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[0:08] Heather Bedor: Who, like many people, at the beginning of the depression, had their lives fall apart. He uh responds by leaving home and hopping on the first train that he sees, and it turns out to be a circus train.

[0:21] Amber Brzezinski: You didn't jump just any old train. Uh this here's the Benzini Brothers most spectacular show on earth.

[0:30] Heather Bedor: We are here uh for the first time on our feet, as they say in the theater business, which is we're no longer sitting at tables. We're learning the language, the physical language of our show.

[0:30] Amber Brzezinski: For the first time, we're sort of bringing together all of the different mediums in terms of the tree, dance, accro, staging, choreography, circus rigs, music, a band.

[0:51] Heather Bedor: And putting it all together to create our sort of public-facing presentation of Water for Elephants. To kind of get a feel for what it means to have 22 humans all moving at one time.

[1:03] Amber Brzezinski: There are people flopping. There are things being pulled out of the sky and things rising up from the ground and all those wonderful things that happen at the circus.

[1:11] Heather Bedor: We don't really get the opportunity to try all that out all that often. So we're really lucky to be here for a couple of weeks to be able to figure out how the show moves on its feet so that we can get good and prepped for our Atlanta run.

[1:22] Amber Brzezinski: I'm really excited. I've never worked at the Alliance, and I have so many friends who have and who've said, Oh, you're gonna love it. You're gonna love the Alliance. So I'm really excited uh to be down there.

[1:45] Heather Bedor: Then corpses. I give you Ben Kinny Brothers' most spectacular show.

[1:52] Amber Brzezinski: Honor. What a good show. What a damn show. Oh my god. I'm so glad that we had an opportunity.

[2:09] Heather Bedor: Happy throwback Thursday, everyone.

[2:12] Amber Brzezinski: Throwback Thursday. I'm here for it. Right. I am Heather. This hot pink, sexy girl over here is Amber.

[2:19] Heather Bedor: I'm like, it is illuminating from the back of your hair.

[2:24] Amber Brzezinski: Well, I touched it up for that wedding. So it's still super bright.

[2:24] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[2:31] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, Olivia, you're gonna see you haven't seen Kyle yet, have you, Olivia?

[2:36] Heather Bedor: I know Zach did. Um, so yeah, well, we are the Broadway Fan Club, and because I was flying back Monday night, we decided we're gonna do a Thursday throwback show, and I love it.

[2:47] Amber Brzezinski: Um, because we have so much to go over, and then in a couple of days, we have a regular Monday night show, so very exciting.

[2:55] Heather Bedor: Um, we'll start with some Broadway news. We'll go into all of the awesome and epic stuff that happened at Broadway with a special message for our Broadway Fan Club members from our new friend, and I'm so beyond excited for that.

[3:08] Amber Brzezinski: Um, yeah, we have a lot to cover and very little time. If all of a sudden the lights flicker, you hear wind. I'm in the middle of Hurricane Helene.

[3:17] Heather Bedor: So um, this is definitely uh Yeah, I was gonna say, check in, tell us how are you? What's going on?

[3:24] Amber Brzezinski: So you can see the hair because I had to go outside and get some stuff, and I'm like, I'm wind swept. But it's just it's a lot of wind, which is lovely.

[3:34] Heather Bedor: Um, younger version of Heather when I lived by the beach, um, would go surfing in this weather. I would not do that now.

[3:43] Amber Brzezinski: Um, we haven't had much rain. Um, it's just been a lot of wind and power outages so far. Fingers crossed, knock on wood.

[3:50] Heather Bedor: Um, and I have hiccups because usually I drink soda, but I'm drinking the Oreo flavored Coke Zero Sugar, which sounds awful, but it's pretty tasty.

[4:00] Amber Brzezinski: So we'll see how much caffeine I think this has caffeine in it.

[4:04] Heather Bedor: Yeah, fizzy cookie flavored, literally what it says.

[4:07] Amber Brzezinski: So that's tipping fizzy cookie flavored. Perfect.

[4:12] Heather Bedor: Let's get right into it, Amber. What's our Broadway news for the week?

[4:15] Amber Brzezinski: All right, let me pull out the old the old news.

[4:15] Heather Bedor: The old news.

[4:20] Amber Brzezinski: There's a lot of news coming out. There's a lot of news.

[4:24] Heather Bedor: So, first, as always, let's start with the openings. We have Last 10th beginning performances on Broadway tonight at the James Earl Jones Theater with official performances starting on October 23rd.

[4:38] Amber Brzezinski: We also have Romeo and Juliet beginning preview performances tonight at Circle in the Square.

[4:43] Heather Bedor: And what was the term that that was being thrown around Reddit?

[4:47] Amber Brzezinski: I have the I have it quoted here with official performances beginning on October 24th, running. This is a limited performance, so make sure you get your tickets. It runs through February 16th.

[5:00] Heather Bedor: And as per Reddit, we are hearing that it is a very horny production.

[5:06] Amber Brzezinski: So I am very horny thing. I think that's the first time we said the word horny on the show.

[5:12] Heather Bedor: But it is a pretty horny show.

[5:13] Amber Brzezinski: Like it is, yeah. The like 1970s, 80s movie version was like, whoa, and they showed it to us in school.

[5:22] Heather Bedor: What right?

[5:23] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and let's not forget the quintessential Leonardo DiCaprio Claire Danes version.

[5:23] Heather Bedor: Right.

[5:29] Amber Brzezinski: 40 little children.

[5:30] Heather Bedor: Uh but Rachel Zegler, Kid O'Connor, like I am here for it. I'm gonna do everything I can. I'm a Shakespeare nut. I cannot wait.

[5:38] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I but are you are you a chocolate or are you a Montague? And for those watching, let us know. Are you Capulet or Montague?

[5:45] Heather Bedor: I'm a Montague.

[5:47] Amber Brzezinski: This is why I love you.

[5:48] Heather Bedor: Damn right.

[5:49] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, absolutely. I feel like the Montagues, I was just gonna say are a little more edgy.

[5:54] Heather Bedor: Yeah, yeah.

[5:55] Amber Brzezinski: Absolutely. There's some like dry queens there.

[5:58] Heather Bedor: Yeah, bring it on.

[5:59] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I'm here for it. He's a rapper.

[5:59] Heather Bedor: Absolutely.

[6:03] Amber Brzezinski: Um, all right. Next up on the list, we have our friends over at Sunset Boulevard, which will be getting their first preview on September twenty-eighth and officially opening on October 20th over at St. James Theater.

[6:16] Heather Bedor: Oh my god, and guys, that marquee, Amber and I went Sunday, is gorgeous.

[6:21] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, yes.

[6:22] Heather Bedor: I also did a red video walk. It's so cool. That cast is gorgeous.

[6:27] Amber Brzezinski: Oh my god, I can't wait.

[6:28] Heather Bedor: Cannot wait.

[6:29] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I can't wait because you know the minimalism that cast is really the ones who have to bring it, and I can't wait to see what they do.

[6:35] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I love it. I'm here for Nicole Scherzinger. I want to see if she's gonna bring it. I know she will, but it's gonna be awesome.

[6:35] Amber Brzezinski: Absolutely.

[6:43] Heather Bedor: Um, and then we have The Hills of California, which began previews already, which began previews on September 11th, but they have their opening night coming up on September 29th.

[6:54] Amber Brzezinski: Now that is not a musical, that is a straight play of a play, and they're newly extended. They are the production is now set to continue through December 22nd.

[7:04] Heather Bedor: So you have a chance.

[7:07] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, it's gonna be gonna be interesting for sure.

[7:10] Heather Bedor: The lines for the shows this past week have been bonkers. There's just so much stuff going on.

[7:16] Amber Brzezinski: So absolutely.

[7:18] Heather Bedor: Um, today is also a big day on Broadway. Tonight they will be dimming the lights in honor of James Earl Jones, who did pass away on September 9th.

[7:28] Amber Brzezinski: If um most of you would recognize the name, it's because he is the the icon of both film and stage.

[7:36] Heather Bedor: Um Broadway theater named after him. We just were speaking of the theater. He is a complete icon.

[7:36] Amber Brzezinski: Amazing.

[7:36] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[7:49] Amber Brzezinski: Um then that's it for opening news.

[7:54] Heather Bedor: We have some casting news coming up.

[7:58] Amber Brzezinski: We have Aisha Jackson joining the cast of The Notebook as Middle Alley on October 22nd.

[8:05] Heather Bedor: We'll be taking over for Joy Woods.

[8:08] Amber Brzezinski: Joy Woods, as we know, who will be leaving the company on the 20th, heading over to Gypsy.

[8:13] Heather Bedor: I remember brand new.

[8:17] Amber Brzezinski: With her fellow, you know you've got a strong social media game when everybody is like, can you just tell us it's Joy?

[8:17] Heather Bedor: Like, can you just do that?

[8:27] Amber Brzezinski: I love that she posted like the breaking free chains.

[8:31] Heather Bedor: Like, I can finally tell everybody.

[8:34] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, it's just crazy.

[8:36] Heather Bedor: It's just crazy.

[8:37] Amber Brzezinski: So we have Jordan Tyson as June, Leslie Margarita as Tessie, Lily Thomas as Mzeppa, and Melinda Hall as Electra.

[8:48] Heather Bedor: Very diverse cast.

[8:50] Amber Brzezinski: Danny Bernstein is Herbie.

[8:52] Heather Bedor: I love James.

[8:53] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so and if uh just a reminder that Gypsy will be reopening at the Majestic Theater on November 21st with opening night on December 19th.

[9:04] Heather Bedor: So that will be very exciting.

[9:06] Amber Brzezinski: And I mean, don't forget Audra McDonald is.

[9:09] Heather Bedor: Audra McDonald is the obviously headlining that one.

[9:14] Amber Brzezinski: And um, we've been sharing videos too of the Majestic and what they've done with the Majestic now.

[9:19] Heather Bedor: So it's just stunning.

[9:20] Amber Brzezinski: I can't wait to get into that theater.

[9:22] Heather Bedor: Absolutely, absolutely.

[9:24] Amber Brzezinski: We also have Lilith White returning to Herbie's in Hadestown next month.

[9:31] Heather Bedor: She will start October 22nd replacing Stephanie Mills, who will be playing her final performance on October 20th.

[9:39] Amber Brzezinski: She'll be joining Lana Gordon as Persephone.

[9:43] Heather Bedor: And I actually got to see Lana Gordon um when I saw the Hadestown tour as Persephone.

[9:49] Amber Brzezinski: And let me tell you, she blew me away.

[9:51] Heather Bedor: So if you have the chance to go see her, definitely go do that.

[9:51] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[9:56] Heather Bedor: Oh yeah. I mean, I love Hadestown. What are we telling you guys?

[10:00] Amber Brzezinski: Hadestown is a cult-like following.

[10:02] Heather Bedor: And we'll get more into it when we talk about Broadway Flea.

[10:05] Amber Brzezinski: But to just say, like Orpheus' journal was selling for a thousand dollars each at Flea.

[10:13] Heather Bedor: Um, because it's signed by Jordan Fisher.

[10:16] Amber Brzezinski: Like it was insanity.

[10:19] Heather Bedor: It was crazy.

[10:20] Amber Brzezinski: And I love it so much.

[10:21] Heather Bedor: And I'll see it five bajillion times if I can.

[10:24] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, absolutely.

[10:26] Heather Bedor: Um, speaking of just in general shows that opening, there have been some rush and lottery policies being announced for shows like Romeo and Juliet, Maybe Happy Ending, and Sunset Boulevard.

[10:40] Amber Brzezinski: So make sure you're following our groups so you can be in the know on all the latest info for that.

[10:46] Heather Bedor: Amber, can you throw up our fancy?

[10:48] Amber Brzezinski: I was already right on top of that, Rose.

[10:53] Heather Bedor: You can go right over to www.thebroadwayfanclub.com.

[10:57] Amber Brzezinski: That'll take you to our link tree.

[10:59] Heather Bedor: We're all 67.

[10:59] Amber Brzezinski: 67.

[11:02] Heather Bedor: We're gonna hit 100 soon. I feel it.

[11:04] Amber Brzezinski: All 67 of our groups are listed. You'll see some of our newer groups popping up there.

[11:10] Heather Bedor: Um, one for Forbidden Broadway.

[11:10] Amber Brzezinski: Woo!

[11:14] Heather Bedor: Maybe even one for Twenty-Sided Tavern.

[11:16] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, exciting.

[11:19] Heather Bedor: Um, we have a lot of fun announcements for today. I'm so excited.

[11:22] Amber Brzezinski: There's just it's all happening.

[11:24] Heather Bedor: It's all happening.

[11:25] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, absolutely.

[11:27] Heather Bedor: So go to BroadwayFanClub.com. You'll see all of our groups listed there. If there's one that piques your interest, let us know.

[11:34] Amber Brzezinski: Speaking of the last and final bit of Broadway news we have is that there was a casting announcement for Broadway's upcoming All In, which is a comedy about love showing at the Hudson Theater.

[11:52] Heather Bedor: It will be a 10-week limited engagement starting December 11th.

[11:58] Amber Brzezinski: And the names that have been dropping for this show, like completely stacked.

[11:58] Heather Bedor: John Mulaney, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andrew Rannells, Jimmy Fallon, Hank Azaria, like come on.

[12:20] Heather Bedor: Oh, it's gonna be amazing. Now it's totally cast, so you're not gonna see all of these names at the same time in the same show because they're gonna rotate in and out. So keep in mind when you buy your tickets to check which cast you want to see.

[12:44] Heather Bedor: I have some news too. You guys know I'm obsessed with the Broadway Cruise. Now I'm gonna throw up our promo code for the Broadway Cruise, BroadwayCruise.com promo code or refer code 2B, like boy F like Frank C like Charlie or two, big freaking coupon. They just announced a couple of hours ago some of the tribute shows and panels. I'm gonna read through these. There's gonna be two tribute shows celebrating the remarkable contributions of Bob Mackie and Jeffrey Seller, alongside a captivating lineup of Broadway panels. Experience the magic of a stage like never before with engaging conversations that enlighten and inspire, as well as heartfelt tributes from our cast of Broadway's brightest stars honoring the brilliance of these Broadway icons.

[13:27] Heather Bedor: So there will be Broadway's impact on culture and society. Guys, when I tell you the Broadway cruise is literally like a Broadway Comic Con, like Broadway Con, but on a boat, it's nuts. Um, Broadway's impact on culture and society. We will explore how Broadway has shaped cultural movements, challenged societal norms, and created a lasting influence on modern-day culture. Then they have the power of the Broadway revival, reinvention versus recreation. What inspires the creation and development of a revival? Which there are so many this season. Join us as we dissect the fine balance between honoring original works and bringing fresh modern perspectives. So we love classics, the global reach of Broadway, international productions and tours, from London's West End to international tours, discover how Broadway transcends borders and captivates audiences around the globe. And women in theater. This panel will discuss the powerful contributions of women in theater and the way they're shaping the future of Broadway. There's gonna be so many more panels and stuff listed.

[14:31] Heather Bedor: Um, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp were actually doing their cabaret, which like mind blown. Umber better be on the cruise with me. Just saying. So you are, I will dog sit every weekend if I have to to pay for this cruise. Well, the good thing is you can use the BroadwayCruise.com promo code to BFC that'll save you a hundred dollars off your booking. Um, so make sure you book before it sells out.

[15:04] Amber Brzezinski: Moving right along, ease on down, ease on down the road.

[15:08] Heather Bedor: Okay, threw in some wizard. Should we get into Broadway Flea?

[15:13] Amber Brzezinski: We should get right into Broadway Flea.

[15:16] Heather Bedor: So, um, Amber and I put hours into personally shopping for people. We had some of our own personal finds that like I was beyond excited to find. And we've been talking with Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS to see how we can help. So, um, we had the opportunity to meet up with Fran and her team, they're wonderful and lovely. Um, and it was a madhouse. So we got down there, what like 9:15?

[15:44] Amber Brzezinski: 9:30. Doors open at 10. People were already in line, so we split it. So Hades Town, um, cult following Amber got onto the line for our members. Um, there were probably about what, 20 people ahead of you. And I got in a line for Moulin Rouge, which was halfway down the block and around the corner. So we waited there for about an hour-ish. Um, and then got up to the front, and things were already sold out. I grabbed the last um Frank signed by Aaron from one of our members. Amber was able to get some playbills and a train whistle, like crazy stuff. Um, and the booths were popping for those few that like the Amber, this is your first flea. What was your feeling about it?

[16:32] Amber Brzezinski: It was chaos, it was wild. It was like feeling like a sardine in a can. It was like the happy sardine, and it didn't well, maybe it's not a little bit, but it was truly like chaos, but it was fun. Like it was so fun. It was and the weather was gorgeous. It was a wonderful day to be in the city. It was like it was just so fun. Besides getting to hang out with me, uh, which is always a blast.

[17:04] Heather Bedor: It was a lot of fun, and it was I think my 22nd Broadway flea. Um, and Amber got to meet the infamous Shauna Bresnahan, um, my friend from like middle school, high school, um, and her daughter Nora, and Shauna is really the reason behind my like adult love of Broadway, and she's the one that introduced me to flea.

[17:24] Amber Brzezinski: So, are you what are you doing? You're just like head down.

[17:26] Heather Bedor: I am trying to find. I meant to do this before. Oh, trying to find a grand total. Oh, oh, it was like almost 1.5 million dollars.

[17:41] Amber Brzezinski: Right. Yeah, guys, they raised so much money. So they had the silent auction, they have a live auction in Times Square. Um, the line for the celebrity meet and greet and autograph lines were packed. Um, they had the curtain call, which is a lot of the closed shows. We got in there. I'm gonna give Amber some credit. Like, neither one of us really like lots of crowding people, and we just like got in there. We were very efficient and militant, got a lot of the stuff that we could. Um, ran into Olivia. It was so fun to run into Olivia. We ran into Zach Stark. Ran into Olivia's puppy.

[18:13] Heather Bedor: Yes, Olivia's Pup Pubs. Um, so it was fun. And we got to see Rai, our friend Rye Myers, um, who I was associate producer for Live with Rye and Friends. Um, we went schnackeries, we had a good time. We had a very good time. Um, and we really were able to take care of our members, but all right, the total was a million four hundred and twenty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars.

[18:42] Amber Brzezinski: That's insane. We're probably like five thousand dollars of that, but right. Um, but no, it was it was so wonderful. Um, I had to read it while the video was going. I'm so sorry for interrupting.

[18:57] Heather Bedor: How dare you? Um, but it was just it was so nice because flea used to be like this, and then COVID kind of obviously killed it, and then it just it's been growing. Now, there were some prices that were like astronomical, and look, and people paid it, all the more power to them. It's going right to charity. All the proceeds from Broadway or from Broadway Flea go to Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. And that's incredible. That goes to help people. I know Amber, you posted something about like this much pays for groceries, this much pays. It's really incredible. Or like a meal, this much pays for medicine for a year, this much like a playbill pays for medicine.

[19:35] Amber Brzezinski: Right. Like a poster plate pays for supplies.

[19:39] Heather Bedor: Yeah, it was awesome. And you know, you stand there and you don't realize it. So again, thank you to Fran and her team. We were getting some inside scoops. Uh, you know, Patrick Harris, David Burka. Uh, we went over to the once upon a time once upon a mattress, once upon a time, geez Louise, once upon a mattress tent, and Michael Urie was there. We were super excited, and I was giving him a hard time as puppy because they can never bring us puppy anywhere anymore. We were talking, and Sutton was supposed to come over, but she wasn't able to. So Anna Gasteyer came over, like no big deal. I mean, and she was just the loveliest person in the world.

[20:17] Amber Brzezinski: So sweet. We told her about the Broadway Fan Club, um, and just so lovely. So, um, that was fun. Um, we got to meet the Mr. Snyder from Newsies National Tour. Um, and I got some Newsies fan like uh trading cards, um, which I'm never giving up ever. It's part of my Newsies bingo, it's great. Um, we met some of the understudies and casts from The Outsiders. Who else did we meet?

[20:46] Heather Bedor: Um, we saw, of course, Jordan Fisher.

[20:50] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, yeah.

[20:51] Heather Bedor: Um, let's see, who else?

[20:54] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, yeah. Um, some of the queens from Six were at the table.

[20:57] Heather Bedor: Some of the queens from Six. We had um, I think I want to say some of the stuff from Water for Elephants, Water for Elephants folks were there. And we got a great one. Kyle was there.

[21:11] Amber Brzezinski: So it was singing from The Prom and Kyle was a very good thing.

[21:18] Heather Bedor: We're able to give their bracelets up. But we had another, we had another friend that we met there. I don't remember. Um, here I'll play the video. You want to see the video?

[21:30] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, yeah, I do remember.

[21:32] Heather Bedor: Okay, here it is. My name is Neil of the Patrick Harris. No relationship novel. And I just wanted to say hi to the Broadway. Incredibly cool. I love him so much. Saying hi to all of you guys.

[21:49] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, so you guys can now say Neil Patrick Harris said hello to you.

[21:53] Heather Bedor: Um, he was just so fun. And we had a quick time with him, but it was so nice to be able to see him and have a conversation, let him know about the fan club. He was very impressed. He was like, How many fan clubs? Um, so that was a lot of fun, and we just had a great time with it. Um, and we got to share swimming with Broadway Cares that we're gonna share swimming with you guys too. Do you have any of them on you, Amber?

[22:17] Amber Brzezinski: I do right over here.

[22:19] Heather Bedor: She does, she does.

[22:22] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, well.

[22:24] Heather Bedor: And you're wearing your Marilee shirt, of course you want to be.

[22:25] Amber Brzezinski: And I'm wearing my Marilee shirt, and I got this from the Neil Patrick Harris table.

[22:31] Heather Bedor: Yes, you did. We went well, this is Word.

[22:35] Amber Brzezinski: That's amazing.

[22:36] Heather Bedor: I'm pretty sure it's signed by Cal Penn, too.

[22:38] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, a hundred percent.

[22:40] Heather Bedor: Yeah, yeah. I think that was it. Neil signed by Neil, yeah, and signed by Cal.

[22:45] Amber Brzezinski: So very much. I love that Neil had his Halloween, like Neil and David had their family Halloween costumes for sale.

[22:51] Heather Bedor: Right.

[22:52] Amber Brzezinski: I maybe I'll be Kumar for Halloween this year.

[22:55] Heather Bedor: Excuse me.

[22:56] Amber Brzezinski: No, we have our Halloween costume.

[22:58] Heather Bedor: Oh, you're right. Amber and I are actually going to see Death Becomes Her on Halloween night.

[23:06] Amber Brzezinski: We are.

[23:07] Heather Bedor: My goodness. Find us at the lunch.

[23:10] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, find us at the lunch. We're gonna be tearing up the town, and maybe we'll wear our bottle gowns all day. I don't know.

[23:16] Heather Bedor: Right? We'll find a matinee. Um, Olivia, to answer your question. Yes, of course. We went by the cabaret table. Um, yeah, we had a nice little chat throughout the day with them as well. We even picked up a plunger signed by Bebe Neuwirth for one of our members. So it's great. Did you find it? Did you find it? Did you find it?

[23:36] Amber Brzezinski: That's one of them.

[23:38] Heather Bedor: So, drum roll. We are officially collaborating with Broadway Cares to donate a dollar from each sale of our Broadway Cares uh bracelets.

[23:48] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, that's pulling them. There are three different varieties of them.

[23:52] Heather Bedor: Very nice.

[23:52] Amber Brzezinski: So we have two clay options and one as Amber will call them the jewels.

[23:57] Heather Bedor: Very nice.

[23:58] Amber Brzezinski: I don't have a jewel on me.

[24:00] Heather Bedor: You do not have a jewel on me. That's okay. I have a jewel somewhere. Um, so if you want to go to our Etsy shop and support Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS, here's my hiccups. Please go to HTTPS colon slash slash the Broadway fanclub.etsy.com. You will see all the bracelets right there. Actually, I feel like being extra. I'm gonna do that right now. Entertain everybody while I'm doing this.

[24:26] Amber Brzezinski: It's great. Um, actually, I will give everyone a little secret insider surprise. If you go to the B-Way fan club from now until October 31st and use the promo code BWAYFlea, you can get 20% off your total order.

[24:46] Amber Brzezinski: So if you miss if you miss something at flea, you couldn't find something from a special show, you're missing something, you know, you just want a little something that you couldn't find from a show that you haven't seen in years.

[25:03] Heather Bedor: Like Ride the Cyclone, perhaps.

[25:06] Amber Brzezinski: We got it in our shop. Can you guys see how amazing our Etsy shop is? We have 95 designs. That's insanity. Here is the jeweled bracelet, guys. The Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS bracelet. This is the jeweled version. We also have stuff like The Outsiders, Choose the Ride. It's not a game. Lots of Ride the Cyclone fans out there. Um, Do I Hero Walls? Is like one of my favorites. Um, I personally own this one. You've been doing such a great job. We've been having a lot of fun creating all of these here, guys. There's vote bracelets from SUFs, Once Upon a Mattress. I mean, guys, the list goes on and on. And the best part is too, if you see something awesome. If you don't see something and you want something, hit us up because we will make it for you.

Like, look how fun these are. And they're really lightweight. Um, there's no metal or nickel or anything on them unless there's a charm. And um, so like be personally very comfortable. Super comfy. I wore mine all day and didn't have any issues. Um, but please go and support Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. You can do that right from our Etsy shop. It's a dollar from each bracelet sale. We'll go right to Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. So help us help them.

[26:28] Heather Bedor: Moving right along. Where are we heading into next?

[26:32] Amber Brzezinski: First time at Flea. It was crazy packed. This should be held at Javits Center.

[26:37] Heather Bedor: We've never been there.

[26:41] Amber Brzezinski: So Broadway Flea exploded. It's always through the theater district because it's easy for all the theaters to kind of pull things out. It's meant to feel like a garage sale. They used to have it for the entire road. Like the actual street would be blocked off, and then it became the half side. But the fun part is is that after all the craziness and then it's calm and yeah, it's supposed to go until seven. Does it ever go to seven? Probably not. But sometimes you find like random stuff hanging out there. I found like just hanging out on a table, an Avenue Q 15th anniversary shirt. Thank you. Appreciate the donation.

[27:23] Amber Brzezinski: Janna says selfishly would like to ask if you're able to find any treasures for me, Heather.

[27:28] Heather Bedor: Janna, I think we found a couple of things for you, didn't we?

[27:32] Amber Brzezinski: We did. We definitely did find some treasures for you. I believe, um, let me consult my spreadsheet, which I think I have opened.

[27:43] Heather Bedor: Another screen. We're very efficient.

[27:47] Amber Brzezinski: Very, very efficient. While you look that up, we'll start to talk about um Broadway Votes. So we had a lovely conversation with Catherine and um oh my god, Neely? I cannot. I'm this is my brain. Um, they were so Nalini. Um, Jana. Yes, Jana. Oh, wait, your voice is cut low. So, Jana, they're Gatsby. They dropped out of the flea, but we were still able to find some periodic items sprinkled through.

[28:23] Heather Bedor: Oh, yes. We were able to find a Jeremy Jordan signed playbill. We were able to find a Gatsby-like art. It's like a little artist who draws like a depiction over um the sheet music. Over the sheet music and a Stay Gold pin, I believe.

[28:45] Amber Brzezinski: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yes. So we got we found a couple little trinkets for you. We were there all day long. The only time that we took a break was to go see the matinee. Hold on, I need to share this. Shut up! Stop it! Oh my god. Love it so much. We got you, girl. We got you. So we're so excited to be able to help you out.

[29:07] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Um, we'll be shipping everything out by Saturday. Yeah, hopefully the weather calms down here. So, like when the theme parks close here or they cancel stuff, you know it's like serious here in Orlando. Um, so yeah, I'm hoping that I can get to the post office by Saturday.

[29:25] Amber Brzezinski: Holy moly, you just made my entire day.

[29:28] Heather Bedor: Jana, you made our entire day. We love stuff up for people. It's really true. Um, look, we can help charity, we can help you guys out, we can have fun. Um and Amber and I like our friendship, I think was even more solidified Sunday because we learned more about how we worked very cohesively together. Just like a freaking machine. It's great. You're stuck with me.

[29:53] Amber Brzezinski: Anyways, so we had a great conversation with Broadway Votes that was there and Broadway for Harris. Um, and you'll see some more stuff from them coming soon. Um, it was really great to see the community come out. It's a lot of locals, a lot of people are coming in from like out of the country for Flea.

[30:09] Heather Bedor: Yeah, there were so many people. I was talking to some people in line, someone in line from California.

[30:14] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. I mean, people are in Australia.

[30:17] Heather Bedor: Yeah, it was incredible.

[30:19] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. Um, but everyone you're talking to is a theater fan. And yeah, some of them are gonna flip stuff, but we were just having a good time with it and getting in there and like giving it to their like the side eye, like, is this worth it? Should we negotiate? Um, we found for one of our members they wanted anything signed by Sutton Foster, and we found like the handkerchief that Dauntless gives to Fred to wipe the mud off. So it has mud from Sutton Foster's face, her autograph. Their request was anything that passed through Sutton Foster's hands.

[30:54] Heather Bedor: Oh, fair enough. It was a very specific thing, very much. I mean, it was on her face and her hands. So we were like, this is perfect, and but it happened to be when Michael Urie got to the Once Upon a Mattress tent, and he's like, wait a minute, that's mine though. And he told us like where he is hiding the handkerchief to hand it over to Fred, which is super cute. And then he's like, Can I sign it too? So, like that is so cool. And guys, if you have the opportunity to go to Flea, please, please, please go, even if it's just to have interactions with the cast or the people that are there or the fans, or just to hang out and people watch. It's just a heck of a lot of fun, and it's exhausting in the best way possible.

[31:33] Amber Brzezinski: So we have a picture of Michael Urie signing the ownership for the member that we can also send them. And we'll be posting up some of our other videos and photos. Photos, yes, very soon. We just wanted to get through this podcast. We wanted to tell you guys about it first, yeah, before we posted everything.

[31:54] Heather Bedor: I'm scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.

[31:57] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, Glenn. Unfortunately, they um were supposed to be there. We did hear that they um had to drop out last minute, I believe, because they um that's so awesome. That's such a cool photo. Such a such a one-of-a-kind experience. Um, but Gatsby was supposed to be there, and they did have to drop out, unfortunately, because um they either couldn't find someone to man their tables or they just weren't able to um just get out and and be there, unfortunately. I know a lot of people were asking where's Gatsby, where's the Gatsby table? So lots of people were were very disappointed in that.

[32:38] Heather Bedor: I'm gonna have to have to start this video over again.

[32:50] Amber Brzezinski: So cool. Yeah, so Ana Gasteyer, who plays the queen. Um, they were all welcoming her royal majesty. It was fantastic.

[33:01] Heather Bedor: All right, let's move right along. Where are we headed to now, bus driver?

[33:05] Amber Brzezinski: Um, we're still we're still talking about Flea. Let me uh see if yeah, let me see if I can uh get that video of Izzy.

[33:16] Heather Bedor: Oh, yeah, shoulders very good video. I didn't know it was fun because um we got to give them their Water for Elephants fan bracelets.

[33:25] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. Yeah. And Kyle was super lovely. And I'll tell you his hands are very soft. And then we'll tell you about how Water for Elephants was so freaking good.

[33:36] Heather Bedor: Oh my god. Can you find it?

[33:45] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, I did find it. Why are we doing dude?

[33:48] Heather Bedor: Okay. That's just like my it sounds like duck.

[33:53] Amber Brzezinski: It is though.

[33:54] Heather Bedor: Yeah, no, I was thinking Dick.

[33:56] Amber Brzezinski: Thank you for noticing.

[33:57] Heather Bedor: You're welcome for noticing. Well, while you're doing this, um, so I want to take a poll for our followers. Um, so Amber and I again are dressing in costume Halloween night. Let me tell you, I'm so appreciative for Amber's friendship because one, it's always been a dream of mine to go to silly to celebrate Halloween in New York City and have a very Rent-inspired like Halloween night. And two, I've been dying to get to Salem, and this girl's like, I got us taking for Death Becomes Her, and then we can go to Salem on the weekend if you stay in Connecticut. And I'm like, Clearly, that is the correct answer. This is why we're friends. Um, so but I want to know who you guys think we should dress as.

[34:49] Amber Brzezinski: What are you doing?

[34:51] Heather Bedor: I'm trying to figure out how did you do that?

[34:54] Amber Brzezinski: The video.

[34:54] Heather Bedor: Oh, I figured it out. I was like, it says a video file.

[35:02] Amber Brzezinski: Nope, not a converted file.

[35:05] Heather Bedor: Boo, just sit on your phone.

[35:07] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. But yeah, so you told me I should be Madeline so you can be Helen. It's fine. I just told I just thought that you would think that would be more appropriate.

[35:17] Heather Bedor: I don't care. We'll just put a hole through your stuff.

[35:21] Amber Brzezinski: Can you can you see? Yeah. Can you see my screen?

[35:24] Heather Bedor: Okay. So this was the Water for Elephants. This was how they were trying to raise money for charity, which is so Water for Elephants.

[35:36] Amber Brzezinski: What a great picture shot, too.

[35:46] Amber Brzezinski: Someone's in the poster.

[35:51] Heather Bedor: We have Kyle over here.

[35:59] Amber Brzezinski: She's too tiny.

[36:01] Heather Bedor: Pretty much can you should see me about the cast signed window.

[36:09] Amber Brzezinski: Do you have the other video for singing stuff in the prom?

[36:12] Heather Bedor: I think I do.

[36:13] Amber Brzezinski: Let me see.

[36:15] Heather Bedor: It was a lot of fun. We really had a lot of fun.

[36:18] Amber Brzezinski: Oh yeah, I do.

[36:19] Heather Bedor: I sent the wrong one.

[36:30] Amber Brzezinski: I'll try to see what I have.

[36:33] Heather Bedor: I have my drive by Jordan Fisher video.

[36:38] Amber Brzezinski: She got it.

[36:40] Heather Bedor: Yep.

[36:41] Amber Brzezinski: I just have to put this one in the jam.

[36:42] Heather Bedor: Yeah, that's cute, Alpha Bug Glenda email.

[36:45] Amber Brzezinski: They are supposed to be popular.

[36:47] Heather Bedor: I'll help you be popular.

[36:48] Amber Brzezinski: No, but we're gonna do, we're probably gonna do like Madeline and Helen by I was voluntole that I'm Madeline, which is fine.

[36:55] Heather Bedor: I just have to figure out how to put my head on backwards with my body, and Amber has to have a holes or something. I just have to figure out how to put a hole in my stomach. That's all. Well, I've been keeping an eye on some of the costume ideas, and we can either put a mirror or we can put like something reflective on your stomach so it looks like it's okay. Um, but I'm really I've got to figure out which costume design I want to do because it's gonna be show specific. But Megan Hiltsy has this gorgeous pink caribou feather thing with like a pink corset. I'm like, I will rock that, but then I'm like, I do not want to sit in a corset for the entire length of a show. So we're gonna figure out we're gonna goodwill it up and we're gonna uh I'm really thinking I might just end up dying that bridesmaid's dress because Amber did this wedding last weekend.

Um where it was essentially camping, and she had this ivory colored um bridesmaid's dress, and I'm like, you should just tie that and do that. We'll just zhuzh it up, right? And just like put some bling on it.

[37:56] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, aluminum foil, exactly, Jan. I just have to figure that out, or maybe I'll get like um silver and metallic vinyl, um, like cricket vinyl, and just put it right on. Does it get crinkly? The suspense is killing everybody, Amber.

[38:09] Heather Bedor: I know it's just not working. I'll just do one. So make sure you guys join over. If you're not already following the original the Broadway fan club group or page, go over to the big top, which is our Water for Elephants group, and we'll post it right there.

[38:25] Amber Brzezinski: True. Right there. Um this this Oreo flavored Coke Zero Sugar. I'm it tastes too good to begin with. Now it just tastes like flat soda, and I'm not a big soda fan, and I don't like anything zero sugar. It's just it's wet and cold, it's fine at this point. Alright, can we move on from the Broadway flea? Because my wallet is still hurting.

[38:47] Heather Bedor: Absolutely. Absolutely. What's next? Um, getting into our shows that we saw.

[38:55] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, we had the lovely opportunity to go check out the matinee of Water for Elephants Sunday to see Kyle, to see um Philippe, your favorite person in the entire world.

[39:08] Heather Bedor: I love Philippe. Like, I'm not even being fatiguous. A couple of episodes ago, when you saw Water for Elephants with your mom, and you're like, oh yeah, and there's Philippe who took over for Joe DePaul as Walter. Do your do your impression.

[39:27] Amber Brzezinski: He is very flat. He is just all very flint, and he leads it to so I've been like laughing at Amber doing this, and I'm going, there's just no way. Like, I've been to France, I know lots of French people. That is extremely French. Canadian, no, I know a lot of Canadian French, a lot, a lot of French Canadian because of Fringe. And so we're watching the show, and Philippe comes out and he starts talking, and I just straight over to Amber, and she's straight over at me and hysterically laughing. Um, because her accent is so on point, just so on point.

[40:07] Heather Bedor: But it was I'm gonna save us, and it might be blasphemy. The cohesion and the chemistry among stick has now that Kyle is in place, guys. It is perfection. He is so good. He is a perfect Jacob Jankowski. Um, and Asa was actually Mr. Jankowski.

[40:27] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, we had Asa Summers' Mr. Jankowski, and he was phenomenal, which ties into last week's episode with Jeff Calhoun because Asa Summers wrote the play of The Boy Who Loved Batman based off I know like it's full circle everywhere, but it was such a lovely cast, and I really really appreciated Kyle so much because one his voice is angelic, but he pulls off that youthfulness, he's got the dimples. The chemistry between him and Izzy were just lovely. Um, and he's still very athletic with a lot of stuff. Like, I was very happy to see it. Umber and I were kind of enjoying like the crowd reaction to a lot of stuff, like they would laugh at certain things, or they would just start clapping.

[41:14] Heather Bedor: What was there? Was like a random moment they just started clapping, and we're like, I think it was just one of the like one of the death drops. I feel like there was like a divorce joke, and like the guy next to you, like burst out laughing.

[41:27] Amber Brzezinski: Oh my god, the guy next. So we we were on the aisle, house right, and the guy across the way was I don't know if he was by himself, but he had like he reminded me of like if you ever watch The Simpsons, he reminded me of the comic book shop guy, yes, but like the heartiest honest, like belly laugh, belly laugh, and it was just so wonderful to hear that because we love the show so much, and the music was on point, and Stan Brown, my goodness, love you so much. Um, but it was so wonderful to see everybody. Marissa was having a good time up there. Everybody was just Wade. Like everybody. Everybody was having such a lovely time up there, and they actually seemed to be having fun, and I I don't want to say that's what was missing with Grant, but there was it's a very different kind of show, but it's very much the same because it still has a heart and soul. Um you still have Big Pen Theater and all the beautiful music in there, but it was like watching a new show.

[42:28] Heather Bedor: Did you feel like that too?

[42:30] Amber Brzezinski: I did. I like we were saying, I feel like Kyle brings a certain like innocence and a certain like like naivety to the role. Like very just genuine and and and very sweet. And he brings he's believable that he dropped out of vet school, essentially.

[42:51] Heather Bedor: Right. Yes, absolutely. I I believe that he just lost his parents and he's going through this internal struggle.

[43:00] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. Right. Absolutely. He played it so well. And guys, please, please go see Water for Elephants if you can. Um, please, please, please go see it. Um, let us know. Come back and tell us. Obviously, Olivia is a big fan. You can see in her in the comments, would you say, when I went the weekend before Flea the Casadon is very nice. Um, these guys Paul Alexander's Nolan came out the stage door for the first time that day. Paul spent through the ringer. Um, well, he was also doing the autograph sessions at Broadway Flea, right across the right.

[43:33] Heather Bedor: That's true. But go see the show. Um, I had a jam-packed show week, didn't I?

[43:41] Amber Brzezinski: You did, yes.

[43:44] Heather Bedor: So Thursday, um, I may have definitely gone to see Cabaret. Five, baby. Um, Adam Lambert and Ali Alialy Corvalho. My goodness, my goodness. Um, first off, love Adam Lambert. Um, was really curious to see how he would portray the MC. Was curious how Lily was going to portray uh Sally. It was so much fun, and it was a totally different kind of show where Eddie was more of like robotic and like mysterious and like puppet master. Adam was very much like smooth and sexy. Um, and Ali had this, and a couple people have said this on her posts, but a lot of people actually have been comparing her to like Veruca's halt. Um, like, I want it now, Daddy. Um, but my goodness, she was so good. But I have to do that. I heard her is more similar to Amy Lennox from the West End, too, where it's that like gritty.

[44:48] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, and her live.

[44:50] Heather Bedor: Yes, and her don't tell mama is like Sassy AF. Um, yeah, but I had to I told you this weird story that happened to me at stage door, didn't I?

[45:00] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[45:01] Heather Bedor: So I have to share this with you guys. It was so funny. I'm gonna tell the crowd. Um, it was so it's becoming different um in the theater district that myself and now Amber, especially Sunday, we're getting recognized in the theater district, and we're just here for you guys. Like, we're not influencers, we're just Heather and Amber. So I'm at the stage door and talking, you know, hosting court essentially while everybody is waiting for people to come outside. What are you giggling at now?

[45:33] Amber Brzezinski: You hosting court.

[45:35] Heather Bedor: True. But I was hosting court, and I'm talking to people, and we're like, yeah. They're like, how do you know so much? I'm like, oh, I'm from the fan group, and well, here's Broadway fan club, and like handed out this card. And this girl standing a couple ways, who like she had glasses, but they were green, and she had like long red hair and a braid. And she goes, wait, what's the name of your company again? I said, Oh, it's a Broadway fan club. And she goes, and what was your name again? I said, It's Heather. She goes, You're Heather from the Broadway fan club. I said, Yes. She goes, so I have a weird story. And I'm like, oh god, what did I do? She goes, There was a server that came over to our table.

So they were sitting in a table seats at Cabaret. And she asked if I was Heather from the Broadway fan club. And I was like, What? She goes, Yeah, if it's any constellation, she was really excited to think that it was you. And I was like, okay, that's cool. So hi to whoever tried to say hello to me. I was at the show, I just wasn't at a table seat. And then the weirder part was um when Ali came out and I was like, hey, I said, you know, we actually run the fan group, the show, and she's like, Are you Heather? She freaking knew who we were. Like, that is so cool.

[46:48] Amber Brzezinski: Amazing. That's so cool.

[46:49] Heather Bedor: That was just so much fun. And like the show was chef's kiss, beautiful. Um, Friday, Friday. Um, I'm trying to I'm going through like all of my shows that I saw. Do jo doo. So Friday I did what 20? No. What did I do Friday night? Was Once Upon a Mattress Friday night?

[47:04] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[47:04] Heather Bedor: I think Once Upon a Mattress is Friday.

[47:12] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, because it was before Flea.

[47:15] Heather Bedor: Yes. Um, so Once Upon a Mattress, wait, no. Anyways, I saw Once Upon a Mattress. I saw Twenty-Sided Tavern, which was Saturday matinee. Um, and then I saw Titanic. So, um, which I think was right before Flea.

[47:32] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, it was.

[47:33] Heather Bedor: Okay, see, this is my brain. This is my brain on Broadway. Uh so Friday, um, I started to rush, thinking that I was rushing Once Upon a Mattress. And it wasn't until somebody from the Museum of Broadway came over and talked to a line offering discounted attendance that I realized I was a block over and I was technically rushing for O'Mary, and I'm like, oh no. Um, so I ran over to the Hudson to because I it was early, y'all. Um, and I got an incredible rush seat. It was like third row like left orc. Um, and I just sat there just staring because it was a wonderful show. Um, for those of you that don't know, I was in a car accident last week. So like this muscle sprained. So I was like this, and I'm like, oh god, my neck is gonna hate me. It's great. Um, but it was so much fun and I love Michael Urie. I'll follow him to the end of the earth. And then Sutton just perfect and on a god. And you said it was your first time seeing that show, right?

[48:31] Amber Brzezinski: Correct.

[48:33] Heather Bedor: Correct. But I had so much fun. I mean, I've know the show and I've seen like you know, recordings of Carol Burnett, but like my first time seeing that show live, and it was just a hell of a lot of fun. Amazing. So much fun. Um, I couldn't have passed it better. Um, and then Saturday I was rushing. I think I tried what did I try rushing for Saturday? I don't remember. Um, that's right. Thank you. So I went to Rush Outsiders. The line was like bonkers. I finally get inside. They're like, yeah, we only have a partial view for $200.

[49:07] Amber Brzezinski: I'm like, no, thank you. So I went and I rushed 20-sided tavern. Um, because Felicia Day was a day player in there. If you don't know Felicia Day, um look her up. That's the best way of putting it. Um, she was in Dr. Horrible's, Mad Sing Along. That's where you'll probably recognize her from, or like 500 other nerdy things. And I went to go visit our friends at 20-sided tavern. And um, I was the only person rushing the line until I met a couple of people who had just gotten off a board game cruise where they played board games for nine days straight. That's cool. Um they knew nothing about DD, they knew nothing at all. Went in. I was shocked that the line was massive. Got like a perfect seat, went in.

Um Diego, who is there? Um, who by the way, guys, Diego's gonna be on the show next month. Surprise. Um, love Diego Salinas. And um, yeah, like cast was coming over, house management was coming over to say hi. Um, they are fans of ours, and we are such fans of theirs. No show is alike. They encourage you to take photos and videos, posted a social media. We started a 20-sided tavern group. Go join it, guys. Talk about what happened in your show because they're all different. You literally answer questions on your phone, but you're assigned whether you're a mage, a trickster, or a warrior, in your playbill. It is such a fun show. It is unlike anything you've ever seen. And the talent that is oozing off of that stage because it's all improv will blow your damn mind.

Um please join that group because I love reading the join questions. Oh my god. So Amber was setting it up while we're so go over to the broadway fanclub.com, scroll down, and voted. We should be loading it tonight. But Amber's up, it's up there. It's up there. Oh, that's right. Amber put it up there because she's on top of it. Um but she's like, what should we do for questions? I was like, ask them what the name of the tavern keeper should be. And she didn't like there's so many fun little yeah, fun, fun answers. Fun answers. It's a great show. Please, please, please go support our friends over there. Um, and then Saturday night I ventured a little bit outside of a theater district and I went over to Union Square to go see Titanic.

Um, so it was my off Broadway day. Um, and I got Titanic tickets on TDF, and it was a fun show. I didn't know what to expect. I'm like, I'm not a huge Celine Dion fan. I love Titanic. Um, you know, Tommy Bracco's in it, so kind of support the Newsies, but like, do I really I don't know of and I went and like I laughed my damn ass off. It was so much fun so fun. It is so much fun. Um it was just so different, and like it's it's improved too a little bit, and you're just like, what is coming out of these people's mouths? But oh no, that makes sense. Um, please go see that show as well. Um, and then yeah, and then Sunday we just did it up at Broadway Flea. That was my weekend, and then we saw Water for Elephants, and then um we were supposed to go see Forbidden Broadway for their media night, but we ran out of time. We uh but that's okay because we are gonna have Forbidden Broadway, we're gonna have them on our show soon. So it's we will because we are growing, growing so much.

[52:43] Amber Brzezinski: So um with that being said, I'm trying to think if there's anything else we have to knock off our list. We have a jam-packed schedule. So next Monday, next Monday, so that is what the 30th, right? Yes. Okay. So next Monday, our guest for the night is going to be the one and only Noel McNeil. Um you guys have heard us talk about Noel before. I'm gonna pull up his bio because besides doing Audrey 2 at Little Shop, he has done so much more. Um Bear in the Big Blue House. He was Rabbit in Pooh. Um, let's see, I'm pulling all this all this stuff up from here. Um Chairbird in Sesame Street presents, follow that bird, blues room, Magellan on Eureka's Castle. Um, let's see. He was also the principal puppeteer of Raphael for the motion picture Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3.

I'm a nerd. And he has performed with Whoopi Goldberg, Jerry Lewis, Mickey Rooney, Emma Thompson, Wayne Brady, Dave Chappelle, Donnie and Marie Osmond, Gilbert Gottfried, Tom Bergeron, Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, Al Roker and the Today Show cast, Chancellor Apero, and Julie Freaking Andrews. He is also currently the resident puppeteer for the HBO series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Um, guys, he was also um Eureka's Castle of Gullah Gullah Island. Um so I was just singing the Gullah Gullah Island theme song earlier today. That show is like infamous. I love it. Um he also let's see, he has been directing children's television starting with Bear in the Big Blue House, and now Sesame Street, where he's been nominated and won one Emmy Award for Outstanding Direction.

His latest endeavor is creating the Show Me Show, which is the first online downloadable series for kids with autism and special needs. He also has a podcast called Noel's Book Nook, which is available on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast. So pretty pretty pleased. Tune in next Monday because Noel's gonna be here. We are so excited that he is gonna join us and hang out. Um and then the following Monday, we have my dear friend Dennis Giacino. If that name sounds familiar, he is the creator of the show Disenchanted. Um, so I'm excited for that. I'm just we are having a good time with it.

[55:13] Heather Bedor: And then in between and blessed. We are booked and blessed. Um in between all of that, we're gonna have Broadway Votes on, we're gonna have Broadway for Harris on, we're gonna have Forbidden Broadway. I mean, guys, this show is blowing up. Please share, share, share. Let everybody know because we want to make sure these guys know how much they are appreciated. Um, write in some questions, some comments, some compliments of what you guys want to tell these people because they are here for you. Um we want to show off their talents. We're not doing this for us, we're doing this for you guys. So we are so overwhelmingly excited. And um, yeah, I'm I think what might happen too, Amber is when I come to Connecticut for Halloween weekend for Hollow Weekend. Um, maybe you and I should do a live show before I fly back home.

[56:03] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, that would be fun.

[56:05] Heather Bedor: Together in the same room.

[56:07] Amber Brzezinski: I know.

[56:08] Heather Bedor: My goodness.

[56:10] Amber Brzezinski: My goodness.

[56:12] Heather Bedor: So that would be impressive. I think I covered everything. Um, and again, we'll we'll go into our commercial now. Um, again, if you go into www.thebroadwayfanclub.com, you can check out all of our merch as well. Yes, we have merch. We have our only Broadway fan shirt, and we have do a hero wall shirts. We also have our beautiful Etsy shop. Again, that is H G T P S uh Colon slash slash the Broadway fanclub.etsy dot com where you can get those amazing Broadway Cares bracelets, which a dollar from each bracelet sale will go directly to Broadway Cares. Um, and you can also purchase any other 95, 98 designs there, or choose something for your own custom design. As we discussed a little bit earlier on the show, the Broadway cruise is happening March 30th through April 4th.

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[57:37] Amber Brzezinski: Anything else you'd like to add, Amber?

[57:40] Heather Bedor: No, not at all.

[57:42] Amber Brzezinski: Done.

[57:43] Heather Bedor: She is spent.

[57:45] Amber Brzezinski: I have bills to stuff in envelopes.

[57:49] Heather Bedor: And they're not her bills.

[57:51] Amber Brzezinski: That looks really inappropriate.

[57:52] Heather Bedor: Thank you for doing that. It's great.

[57:54] Amber Brzezinski: For my job.

[57:56] Heather Bedor: I did my job today too, and then I slept through Tropical Storm Winds.

[58:01] Amber Brzezinski: Great.

[58:01] Heather Bedor: Fun.

[58:02] Amber Brzezinski: I know I'm a true Floridian, even though my whole family is New York and everyone thinks I'm a New Yorker.

[58:07] Heather Bedor: Um, except like when my buddy Tim's like, oh yeah, I'm in the cellar, and I'm like, we're playing Fortnite. He goes, I'm in the city. Orgon doesn't have cellars.

[58:15] Amber Brzezinski: No, but Tim lived here, and he's like, I'm in the cellar.

[58:21] Heather Bedor: Now we're playing Fortnite, guys. I'm a nerd. I'm okay with that. But I'm like, in the lobby? Like, what's the cellar on Fortnite? Like, what are you talking about? He's like, no, you're clearly a Floridian, or you grew up in Florida, and I was like, I know what a cellar is, asshole. Like, but like, what do you mean? Are you on the Fort?

[58:43] Amber Brzezinski: No, he was doing laundry in his basement.

[58:46] Heather Bedor: He just had to be special and say it differently. Makes sense.

[58:50] Amber Brzezinski: And he did say that the weather has been very cold and people in Connecticut have been complaining.

[58:54] Heather Bedor: Yeah, it has been chilly, but I've I'm loving it. I'm a winter baby. I so I love the cold weather. Um, that's what makes me a weird like Floridian.

[59:04] Amber Brzezinski: So even with the storm, I'm gonna pull up the the what oh my laptop almost went flying. It's the wind. Fun.

[59:11] Heather Bedor: I don't know if you guys can hear the wind outside. So right now, even though there's a tropical storm and there's winds, it's 84 degrees. Feels like 92.

[59:20] Amber Brzezinski: Nice.

[59:21] Heather Bedor: Here is just so you guys can see. Let me see if the radar will work. Yeah, so for those of you concerned that I'm gonna blow away with a hurricane. This is where we're at, and the little blue dot.

[59:35] Amber Brzezinski: Oh you you're safe.

[59:36] Heather Bedor: Do you look safe. It's just we get what's called the dirty side, and the dirty side is like the tornadoes in the wind, but like half my friends are just sitting outside, and like my friend Brian's like, I'm on the Lanai, just listening to the wind. And I'm like, that's fair. But I'm gonna go get some sushi for dinner, and Amber's gonna stuff 150 envelopes for work.

[59:59] Amber Brzezinski: So it's great.

[1:00:01] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Good date.

[1:00:02] Amber Brzezinski: Let's yeah, right.

[1:00:03] Heather Bedor: Um, let's see if we can find some videos or photos um of James Earl Jones' tribute. Um, so we will say, you know, it's it's when the lights are dim, we respect James Earl Jones. Um, thank you for everything you've done for um the entertainment industry for Broadway, for TV, for movies.

[1:00:25] Amber Brzezinski: Um, you are everybody's father.

[1:00:27] Heather Bedor: Absolutely.

[1:00:29] Amber Brzezinski: As he would say, he's a proud papa.

[1:00:31] Heather Bedor: That was I I was watching an interview with him talking about Mufasa, and that he originally tried to make Mufasa regal, and then he realized Mufasa's just a papa like him, so that every time you see Mufasa smile, they were copying James Earl Jones's smile, which I think is really sweet.

[1:00:47] Amber Brzezinski: That is sweet.

[1:00:48] Heather Bedor: I know, but it is nine o'clock, it is the witching hour, guys. Thank you so much for joining us. We are generally here every Monday night, but every once in a while it's a Thursday night, and we love doing a throwback Thursday for you. Stay tuned for a lot more exciting things coming down your way. And I am Heather, that beautiful pink and blonde haired lady is Amber here with the Broadway Fan Club. See you guys on the other side.

[1:01:13] Amber Brzezinski: See you next week.

[1:01:15] Heather Bedor: Or Monday, or whatever those days, yeah, five days from now.

[1:01:18] Amber Brzezinski: Bye.

[1:01:19] Heather Bedor: Bye.