuffled on, like, I mean, there had to be 20 something of us. So, and there was a time where Brad and Jay were also dressed as Doubtfires, and we would quick change and be at Doubtfires.

[55:07] Jake Ryan Flynn: That change. So Brad and Jay were also in Doubtfires.

[55:09] Eli Tokash: No way.

[55:10] Jake Ryan Flynn: So there's all of us, so we're all shuffling on, and I don't know where the set stopped. Now picture 10 on one side, 10 on the other, plus wardrobe staff, all like, what's going on? Wait, what? We see Rob go out for his quick change, and we have the first lines, meaning at least we go through the door. So we're like, uh, well, we're doing the scene, no one said hold yet. So I'm opening the door, and then the set moves, so we jump off for it to come back in to go on and then just do the scene. Uh, so that was crazy.

[55:38] Jake Ryan Flynn: That's why. Oh, and then there's one. This was a devastating moment on my part.

[55:42] Eli Tokash: No, no.

[55:43] Jake Ryan Flynn: Uh, so there's, there's, uh, there's it actually I don't think you saw this part because it got cut after.

[55:48] Eli Tokash: Oh, okay.

[55:49] Jake Ryan Flynn: But there was a part where Wanda Sykes came in in the new clean apartment, and she says something like, Wow, Mr. Hillard, great improvement. And then Daniel says, Well, I've been acquiring some new domestic skills, and me and Lydia laugh, ha ha ha ha! It's like a funny joke. And so that was the bit. And so one night I'm sitting there like just thinking about like notes, and then so she comes and she goes, Wow, uh, very nice, but it's like big improvement. And I thought I missed it, so I laugh.

[56:17] Jake Ryan Flynn: Oh my god. So I jumped the cue. I jumped the line. And everyone's, and I'm like, oh, I guess Annalise forgot to do it. That's this is me thinking in my head. Because I thought I almost was late. Right. So everyone's looking at I gotta laugh, but everyone's like looking at me. Annalise's like laughing, trying to keep it in, and Rob is like, Yeah, I've been acquiring some new domestic skills. Like, look, every so everyone's looking at me, and I'm like, what the? And then I just realized, oh my god, I never had the cue to do the line. I was like, so I jumped the cue. So that was funny.

[56:50] Jake Ryan Flynn: The good thing is is that that kind of works with your character.

[56:54] Eli Tokash: Exactly.

[56:55] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah. It wasn't like, it wasn't like, wow, this, wow, what a great home. Ha ha ha! Like just like something random. It was, and then we thought it would be funny if I just laugh at everything. Now it's a bit.

[57:05] Eli Tokash: Yeah.

[57:05] Jake Ryan Flynn: It could be like, what do you want to eat? Ha ha ha.

[57:08] Eli Tokash: Right.

[57:08] Jake Ryan Flynn: It's totally, so uh, that was an amazing mishap.

[57:12] Eli Tokash: Yeah, for sure. It's totally not out of pocket for your character.

[57:15] Jake Ryan Flynn: So it totally, it totally works. I'm sure no one noticed, but that is pretty awesome. I love when that happens, like being a part of your audience, like, because there's nothing better than like when you're watching a show and then like someone breaks. Like there just isn't. Also, I like laugh at things, like I'm not, I would say, unprofessional actor. Like, I will laugh at things, and then also it's terrible. When there's Jake and Annalise are on stage, it's bad because if something funny happens and then we clock eyes, it's like Jake and Elise, oh my god. Choking it in, like it's, I love it.

[57:47] Eli Tokash: So bad.

[57:48] Jake Ryan Flynn: But it's, you know, live theater. Live theater. But that's the beauty of it. Whatever happens is like the audience is getting a special treatment.

[57:56] Eli Tokash: So I love your guys' at you and Annalise's, like your little sibling relationship in real life that has kind of developed, not development.

[58:05] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um, yeah, it's so fully, fully. I love Annalise.

[58:09] Jake Ryan Flynn: Live imitating art.

[58:10] Eli Tokash: Yep.

[58:10] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yeah, Annalise is the best. We've had her on the show like I think she's the only one that's been on twice or more than once.

[58:17] Eli Tokash: Um, yeah, she's the best.

[58:19] Jake Ryan Flynn: She's literally, I guess you'll have to have me back.

[58:22] Eli Tokash: I'm gonna have to catch you both on together.

[58:24] Jake Ryan Flynn: That would be hilarious.

[58:25] Eli Tokash: Yes, yeah. The both, the both, that would be dangerous, but I'm here for it.

[58:30] Jake Ryan Flynn: Exactly. Exactly. That would be, we don't know what that would be like.

[58:34] Eli Tokash: Right.

[58:34] Jake Ryan Flynn: We'll get nothing done, but that's okay.

[58:36] Eli Tokash: Well, it's great. Um, well, Jake, I mean, honest to God, like your stories, your experience through Doubtfire and Charlie, like they're so cool, they're so unique, and what you've done so far in such a young and new, I guess, kind of career, it's just, it's awesome. So, like, huge congrats and thank you for joining me this week because I think you've told some really cool stories that a lot of people will enjoy.

[59:00] Jake Ryan Flynn: Thank you so much.

[59:01] Jake Ryan Flynn: Thank you for having me. I'm so glad that you that I got to come on. It's amazing.

[59:04] Eli Tokash: Oh my god, thank you.

[59:05] Eli Tokash: Of course, I'm so glad this worked out, and I'm so glad the timing worked out with Doubtfire just closing, and then now you were able to kind of continue the Doubtfire legacy for a little bit. Um, for an hour of your time. Uh, but yeah, this was great, and I appreciate all the wonderful things that you brought on. If um, people want to like check you out and kind of keep up with all the fun things that you're doing and what you're doing next, um, where can they find you?

[59:32] Jake Ryan Flynn: Well, uh, my Instagram is Jake underscore Ryan underscore Flynn. Uh, on Monday, June 6th, I'm doing a concert with Eli Bolin, who is the writer of Sack Lunch Bunch. It's called Eli Bolin has no friends, and I am playing one of the people of the friends he doesn't have. Uh, I will be singing uh songs uh grandma's got a boyfriend from Sack Lunch Bunch and a new song that he's writing for a new show. Uh, and Ava Brigula, who's also part of Sack Lunch, will be singing the song with me. It's a duet. So it's at 54 Below. You can get your tickets now, so please come into the show on the 6th. Um, so yeah, yeah, and you can follow me on Instagram and keep up with what I'm doing.

[1:00:08] Eli Tokash: Amazing. It's probably something stupid because I do stupid things.

[1:00:11] Jake Ryan Flynn: No, but you do, it's all sort of amazing things, and you're, you mentioned you're, you know, you're writing your own show, Frederick Douglass, the musical. I mean, you're doing all kinds of things.

[1:00:21] Jake Ryan Flynn: That's all the Frederick Douglass musical. That's like the emotional one, and then I have Surprise Party for Sue, the dumb musical comedy.

[1:00:27] Eli Tokash: Oh, of course.

[1:00:28] Jake Ryan Flynn: Um, which is, that's, you know, that's like, you know, we want options, you know. We got the emotional one, the dear of enhancer kind of one, and then we have the, yeah, yeah, exactly.

[1:00:36] Eli Tokash: Diversity, yes, versatile.

[1:00:38] Jake Ryan Flynn: Yes, uh, versatile actor and writer, of course. Um, amazing. Well, thank you so much. Everyone check him out on Instagram if you haven't already, and uh, follow along because this isn't gonna be the last of Jake Ryan Flynn, that's for sure.

[1:00:51] Jake Ryan Flynn: Thanks for coming on.

[1:00:52] Eli Tokash: Thank you. Take a bow, Jake Ryan Flynn.

[1:00:55] Jake Ryan Flynn: Oh my god, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. I had such a great time with you talking about what it's like to be a kid in the entertainment industry and what it's like to have families supporting you and kind of the necessity of that. Um, shout out to all of the parents out there who are doing what they can for their kids and supporting them, even if it's in a regional space, even if they can't commit to travel and everything like that. Um, y'all are driving us to the theater anyways in our local community, even if the local community is literally 50 minutes away. Um, I know all the stories, so I appreciate you, all the parents and what they do here, and especially Jake and I, we could both vouch that we've had some serious sacrificing going on in our family to make our dreams a possibility and a reality.

So, um, huge shout out to him. Congratulations again on a wonderful run in Mrs. Doubtfire and an unforgettable run in Mrs. Doubtfire. Literally for the entire company. I mean, that it's just a roller coaster of emotions. The past three years have been. It's incredible. I loved the show, and like I said, I wouldn't be surprised if Rob McClure does run away with the Tony.

[1:02:11] Eli Tokash: Um, with that being said, we are having our Tony rundown and previews coming at you all next week, which I'm very excited for. Uh, I'm gonna try to get on a couple special guests, so we can do like a little panel of like, uh, I guess judging, I guess. Not, but like not necessarily judging, because I don't like the word judging, but like we're gonna be reviewing and like kind of like giving our predictions and or our personal favorites. Um, so very exciting stuff coming your way next week. And uh, I just love this episode. I love talking to the kids in the entertainment industry and kind of talking about their stories and what it's like to grow up with a family around them in a company such as these wonderful people that we've been able to work with.

Um, so super fun, super full circle moment with Jake and I, and I hope you all enjoyed it. So, uh, with that being said, thank you all for listening to this week's episode, and I hope to see you all next week because we have a really fun and a good new kind of episode coming at you all. So it should be fun, and we'll see how it goes, and we will see you then.

[1:03:13] Eli Tokash: So, thanks again for listening to this week's episode of Take A Bow. Find us on all social media at Take A Bow Podcast. Uh, you can look at our website, takeabowpod.com, and uh yeah, check us out. Check us out on TikTok, Instagram, all the things. Have a great week, everybody.

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