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[0:17] Heather Bedor: I am so sunburnt right now looking at the monitor, but I'm like, I'm red. I'm red. Hello. Honestly, we had like a 70-degree day, so I have nothing to come with. I saw, and then when I'm up next week, it's gonna be in like the 30s and raining. So um, yeah, no, today was 80. Let me look. I'm gonna look at the actual temperature. Um, because it was pretty gross. It was pretty gross. It was 89 with a real feel of 94. Yay, love Florida in March. Oh, the humidity is humiditying. My hair is crazy, but that's okay. But Amber, all I see is your neck and your fan.

[1:02] Amber Brzezinski: Sorry. Are you dog sitting today?

[1:04] Heather Bedor: I am dog sitting. I thought they were gonna come home earlier, but alas, they are not. That's okay. So we get the up the nose view of Amber, and that's fine. It's a view of Amber is lovely no matter what, unless you're and honestly. These guys are barkers, so if I go on mute, that's why. Like like Barker. I've been calling them like my friends. Like Travis, Dolores, and Bob the whole weekend because they are barkers. Um well, welcome to another wonderful, splendid edition of the Broadway Fan Club Podcast. I am Heather, your sunburnt co-host to my left. Your right is the one and only Amber uh and barking dogs. So it's gonna be exciting. We'll get some fur tags, it'll be great. Um I can give you some right now. He's got a fur tax butt too. He's got a little bit of a shaved patch because you just had to have an ultrasound. Poor little Scooby-Doo.

[2:07] Amber Brzezinski: No, I don't like that. Speaking of Scooby-Doo, I was just inside of Epcot less than two hours ago because Simple Plan is here, and they put on like a half-hour concert three times a night between yesterday and today. And it was the only time we could go, hence why I look like I'm melting and sunburned. Um, and my glasses are off and my contacts are in, and I'm going, I just want to go night night.

[2:30] Heather Bedor: Well, that's fun and unexpected.

[2:33] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, well, and so like they're performing in Disney, and they're like, we can't really save a name of the song, but we can sing it, and they go into theirs because they do the Scooby-Doo song. Right. Um while I was walking through parking, um, somebody had a van and it looked like the mystery machine and had like all the Scooby-Doo characters on it. I was like, oh, that's cool.

[2:52] Heather Bedor: So I love that.

[2:54] Amber Brzezinski: I do too. I absolutely do too. But you know, Amber, I've been thinking about this and we haven't really talked about it. But we have a lot of members across our groups, but a lot of people on the podcast side don't know about our groups, and a lot of people in the groups don't know about our podcast. So I feel like we should maybe do a little bit of an introduction since we don't have a guest tonight with us. What do you think?

[3:17] Amber Brzezinski: Do a little merger, sure. Go for it.

[3:22] Heather Bedor: You pitched, I share. Amber is sharing to 167 of our fan groups. So just about two years ago, and I cannot believe we're saying almost two years ago, because it feels like it was like last weekend, but also like 30 years ago. Um, we look great for our age.

[3:39] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I had been.

[3:41] Heather Bedor: We took the potion.

[3:43] Amber Brzezinski: We took the potion, yes, we did. Um, and speaking of potion, stay tuned to the end of the show because we do have the winner of our giveaway from our steps group to make her reminding us.

[3:54] Heather Bedor: Absolutely. So um Amber and I were admin, so I had admined a couple of Facebook groups just for funsies. I had admined a Sweeney Todd group, hence why I'm getting into the bar groups. Um, and then um I brought on Amber as an admin, and we really were able to like hit lightning in a bottle. Um, our first show that we worked with was Water for Elephants.

[4:17] Amber Brzezinski: And it was actually the first day that Amber and I met in person.

[4:20] Heather Bedor: That was crazy and chaotic and it was a lot of fun. And at the after party, um, we were sober. Um, you know, it wasn't a weird decision, but we had a glass of champagne and we're staring at like Andrew Rannells and Bernadette Peters and going, how are we in this room right now? And I was like, but we're in this room right now. And like something exactly, Bob Barker. Um exactly.

[4:44] Heather Bedor: But I said to Amber, I said, we got we have something here. This is magic. What do we do with this? And so that was when the Broadway Fan Club was born. Um, we started to create fan groups, and we realized that there's literally nobody else in the world that runs fan groups professionally for Broadway and off-Broadway West End shows. Nobody.

[5:06] Amber Brzezinski: Um, are we influencers? We're not the kind of influencers who are like, hey, check us out. It's that's not us. Uh we're more marketing and media and journalism, um, and have had a lot of really incredible opportunities over the last years, including next week, we actually will be um there for the night for the same thing, which is exciting.

[5:30] Heather Bedor: It's not already next week. It's next Tuesday.

[5:33] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, yes, it is.

[5:34] Heather Bedor: Um, my flight leaves Florida Sunday morning at 5:30 in the morning, and I'm gonna cry. Um but Monday night or Monday afternoon, I'll be at a press event. Like it's just it's a lot. And so we're doing whatever we can to bring you guys this media, and we have this wonderful format. Um, very appreciated to be part of the Broadway Podcast Network family.

[5:56] Amber Brzezinski: So that's really cool because we're everywhere and anywhere you could ever think about getting your podcasts.

[6:02] Heather Bedor: Um, if you want to listen to any of our past episodes or check it out, you can go to onlybroadwayfans.com. Yes, it is the real URL, www.onlybroadwayfans.com that'll take you to all of our previous episodes. We are on episode and act number 82, which is crazy.

[6:20] Amber Brzezinski: It's crazy.

[6:22] Heather Bedor: 82 of these, and we've had some really incredible guests along the way. But what we do continuously and kind of keeps us our motors running, um, is we run these fan groups, and these fan groups we try to align with the shows directly to bring you guys the most up-to-date information: masquerade, Death Becomes Her, Heathers, Gatsby, um, Cabaret, whatever we could possibly do to make sure you guys have the correct information in the groups themselves, creating a safe and welcoming environment where people can have conversations.

[6:57] Amber Brzezinski: Um to the point where we have been known to run to a box office to confirm if there is an understudy on tonight for a show that we weren't even seeing, just to report it to our members.

[7:18] Heather Bedor: Do you want to share that story with the rest of the class?

[7:21] Amber Brzezinski: Um, honestly, if you don't mind doing it while I'm typing, oh no, I totally mind because I like how irritated you are with it. Come on. But um we were sitting in Heather's hotel room.

[7:35] Heather Bedor: I don't even remember what we were supposed to be going to see. I think we were just decompressing from Fleet, weren't we?

[7:41] Amber Brzezinski: We were decompressing, but we had a show that night.

[7:45] Heather Bedor: Uh was that the night that we were supposed to see Waterfall? Because we were close to that theater and we were like, we have to go buy it anyway.

[7:53] Amber Brzezinski: I don't remember.

[7:54] Heather Bedor: I don't remember. But Heather and I I'm like, I'm hearing musings. I'm hearing musings that uh Adina is gonna be out of Redwood tonight for the first time because she's not feeling well.

[8:08] Amber Brzezinski: And oh god, now I don't even remember who the understudy was, who was amazing because I've been like having such my like last few days for chaos. I think Jessica something.

[8:19] Heather Bedor: Jessica.

[8:20] Amber Brzezinski: I don't remember. I was like we hauled. I was like, I was like, should we post about it? But I don't know if it's confirmed yet. No one's posted about it. I've just heard mutterings like, what do we do? What do we do? What do we do? What do we do? Let's go. We're going, let's go.

[8:35] Heather Bedor: We like dashed it. We're like cutting people off in Times Square. Walking, walking. We gotta go. We are on a mission, and then we just like we're like, hi, excuse me, is Adina, and they were like, no, and we're like, Thank you, bye. That's all we're gonna do. Thank you. Hi, Kyrie.

[8:55] Amber Brzezinski: I think I had made like a graphic in the hotel room.

[8:58] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[8:59] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you were doing like as we're like hauling ass through Times Square.

[9:02] Heather Bedor: Yeah, like just so we had like something to post, and then like as soon as we got like confirmation, we were like, like that is like the legs we will go to to get you guys like the accurate updated information.

[9:14] Amber Brzezinski: We also have a tendency to break news before anyone else breaks news. Have you noticed that?

[9:19] Heather Bedor: Like, we've talked about like well, we could talk about a little bit of Broadway news, like John Cardo's coming in for talk.

[9:27] Amber Brzezinski: We talked, we didn't talk about that.

[9:28] Heather Bedor: That was just no, no, I'm saying we're talking about that now, yeah. But like when we had talked about you know, other people coming in or other people being cast for a different show, or who's gonna be leaving, or when something's gonna be extending, or when something's gonna be closing.

[9:40] Amber Brzezinski: So we do whatever we possibly can to stay on top of it, which means talking to marketing, talking to the shows, aligning with the shows directly.

[9:46] Heather Bedor: Um, but creating the safe environment. Um, Amber, I think we've had like what, like four or five couples, two that have been like engaged slash married.

[9:56] Amber Brzezinski: So, like, hey, if you're looking for your true love besides theater, you could probably meet them in one of our groups.

[10:02] Heather Bedor: Um, I think there's also like a Broadway Fan Club baby. Have you heard this?

[10:06] Amber Brzezinski: No, so somebody met their partner, got engaged, had a child because they met through our group.

[10:13] Heather Bedor: Congratulations.

[10:14] Amber Brzezinski: I just the name Amber.

[10:17] Heather Bedor: Um, or Heather, how about we do like ham hamburger?

[10:21] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, hamburger the hamburger.

[10:23] Heather Bedor: No, that's weird.

[10:24] Amber Brzezinski: Um, Olivia just asked, Amber, did you happen to find the monster energy drink?

[10:30] Heather Bedor: This sounds like there is a story behind this, and I must know.

[10:34] Amber Brzezinski: Well, as you know, I brought my friends 11 going on 12 year olds into the city to see Stranger Things on Saturday, which we'll get we'll get into that.

[10:43] Heather Bedor: Yes, hopefully.

[10:45] Amber Brzezinski: But because of an unfortunate snafu, which resulted in our matinee performance that we had our tickets to being cancelled.

[10:55] Heather Bedor: Which we'll talk about again.

[10:56] Amber Brzezinski: Which will again we'll be addressed later. We had hours to kill, like hours to kill.

[11:03] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[11:03] Amber Brzezinski: So we charged our phones, we sat and chilled for a little bit, and then I got a message from Olivia and was like, Hey, I'm right over nearby. So I was like, Oh, come on over, like come hang out.

[11:14] Heather Bedor: Okay.

[11:14] Amber Brzezinski: So Olivia. I haven't heard of a story, so this is all new to me. Charge my phone too. So Olivia came and met up with us. We just like, you know, charged our phones up a little bit. And then I was like, you know what? It's like three o'clock right now, and the show isn't until seven.

[11:28] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[11:29] Amber Brzezinski: We actually have time to go to Ellen's.

[11:31] Heather Bedor: And that's Ellen's.

[11:33] Amber Brzezinski: I was like, and that's like not something that I ever have time to do.

[11:36] Heather Bedor: No, and you never won't okay.

[11:39] Amber Brzezinski: So I was like, Olivia, would you like okay. The the child that I was with also named Olivia. So I was with Olivia and Olivia. So anytime I needed something, I was like, Olivia, and I was just like, whoever came for a while.

[11:51] Heather Bedor: Somebody was there.

[11:52] Amber Brzezinski: Right. Yeah, it was it was it great for me. Being a Heather, I understand that.

[11:57] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[11:57] Amber Brzezinski: Yes. So um I was like, let's go to Ellen's. We have so much time, and that's like entertaining and like it'll it'll kill plenty of time.

[12:08] Heather Bedor: Well, yeah, because you just waited online instead of wait in line, but it was three o'clock, so it was before rush rush rush.

[12:18] Amber Brzezinski: You know what I mean? We didn't have a crazy, so we waited in line and we actually only waited in line for about 15 minutes before they took our party in.

[12:33] Heather Bedor: We sat at the bar on the top floor, which was amazing. I thought there was I like being on the top better than being on the bottom because it's less... that's over sharing. Less farm in here stuff on your food, you know.

[12:51] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, until they throw like straws and stuff at you, but like, but it's less on the top.

[12:59] Heather Bedor: Sure, we'll go with that.

[13:00] Amber Brzezinski: Mm-hmm. Go on.

[13:01] Heather Bedor: Yeah. So um, you know, we had fun, we watched the show, we got some food, and then we... what did you order?

[13:09] Amber Brzezinski: I got... what did I order this one?

[13:11] Heather Bedor: I don't know.

[13:12] Amber Brzezinski: Matzo ball soup.

[13:13] Heather Bedor: Okay, and waffle fries.

[13:15] Amber Brzezinski: You always get the matzo ball soup.

[13:17] Heather Bedor: No, I don't always get the ball.

[13:18] Amber Brzezinski: You got it the last time we went together.

[13:20] Heather Bedor: No, I got mac and cheese bites, which Olivia Child got.

[13:26] Amber Brzezinski: Go on, continue.

[13:28] Heather Bedor: Um, and then Olivia Nod Child got onion rings. Um we had a great time, and then we went on... we had more time to kill, and Olivia Child apparently is now obsessed with Formula One racing.

[13:51] Amber Brzezinski: Okay, kids, kids are cool.

[13:55] Heather Bedor: So there's a limited edition monster energy drink for a Formula One eraser that just came out in the US last month.

[14:05] Amber Brzezinski: So I went on the monster website where you can like search where it is.

[14:11] Heather Bedor: We've been there, yeah.

[14:12] Amber Brzezinski: Because we were in New, like we were in Times Square. I was like, if we have a chance to find it, it's gonna be here.

[14:20] Heather Bedor: Okay.

[14:21] Amber Brzezinski: It said it was in like three different places.

[14:23] Heather Bedor: We went to those three different places.

[14:25] Amber Brzezinski: It was not in three places.

[14:29] Heather Bedor: So that was the whole story.

[14:31] Amber Brzezinski: That was the whole story. I bought them on Amazon.

[14:34] Heather Bedor: We'll just have to read.

[14:36] Amber Brzezinski: We'll just have to uh read, that's exactly right, puppy.

[14:39] Heather Bedor: Um yes. Uh no, I mean, I see. I don't think of it like, oh, I'm gonna find monster in Times Square.

[14:46] Amber Brzezinski: I love that that's your thought process, though.

[14:49] Heather Bedor: Um, well, that's exciting.

[14:51] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, you did have kind of a crazy day. Listen, I was like, we have the time to kill, and like there are more bodega little convenience stores here, maximizing our chance where maybe someone has it versus like Bristol, Connecticut, where there's like 12 total, yeah.

[15:13] Heather Bedor: Yeah, so yeah, we're crazy guys, and we know the city well, so we're gonna do what we can to make sure that our friends and our members are taken care of. Amber also did an art drop, it was our first one.

[15:27] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so like a crazy person I called Heather from the trains or like on my way from the train station, and I was like, I know I didn't answer any calls yesterday. It's because I decided to like to do something really crazy, and she was like, Oh. And I was like, and I was like, so I made a bunch of bracelets for the Stranger Things cast, which I still have to post pictures of on our Etsy. They will be available.

[15:55] Heather Bedor: Uh new uh Stranger Things designs will be on Etsy soon. They're not going to be able to do that. Also, that is something that we thrive on. Like we love doing that. Whenever we go to a show, we always try to make bracelets for the cast.

[16:07] Amber Brzezinski: Right, exactly. Like I'm always like, and it's always so last minute that I remember about doing it. So I'm always like, and I was up until like 2 a.m. doing it.

[16:17] Heather Bedor: And then I... you're like, okay, so we've got all this like crazy stuff, and like I think I'm gonna do some like art drops. And I was like, okay, so here I am like driving. So Heather and I have been like spitballing like different ways to like, you know, increase. We have over eight million members across our platforms, but our Instagram suffers because it's not community-based.

[16:45] Amber Brzezinski: Instagram, it's us posting a lot of stuff or sure you can tag, but you can't really have a conversation. You can't be like, hey, I'm this random person going to this random show. Is anybody else going? Or hey, random person, I took a picture of you with Tom Felton at Harry Potter. Are you in this group? It's us constantly, it's just it's like to me.

[17:04] Heather Bedor: It's like someone talking at you.

[17:06] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, that's exactly. It's like one directional communication. So it's not really our go-to method. Um, but we are still trying to increase our following there because unfortunately and fortunately, a lot of places are looking at numbers of Instagram followers. Does it matter that we have over eight million members across 165 fan groups? No, sometimes it does.

[17:29] Heather Bedor: Um, but speaking of that, if you are on Instagram, you can absolutely follow us at the B Way Fan Club. That is T-H-E-B-W-A-Y fan club.

[17:41] Amber Brzezinski: Um, make sure you follow us. We're gonna be doing more of these fun art drops. So Amber made me as like fun bracelets. We had some leftover bracelets. And she sent everybody in a scavenger hunt around the theater district, and it was great.

[17:54] Heather Bedor: Yeah, so I like sent Heather a picture. I was like, I made all these bracelets. He probably got tagged and saw them in our group, and I was like, I'll just hide them around the city and like see if you know we can have some fun.

[18:08] Amber Brzezinski: Like just like engage with our community more because that's what we're all about. Is like follow us. It's fine. We can bribe people to follow.

[18:18] Heather Bedor: And also just again, like if I'm if I'm sitting in the city and I have like a couple hours to kill a matinee, and I see something on my Instagram that's like go find this, I'm like, oh my god, that will... well we have that here in Orlando, and it's like there's groups, massive groups that are dedicated to art drops in the theme parks.

[18:41] Amber Brzezinski: So like yeah, if you've got nothing to do and you're like, oh hey, cool random thing sitting there, like I love it. So when Amber's like, let's do this, I'm like, absolutely. So we're gonna do another one next Tuesday, so St. Patrick's Day.

[18:53] Heather Bedor: Um, we're gonna do another one. So that's gonna be fun to make sure you're following your Instagram. Um, but yeah, so Amber was supposed to go see the Matinee of Stranger Things.

[19:01] Amber Brzezinski: This is your third attempt.

[19:03] Heather Bedor: This is my second attempt.

[19:05] Amber Brzezinski: Okay. The first time I was supposed to go last month, and I was like so sick. I had been like dealing with like a like a headache long time like illness. Like, like I don't know like what was going on, but like something was just like stuck with me for like a while.

[19:21] Heather Bedor: So it's like non-COVID without it being COVID.

[19:24] Amber Brzezinski: I was like trying to push through it, and then I was like, you know what? Like, if it were just me going, I would feel one way, but it's me being responsible for a child. So, like, right, I'm gonna call it. It just feels like the safer move to make.

[19:40] Heather Bedor: Yep.

[19:40] Amber Brzezinski: So you did that, and then you got into the city this time, and you're like, Hey, cool, awesome, stranger things, matinee. I'm so prepared. Like, we went over seating, we went over merch because the merch switches at the intermission. Fun fact, just like Harry Potter. I'm like, make sure you go out there, but make sure you're back early because there's some interactions in the audience.

[19:59] Heather Bedor: So she was prepared, and she's running around, and then she just sends me this screenshot of the Instagram saying, due to technical difficulties, um, our matinee has been canceled, and she... I will say that has never happened to me before, like ever in my history.

[20:18] Amber Brzezinski: It's rare for a show to just call it.

[20:21] Heather Bedor: It's never happened to me before.

[20:26] Amber Brzezinski: I wasn't pissed, I was just like, Oh my god, we just got here.

[20:31] Heather Bedor: You were... well, you were you weren't happy about it.

[20:34] Amber Brzezinski: I wasn't happy.

[20:35] Heather Bedor: She did haul ass over to the marquee theater.

[20:35] Amber Brzezinski: And I did not haul ass. I signed on to my little phone, I went right over to Broadway Direct, and I just bought the last two remaining tickets.

[20:47] Heather Bedor: Oh, you didn't tell me that because they were going so fast that I was like, while we are walking, I'm gonna look on my phone.

[20:59] Amber Brzezinski: There were only two tickets left together in the orchestra.

[21:03] Heather Bedor: I thought you hauled ass to the box office. I was like, that was fast.

[21:06] Amber Brzezinski: I was like, we're not gonna make it. I have to buy these on my phone because at least they gave you a refund for the cancellation. I was like, I'll get the refund. I'll just rebuy these. I know I could have gone through like my account and like changed. But I was like, nope, I'm just I just I gotta do what I gotta do. We're here, we need to sit together.

[21:28] Heather Bedor: And you got in.

[21:29] Amber Brzezinski: We got in.

[21:32] Heather Bedor: How did you think about Stranger Things?

[21:33] Amber Brzezinski: I mean, this is... you know I love the show, and it's a straight play, and it's not something you and I generally gravitate towards, but this has been built up for a while. And what were your thoughts?

[21:45] Heather Bedor: I disagree with you on that one statement that it's not something that you and I would normally gravitate towards because...

[21:45] Amber Brzezinski: Would you normally gravitate towards a straight play?

[21:53] Heather Bedor: Uh absolutely I gravitate towards plays often, but I also feel like we gravitate towards spooky a lot.

[22:02] Amber Brzezinski: That's fair, that's fair.

[22:04] Heather Bedor: I take back my statement.

[22:07] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, so I'm impartial to your statement.

[22:12] Heather Bedor: Um, I was blown away. Like I the whole time I kept going, like Olivia and I were going like child, Olivia and I were going.

[22:28] Amber Brzezinski: Whoa, did you see that?

[22:30] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[22:30] Amber Brzezinski: I was doing that with a stranger next to me who like 15 games.

[22:34] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[22:34] Amber Brzezinski: I knew like, you know, she wasn't gonna be as aware of certain things, so I would like tap her and point over there or tap her and point over there so she...

[22:46] Heather Bedor: Exactly like the mouse.

[22:48] Amber Brzezinski: You knew you knew exactly what I was talking about.

[22:52] Heather Bedor: I'm not... we will not spoil that for anybody, but yes, there is a mouse. That's all you need to say, anyways.

[22:59] Amber Brzezinski: But yeah, and because you're like, I just got my mind, mind flayed.

[23:03] Heather Bedor: Um, yes, but I love that show so much, and um, you got to see the newer version because I saw the original version, and then they modified the show um to match more like more of what you saw in this the last season.

[23:19] Amber Brzezinski: Um so that's really cool, and you also got to see a couple of understudies.

[23:23] Heather Bedor: I did.

[23:24] Amber Brzezinski: I got to see uh Patty's understudy who was amazing when we left uh young Olivia. We'll just call her YO. Uh Yo Yo said um that she was her favorite in the show, of course, and I was like, she was cool, but like I didn't, I was really... I was just very impressed by all of it, like but you love Hopper too.

[23:55] Heather Bedor: I loved Hopper. I thought Hopper was amazing. I loved Hopper, I loved Bob, I loved Louie, like I loved those those were standout actor roles to me.

[24:08] Amber Brzezinski: Um, even Joyce, like in regard to the translation of carrying on the show character into a prequel.

[24:08] Heather Bedor: The prequel, yes, yeah, which is hard because we have like you think of Joyce from Stranger Things, you think Winona Ryder, like you have to have an actress who's gonna emulate what the character's done on the TV screen, but bring something new because it's a play, but it's also before Joyce becomes Joyce, so it's really incredible.

[24:40] Amber Brzezinski: I do, I will confess that I have several videos saved to my YouTube watch list about plot holes that I need to... I was like not talking the play.

[24:52] Heather Bedor: That I... no, the play and the show, like between the play and the show, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot that I need to that I need to wrap my mind around.

[25:01] Heather Bedor: So we'll see, you know.

[25:04] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I'll have to do some investigating and then we'll go from there.

[25:08] Heather Bedor: I love it.

[25:09] Amber Brzezinski: No, it's good.

[25:11] Heather Bedor: Do you want to hit up some Broadway news?

[25:13] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, we can talk some Broadway news.

[25:15] Heather Bedor: There's definitely a lot of Broadway news.

[25:18] Amber Brzezinski: Um, actually, let's start there, shall we?

[25:27] Heather Bedor: Go ahead.

[25:28] Amber Brzezinski: I kind of already spilled the beans a little bit.

[25:30] Heather Bedor: Yeah, we have new leads in Heathers coming in, and boy, oh boy, do I love me some John Cardoza?

[25:41] Amber Brzezinski: I think we all do, and I'm still pissed at somebody's comment of can't wait to be 30.

[25:48] Heather Bedor: It's a good comment.

[25:50] Amber Brzezinski: It's a great comment, but also like, come on.

[25:54] Heather Bedor: I'm excited. I mean, I am sad to see like who is gonna be gone, and she's incredible. Um, but Isabella as well. Some of her choices that I've like heard have been amazing.

[26:08] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, um, I will personally be there Sunday night to see Peyton List, haven't seen Peyton yet. Um, and then to see Kuhu and Casey's. This it'll be the last show for me to see them. Um, April 27th is when Isabella and John are taking over. Um, so it'll be Isabella Essler as Veronica Sawyer. Uh JD is gonna be John Cardosa. Fantastic. Brilliant. Heather Chandler is gonna continue to be Peyton List, Heather Duke, Jacara Davis, uh Heather McNamara, Elizabeth Teeter, Miss Fleming slash Veronica's mom, Ms. Kate Rockwell, Martha Dunstock, Aaron Almorton, Ram Sweeney. I mean, on and on, like, come on. These are some great, incredible castings.

[26:50] Heather Bedor: Kuhu and Casey, well, Kuhu's leaving April 12th and Casey is leaving April 26th. Um, and then standby Sarah Albazali, who I've also seen, will cover Veronica from April 13th through the 26th. As of right now, it got another extension, which is awesome. Um, they are playing through September 6th of this year. I see it going to be much farther than that.

[27:13] Amber Brzezinski: Um, do we want to move on to the next extension that was just announced today?

[27:19] Heather Bedor: Yes, absolutely.

[27:22] Amber Brzezinski: Do you know which one I am referring to?

[27:25] Heather Bedor: Um, I feel like I saw it, but I um I had potato brain, so I don't remember what it was.

[27:25] Amber Brzezinski: Potato brain.

[27:34] Heather Bedor: I'm gonna be like, oh yeah, that's meat.

[27:38] Amber Brzezinski: Mince the yeah, yes, yes, I did. I did see that. Mince is the longest exact eighth extension of their run, which is nuts. Um, but it is going to be as of right now through January of 2027, which is incredible. So that is super cool.

[27:58] Heather Bedor: Um, yeah, so Mince is extended again. It doesn't surprise me at all. I'm very excited. Um plus I've heard Jeff Greedy has been killing it, and of course, Lee Middle.

[28:08] Amber Brzezinski: All right. So, what else is on the uh Broadway news bus here? Beep beep.

[28:13] Heather Bedor: Um well we'll get the we'll get the icky stuff out of the way first.

[28:18] Amber Brzezinski: Okay.

[28:19] Heather Bedor: There's a lot of icky stuff too.

[28:21] Amber Brzezinski: There is.

[28:22] Heather Bedor: And both are kind of similar to yeah.

[28:28] Amber Brzezinski: So uh there was a there's a man who made a couple of comments that have been circulating about the art forms.

[28:39] Heather Bedor: You're talking about the one only Timothy Chalamet.

[28:41] Amber Brzezinski: That would be the one I'm talking about.

[28:44] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[28:45] Amber Brzezinski: So there's been some controversial comments, you know, about opera and ballet being dead, or you know, have you have you relevant? Did you watch the interview?

[28:57] Heather Bedor: I did not.

[29:01] Amber Brzezinski: I watched some of the interview, and um there's also comments now about Matthew McConaughey because he was like, right, right. Um, so the actual comment was I don't want to be working in ballet or opera or things where it's like, hey, keep this thing alive, even though it's like no one cares about this anymore. That's what Timothy Chalamet said. Um quote, all respect to all the ballet and opera people out there. A little too little too late. Um, I have seen a couple of people in the industry online being like, hey, all press is good press because now, because of this idiot, now there's a surge of ticket sales for opera and ballet.

[29:40] Heather Bedor: Um, I've also seen some really funny memes and some even funnier reels about the Phantom of the Opera. Um, because it's ballet and right and opera.

[29:49] Amber Brzezinski: I've seen some too.

[29:52] Heather Bedor: So um yeah, he's just you know, um, was it Seth Myers? One of the late night guys was like, yeah, he's making his comments about this as he just got done with a movie about I think it might have been Saturday Night Live, to be honest. As he just got done, um he's doing his road tour for his press tour for a movie about a guy who plays ping pong.

[30:14] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, it's like right, and it's like it's changed a lot since he started dating Kylie Jenner, though. Like remember last year when there were literal rumors that he was gonna play Frankenfurter, like and now yeah, no, thank you. Luke Evans, thank you very much. Um, yeah, I'm sad that I'm not gonna be there for first preview in the next couple of weeks, but I'm hoping to be there for opening night, Amber is too, because we're Rocky girls, Rocky Rocky, rah rah rah.

[30:43] Heather Bedor: All right, so yeah, that idiot. We talked about that idiot. What else can we talk about?

[30:49] Amber Brzezinski: Um, well, in the same okay, can you stop licking my hand, sir?

[30:53] Heather Bedor: Thank you.

[30:54] Amber Brzezinski: I'm not licking your hand.

[30:55] Heather Bedor: Um, in the same kind of regard at the at the old uh the old forever Kennedy Center forever will be the Kennedy Center forever.

[31:06] Amber Brzezinski: Kennedy Center, just like the Gulf of Mexico is always the Gulf of Mexico, yes.

[31:06] Heather Bedor: Gulf of Mexico, yes.

[31:12] Amber Brzezinski: Um so the National Symphony Symphony Orchestra leader has officially stepped down.

[31:21] Heather Bedor: Uh another orchestra, another Kennedy Center lead leader, leading.

[31:25] Amber Brzezinski: Well, now it's construction for two years.

[31:28] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[31:29] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so you know, it just it just feels like a lot of people. Everyone's moving out, yeah.

[31:36] Heather Bedor: You know, and and uh I don't blame them. Like take your business where you want it to be, and you want to represent what you want to represent.

[31:44] Amber Brzezinski: You're very popular over there.

[31:46] Heather Bedor: I can't. Emerson on the phone with Apple. There's been all sorts of issues, so we're just gonna roll with the punches here tonight.

[31:52] Amber Brzezinski: So um, yeah, and speaking of closing up, you know it closed last night.

[31:59] Heather Bedor: All Out, All Out have their vinyl call.

[32:02] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, yes.

[32:03] Heather Bedor: Oh my god. Lawrence looked so cute.

[32:06] Amber Brzezinski: It looked really incredible.

[32:08] Heather Bedor: Yeah, Lawrence. I like a I think Gracie Lawrence is like one of the cutest individuals in the world.

[32:13] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, she's pretty great. Pretty awesome.

[32:16] Heather Bedor: All right, what's next on the bus? Where's our next stop?

[32:20] Amber Brzezinski: Um, there is actually like some cool things going on in the Disney World right now.

[32:27] Heather Bedor: There's a couple of cool things.

[32:29] Amber Brzezinski: Go on.

[32:30] Heather Bedor: Couple of cool things. Um of my favorite um theater programs, which you guys be familiar with, California's Deaf West Theater.

[32:41] Amber Brzezinski: I can't speak.

[32:43] Heather Bedor: Um they have done like incredible shows. I think last year they last year was American Idiot.

[32:50] Amber Brzezinski: Um, they've done Spring Awakening that was like amazing.

[32:55] Heather Bedor: Yes, yeah. Um they are partnering with Disney to create songs in sign language, which will be uh film featuring animated music sequences in sign language available for streaming on Disney Plus, and it will feature um, you know, like songs from all the musical Disney movies or into all that stuff, and I just think like we always talk about it like anything we can do to make music and theater and just any of these experiences more accessible for more individuals is just a wonderful like excellent absolutely.

[33:39] Amber Brzezinski: Next up on the list, we have you said cool Disney stuff.

[33:49] Heather Bedor: Are we still sticking with cool Disney stuff?

[33:51] Amber Brzezinski: Why do you have more?

[33:52] Heather Bedor: Do you have more cool Disney stuff you want to say?

[33:53] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[33:54] Heather Bedor: Oh my gosh. Um so for those that don't know, I'm a huge Newsies fan, shocker.

[34:02] Amber Brzezinski: Um and Amber and I both love Hadestown, so I'm kind of surprised she didn't bring this up.

[34:06] Heather Bedor: Joshua Collie, they just did their first curtain um for Hadestown.

[34:12] Amber Brzezinski: If that name sounds familiar, he originated the role of Les in Newsies on Broadway, and he really I did not know that.

[34:19] Heather Bedor: Josh will call it a Newsies boy.

[34:21] Amber Brzezinski: I didn't know he was in that Descendants show.

[34:24] Heather Bedor: Oh, he was also in Descendants, but he was Les in Newsies.

[34:29] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and then he was also Gav Roche in the 2014 revival of Les Misérables.

[34:34] Heather Bedor: So he is moving on up, and I'm really excited about it because when a Newsie is moving up, I mean it's been that long since the show where he was 11 and now he's 24.

[34:44] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but it's great. I'm excited, so I might try to go see Hadestown this upcoming week as well.

[34:50] Heather Bedor: Well, while we're talking about it, should we address the Hadestown elephant in the room?

[34:57] Amber Brzezinski: Go ahead.

[34:59] Heather Bedor: Um new cast. Just started.

[35:03] Amber Brzezinski: And it's getting mostly positive feedback.

[35:12] Heather Bedor: I'd say about 90% positive feedback.

[35:14] Amber Brzezinski: I have not seen any negative feedback.

[35:16] Heather Bedor: So this will be news. Um there has definitely been some negative pushback regarding the casting of Hades.

[35:28] Amber Brzezinski: Really?

[35:29] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[35:30] Amber Brzezinski: Okay. Let me hear this.

[35:32] Heather Bedor: Uh, for those that are not uh familiar, the new Hades is being played by Gary Dordan, who is most known for CSI.

[35:47] Amber Brzezinski: He was um Warwick on that show, and then his character was actually like written off or whatever because he was going through some personal life problems with he used to be on a different world too, like back in the day.

[36:08] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[36:09] Amber Brzezinski: Um, so he started going through some personal substance abuse issues and then oh this issue, yes, yes.

[36:15] Heather Bedor: Go on.

[36:16] Amber Brzezinski: I'm sorry, I knew what you were talking about that I wasn't paying to. I thought it was in regards to performance.

[36:20] Heather Bedor: Was this some serious shit?

[36:23] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[36:24] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[36:25] Amber Brzezinski: So um after um while or I'm sorry, while he was, you know, experiencing an active addiction, um, he did have a moment of spousal abuse with his former partner, where I believe he might have like broken her jaw.

[36:46] Heather Bedor: I was before you continue. I'm not entirely sure. I know it did go to court, and I believe he did her nose like settle and pay.

[36:57] Amber Brzezinski: Um he broke her nose in 2011.

[37:01] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[37:02] Amber Brzezinski: So a lot of folks are just genuinely upset with the casting decision.

[37:09] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[37:10] Amber Brzezinski: Um for several reasons. Uh one allowing the opportunity, the privilege of a Broadway role to someone with that background.

[37:25] Heather Bedor: I've heard that criticism.

[37:28] Amber Brzezinski: Two, I've heard the criticism of allowing someone with that background also in a role that is kind of a little bit controlling.

[37:39] Amber Brzezinski: Controlling as well. Um is a little bit of a poor judgment. Um and somebody has been very proactive on their social media talking about this. Yes. So Eva, um, she's been she's not happy, and I don't blame her. Um, it kind of puts you in the it's a shitty situation. So, you know, when you get it. And I, you know, we do understand part of addiction is a disease. People can get better, you know, people don't always stay in those bad places in their lives. That's why I want to ask you, and I'll put this to our audience as well. It is really hard. Like you could throw a stone and hit people that have had all sorts of trials and tribulations in their life that they've, you know, had an abusive past or a drug addiction or an alcohol addiction, or you know, something real stupid, and um, out of their control or in their control.

Do we as society immediately cut them off, or do we assess them as that is who they were? They have gone through so many more trials and tribulations to get to where they are now as a different person and give them the opportunity to show that they are a different person. Not that they have to prove it, but to be the person they were supposed to be instead of the person that they became. I mean, I think I think that is an important part of like allowing someone that chance of redemption personally, like we are human beings, we are flawed, we're never gonna be perfect, but I do also understand that there is some amount of privilege being cast in a Broadway role on a Broadway stage, you know what I mean?

Like being that face that wants to be presented, I think it's like I understand both sides when he was going through everything, and like Disney was like, uh-uh, no, no. There's a lot of actors out there that are having those situations, even if it's proven wrong, it's like dirtying their persona. So, yeah, I mean it it you have to be in a public eye. Um personal story. I was asked to I have a modeling gig tomorrow. Um, and I was asked to model intimate lingerie, and I said, Um, unfortunately, I can't do that because I I don't want to say I'm a public figure, but you and I are essentially public figures. A lot of people know us we get recognized in the theater district. I respect one myself, and it wasn't and it was it's literally for like a lingerie company.

Um, and it's not to be dirty, but it's to show you know, women of different shapes and sizes what something will look like, and that's fine, it's all lady empowerment, cool, but I respect the community enough to be like I'm not gonna put myself out there in underwear and like fancy lingerie because this is family friendly, so it's all kind of like the assessment of like what is going to um read well and like understanding your audience, but also understanding you have a responsibility to yourself as well as your audience.

[41:09] Heather Bedor: Absolutely, I agree.

[41:11] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, yeah. So that's that's the icky part of the news. We've got some more fun news though, don't we? I swear, I swear it gets better. I get I swear it gets better. We just like compliment sandwiched or Broadway news. It was like, here's all this awesome stuff. Timothy and abuse and all this other stuff. Like give us some good news. Um, let's see. Uh we're gonna actually get on a quick plane. That way your plane sounds like head right over to our friends across the pond and announce that to no one's surprise, Leslie Odom Jr. will be making his West End debut. Woohoo! That's awesome. As Erinberg in Hamilton. That's incredible though. That is very cool. I'm just like, it's very cool that people over there in the UK get a chance to experience absolutely, and somebody was like, when you were doing your art jobs, somebody was like, not in the UK.

And it was on our Phantom group. And I was like, anybody wants to sponsor Amber and I going to the West End. We will we will absolutely accept it. I will plaster the walls and bracelets if that's the case. It'll be wallpaper made of bracelets. He'll just like reach back. Like exactly. But yeah, I mean, there's incredible shows coming out too because we didn't really get a chance to do Broadway News last week when John Deborah was on the show. Um Much Ado Mothing is coming. Like that's really exciting. Um, there's a lot of things that carry across the pond back over to us. That's how we got mince me. So it is really fascinating. You know, maybe a Vita is coming soon. You know? You know, and and Amber, we talk about this a lot, and I'll put it out to our audience as well again.

Um I keep hearing people complaining about the season, and we've talked about it before, and I'm gonna like have a soapbox moment for both of us. Shows don't control when they get approved to go into a theater. You have to wait for a show to put a run in. They're completely vetted by the theater. If a theater chooses what show goes in there, you don't know if it's the beginning of a season, the end of a season, or next season or the season after that. Is it a slower season? People are like, oh, there's only four musicals available. Who cares? There's still new performances happening, there's still live theater happening. Go as only four musicals opening yet. Right. Because in the next, I mean, to be fair, Rocky is considered a revival.

I don't know if they're submitting it as a revival. I am going to assume they are. Beaches. And I mean, as far as musicals are concerned, Beaches is coming, Lost Boys is coming. Cats the Jellico Ball, it is still considered a revival. Cats is coming. Titanic is coming. And I mean, that's in the next month and a half. Because I think what we say, the cutoff date was April 26th or something, right? I think so. So there are still coming, but go support shows. If you don't like what's out there, go support off Broadway shows. But I've said anytime someone's like, oh, the season hasn't been my favorite. What are your thoughts? And I'm like, honestly, I've loved this season because I've also gotten a chance to see a lot of really incredible off Broadway shows that should be on Broadway.

Right. So I've loved it. Now, do I go into the city so frequently that I pretty much have seen every show I've wanted to see? Yes. Uh is that a spoiled thing? No, I mean, there last season I was like scrambling to go see shows before the Tonies. My dad always says, and I don't know if my dad's watching now, but he's like, You're just gonna keep spending so much money to go into the city. Why? Well, because Amber and I are building this community and business. This is what we're doing to help our members have a full understanding. Like, that's why I can tell somebody who's going to Operation Mince Mead if they need an accessible bathroom, you have to go next door to the outsiders while the show is running.

They will walk you over to use their accessible bathroom. Because I've personally experienced that. I can tell you to go speak to this house manager over at the Winter Garden because she's gonna tell you all the information you're ever gonna want to know. Like about the theater. Like there are so many incredible people, and Amber's heard me say this before, and I kind of joke about it. A lot of people get their business done on the golf course. We got our stuff at the stage door. Like we have to be there. And like we're getting ready to implement a new program, and that's gonna take a lot of leg work too. And how do we how do we survive? Um, you know, we're not getting paid by the shows to run the fan groups, not getting paid to have us podcast. We're spending our time, our money on equipment, we're doing everything. How can they support us, Amber? I'm gonna show. Do you have your bracelets in front of you?

[46:13] Amber Brzezinski: I'm dog sitting. Do you have anything on your wrist?

[46:17] Heather Bedor: A watch.

[46:19] Amber Brzezinski: Okay. Well then go to go to our Instagram. Show, show some of our fun.

[46:25] Heather Bedor: I will go to our insta. I don't actually don't know if I can get into our Instagram because I'm on Tommy Bracco.

[46:30] Amber Brzezinski: Um always Tommy Bracco.

[46:32] Heather Bedor: It's Tommy Bracco.

[46:34] Amber Brzezinski: Uh, you'll have to tell everybody that story because it's really funny.

[46:38] Heather Bedor: I've I think we've told it at least a hundred dollars.

[46:41] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, but we have new people listening to us.

[46:44] Heather Bedor: Um basically, I don't know what happened, but for some reason, like whenever Heather and I search anything, it always like leads back to Tommy Bracco. Like it's like so now our Instagram's default to like Tommy Brack.

[46:44] Amber Brzezinski: Tommy Bracco.

[46:59] Heather Bedor: So weird. We love Tommy.

[47:01] Amber Brzezinski: All right. I actually pulled up our Etsy shop for people to be able to look.

[47:05] Heather Bedor: So stand by.

[47:07] Amber Brzezinski: So this is the art job that Amber's been doing is our bracelets. Some of our original ones. Oh my god. Like, this feels like so many years ago that you made these. Um, our partnership broadway care still stands. Dollar from each bracelet. Donated $25. Gorgeous these are. Love it. Love, I haven't don't think I've seen the JD one yet. I love it.

[47:30] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I mean, we are here to make sure that fandom is represented. However, that makes you know if it helps us help you guys, that's what we do.

[47:42] Amber Brzezinski: Like Amaz and then Heather, do me a favor. Can you go to search and type in custom for me?

[47:48] Heather Bedor: Sure.

[47:51] Amber Brzezinski: This is an option too, people. If you don't see what you want, we should be charging double that. You can get a custom bracelet. So when you click on it, you can pick your beads, you can pick your color, you can pick your your phrase. You can can I say Amber is the best. Can I on a bracelet? I'll write butthole on a bracelet for you if you want.

[48:19] Heather Bedor: Classy.

[48:20] Amber Brzezinski: Let me tell you, she's a classy broad.

[48:23] Heather Bedor: Um, but that's how we keep this thing going, guys. We keep it going by our Etsy. Um, we keep it going. Of course, my Etsy's gonna still stay up. Um, and we also have our Patreon, so make sure you join our Patreon, patreon.com slash the Broadway fan club. Um, there are gonna be a couple of interesting changes in the next couple of months. We are going to start migrating over to only broadwayfans.com. Um, because for right now, um, still getting confused for the Broadway League, which is not a bad thing to be confused about. Um, so we're gonna do lots of fun things, including we've got our giveaway.

[48:58] Amber Brzezinski: Do we have any more news?

[48:59] Heather Bedor: We've got a couple more minutes before news is over.

[49:02] Amber Brzezinski: Um, also, I wanted to say when when uh me and Olivia's left the Gatsby drop.

[49:10] Heather Bedor: Olivia Squared, yes.

[49:12] Amber Brzezinski: Um, it was during the Gatsby stage door, and I was trying to be so stellar.

[49:16] Heather Bedor: Oh, because you're like, there's so many people over here.

[49:19] Amber Brzezinski: There's so many and it was Jeremy's last like day.

[49:24] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[49:25] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. So speaking of this Broadway news, Jeremy Jordan is officially out of Catsby to make his way over to just in time. Matthew Morrison will be in between uh Jonathan Groff and Jeremy Jordan. But Jeremy just had his last performance this weekend as well.

[49:40] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[49:41] Amber Brzezinski: And um also, is there Broadway news that you might want to share with us, Heather?

[49:47] Heather Bedor: I think I shared a lot. Is there something in specifics that I should be sharing?

[49:51] Amber Brzezinski: Mm-hmm. Only about your certain favorite person.

[49:56] Heather Bedor: I'll give you a clue.

[50:04] Amber Brzezinski: Is that a that's not a good clue?

[50:09] Heather Bedor: No.

[50:13] Amber Brzezinski: No, you don't get it.

[50:15] Heather Bedor: That was an angry inch.

[50:19] Amber Brzezinski: I'm crying laughing.

[50:21] Heather Bedor: Oh my god, I'm so glad that we record these episodes.

[50:24] Amber Brzezinski: I literally have tears coming out of my eyeballs.

[50:27] Heather Bedor: You're welcome for that. That's a gift from me to you.

[50:31] Amber Brzezinski: Oh my god. Um, yes, my favorite person, John Cameron.

[50:36] Heather Bedor: Oh my god. Had we got an angry inch, how are you 25 years old?

[50:41] Amber Brzezinski: Um, yeah, I actually put the press release onto our pages because this was so exciting. I was like, I can't take this news from Heather. This is Heather's news to show, man. The very first stop on this, so they're gonna be reviving the show.

[50:58] Heather Bedor: Um, it is produced by Jeremy Wine from This My Show presents. It's a multi-city tour beginning in June. It's gonna travel across the US and Canada. Each evening will include a 4K presentation of the 2001 film with select markets screening an original 35mm print, which is cool, followed by a live in-person conversation with JCM, audience Q&A, and a special acoustic performance.

[51:25] Amber Brzezinski: And all cities will also offer a post-show meet and greet package available at the time of purchase. Um, guys, their first stop is literally 20 minutes from my house. If you don't think I'm gonna be there with bells on, and the entire Orlando community, like at least my people, are like, oh my god, how am I? And it's so cool to see. Like, I don't care if you're not on that bus, but like get on that bus soon because if you can get the opportunity to go see it, this is what theater means.

[51:53] Heather Bedor: I feel like this is gonna be like how people used to like follow the Grateful Dead, and you're just gonna like get in your tiny little Mini Cooper and just follow this.

[52:05] Amber Brzezinski: Don't touch.

[52:06] Heather Bedor: No, I won't change that. Um, sorry, little Mini Cooper. Um, no, but it's literally like you get great gas, you know what I mean? Like, why not? Just do it. No, but it's not an electric vehicle, and like the tickets aren't bad. They're like 50 bucks. And I think with the meet and greet, it's like 100.

[52:25] Amber Brzezinski: Um, no, I mean it reminds me of like the people that followed Hedwig, like the headheads, like the yeah. Um, but like, what an aspirational little thing. Off-Broadway to movie to Broadway to not on Broadway, all these regional productions, and then to have this tour is nuts.

[52:43] Heather Bedor: Yeah, thank you for reminding me. I was like, why are you stabbing?

[52:45] Amber Brzezinski: Because that could have also been like vampire speaker.

[52:48] Heather Bedor: I was angry. That was anger, angry.

[52:50] Amber Brzezinski: It looked like you were stabbing someone with a stake.

[52:53] Heather Bedor: No, I was like, I had a frustrated fist of anger. This, uh, and then I had an inch, so I was an angry inch.

[53:01] Amber Brzezinski: I don't know, because from here the inch looks like it's like this, and that's bigger than an inch.

[53:06] Heather Bedor: Listen, I'm bad at measuring measurements, noted, noted. So yeah, um, really excited about Hedwig, and I love Johnny. I've never had an opportunity to see him. I only got to see him in O'Mary um and Hedwig, but I've never met him.

[53:23] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, and I couldn't take that news away from Heather, so that's why I had to give it to her. I had to call it and I'm still like tears are still like coming out of my eyeballs from laughing.

[53:33] Heather Bedor: Um, other fine, final. I can't final last bit of news is that after only like a full year of me hemming and hawing and begging and complaining and like being a grumpy gills about it, we finally got the maybe happy ending tiny desk.

[53:55] Amber Brzezinski: I love tiny desks, like God bless NPR and God bless uh whoever books the tiny desks for booking so many Broadway tiny desk talents, yeah, because they have such a wonderful mix of like pop stars and like, like actual, I'm not saying like Broadway stars aren't actual musicians, but like radio musicians and Broadway.

[54:22] Heather Bedor: And I think it's just doing a lot of Broadway though.

[54:25] Amber Brzezinski: And I mean, I still think it's so much Broadway. Like it's so good. I really loved the Sunset Boulevard one, of course.

[54:33] Heather Bedor: But I thought you loved the Deaf Be Computer one.

[54:35] Amber Brzezinski: I do love the Deaf Becomes. Yeah. But I also really love the Sunset one because they did like a completely new version of New Year's Day, and it was like very cool.

[54:48] Heather Bedor: It's still gonna be weird to go into the St. James and it's gonna be Titanic. I'm sorry, it's gonna be weird.

[54:53] Amber Brzezinski: It's gonna be weird for sure. Um, should we do this drawing for prizes?

[54:58] Heather Bedor: Let's draw it up. Now I just want to let folks know Heather and I both have parts of the prizes, so this will be mailed out next week once we unite to get together to combine the prizes, and then I will mail them out.

[55:20] Amber Brzezinski: So this is fun. You're talking your hands so much tonight.

[55:24] Heather Bedor: I love it.

[55:25] Amber Brzezinski: I'm so Italian. I'm sorry.

[55:27] Heather Bedor: Um, I just want people to have a timeline of when to expect their prize. We will draw the winner today, but then we have to meet up, unfortunately, to and for people that have absolutely no clue what the hell we're talking about. Um, on our softs Facebook page group, um, we actually ran a contest.

[55:46] Amber Brzezinski: Amber working and volunteering at the theater in Bristol. Um, was kind enough.

[55:53] Heather Bedor: Okay, near if I Amber in her home theater, who volunteers at our home theater, you're a pain in the ass.

[56:01] Amber Brzezinski: Um, took it out of the kindness of her own heart to spend our budget, which is fine. Um, I did not spend our budget out of the kind of thing.

[56:09] Heather Bedor: You spent your own money.

[56:10] Amber Brzezinski: She spent her own dollars. Amber spent her own dollars to buy our a sash that was like one of the original sashes from SUFS, um, which is cool because I don't think they were selling those at the theater. I think that was one of the merch sashes, but yeah, but I didn't see them.

[56:26] Heather Bedor: All I'm all I saw were the pencils and the grand American bitcher, and I was like, very coveted, but like people very much want them.

[56:33] Amber Brzezinski: They're very coveted so very um, so we are gonna do a prize pack. It'll be one of our bracelets from our Etsy shop, one of Broadway Stacks bracelets. This is keep marching, and then the um banner, the the wearable banner of Sash um from SUFS. So trinkets as well.

[56:54] Heather Bedor: I like trinkets.

[56:55] Amber Brzezinski: Um, yes, we do have some new stickers too. Um, but what you had to do was if you were part of that fan group, you just had to go and again follow our Instagram. So it's not that hard, and we always post on both to let you guys know. If you are looking for a show fan group and you want to be involved and you want to be part of these cool giveaways, www.thebroadwayfanclub.com will take you to our link tree to 98% of our fan groups.

[57:23] Heather Bedor: Whether they I knew that was coming. See the dogs like emphasize everything I'm saying. But whether it's a group that the show has no longer stayed open, but we keep those groups open, we don't close them. We still have cabaret. Hello, are you taking a photo of me? Amber's creepy.

[57:40] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, she's on mute now because she's on her phone. There we go. Thank you.

[57:44] Heather Bedor: Um, so whether it's a group that we have um kept open, so something like cabaret, Dead Outlaw, um, Heart of Rock and Roll, Tommy. We still keep those open. We will still continue to list those. We have shows all the way through next season that have tentatively been announced, and we have shows actively running. So definitely make sure you check out our website. It also tells you how to reach me and Amber directly at www.thebroadwayfanclub.com. We'll take you right there.

[58:14] Amber Brzezinski: Um so without further ado, I'm going to share our Wheel of Names page. Amber, are you unmuted? Yay.

[58:23] Heather Bedor: So these are our stuff's members who were new followers of Instagram. And so you guys know that it is fair. Um, we're gonna do this and we are going to spin the wheel.

[58:34] Amber Brzezinski: So here we go.

[58:42] Heather Bedor: Oh yay! It looks like Don C. Congratulations.

[58:50] Amber Brzezinski: We love that. So we will be reaching out to Don C, who is in our SUFs group um to let them know that they have won our prize. So congratulations, um, and then yeah, make sure you guys are following your Instagram. Um, we are next Tuesday going to do another bracelet and art drop.

[59:11] Heather Bedor: So it's at the B Way fan club on Instagram directly. Um we're just here, right? I personally had like a lot of fun doing you that I felt like I was like a spy.

[59:22] Amber Brzezinski: You are a spy.

[59:23] Heather Bedor: I was like, put it on, but I was like, nope, there's there's people coming. Look, look completely. She's sending me pictures in front of Schmackeries. It was like, there's a red pipe on the right-hand side. Put it behind that. Um, and speaking of Schmackeries, I saw Olivia had asked in the comments before, we are gonna be doing our very famous cookie hour meetup before we go to Every Brilliant Thing next week. Um, if you are on the Every Brilliant Thing fan group, you will be able to see our event being posted later this week. Um, we meet at Schmackeries, there's no source of formality. Everyone kind of meets, hangs out, um, grabs the cookie and then um, or coffee or hot cocoa or whatever you want, ice cream, um, even it'll be like 40 degrees, and then um my god, now they have these little cakes.

[1:00:08] Amber Brzezinski: Uh-huh.

[1:00:09] Heather Bedor: Yeah, there's like the new banana sposter one.

[1:00:11] Amber Brzezinski: Banana, uh girl.

[1:00:14] Heather Bedor: Mm-hmm.

[1:00:14] Amber Brzezinski: This banana.

[1:00:16] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I'm gonna need that.

[1:00:18] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, so I've had salad for the last week for my modeling gig. So I'm gonna destroy some New York food. Um, so yes, make sure that you guys are following us. Every Brilliant Thing, we're very excited to go see. Um, and hopefully have an interaction with Daniel Radcliffe. That'll be cool.

[1:00:34] Heather Bedor: Um, but Amber and I are gonna tear up New York before that.

[1:00:39] Amber Brzezinski: Tear it up.

[1:00:40] Heather Bedor: Tear it up. All right, guys. Um, without further ado, Amber is there any somebody is knocking on my floor. That's weird.

[1:00:46] Amber Brzezinski: Uh, without further ado, is there anything else you would like to discuss before we close out this evening's performance of the Broadway Fan Club podcast?

[1:00:54] Heather Bedor: No, I just want to say, like, sh thank you to everyone who found a bracelet and like tagged us. That's really cool. We really appreciate that. Because it was just like a lot of things. You was gonna try. I was like up all night, like I was like running out and no sleep. I actually had like a medical emergency on the train on the way home because I was like so overtired and like drained that uh I kind of struggled a little bit, but she didn't have the medical emergency from making the bracelets or sharing them.

[1:01:24] Amber Brzezinski: She did it because she slept less than five hours and she overdid herself.

[1:01:27] Heather Bedor: Exactly. Because she is mental. Because I make bad choices and I wait till the last minute because I have ADHD. Um I just like really am happy to everyone that found the bracelets and everyone that shared it. I hope you enjoy them and we'll do it again.

[1:01:45] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, keep up the good job. Um we will be in the city on Tuesday. Um next Monday there will not be a live show because clearly it's we're gonna be doing so many things. But stay tuned Monday. I'm gonna upload the interviews coming from the new show uh that is revamping itself off of 42nd Street, and I will make some announcements next week for the press release for that. Um so really excited, and then you will definitely get another episode uh the following week. We'll be very excited to discuss all the things and stuff. Uh, but just remember every Monday night when Broadway is dark, we keep the ghost light burning. So we will not see you next week, but we will see you on the socials. Have a great week, everybody.

[1:02:29] Amber Brzezinski: Adios.