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[0:19] Heather Bedor: Well, hello there.

[0:21] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, on the other side tonight because you beat me into the studio.

[0:24] Heather Bedor: I'm like, why am I?

[0:26] Amber Brzezinski: I did.

[0:27] Heather Bedor: That's right.

[0:28] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, shame, shame.

[0:30] Heather Bedor: Hold on. I'm gonna move it around in mine.

[0:32] Amber Brzezinski: Ah feels so much better to be back on the midside.

[0:36] Heather Bedor: I was like, all is right in the world.

[0:38] Amber Brzezinski: Nope, all is right.

[0:40] Heather Bedor: Everything's better now.

[0:41] Amber Brzezinski: Well, hello there. Happy Monday, July 8th.

[0:45] Heather Bedor: My god, this year is flying by.

[0:48] Amber Brzezinski: It is.

[0:49] Heather Bedor: And as usual, if you see us with our heads down, it's because we are working tirelessly to share this post in our groups.

[0:59] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[0:59] Heather Bedor: So help us share it too.

[1:01] Amber Brzezinski: Definitely help us share it.

[1:02] Heather Bedor: Um and you can also go if you're not joining us on Facebook. We do have our YouTube.

[1:05] Amber Brzezinski: Um, you can go to YouTube, the Broadway Fan Club.

[1:07] Heather Bedor: Um, I am Heather, your hostess with the most, and oh, as always, the other host is with the most us.

[1:15] Amber Brzezinski: You can hear my phone blowing up already, is Amber.

[1:19] Heather Bedor: Hello.

[1:21] Amber Brzezinski: So um, yes, we are here ready to rock tonight. You guys might notice my background is a little bit different, and also there's no spotty Wi-Fi.

[1:30] Heather Bedor: Um, I'm currently at my mother's house in Florida with her, you know, fireplace and her little tiny shoes.

[1:37] Amber Brzezinski: So I am so happy to just be sitting here.

[1:40] Heather Bedor: And I invested in a new laptop because that's how much I was so tired of everything going wrong.

[1:47] Amber Brzezinski: But with that being said, we have a great show set up for you guys tonight.

[1:52] Heather Bedor: Um, we're going to say goodbye to uh some of our favorite shows.

[1:58] Amber Brzezinski: One that closed, you know, a day ago, yesterday, less than 24 hours ago, 24 hours ago.

[2:05] Heather Bedor: Ones are coming up. Um, we're gonna talk all about like weird stuff happening.

[2:10] Amber Brzezinski: There's some weird shit going on in the theater world, not with stuff that's actually on the stage, but stuff in the crowds, the audience, the stage door.

[2:20] Heather Bedor: Um there's even stuff happening on Reddit right now, like people are it's it's a bonkers kind of world, guys.

[2:27] Amber Brzezinski: So definitely tune in. Uh comment as you can. Jeffrey Cohen, good evening, good sir.

[2:33] Heather Bedor: Um, yeah, we love to be able to sit and chat um and enjoy your company. This is your opportunity to talk and vent and gavel about everything you can possibly imagine when it comes to the Broadway world.

[2:48] Amber Brzezinski: Um, then Heather and I are here to kind of referee, but also vent and get frustrated and maybe cry or scream or throw a glass. I don't know.

[2:56] Heather Bedor: How are you feeling today? Are you feeling angry?

[2:57] Amber Brzezinski: I'm feeling angry. I'm feeling kind of sad.

[3:02] Heather Bedor: I'm still feeling kind of sad from yesterday.

[3:05] Amber Brzezinski: Well, tell everybody who might not know what yesterday was and why you're sad.

[3:09] Heather Bedor: Uh, yesterday, it was the final show of Merrily We Roll Along.

[3:13] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, it was. Uh now a lot of people were surprised to find out that it was a limited run.

[3:21] Heather Bedor: They thought that it was closing for whatever reason. It was always determined to be a limited run.

[3:27] Amber Brzezinski: Right, exactly. So it's gonna be an interesting transition.

[3:33] Heather Bedor: Um, and I know what we've been told, but Hudson Theater, it's you guys know it's gone in there, right?

[3:40] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, yeah, absolutely. Why don't you remind everyone?

[3:44] Heather Bedor: What's up on a mattress?

[3:46] Amber Brzezinski: Yes. I need to be in that.

[3:49] Heather Bedor: Yep. Soccer Foster. Hello. And um, didn't they just make a massive announcement today?

[3:57] Amber Brzezinski: They did actually. And you guys can tell that we are literally sending our links to everybody.

[4:03] Heather Bedor: Share, share alike. Uh, do you guys know who they just announced? Because I do, Amber does.

[4:10] Amber Brzezinski: I do. Anybody? Bueller. Bueller.

[4:14] Heather Bedor: Are you following the Broadway Fan Club? Uh are you did you finish doing everything?

[4:23] Amber Brzezinski: We're gonna get this down once it once once upon a time, guys. And once upon a mattress too. Anna Gasteyer.

[4:30] Heather Bedor: All right, I ruined it for everybody. She is gonna come and reign supreme.

[4:34] Amber Brzezinski: I'm so excited. Yes, she's gonna be amazing.

[4:37] Heather Bedor: Hello, Cheyenne, fellow theater nerds.

[4:39] Amber Brzezinski: Damn right, damn right. Um, yeah, no, it's been a weird kind of week for Broadway, not a bad way.

[4:47] Heather Bedor: I think just we're post Tony, so the buzz is kind of gone a little bit.

[4:52] Amber Brzezinski: Um, people are like, oh, I'm not even gonna try to rush outsiders. I'm not gonna try to do this cabaret, guys.

[4:59] Heather Bedor: I get notifications on that theater app all of the time, even from SeatGeek, like, hey, there's tickets available for this, and do it, just go see the shows you can.

[5:08] Amber Brzezinski: Don't give up. Um somebody, somebody won the freaking cabaret lottery.

[5:16] Heather Bedor: Like, that's why we did our show last week on Tuesday. It's not impossible.

[5:21] Amber Brzezinski: Right. There's constantly an opportunity to get out there and support the shows. Don't give up.

[5:27] Heather Bedor: Just because we're kind of in the middle of seasons, go support the theater. With that being said, let's get to our first.

[5:34] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, well, I guess we should talk about our guest co-host.

[5:38] Heather Bedor: Yes. There's a furry tax, not that kind of furry.

[5:43] Amber Brzezinski: You might have saw the giant pit bull behind Amber. That is your puppy tax for the evening.

[5:49] Heather Bedor: This is Christina. She's still my guest for the next week or so.

[5:56] Amber Brzezinski: She is currently available for adoption. I don't know if you can read her collar, but it says, adopt me, adopt me.

[6:03] Heather Bedor: And she's like, pet me. I don't care. She is a nine-month old puppy and she's a good girl.

[6:10] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so she um is available for adoption through the Connecticut Humane Society. If anyone is ever looking for a puppy, hit me up.

[6:21] Heather Bedor: That's right. Yes, you are the puppy dealer. Uh to answer Jeffrey's question, Jeffrey's question, will you ever do this on Zoom so we can participate?

[6:27] Amber Brzezinski: Jeffrey, you can participate as much as you want here. We will be doing some virtual meetups, um, which will allow that.

[6:34] Heather Bedor: But with our stream yard, we are gonna try to keep it more of the traditional podcast. But if you'd like to be our guest, um, definitely reach out to myself or Amber and let's see how we can get you onto a future show.

[6:45] Amber Brzezinski: Um, speaking of future shows, before we really get into the deep dive, I'm very excited. I talked to a dear friend of mine today, um, the one and only Tim Mooney.

[6:54] Heather Bedor: If you guys might go, oh, I might know that name if you're that dog. Um, but if you're on the fringe circuit, or if you're familiar with Shakespeare, who isn't?

[7:06] Amber Brzezinski: Um, Tim Mooney is a Shakespeare god, literally does what he calls a breakneck theater. Um, he's also the uh proprietor of a Timothy Mooney rep.

[7:17] Heather Bedor: And um that man, like we were at a pool party for fringe artists a couple of months ago, and literally, yeah, everyone's like, oh, Titus Andronicus, oh uh Romeo and Juliet Hamlet, the Scottish play.

[7:30] Amber Brzezinski: He can recite paragraphs and monologues, but he performs them and he's just such conviction.

[7:37] Heather Bedor: Um, and I talked to him today. He is going to be doing the So Many Shakespeare's festival in Brooklyn next month.

[7:45] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and he's also going to be our guest next week. I'm so excited.

[7:50] Heather Bedor: Yes, um, and he has brought a challenge to everybody to throw him whatever Shakespeare you want, and he will recite.

[7:57] Amber Brzezinski: He's happy to do it. That is like his shtick, it's his party trick, and I absolutely love him for it.

[8:02] Heather Bedor: Um, he'll be joining us next week. We'll be talking about Shakespeare in the park, which um most of it is kind of kind of ended on June 30th.

[8:12] Amber Brzezinski: We've got another chunk coming through, and I looked at the the dates. I'm going to be in New York for the public, which is a public theater, um, block party, which is July 28th.

[8:23] Heather Bedor: So we're gonna try to get all of that rocking and rolling for you. Um, I hear Christina chewing on her whatever.

[8:30] Amber Brzezinski: We're gonna we're gonna deal with it. Uh, do I ever see, did you ever see Patrick Page's all?

[8:36] Heather Bedor: I don't think so.

[8:37] Amber Brzezinski: All the devils.

[8:38] Heather Bedor: Oh, all the devils. I did not. I wish I did get a chance.

[8:41] Amber Brzezinski: I did, however, get to see Patrick Page um in the original cast of Hadestown with Eva with Reeve.

[8:49] Heather Bedor: God, was that a great show? And funny part, love a show, it's one of my favorites.

[8:54] Amber Brzezinski: Have not seen another cast because I have not seen the show. I don't know if I want to, simply because those will always be my cast members.

[9:03] Heather Bedor: Cheyenne, ooh, better browse my complete works that dates.

[9:06] Amber Brzezinski: Do it. Please, oh Cheyenne, I will pay you money.

[9:10] Heather Bedor: Um he cannot be stumped.

[9:13] Amber Brzezinski: I thought I was gonna stump him with Titus Andronicus. Like, no.

[9:17] Heather Bedor: Just flat out.

[9:19] Amber Brzezinski: So super pretty good. All right. You ready to rock and roll are we all shared out?

[9:22] Heather Bedor: Ready to rock and roll.

[9:26] Amber Brzezinski: All right. Start us off.

[9:28] Heather Bedor: Start driving this bus.

[9:31] Amber Brzezinski: All right. So I guess the first topic.

[9:34] Heather Bedor: Should we just continue to roll with the Merrily We Roll Along?

[9:37] Amber Brzezinski: Let's roll along with Merrily We Roll Along.

[9:40] Heather Bedor: Get into it. Now you have more of a connection to the show than I would have loved to have seen the show.

[9:45] Amber Brzezinski: Every time I was in the city, I tried, and Heather was on the phone with me 99% of the time.

[9:51] I would try to see what kind of last minute tickets there were. It was impossible.

[9:55] Heather Bedor: It was just absolutely impossible. Um, Amber was fortunate enough to be able to see the show.

[10:00] I'm so jealous, and you really loved it.

[10:04] Amber Brzezinski: I I've loved the show through you and through our old friends members. Like I really do. But why don't you get into it?

[10:12] Heather Bedor: Um, so the show played its final show on July 7th, playing a total of 312 performances and 20 previews.

[10:22] Amber Brzezinski: Amazing. Um absolutely incredible. After, especially since the initial run of Merrily only played, I think 48 maybe performances, if I'm not mistaken.

[10:35] Heather Bedor: I'm not sure the opportunity a lot less than what they just did but definitely a lot less than what they did um so it is um incredible what they were able to do and what they were able to accomplish and many people said it was uh due to the direction of Maria Friedman and her sister Sonia um I personally as you said got to attend the show it was April 10th a matinee not that I'm like remembering it specially or like anything and like the date is like that was special to me.

[11:12] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[11:13] Heather Bedor: Um but I went right into the city just to see the show yes you did and it was an absolute wonderful experience first of all the Hudson Theater is gorgeous and I don't know if well you didn't get a chance to when I was trying to our friends uh Tim Dolan over at Broadway Up Close actually does a Hudson Theater up close tour so right they have a lot of people that would come in and be able to see because that this that theater has so much history to it.

[11:45] Amber Brzezinski: Right it's unbelievable.

[11:47] Heather Bedor: So definitely try to take advantage of that as well but yeah I mean see I I've only been into the lobby of that theater and it was already so beautiful.

[11:57] Amber Brzezinski: But yeah yeah go ahead you go it's one of those theaters like cabaret where you know you don't have the traditional theater cup you're served your drink and gorgeous crystal and you know you have you know the the uh food just feels a little more elevated and and everything just feels a little more just you were so bougie, Amber.

[12:25] Heather Bedor: I know.

[12:27] Amber Brzezinski: I you know, I didn't even know.

[12:30] Heather Bedor: Now I know.

[12:32] Amber Brzezinski: It was such a wonderful experience. My seat was great. I was in the dress circle.

[12:37] Heather Bedor: That's awesome.

[12:38] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and I just loved every minute of it. The show was captivating.

[12:45] Heather Bedor: Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff.

[12:47] Amber Brzezinski: Sadly, I did not get to see Lindsay.

[12:50] Heather Bedor: She was out that day, but I did get to see Shurs.

[12:53] Amber Brzezinski: We went through so much during the show. She's going through I was actually situation.

[13:01] Heather Bedor: Custody battles, marriage, pregnancy.

[13:03] Amber Brzezinski: She is having a whole life in the middle of the show.

[13:07] Heather Bedor: Right. So I can't blame her, you know, for not being available during that time.

[13:12] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but the show itself was a piece of art.

[13:18] Heather Bedor: And, you know, during the closing speeches, I don't know if anyone had a chance to watch them.

[13:23] Amber Brzezinski: We had several of our members in our old friends group share video of the speeches.

[13:30] Heather Bedor: Um, but Sonia Friedman dropped a little a little nugget of information there.

[13:36] Amber Brzezinski: Little nug, yeah.

[13:38] Heather Bedor: A little nugget, uh, pro shot or not.

[13:42] Amber Brzezinski: Mm-hmm.

[13:43] Heather Bedor: So to explain to the kids at home who might not know, and we kind of talked about this a little bit.

[13:49] Amber Brzezinski: A pro shot is when they go in, and we talked about this last week too. When they go in, they'll actually do multiple camera angles and do a professional production.

[14:05] Heather Bedor: Shrek is available still. Newsies still available. Um, Love Nevermore. Yeah, Hamilton for sure. Um, that's, I think, got a lot more people into that pro shot. Traditionally, it wasn't something that was done. They were done for the archives. Every show is professionally produced and recorded for archive purposes. But there hasn't been official word if it's going to be similar to like how Bonnie and Clyde is now, where they did a concert series version Pro Shot from the West End that's available for essentially rent, or if they're going to be something as to, you know, available on streaming. Like you can literally go on Hulu or Disney Plus and see Hamilton right now.

[14:51] Amber Brzezinski: Right. But yeah, she did give it a little nugget. She said it's gonna be available in a different format. Yeah, she said we will be seeing the show with this cast again soon in a different format. So that's pretty tremendous words. Pretty, pretty big teaser, I'd say.

[15:12] Heather Bedor: Pretty big teaser. I would say it wasn't even a teaser. That's like the entree or the appetizer before the entree.

[15:21] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I agree. It's we cannot confirm nor deny. Um, it does seem like is an official pro shot happening when how it's already been recorded. There's already we had several members, um, and it was posted. There were lots of pictures of official recording. I actually had my friend Ray was there when they had multiple cameras, and from my understanding, it's the same production company that also shot Hamilton. Um, not actually bang bang shot Hamilton recorded Hamilton. Sorry. Really bad dad joke there. I am tired today. I have been nonstop. Um, that's what happens when you live in Florida and it's 107 degrees outside.

[16:01] Heather Bedor: But um, yeah, so um, I know that we mourned merrily, but we also did a really fun giveaway, and we're gonna announce at the end of the show today who our winner is.

[16:11] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, we have everybody's names here.

[16:14] Heather Bedor: So Amber literally wrote down all of the entries onto paper and put them on strips. So um, I want to challenge more people to enter our contest. There were a hundred entries for this because I want to see her do even more.

[16:30] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[16:32] Heather Bedor: Well, we have our prize wheel, like we have our digital prize wheel, but it doesn't, I think it fits like 30 people.

[16:40] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[16:41] Heather Bedor: We have um, between all of our groups at the Broadway Fan Club, we are over 400,000 followers, and we thank every single one of you guys for doing that. Um, for those of you that don't know, between the Broadway Fan Club groups, we are now at 40 different fan groups. Um, with that being said, if you would like to see what those fan groups are, you can go to the broadwayfanclub.com. That will take you directly to our link tree, which is Linksree slash the Broadway Fan Club, and you can see all of our groups. You can also see our merch, which I know Amber was very excited to get, which is also part of the giveaway.

[17:21] Amber Brzezinski: Um, yeah, absolutely. As always, we have our wonderful um show bracelets.

[17:28] Heather Bedor: Yes, the Broadway Fan Club Etsy shop. And they are custom-made bracelets for every show. They are either the title of the show, they are song names, they are characters from the show, they're your favorite Broadway actor. Um, or they can even be custom. So they're great for cast parties, they're great for bachelorette parties. I actually just went to a bachelorette party and I made them for everybody.

[17:55] Amber Brzezinski: And you made cake pops. Are you gonna make cake pops for our members too?

[17:59] Heather Bedor: Yeah, if everyone wants cake pops.

[18:01] Amber Brzezinski: Who wants cake pops? Who wants cake pops?

[18:04] Heather Bedor: But yeah, so what we're doing with all of that is we are helping to pay the bills, guys, and not our bills, pay your bills, meaning StreamYard for our studio here to be able to pay for our website hosting. Um, all sorts of fun stuff. But prizes, yes, oh prizes galore. Um, again, our prize for our entry for the Marily closing was a uh playbill along with a custom bracelet made by Amber, um, which is so freaking cute.

[18:36] Amber Brzezinski: It says old friends on it, right?

[18:38] Heather Bedor: Yes, it does. And then um, you also uh we're also gonna be doing the magnet, and Amber's like, oh, is it this one? It's not, it's the uh photo strip magnet. So it's very exciting to be able to pick that up at our friends at Museum of Broadway a couple weeks ago.

[18:54] Amber Brzezinski: So definitely nice. I believe all the magnets are currently sold out, so everything's yeah, it's all it's all gone.

[19:01] Heather Bedor: It's all good, it's gone. Uh so is Marily, and we're sad, but we're excited to see what Once Upon a Mattress is gonna do. Um, that's gonna be amazing with that cast. So I'm very excited.

[19:14] Amber Brzezinski: All right, moving right along. Oh, Jeffrey uh wanted to leave a comment saying Stephanie Mills is going into Hadestown playing Hermes.

[19:22] Heather Bedor: I did read that. I actually read that she was um delaying her entrance because she was sick.

[19:30] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[19:31] Heather Bedor: Um, but the other two that were starting, I believe it was Maya and oh, I can't think of who else, but they um also started on time.

[19:43] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I mean, it's important more than now than ever that these guys are taking care of themselves because I don't know if you guys remember about two weeks ago, post Tonys, post Tonys, there was a COVID outbreak amongst the few.

[19:57] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[19:58] Amber Brzezinski: So there were a lot of people out unexpectedly, a lot of pissed off people because they were understudies who are amazing, by the way. Um, and you can even see like most recently, like stage door last night at Mary, like people are still wearing masks. Um, so yes, delayed a week. Thank you, Jeffrey. Um, so it is really important to remember that these guys not only do they need to sound good, they need to be performing, and they're performing a lot. I know that um like Water for Elephants. I think I was reading Andrea, um, the mother of one of the ensemble members um and a member of the big top. Um, but she had said something that they did 12 shows in a row with no breaks.

[20:41] Heather Bedor: Oh wow.

[20:42] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, because they didn't have a day off, they weren't dark. So traditionally a theater is dark on Mondays. That's why we like to do our shows on Monday. Um, but 12 shows in a row, that's that's a lot, guys. And some of these are two show days. They go in, they have a call, they're there 45 minutes to an hour before you know doors are open show. Then they have maybe an hour and a half, two-hour break in between to get lunch, go to the gym, um, you know, go to physical therapy, do whatever, and then do it all over again, and then go home. So that's why we'll start talking about, like stage door etiquette a little bit more tonight again. Um, because we've been seeing some things pop up, and it's not that it's it's bad, it's just we want to make sure that everybody's educated.

[21:23] Heather Bedor: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.

[21:28] Amber Brzezinski: All right. So I think we can merrily we-roll along into the next topic.

[21:36] Heather Bedor: Oh, look at you. I'm so proud of you making that little pun. Look it so cute. Um, I believe the next thing we were gonna talk about was the protesters at SUFS this week.

[21:50] Amber Brzezinski: And honestly, I'm surprised it didn't make more news.

[21:52] Heather Bedor: I am too. So, um, do you want to tell everybody what that was all about? Tell tell our listeners because this was weird.

[22:01] Amber Brzezinski: Yes. So apparently, um, in the middle of act one, during um during SUFS, uh, four people stood up on the balcony and they hung banners that said "SUFS is a whitewash" while chanting for the show to be canceled. Now, for those that don't know what SUFS is, um, first off, shame on you. No, just kidding. Um, no, it's it's the best way of putting it is like a female version, like female Hamilton, like history for women, it's about the women's suffragist movement and the march. Um, there's some really incredible stuff. Shayna Taub just won best book, best theater ever. It's just she's incredible. Um, the cast is all women. Um, even the male parts are portrayed by women. Um, they have all different races, all different um, you know, portrayals. There's um a wonderful ensemble member who's very talented, who's in a wheelchair. I mean, it's a very inclusive from everything I've noticed.

[23:10] Heather Bedor: Um, and something interesting about these protesters, not only is so the way that the theater is is that you have a balcony on either side, and I believe it's during Act Two, they actually put banners down from like they have the suffragists hanging banners from there and and she you know, rallying. So it was an interesting placement, which makes me feel these people had already seen the show um and were aware of it, and they placed the banners there, but Shayna to uh had to actually interrupt and say, like, oh, these are definitely from like to to say like these are protesters, but then to me, and again, like I this is what I read directly. Um, and if anyone else saw anything differently, please let us know.

But the protesters were white women, um protesting that is whitewashed, which is interesting to me. So I don't, and I don't really know in the scheme of things, like, was it for attention? What was the movement? Because the movement said like this was not a thing, it was very different. Um, and it's not whitewashed, so I guess I was just very confused.

[24:19] Amber Brzezinski: I was gonna say, I personally haven't seen the show, but from what I've read, I've read that there is inclusion of that storyline in the show as well.

[24:19] Heather Bedor: There is.

[24:33] Amber Brzezinski: So I think the main protest was that they didn't delve like deep dive into the African American women who were a major part of the suffragist movement. Um, and they actually have like a like, you know, you have A as your main storyline, and then B is like your side story. But there was several instances of a B story being there. The main story was of the main group of women. Unfortunately, that main group of women were primarily Caucasian women. So it focused on like it's like watching Friends and then watching like Gunther at the cafe. Let me throw some French trivial. Watching Gunther at Central Park and having a storyline going on there. But there didn't seem to be any exclusion. And again, Caucasian female, I didn't see it.

Um, and I'm not not discrediting anybody. Um, it just was very confusing to me because it did seem to be. I think I they called you during intermission, and I was like, it's a cast is amazing, like it's really cool. I wasn't expecting all be women, but also like there's a woman in a wheelchair and there's somebody on crutch, and there's like it's very inclusive, and it seemed to seem to be that but to each their own. Um, and our members handle it well. We have a SUFS group, and our members like spoke very effectively about it. They even posted from like the performers that they enjoyed the most and like how they responded. I think everybody responded very professionally. Um, it wasn't blown out of proportion. Um, it didn't like start this massive fire of protests everywhere. It was just like, okay, this happened, okay.

[26:17] Heather Bedor: Right. Okay.

[26:18] Amber Brzezinski: So I think it was handled really well, and it was it wasn't pushed and it wasn't swept under the carpet, but it was directly addressed, but respectfully.

[26:28] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I actually was reading an article today that was saying that by doing by doing something in the middle of theater, because it takes away from the performance, the actors, it's you know disrupting the audience. It's actually undermining the message of the protest itself because it's it's actually so disruptive to that art form that it's not even really giving that protest the full kind of chance it deserves to speak on that issue.

[27:06] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[27:08] Heather Bedor: It's um I'm kind of stuck in a standstill because at one point I'm going, you know, theater means expression, feel free to express yourself, and the people feel comfortable enough to be able to express how they feel. But there's a time and a place for everything, but also you can't kind of mute somebody's self-expression. Um I just feel that if I was if I was at that performance, if I was at the performance, I'd probably be pissed off too. And I will say, um the audio, like the speaker system when I went that distracted me more than anything. So, you know, there's a little bit of a distraction, and then you're like, how do you get back on track? But for them to continue and do a whole second half, I think kudos to them for sure.

[27:55] Amber Brzezinski: Absolutely, absolutely.

[27:57] Heather Bedor: So next, I think we're flying through, guys. We're doing pretty good. We are at a half hour already. Love it. Loving it.

[28:07] Amber Brzezinski: Um, next on the list.

[28:10] Heather Bedor: And you can tell Amber and I are very tired because we both keep yawning.

[28:14] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, Amber, how's how is the new camera looking?

[28:16] Heather Bedor: The new laptop? Is it working?

[28:18] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, it looks great. So far, so good.

[28:21] Heather Bedor: Very cool. Um, yeah.

[28:23] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, I'm having I'm having Florida humidity hair. So we'll just it's gonna take up the whole screen by the time we're done for those of you not watching and just listening.

[28:31] Heather Bedor: Um that's another friend's reference.

[28:34] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, it's true. Or it's just uh Rocky Horror, because when I did magenta and Rocky Horror used a whole can of hairspray every show.

[28:42] Heather Bedor: Yeah, so good for the environment.

[28:45] Amber Brzezinski: Right. All right, we are rolling right along.

[28:50] Heather Bedor: I like making you drive the bus.

[28:51] Amber Brzezinski: It's fun.

[28:52] Heather Bedor: Yeah. I think next thing we wanted to talk about was just some some kind of pointers and rush etiquette since we had been hearing some some murmurings of rush things going on.

[29:06] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I think you had been reading some rush.

[29:10] Heather Bedor: I was um, and I'm gonna address Jeffrey's question really quick. We're also live on YouTube, yes, Jeffrey.

[29:15] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so you can go to the YouTube app or YouTube, and then our username is the Broadway Fan Club.

[29:21] Heather Bedor: Um so we are live on YouTube and we are live on our Facebook page, the Broadway Fan Club.

[29:27] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and then we share to all of our groups, which you can find again on BroadwayFanClub.com.

[29:32] Heather Bedor: Branding, branding, branding. Um the best place to watch is wherever you feel most comfortable.

[29:38] Amber Brzezinski: That's right. And if that means sitting in your bubble bath with a glass of red wine, which is what I do with my podcasts, actually, it's bourbon I'm lying. Uh, then go to town.

[29:48] Heather Bedor: We're just happy that you're here and that you're able to join us. Um, and that goes to everybody too.

[29:53] Amber Brzezinski: So um, we've been asked too, you know, hey, I'm not gonna make it live, but it's okay. You can always go back and watch all of our episodes on YouTube.

[30:01] Heather Bedor: And um, I do have to say, this is our official 10th official episode.

[30:06] Amber Brzezinski: Wow.

[30:07] Heather Bedor: I know. Big um, which means we are now going to be able to start uploading to Spotify for podcasts, and we'll be available wherever you can listen to your podcast.

[30:20] Amber Brzezinski: So we'll be going ahead and sharing those links very soon once those are done. Um, yeah, so let's talk about Rush.

[30:26] Heather Bedor: Um, we've again we've had a couple members like we were talking a little bit about before, um, who are like, no, no, I'm not gonna do this, or oh, it's gonna be like five hours, I'm gonna get there.

[30:37] Amber Brzezinski: Um for those of you that don't know, rush is something um rush and lottery is something that was started just about three decades ago, and it's where you have the opportunity, and not all shows do them. Let's clarify that.

[30:50] Heather Bedor: Um, you have the opportunity to purchase a certain amount of tickets, it's generally one per person. Um, but there's a limit per day of how many of the theater will set aside.

[31:02] Amber Brzezinski: Um, for example, so I'm trying to think Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark there.

[31:08] Heather Bedor: I was talking to my buddy Justin Sargon earlier. Um, let's talk about uh Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark.

[31:15] Amber Brzezinski: Every day they would have 24 rush tickets available.

[31:19] Heather Bedor: And it was pretty popular. And I went with my friend Shauna Bresnahan, and we rushed it.

[31:23] Amber Brzezinski: And I rush all the time. Gutenberg, I rushed, had no idea how many tickets they had, but it's like 50 bucks or 40 bucks hard of rock and roll.

[31:34] Heather Bedor: And they're usually decent seats, some of them can be um partial view, and then if they're completely sold out, they'll actually do standing room only, and that's only for the theaters that have it available.

[31:45] Amber Brzezinski: Standing, and I'm gonna get way down the rabbit hole here. Standing room only is at the back of the theater. It literally means you are standing the whole time.

[31:53] Heather Bedor: They do have kind of like a window um that's behind the last row, and there is like a rail for you to lean against. It's not my favorite.

[32:01] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but there are specific rush seats. I know that some of our members um were talking about it in the Broadway Fan Club.

[32:08] Heather Bedor: Um, our main page and to kind of answers your question, Jeffrey. One will be loading up to Apple. Everything is going to be the Broadway Fan Club podcast.

[32:15] Amber Brzezinski: Um, with that being said, so there's like the pony boy seat, um, which is where the actor actually starts off.

[32:22] Heather Bedor: So it's a discounted rate, it's only one available, it's a heavily discounted seat because you are standing for the first like 10 minutes of the show, um, which I think is pretty cool, anyways, because it's like you're almost part of the show.

[32:34] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but uh even our friends over the Great Gatsby. I know that Catherine Kuhn is doing something today with their social media team for anybody that was showing up for Rush.

[32:44] Heather Bedor: They had gone to my favorite place in the whole wide world, Schmackery's, um, and were asking trivia questions for people that were lined up for rush.

[32:52] Amber Brzezinski: Now, what time should we get there? That's a great question.

[32:56] Heather Bedor: The box office usually open at 10 a.m. or 12, like between 10 and 12 every day, and you always want to check specifically with that theater.

[33:04] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I always suggest if you're gonna look for Broadway Rush or lottery policies, literally Google Broadway Rush and it'll pull up the Playbill article.

[33:13] Heather Bedor: That's the best one. It continuously updates it. But with that being said, um, they were going through and just asking trivia questions because some of these people are getting there three or four hours in advance.

[33:27] Amber Brzezinski: Um, it's not necessarily the case. I remember when Gutenberg was out last year. God, it's been it's been a long time.

[33:35] Heather Bedor: I'm so sad. When Gutenberg came out, I had landed.

[33:39] Amber Brzezinski: So I live in Orlando, for those that don't know, and I'm in New York once a month.

[33:43] Heather Bedor: I had landed in New York. Um taken the train from LaGuardia or taken the bus into the subway to LaGuardia, had my carry on with me, ran through Times Square, went over to the James Earl Jones Theater, which is where Gutenberg was in Heart of Rock and Roll just closed.

[34:03] Amber Brzezinski: And they um they had plenty of tickets.

[34:09] Heather Bedor: I think I paid $25 for a center orchestra Gutenberg ticket. It's a rush.

[34:14] Amber Brzezinski: Um, why do people do rush? Because it's fun.

[34:16] Heather Bedor: I know unless it's special, like a can can seat at Moulin Rouge or a table seat at Cabaret, or it's an opening night or closing show.

[34:27] Amber Brzezinski: I never plan what shows I'm gonna see.

[34:29] Heather Bedor: I either play lottery, I do the rush, or at the very least, I'll do a look on TDF because I'm a member of TDF.

[34:35] Amber Brzezinski: I know Amber is as well. Um it's like 35 bucks a year, and then you get you're paying towards the theater development fund, it's all nonprofit.

[34:43] Heather Bedor: Um, and you sometimes can get great discounted or even free tickets.

[34:47] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but TKTS is run uh by TDF, it's a lot of uh acronyms. I apologize.

[34:54] Heather Bedor: Um, but TKTS will have heavily discounted rates as well.

[34:59] Amber Brzezinski: Um, Jeffrey, I'm gonna answer your question. Hamilton's first two rows, do you know why it's only $10?

[35:03] Heather Bedor: I do. Amber, do you know why?

[35:06] Amber Brzezinski: I do not.

[35:08] Heather Bedor: So um Lynn Manuel Miranda is just amazing, and his lotteries are very difficult.

[35:16] Amber Brzezinski: Um, because every yes, that's correct.

[35:20] Heather Bedor: Um Hamilton is on the $10 bill, uh, or Jackson's on the $10 bill.

[35:25] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so they did they used to do an in-person lottery.

[35:29] Heather Bedor: Um, and then they do the digital lottery.

[35:31] Amber Brzezinski: Now you can actually download a Hamilton app, and I'm gonna pull up mine so you guys can see.

[35:36] Heather Bedor: I have been entering the Hamilton lottery for like four years.

[35:42] Amber Brzezinski: Um a friend of mine, my buddy Scott, who I saw yesterday at a table read.

[35:46] Heather Bedor: He went, he wanted in person very jealous.

[35:48] Amber Brzezinski: So this is the Hamilton app.

[35:50] Heather Bedor: Let's see where the camera is here. This is the Hamilton app.

[35:53] Amber Brzezinski: And you can interact, but you can actually play trivia.

[35:58] Heather Bedor: And come on, you can do it. You can play trivia.

[36:02] Amber Brzezinski: So it's Hamilton Trivia. Test your knowledge.

[36:04] Heather Bedor: You build a street earn bonus stars.

[36:06] Amber Brzezinski: What are those bonus stars do?

[36:08] Heather Bedor: They help you get bonus entries for their lotteries.

[36:12] Amber Brzezinski: Um, yes, Jeffrey, lucky seat, Broadway Direct Lottery. There are a lot that do it.

[36:15] Heather Bedor: Telecharges great too. I think that's how you um got your cabaret.

[36:20] Amber Brzezinski: One, isn't it, Amber?

[36:21] Amber Brzezinski: It is. What are you looking down on there for?

[36:24] Heather Bedor: What are you doing?

[36:25] Amber Brzezinski: I'm looking for my email that says you're a winner.

[36:27] Heather Bedor: Well, you just need to frame that.

[36:30] Amber Brzezinski: Um, now do we win lottery all the time?

[36:33] Heather Bedor: There you go. You won.

[36:35] Amber Brzezinski: And they text you.

[36:37] Heather Bedor: I love it. Well, you remember what happened.

[36:40] Amber Brzezinski: I was on the Broadway cruise, which we'll talk about in a little bit, and I'll give you guys that promo code for an extra hundred bucks off.

[36:45] Heather Bedor: Do you remember this? When I was on the Broadway cruise, I was on the Broadway cruise, getting ready to do the stage tour experience, and I knew that I was gonna be home 24 hours and then write to New York to go meet up with Amber for opening night of Water for Elephants.

[36:59] Amber Brzezinski: But I was entering lottery for the rest of time.

[37:03] Heather Bedor: And um, so I was entering lottery and then I got notification.

[37:07] Amber Brzezinski: And because of the freaking time change between Grand Cayman and here, I didn't, I couldn't.

[37:12] Heather Bedor: I won lottery and I couldn't claim it. I was so mad because it delayed.

[37:18] Amber Brzezinski: It was so sad.

[37:21] Heather Bedor: But um yeah, I love the rush system.

[37:26] Amber Brzezinski: I think that a lot of people um overshoot it, meaning they the don't really they don't want to miss out.

[37:35] Heather Bedor: I think the earliest I ever got anywhere for rush was either gonna be when I went to see if Marilee had any cancellation, which is also the cancellation line, um, which I suggest you do for Six the Musical and Hadestown.

[37:47] Amber Brzezinski: They're always cancellations and Cabaret, too.

[37:49] Heather Bedor: Cabaret, I was just gonna say.

[38:01] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, the earliest I got.

[38:02] Heather Bedor: So Marilee, I I actually forgot what time the box office opened.

[38:06] Amber Brzezinski: Um, do you remember this? I was on the phone with you a couple months ago.

[38:09] Heather Bedor: I was the only one there.

[38:11] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[38:12] Heather Bedor: But they didn't have rush, and then of course, like while I'm there and waiting for like 45 more minutes, um, like two other people showed up and they had a couple of seats, they were like partial view, like 500.

[38:22] Amber Brzezinski: It was not happening. My wallet would have hated me.

[38:25] Heather Bedor: Um, but I think the earliest I ever got was my family was moving from New Jersey.

[38:31] Amber Brzezinski: I still lived in Florida, but my like mom and my stepdad and my grandmother were moving down from New Jersey, and I had taken NJT, the New Jersey transit train into the city early.

[38:42] Heather Bedor: You're gonna laugh, Amber, because Something Rotten was closing.

[38:48] Amber Brzezinski: And Adam Pascal was that's a good one.

[38:53] Heather Bedor: Um if you ever have the opportunity to go see him as Shakespeare, um, or that show in general, come out full circle for our episode next week. Full circle.

[39:03] Amber Brzezinski: That's very true.

[39:08] Heather Bedor: Um, yes, but it was I think I got there at like eight o'clock, and I just sat there for like two hours.

[39:17] Amber Brzezinski: Um, at that point, I was just listening to my headphones and like watching YouTube videos.

[39:22] Heather Bedor: Um, and it was cold, and I sat on the sidewalk because it was dirty.

[39:25] Amber Brzezinski: So if you're gonna rush, one I would say get there two hours before box office, and you can judge it by the line.

[39:33] Heather Bedor: I tried to rush The Music Man because they did have rush seats.

[39:36] Amber Brzezinski: That was Sutton Foster at Hugh Jackman.

[39:38] Heather Bedor: People were pretty much camping out overnight. It was not happening.

[39:40] Amber Brzezinski: I stayed in a hotel in Times Square specifically to be able to walk to that theater quickly, and I would get there at six o'clock in the morning.

[39:48] Heather Bedor: The line was already long. It was nuts.

[39:49] Amber Brzezinski: Um, same thing with Funny Girl, but luckily I won the lottery.

[39:53] Heather Bedor: So um it was it was starting to rain, so if all of a sudden the lights start to go off, it's not haunted, it should be.

[40:02] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but it was always an experience, and to me, bring something to sit on, bring snacks, bring a waddle.

[40:11] Heather Bedor: I never not have a bottle of water with me, um, which you can bring into a theaters.

[40:16] Amber Brzezinski: I know that's been a question on our groups this week too.

[40:18] Heather Bedor: Is can you bring water bottles in?

[40:19] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[40:20] Heather Bedor: They don't care as long as they're not filled with tequila or whatever.

[40:23] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[40:24] Heather Bedor: They don't care. Um, don't bring like loud snacks or like a big can of Pringles or something.

[40:30] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but they don't care.

[40:32] Heather Bedor: Um, bring something, but here's my thing. You were standing in line or sitting in line for a long time, generally, with other people who were there to do the same thing.

[40:43] Amber Brzezinski: Talk to the people in the lines.

[40:45] Heather Bedor: That's how I've met some of my great friends.

[40:48] Amber Brzezinski: Is you have a commonality, like these people that were doing the trivia with Gatsby, like they were having a good time answering trivia questions to win a cookie for Schmackery's.

[40:57] Heather Bedor: Um, you know, it's like um, so I was a nerd in school, still am.

[41:02] Amber Brzezinski: But middle school, I remember this, Amber will make fun of me, and you guys will never let me live it down.

[41:08] Heather Bedor: Um, I was in band, played the flute.

[41:11] Amber Brzezinski: Me too, did not have the choice though.

[41:14] Heather Bedor: Well, guess go flow to scow. We blow really well.

[41:18] Amber Brzezinski: Uh but I would go to the store and buy fruit stripes gum with the tattoos on the so you can like yay, Cheyenne, and you could like do a tattoo in your tongue.

[41:33] Heather Bedor: I don't know, it was weird. I would get to school, nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd.

[41:34] Amber Brzezinski: I would get to school an hour early to give gum to people.

[41:46] Heather Bedor: That was, I don't know, that was a thing in my middle school.

[41:49] Amber Brzezinski: I don't know, I'm weird, but I would get this like really shitty tasting gum that everybody loved.

[41:56] Heather Bedor: But you know what? I still have some of those friends.

[41:59] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, and it's just from sitting there and being like, hey, you want a piece of gum?

[42:03] Heather Bedor: Or like if you're in New York, start talking about it. You have you know, cookies from Schmackery's, or hey, you know what? I have to go to the bathroom.

[42:10] Amber Brzezinski: I'm gonna run to McDonald's across the street.

[42:12] Heather Bedor: Can I get you a coffee or something?

[42:15] Amber Brzezinski: Make friends.

[42:16] Heather Bedor: Um if you're an introvert, just sit there, but enjoy the conversation happening around you.

[42:21] Amber Brzezinski: Um don't make enemies.

[42:24] Heather Bedor: Yeah, don't make enemies.

[42:26] Amber Brzezinski: That's been happening too.

[42:27] Heather Bedor: Like that's more of a stage door.

[42:29] Amber Brzezinski: I think we can kind of roll off into the stage door stuff, huh?

[42:32] Heather Bedor: Right.

[42:34] Amber Brzezinski: So stage I just wanted to oh yeah.

[42:37] Heather Bedor: Interject and say please do.

[42:39] Amber Brzezinski: When you're um rushing, don't expect a ticket.

[42:43] Heather Bedor: Great point.

[42:45] Amber Brzezinski: Great point.

[42:46] Heather Bedor: Don't that's that thank you, Amber.

[42:48] Amber Brzezinski: When you're rushing, don't expect to be disappointed.

[42:51] Heather Bedor: That sounds terrible.

[42:52] Amber Brzezinski: You don't know how many tickets they have for the day.

[42:54] Heather Bedor: But I will tell you, I try so perfect perfect example.

[42:58] Amber Brzezinski: Thank you for that.

[42:58] Heather Bedor: And it'll kind of bring us on to our later topic as well.

[43:02] Amber Brzezinski: I tried to rush for Tommy.

[43:06] Heather Bedor: And all the rush sheets were gone.

[43:08] Amber Brzezinski: And I was like, Oh, I'm so sad. I was like, we just started the fan group, and um, I'll just have to try and didn't want the lottery or anything.

[43:15] Heather Bedor: And the box office goes, you know what though?

[43:18] Amber Brzezinski: We have the next tier up.

[43:21] Heather Bedor: So I think the um the rush tickets were like 49 bucks.

[43:25] Amber Brzezinski: They had 69 tickets, and it was like front center work.

[43:30] Heather Bedor: Yeah, just be nice to these box office people who are dealing with you guys yell, not you guys specifically, but people yelling and angry and mad because they want to buy 10 tickets at the discounted rate, you can only buy one.

[43:43] Amber Brzezinski: Happened in Harmony.

[43:45] Heather Bedor: Harmony did oh god, that show is amazing, and we can have a whole freaking episode on Harmony.

[43:50] Amber Brzezinski: Harmony had it was incredible.

[43:52] Heather Bedor: Um, for the first 20 people, it was um 20 bucks.

[43:56] Amber Brzezinski: I was gonna say 15 or 20.

[43:58] Heather Bedor: Yeah, it was stupid cheap.

[44:00] Amber Brzezinski: And there were four of us online.

[44:03] Heather Bedor: And um I had been talking to my friend JJ, and like hours later, because that show just didn't get the love it should have.

[44:10] Amber Brzezinski: If you have not seen Harmony, um, check it out.

[44:13] Heather Bedor: It's a real story about the comedian harmonists, incredible show.

[44:16] Amber Brzezinski: Um, you can hear the thunder, it's ominous.

[44:19] Heather Bedor: But I was talking to JJ, and they were like, oh wow, I would have loved to see that show.

[44:23] Amber Brzezinski: And I was like, I'm gonna walk over to the box office for you.

[44:26] Heather Bedor: And they were like, hey, so we cannot let you purchase an additional one.

[44:31] Amber Brzezinski: I was like, nope, totally fine.

[44:32] Heather Bedor: I was like, hey, JJ.

[44:33] Amber Brzezinski: And they ran over from work.

[44:35] Heather Bedor: Just be understanding, they are limited to what they can do.

[44:38] Amber Brzezinski: That's a great exactly.

[44:40] Heather Bedor: Don't expect it.

[44:41] Amber Brzezinski: Um, be pleasantly pleasantly surprised.

[44:45] Heather Bedor: Um I was always taught you get more with honey than you do with vinegar.

[44:50] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so I'm overly sweet and sassy.

[44:53] Heather Bedor: Uh but oh, the thunder is getting me.

[44:57] Amber Brzezinski: All right, we've got 15 minutes left, so we don't talk these people's ears off me.

[45:01] Heather Bedor: Um, so let's move the bus on to our next destination, Ms.

[45:05] Amber Brzezinski: All right, next up on the uh the list is the water for elephants news.

[45:13] Heather Bedor: We have a couple things on the water for elephants topic.

[45:17] Amber Brzezinski: We do, we do.

[45:19] Heather Bedor: Um, we should probably talk about the real elephant in the room.

[45:22] Amber Brzezinski: Um Grant Gustin, we have about two months left with him.

[45:26] Heather Bedor: Um people are losing their absolute shit over it.

[45:31] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[45:31] Heather Bedor: Absolute mind, guys.

[45:33] Amber Brzezinski: Guys, he's having well, his wife is having their second baby, so he's going to be leaving.

[45:39] Heather Bedor: It was a six-month contract, it's an incredible show.

[45:43] Amber Brzezinski: Um, it was this broadway debut.

[45:46] Heather Bedor: Uh Olivia, a lot more mad yesterday about losing a lot of we'll talk about that in a second, Olivia, for sure.

[45:52] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but Grant is incredible and he did an amazing job.

[45:56] Heather Bedor: Um, all I can say is that when I tried to get information from Larry, which was not happening, he just said, I cannot wait for you to find out.

[46:07] Amber Brzezinski: I am so beyond excited for you to find out who it is.

[46:11] Heather Bedor: I am beyond excited for us to find out.

[46:14] Amber Brzezinski: So I think Heather and I spent about an hour like two weeks ago going, like, okay, who could it be?

[46:20] Heather Bedor: Who would we want it to be?

[46:21] Amber Brzezinski: You know that meme with like the guy in like the strings, like that was us.

[46:27] Heather Bedor: Yes, like the the murder board.

[46:29] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[46:29] Heather Bedor: We were like, well, he's busy, he's doing this.

[46:33] Amber Brzezinski: That's exactly it.

[46:34] Heather Bedor: Well, so this and and again the the comments, please keep them coming.

[46:39] Amber Brzezinski: I would love Olivia, especially because you love that show.

[46:42] Heather Bedor: Um, I want to know who you guys think it could be.

[46:46] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I'm thinking timing-wise, and like I'm gonna put it out there, and it's gonna be totally wrong and be like I agree with you, Derek Clenna.

[46:56] Heather Bedor: Yep, I agree.

[46:58] Amber Brzezinski: Because he's leaving Moulin Rouge because Aaron DeVate's coming back.

[47:03] Heather Bedor: Um, so he's leaving Mulan Rouge, he's in the vocal range, he has the athleticism, he I think it's has the look, everything.

[47:13] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I I just and I've seen him in so many different things, and I absolutely freaking adore him, and I hope to god it's him, and I'll be sad if it's not, but also I'm super excited.

[47:24] Heather Bedor: Yes, in the fall as well.

[47:26] Amber Brzezinski: Um Derek would be really good.

[47:29] Heather Bedor: I I would love to see Derek.

[47:31] Amber Brzezinski: Um I think at one point Heather and I were even talking about like what happens when Eddie Redmain leaves Capray, which is happening.

[47:38] Heather Bedor: Um and I want to see Aaron to Vate and it just selfish, selfish needs.

[47:46] Amber Brzezinski: Um I don't know, Heather, besides Derek, who else do you think it could be?

[47:52] Heather Bedor: I have no idea.

[47:53] Amber Brzezinski: Like I said, people were murmuring.

[47:56] Heather Bedor: I heard some whispers, maybe Cory Cott.

[48:00] Amber Brzezinski: I it's possible.

[48:02] Heather Bedor: It's possible.

[48:03] Amber Brzezinski: I don't know.

[48:03] Heather Bedor: Corey Cott's gonna be on the Broadway cruise.

[48:06] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[48:06] Heather Bedor: And Cory Cott's arms are gonna be on the Broadway cruise.

[48:09] Amber Brzezinski: Corgatza arms are gonna be on the Broadway cruise.

[48:12] Heather Bedor: I'm gonna I'm gonna plug the Broadway cruise.

[48:14] Amber Brzezinski: They're not paying me to do this.

[48:15] Heather Bedor: I'm just gonna because I keep talking about it.

[48:17] Amber Brzezinski: It was so life-changing, and I hope that maybe you can can come with me.

[48:21] Heather Bedor: Um Broadway cruise is happening next year, March 31st or April 4th.

[48:27] Amber Brzezinski: So it's a Monday through Friday.

[48:28] Heather Bedor: You leave in Miami and Monday, you get back Friday morning in Miami, and it's literally out a day at sea, a day in Cosmo, a day at C and you're back.

[48:37] Amber Brzezinski: I'm okay with that because it's an incredible lineup.

[48:42] Heather Bedor: Shoshana Bean, um Alex Brightman.

[48:48] Amber Brzezinski: Freaking Beetlejuice, um, I Corey, Cassie or Casey Levy, um, who was Alsa.

[48:55] Heather Bedor: Um, oh my god, why am I blanking?

[48:58] Amber Brzezinski: I'm blanking on this.

[49:01] Heather Bedor: Oh, it's because the rain is starting, and I've just completely gone brain-dumb.

[49:05] Amber Brzezinski: I'm gonna pull it up right now so I can give you guys everybody.

[49:08] Heather Bedor: And of course, my Broadway con website just popped up too.

[49:12] Amber Brzezinski: Here we go.

[49:13] Heather Bedor: Here we go again.

[49:15] Amber Brzezinski: On okay.

[49:16] Heather Bedor: Laura Benante, Wayne Brady, which I had the pleasure of seeing Wayne Brady with my mom in um Kinky Boots, which is amazing.

[49:24] Amber Brzezinski: So Leigh Pfeiffer, Eva Nel Basado, she's actually supposed to be here this past year with Reeve.

[49:30] Heather Bedor: Oh, Soleil and Eva, too.

[49:33] Amber Brzezinski: Um yeah, uh-huh.

[49:38] Heather Bedor: That's amazing.

[49:39] Amber Brzezinski: I cannot wait.

[49:40] Heather Bedor: Corey Cott.

[49:42] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and so that they've announced those eight right now.

[49:45] Heather Bedor: Um, and then they've also announced for the creative side to Jerry Mitchell, Jeffrey Seller, and Will Van Dyke.

[49:51] Amber Brzezinski: And then um they're gonna have Gordon Cox, who's gonna be the theater journalist, and then they're gonna have a variety hour.

[49:57] Heather Bedor: We have no idea what this is.

[49:59] Amber Brzezinski: Um, this past year they did like a um singing like American Idol style thing.

[50:05] Heather Bedor: Um, but it's gonna be Henry Kapersky and Ethan Christopher.

[50:09] Amber Brzezinski: So if you have any interest in checking it out, I think for my inside state room, it was like $700.

[50:15] Heather Bedor: Um, but that's everything on Norwegian Gem out of Miami.

[50:19] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I think I have my promo code still loaded here.

[50:24] Heather Bedor: So BroadwayCruise.com under refer, you can put the promo code to be like boy, F like Frank, see like Charlie, and then I'll get you a hundred bucks off.

[50:35] Amber Brzezinski: Um, they have what they call their stage door experiences, so you actually go and they have like a convention room and you can talk to everybody there.

[50:43] Heather Bedor: I have the lovely opportunity to talk to Cheyenne Jackson.

[50:47] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and of course, everybody else, Matt Doyle, um, Christian Borrell was on this last cruise as well.

[50:53] Heather Bedor: Norm Lewis, it was Carrie Butler, and I can just keep going on and on free.

[50:58] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but they're there and they're performing, but they're also they're on the cruise with you.

[51:03] Heather Bedor: They're kind of stuck there.

[51:04] Amber Brzezinski: So, like playing at the casino with people that are like it was fun.

[51:08] Heather Bedor: Um just having normal conversations.

[51:11] Amber Brzezinski: They'll have panels, they have intensives where you can actually learn Broadway choreography.

[51:15] Heather Bedor: I think is really cool.

[51:16] Amber Brzezinski: They did crafting, they did bingo trivia.

[51:19] Heather Bedor: I mean, everything.

[51:21] Amber Brzezinski: Um, they did every night was a different theme.

[51:24] Heather Bedor: So of course I was in costume every single night.

[51:28] Amber Brzezinski: Well, I was gonna say that actually brings us to our next topic.

[51:32] Heather Bedor: It does.

[51:32] Amber Brzezinski: Um, which was our gender swapped costume.

[51:36] Heather Bedor: Yes, it does.

[51:37] Amber Brzezinski: You wanted to do for the Broadway fan club.

[51:40] Heather Bedor: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

[51:42] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and I've been looking at stuff today for Broadway cons.

[51:45] Heather Bedor: So I'll move into that.

[51:46] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but yes, definitely check out the Broadway Cruise.com.

[51:49] Heather Bedor: Enter promo code to be like boy, F like Frank, C Like Charlie.

[51:54] Amber Brzezinski: I think it should be all lowercase.

[51:56] Heather Bedor: I don't know if it makes a difference, and you'll get a hundred bucks off.

[51:59] Amber Brzezinski: Um totally worth it.

[52:01] Heather Bedor: Yeah, let's talk about gender swapping um or gender bending for those of you that are not familiar with it.

[52:08] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and I do want to go through our comments really quickly.

[52:11] Heather Bedor: Yes, everyone's kind of on the yes, Derek trained with who.

[52:14] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I'm not sure who is in Atlanta, Olivia.

[52:17] Heather Bedor: I think that they're gonna want to, I don't want to say stunt cast it, but I think they're gonna try to go for a more well-known name because really this is a lot of Broadway debuts.

[52:26] Amber Brzezinski: And our girl Marissa Rosen got to do her principal Broadway debut at Waterfall Elephants.

[52:31] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[52:33] Amber Brzezinski: So um Joe DePall was out, who's Walter, um, who's a clown, and Marissa got to be Wallace, and um was made her principal Broadway debut.

[52:45] Heather Bedor: So, yay, Marissa.

[52:48] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and we absolutely the pictures just don't do it justice.

[52:52] Heather Bedor: Um, let's see, Jeffrey Reeve in Water for Elephants.

[52:57] Amber Brzezinski: Ooh.

[53:01] Heather Bedor: Jeffrey.

[53:03] Amber Brzezinski: Jeffrey.

[53:04] Heather Bedor: Okay.

[53:05] Amber Brzezinski: I like what you did there.

[53:07] Heather Bedor: I, you know, I I would put that right on the bingo card.

[53:12] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[53:13] Heather Bedor: I can see it.

[53:14] Amber Brzezinski: Same vocals, um, a little bit of a pull.

[53:19] Heather Bedor: All right.

[53:20] Amber Brzezinski: We're we're gonna we're gonna talk, you you and us.

[53:24] Heather Bedor: Um, Olivia, I met Christian Starbucks next to the Marriott Marquis, so sweet.

[53:28] Amber Brzezinski: Christian's crazy.

[53:30] Heather Bedor: I love him.

[53:31] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I really do.

[53:32] Heather Bedor: I had the the absolute pleasure of seeing him in freaking everything.

[53:36] Amber Brzezinski: Something rotten, some like it hot, his hysterical.

[53:40] Heather Bedor: Um, Little Shop.

[53:41] Amber Brzezinski: Oh my god.

[53:42] Heather Bedor: And that's when I got to meet Jonathan Groff as well.

[53:45] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but when he did his death scene as Orrin, the dentist in Little Shop.

[53:52] Heather Bedor: Oh my gosh.

[53:54] Amber Brzezinski: He's amazing.

[53:55] Heather Bedor: First off, first off, first off.

[54:00] Amber Brzezinski: Um, that death scene is usually about two minutes long.

[54:05] Heather Bedor: It was seven.

[54:07] Amber Brzezinski: And sure, no little shop of horrors, amazing.

[54:10] Heather Bedor: Or the dentist, um, pretty much dies with a gas mask.

[54:14] Amber Brzezinski: Spoiler alert, uh, like a uh laughing gas mask.

[54:17] Heather Bedor: Christian Borrell wearing this contraption over his freaking head that like gives him bug eyes because it's like a magnifying mirror window, whatever.

[54:25] Amber Brzezinski: It kind of looks like a spaceman mask.

[54:27] Heather Bedor: Yes, it's a great way of putting it.

[54:28] Amber Brzezinski: Absolutely and the theater so um it's it's not it's off Broadway so it's under 500 seats um but it's so small and I'm like maybe 20 feet away and he is just dying for seven minutes with this ridiculous laugh just like every time you think he's done like it he goes he's alive again amazing playing against Jonathan Croft Seymour it's amazing so good when I saw him on the Broadway cruise I went up to him and I was like I just have to let you know I was there for your seven minute death he knew exactly what I was talking about he's like oh my god I'm so sorry I was like oh no it was one of the most enjoyable things I've ever watched in my entire life and it was a sterile we didn't talk about anything else that's what we talked about amazing Jeffrey to answer your question about um Christian Burl and Tammy Faye getting a lot of negativity taking a relieve why um I don't think it's Christian getting the the shit for it I think it's the way that it was handled it was marketed and promoted with Andrew Reynolds in the lead which we had the opportunity of seeing Andrew um at the red carpet for the waterfall offense open opening night um and we were both like ha and then they immediately announced it I think and we can't speak you know officially on it from my understanding his contract had not been signed it was not official that we were promoting and something didn't work somewhere so he dropped which is very rare very rare I'm hoping maybe he dropped because there's a Gutenberg option to I don't know.

[56:03] Amber Brzezinski: I don't know.

[56:03] Heather Bedor: I'm not even gonna put that out there.

[56:05] Amber Brzezinski: But Christian Borel taking over that role will be really interesting.

[56:09] Heather Bedor: Um, and we also just started a Tammy Faye um Broadway group.

[56:14] Heather Bedor: So we have our uh musical group we can post there. Um let's see, I'm reading through. Yes, he really does know how to play to an audience. He's freaking ridiculous. Uh he really truly is freaking. I love him so much. Um, yes, let's go into gender bending and and gender swapping. Um it's more of a term within the cosplay community. So, like, um if well, I'll use an example of a gender bend that I do. Um, and a gender bend is when something that's traditional in one aspect of the sex that's portrayed. So if it's a male male presenting, um, it's then portrayed as female presenting or vice versa. Um so like Jack Skellington. I did I wanted a spooky outfit, it's true, for a Halloween cruise, and I wanted to do Jack Skellington, so I did a gendered bend, quote unquote, of Jack.

So I have like Jacqueline skeleton, doesn't have to have a name, but it's a Jack Skellington, but I have a black leather dress with the bow tie and a lot of the accoutrements that'll make it recognizable. Um so Amber and I were talking the other night about um BB Newworth had originally said that she would really love to have been the MC back in the day in Cabaret, and even Jinx Monsoon was talking about being the MC in Cabaret, which is such a gender fluid role, anyways. Right. So we wanted to put it out to you guys. Is there a role that is traditionally male or female that you would want to see the opposite sex portray? I have also seen a male performer in one of the roles of the baits in Haiti's Town.

Oh, absolutely. A hundred percent. Um, and I'm trying to think of where else I've seen a gender swapped performer. I believe there's a role in Marilee of like a reporter or something that is also a gender swapped character. Sometimes I mean, even Marissa taking over this Wallace when Joe DePaul was out, that's considered a gender swap because it's a role that's generally portrayed by Joe DePaul. And when Joe wasn't there, it was Marissa. Um, Cheyenne, you did share the article about BB. Everybody saw it was amazing. Um, and I love BB New Earth. How could you freaking not love her? Um I like I still thinking about her performance in Cabaret and a lot of people, so she had been interviewed, and she had um this was an article from Charlotte that she and I spoke about a while ago.

Is that BB um hates it? And I know it's it's hard for everybody to have this understanding of this is kind of going into what's happening in the audience, but she doesn't like it when people applaud for her when she enters onto the stage. And I remembered that, and I was like, But it's right, but it's hard because when your favorite performer, whether it's a stunt casting, it's a celebrity that you're like dying to see, like Grant Gustin, um, you know, the Flash who's making his Broadway debut, or you appreciate the performance so well, but you're excited that he's there. Um, and you know, you take that beat and you're clapping and you're like, woo woo-woo, it does kind of stop the storyline and it's a little bit disruptive.

Um, there are times when you could do that where it's very appropriate. Um, Alex Newell getting their standing ovation after singing um independently owned and operated and shocked. One of the coolest moments sitting in a theater in my entire life because they brought down the damn house and everybody stopped and gave a standing O in the middle of show. Never experienced that on Broadway before. But then I experienced it a couple weeks ago when Gabby rocked the freaking house in cabaret. Um during maybe this time. Like what? It's that's cool. That's cool. But BB does not like it when it's interrupted and it stops the show. She feels like it takes everybody out of being into that story. Right.

But um, yeah, so for BroadwayCon, which I will be at um hosting panels. Um, don't forget to come to Broadway Trivia on Friday at five o'clock. Um, actually, I think I have a promo code for that one too. Broadwaycon.com, promo code TBFC, like the Broadway fan club. Um, I don't even know what it gets. I think it gets you like a discount off your ticket. I'm here for it. We love giving our members discounts. Um, but we're gonna be doing trivia. I'm gonna be hosting Trivia Friday. We're gonna have exclusive merch. We're gonna have shirts. Um, we're gonna have everything. It's gonna be on our link tree. Um, our bracelets, we're gonna make exclusive Broadway Con bracelets. Super, super excited about that. Um, and we might even have ribbons to trade, like convention ribbons.

[1:01:01] Heather Bedor: So really proud of that. But I was thinking about it, Amber, and I don't even think I've talked to you about this yet. I want to do the MC as the MC.

[1:01:10] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[1:01:11] Heather Bedor: That would be so cool. I was like, okay, well, I can totally wear like the Broadway fan club shirt because we're gonna have some really cool shirts that list all of our groups, and I'm super excited. I love our logo designed by one of my members um from our Broadway Cruise alumni group. Um but I'm like, I just I love that. And I've been watching and watching and trying to figure out like, okay, so Mason has a very distinct MC outfit. And shit, even Michael C. Hall does, and then you know, I'm coming. So like everybody has a very you can tell what era of cabaret is, and now we're in like the Eddie Redmane cabaret with the red hair with the sideways facing party hat with the like cool buckled tank top with like the um almost like a small corset with the shorts.

Right. I'm not gonna be able to find most of that. So I'm working on it. So if you guys have any suggestions as to what you think I should wear, please tell me because I'm I loved I love Olivia's suggestion. Maybe the wizard and the wicked, that would be so cool, gender swapped.

[1:02:16] Amber Brzezinski: Oh yeah.

[1:02:17] Heather Bedor: I can see that such a cool one.

[1:02:20] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[1:02:20] Heather Bedor: How would you but here's the thing too? What about Alphab being swapped?

[1:02:25] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, that would be very cool.

[1:02:28] Heather Bedor: Or, you know, even Glinda.

[1:02:31] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[1:02:32] Heather Bedor: I guess I can see Glenda being swapped. I've seen a six performance gender swapped. That was very cool. I mean, it's um there's a little bit of a frustration here amongst local um in Orlando that'll share, but that can kind of play into this a little bit. Um so Disney just put out a casting call for their new little mermaid show um because they're in the process of kind of revamping it from what there was at Hollywood Studios in the 80s, which was MGM um to now. And um, they put out a casting call that says all sexes, and they're saying openly that they could be non-binary trans like whatever trying to be inclusive people in Orlando are losing their minds right now saying well why is it even necessary to say that it should have been open all along so it's that given to me that gray area for sure for sure um reading through our messages if anyone anyone interested TDF has Tommy dates available that's really good to know Mitchell thank you for letting us know let me take this banner down um and that talks that that kind of moves us sadly into talking a little bit more about uh Tommy closing and we're gonna uh post Tommy by the 21st we've talked about it a little bit um but just support that cast they are precious little gems that need to be protected at all costs oh my god and I have to give a shout out to our member Alyssa Krueger for doing the coolest cosplays yeah for all of the uh or Alyssa Kluger excuse me she has been posting doing the coolest cosplays for like each major performer and she's going to like the last three shows and she is just doing awesome give her a shout out well I think that was very nice of you to give her a shout out and if you want to check that group out our pinball wizard group is on the Broadway Broadway fanclub.com.

[1:04:46] Heather Bedor: I know we're running over time. We've got just about a couple more subjects to cover. Um I think we're just about finished when maybe oh you're just done. She's over it when we just oh no, we yeah, we're just so done. Just just about done with our list. I was like, are we done? Because I know we have one big item.

[1:05:09] Amber Brzezinski: We do have one big item left on the list.

[1:05:12] Heather Bedor: In your your uh Fiffanies, my fifth bag. For those of you just listening and not being able to watch this video, Amber has affectionately taken out this faux Tiffany's bag, but still says Tiffany and Company on it, and that has been what she has put all of our drawings names into it. So it's the Fiffany bag.

[1:05:30] Amber Brzezinski: That is the sound.

[1:05:32] Heather Bedor: Yes. Um, so again, this is a drawing for those of our members um that were in Old Friends or that were following along Old Friends and the Broadway fan club. Um we had a hundred entries. Thank you guys so much within the last 24 hours. And this drawing is going to be for a merrily reroll along playbill. Um, you will also get a custom made bracelet. So exciting that says old friends in it, and you will get the magnet has the photo strip magnet, which is by far the coolest thing I've ever seen magnet-wise for a show.

[1:06:05] Amber Brzezinski: I agree.

[1:06:07] Heather Bedor: So if you guys are the or if you're the one that's being drawn, please message myself or Amber, and then we will get everything shipped right out to you. So uh are we ready for this?

[1:06:17] Amber Brzezinski: We are ready.

[1:06:18] Heather Bedor: Drum roll, everybody do drum roll at home.

[1:06:21] Amber Brzezinski: Come on.

[1:06:23] Heather Bedor: Let's see.

[1:06:24] Amber Brzezinski: All right.

[1:06:26] Heather Bedor: It's upside down.

[1:06:28] Amber Brzezinski: Up we have Christine Clement Hilton.

[1:06:32] Heather Bedor: Very nice.

[1:06:33] Amber Brzezinski: Christine Clement Hilton.

[1:06:34] Heather Bedor: Come on down.

[1:06:36] Amber Brzezinski: Umgratulations.

[1:06:37] Heather Bedor: Yes, you are the winner on the club. Thank you so much.

[1:06:40] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, so we are so excited. Um, we love to be able to do these drawings. That's why we encourage you guys to go to our Etsy shop so we can pay for stuff.

[1:06:49] Heather Bedor: So we can keep giving you prizes.

[1:06:51] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. We do have some really exciting prizes from some of our partners that are going to be coming up soon.

[1:06:58] Heather Bedor: And for those of you that were watching our peg doll giveaway, um, we do have a way of you guys being able to purchase some of those sets. Reach out to myself or Amber and we will get you squared away with Stephanie.

[1:07:08] Amber Brzezinski: Um so she can get you taken care of.

[1:07:11] Heather Bedor: Um yeah, with that being said, I mean, not too bad. One of sibling when I went to the show back in February, my friend got Magna for free.

[1:07:18] Amber Brzezinski: Very cool, Olivia.

[1:07:19] Heather Bedor: Not everyone can get stuff for free. I wish I could all the time because then life would be so much easier.

[1:07:25] Amber Brzezinski: And just a reminder, this week starts Broadway in the park at Bryant Park.

[1:07:30] Heather Bedor: So there's day, 12:30 to 1.30. Head over to Bryant Park for some super cool performances.

[1:07:40] Amber Brzezinski: And you can actually follow our Instagram at the B-Way fan club and see um specifics of what Broadway in the Park is going to have for each listing.

[1:07:50] Heather Bedor: Amber made some really great little um quick one-sheeters. She can see who's performing what day. Um, I'm very excited because in two weeks, let's see, the eighth, yeah. Words are good. In like a little over two weeks, I will be there and I'll be going live from the Broadway fan club. Um, I think the day I'm going is all like the sexy ones down there.

[1:08:13] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, I think so too.

[1:08:15] Heather Bedor: Like cabaret.

[1:08:16] Amber Brzezinski: Or no, not even.

[1:08:17] Heather Bedor: Yeah, Mullen Rouge.

[1:08:19] Amber Brzezinski: I think we can I don't know.

[1:08:22] Heather Bedor: Yeah, you have all this stuff in front of you.

[1:08:24] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, it's it's in my phone somewhere.

[1:08:27] Heather Bedor: Okay, guys. So the blonde is going away this week. Um, I have a modeling gig Wednesday, so um, I will no longer be blonde. I'll be able to remember a lot more stuff. It'll be great. But with that being said, um, thank you guys always uh for tuning in and for hanging out with us.

[1:08:43] Amber Brzezinski: And we are just only going to get bigger and better because of you guys and the support in the community.

[1:08:48] Heather Bedor: Um, we really do want to make sure that we could support these shows and build our communities and make sure everybody is happy and taken care of. And if there's a topic that you'd like to see sometime for our upcoming shows, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.

[1:09:00] Amber Brzezinski: Um, very nice, Cheyenne. Someone in the Cabriet group sent me a cabaret playbill gratis.

[1:09:05] Heather Bedor: Shout out to them.

[1:09:06] Amber Brzezinski: Shout out to the random kind stranger.

[1:09:09] Heather Bedor: We love that. That's what we are here to do. We want to make sure that our friends become our family.

[1:09:14] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and yeah, when Broadway's dark, we keep that ghost light burning, guys.

[1:09:19] Heather Bedor: That's what we do.

[1:09:20] Amber Brzezinski: Sure.

[1:09:20] Heather Bedor: So make sure you follow us on the BroadwayFanClub.com. Um, we have all of our information there. How to contact myself, how to contact Amber, our SC shop, all of our information, even our like to our Instagram, so you don't ever have to miss anything ever again.

[1:09:33] Amber Brzezinski: Um we thank you guys so much.

[1:09:36] Heather Bedor: We will see you next Monday, um, 8 p.m. Easter time, same bet time, same bet channel, featuring our good friend Tim Mooney of Tim Mooney Rep.

[1:09:45] Amber Brzezinski: You can go ahead and Google and see how amazing he is.

[1:09:47] Heather Bedor: Cheyenne, I cannot wait for you to stump him. Um, we're gonna have a good time with don't forget to prep your questions, your Shakespeare.

[1:09:56] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, I'm gonna challenge you guys to challenge and stump Tim. That is my goal in life right now.

[1:10:03] Heather Bedor: But with that being said, on behalf of me and Amber, thank you guys so much for joining us, and we hope that you have a great week.

[1:10:09] Amber Brzezinski: Thanks, Mitchell.

[1:10:10] Heather Bedor: You beat me too, and have a good week.

[1:10:11] Amber Brzezinski: See you guys next time.

[1:10:13] Heather Bedor: Bye-bye.

[1:10:15] Amber Brzezinski: Bye.