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[0:00] Eli Tokash: Hello everyone and welcome to episode 83 of Take A Bow. I'm your host, Eli Tokash, and today we have an episode that is more of me just kind of talking to all of you. Um, it's kind of like a monthly little check-in here. Um, we've had a lot of craziness going on in the Broadway world, and I just really wanted to address all of it and kind of take the time to use this platform to speak from myself and also um kind of give actors and performers that I would normally talk to a little bit of a rest. And I know they're dealing a lot with a lot, you know, mentally and uh emotionally during this time and performing on Broadway and a pandemic and with all of these shutdowns going on recently, it's just been really tricky.

Um, and so I just I figured this week would be a good week to have a little monthly check-in and to wish everyone who celebrates a Merry Christmas. So, um, to kick off the holiday season, we're actually gonna be talking you and me, and it may not be the um happiest of topics, but it's all topics that uh definitely need to be talked about and uh and addressed. Um, so as always, we're gonna start out and we're gonna talk about the news, and that's really gonna be our whole episode because there's just so so much going on uh right now and then of course I'll have a little bit of drama dictionary in it and I'll have a little bit of a triple E segment, uh which is Eli's Entertainment Experience. We're gonna throw in a little bit of everything in this week's episode. So as always, let's start off with the news.

[1:36] Eli Tokash: So as many of you know, um or may not know that Music Man has officially opened on Broadway, which is very exciting. Um, obviously I mentioned last week that a lot of shows they announced that they would be canceling a few performances um as far as COVID and and um this new this new um variant of the COVID-19 virus uh has kinda started to break out here in New York. So I was a little bit I don't know. Maybe I maybe I shouldn't have been, but I guess I I was a little bit surprised that uh Music Man did open and it did open on time, um and kinda didn't delay anything until maybe after the holidays, especially with the with the star-studded cast that it had. I figured they want to protect them and everything.

But obviously they were feeling comfortable and confident that uh they were able to put on the show and uh do it in a safe manner. So uh huge shout out to them. Happy opening to everyone involved. We actually have a previous guest that is in Music Man, Ryan Worsing. Um and he's actually a swing and we're gonna be talking a lot about swings today. Uh don't worry about that, but we're gonna we're gonna wait for that for a little bit. Um, but huge shout out to Ryan Worsing because literally on opening night, all of the swings were on in Music Man. Uh so so the swings right now, they're keeping Broadway alive, man, and they're they're just killing it. Um I can't stress enough. Every week it's like more of a reason to just praise swings and understudies and everyone in between.

Um so huge shout out to them. Huge shout out to Ryan in particular, and if you haven't yet, go listen to his episode 'cause he talks a lot about uh actually he was a two-part episode. We actually split his episode up and uh so he he has uh two episodes where he talks about all of his shows and he took he kinda teases a little bit about Music Man and being in that and uh so it's very exciting. So huge, huge congratulations and happy opening to everyone involved in Music Man. Um hopefully we can get some more of their cast on because I know it's a very exciting show. I know it's highly anticipated with um with of course its star-studded cast. Um, but with all of that being said, uh, that that'll be soon to come. So hopefully so hopefully something can uh come of that for sure.

[4:08] Eli Tokash: Now speaking of COVID and uh talking a little bit about it last week and how they had it it kind of forced shows to cancel some performances or whatever it may have been, um, this week co this new variant uh clo canceling shows and everything actually closed two whole shows and three shows, uh, when you're including like off Broadway. And those shows include um Trevor the Musical, which is an off Broadway show that I've talked a lot about, um, Is There Still Sex in the City with Candice Bushnell. And of course probably one of the biggest surprises, Jagged Little Pill. Um and that was that was really hard, uh, for me to to read all of this and see all of these. I've talked a lot about Jagged Little Pill and how much I've enjoyed that show.

Um obviously when we had Antonio Cipriano on. Uh I talk I've talked a lot about it with Elizabeth Stanley who who uh was some a a performer that actually got pregnant and they were still like working with her and she was still a part of the company and they were splitting time, um, even after she had the baby. It was just it was really great everything that they were doing, and of course my my previous director, Diane Paulus, I I'm a big supporter in her. Um so I've talked a lot about it and so that was really hard and of course Trevor I've talked a lot about being associated with the show um in in its world premiere. Now is there still sex in the city. I was starting to slowly become uh associated with the show through a program that I'm gonna speak about in a little bit um that I have an announcement to make but we're we're talking about sad things right now.

So I'm gonna make things lighter at the end. Um an exciting announcement was also made this week which was kind of interestingly and eerily close to uh the Jagged Little Pill's announcement of closing a strange loop is coming to Broadway. So we'll see maybe if that had something to do with it and whatever but uh Pulitzer Prize-winning uh musical here a lot of buzz. Um it's not even on Broadway and it's just gotten so much traction and there's a lot of talk about it. So very exciting for a strange loop to come to Broadway and hopefully that and uh opens up uh up here soon because I know there are some theaters available um and now we have a a few more um to add to the list. So hopefully uh it opens doors for for many shows and stories to be told that uh have not been able to to be shared with uh a larger audience so very exciting for for all of the future art that is to come.

[6:59] Eli Tokash: Now in talking about all of these shows kind of being canceled and um either closed um in Jagged Little Pill's, Trevor, and Is There Still Sex in the City's case. Um we would there's been an addressment made by the president of the Broadway League, Charlotte St. Martin, and she kind of made a a comment that didn't sit well for performers. Um she made the comment just yesterday, uh if you're listening to this on Thursday, um, she she made the the comment that my educated guess is the newer shows maybe have understudies that aren't as efficient in delivering the roles as the lead is. Some of the older shows have more experienced understudies and more experienced swings. I know one show last week where the lead was out, the understudy was on vacation, the swings were covering other parts, and they just didn't have enough people to stand in.

Now this is a comment that came from our kind of um our our boss in a way as performers. Um this is the president of the Broadway League. Um this is this is you you kind of just read that that comment and read that statement and kind of just shake your head as to these newer shows don't have uh the understudies that are efficient enough in and delivering the roles that like the leads are, and these older shows have more experienced swings and what that is the most ridiculous comment I've ever heard. And I'm sorry, um Charlotte, you know, uh we obviously have crossed paths and you know I I I just can't believe that this was a comment that was made from the president the Broadway league I think that it is completely unfair to say and and people today if you follow performers on Broadway I mean you social media completely erupted Josh Layman he posted I would love to see Charlotte go on uh for Patti LuPone and company uh at a moment's notice like I she was she he said I don't need your apology I just want you to go on for Patti LuPone at a moment's notice I think that swings are the most valuable people in all of the performing arts like in all of the performing arts period um people that are being affected by COVID they are yeah able to take care of themselves uh because of the swings and what they're able to do anyway anyways um I'm gonna move on and I'm actually gonna talk about something else that that was said um in the news uh actually yesterday too um or maybe not yesterday I apologize it was maybe a couple days ago um it was yes it was December 20th Bette Midler actually made a statement and said what Joe Manchin did uh uh this this is by the way from Bette Midler on her Twitter what Joe Manchin who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn has done to the rest of America who wants to move forward not backward like his state is horrible.

[10:31] Eli Tokash: He sold us out. He wants us all to be like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate, and strung out. And now I feel very passionate about this too. Um, obviously, as most of you know, I am from West Virginia, so that uh definitely resonates with me, and I think that that was a very um bold statement for her to come out and say. Um but with that being said, I uh I respect Bette Midler as a performer and I respect her in all of the things that I've seen her. She was fantastic in Hello Dolly, and everything else I've seen her, politician, everything. Um however, this just this just left a sour taste in my mouth because I think that um it it she uh she apologized as well, just like Charlotte St. Martin.

Um however it doesn't change what you say and your intention behind it, and um I think that coming at uh the people of West Virginia was was kind of not fair, and calling them poor, illiterate, and strung out. Sure, um the numbers may refer to that as we are not the wealthy state, uh as a whole, we do not have the best educational system in the United States. There's no doubt about it. However, I just think that um how she she kind of called out the people of West Virginia was completely unfair because after being in West Virginia, me moving to New York, I I couldn't have done it without the people uh the support of the people in West Virginia, those people will literally give you the shirt off their back.

They're literally some of the nicest people uh that you will ever meet, and I think it's unfair to call them out in such a negative way, and instead I think that uh we should look at that and we should try to help them in a positive way and um help them in in educating them and to um you know kind of guide them in the into where they need to be um instead of just bashing them and be bringing them down.

[12:50] Eli Tokash: Um I just think it's it's not fair, especially having that personal connection to it. Um but I think that uh Ryan Switzer who is a football player actually summed it up perfectly. He said West Virginia has its rough patches just like any other state. But for the most part it is a beautiful place with some of the friendliest people you'll ever meet. Regardless of Joe, this is unnecessary and unfair to the hardworking people of the state that I love. And um I I couldn't agree more with this statement because like I said, I would not be where I am today without the support. It it truly takes a village and um West Virginia, the people of West Virginia don't deserve to be to be uh in that category the way that um that she kind of portrayed them to be and um I just I I just felt like I needed to say that and get that off my chest. Um but once again I respect Bette Midler. I respect her opinion. She she is totally entitled to her own. Um I I just I just felt like I needed to address that. So anyways moving on.

[14:06] Eli Tokash: I I I have we'll we'll talk about some exciting things now. That's enough for the the the news and the sadness that's going on in the world, I guess, uh this week uh for this week's episode of Take A Bow. Uh I have an early Christmas present to all of you, uh to all of you listeners and everything. Um I am actually joining Broadway Plus.

[14:30] Eli Tokash: So for those of you who don't know, some of you very well may. Um I talked a lot about it during the pandemic when it first started out. Because there were no shows or anything like that, a lot of the actors in the performing arts community uh came together and they created this platform called Broadway Plus, and Broadway actors and people in TV or whatever it may be, mostly Broadway actors and and theater makers kind of came together and created this platform to to give the to those uh theater audiences and theater lovers and theater goers um to connect with them and um interact with them in a virtual way and everything like that.

[15:13] Eli Tokash: Um so Broadway Plus is is a platform where um you can take lessons, you can have Q&A, you can do like special private events with uh your favorite Broadway people. Um and and I've been fortunate enough to to team up with them. So I'm very excited for that and I'm excited to announce that. Um if any of you are interested, go check it out. It's Broadway Plus dot com and you can search me up. You can search up a lot of our Take A Bow guests.

[15:46] Eli Tokash: Um but it it's a great it's a great platform and you can check me out. I'll be doing all kinds of things. Um you can actually request to do uh specific things if you don't see something that um is is true to you that uh that is being offered right now on the website right now you can see there's a video shout out from me there's a one on one Q&A there's a one on one coaching and there's a group Q&A or master class so that group Q&A or master class can be with me and multiple other artists that you see on on the platform uh the one on one coaching will be with me and it'll be with you of course um and we will be doing um audition prep we can do college audition prep we can do um acting through song so you can sing a song for me and I can help you um send out the message that you're trying to to share and while singing that song and uh it will help you for both auditions and college auditions um and just cabarets and whatever it may be um and then of course we'll like regular drama classes I can help you with um a script or whatever you may need to to to guide you along that way um once again that will be virtual and then a one on one Q&A which I will be happy to answer any of your questions or anything like that that you have for me um or or tips or or or guides in how to start out and how to get involved in the media aspect of Broadway kind of like I'm doing now um whatever it may be uh what what made you kind of go to college for not musical theater, even though you love it, blah blah blah.

[17:34] Eli Tokash: Like, oh, you can ask me anything, anything that you want. That that's an opportunity, and then of course, like a video shout out, like a little cameo kind of moment where I can send you a happy birthday. I can send you a Merry Christmas. I can send you a happy holidays. I can send you whatever you may want. A happy birthday. I think I said that. Never mind. But yes, I can do anything that you want. And then, of course, there's there's gonna be another section that's gonna be added um that you can actually uh kind of get in touch with right now. Uh one of the people at Broadway Plus.

[18:03] Eli Tokash: It's not currently listed, but um I will be also doing a a special um a special little uh class, or I guess you could call it um that is unique to my own because no one else really has it on their on their profile. I will be doing a a course or a class um or a lesson, I guess you call it, because it'll be like as many times as you like, but it will really be like 30 to 60 minutes, uh just the one time. Um, and then we can do interview and like how to be an interviewer and or an interviewee, and I'll be coaching you on those types of skills and kind of similar to like you know, getting involved in the media and starting your own podcasts and starting your own company, whatever it may be.

[18:56] Eli Tokash: Like, I I'm I I will be there to to help you with all of it. So Broadway Plus, go check it out. Eli Tokash on Broadway Plus. Um, I I can't wait to to work with all of you. Um hopefully we will be able to do some things and hopefully it'll be helpful. I know it will be helpful, um, because I have had some some great teachers and mentors along the way that um that will absolutely be the methods and um the the true talking points and key points that I will be teaching to all of you um and I truly believe that they are invaluable and um I'm excited to share that with you all so um check it out I'm I'm really excited and I really really hope that we can connect with one another and and and collaborate and use our our gifts that we've been given uh as people to tell stories and um I think that there's really something really special about it and once I once again it it's virtual, so that that's great, it's gonna be safe.

[20:01] Eli Tokash: Um I I obviously like I'm located in New York, but if you're not located in New York, that's okay because it is virtual. So I can literally do it with you from anywhere. Well literally, if you're listening to this right now in another country, I can I can do that. You know, Broadway Plus provides that that um uh availability. Um and and that's not just for me, that's with all of the artists on Broadway Plus. I mean you have guests like the guests that we've had on the podcast like Adam Jacobs and and Max Von Essen and Um Th there's a bunch of us.

[20:39] Eli Tokash: Um that's just the the two that I I have off the top of my head right now. But yes, there are plenty of of your favorite Broadway stars on that platform. So go check it out and uh please please check my page out and um I hope that uh that someone allows me to to help them because that's really what I want to do, and that's totally what interested me in saying yes and being a part of this wonderful community. Um I really think that they're doing great work over there.

[21:12] Eli Tokash: So check it out. Eli Tokash Broadway Plus. And that leads us to the end of the news segment. Drama dictionary time, people.

[21:23] Eli Tokash: This week we have we have so many options to choose from, but I think this week's um wonderful, wonderful um drama dictionary word of the week is gonna be that was my little drum roll. Um I think it's gonna be a monologue. And I've been talking a lot about um this whole audition prep and college prep and whatever it may be. Um but to do this whole like little little thing that we call acting and storytelling, you're gonna be asked to do a monologue.

[22:00] Eli Tokash: Well, what is a monologue? A monologue is like a long speech made by like an actor, and it's usually like uh a story, you know. It's like so you have a bunch of your you have a bunch of your lines, um, which is like the dialogue, um, and you you have this like huge paragraph where you're really trying to tell a story, and it's it's so long um on paper because of how important what you're trying to stress um and the message that you're trying to get across, and I I it's really important to your character.

[22:40] Eli Tokash: So you really have to to to figure that out uh as an actor and and and making sure that you have all of your your um your your goals and your what what you're trying to play and your actions and your beats and everything like that. Um that's really important in in giving a monologue and it can um obviously it's it's you will be saying the whole monologue and the whole speech, um, but you will obviously be giving it to someone.

[23:10] Eli Tokash: Um and so w in college auditions it's about like a minute monologue, you know, you you need at least a minute or or you need just under a minute. Um and and monologues are huge in college auditions, and I haven't used a monologue in years. Um that is being uh a monologue as in, you know, you have your audition songs and everything like that when you go to an audition and you have your your go-to songs that you like to sing.

[23:42] Eli Tokash: Um but oftentimes if you don't have a script, like for college, you're not auditioning for a specific show, so that you don't have really have anything to to show off your acting ability other than the songs. Um they'll ask you to do a monologue from a from another play or something like that.

[23:57] Eli Tokash: So you really have to have like an a little monologue book too, uh, for when it comes to college audition C. Did you know that? See, that's what I can be teaching you on Broadway Plus, and we can go into way more depth on it there.

[24:10] Eli Tokash: Um so yeah, that that that is what a monologue is. It's like those it's those massive moments in the shows where it's just like you could hear a pin drop in in listening to the to the uh actors and or performer speak and uh tell this story that they're trying to tell. Um I will say um there's obviously not um this whole monologue book when you're auditioning for a piece, but oftentimes when you are auditioning for a piece and that y they give you the sides, um and it and it could be about like three to six pages or it could be nine pages, whatever it may be.

[24:48] Eli Tokash: I guarantee you there will be a monologue in there, uh uh in your character and they will they will obviously give it for you so it's not one that has previously been out there like i it would be for your monologue book.

[25:01] Eli Tokash: Um this is kind of one specifically for this piece of work that you are doing, um, just so that they see the many emotions that you can express. And um a monologue is really great because it is so long that you can have all of these different emotions into one section of the audition and the art and the craft. So it's really great. Um monologue's awesome. It's a pain to learn, but in the end, it's so beautiful and um I think that's why it's a pain, 'cause you've put so much work into it, but that's what the beauty is. Um because once you put the work in, it just, it's beautiful. You really get the message across to who you want to and that's all that really matters. So that's what a monologue is, and uh I hope that you all learned it a little bit like that.

Maybe you already knew what it was, but um I just wanted to explain it a little bit more for those who didn't. Um and then of course I really wanted to emphasize the importance that monologues have on auditions and being a performer in general. Um obviously in a show there's at least one monologue, um for sure. Uh if you go see a show, you'll go see it and you'll realize that one person is talking for like one minute. And in "Dear Evan Hansen," there's like seventeen monologues. It's ridiculous. He has like a monologue in every scene. Um, anyways. I don't know why that came into my head, it just randomly did.

[25:45] Eli Tokash: Anyways, um that's yeah, again, that's what a monologue is, and hopefully you all learned that. I wanted to talk about my experience in doing a monologue. There's this wonderful monologue that I really enjoy um I enjoy using, and it is from the show "Prodigal Son," which is a show that uh Timothy Chalamet did in New York, and it's this scene where he like goes off on his teacher, and it's just brilliantly written and it's super emotional, and I actually had some of the hardest time doing that monologue because you really want to, when you're choosing your work, you really want to choose work that speaks to you and speaks to you in a way that you can relate to it in such a special and specific way, and um I think if you do that, it's clear and it just becomes that much more impactful and gives you that much of an edge in getting a spot or getting a role or whatever it may be.

[26:47] Eli Tokash: Um so in doing this, a lot of times like you have to be careful because I had to learn this the hard way that there were monologues that I was choosing and I physically just couldn't get through them because I was either laughing too much in a comedic monologue, I was crying too much because it brought me to a place where I just could not handle it. Um or it just like it kinda did both for me. Um and it was just like you just have to keep pushing through and monologues are so difficult and it's like you think you have your methods and you're doing your work and sharing your stories and whatever it may be, but oftentimes like when it comes to the monologue, it's just so different from anything else, and it solely becomes a piece of work that you have to do and that you have to focus on.

[26:47] Eli Tokash: And um I think that there's a lot of beauty in that and doing this monologue in "Prodigal Son," uh there was a lot of crying for me in this one, and funny enough, because it was so long, it's easy to mistake to like make a mistake or mess it up or trip up your words or skip a sentence or whatever it may be. And that happened to me a lot. And that's okay. I mean, you all hear me for an hour every week and I always stumble on my words and I always talk really fast and whatever it is, and that's no different when I do an audition or do whatever I'm doing. So it's easy for me to make a simple mistake and with a monologue like that, it's a lot of yelling, and you have to like preserve your voice because when I was doing my college audition, I started losing my voice.

[29:54] Eli Tokash: And I still had to sing. So I was freaking out. And believe it or not, there's actually a way to talk and to scream in a way that is healthy for your vocal cords. And I know that like I say that and it's like, well duh, or maybe it's like a surprise to some of you. But like honestly, I truly like didn't realize that. I feel like I was just talking and so I just made my voice a little louder. I didn't know that what I was doing may be unhealthy or may lead to losing my voice or whatever. I was like, I talk all the time. My voice is in great shape. I won't lose my voice. I thought wrong.

[30:38] Eli Tokash: Anyways, um, yeah, so there's like, you have to train your voice to talk for theater, especially when you don't have a microphone. You have to train it in a way that it is healthy and you also have to train it in a way that um it is full of sound and you can hear it from the last seat of the house, um while being able to talk still. It's that full sound that you're trying to get and there's a lot of exercises that you can do um to get your voice to do that, and so there's all these little tricks that um you may not realize in doing each piece of storytelling that comes with being a performer and being an actor.

[31:26] Eli Tokash: And so I think that all of those things are very valuable to learn, um, because it's just things that you never think about, but then you like of course there's like a method to this, you know, there's a method to everything in life. Why wouldn't there be a method to this? And you just have to when you do all of these things you have to find out what works for you of course and then you have to say well how can I do this in a healthy way? How can I do this in a way that I'm not gonna kill myself and in a way that like I'm not gonna stress myself out and kill my vocal cords and do whatever.

[32:01] Eli Tokash: So you really have to like reach out for help and you have to like ask your friends, ask DM a professional, um just reach out to people and get that help because collaborating with other people is only going to make you a stronger person, a stronger artist, a stronger person and everything else. So I would truly recommend um looking on YouTube or doing the research just putting in that extra time and effort is really gonna go a long way because especially with something like a monologue and doing college auditions I know a lot of that is happening for some of you um because I know a lot of you have reached out to me and asking about it.

[32:38] Eli Tokash: So I appreciate that. So if you have any questions I'm always here to help and um in just being in auditions as all the time as an actor and trying to get into this business you have to audition for agents and managers and uh of course then you get those agents and managers and then they send you on more and then you're self-taping and then you're doing all of these things. You just have to take care of yourself and you have to take care of your body and you have to take care of your mind because your mind is storing all this information and you just have to figure out it takes a long time to realize what works for you and what doesn't and what works for me may not work for you and that's totally okay but I can offer you some advice and guidance and then you can take that and make it your own and make it work in a way that does work for you because that's exactly what I did.

[33:32] Eli Tokash: I learned from Dan Loria and I learned from Matthew Morrison. Uh I learned from Laura Michelle Kelly and of course Rachel Bay Jones and all these incredible people um who helped me and guided me along these uh along the way in finding my true craft and all of these methods that I can do it where I can do it eight times a week and do it in a way that I'm also doing other things throughout the just not just my the eight shows in a week and doing other projects.

[34:03] Eli Tokash: So there's just a method to the madness I guess you could call it and um I think it when you find that for yourself it's only gonna make you a better artist and it's only gonna make you a better auditioner, I guess you could say, and a performer as a whole. So just some things to think about and uh I hope that that's helpful because I wish I had someone to tell me that and so uh I'm offering you that advice because I didn't yeah you have to I didn't hear that directly necessarily it took a lot of um searching and hunting and kind of you know lots of downs, highs and lows uh to get to that journey and get to that realization of oh you know it's okay if this doesn't work for me and I can do it in a little bit of a different way or it's okay that what they said isn't necessarily exactly what I have to do and I don't have to be their perfect picture of what they have in mind.

[35:04] Eli Tokash: I can be a guideline, you know, and I just want to say like you just gotta you just have to figure it out and you have to do it for yourself because you are the one telling the story. You are the one that is doing the work. You are the one that's putting in the effort, you are the one that goes on to touch all of these people's hearts. And so, um, you just have to you really have to just you know have your method in and you have to really identify that for you as an artist because it's gonna help you um it's gonna help you tell the story and it's gonna help you do all the things that I just mentioned.

[35:44] Eli Tokash: So, um anyways, thank you so much. I'm gonna wrap up this week's episode. That's all I have for you all, and I appreciate you all listening. Once again, this was Eli Tokash, and uh I will have a guest for you all next week. Let's hope for the best and everyone's safety and everyone's health, and uh true's kindness, and I hope to see you all next week.

[36:10] Eli Tokash: And next week is gonna be a great guest, and it's gonna be a swing, and we're gonna be talking about all the things that we talked about this week, and that's all I gotta say. Thank you so much and hope to see you next week.

[36:21] Eli Tokash: For this episode's curtain call, I would like to recognize a few people who also deserve to take a bow. This podcast would not be possible without the help from Dory Bernstein, Brittany Bigelow, Katie Rosen, Alan Seales, and the team at the Broadway Podcast Network.

[36:34] Eli Tokash: Next in line to take the bow is Tessie Tokash, who edits the audio and all the visuals for this podcast. A special thanks to patrons Brian Thompson, Pat McNamara, the listeners at PCC, as well as all of the other patrons for their continued support.

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[37:05] Eli Tokash: Take a Bow's logo is designed by Giselle Bustos and the music is by Nikki Torsha and Cormac Collinon. Bye everyone. Hope to see you next week.