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[0:17] Heather Bedor: Do you ever have those Mondays where you feel like freaking Garfield? Because that's how I feel. My co-worker's granddaughter has autism, and she is a very talented artist. And she texted me and she said, look what my granddaughter drew. Okay. And it was a picture of Garfield. And I said, just like Garfield, I too love lasagna. And I wanted to say I hate Mondays and I too love lasagna. But I didn't know how big of a Garfield fan she was, so I didn't know if she would get the reference. And I said, Yeah, I didn't think you'd get the reference. She didn't know that Garfield hates Mondays. She didn't know that Garfield hates Mondays. So I'm glad I I'm glad I she's 74. I mean, that's adorable, but that's also like her time. Right.

[1:27] Heather Bedor: Um, yeah. Um, with all the storms that we've had off the coast, which also I'm so clever, you're okay, because I was really worried. I was looking at all the storms, like the freaking nor'easter what's going on right now. I have been dead. Like sinuses have been bad. You know, like when you like hold your nose and blow so you can try to clear your ears, they're not doing anything. So I feel like I'm both yelling and whispering. Um and I sound like I I feel like I sound really nasal, but I'm not sick. It's just stupid, dumb dumb Florida fall allergies. But like I okay, do you remember when I first got um my concussion last year?

[2:18] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[2:19] Heather Bedor: So do you remember I was like, why am I so tired? Is it COVID? Is it this? They didn't know that it was a concussion. Yeah, that's how I feel now. Um, I just feel like I'm like lapsing into my TBI, and which is permanent. But like I just all I want to do is sleep. I wake up, I check socials, um, you know, interact with their members, text you for a hot minute, hit up a couple of other people, and like roll over and go back to sleep. Um, and I still don't feel rested. I'm still like waking up shaking. And then, like, in order to try to put myself back to sleep, I'm going to the gym, which is directly like four stories below me in my apartment complex, which is great. And it's nice because I'm the only one there, but like somehow it wakes me up.

So there's that. But anyways, welcome to another very awake, uh, totally normal episode of the Broadway Fan Club Podcast. I'm Heather, your mopey Monday blues girl, and that lovely lady to my left, your right is one and only Amber. Say hello to the fine folks, Amber.

[3:31] Amber Brzezinski: Oh.

[3:34] Amber Brzezinski: Oh man. So were you off today for Columbus Day, Indigenous People Day, all the other days?

[3:42] Heather Bedor: No. Um, so I I don't know if most of you maybe know, but I work in mental health. Thank God somebody does. So we try to stay open on some of these holidays to accommodate people that have the day off.

[4:04] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[4:10] Heather Bedor: Um so you don't know, yeah. We we do work some of these holidays that um, you know, are off holidays for people that we will still see patients just because again it's it's a another day where it's a chance where people might not have been able to get it.

[4:37] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, somebody needs mental health in a day that not normally is available.

[4:41] Heather Bedor: That's really accommodating to their schedule, exactly.

[4:44] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. Well, so I just noticed we matched. Did you realize this? Are you wearing a Salem thing?

[4:50] Heather Bedor: No, oh, I should have though. No, can I show you what I'm wearing? And like I'm obsessed. So you know that I'm like friends with the people like high up at Spirit Jersey.

[5:01] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[5:02] Heather Bedor: Um, they know my obsession um and what was happening at New York Comic Con this weekend. So I got I got a special delivery.

[5:11] Amber Brzezinski: Love that.

[5:12] Heather Bedor: And the back has David on it.

[5:14] Amber Brzezinski: Ah so um I'm also wearing my shirt you sat.

[5:20] Heather Bedor: Yes! I was gonna ask you because you kept saying, like, I know, but there's something I gotta talk to you about. And I was like, is it that you got your package?

[5:27] Amber Brzezinski: Did you get your package too?

[5:28] Heather Bedor: Yeah, so um, it was actually pretty weird because apparently, like they they have like a standard like slip that they like.

[5:39] Amber Brzezinski: They leave when they can't fit your package in your mailbox, and they like your box was too small for the package.

[5:49] Heather Bedor: Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? Whatever. So I have this like tiny little love note on just like a random bullshit ad.

[6:01] Amber Brzezinski: Oh jeez, really, like from my post and like this is like package at post office.

[6:07] Heather Bedor: That okay, because you were worried about it, because yeah, I sent everybody's packages out last week, and with the storms and everything and all the delays, but like people started getting them, and I was like, Yeah, yeah. And then so I brought it to the the post office, and I was like, hello, I have a note from my post.

[6:27] Amber Brzezinski: And they're like and like I know my post my like clerks at the post office because I ship I ship out a lot of shit out there.

[6:35] Heather Bedor: You do like I'm friends with them, like they're like my peeps. So the girl was like, Oh, what the hell? They're supposed to leave you like a slip. Do you want to tell everybody this package of awesome that I sent you?

[6:48] Amber Brzezinski: Oh yeah, it was fab it's it was fantastic. It had some gypsy stuff. I think it's some like adult Tetris in this, like what they call the shoebox from USPS.

[6:58] Heather Bedor: Yes, yeah, it had the gypsied props, it had um your shirt from Exorcistic.

[7:04] Amber Brzezinski: My shirt from Exorcistic, it had my death Becomes Her.

[7:10] Heather Bedor: That was rude. What did you do with this on your odd wallow?

[7:13] Amber Brzezinski: I haven't put it anywhere yet. I’m not. I I have I have the worst sticker indecision.

[7:21] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[7:22] Amber Brzezinski: I I think permanent.

[7:24] Heather Bedor: Yeah, like I'm not good with stickers. I like I want to put it on this laptop because this is my go-to laptop, but because the screen is so busted, I'm like, do I not put it on this laptop?

[7:36] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, like I'm I'm uh I'm a non-commitment. I I have anxiety. I'm just a girl with an anxiety disorder. Like that's all I can tell you about me.

[7:46] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I'm learning this new term called uh anxiety attachment and attachment anxiety, and it's like everything. And I was talking to my doctor about it, and they're like, it's literally from the TBI because it's that frontal cortex that affects like decision making and like emotional, like it's nuts. And I'm like, this sucks. Um, but hey, that's what you gotta get over it. So you got this cool sticker.

[8:13] Amber Brzezinski: Um I got a cool sticker, I got a demogorgon uh stuffed animal for my friend's daughter because I love her, and I she's obsessed with stranger things, so I wanted to get her one.

[8:28] Heather Bedor: Um she deserves, so I got her one of those. What else did I get? Just like I said, the cool gypsy stuff.

[8:41] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, that was some cool gypsy stuff. I was really excited about it. I think that's just about it, unless I can think of yeah.

[8:48] Heather Bedor: Yeah, no, I think that was it. Plus my love. I put my love on a box and sent it off your way. Also had this love. It's a lot.

[8:56] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, so um I know that you're still sharing to our groups. Um special shout out to speaking of Stranger Things. Kendra was kind enough because one, the strike, the uh the uh the shutdown, not even the strike. We'll talk about the strike later. But the shutdown, the government made me very scared with flying to New York for Comic Con, so I didn't.

[9:20] Heather Bedor: Um, because I had boots on the ground. Thank you to Kendra. I have a lot of content from the Lost Boys stuff. Do you want to watch it, listen to it while you're sharing, Amber?

[9:29] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, absolutely.

[9:30] Heather Bedor: Amazing. We love that. All right. So I'm gonna open this up. Um yeah, it was really hard. So like I already knew we I think everybody already knew about Casey, and like Amber and I kind of already knew about Ollie, but like it wasn't like set in stone, set in stone.

[9:50] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[9:52] Heather Bedor: All right, so I am going to politely share my screen. Why do you stream air keeps doing this weird stuff, and I don't like it, and I'm gonna keep talking badly about StreamYard while I'm using StreamYard. All right, here we go, everybody.

[10:15] Amber Brzezinski: So I went in New York, I went in on plane. Auditions, and then they're like, hey, can you go to the slide test? And mom's like, yeah. He's talking about the workshop they did last year.

[10:35] Heather Bedor: Yeah, so I'm like, I'm so good. It's like one dye. They put me upside down. Like, how are you like great? It's like doing like so great. It was crazy. It was great.

[10:51] Amber Brzezinski: But a lot of stretching. They didn't make you sing upside down, did it?

[10:55] Heather Bedor: Oh no, I have to say, I was like, they're like, sound very awesome. You sounded great.

[11:06] Amber Brzezinski: Upside down flying.

[11:08] Heather Bedor: I have a great myself. Did you also have to fly?

[11:15] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, yeah. I went to the same studio. It was also upside down. I think the hardest part is hanging upside down. I'm like, I honestly can't imagine really sleeping like that.

[11:27] Heather Bedor: But uh it's it's also very fun.

[11:29] Amber Brzezinski: It's also very funny.

[11:32] Heather Bedor: It's more like costumes, but uh you know, when you're just wearing your normal street clothes, it's just like a home.

[11:38] Amber Brzezinski: I feel like yeah, the visual elephant wait, do you have a fun screen?

[11:42] Heather Bedor: No.

[11:43] Amber Brzezinski: Well, a little.

[11:47] Heather Bedor: I didn't until it was after the facts. I I bought, oh by the way, are you afraid of hypers? I was like, completely surprised, but very excited.

[11:57] Amber Brzezinski: Wow, that sounds really cool, though.

[12:00] Heather Bedor: Um okay, so these values.

[12:03] Amber Brzezinski: Alright, so that was one.

[12:06] Heather Bedor: And I'm gonna share the official music video because actually I think I have one more video. I take that back.

[12:16] Amber Brzezinski: Come on into the thing.

[12:18] Heather Bedor: I work primarily with a design partner named Ian Laffrey, who has designed all of my work. Have you've seen any of it? And we were really excited by an opportunity to make something really scary for an audience.

[12:28] Amber Brzezinski: Uh and usually when you go to a musical, like you know, you go to laugh, you go to cry, but you don't go to screen.

[12:34] Heather Bedor: And so that was a really exciting challenge. We wanted to make it, you want to make it sexy and scary. And also this movie is set in the late 80s, which is delicious.

[12:46] Amber Brzezinski: I mean, the clothes, the lighting, like just the technology that was available.

[12:52] Heather Bedor: The hair, obviously. I mean, it's it's a real opportunity to create a world on stage that is both nostalgic and just you know, memorable. So uh we started designing this building this world kind of all together, like a group of designers, and we're trying to build something that can hold so many things yet is yet is unreliable.

[13:19] Amber Brzezinski: I think like we want the audience to come into the Palace Theater and be like, I think I know what I'm working out, but I'm not sure.

[13:26] Heather Bedor: Um, because my favorite thing to do on stage is to surprise an audience.

[13:29] Heather Bedor: So hopefully there are a lot of surprises in this. Um you have to, you know, I do believe you go see a play, you go see a movie. So it is a visual experience. However, when you go, you go see and hear a musical. So finding this synesthesia, if you will, of this visual experience with what the rescues are doing, and these incredible voices are able to do. It's kind of, I think musical theater is kind of it's like the secret weapon of the arts because it gets in in every artistic avenue into the soul of the audience, and you're in the room where it happens, as it were. And you're actually feeling, you know, it's not, you know, movies are incredible. They're amazing. But you're not in the room with the people.

I mean, this voice, you are actually like this natural thing that's happening, is happening where he's having a feeling translated into a thought. It's coming out through the air and through the help of our incredible audio team here. It's magic. There's nothing like that. That's what we always try to convey. I work primarily with a design partner named Laphry. And next. I could listen to talk all day because he's such a freaking creative soul. Here is the official music. I have to have you. I have to have you. I have to have you. I have to have you. Y'all, one more day. One more day. One more day. Then we get the whole damn thing. Anyways, um, I'm so excited. Lost Boys was literally my gateway drug. Like it really truly was. Really truly was. But um, yeah, there was a lot of stuff that happened. Um, they also made the announcement um about Beetlejuice at Comic-Con 2.

[15:00] Amber Brzezinski: One of my favorite people. Yeah, Amber. Trisha Paytas. Trishipatus. She's coming in for a very limited run. Very limited run. And I will say. Yes.

[15:06] Heather Bedor: Why is it just your bun? Why is it just your bun? Did you die? I bought myself a one-person passport ticket for my birthday on the 23rd. Um, did you forget that I exist in this world?

[16:28] Amber Brzezinski: No, but I didn't it was like close to Thanksgiving, so I didn't want to like bother you with Thanksgiving.

[16:34] Heather Bedor: Yeah, yeah, you should have bothered me. We'll figure this one out. Don't you worry. Um there was also some other big news that came out this past week, isn't there?

[16:49] Amber Brzezinski: Why are you just half a face? There's lots of news that came out the flavor. You like lost your chin. There's lots of news, yeah.

[16:59] Heather Bedor: Yeah, well, should we just hop into Broadway news, dude?

[17:02] Amber Brzezinski: We should, yeah.

[17:04] Heather Bedor: Alright. Go on.

[17:07] Amber Brzezinski: Do we want to like do we want to like ease into some? Do we want to go slowly?

[17:13] Heather Bedor: No, not that. Let's just go like straight in.

[17:17] Amber Brzezinski: No lube.

[17:18] Heather Bedor: No, none. All right. So uh the Broadway musicians have voted to authorize a strike.

[17:18] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[17:29] Heather Bedor: Within the next weeks, if they don't come to agreement. What this means is 98% of voting members did in fact vote for a strike. This does not mean a strike is underway. It's imminent though. That it's the ability to call one as a negotiating tactic is strong. And the musicians have a strong track record for getting shit done.

[17:29] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[18:07] Heather Bedor: Well, because yes. And it's almost in collaboration with performers as well.

[18:07] Amber Brzezinski: Exactly.

[18:14] Heather Bedor: But what's happening is so the official key terminology that they're utilizing, I'm gonna pull it up, which also, by the way, will literally cut every single Broadway show except Ragtime. That'd be the only show that's not affected.

[18:31] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, that's all that's what they said.

[18:36] Heather Bedor: Oh okay. If the musicians wanna if the musicians went on strike if the musicians strike, it'll be everything but Ragtime. If the actors went on strike, it would affect everything.

[18:36] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[18:51] Heather Bedor: No, no, I'm talking about if the musicians strike.

[18:55] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, okay.

[18:59] Heather Bedor: So pretty much what they're stating is that after coming off of this highest grossing season, which everybody is pushing, and they're eliminating the discretion between well, we're charging thousands of dollars for Othello or Goodnight and Good Luck because of stunt casting. Um, yes, it might have been the highest grossing season, but you still had houses sitting half empty. Um, it's pretty gnarly. So, you know, they're looking at cut hours, they're looking at cut medical benefits, and the musicians are saying, uh-uh. The last time that they went on strike was in 2003. And we talked about this last week. Um, and that was for five days. The most recent Broadway strike came via the stage hands in 2007, which kept most of the main stem dark for 19 days. And the last time that Actors Equity went on strike was in 1968, which ended after three days when the mayor stepped in.

[19:52] Amber Brzezinski: So it's been really interesting.

[19:53] Heather Bedor: And the bargaining talks are between Local 802, which is a musicians union and Actors Equity and the Broadway League, which kind of controls all of it. So it's kind of nuts to think. Um, you know, and a lot of people are like, how do we know? Um, a lot of our members are asking, like, well, I bought tickets to this show. Is this gonna happen? We don't know. Um, so it's a really scary time, and I think houses are starting to feel that squeeze already because people are like, well, if there's a strike in the next two weeks, I'm not gonna buy a ticket, just in case. And then what happens if they don't strike? Well, now they're gonna try to fill the houses. Now they're gonna have to sell tickets cheap. Um, so it's gonna be really interesting to see what happens, but there is no set date, but it could happen in the next two weeks. Um, it's been authorized by the musicians.

[20:45] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so means by October 27th, it is possible.

[20:49] Heather Bedor: Yes, for sure.

[20:52] Amber Brzezinski: And sorry, my chiropractor, who I love dearly, just texted me and said, I can't make it tomorrow. We just had to put our older Yorkie down.

[21:02] Heather Bedor: Just bad news all around.

[21:04] Amber Brzezinski: Uh oh my god, the rescue that I volunteer with, they shared the sweetest letter from a family that adapted their like uh Corgi Yorkie mix something in like 2007, and they like shared this big long letter about how they put him down in May, and his name was Jackson, and how they were like donating a bunch of stuff in Jackson's honor. And I was like, um, today's for Jackson. So everybody, everybody with a doggo, get the kiddie, because I had three friends in the last week who also had to put their cats down. Everyone give your ex give your pets some extra scripts, extra scrubs, extra treats, some extra sorry to interrupt the Broadway news with the sad animal news, but for your Petsies because we love them.

[22:02] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Well, now that we're all sad, let's talk about some happy stuff.

[22:06] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[22:07] Heather Bedor: Um, yes, I'm seeing it all over our chat. Yes, it is official. We were kind of talking about it last week. Jeremy Jordan is officially back at Gatsby.

[22:18] Amber Brzezinski: Um it's interesting because if you look at his touring schedule with Age of Madness, he's just gonna be ping-ponging across the country for a hot minute.

[22:29] Heather Bedor: Oh, yeah. What else do we have on the agenda?

[22:33] Amber Brzezinski: Um, well, we have we I have some I have some like fun fun news about our dear friend Ben Cameron.

[22:44] Heather Bedor: Oh, share away.

[22:45] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, so you know that Ben and his husband Graham adopted little baby Ollie.

[22:49] Heather Bedor: Yeah, and they've been in Atlanta. Like Ben is just flying back and forth and all over the place, trying to get all the custody stuff done and arranged.

[22:58] Amber Brzezinski: Uh, they just did an official welcome to Instagram, Little Baby Ollie. Um, who's so tiny. Oh my goodness. Um, and they were at the airport, so fingers crossed, everything is gonna be phenomenal. But uh, congratulations to my dear friend Ben Cameron and his lovely husband Graham on this adventure of parenthood, because they're gonna be some damn good parents.

[23:24] Heather Bedor: They already are.

[23:25] Amber Brzezinski: So congratulations to them.

[23:29] Heather Bedor: Yeah, that's uh we we love Ben.

[23:32] Amber Brzezinski: We love their little family.

[23:34] Heather Bedor: Ben has been a I don't uh I can't even a staple in the Broadway community.

[23:46] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, yeah, for sure.

[23:47] Heather Bedor: Um just like learning at learning those numbers from every show, like Ben can do it, Ben can break it.

[24:00] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, like you name it, Ben can do it. I mean, he is just a big supporter of the community, and he's he's like Seth Rudesky Jr., but for a totally different demographic, yeah, for sure.

[24:10] Heather Bedor: But we love Ben, and he's been a supporter of the Broadway Fan Club pretty much since the very beginning, and we love him for that too.

[24:17] Amber Brzezinski: So every time that we post about one of his Green Room 42 events, that is because he is like, hey, by the way, this is happening, yeah, for sure, and like those events are so fun, you guys.

[24:31] Heather Bedor: They're so intimate.

[24:32] Amber Brzezinski: Like, if you haven't been to one, make sure to go.

[24:36] Heather Bedor: Yeah, like you get to like you're literally sitting like at a small cabaret table, and like when I went the last time it was for the cast of Tommy and like behind me was like all the children and like the parents and like you're a stone's throw from the stage and it's like really energetic and engaging and fun and it just it's time to kind of step away and like go into a bubble and appreciate talent on stage for sure.

[25:03] Amber Brzezinski: And like I don't want to say like I don't want to like steal like drag queen terms but like you get to like kiki with the artists and like he I think I got it I hope everybody knows that at this point. You know what I mean like you get to like yeah like you just get to like have such like a clo like it's so fun.

[25:22] Heather Bedor: It's so fun it really gives you like that extra like if you want to like feel like you're just like having a beer with the the cast do that that's what it is.

[25:35] Amber Brzezinski: And the best part is there's no like food or drink beverage like food or drink ma uh I cannot talk food or drink minimum. Um so you can just hang I mean be responsible and be nice but uh and support but yeah yeah um so we had the 2026 Artios awards celebrating um the uh it's actually the 41st annual artist award celebrating the work done by casting professionals across theater film and television and it uh it uh features casting work in the realms of the like I said, television theater commercials, feature film, short film, short film series, and international film and international film series.

[26:27] Heather Bedor: And there has been so much Broadway representation this year, which is fabulous.

[27:00] Heather Bedor: So, you know, fabulous job to all those like casting directors that really nailed it, especially to Boop and anyone who casts Jasmine Amy Rogers because you haven't even seen her live and you love her and love it.

[27:16] Amber Brzezinski: She was Betty Boop.

[27:21] Heather Bedor: Yeah, she is Betty Boop, damn it. Um, I'm telling you. I'm telling you. She's great. I'm excited to see her in the 20th annual Putum Smelling Me Too. It's gonna be incredible.

[27:35] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, there's a lot of exciting stuff coming up. I mean, this month alone, there's shows opening, there's all the Halloween events. I legit, like I told Amber earlier, I was like, I had a dream about you, which I did because I've been sleeping so much, and I dreamt about visiting Jerry Ann at Operation Mince Me. Like we were doing a like a fan club meetup where they pulled us up on stage and they were like, Do you think any of your group members are here? And like I'm looking around the theater, and I'm like, yeah. And so we start bringing everybody on stage. Like, I cannot make this up, Amber. Um, and I have very vivid dreams. So we're bringing everybody up on stage, and they're like, okay, it's an intermission.

So we like go downstairs, and I'm like, it's Jeremy Ann in there, and um, there was like some new standby that was coming in that had like Harley Quinn hair. I don't get it, I don't get it. Anyways, um, didn't know that Amber was coming because you know, Amber's in Connecticut and she hasn't come to visit me the last couple times and been in the city, and all of a sudden she was like strolls in with like her bag of bags, and um she was like, Hey, and I'm like, what the at double take, I was like, hello, what are you doing here? And you're like, no, like I would miss this. And I'm like, okay. You're like, I got tickets to this Atlantis party, and you had a costume that was like a fish slash seahorse thing, something you would not wear, and I was like, oh, okay, and you're like, come on, let's go. So we left midst. Yeah, it was like the funniest thing, and I was just laughing, and I was like, Oh, I miss my Amber, you're so far away. Um, so yeah, that was my dream last night.

[29:16] Amber Brzezinski: And Amber's like, oh, so you had a nightmare.

[29:19] Heather Bedor: No, no, I did not. Had a dream missing, my dear friend, business partner, extraordinaire. Okay, yes. Um, yes, but speaking of Operation Mince Meet, um, we had like a major cover debut on, I think it was look at my count. Let me look at my calendar. Uh like the 11th or something. Um, it was yeah, the 11th. Uh we had Jesse Kirtley. Excuse me, uh, who was uh making her debut as standby Monty in the uh Monty track. We also had Sam Hartley on as the Hester track. And it was a lot. Yeah, it was also a huge deal because as um someone pointed out. Um where was the post? Let me see if I can find it again. Also, I swear that Theater Insiders is a listening to our podcast and then just emails literally what we discussed.

What's name of the theater world? Unless it came right from Chat GPT talking about Treasure Paytis, talking about Jeremy Jordan, talking about Lost Boys. Um no. Uh uh three of the five mints meet Broadway cast members on stage the day that Jesse made her debut were Asian, which is amazing. We have Jessie, who is Asian, we have Claire Marie Hall, who is Asian, and we have Davey Cummings who is Asian, who um made a post who said he uh is often um not very open with his ethnicity and comfortable talking about it because he's so white passing. Um, but he's trying to get more in touch with his Pakistani side. So I just thought that was like a really beautiful moment because that show is just so inclusive in the way it tries to incorporate so many different people into different roles, and it doesn't fit necessarily one person into a box to be that character.

[32:10] Amber Brzezinski: Okay, yeah. I love that.

[32:13] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I mean, I think it's important to allow people to perform. Wasn't there also like a massive thing that happened at Maybe Happy Ending where like multiple standbys went on at the same time?

[32:25] Amber Brzezinski: I believe so. And I mean, this this goes back to our don't assume that a stage door is gonna happen. It is getting colder. There's a freaking nor easter out there. Right. Like, I believe I've been seeing a lot in uh the Gatsy group and just on like Al Al Pracken's general posting that Ryan has been out a little bit. I believe I'm sure he's sick right now. Yeah, and then Megan was out for a bit now. Jennifer's been out for a little bit. Like, guys, if you're gonna stage door, like even though I'm not sick, I still wouldn't feel comfortable going to the stage door if something since you is happening or like mask up or like wash your hands. I am a believer shout out to Bath and Body Works, who's not sponsoring but should sponsor our show because I love their little hand sanitizer things.

I go through them all the time. And like I used to absolutely hate them because I get like shiny stuff on my nails, it would peel the stuff off, but like people are disgusting. Um, I cannot even, I'm not even going to tell you. The last couple of times I've seen people do things, and I'm just like, do we need to go back to elementary school and learn how to wash your hands? Um it's like almost embarrassing. It's embarrassing. It's pretty gnarly. Or like, I'm gonna I'm gonna step on my soapbox for a minute. Um, don't assume the toilet is going to flush on its own.

[33:54] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Flush the toilet, or like take a piece of paper and like flush it with a little button. Please don't leave that for somebody else. People are gross.

[34:03] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[34:05] Heather Bedor: Anyway, toilet rant. Anyways, oh sorry. Um Olivia asks, when is the next time you're coming to the city? I don't know if she's asking me or you or both. I don't know. Hopefully soon. Um at this time of year, Amber and I were planning our Salem trip last year.

[34:25] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[34:26] Heather Bedor: And our lovely little ball gowns that we were in around Times Square. Sure. One of my best memories. Uh there's a lot of Halloween costume contests happening this year too. Did you notice?

[34:35] Amber Brzezinski: There are, yeah. There's a lot of shows. I actually uh just posted in the Broadway fan club group a post about spooky shows throughout the years.

[34:50] Heather Bedor: I saw that. I saw it and I was like, if I share that, I'm gonna be pigeonholed as a spooky girl, but I don't care. And then you shared it like a minute later. And I posed a question in the comments of what your favorite spooky show, past or present is on Broadway. So I ask our listeners to either go respond in the comments of the Broadway fan club group or let us know in these comments.

[35:16] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. Or well, what's your favorite spooky show, Amber? Should we say past your present or say past present future? Like known.

[35:24] Heather Bedor: So many.

[35:25] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I see. I feel like I feel like you can't include future because future is But I already know Lost Boys is gonna be amazing. But but you you can't you can't you can't know until you know. Like Little Shop, Hello, right? Hello. Right. Um Dead Outlaw, amazing. Right. I didn't get a chance to see that one.

[35:52] Heather Bedor: No, and Death Becomes are still so much fun and campy. I love it. Um swept away. Swept. I don't know if I would call swept away spooky, although it's a ghost story. Right. That's my struggle is people are like, it's spooky, and I'm like, it's not, but like also love those boys, miss those boys. They're doing some great things. Technically, you could say Phantom. Hello. Right. I would even say technically you could say Sunset Boulevard.

[36:21] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, a hundred percent.

[36:23] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I mean, I think every show has an aspect of spooky to them. Look at Queen of Versailles, yeah. Um it it depends on what your spookiness is. What is your spooky? What does that define you as?

[36:38] Amber Brzezinski: I don't know.

[36:38] Heather Bedor: I'm I I don't care about gorge. Like I like classic horror, but I like intellectual like stimulants, like that kind of horror. Like the six sets, the first time you watch it, you're like, whoa, that's cool. Um, I love uh Shutter Island, that's one of my favorites.

[36:57] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, yeah. Love Shutter Island.

[36:58] Heather Bedor: So um I like things that like could be real and just really make you think like terrifier, and I know I'm gonna get chastised for this. Eh, I don't care. It's just gore. Um, and it doesn't bother me. I think it's funnier rather than anything else. But like the others, strangers, like those are great. Us, nope. Like those are great thinking. It's like a social experiment, and it's thought. Final destination will still mess with me. It's Final Destination 2 when you're driving behind the thing with the logs. Still hate that. Still hate it. Um, but I love like vampire stuff. Interview with the vampire, Queen of the Damned. Um, which also, by the way, I'm so upset that I missed with the New York Comic-Con.

They talked about the interview with the vampire and moving into Lestat going into his rock star thing and all the stuff that was being announced. Oh my god. Um, yeah, it's spooky season, and I'm here for it, but like I don't care about the gore. I like a good ghost story, but like I want my brain to start to get a little spooked.

[38:06] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[38:08] Heather Bedor: Yeah, for sure. Well, I guess the next bit of news we can talk about. Um, only because I just I okay. So there was this like local fair in my hometown over.

[38:26] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, yeah, you told me that you're not not in my hometown, like the next town over.

[38:31] Heather Bedor: Which is like five feet away.

[38:33] Amber Brzezinski: Five feet away.

[38:34] Heather Bedor: Yeah. Um, it's called like the the Southernton Apple Fest, and it's like best known for their like apple fritters. You go that every year, don't you?

[38:44] Amber Brzezinski: I go pretty frequently, but like the line for the apple fritters, because I went on a Saturday was like literally like four miles long. Like I would have been waiting in this line for like seven hours. And my mom was like, Will you get apple fritters for your auntie Rosie? My great aunt, my grandmother's sister. She was like, She really wants some. And I was like, and she I was like, she and do I have to stand on the line for seven hours. It's her birthday on Thursday. Oh, twist the knife harder. She's 90. I was like, but you could probably make them even better. That's what I'm thinking. I'm like, no, I'll figure it out. I'll make them numbers. Okay, no, and I'm gonna save us, and I'm gonna shout off the rooftops. You are really freaking good about baked goods and food. You have all the time. I'm just in the middle of like so much stuff. Like I've been.

[39:41] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[39:42] Heather Bedor: Are you bringing your ghosts with you by the way?

[39:44] Amber Brzezinski: I didn't even ask because I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to. Did you guys know that Amber's house is haunted?

[39:50] Heather Bedor: So um I don't think you ever told her. I don't think you ever told our listeners that your place is haunted.

[39:57] Amber Brzezinski: So I brought her. I was like, I'll walk around, I'll get her like a suitable dessert, and I'll like bring her something from like the fair anyway. So I I got like a cannoli, and I got her like a little piece of carrot cake, and then I stopped and I got a candle, put a candle in the little cake.

[40:13] Heather Bedor: What'd you buy me?

[40:15] Amber Brzezinski: Um so many things.

[40:20] Heather Bedor: Um and then I oh FaceTime. I FaceTime my mom, and we like saying happy birthday, whatever, blah blah blah.

[40:30] Amber Brzezinski: But I say that I chatted with her because she's like a 90-year-old woman, and she goes, This is where this is where this is relevant. She goes, Um, I'm sending you something to see if we should discuss this or not while you're telling the story because guys, this strike is scary, and there's a lot of members who are part of the community and the industry, and I wanna make sure that we're providing you the right information, but like please, please don't push your thoughts onto other people. We're here to provide information, but like don't it's like staying like nonpartisan, yeah. Um but anyway, so I stayed and I chatted with her for a little while and she goes, I went and saw that Jennifer Lopez movie I saw I had friends that saw a kiss of a spider woman today.

Oh no, and she goes, and there were men kissing in it. And I was like, Well, did you like it? And she was like, I don't know. I mean, I you know to each their own. I I'm just not a Jennifer Lopez fan. So the review from Great Aunt Rosie was meh.

[41:53] Heather Bedor: Amber, did you read what I sent you?

[41:56] Amber Brzezinski: Uh no.

[41:57] Heather Bedor: Do it.

[41:58] Amber Brzezinski: Do it, do it.

[41:59] Heather Bedor: But yeah, I mean, it's gonna be an interesting.

[42:02] Amber Brzezinski: Which avenue?

[42:03] Heather Bedor: What?

[42:04] Amber Brzezinski: Which avenue?

[42:05] Heather Bedor: On the Facebook Messenger.

[42:10] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of stuff that's happening. Like this world is like crazy.

[42:14] Heather Bedor: Crazy.

[42:17] Amber Brzezinski: Crazy. I feel like I'm a hippie right now. Like, world's crazy, man. But like there's so much weird shit happening. And I think that it's healthy to keep as positive as possible, but as realistic as possible. I've been learning a new term. Learn to sit with the discomfort. And it sucks. But like when you can adapt and kind of deal with it and like be like, it's okay to not be okay. And like you and I always stress that, especially with you working in mental health, especially with me needing mental health. Uh, no, I mean, I just think that it's important we do what we can to support the community. We do what we can to support each other. Kindness counts and doesn't cost anything to be kind to each other. Um, and I think that's what we always want to talk about. And like theater is such a great escape, but like there's so many things happening right now that it's it's kind of it's dizzying, honestly.

[43:15] Heather Bedor: Yeah, it is it's definitely a lot. It's there's definitely a lot going on. I'm just I'm scared of what's gonna happen in the world if the strike does happen. I keep keeping to keep bringing back. But there's so I think it's gonna be really bad, clearly, but I think people aren't even realizing what it could mean. And if it was the most profitable Broadway season to date, then freaking do something about it. And that's all I'll say about it.

[43:45] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I mean, I agree.

[43:50] Heather Bedor: Anyways, so do you read it? Did you read it? Did you read it? Did you read it? Did you did you?

[43:53] Amber Brzezinski: I'm replying.

[43:55] Heather Bedor: My goodness, you take so long.

[43:58] Amber Brzezinski: Sorry, I I'm long-winded.

[44:02] Heather Bedor: Uh, you and me both, sister.

[44:03] Amber Brzezinski: You and me both. But yeah, it'll be interesting. Um I don't know. My brain's just like processing everything that's happened in the last week. And I really think I'm just shut down. And it's okay to do that. Um, but I am looking forward to a lot of the stuff that's coming up for the season. Um I want to find this Halloween post that Romain Michelle made, and I'm going to find it. But I don't know. If you could, Amber, if you and and really anybody, if you could dress to be any character on Broadway now or within the last season, who would you dress as now?

[44:44] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, that's tough.

[44:46] Heather Bedor: I know.

[44:47] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, that's really tough.

[44:51] Heather Bedor: Only now and the last season. Like that's only the 2024-2025 season through now.

[44:59] Amber Brzezinski: All right. I'm looking at my fridge. I'm looking at oh no. I'm pretty sure I know who you would be, but I would be, yeah, I would definitely be like a Helen Sharp.

[45:11] Heather Bedor: Yeah, again.

[45:12] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, like, but like a real, like with like a real like a good one.

[45:17] Heather Bedor: You want me to shoot a can of dog for your turn?

[45:19] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I want like I want like a I want I want like my boobs up. Like I want like a fitted, I want this like I want this like to be like like designed.

[45:33] Heather Bedor: I mean you still have the trap.

[45:36] Amber Brzezinski: No, I know. I'm just saying, like I don't like I I'm I'm assuming this is gonna be like made for me.

[45:43] Heather Bedor: Okay, so you want a couture style.

[45:43] Amber Brzezinski: Diana's jumping in to take Matt away from me and I'm like really upset by this you cannot separate the pair um and actually I will say though my um I'm hopeful to be able to find a place to present this costume this year um I am upgrading my Carrie dress very cool but that's not this season or last no no but you're breaking the rules no I was just saying for actual Halloween by the way um no I think from this last season to now and honestly I'm surprised that you didn't do Mary oh that would be so funny I know ratty curls oh my god I really could see as Mary like Jane Corps watch out I changed my answer I changed my answer I changed my answer I take it back I take it back I take it back it takes these baxies okay you can have that one do over so Amber what would you be if you can do anything from a 2024 2025 season to now?

[45:43] Amber Brzezinski: Oh I would be married here love it oh 100% um see but like I have one that I really would love to try to figure out how to do on my own but I would love to be able to find uh four other people to do it with heathers I mean hello.

[47:22] Amber Brzezinski: I don't like that enough people. Can you imagine though like splitting up the heathers like onto one person? That'd be wild. I'm like determined now. No, but it's funny because like when I went to go s like for first preview of Heathers, I dressed as Veronica.

[47:31] Heather Bedor: I don't like I don't have enough friends.

[47:42] Heather Bedor: Like I've never like I'm a Heather dressed as Veronica.

[47:45] Amber Brzezinski: That's yes, yes. That's exactly it. They were like, why are you not dressed as a Heather? I'm like, because I am a Heather, I'm dressing that makes that honestly to me that makes perfect sense.

[47:57] Heather Bedor: Like I would want to find like a boy to be a gender bend and like have the boy dress as Veronica and myself as JD.

[48:04] Amber Brzezinski: Like just let's just do like love a leather trench.

[48:08] Heather Bedor: I mean I do.

[48:10] Amber Brzezinski: You love a leather trench.

[48:12] Heather Bedor: And how do we know this? Because when we went to Salem, that's all I wore.

[48:17] Amber Brzezinski: And it lived in my closet for a while because we forgot it in my car.

[48:21] Heather Bedor: Yep. And then I got it back and we united and it feels so good. And everything was right again.

[48:27] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. So do you oh do you sent me a message?

[48:29] Heather Bedor: Oh boy.

[48:32] Amber Brzezinski: I did.

[48:34] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[48:34] Amber Brzezinski: Well, then go ahead.

[48:35] Heather Bedor: Yes, do that.

[48:38] Amber Brzezinski: Agreed. Well, can you put it in the can you put it in? Can you put it in the place?

[48:41] Heather Bedor: I can. I'm gonna put it in the place while you talk about it.

[48:44] Amber Brzezinski: This is okay. Telling people I know.

[48:47] Heather Bedor: Okay, so uh a needle pulling thread.

[48:56] Amber Brzezinski: So a needle pulling thread. Um, so there is um a link that Heather is about to post below. Um, but our uh Broadway performers. This is both the actors and musicians, um, have a petition going around. This petition shows our support for both AEA Um and AFM local Actors Equity Association. Yep. Um, it shows them that we like believe in their right to more affordable health care, that we support their cause. We've seen how intense it is for them to be on stage, how rigorous it is on their body, like how vocally and just extremely it is um and just you know how they deserve more easier access to healthcare instead of I mean it's it's a I think it should be a basic human right. Like I know like that sounds a little bit like political, but really like it sucks as somebody who is a gigger who doesn't have a full-time job and who relies on gigs to uh pay the bills essentially. I don't have health insurance and it sucks paying everything out of pocket.

[50:14] Heather Bedor: Right.

[50:19] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but can you imagine being part of a show? You're required to be there, you know, 10 shows, whatever. Um, even if you're sandboy, even if you're an understudy, you are still there 98% done up waiting to go on, or you're performing and you're taking every amount of energy out of you, like that's a long day. And you're coming right back and doing it all over again.

[50:41] Heather Bedor: Right.

[50:46] Amber Brzezinski: And then oh no, your health insurance or your health benefits are cut. I don't like it.

[50:50] Heather Bedor: Right.

[50:51] Amber Brzezinski: Exactly. Um, so we just like encourage you to like kind of you know stand with actors, even if you have trips played even if you you know are really looking forward to going into the city to see some shows all the more reason to sign these petitions all the more reasons to get involved in now and you don't have to but it's an option and it's a tool that we're providing that if you do want to show your support this is a way to show your support exactly the more voices that stand up now maybe the powers that be will see how much backing that these performers have and will actually say we need to we need to stand up just a performer orchestra like the pit like the pit yeah the the stage hands like everybody guys it's not just a performers like right people are in the pit and I'm telling you and I don't know if you guys have seen pictures or videos um and you know we're friends with quite a few musicians you are under the ground in tight quarters breathing on people watching your head doing like it's a lot I was I was in band for my high school career um it's a lot it's very taxing and I I think it's important to show our support but it is hard when everyone's like well is the strike gonna happen I don't know please hope I hope the strike doesn't happen by this date guys but what happens if it does right they're not gonna leave you high and dry but it is hard that's why like when I'm asked like when's the next time I'm gonna be in the city I don't know right um I struggle to go support if a show is not in production. Does that make sense?

[52:38] Heather Bedor: Right.

[52:39] Amber Brzezinski: And it's also like this time frame is when Romy and Michelle is supposed to be opening up Queens. Like there's shows that are opening. That's hard. And we haven't fully come back from COVID. Um, we're trying, but we're doing the best that we can to support. Um Amber, do you have your stack of goodies next to you, by the way?

[53:01] Heather Bedor: Packed.

[53:03] Amber Brzezinski: She packed them. But uh, and the shop is still on vacation mode. But I am gonna show you guys too. If you want to show support, Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. We do actually have um a Broadway cares equity fights aid bracelet. Um, once a shop is back from vacation in the next like two weeks, something unless you really need to do something now because you're coming into the holidays. Go to the Etsy shop, check it out. There is a donation from each and every bracelet that is purchased because they will at least be able to help with some of the healthcare costs. And we're not even talking about like the sick, we're talking about people that need the help and support, but also now think about people that are and I'm not calling out anybody, but that are going through cancer treatment that are going through recovery that are HIV positive that are you know going through these tumultuous times. Please, please do whatever you can to support.

[53:58] Heather Bedor: Um also what um regarding coming back from vacation, it will be close to the most wonderful time of the year.

[54:11] Amber Brzezinski: Um and there will be maybe perhaps be some future holiday holiday sales approaching.

[54:21] Heather Bedor: Oh, I love that.

[54:22] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and if you guys don't know what we're talking about, we have been making these really fun customized bracelets. Amber kind of took on the brunt force of that. Um, that's what's on our Etsy shop. But we also do still have our Patreon. Um, and you can be a founding member of our Patreon, patreon.com slash the Broadway fan club for only a dollar a month beginning process. You can be part of the inner circle here over at the Broadway fan club. We'd love to have you guys join us. Um, it'll open up opportunities to choose topics, it'll open up the opportunity to actually join us. It'll give you an invite um to only Patreon followers, fans, um, events in the city, special prizes that we're gonna be giving away. Cool stuff, guys, really cool stuff. Um, opening night gifts from Wicked, like, come on, be a part of it, join us. Um, and we're gonna be doing these limited events too. So I'm really excited for it for sure.

[55:18] Heather Bedor: And you know what, Olivia has something great that I'll just say at the end of the day, actors are human beings, they deserve great health care.

[55:24] Amber Brzezinski: I agree.

[55:25] Heather Bedor: For sure, I agree, for sure. And that doesn't cost them like their entire paycheck.

[55:30] Amber Brzezinski: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because contrary to popular belief, people on Broadway don't make that much money, right?

[55:38] Heather Bedor: Like at all. And if you look like I have been um part of productions where I've worked with actors equity before, and there are a lot of rules. You have to either make somebody full-time employee um with benefits and a 401k, um, or you have to pay them a certain livable wage um with a guarantee of a certain amount of time frame. So it is a struggle, it is a challenge for sure. You have to like pay your dues, you have to pay your agent fees, you have to pay your rent, you have to pay travel expenses.

[56:13] Amber Brzezinski: Travel expenses.

[56:14] Heather Bedor: Pet care.

[56:15] Amber Brzezinski: Absolutely bringing rip back to the pets. You know, there's a lot of things that people have to pay out of pocket for.

[56:22] Heather Bedor: For sure. It's not easy peasy lemon squeezy. So just be kind to people. And that includes your local theaters as well. Personally, I'm part of a couple of local theater organizations here in Central Florida. And you know, they work based off of donations and fundraising efforts. And it's incredible to see the community come out, but like things that they expect, you're like because people are volunteering their time to perform. So it's hard.

[56:50] Amber Brzezinski: Or you have people that are on tour, like Amber Desarr, you know, Ken over at Notebook. And they're touring and they're constantly all over the place. They're not home, they're you know, at a hotel or at a families, yeah.

[57:04] Heather Bedor: Yeah. So just remember, Cheyenne, unless you're like Clooney, you aren't going to be making the Bucko bucks on there.

[57:12] Amber Brzezinski: No.

[57:13] Heather Bedor: Correct. But with that being said, let's end it on a positive note. Um I was gonna say, I do have one kind of sad note.

[57:21] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, we can have a sad one.

[57:23] Heather Bedor: Let's just be mopey Monday today. Go on, Amber.

[57:27] Amber Brzezinski: Um she never did win her Tony, but she was nominated for one icon and queen Diane Keen did pass away.

[57:38] Heather Bedor: Oh you know what? I forgot to mention that because she was also an incredible part of the Broadway community. Thank you for bringing it back up.

[57:45] Amber Brzezinski: She was, yeah. She was just like a uh she made her Broadway debut in the original Company of hair, which is amazing.

[57:55] Heather Bedor: Yep. Um she also uh left hair for Woody Allen's play, played again.

[58:04] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and Sam, which ran it in 1969 at the Broadhurst Theater.

[58:12] Heather Bedor: Not a huge not a huge Woody Allen fan person myself.

[58:18] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but you know, I I really um, you know, I I really loved Diane. I loved her energy, I loved her um, you know, her fashion sense. I thought she was you know her her reason for always bringing those big hats.

[58:33] Heather Bedor: No. She had two different kinds of skin cancer in her 20s.

[58:39] Amber Brzezinski: So she made that part of her aesthetic was she was always, always wearing big hats. Good for her.

[58:44] Heather Bedor: But yeah, I mean, huge, like she was 79. Yeah, they don't know the cause of death, or they haven't announced it yet, or they haven't released it. And the only thing you can find is on TMZ, there is an uh operator for 911, and all they say is person down.

[59:00] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[59:01] Heather Bedor: And the very and the very to bring it right back to the pets. The very last thing that she posted on her socials was a picture with her golden.

[59:08] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, wonderful.

[59:09] Heather Bedor: So just a sweet human. I have to say, like, I posted a clip to my Instagram from First Wives Club, because just like what an what an iconic movie. Like I loved that movie.

[59:20] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[59:22] Heather Bedor: I was again another movie I was like probably far too young to be watching, but like I was like, I think that that's our generation, is like growing up, like we just kind of watch those movies.

[59:33] Amber Brzezinski: Like my very first horror movie, my uncle showed me Nightmare in Elm Street.

[59:37] Heather Bedor: For sure, for sure. Like, let's be real here.

[59:39] Amber Brzezinski: Or like, let's go with never ending story.

[59:42] Heather Bedor: Still traumatizing Audrey you come on yeah oh terrible um but yeah I just wanted to shout out Diane Key and lived a wonderful life um thank you for the reminder of that yeah she she deserves the shout out yeah she does but um yeah this has been a a mopey Monday kind of day uh if we do want to end on a happy note our listeners not our listeners but our members' prayers have been answered and just in time was extended an extra month into February uh Jonathan does have a planned vacation for a week in January deserves it or she deserves it so if you are booking tickets make sure you pay attention it will note it on top of the tickets the Jonathan Groff will be out of this performance but go anyway support the understudies yes and you know what Amber what we didn't get a chance to do last week and I think we should do now our favorite post of the week we'll extend for a few minutes do you have a favorite post of the week in a all of our now if you were looking to join any of our groups please make sure you go to www dot thebroadwayfanclub.com uh you can see all 127 of the groups that we are currently operating but yeah Amber do you have a favorite do I have a favorite post of the week I don't know if I do I don't know if anything really stands out from this week to be honest.

[1:01:09] Amber Brzezinski: I have been loving that everybody has been saying oh my like across like across the board people are like, oh my god, this group is everything.

[1:01:18] Heather Bedor: Like, this is my family.

[1:01:20] Amber Brzezinski: It's so sweet. Like, I love that. Um, but I will tell you that I have a post that somebody made on Masquerade, which I thought was really sweet.

[1:01:29] Heather Bedor: Um, and it was a million thanks.

[1:01:32] Amber Brzezinski: This is from Claire McCormack. A million thanks to my ADA escort Jason, pictured here, which I thought was really sweet at the 1 p.m. post yesterday. Jason was incredibly kind and offered me an amazing and personal masquerade experience. I never missed a thing. I even arrived at some scenes before the group. The entire team worked seamlessly together, providing me the most magical masquerade. I'm still trying to absorb it all in my heart and mind. The cast was perfection. Jeremy Stoll and Claire Layden were magic. The entire cast was absolutely incredible. Thank you, Jason, from the bottom of my heart for your kind care.

[1:02:04] Heather Bedor: Amazing.

[1:02:06] Amber Brzezinski: All the time from people that are getting these ADA escorts, and people are so worried they're gonna miss stuff. No, they have really just become like these incredible icons of masquerade, and they are really making people just feel welcome and part of the show.

[1:02:22] Heather Bedor: Absolutely. You wanna did you find one?

[1:02:27] Amber Brzezinski: No, I'm deleting a post that shouldn't be there while I was finding one.

[1:02:32] Heather Bedor: Um I thought I like distinctly remembered seeing one too.

[1:02:38] Amber Brzezinski: That's what's like annoying me the most.

[1:02:40] Heather Bedor: I love that for you.

[1:02:41] Amber Brzezinski: This was yours.

[1:02:43] Heather Bedor: I know.

[1:02:46] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, you know what? I did like, huh? Shout out to Olivia.

[1:02:52] Heather Bedor: I did like her uh stage door photos with uh Hannah Solo and God Lucky.

[1:03:00] Amber Brzezinski: I'm gonna I'm gonna give another shout out on top of Olivia. That sounds really weird.

[1:03:06] Heather Bedor: The one and only John Devereaux has been very active in our groups.

[1:03:10] Amber Brzezinski: He has been.

[1:03:11] Heather Bedor: Thank you, John.

[1:03:12] Amber Brzezinski: Shout out to John.

[1:03:13] Heather Bedor: I've noticed that as well. I love him.

[1:03:15] Amber Brzezinski: And he has been doing this fun thing that says casting myself is the one who just replies with reactions emojis.

[1:03:20] Heather Bedor: And it's a meme, and it's just says, I'm bored. Make the comment section look like a theater group chat after a terrible rehearsal.

[1:03:26] Amber Brzezinski: And I think people are afraid to comment underneath it thinking it's spam, but no, this is really no, this is like really John.

[1:03:33] Heather Bedor: Yeah, like have fun.

[1:03:34] Amber Brzezinski: Like hang on.

[1:03:34] Heather Bedor: He's really bad.

[1:03:35] Amber Brzezinski: So if you want to have a drawn, yeah, like Joe with John. This is your moment.

[1:03:40] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[1:03:41] Amber Brzezinski: For sure.

[1:03:42] Heather Bedor: Um, I've also still really loving the official selfie thread in Masquerade.

[1:03:47] Amber Brzezinski: I do still go in there periodically and I comment on it.

[1:03:52] Heather Bedor: I still go in there and I comment on people's uh outfits.

[1:03:55] Amber Brzezinski: I tell them they look great.

[1:03:57] Heather Bedor: I tell them like how cool they look.

[1:03:59] Amber Brzezinski: So keep your keep posting your selfies.

[1:04:02] Heather Bedor: Like we're still loving it.

[1:04:04] Amber Brzezinski: Have you received any odd 20-sided tavern uh tavern names recently?

[1:04:11] Heather Bedor: Um, not that I could remember off the top of my head, but like they were great, the ones that I did receive, the ones that came through.

[1:04:18] Amber Brzezinski: They've been so much fun.

[1:04:20] Heather Bedor: So much fun.

[1:04:21] Amber Brzezinski: Anyways, I know we've done over our time.

[1:04:23] Heather Bedor: We were trying to end it on a positive happy note.

[1:04:25] Amber Brzezinski: Trying to end it on a positive note, yes.

[1:04:27] Heather Bedor: Cause like I look forward to these Mondays. It's literally my therapy.

[1:04:31] Amber Brzezinski: Like I've been mopey because I haven't been feeling 100%.

[1:04:35] Heather Bedor: Um I even went to go hang out with friends on Friday night, and I was just like, eh, I'm not feeling it. Bleh.

[1:04:43] Amber Brzezinski: And um, yeah, it's nice to spend time with you guys. And I hope that you guys um take what you've learned today and apply it to real world. Don't be a dick.

[1:04:52] Heather Bedor: And it doesn't cost anything to be kind.

[1:04:54] Amber Brzezinski: So that's really important to remember that as well. I'm gonna try to make myself look a little bit more awake and um, yeah to remind you where you can go for all of the things again. If you're looking for any of our groups, go to www.thebroadwayfanclub.com.

[1:05:08] Heather Bedor: You can also go to our Etsy shop, which will be opening back up soon, the Broadwayfanclub.etsy.com. Still, if you're looking for a great place to stay in the city pre potential strike, post potential strike, or any time in between. The W Times Square and the Weston Times Square are always great with uh our members. They offer great cluster code E7103.

[1:05:29] Amber Brzezinski: If you want to be part of the founding inner circle with the Broadway fan clubs, Patreon, patreon.com slash the Broadway fan club.

[1:05:38] Heather Bedor: Um my favorite new URL is our podcast directly on Broadway Podcast Network. You can find that directly at www.onlybroadwayfans.com. You can find all 69, that's right, 69 official episodes as of tonight, not even including our special show episodes. Um all right there, and you can go back, listen to them, watch them, comment on them. Make sure you go to Spotify as well, give us a like, a follow, or a comment.

[1:06:09] Amber Brzezinski: Make sure they know that we're great.

[1:06:11] Heather Bedor: Um, and if you are interested in signing the petition to help support equity, it is action network.org slash petitions with an S at the end slash stand dash united dash four dash uh dash healthier dash broadway dash two.

[1:06:28] Amber Brzezinski: So dash dash dash dash m dash m dash.

[1:06:34] Heather Bedor: Oh my god, I'm living on chat GPT right now.

[1:06:37] Amber Brzezinski: Anyways, we hope you guys have a great rest of your week.

[1:06:39] Heather Bedor: I'm probably gonna go back to bed or to the gym, and uh Amber's gonna keep packing up her house and we'll see you guys.

[1:06:39] Amber Brzezinski: keep packing my house I might even eat something I've I've I I had been eating since this weekend you'll be proud oh Cheyenne says now that I'm pretty much caught up bill wise I might be joining the Patreon do it Cheyenne do it up up to like ten dollars but we're worth it we're cute um yes Amber pack and um don't forget when Mondays when Broadway is dark we keep the ghost light burning have a good week everybody happy indigenous people day happy indigenous people's day happy it's spooky season bitches for Columbus oh my god