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[0:30] Heather Bedor: Good evening. Happy rainy Monday, everybody.

[0:34] Amber Brzezinski: Indeed, happy rainy Monday.

[0:37] Heather Bedor: We started a little few a few minutes behind because I was kind of fangirling with both Adam and Amber about a recent update. So I'll keep you guys posted. But welcome, welcome, welcome to the Broadway Fan Club podcast. It is a rainy Monday. Uh, but we are here, and yes, that is the lovely Amber to my left, your right, and the very dapper and debonair Adam Levowitz joining us tonight. Uh before he hits the road. You wait. And you're here, you're good. Um and you're here. And I texted you a half hour ago, you still hanging out because I felt bad because you've been so busy. But we're excited to have you join us.

[1:17] Adam Levowitz: Yeah.

[1:18] Heather Bedor: Um, and we'll talk all sorts of Mozart on Giovanni and all the new exciting things that are gonna come up. Uh we'll talk some Broadway news, including that they fully announced the entire cast for Jesus Christ Superstar in California. Um about that too. And we have a very exciting announcement at the end of tonight's episode that you guys are gonna want to stay tuned for. So we're here. You guys are starting to filter and we can see it. Say hello in the comments section when you pop in. I know that we're waiting for a couple people, but we're just gonna get started. Um, because it is a crazy thunderstorm outside here in Florida. Amber, you said it's raining in Connecticut.

[1:58] Amber Brzezinski: Rainy in Connecticut.

[1:59] Heather Bedor: And Adam, you said raining in New York.

[2:01] Adam Levowitz: Well, if it's raining in Connecticut, it's raining in the city.

[2:03] Heather Bedor: So fair, but I mean, also actual thunder and lightning, which is rare in New York.

[2:09] Adam Levowitz: Very, very frightening me.

[2:11] Heather Bedor: Okay. Yeah. I'm in a very rock star kind of mood. Um I had I had uh I know people have been very kindly reaching out to ask how my surgery went Thursday. I'm okay. Recovery has been exhausting, so you guys get this lovely ghost-like appearance. You're welcome.

[2:28] Amber Brzezinski: Did you go completely under?

[2:30] Heather Bedor: No. Uh no, they don't they don't actually give any IB. So it was a stellate ganglion block for those of you. So you're completely awake. Um the procedure itself is not the bad part, it's the post procedure. Um, so you actually get something called Horner syndrome, which is only for a couple of hours, and it's because they're doing like they're essentially putting the stellate ganglion block of nerves to sleep, and that's the block that controls PTSD, fight or flight, and anxiety. Um they kind of just put it in like a warm blanket and then like put it to sleep. And then when they start to wake up, it has that like edge taken off of it. Um, generally, this is something for the military. That's why I still fucking here and for the love of a veteran were so kind to assist, being family of military and my PTSD stemming, unfortunately from pulse.

Um, it just kind of was I'm very appreciative to have gotten that. Um, but yeah, so Horner syndrome. I think I sent you both a photo. I will not post it publicly, but my eye, like everything just everything droops. So your eye is like you can't see it was like this and like bloodshot and then I think the weirdest part um is because this is all numb like your whole face is numb the weirdest part is your throat starts to get numb which is fine uh your vocal cords get numb but the weirdest experience is feeling and I read about it somehow unless it was like a fever dream the back of your throat you can actually feel your tongue like doing like the little wave at the back of your throat while you're talking or eating or breathing because of how the nerves are and you can't feel any other parts so you just feel something in the very back of your throats.

[4:27] Adam Levowitz: Wow 10 out of 10 would not recommend that feeling but I will say that this knock on wood that this procedure is going to try to reset me so very appreciative for SFH for that.

[4:40] Heather Bedor: Yeah thank you um and I see some of our regulars are coming in hello Olivia hello Cheyenne um but yeah so it's it's been a it's been a challenge I just got home this morning uh been down at Port Lauderdale for the procedure since Wednesday.

[4:55] Amber Brzezinski: Oh right right right right right so I'm happy happy to be here but what did you guys do this past weekend I know Amber was at a Paracon Adam you've been just every I'll tell you what I I tell you what I didn't do.

[5:09] Adam Levowitz: I didn't work I didn't work on this opera.

[5:11] Heather Bedor: Oh no I mean because it's no it was the first weekend in like really my entire life, but like the the first weekend in four or five years that I haven't like actively been trying to build something. It was very funny.

[5:24] Amber Brzezinski: Well, for those of the of those who are members who weren't here when you were kind of to joined from a mission of Opening the Oaking Night. Do you want to kind of give a brief synopsis about Mozart's Don Giovanni a rock opera?

[5:37] Adam Levowitz: Um yeah. So Mozart's Don Giovanni, a rock opera, Giovanni, I will say, is uh it's Mozart's opera. Everyone's heard of Mozart. It's uh some would call it the world's an audience, and it was backed by a rock orchestra.

[5:51] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[5:51] Adam Levowitz: So is backed by Rochester. So we opened um off Broadway, what, two weeks ago.

[5:57] Heather Bedor: Yeah, you had previews at the cutting room.

[5:57] Adam Levowitz: At the cutting room in here in New York City. Um we had three previews, three or four, no, four previews.

[6:08] Heather Bedor: Okay, and then opening night, and then two performances, and then and then lava erupted from the floors and basements of New York City. We were in this beautiful room, and with all the people on stage, that you know the fan was 10, which is ginormous. Crazy for an off-Broadway show, six on the stage, and 200 people in the audience. The um it was so unbelievably hot, unexpectedly hot in the space, that it became it became um not good. I don't want to use the word dangerous, but it became a threat to the health and safety of my actors and my musicians and and uh the audience you've and you've you've created the show. You like composed, you've created, you've done everything for the show. You've spent so much time on it to not work on it this weekend's probably like crazy feeling for you.

[7:02] Adam Levowitz: It's it's very bizarre because my entire life has been trying to get to a point where I have a show up and running, and I made it, and I'm like, okay, what do I do now?

[7:15] Heather Bedor: Well, we know what we're gonna do now. So um it was kind of like the swift kick in the butt for you, Adam, that you're like, you know what? It's not necessarily the safest. I wouldn't say safest. I wouldn't say it's the most dangerous thing, but it was a smart pivot for you, and I hate that term pivot, but I think it works well here to be like, you know what? Your dream for this show was eventually to go and do a rock star tour and hit up different cities and perform this to different audiences. You know, Amber and I, we always talk about making theater accessible, and not only was the the show accessible where you had the closed captioning and you had everything where it was really able to be ranked retained, but now you're gonna be bringing it out to the masses nationwide.

Um so and we'll have you back on the show once those tour dates and everything are confirmed. So, guys, please please make sure you join the fan group, make sure you follow the socials. Um, because this is not the last you're gonna see of Mozart's Don Giovanni.

[8:14] Adam Levowitz: Oh no, no, no. This is just the meeting.

[8:15] Heather Bedor: But Adam's here, and we get to hang out with him and talk rock and talk cool stuff. So yeah.

[8:25] Adam Levowitz: Thanks for being having me, yeah.

[8:27] Heather Bedor: Of course. So you relax this weekend, you didn't do anything.

[8:32] Adam Levowitz: Um I don't know what I did this weekend. I actually came up. Um, I think I probably did some kind of work. I tell you what, I actually actually what I didn't do, and this is how I define this a successful day off is I did not leave the house.

[8:47] Heather Bedor: So uh I was running around a little bit yesterday, but today I did not leave the house.

[8:53] Adam Levowitz: And I cooked two days in a row, which um is phenomenally uh I haven't cooked in my own place, you know, in two months.

[9:05] Heather Bedor: So it's fun to cook.

[9:06] Adam Levowitz: I don't think I've cooked in this apartment in Orlando yet in over a year. And I love cooking.

[9:11] Heather Bedor: I do well in Amber, like I'll tell you if I go visit Amber in Connecticut, Amber, you spoil the crap out of me.

[9:19] Amber Brzezinski: You do are you still sharing the pages?

[9:21] Adam Levowitz: I could see the face.

[9:21] Amber Brzezinski: So I am, yeah. For those of you guys who are like, why is Amber just sitting there and staring and just completely out of it? Amber actually takes our link and shares it to over the 100 fan groups that we run so everybody can see them live.

[9:35] Heather Bedor: Yeah, so I can sit here and run. And she's here, she's just looking like she's looking through the screen.

[9:42] Adam Levowitz: Um, but yes, Amber spoils the crap out of me when I come visit.

[9:46] Heather Bedor: And um you know what I was honestly thinking?

[9:50] Adam Levowitz: What?

[9:51] Heather Bedor: I mean, I'm sure we'll get to this when I get to what I did this weekend, but um I should have made some cookies.

[9:51] Adam Levowitz: Should have made some cookies.

[9:59] Heather Bedor: Oh god. I just but I will get to it. Like I just I was so Amber makes the and I I love Schmackeries, love Johnny and Zachary so much. Amber makes the best chocolate chip cookies I've ever made some cookies and sent them to the Amber.

[10:14] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, I was like thinking that I was like, I don't want cookies.

[10:19] Heather Bedor: I should have made some cookies.

[10:21] Adam Levowitz: I had chopped liver for lunch today.

[10:24] Heather Bedor: Um, there's I have a bodega around the corner, they make homemade cookies, and I'm thinking I want to go get some.

[10:31] Adam Levowitz: Go send the kiddos to go to the bodega.

[10:34] Heather Bedor: Like it's my my son Max is here, he could go, but he I told him once it started raining, he'd have to leave the house.

[10:39] Adam Levowitz: So I mean, it's right around the corner, it's not really leaving the house.

[10:43] Heather Bedor: And if dad wants a cookie, dad wants a cookie.

[10:45] Adam Levowitz: Well, he's got it, yeah.

[10:46] Heather Bedor: I will see. And I do see everybody asking in the comment section that was a little bit late. I'm feeling a little bit better. Thank you so much for asking. Um, every day is a new day. Seven to ten days for recovery. So right now I think I'm at day four or five.

[11:01] Amber Brzezinski: So maybe you guys.

[11:03] Heather Bedor: Um, but yes, so Amber spoils the crap out of me. I love cooking though, but cooking for myself, like it's always so much food.

[11:09] Adam Levowitz: So it gets well see.

[11:10] Heather Bedor: My problem is that I I cook for three, and then I end up eating it all.

[11:17] Adam Levowitz: It's like as I'm cleaning up, you know, one more spoonful, one more fork full.

[11:21] Heather Bedor: Fair, fair.

[11:23] Adam Levowitz: So I had been getting good like cooking pasta for one, I would measure it out. But my son is like, I'll just pour the whole box in, and then it's fucking.

[11:31] Heather Bedor: Oh, yeah. See, I'm not a pasta person. I'm a terrible, terrible human.

[11:34] Adam Levowitz: I know.

[11:35] Heather Bedor: I wish I was like, I love it.

[11:37] Adam Levowitz: And like one of my best friends is like born and raised Milanese, like lives in Italy.

[11:42] Heather Bedor: He's like, You're gonna come and we're gonna have all the pasta.

[11:45] Adam Levowitz: And I was like, I don't like pasta, sorry.

[11:47] Heather Bedor: Oh, that's weird.

[11:48] Adam Levowitz: Um I don't even like mac and cheese.

[11:50] Heather Bedor: I'm gonna have to re-evaluate.

[11:54] Adam Levowitz: Fair, it's fair.

[11:55] Heather Bedor: I don't mind.

[11:55] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, yeah, Livia love pasta.

[11:57] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I don't know what we're doing with a uh an anti pasta.

[12:01] Adam Levowitz: I love anti-pasta salad.

[12:03] Heather Bedor: I eat clean. Excuse me. Um, you know, we're gonna I I I prefaced this uh podcast episode saying it's all things rock gods. It's true. Adam, you are a rock god, though. I just want to put that on there.

[12:15] Adam Levowitz: I appreciate it.

[12:19] Heather Bedor: You are. Because you have so much damn talent. Like, if I had as much talent as you have in my pinky finger, like you have so many cool projects, we will definitely table those in the pipeline. Plus, you you created Don Giovanni as this 2025 masterpiece. I can't wait for people to see it. And I'm gonna I'm gonna pull on the heartstrings of myself and get real selfish because I think I talked to you about this literally every time we talk, and Amber knows this very much. Um I'm a huge fan of movie opera fan. And when you have people that are fan of movie opera performing in your show and on a cast recording, like that is by far one of the coolest things I could ever imagine.

[13:03] Adam Levowitz: Well, you're very sweet to say that. I mean you're talking about Ryan Silverman and Rachel Zedkoff, who are both unbelievably phenomenal actors, singers, and just like really great, like really great people.

[13:15] Adam Levowitz: And I know everyone says that. Um, but it really is true. We had, you know, so much fun. The room was so much fun to be in, so relaxed, so collaborative, and the things that they would come up with. I'm like, well, why am I even, you know, it's directly? What am I doing here? And Ryan's like, well, what if we did this? I'm like, yeah, okay, well that's way better than I, but it's good now. It's good in that format too when you have a performer who has good insight and good natural. Because you're like, okay, I'm just gonna write whatever you want to do. That makes sense. Okay. Yeah, I kind of reconciled it with sort of gave him the framework for him to sort of improvise and come up with it. And it really was, you know, Ryan is such an experienced, phenomenal actor with great instincts and yeah, a great brain.

It was fun to like watch his brain go like this, and then I get to say, Oh, that's really good, but what if you did this? And then he would say things like, Oh, yeah, that's funny. And then I knew I had like, I was, um, uh, I knew I had done it when Ryan was like, Yeah, that's funny. And then he would do it, and it was so great.

[14:22] Heather Bedor: Well, but that's a good brainstorming. That's a good kind of, uh, back and forth that you have. I, I, the minute I met you, I was like, Oh, you have good rhetoric, like you can banter, but you also have a clear direction, but you also are very much receptive to like how other people are, and you kind of collaborate with that, like it's a very collaborative space, which is so welcome, and this especially against it.

[14:45] Adam Levowitz: I appreciate that. I mean, I'll give you like sort of an anecdote. So, you know, my background is I'm a composer and an arranger, an orchestrator. So I've written a lot of like pop rock music, and the differentiation is this is dumbing it down too much on context.

[15:00] Heather Bedor: No, not dumbing it down at all. Sometimes with my brain at least, I need it dumbed down at some so you know, like when you're writing for a rhythm section, like guitars and then bass, electric bass and drums. You know, when you see those guys and girls out there playing like in wedding bands or like at clubs, they'll just be calling out, hey, let's do I don't know, what's um, don't stop, believe and it's like okay, everybody knows it, and they just sort of make up their parts as they go along. Um, you know, as an orchestrator and a composer, I'm a complete control freak.

[15:31] Adam Levowitz: You are so I wanted, so I wrote out every single thing for the drums, the bass and the guitars to play, but with the drums, um, I would write things in like fill, and not so that when they go. I mean, I can write something out, but I knew instinctively, and I've always known that you're a drummer, you can play something. There's nothing that I can write that's better than what you can play. So if I give you the framework and you know the groove, you know the feel, you know where we're going, I'd say, Phil, you're gonna give me something that is gonna make me happier than I could write. And the worst thing sometimes is when I'll write too many notes and they'll play what I played, what I wrote, I mean, like, oh, okay, well, that works, but I want something better.

[16:16] Adam Levowitz: Um, so it's the same thing with Ryan, you know what I mean? I would like, uh, and you know, really all of them, but Ryan and Rachel and Richard who played, um, uh, Leporello. Uh, incredible. The same kind of thing, you know. I wrote these lines, and the lines never changed. It was just the intention behind the lines, and um, so I just kind of step back and said, Look, you're, you're, you're an actor, you know way better than me what you can, not that what you can pull off, but what feels natural to you and what's gonna make the character really speak versus what, you know, in my little hole in my room and my, and the whatever the hobbit hole is like that'd be funny if I could have come up with that exact line. But um, you know what I'm saying? Like I have an idea in my head of how it should be played, but I'm not an actor.

[17:06] Adam Levowitz: Um, so that was a lot of fun to watch him sort of play drum fills, uh, that I had given the opportunity to play.

[17:15] Heather Bedor: I love it. I love it. It's, it's like you kind of the music becomes you, you become the music, and then you like have these like little branches that spread off, and then you can tell when somebody is touched by it. So I think that's so impressive. But you have a very unique spin on a lot of things too. Um, again, we won't go into other way of saying it.

[17:36] Adam Levowitz: No, but I mean, you know exactly what project I'm talking about, and when that can be announced more publicly, then we can go into that for sure. But you have such a unique take on things that bring an enhancement for fans of specific genres.

[17:51] Adam Levowitz: So you're enhancing a specific show, you're enhancing a specific fandom, you're bringing their journey kind of through with music, and I think that's really cool to do. That's why I emulate to an Amber.

[18:03] Heather Bedor: I know, but that's why you kind of emulate to a lot of things too, is through that music journey. Because music, it's one, it's healing. I will tell you, I'll make this selfish and personal for a moment. During, um, my procedure Thursday, the doctor, shout out to Dr. Collins if he's out there watching, he's incredible. His entire team, um, at FAE Medical. But they literally put on, he said we can either do classical music or we have like the healing tones.

[18:30] Adam Levowitz: So there's certain vibrational music that's actually good for positive healing mentally and physically, like they've done research on it. So it's just this tonal music, but music really is part of us, whether it's the vibrations speaking to that we're made 90% of water, you know, whatever it is, it's you feel this emotional connection and pull to certain things.

[18:55] Adam Levowitz: And when something has that effect, and then you can actually see it played out in front of you. I think that's really where that gravitation comes from.

[19:02] Heather Bedor: Well, so now you're singing my song, and this is a whole different podcast. I will tell you, I mean, would you like an exclusive insider information that nobody knows?

[19:13] Adam Levowitz: Of course. What do you guys think? Amber? You go for us?

[19:17] Heather Bedor: Doesn't even know this.

[19:18] Adam Levowitz: Okay. I never told that. So are you either of you guys musicians or you've been to orchestra concerts?

[19:23] Amber Brzezinski: Uh, I played flute, piano, French horn, and quads.

[19:27] Adam Levowitz: All right, so I also played the flute.

[19:29] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, okay, great.

[19:30] Adam Levowitz: So I'm gonna, I'm gonna come at this from a point of view. Let's assume there's nobody there are people out there that don't play musical instruments.

[19:35] Adam Levowitz: Okay. But you've all seen the cartoons or you've been in the symphony when the symphony shows up and they all tune, they're like trying to match pitch.

[19:43] Adam Levowitz: So in 2025, um, what we tune to is A440.

[19:49] Amber Brzezinski: Okay.

[19:49] Adam Levowitz: So that means A lives at 440 megahertz. That's the vibrations.

[19:54] Adam Levowitz: Okay. Now I tuned my orchestra down to A432.

[20:05] Adam Levowitz: And for those of you can the, uh, conspiracy theorists, I encourage you to go look up A432 conspiracy behind it.

[20:15] Amber Brzezinski: I'm looking right now, A432.

[20:18] Adam Levowitz: Yeah. Now I don't know enough. I haven't done enough research about it to really speak on it effectively. So I'm not gonna say anything about the it advocates okay, advocates claim it sounds more harmonious and connects with nature and the human body, while some argue it has no measurable difference, blah blah blah blah blah.

[20:35] Adam Levowitz: Right, but it gets if you go down the rabbit hole, you're gonna find some things about World War II and Hitler around it.

[20:39] Amber Brzezinski: Okay, I love that.

[20:40] Adam Levowitz: Not, not that I love Hitler, I love the, I know your, I will tell you there is this movement, a very small movement in music to tune everything down to A432.

[20:48] Adam Levowitz: But why I did it, um, well, because I, I, I do believe that the frequencies, you know, when you when you play or sing a note, you have what they called the fundamental, and then you have all of these things vibrating above it.

[21:04] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[21:04] Adam Levowitz: If your A's at 442, it's set it triggers these this set of vibrations. If you're at 432, it sets up another. And there's some again, I don't have all the information.

[21:15] Amber Brzezinski: I love that.

[21:15] Adam Levowitz: No, but see, I think that's so cool.

[21:16] Heather Bedor: And you know, Cheyenne says something too. I'm gonna put this up on the screen actually.

[21:20] Adam Levowitz: Cheyenne says the greatest thing about music that is that it's a universal language.

[21:24] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, that's for sure.

[21:25] Adam Levowitz: Because, oh god, because Don Giovanni is performed traditionally in either Spanish or Italian, correct?

[21:32] Amber Brzezinski: Italian, Italian, yeah.

[21:33] Adam Levowitz: Well, I, but it's been translated Spanish as well.

[21:36] Amber Brzezinski: Well, so Don Giovanni is based on the old Don Juan right, um, trope from, you know, it's as old as anything, and it's been repurposed in many different languages.

[21:45] Adam Levowitz: So when you think of Don Giovanni, you're thinking of Don Juan, which is a Spanish character.

[21:49] Adam Levowitz: So the original, and I even quoted him in my show. I can't remember the guy. Um, I should know this, but anyway, yeah, it was originally, uh, uh, uh, Spanish.

[21:59] Adam Levowitz: Well, I don't know if it originally, but I think one of the earliest presentations of it in theater or is literature was in Spain, and in fact, Don Giovanni does take place in Spain, so that that's, it's one of the Romantic languages, it's not all of them.

[22:15] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I'm trying to imagine opera in French, that would not work.

[22:19] Adam Levowitz: Um, French, but it's this opera in French, though.

[22:24] Amber Brzezinski: Oh no, yeah, uh, you know, so I'm sure it's been translated to French, but whether or not it's been performed professionally I my brain is still very much on Phantom.

[22:32] Adam Levowitz: I'm thinking like the Palais Garnier, like yeah.

[22:36] Amber Brzezinski: Um, very much obsessed. Uh, but yeah, no, I, I think that's really fascinating with the tonality of it and the vibrations.

[22:43] Adam Levowitz: Um, but it really does speak and it is that thing that pulls us through.

[22:48] Heather Bedor: Amber, you've, you've been very quiet.

[22:50] Adam Levowitz: I know you're still in sharing mode, but I actually just finished.

[22:53] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, look at that.

[22:54] Adam Levowitz: Look at look at me.

[22:55] Amber Brzezinski: Sixth sense and all.

[22:57] Adam Levowitz: Um, we've always talked about different music and how it kind of makes you feel like what do your, what are your thoughts on it?

[23:04] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I missed the beginning of the question. I'm sorry.

[23:06] Adam Levowitz: Oh, just like what are your thoughts as far as like the way that music kind of transforms and transports somebody into a show or takes them through the show?

[23:16] Amber Brzezinski: Um, you know, I do think that it just, you know, we always use that example with like the, like the dementia patients, yeah, you know, where like we do those like people.

[23:34] Amber Brzezinski: We just start playing my stepdad, like we just start playing music and they, yeah, and it like it brings people who have like lost every fragment of their memory, and it just brings them back to the wasn't there there was a mush brain.

[23:51] Adam Levowitz: Um maybe either one of you could help.

[23:53] Amber Brzezinski: There was a woman that was an opera singer.

[23:57] Adam Levowitz: I feel like she was an opera singer, and they started to play like some sort of religious opera music, and she was like non-verbal, completely muted, and then she just started to sing.

[24:10] Amber Brzezinski: I think it was a ballerina.

[24:12] Adam Levowitz: I know the ballerina, but there was another one that did like she started singing like oh holy night or something.

[24:18] Amber Brzezinski: I don't know, it's fascinating to me.

[24:21] Adam Levowitz: Um and that also translates to like, you know, fun, but it's a fun way of presenting like a serious topic.

[24:29] Amber Brzezinski: Um, or just fun. Like, look at Rock of Ages. Look at um, well, Jesus Christ, superstar. If we could talk all about that in a minute, too.

[24:38] Adam Levowitz: Um, I mean, how look at Hamilton, like presenting history in like a way where people are like able to remember and get into it, and people are like, hell, I wish I could like I wish I knew about this story when I was back in school.

[24:56] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[24:57] Amber Brzezinski: I think and Adam, I know that we talked about this a little bit. There was a little boy that came up to you at the end of the show that I saw, and was like just so in love with it.

[25:07] Adam Levowitz: And do you remember your response when what when um, when all of that was I think it was the dad that said something like we just wanted to say thank you, and you asked him, like, what do you think?

[25:17] Adam Levowitz: And he was like, It's so cool. And you had a really great response that was like really heartwarming.

[25:23] Adam Levowitz: Well, I think I hope this is right because I'd hate to miss this question. But I think what you're talking about is this it said to him, I wrote this for you.

[25:28] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

[25:30] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, yeah, and that's, you know, absolutely, opera is this fantastic art form. Um, but like with a lot of things from, you know, years past, even, you know, if you talk about early jazz, if you don't have specific training or knowledge or experience, right?

[25:50] Adam Levowitz: It's very difficult to come in off the streets and enjoy it. I'm a firm believer, like artists can create whatever they want to create. I have no issue with that. But if you can't bring somebody in off the streets and immediately enjoy it without a lot of information, then I think that's problematic.

[26:10] Adam Levowitz: Yeah. Um I think art, I mean, my first goal with Giovanni was to entertain. If it wasn't entertaining, we had no business. It's entertaining. And then if I could kind of tell a story that's compelling, and then maybe have some messages in there, all of that, that's true.

[26:30] Adam Levowitz: So, you know, with young kids, really, really anybody. I mean, when I was a kid back, you know, years and years and years ago, I had a pretty good music education in elementary school. Like, I know a lot of American folk songs. I know a lot of things that I was taught, you know, in elementary school. And I'm not saying I was an opera expert, but at least I understood kind of where that was going. But you know, without a deep-rooted music education or lots of exposure to opera as a kid, you can't just walk in and enjoy four hours of this music in a foreign language in a time period that you don't connect to. People love it, they admire it, they appreciate it, but um it's and in 2026 with our TikTok 25, our TikTok culture, we don't experience things the same way.

So I still think Mozart's music is the greatest music of all time, and it needs to be heard, and I know for a fact that he would be devastated to find out that his operas um did not speak to the audience the way that he wanted them to, right?

[27:47] Heather Bedor: You think he'd be devastated, or do you think he'd have an idea that things change with time? Like we always have this like popular saying of like it's like it speaks in like the time it was made, like it's it's true for the time of what yeah, maybe, maybe, but I think um also if Mozart was talking to us now, man, I would be a little bit scared.

[28:07] Adam Levowitz: Well, yeah, me too, because I don't speak German.

[28:11] Heather Bedor: Fair enough.

[28:12] Adam Levowitz: I mean, maybe in all of these hundreds of years, he's learned English um in the afterlife.

[28:16] Heather Bedor: Well he's still I wonder if he's if he ever spoke English.

[28:19] Adam Levowitz: He might have. I don't know. It's hard to you know I think the answer would be no. I think if like if his music had just disappeared because it didn't speak with the times it would be one thing but it's persevered. But it's now become I think uh and I and people have worked about this it's become a thing that you observe. You sit in the back and you watch it unfold.

[28:44] Heather Bedor: It's a museum with us yeah and um that's there's a there's a separation between house and show.

[28:50] Adam Levowitz: Yeah. And you made sure that you've bridged that gap.

[28:54] Heather Bedor: Yeah and it really I mean it really wasn't brain surgery. It was just by putting it in English by putting in English in a compelling way. Um which nobody I mean a few people have done there I don't there's maybe one or two recordings of English libretti. Look at me sounding so snobby of link English libretto um but what I did that was different than m anybody else to my knowledge and I maybe I'm wrong is that I I omitted all the Italian repetition.

[29:21] Adam Levowitz: So in and traditionally in Mozart operas his collaborator his um would write maybe four lines of Italian text and Mozart would write 32 lines of music which means a lot of repeated text which is gorgeous to listen to but in a TikTok world in a theater it's it's just terrible terribly non compelling theater. Um, I can't remember where it's a good idea.

[29:48] Heather Bedor: And you stuck in some very like today's like language too.

[29:53] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, well, that's just me being a pain in the ass to my children.

[29:56] Heather Bedor: Or as somebody in the show would say booty.

[29:59] Adam Levowitz: Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, there's a lot of inside jokes. There's a lot of um uh one, somebody wrote something about um jokes high and low, like highbrow jokes and lowbrow jokes, which means it's a nice way of saying that I was being elitist with some of my comedy.

[30:17] Heather Bedor: But that's how every theater is.

[30:19] Adam Levowitz: No, but that's how every show is because and I talk about it all the time. You've got stuff in like even let's say death becomes her, and death becomes her, unless you're part of a certain dynamic, you're gonna be like, Yeah, what is the grinder sound?

[30:33] Heather Bedor: Why yeah.

[30:34] Adam Levowitz: Well, there are a few jokes in there that I wrote, and I you know, I've always done this. I've always written jokes. Like if I know a joke is funny, if it makes me laugh, and you don't understand it, that makes me laugh even more. So I wouldn't do a whole show like that because that's just ridiculous. But I don't mind. You know, I don't mind putting things in there, like even my cast would be like I don't get this joke. I said it's it's funny. And if you don't get it, I'm sorry, but you gotta say it. So um there's a couple of jokes in there that are just for my best friend and I um, but then there's plenty of jokes. I hope that you know it sort of appeals to a broad range of people. Um, and even in the in you know, the age difference in the cast was enough that some of the jokes some of the casts would get, and some of the jokes the rest would then that just tickled me to no end.

[31:26] Heather Bedor: That's even better. Well, now what made you choose this opera over others?

[31:30] Adam Levowitz: Because I know you said you've always had a love for Mozart at an opera. You're not gonna like my answer.

[31:35] Heather Bedor: That's fine.

[31:36] Adam Levowitz: Um I mean, I might love it, you don't know.

[31:39] Adam Levowitz: So I'm not really an opera guy, I do appreciate opera, and I I studied opera singing in college, but I'm not like Mr. Opera in my headphones. I mean, I did listen to more opera than most people do, but I can't tell you you weren't rocking out to Amadeus, okay.

[31:54] Heather Bedor: Uh well that movie, yes, but um, but I'm not everyone did.

[31:58] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, I would hope so, or at least I'll go. I'm not like your traditional, you know, I'm a musical theater guy. I can talk about musical theater.

[32:06] Heather Bedor: Yes, we have talked about this from Adam. One of Adam's very first things he ever said to me is I'm afraid that all I'm ever gonna talk about around you is making musical theater like comments and quotes.

[32:17] Adam Levowitz: And I'm like, that's okay. But he'll catch me off guard and he'll say something gonna be like, What? He's like, Come on, you don't know this? No, yeah, I'm older than you.

[32:25] Adam Levowitz: Um again, I'm not opera guy, but um when I decided that there's a possibility to take classical music, and by classical music I mean the classical period of music. Um the period of Mozart up to Beethoven.

[32:41] Heather Bedor: Yeah, um, a little before, a little after, but whatever.

[32:44] Adam Levowitz: And um so I thought, well, you know, my original thought was to do a a record of art songs.

[32:51] Adam Levowitz: Okay, German art songs by Franz Schubert. And a friend of mine said, Nobody's gonna buy that record. I said, Okay, well then let me go back to my roots, which is musical theater. Maybe I can do an opera. And I literally did a Google search for the world's greatest operas. Ten of them popped up. Two, two or three were Mozart, and I thought, oh, Don Giovanni, yeah, that I knew enough about it from what I had learned as a kid, what I'd learned in music school, and oddly enough from Amadeus. And I thought, and I went and I looked at it like, yeah, because I knew understood the beginning very well, and I understood the ending very well.

[33:31] Heather Bedor: Sure.

[33:31] Adam Levowitz: And the middle was just sort of Italian mush that I had to go figure out. But that was really it. I mean, it was not like, you know, it's not like I've been in the opera world for decades directing opera and singing opera. It was just, I want to tell the story, I want to tell the story that's already exists. I want to keep it true to the original.

[33:45] Heather Bedor: Freshen it up a little bit.

[33:49] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, and it was really just like, what's the world's greatest opera? And boom, dodge of a game.

[33:54] Heather Bedor: Yeah, but I think that you were led to that path.

[33:55] Adam Levowitz: So I don't hate that.

[33:56] Heather Bedor: For sure, yeah.

[33:58] Adam Levowitz: Yeah. And then did you float around other genres before settling on rock, or was it like we were like, this is gonna be like a full-out rock opera from the get-go, or were you really that's a great question.

[34:10] Adam Levowitz: What the the genre came first, rock came first, yeah, and I picked an opera that would that would fit. I understand you know, if I if I pick something like from later times, I'm gonna release something like opera guy now, like Bazet or Puccini, or one of the more romantic uh I mean you have to have a certain amount of knowledge overall.

[34:30] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I do.

[34:31] Adam Levowitz: I mean, I have I I do have a cursory knowledge of opera. I just am not as you know, there are people that are way more sure. Um but um so I knew if I pick something later in music history, rock wouldn't work, it would need to be more jazz because the musical language of Puccini and um you know those later composers is more dense for lack of a better word than I mean Mozart is very triadic, it's very much if you see if it's really it's major, minor, seven, and then seventh chords, and whereas you get into it's um, and that's what rock is. There's not a lot of seventh chords in rock, but when you get into jazz and you start getting the seven, nines, and elevens, all these really complicated textures.

[35:19] Heather Bedor: And in my mind, I'm I'm not well versed, well enough versed in jazz that I could sit down. I knew I could just do it with Mozart.

[35:31] Adam Levowitz: Uh jazz concert. Yeah, I don't think that would work. I think um big band sounds.

[35:35] Heather Bedor: Okay, I kind of I think maybe Lab O M.

[35:38] Adam Levowitz: I mean it was rent, but maybe Lobo M would work with a jazz. Dude, I think I think this is the birth of a new creation.

[35:46] Adam Levowitz: Well, yeah, I don't know that I like there are a couple other um classical operas I would like to do. Uh hopefully I'll inspire somebody to then pick up the torch and go somebody who really understands jazz um in a way that I don't I mean I've thought about it, I could do it.

[36:03] Adam Levowitz: Um, and I maybe I will do it. Uh anyway, hello commissions. Anybody out there with money?

[36:08] Adam Levowitz: Um so uh but um that would be so cool, yeah.

[36:15] Heather Bedor: Yeah, yeah, but you got I but who if anybody's listening and you trying to get inspiration, let me just say this and I'll say it a million times before I die. It has to still be Mozart, it has to be Puccini, it has to be it has whoever whoever's piece it is, it really needs to be.

[36:34] Adam Levowitz: I would joke with my musical theater friends that all this is is a revival with a new book and new orchestrations, and you really, in my opinion, um I'll tell you a quick another anecdote. We did the studio recording at um at a recording studio on on 9th Avenue, and the guy's name escapes me.

[36:54] Adam Levowitz: Um hang on, I gotta look it up. Um because I feel bad because he's a great guy and everybody knows him. Um John Kilgore, thank you.

[37:10] Adam Levowitz: Oh my god, John, if you're listening, I'm so sorry. John Kilgore, he was a phenomenal guy, little teeny studio. He's got a few uh Grammy Awards, he should have a whole shelf full, but he's maybe he's the next I won't tell you he's the next generation before me.

[37:26] Adam Levowitz: And so he's a he's a rock guy, he's a pop guy, he's everything in between, and he's done some classical stuff. And after the first 30 minutes of the we took our first break after the tracking when the instruments are laying down their tracks, he came out of the booth and he said, you know, this thing could have really sucked bad. And that might that was my way of knowing, okay, this this guy likes it and I've done something right. And I know I I know that it's because I I stayed true to Mozart.

[37:55] Adam Levowitz: If I had tried to improve Mozart, like every shitty movie you've ever seen that you got this book, and it's like, why did you change these things that work fine in the book? 500 iterations in Fantastic Four and Spider-Man.

[38:08] Heather Bedor: Oh my god.

[38:09] Adam Levowitz: Yeah. Every name broke, don't fix it. And that's the problem. Directors, uh, movie directors, stage directors, and producers want to improve upon the material.

[38:20] Heather Bedor: Um, you know, there's a great I can't remember what it was, but when they were talking about My Fair Lady, and you know, Pygmalion Pygmalion was the source material, and then they made My Fair Lady, and I don't really know how close they are.

[38:37] Adam Levowitz: Um, I've never really read Pygmalion, but I remember reading somewhere that Alan J. Lerner, I think, said um Pygmalion is man transforms woman, and my fearly was and then the woman then transforms the man, yeah.

[38:56] Heather Bedor: So that was a change that was a reason to make Pygmalion into a musical. What I think has happened in the last 20 years is that we're just looking for IP that people recognize, and let's throw some money behind it, write some songs, and hope we get something that we can tour with, and um but make sure you do it right, yeah.

[39:19] Adam Levowitz: But I don't think it happened. I mean, I'm gonna get in a lot of trouble. I think most of the adaptations that I've seen have just been done wrong, and what I've seen that I think that that'll bring us into two things I want to talk about before we go to Broadway News.

[39:33] Heather Bedor: You bring up My Fair Lady, yeah. Have you any opinion on the new version that just opened in San Francisco?

[39:43] Adam Levowitz: I don't know anything about it.

[39:44] Adam Levowitz: Okay, so it's Julie Banco. Um, this darn thing, Roller Sparza and Nathaniel Stambley, and I've seen some of like the behind the scenes rehearsal stuff, and like I love Julie Banco. I would have never put her into an Eliza Doolittle kind of thing, but she seems to be really taking it by the reins. So I'm fascinated to see how it's gonna play out because obviously we usually cover like more New York stuff. Um, it's a limited run, and then you also have Jesus Christ Superstar.

[40:17] Heather Bedor: Well, that's a whole different animal.

[40:20] Adam Levowitz: Right. Well, do you want me to comment on My Fair Lady or Superstar?

[40:24] Amber Brzezinski: Both.

[40:24] Adam Levowitz: Do all of it. Well, here's the thing about My Fair Lady, it's a beautiful musical, but it's kind of in the same world in terms of accessibility as a Mozart opera. Yes. Three hours long. Um, it was written for a different time. Are we producing, you know, yeah, these beautiful productions at Lincoln Center of King and I and Carousel, and um, are we doing are we doing them as living, breathing theater pieces, or because they're beautiful moments of our history and our past? I mean, we're too close to them to you know, sort of put them in the same line as well, are they is it a dying art form or what? But I actually I was not fortunate enough to see any of them. I do love My Fair Lady. I wonder though, if I sat in that theater for three hours as much as I love it, would it speak to me the way that it spoke to audiences in the 50s?

[41:21] Amber Brzezinski: Sure.

[41:22] Adam Levowitz: As for Superstar, I'm completely and totally 100% biased about Superstar because it was the very first record I ever listened to as a kid.

[41:31] Heather Bedor: Really?

[41:32] Adam Levowitz: So I love it more than anything I know. I mean, I could sit down and write down every single word from my mind is clear now until uh Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit. So uh Superstar is polarizing for a lot of people for a lot of ways, but if we forget, take the religious aspect out of it. Either love or hate Andrew Lloyd Webber. I adore the show. Um, I don't even know if it's his best show. I don't care. It's just like, you know, that's my crack, cocaine. Anytime. Oh, it's Tim Rice, of course.

[42:06] Adam Levowitz: Well, Tim Rice. And anytime I get any kind of new audio device to play something new, if it was a stereo as a kid, if it was new speakers, and then it was if it was headphones, the first thing I always put on is Jesus Christ Superstar. It's my age. And it was if there was no Jesus Christ Superstar, there would be no Mozart's Don Giovanni Rock Opera. Look at that.

[42:29] Heather Bedor: Well, how do you feel about this new cast for the Hollywood Bowl?

[42:35] Adam Levowitz: Um, you know, I'm very excited to hear anybody's rendition. And I love them all. You know, there's all kinds of foreign language ones. I think Cynthia is gonna be phenomenal. I can't wait to hear her sing Gethsemane. I want to find out are you changing the key? Are you gonna keep it in the key? Is she gonna start is she gonna sing it down an octave? Um, Amber and I have been questioning because there's that like I can't even say like romantic relationship the situation between well Jesus and Judas, but you've got Cynthia versus Adam right now.

[43:11] Heather Bedor: So really yeah, because I mean Adam Lambert, hell well, but like it's going to be dynamics versus dynamics, so it'll be interesting.

[43:21] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, I would um I would I would buy a ticket and go see it in a heartbeat. Only 85 bucks. I just checked on the Hollywood Bowl seat and I was like, it's 85 dollars. That's cheap.

[43:30] Amber Brzezinski: That's a Broadway show.

[43:33] Adam Levowitz: Yeah. I love the idea of um hang around. I love the idea. I just saw it the announcement today. Um, the cast looks great. I mean, it really looks great.

[43:42] Heather Bedor: Yeah, truly. Um, I'm a snob.

[43:45] Adam Levowitz: The shocking. As great as every cast. I mean, I thought the made for TV one version was great with um, yeah, uh Justin Sargent was in it. And John um Don Legend.

[44:01] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, thank you.

[44:02] Adam Levowitz: I didn't do my homework. No, I'm sorry, it's just in Sargent. But I still go back to I go back to the original London cast recording, the concept recording of Ian Gillian and Murray Head and Yvonne Elliman. That to me, I mean, and again, I admit I'm biased and I'm a snob because that brings me back to when I'm like four or five years old. So it is a lot of fun to listen to in other languages. But um, I remember coaching a Broadway actor who was going in for an audition for um Superstar for the role of Judas, and he's working on his riffs. I said, I'll tell you what, man, if you go back and sing those original riffs that Murray Head came up with, they're gonna sound brand new because nobody does them, and you're gonna kill the room because there is nothing better, I think, than the way he did those riffs in um heading on their minds.

There's just nobody's done like that since because everyone's trying to make it their own. But I mean, I'm just looking at this cast, like you've got Adam Lambert's riffs, and then um, an acquaintance of mine I came into it, Brian Justin Crum, um, just got in his um honest and his voice is phenomenal. Um, I don't see Milo Mannheim doing any riffs or Josh Gad doing any riffs, but I definitely think between Philippa Soo, Cynthia, and Brian, you're gonna get every riff there is possible out there.

[45:28] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb and tell you right now I'm not gonna like any of them. Not because they're not good, but I just, you know, I just really love the original. I just hope that they make it accessible. Like we keep always talking about accessibility, like live stream it or do like what Bonnie and Clyde did and charge like 20 bucks. Um, pull a good night and good luck and make it accessible and not CNN.

[45:51] Adam Levowitz: I don't think they're gonna they're gonna record it and then release it.

[45:54] Heather Bedor: They have to.

[45:55] Adam Levowitz: You'd think they would have to. With this cast, they have to. Is there a is this just a commercial production or is it like raising money for something, or is it just...

[45:58] Heather Bedor: I think it's just it's I think it's really just it's uh I it's one day. Yeah, just it's one weekend, it's the same weekend as the Comic Con. But it's not it's just part of like their concert series.

[46:17] Amber Brzezinski: Right. We ought to do uh Don Giovanni as part of their concert series. Should I get right on top of that?

[46:25] Adam Levowitz: Extra bonuses for that. If anybody is looking at Don Giovanni anywhere, please let us know. Um, we've got some Broadway news to go over too, right, Amber.

[46:35] Amber Brzezinski: I know there's like a salou.

[46:37] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, I mean, there is a little bit of Broadway news. Adam, you wanna you wanna give us your time if we want to recap?

[46:43] Adam Levowitz: I'm good. Adam, you get to give us some Broadway news.

[46:46] Adam Levowitz: I have nothing for you on Broadway news.

[46:48] Heather Bedor: No, you just get to hang out and give us your opinion.

[46:50] Adam Levowitz: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Well, if I if there's something I have an actual opinion on, I'll speak up. But if I don't, I won't make something up. That's my gift to my children. That I don't if there's something I don't know, I won't pretend that I do. But if there's something that I do know, you better listen because I was fair enough. Uh well, we already talked about Jesus Christ Superstar and My Fair Lady. Um Amber, you wanna you wanna get in there?

[47:14] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, so my personal tiny sunglasses and little favorite annual event happened this Sunday.

[47:25] Adam Levowitz: Yes.

[47:25] Amber Brzezinski: As you know, Broadway Barks occurred. Um, which is um Bernadette Peters. Um, um profit, yes, thank you. I was like her event, her event. I was like, I saw the like loading. Thank you. Her nonprofit that she founded with uh Mary Tyler Moore.

[47:50] Adam Levowitz: Yeah.

[47:51] Amber Brzezinski: Um, where they um have just like a bunch of rescue animals that they just like show off in Shubert Alley and they try to like get them homes and just like it's awesome. It's just a fantastic like way to like raise awareness and just like get people out there and like get people's pets out there and just have a great time with Broadway stars singing songs with their pets and having fun and with cute puppies.

[48:23] Adam Levowitz: Did you see the correlation between one of your favorite shows?

[48:28] Amber Brzezinski: Uh and Broadway Barks. Did I see? Did I see? I have the video. Should we show everybody the video?

[48:36] Adam Levowitz: Of course.

[48:38] Amber Brzezinski: What do you say, Adam?

[48:39] Adam Levowitz: Oh my gosh, I can't take it.

[48:41] Amber Brzezinski: Oh no, it's uh let me see. I can't get the full screen. So do you want to preface this, Amber, to everybody that's watching and to Adam?

[48:49] Amber Brzezinski: So a certain show utilizes Shubert Alley every day as part of their show. They walk through, they um walk down Shubert Alley as part of their show. They sing a little ditty and they walk back into their show and then they...

[49:04] Adam Levowitz: You say they sing a little ditty.

[49:11] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, right?

[49:11] Adam Levowitz: Yes.

[49:12] Amber Brzezinski: No, it's a V.

[49:15] Adam Levowitz: Yes.

[49:16] Amber Brzezinski: All right. So I know Sunset Boulevard actually had a little interaction with Broadway Barks on Sunday, and it was adorable. So let's go look and see what here we go.

[49:49] ♪ Musical number: "Sunset Boulevard" — performed by Amber Brzezinski ♪

[50:01] Adam Levowitz: I mean, just so cute. Special.

[50:04] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but also Bernadette holding the dog.

[50:08] Adam Levowitz: Holding the dog like poking out.

[50:12] Amber Brzezinski: Absolutely. I love that. Adam, have you gotten a chance to see Sunset yet?

[50:18] Adam Levowitz: I have not. I've been a little tied up the last couple of months. So I haven't really.

[50:28] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, so that happened. It was pretty cool.

[50:30] Adam Levowitz: Yeah.

[50:32] Amber Brzezinski: Um, this is like not Broadway affiliate. Um, there is a breaking the binary theater festival happening, and Elle Morgan Lee will be directing Laverne Cox, Alex Newell, Peppermint, um Betty Who, Jonathan Van Ness, and a whole bunch of people, um, and the Drowsy Chaperone at Carnegie Hall, which will be very cool. Um, I know there's lots of Drowsy Chaperone fans. Like that's another one that's like kind of niche that like I see lots of searches in our Etsy shop for bracelets for.

[51:15] Adam Levowitz: So if you're ever in need of a bracelet, check out our...

[51:15] Amber Brzezinski: Doing her own commercial. I love this. Thank you. Um, yeah, and then I will say Cheyenne did bring up, she said, Did you guys see? Um, it's a quick piece of news. It has not been brought up yet, but Lea Salonga is getting a star on the Walk of Fame.

[51:35] Adam Levowitz: That's amazing.

[51:36] Amber Brzezinski: I did not see that. This is another really amber pointed piece of news, but Lord finally went and saw John Proctor as the villain, which is really cool. Um, because you want to tell people why, yeah.

[51:55] Adam Levowitz: Is leaving, or I think just played her final show.

[51:59] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so it's really cool because the Lord song Green Light plays a really big part in the show. So for a long time, people were like, Lord, go see the show, go see the show. And like, so Lord finally went and saw it, and it was huge. So and that's so about something that Adam, I know we talked about this a little bit too. Like having people from the community that are like big names coming and visiting and being part of the show, like coming to view the show, or like just stopping and saying hello. Like, do you have a favorite moment of that? Whether either one of your shows or you know, something that you've seen across the board?

[52:40] Adam Levowitz: Well, we didn't quite get there. Down the road, I'm sure. Yeah, I hope so. I will tell you, I won't say who it is because I don't want to put her on the spot, but when we were in it was me.

[53:01] Adam Levowitz: I didn't know that, but we're kind of waiting for our turn to go in and she came out and my cast freaked out. Oh, and I said to her, she may have said something like, "What's going on here?" I said, "Well, you do you, will you come see our show?" She said, "What show is that?" So I went up and I talked to her, I put my hand out, and she was very sweet. I said, "Here's my card." I said, "What do you should?" "Yeah, I'll come. Do you want me to contact each of your publishers?" She said, "No." I said, "Can I give you my number?" She said, "Yeah." So she probably eventually would have come, also very, very busy as they all are, but I really look forward to the moment, you know, as the producer and the director, what's gonna happen is I won't even be there because once the show opens, there's nothing left for me to do but be.

You'll make an exception, I'm sure, but you may not, you know, but you don't always know. Sometimes you get, you know, a lot of people don't know that, Adam, that that's actually educating some of our viewers is they don't know about the director is not there at every show or the producer's not there at every show. You know, you guys kind of do all your work beforehand, you come in, you make sure of a show is frozen and set, and then you don't have to be because you're not live directing. It's not like a film or TV shoot where you're live directing.

[54:15] Heather Bedor: It's done, and then you're just making minor tweaks here and there.

[54:19] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, and it's interesting too because I'm a very hands-on guy, and the thought of not, you know, something that I've created that I don't really have any say in once it's up because it's very unusual to me.

[54:33] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, and um, so I had to get used to that.

[54:36] Adam Levowitz: Yeah.

[54:37] Heather Bedor: You're doing a good job.

[54:39] Adam Levowitz: Well, thank you.

[54:41] Amber Brzezinski: You're welcome. And I will say that, um, and I don't think Amber even knows this. Adam, you've worked with one of me and Amber's favorite female performers.

[54:51] Adam Levowitz: Yes.

[54:52] Heather Bedor: Uh, Carrie Butler.

[54:53] Adam Levowitz: Oh, yeah, I've actually worked with Carrie on two separate occasions. She's fantastically talented and a nice person.

[55:01] Amber Brzezinski: Amazing, yeah.

[55:02] Adam Levowitz: She's wonderful.

[55:03] Heather Bedor: And I'm so light. Oh, and Adam and I have sat there and obsessed over her riffs for "Proud Mary" because that's his riff.

[55:11] Adam Levowitz: No, no, um, uh, no, no, not "Proud Mary."

[55:13] Heather Bedor: Not "Proud Mary."

[55:14] Adam Levowitz: "Son of a Preacher Man."

[55:15] Heather Bedor: Yes, you know what I meant.

[55:15] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, so now I guess so she came in. I was doing these shows at BB King's Blues Club before it shut down. It was called the Quentin Tarantino soundtrack, all the hit songs from "Mother Well Dogs," "Pulp Fiction," and "Jackie Brown." So Carrie was one of a few Broadway stars that I had come sing with us, and she sang "Son of a Preacher Man," and the arrangement I had written had at the very end gave sort of this big pause and the singer this chance to do this riff. And so I don't remember doing it, but I know we did because part of the song that Carrie came up with this fantastic riff, and then Heather told me that she saw Carrie on the Broadway Cruise, and I and she said she did "Preacher Man."

I said, "I wonder if she, I said, really?" And I want to say, "I wonder if she did my arrangement." Um, and so then I play the recording for Heather's like, "Yeah, that's exactly how she sang it." So that's my 15 minutes. And I bring up Carrie Butler because "Beetlejuice" is coming back to Broadway. They are pushing so hard on social media right now.

[56:20] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[56:20] Adam Levowitz: Um, and Carrie is kicking some ass in "Heathers" right now.

[56:24] Heather Bedor: "Heathers," yep.

[56:24] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[56:25] Adam Levowitz: Yeah. Did you guys see this big conspiracy theory that's going on between "Heathers" and the general public?

[56:32] Heather Bedor: No.

[56:33] Amber Brzezinski: And Amber, this is a bone we like to pick a lot. Don't record a show. Don't take it.

[56:37] Adam Levowitz: Oh, yeah, actually I did see that.

[56:40] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Unless you were invited to do so, or it's okay, like "20 Sided Tavern." Don't be an asshole.

[56:47] Adam Levowitz: Yeah. And I commend the hell out of everybody over at "Heathers." Adam, I'm very curious of your insight onto this one too. "Heathers" put out a post and it was very polite. It wasn't even rude. I'm gonna see if I can find the original post. Essentially what they said was it was like, "Hey Westerberg, hi, like keep it at Westerberg, don't record the show," basically. Like plain and simple, like they weren't rude about it. Um, I'm going to find the actual original post because I have the one that I made too.

[57:20] Adam Levowitz: Well, you'll be you won't be surprised to find out that I have very specific thoughts on recording shows. Do you want to hear it?

[57:25] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, I'm very surprised about that.

[57:27] Adam Levowitz: Um, very, very shocked. Um, oh my god, where is it? I wanna read the actual terminology because they did it in such a polite way, and people are flipping their minds. Anyways, so yeah, they were just like, "Hey, we're really excited for you guys to be here, but like freeze your brain and have some big fun, like put the phones away." That is a normal thing for theater.

[57:52] Heather Bedor: Right.

[57:52] Adam Levowitz: But there were some articles, and I will say Broadway World was one of the bigger ones that posted about it, but the comments section was nasty. And I was kind of upset about it because I'm like, how do you even behave that way? Let me see. Here, here's the official article. So "Heathers Musical" has announced bootlegs taken by audience members in a new statement. And somebody was like, "I wish more productions would create professional recordings." Yes, we agree. Someone else said, "When is the theater community going to realize that when clips go viral on TikTok, it creates more hype about the show?" Well, but let the professionals do it. Then someone says, "First, 'Heathers' would be no more than a footnote in an off-Broadway history if not for the bootlegs that played a major role in its cult following." With that being said, once a pro shot is out, bootlegs seem silly. So I agree with that. It does have a nice pro shot available, no further bootlegs need to be made, correct?

[58:54] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[58:55] Adam Levowitz: Now, is it an okay thing to do if you are the marketing team for the show and you just happen to release a song that hasn't been made public yet, and it's a directive from the show directly? Yes, go look at "Joy the Musical Fan Group." Um, is it okay to do that just to be like, "Look, let me see how many clicks I can get likes on this?" No, Adam, I'm sure you have something to say, and it might be the opposite of me.

[59:26] Adam Levowitz: Well, I'm not sure that my thoughts really tie into this whole conversation.

[59:31] Heather Bedor: Oh, it does.

[59:31] Adam Levowitz: Um, no, I want your opinion as from that side, from creator's side.

[59:32] Heather Bedor: Right.

[1:00:33] Adam Levowitz: But um, I see it both ways. It is part of our culture. People are videoing much more diabolical things surreptitiously than a Broadway show.

[1:00:33] Adam Levowitz: Well, from a creator side, I have always worked very hard my career to get everything videoed. And I will tell you, maybe I've got 20 hours of video. I've watched about four minutes of it. Because here's the thing. The memory of the show is always better than the actual video of the show. So I will also say I'll probably speak out of both sides of my mouth. I will also say that part of live theater is being in the room with other people experiencing it. Live theater is never perfect. So it's not fair to memorialize people's imperfections. It is a lot of fun to go back and see video clips of, you know, these bootlegs, they are fun to watch, but and I understand why people do it. Your point of, and I hadn't considered of if you're doing it just for likes, that's not really cool.

[1:00:46] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, and they're not even sly about it.

[1:00:48] Adam Levowitz: I always told my story where somebody had a tablet up during the boat scene of "Phantom," and I was like a tablet? A freaking tablet. I saw somebody eating sushi during "Phantom" when I saw it. Like a full-on two people eating sushi. Good for that. Nothing surprises me.

[1:01:08] Heather Bedor: I don't know. You know, now we get into the uh or smacked it out of their hands. Um, now we get into the whole debate of, you know, the drain on society that cell phones have brought.

[1:01:23] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[1:01:24] Adam Levowitz: So if you're gonna get your kid, your junior high kid to stop scrolling all day, then we can talk about let's not video the Broadway shows. I mean, it's not, I mean unfortunately it's not going away. People will find, um, there was an episode of "What's Happening." The Doobie Brothers were in concert at "What's Happening," and uh, was it Rerun, um, had been approached by some diabolical figures to record the concert with like an old cassette recorder, and he had it in his, he was in the front row, and he made, they made friends, I think, with the Doobie Brothers, and his cassette recorder came flying out of his pants. Um, and people were like, "Oh my god. Thank God it was just his cassette recorder."

[1:02:10] Heather Bedor: Yeah, so I don't know, that's not, it's not going away. I mean, I don't know that it's a real way, but yeah, go ahead.

[1:02:13] Amber Brzezinski: I mean, I don't know that it does it do any real damage to the people in the production.

[1:02:22] Adam Levowitz: Um, I don't think it does. It's embarrassing.

[1:02:24] Amber Brzezinski: Well, I think people, I think it's, I'll speak about both sides of my mouth because Amber and I, I think you and I are very much in the same mindset. If there's a show that we want to see that hasn't, like, and I'm gonna put ourselves both out on blast with this, Amber. We both love "Swept Away." There happens to be a slime tutorial of "Swept Away" that we wanted to kind of relive that show before we did our interview with Matt D'Angelis. It was there. It made it more accessible for a show, but that show is no longer happening. If somebody is recording all of "Wicked," and I don't, I don't want to like ruin that for myself, but if it's, I think it's a show and perpetuate like that's closed, or that's like somewhere that's never like "Clueless," but just opened up in the West End is closing.

Like as terrible as I've heard it is, um, I would still be curious to see it. Or there's a lot right now of bootlegs, boop, and R.I.P. to boop as they've closed yesterday afternoon. That's part of our Broadway news.

[1:03:32] Heather Bedor: Um, Amber, are you okay over there?

[1:03:36] Amber Brzezinski: Talking to the ghost.

[1:03:40] Adam Levowitz: That's the foster pup, everybody. That's Sunday. Her puppies were given to their new homes. So she's going crazy.

[1:03:46] Heather Bedor: Um, but a lot of people just can't give it up. Um, and I want it to be accessible for people. I do, but it's a matter of respecting the people. And if you want to record, don't put the whole thing up the entire time.

[1:04:02] Amber Brzezinski: Well, so that's, I mean that, yeah, if you're gonna record, don't be a jerk about it. I mean, that's true, and that's, you know, if you're at Disney World watching the fireworks, everybody has their phones up, yeah.

[1:04:13] Adam Levowitz: And that's the other thing too. Now you're missing the experience because you're filming it. I saw a picture that a tour guide in New York that I follow. Um, he does private tours through the city, it's really cool, but he wound up taking um this family that he was touring decided to reroute and do the ham for ham that just recently happened with Sarah Snook and everybody. And um, he took, he posted a picture and it's just a bunch of people with their phones up, and I was like, that's today's society. There's like this whole other wall up.

[1:04:40] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[1:04:41] Adam Levowitz: Um, and our group and our masquerade group, they are losing their minds because people are like, "Well, do you think it's gonna be okay if I take pictures of videos?" No, it's fully immersive. Um, just like "Sleep No More," they made you to put your phones away. So you have true believers of put the phones away, lock them up tight, turn them off. You've got the people who are like, "I'll just sit and scroll and text my friends during the show," who are disconnected. I want to sit and really give myself to the show. But if there's something like, you know, that I've already discussed with the production ahead of time, and I'm like, "Hey, I just want to like have this memory of this like one image or like this one note. Is it okay?" I'm not giving the approval for it. Um, I just think like use your best judgment. I'll leave it at that.

[1:05:32] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's at the, I don't know.

[1:05:37] Amber Brzezinski: Or do you, as production side, Adam, or do you encourage like, "Hey guys, like feel free to use your phones to take photos and videos to snow flash," because then it's not so secretive, and people, it's not like, "Oh, I'm the only person that got this video or this photo of this performer doing this thing on the stage."

[1:05:54] Adam Levowitz: Well, that's an interesting question because um we kind of went around a little bit in my office about that, and I really wanted people to record it because I wanted it to spread the word, you know, for marketing purposes. Um, but then there's, you know, there's union things to consider, and so I didn't push hard for that. Um, but if you're gonna record it, then whoever needs to get compensated needs to get compensated, and that's um, you know, then the people say, "Well, they're getting paid to do the show," yeah, they are getting paid to do the show, but they're not getting paid to have it recorded, and that's a different art form, and that's something to bring it up.

[1:06:29] Adam Levowitz: Correct, because people also forget like equity contracts.

[1:06:32] Heather Bedor: Yeah, you have to give um at least like like the most recent one I did was a showcase, but you have to give 24 hour notice if any media is gonna be there.

[1:06:41] Adam Levowitz: Um, you also have to give like a 72-hour notice if any professional photos or video are gonna be taken too.

[1:06:46] Heather Bedor: So everybody has to give prior approval, it has to be changed.

[1:06:51] Adam Levowitz: And um, yeah, it's not in that sense, it's not fair to the performers.

[1:06:57] Heather Bedor: Correct.

[1:06:57] Adam Levowitz: Um plus it's distracting too, I'm sure.

[1:07:01] Heather Bedor: Well, there's it's it can for sure be distracting.

[1:07:04] Adam Levowitz: Um especially if somebody forgets to turn their flash off.

[1:07:09] Heather Bedor: Well, yeah.

[1:07:10] Adam Levowitz: I I okay, so I went to go see Broadway sings to go see my friend Justin, Sargent.

[1:07:15] Heather Bedor: Um I was there and I was ready and I was so excited, and I had turned my flashlight on to find something in the cutting room because it was dark.

[1:07:23] Adam Levowitz: And for the first 20 seconds of the video, I realized I was literally in his face with a flashlight, and you could hear me on the recording go, sh.

[1:07:30] Heather Bedor: And then as soon as I got done, I went over to him.

[1:07:32] Adam Levowitz: I was like, I am so sorry.

[1:07:34] Heather Bedor: He's like, I didn't even notice because there were so many lights on that stage, and I was like, okay, cool, but like I felt so terrible because that's distracting and blinding.

[1:07:43] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, it's definitely not.

[1:07:45] Heather Bedor: It's at best, it's impolite to be doing.

[1:07:49] Adam Levowitz: I just wish that people would heed with caution, proceed with caution.

[1:07:54] Heather Bedor: Just put your phone down and enjoy the show.

[1:07:55] Adam Levowitz: You paid three thousand dollars, so just sit down and relax.

[1:08:00] Heather Bedor: If you want to see it, you want to record.

[1:08:02] Adam Levowitz: I mean, it's just so I'm making a shirt.

[1:08:04] Heather Bedor: Just put the damn phone down and relax.

[1:08:05] Adam Levowitz: It's really the same argument.

[1:08:05] Heather Bedor: It's it's not specific to Broadway and shows.

[1:08:08] Adam Levowitz: It's the same argument about you gonna go watch your kids' soccer game, you're gonna record it.

[1:08:14] Heather Bedor: Fair.

[1:08:14] Adam Levowitz: How many times do you need to record the same?

[1:08:17] Heather Bedor: You're talking about the fireworks of Disney.

[1:08:18] Adam Levowitz: How many times do you need to record the same thing?

[1:08:20] Heather Bedor: You know how many parts of the free photos I have on my phone.

[1:08:24] Adam Levowitz: Not as many as my dog, but certainly more than my children.

[1:08:27] Heather Bedor: But I do too.

[1:08:27] Adam Levowitz: And it's like I don't even care.

[1:08:31] Heather Bedor: See, that's why I foster because I always have different dogs.

[1:08:33] Adam Levowitz: So I have to do that.

[1:08:34] Heather Bedor: That's true.

[1:08:35] Adam Levowitz: That's true.

[1:08:36] Heather Bedor: And she always cheats.

[1:08:37] Adam Levowitz: I have to.

[1:08:37] Heather Bedor: It doesn't count.

[1:08:39] Adam Levowitz: Yeah.

[1:08:39] Heather Bedor: Yeah, it's not, and no one, you know, no one wants to watch the your videos or your um.

[1:08:46] Adam Levowitz: I mean, I guess people do watch the bootlegs, but I don't know.

[1:08:50] Heather Bedor: If it's good, no um there are things in this world that I can control and things that I can't control and things I can't control.

[1:08:57] Adam Levowitz: I try not to get my brain.

[1:08:59] Heather Bedor: I got other things.

[1:09:00] Adam Levowitz: My brain is fair.

[1:09:01] Heather Bedor: No, that's only so much I can say.

[1:09:05] Adam Levowitz: Yeah.

[1:09:07] Amber Brzezinski: Amber, do we have anything left in our Broadway news today?

[1:09:10] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I'll just do like a quick rundown of like the last couple of news items.

[1:09:15] Amber Brzezinski: Hey, that are there.

[1:09:17] Heather Bedor: Wow.

[1:09:17] Amber Brzezinski: Why do you freaking know?

[1:09:19] Heather Bedor: All right.

[1:09:20] Amber Brzezinski: So yeah, as you mentioned, boop closed on Broadway yesterday.

[1:09:25] Heather Bedor: Very sad.

[1:09:26] Amber Brzezinski: We we miss you boop.

[1:09:28] Heather Bedor: We are sad about boop.

[1:09:30] Amber Brzezinski: We could go see boop.

[1:09:31] Heather Bedor: We can't go see boop.

[1:09:34] Amber Brzezinski: Um maybe happy ending.

[1:09:36] Heather Bedor: We'll be having a cast album signing at the drama book shop July 29th at 1 p.m.

[1:09:44] Amber Brzezinski: Um already sold out.

[1:09:45] Heather Bedor: It sold out in like less than an hour.

[1:09:47] Amber Brzezinski: It's already sold out, so the only way to get tickets is like resale.

[1:09:51] Heather Bedor: If that's even a thing, I don't know if that's a thing, but yeah.

[1:09:55] Amber Brzezinski: Um don't cry for me, Argentina's single was released on July 11th.

[1:10:02] Heather Bedor: Avita, Rachel Zegler.

[1:10:04] Amber Brzezinski: It is the moment, it is amazing.

[1:10:06] Heather Bedor: I don't know if you've been listening.

[1:10:08] Amber Brzezinski: I listened, I loved it.

[1:10:10] Heather Bedor: She's so good.

[1:10:12] Amber Brzezinski: Like, I know she gets a lot of hate, but I think she's I'm I'm wearing my Romeo and Juliet shirt and in protest of the haters.

[1:10:19] Heather Bedor: Yeah, but I think that thing video it all you want.

[1:10:22] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[1:10:23] Heather Bedor: Oh, absolutely on the um, but the producers want that anyway.

[1:10:27] Amber Brzezinski: Sorry, keep going.

[1:10:28] Heather Bedor: 100% correct.

[1:10:29] Amber Brzezinski: That's exactly that.

[1:10:30] Heather Bedor: The reason that Jamie and Andrew Lloyd Webber, the full production team said we're putting it out there.

[1:10:36] Amber Brzezinski: We want that traffic, just like the walk it's on simple art.

[1:10:40] Heather Bedor: Like, look at how much that went.

[1:10:42] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[1:10:43] Heather Bedor: Um, our friends at Broadway Cares awarded more than 2.1 million dollars in grants supporting organizations around the country.

[1:10:53] Amber Brzezinski: Awesome.

[1:10:53] Heather Bedor: We love Broadway's uh Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS, they do amazing work.

[1:10:58] Amber Brzezinski: Please support them if you can.

[1:11:00] Heather Bedor: Just they're just a great organization.

[1:11:03] Amber Brzezinski: They put on great things, they put on great events.

[1:11:05] Heather Bedor: And we're still running our promotion with our partnership with them.

[1:11:08] Amber Brzezinski: That if they purchase one of the Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS bracelet through our Etsy shop, that they are going to get a donation from us specifically.

[1:11:16] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[1:11:17] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and they're just a great organization, so they are they're awesome.

[1:11:22] Heather Bedor: Um, Broadway in the park is still going on every Thursday at noon, Broadway and Bryant Park.

[1:11:29] Amber Brzezinski: So if you are in the city, be sure to check that out.

[1:11:33] Heather Bedor: That will be happening this Thursday.

[1:11:36] Amber Brzezinski: It happened last Thursday.

[1:11:37] Heather Bedor: I believe it is four Thursdays every week in July.

[1:11:42] Amber Brzezinski: So be on the lookout for we have a message from Michael Drollay.

[1:11:47] Heather Bedor: I'll just post it there.

[1:11:48] Amber Brzezinski: Perfect.

[1:11:49] Heather Bedor: Love you too, Michael.

[1:11:50] Amber Brzezinski: I'm gonna I'm gonna personally shout out Michael, who's one of the best people in the whole wide world, who just got a car, so I'll be calling it.

[1:11:58] Heather Bedor: Yay!

[1:11:58] Amber Brzezinski: And then last but certainly not least, paranormal activity stage play will be touring the US before haunting London's West End.

[1:12:08] Heather Bedor: I saved this for last because knowing Heather is a very interesting experience.

[1:12:16] Adam Levowitz: So I mean you gotta promise that with in the best way possible because Adam couldn't rewrite.

[1:12:23] Heather Bedor: I get tagged in.

[1:12:25] Adam Levowitz: I I'm just agreeing wholeheartedly.

[1:12:27] Heather Bedor: I don't know exactly where she's going with it.

[1:12:34] Adam Levowitz: Hey, there's this like paranormal convention in Waterbury, Connecticut.

[1:12:41] Heather Bedor: Like and like I need someone to help me run my booth.

[1:12:47] Adam Levowitz: Like, are you available?

[1:12:48] Heather Bedor: And it's like Bill Slevan, like the paranormal investigator, like V Bill Slevin, like he's like, yeah, he's kind of like pretty famous in the paranormal psychologist.

[1:13:02] Adam Levowitz: Yeah, and he's a friend of mine who needed help.

[1:13:04] Heather Bedor: And so I tagged Amber and I was like, Do you want to help?

[1:13:07] Adam Levowitz: And now Amber has worked her very first paranormal Comic Con.

[1:13:12] Heather Bedor: So that is what I did.

[1:13:14] Adam Levowitz: And you know how Heather was saying that she was going to be meeting some people at Comic Con.

[1:13:21] Amber Brzezinski: I ended up meeting Johnny's monster.

[1:13:27] Adam Levowitz: Oh yeah.

[1:13:29] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[1:13:30] Adam Levowitz: He's cool too.

[1:13:32] Amber Brzezinski: But Patrick.

[1:13:34] Adam Levowitz: Butch Patrick.

[1:13:35] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[1:13:35] Adam Levowitz: Oh my god.

[1:13:36] Amber Brzezinski: I'm just like a TV.

[1:13:38] Adam Levowitz: TV rerun heaven.

[1:13:40] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[1:13:40] Adam Levowitz: Oh yeah.

[1:13:42] Heather Bedor: Why is Adam in TV rerun heaven?

[1:13:44] Adam Levowitz: Because I'm interviewing the reunion of happy days in a couple weeks.

[1:13:48] Heather Bedor: So yeah, it was a crazy weekend.

[1:13:50] Adam Levowitz: Thanks to Heather.

[1:13:52] Heather Bedor: Oh jeez.

[1:13:53] Adam Levowitz: You're so welcome.

[1:13:56] Heather Bedor: Uh you're welcome.

[1:13:57] Adam Levowitz: Um so much, I think.

[1:13:59] Heather Bedor: You're welcome.

[1:14:00] Adam Levowitz: Were there any like weird, weird things that happened?

[1:14:04] Amber Brzezinski: Um, not really.

[1:14:06] Adam Levowitz: There were definitely um some uh unique individual personalities that were there.

[1:14:06] Heather Bedor: Unique individual personalities that were there.

[1:14:21] Adam Levowitz: Um but you know I mean Bill is also like he worked for the Warren Foundation um in society, and he's a keeper of Robert the doll.

[1:14:31] Heather Bedor: Um, and like very much like he's and he's good at what he does.

[1:14:35] Adam Levowitz: Um and he's gonna eventually come on the show and talk some paranormal stuff and the history of Broadway theaters and paranormal hauntings.

[1:14:43] Heather Bedor: So I'm so excited about that.

[1:14:45] Adam Levowitz: Um and yeah, you know what?

[1:14:47] Heather Bedor: You you met Eddie Munster, uh, but I've met John Aston.

[1:14:53] Adam Levowitz: I don't know, I'm gonna try to one up you.

[1:14:55] Heather Bedor: I just felt like doing that.

[1:14:55] Adam Levowitz: No, it's very cool.

[1:14:57] Heather Bedor: She had a good time.

[1:14:58] Adam Levowitz: Um and no, but it's not the end of our Broadway news though, Amber, is it?

[1:15:01] Amber Brzezinski: I guess not.

[1:15:03] Heather Bedor: We have one giant announcement.

[1:15:04] Amber Brzezinski: I'm happy that Adam is here.

[1:15:05] Heather Bedor: Friend, friend to me, friend of the show, friend to Amber.

[1:15:08] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but I am very happy to announce that the Broadway Fan Club podcast is officially part of the Broadway podcast network as of today.

[1:15:17] Heather Bedor: So good for you.

[1:15:18] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, so we thank you.

[1:15:20] Heather Bedor: So um we are signed on the dotted line kind of thing, and they will be helping us grow this exponentially.

[1:15:27] Amber Brzezinski: So same bat time, same bat channel every Monday night, 8 p.m.

[1:15:31] Heather Bedor: Um Bert Bert Ward.

[1:15:33] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[1:15:33] Heather Bedor: Oh, Bert Ward night.

[1:15:36] Amber Brzezinski: I mean, you're cool.

[1:15:37] Heather Bedor: We're all cool here.

[1:15:38] Amber Brzezinski: That's why we have a show.

[1:15:40] Heather Bedor: Sunday is cool, the little puppy that's barking at everything behind Amber right now.

[1:15:43] Amber Brzezinski: It's great.

[1:15:45] Heather Bedor: Um, so uh yes, as Shania says Gomez Adams.

[1:15:49] Adam Levowitz: Um, so uh Adam, I am gonna send people over to the website.

[1:15:53] Heather Bedor: I still want them to check everything out because of the soon to be tour announcements, possibly stay tuned.

[1:15:59] Adam Levowitz: Uh so make sure you check out www.d like Don, G like Giovanni, Rocks, and S F N dot com.

[1:16:07] Heather Bedor: So DG Rocks.

[1:16:09] Adam Levowitz: You can also go to the Broadway fan club website.

[1:16:12] Heather Bedor: You can see the fan group that is being run right from there as well.

[1:16:15] Adam Levowitz: And you'll see our direct link over to our bracelet bonanza, which will take you to our Etsy shop where we are running all sorts of fun specials.

[1:16:23] Heather Bedor: Um bracelets for days.

[1:16:25] Adam Levowitz: Uh so if there's something you like or something that you would like to see, please let us know.

[1:16:30] Heather Bedor: And I know a lot of people have been asking us, like, especially in Masquerade Group, where can people see uh spend some time and be safe for for housing in in New York for a couple of days?

[1:16:41] Amber Brzezinski: We have a great partnership with the W in Times Square and the Western Times Square.

[1:16:45] Heather Bedor: You just need to use the cluster code or the corporate code E7103.

[1:16:50] Adam Levowitz: Um, so Adam, is there any final final parting words you would like to provide to our wonderful viewers and listeners?

[1:16:58] Adam Levowitz: No, go check out our website, go check out the recording, go see what we've done.

[1:17:04] Adam Levowitz: Phenomenal cast.

[1:17:07] Adam Levowitz: And I want the world to see these guys.

[1:17:09] Adam Levowitz: They're just so good.

[1:17:11] Adam Levowitz: And the composer's not bad either.

[1:17:13] Adam Levowitz: Mozart.

[1:17:14] Adam Levowitz: He's worth knowing.

[1:17:15] Adam Levowitz: I was just saying the original composer is good, but the the new guy is already.

[1:17:22] Adam Levowitz: It's all Mozart.

[1:17:24] Adam Levowitz: I just coded it in a little bit differently, is all I did.

[1:17:27] Adam Levowitz: But his but I'm gonna say I'm gonna encourage people to get in on the ground floor with the show because the show is going to blow up.

[1:17:37] Adam Levowitz: It is so good.

[1:17:39] Adam Levowitz: I wouldn't have like reacted the way it did and got you on a show if I didn't.

[1:17:43] Heather Bedor: I appreciate that.

[1:17:44] Amber Brzezinski: It's it's nice.

[1:17:46] Amber Brzezinski: Nope.

[1:17:49] Amber Brzezinski: Thank you.

[1:17:50] Amber Brzezinski: No, that's all she wrote for me.

[1:17:51] Adam Levowitz: I'm good.

[1:17:52] Heather Bedor: Oh, we got we got we got a delay for a second.

[1:17:55] Adam Levowitz: You're saying it's fun for what?

[1:17:56] Amber Brzezinski: No, no, no.

[1:17:57] Adam Levowitz: The last word was from Amber's dog.

[1:17:59] Heather Bedor: That's all we need.

[1:18:00] Adam Levowitz: Oh I think it's a storm is delaying me by a couple seconds.

[1:18:04] Heather Bedor: I'm so sorry, guys.

[1:18:06] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, that's fine.

[1:18:06] Adam Levowitz: Amber shook her head.

[1:18:08] Heather Bedor: Look at that, picking her head out.

[1:18:09] Adam Levowitz: Like a mere cat.

[1:18:11] Amber Brzezinski: She is like a mirror cat.

[1:18:12] Heather Bedor: Uh Amber, is she gonna become a permanent part of your mother's family?

[1:18:17] Amber Brzezinski: My mom is really trying.

[1:18:19] Amber Brzezinski: She's really trying.

[1:18:21] Amber Brzezinski: I might have to adapt by proxy, so we'll see what happens.

[1:18:24] Adam Levowitz: Oh, you're loud.

[1:18:26] Amber Brzezinski: Sunday is ferocious.

[1:18:27] Adam Levowitz: So she was renamed to Sunday, and then her puppies were butterscotch.

[1:18:31] Amber Brzezinski: Well, our butterscotch grab cracker and marshmallow.

[1:18:35] Adam Levowitz: Too much.

[1:18:36] Amber Brzezinski: It's amazing.

[1:18:37] Heather Bedor: All right, we appreciate you guys.

[1:18:38] Adam Levowitz: Adam, thanks for hanging out.

[1:18:40] Heather Bedor: Um this is just the beginning.

[1:18:42] Adam Levowitz: Cannot wait.

[1:18:43] Heather Bedor: Cannot wait.

[1:18:44] Amber Brzezinski: Um, everybody, thank you for spending your probably rainy Monday night here with us.

[1:18:50] Heather Bedor: Um, and we'll see you guys next Monday at 8 p.m.

[1:18:53] Amber Brzezinski: Again.

[1:18:53] Heather Bedor: Make sure you go check out uh Don Giovanni.

[1:18:57] Amber Brzezinski: Please on the website, DGrocks.com, and our website, thebroadwayfanclub.com.

[1:19:03] Adam Levowitz: And feel free to hit up Adam and tell him how incredible he is.

[1:19:08] Heather Bedor: And if you're looking to host the event anywhere in your town, just let us know and we will get you guys in touch with the right people and make sure it happens.

[1:19:17] Adam Levowitz: Fantastic.

[1:19:18] Heather Bedor: Appreciate you guys.

[1:19:20] Adam Levowitz: Have a lovely rest of your week and we will see you then.

[1:19:23] Amber Brzezinski: Ciao.

[1:19:25] All: Bye everybody.

[1:19:26] All: That's like so long.