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[0:18] Amber Brzezinski: Really?

[0:19] Heather Bedor: The second we go live and I start barking.

[0:23] Amber Brzezinski: You guys are jerks.

[0:26] Heather Bedor: Well, welcome.

[0:29] Amber Brzezinski: That was the most perfect timing.

[0:32] Heather Bedor: Literally, the minute that we go on screen, woof!

[0:36] Amber Brzezinski: Well, hello, woof, right back at you.

[0:38] Heather Bedor: Filthy mongrels.

[0:40] Amber Brzezinski: In case you didn't notice, I am not at home.

[0:43] Heather Bedor: I am dog sitting.

[0:44] Amber Brzezinski: So it's one of your many homes.

[0:46] Heather Bedor: Here are the dogs.

[0:48] Amber Brzezinski: There's one more.

[0:49] Heather Bedor: He is over there.

[0:51] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, he looks like he's the one that just got yelled at.

[0:55] Heather Bedor: So yeah, I'm not at home. Well, welcome everybody to Amber uh dog sitting and me just kind of being in the giggliest mood right now.

[1:04] Amber Brzezinski: It's fantastic.

[1:05] Heather Bedor: And we are the Broadway Fan Club.

[1:08] Amber Brzezinski: And this is our podcast.

[1:09] Heather Bedor: And we have a very special guest hanging out with us uh backstage.

[1:13] Amber Brzezinski: And I'm gonna bring her on right now.

[1:15] Heather Bedor: And here she is.

[1:19] Casey: Hello.

[1:20] Heather Bedor: You guys might remember Casey, who um joined us for the Broadway cruise wrap-up.

[1:28] Amber Brzezinski: Uh Casey is actually gonna be our girl in the booth.

[1:31] Heather Bedor: So um as long as she is able to do it, because she also has a really cool job as a flight attendant.

[1:37] Casey: Hello.

[1:38] Amber Brzezinski: Uh one day I'll earn a buddy pass.

[1:41] Heather Bedor: Uh yeah.

[1:43] Amber Brzezinski: Her first rule is I don't let anybody borrow a buddy pass because I don't ever like even her own parents, it's great.

[1:49] Heather Bedor: Um, but she is gonna be doing as much as she can to take uh a lot of the admin work during the show off of Amber.

[1:57] Amber Brzezinski: Because if you guys recall, Amber usually spends the first 20 to 30 minutes of every show sharing to all 102 of our groups.

[2:04] Heather Bedor: So Casey is uh being broken in tonight.

[2:07] Amber Brzezinski: So everybody say hi, Casey, and thank you, Casey.

[2:10] Casey: And you're welcome.

[2:12] Amber Brzezinski: Good luck, Casey, and we'll catch up with you in a little bit.

[2:15] Heather Bedor: All righty. Bye.

[2:18] Amber Brzezinski: I love us girl power, man. I was never like super feminist, but I'm like, heck yeah, we're a bunch of kick ass girls running the show.

[2:25] Heather Bedor: So it's great. Um, but yeah, this is our Tony's talk. We did we had so much fun with it last year, too.

[2:32] Amber Brzezinski: Um, also, can you believe we've essentially been doing our podcast for a year?

[2:37] Heather Bedor: Yeah, that's pretty wild. I was also looking at our Lost Boys fan club.

[2:41] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and it was a year over a year ago that I created it, it's not even coming out till next season.

[2:47] Heather Bedor: You're like when you like made it on whole bit of prayer.

[2:52] Amber Brzezinski: I was ready for it.

[2:53] Heather Bedor: I was so ready for it. Um I love it.

[2:57] Amber Brzezinski: Casey, she she messages me already. This is training night. I'm gonna call her out.

[3:03] Heather Bedor: We are she's like, what are you guys talking about tonight?

[3:06] Amber Brzezinski: Talking, Jinita Texia. I'm watching her smile backstage.

[3:10] Heather Bedor: This is our Tony's nomination evening.

[3:14] Amber Brzezinski: Tony's talk. Um, and not Tony, my ex, but Tony's like the biggest night of Broadway.

[3:21] Heather Bedor: Um, so we are talking all about who we would like to see have the nomination because guess what, kids? Tony nominations are coming out in the morning.

[3:31] Amber Brzezinski: Holy moly. That's that's extensive.

[3:35] Heather Bedor: That is how are we here? Like, I remember last year where I feel like I was doing so well, like keeping up with seeing all the new shows.

[3:37] Amber Brzezinski: Like I was doing so well, like I saw everything, and then all of a sudden, like the universe like shot out like a hundred new shows, and now I haven't seen like half of the season.

[3:55] Heather Bedor: Four shows it four shows that opened up this past weekend alone.

[3:59] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, I'm like, I I don't even know. I don't even know. I feel like I can't even like voice my opinion on half things because most of the things I'm not seeing for months.

[4:09] Heather Bedor: That's fair. Um, and even me who see shows like every five to six weeks, and like, hi Jeffrey Cohen.

[4:16] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but every five to six weeks, and I'm seeing like five or six shows, and I'm not really repeating a show unless it's Little Shop or Cabaret, and I still couldn't catch up.

[4:27] Heather Bedor: I mean pretty cool. I I was in New York until yesterday, last night, and um, and so I'm still tired.

[4:35] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but I really I did my best. All I wanted to see were brand new shows, and I still didn't get to see everything I wanted to see.

[4:43] Heather Bedor: Amber got to see a new show. It was the first time we've been in the city together where we saw different shows.

[4:49] Amber Brzezinski: At least we got to have dinner together, so that was good. But do you want to tell everybody what show you got to see on Friday?

[4:55] Heather Bedor: Yes, and can I tell everyone my favorite moment about meeting up with you? Um, okay, yes, I already know where it's going.

[5:03] Amber Brzezinski: I saw O'Mary with my friend. Um Mary. Because I had plans to see it with her for a while, and I meet it with Heather, and Heather goes, So that's like the real story of Mary Todd Lincoln, right?

[5:15] Amber Brzezinski: And I was like, No, Heather. Absolutely not the real story of Mary Todd Lincoln.

[5:24] Heather Bedor: Let me live in my fantasy world here, Amber.

[5:30] Amber Brzezinski: It is like the birth historically accurate thing that I've ever seen in my life.

[5:38] Heather Bedor: So ridiculous.

[5:42] Amber Brzezinski: Shut it. Um, also, I love it. Sorry.

[5:45] Heather Bedor: Christopher Levy, by the way, um, I'm already RSVPing for your Tony's party. Make that officially known.

[5:52] Amber Brzezinski: Uh, there it is. She's trying to find the video on all Facebook shows me as a group.

[5:56] Heather Bedor: But Tony for best performance by a dog at the start of a live stream.

[6:00] Amber Brzezinski: Yes. Woo! Good job, buddy.

[6:05] Heather Bedor: So um, yeah, shut up. Um, that was also when I was physically stuck at the stage door for boop.

[6:15] Amber Brzezinski: But that was also because you had just gotten done recording the infamous Sunset Boulevard walk.

[6:22] Heather Bedor: True. Um, so I got out of O'Mary and I looked at my watch and I was like, by George, I think I have time.

[6:33] Amber Brzezinski: And she messages me, I'm gonna go take videos of the walk. And I was like, the walk.

[6:36] Heather Bedor: Oh, the walk. Okay. Yeah, I was like, I have to do it.

[6:43] Amber Brzezinski: And my friend was like, what are we doing? And I was like, we're just gonna stand outside this theater for a few minutes because it's really important to me.

[6:50] Heather Bedor: And it was like Diego's like second to last night, so everyone was like cheering.

[6:54] Amber Brzezinski: It was and that was not the night that he had junior's cheesecake brought to him, correct?

[6:58] Heather Bedor: That was not the night that he had junior's cheesecake during the walk.

[7:03] Amber Brzezinski: Also, um, and did you see the video that I shared to the Sunset Boulevard group of him playing um as if we never said goodbye on the cello?

[7:11] Heather Bedor: Yes, triple threat, axe sings plays the cello. Like, come on.

[7:16] Amber Brzezinski: Dances, dances, bull threat. You're right.

[7:23] Heather Bedor: Amazing. Um, yeah, no, a hundred percent incredible.

[7:26] Amber Brzezinski: Um, yeah, I want to hear more about O'Mary because you were like you bought these tickets like six months ago, and you only bought them because you said very smartly, may I add.

[7:38] Heather Bedor: Well, it's gonna be closer to the Tony's time, and although Cole's not in it now, he will be back.

[7:45] Amber Brzezinski: Right. I was like, they might come back because it'll be like right before the Tony season. They'll maybe want another chance for Tony voters to see them, and voila.

[8:00] Heather Bedor: I did it.

[8:01] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, no, I did it, and you did it, and you guys see those bratty curls, and I'm very jealous.

[8:07] Heather Bedor: Um, but yeah, I um I had a whirlwindy trip, didn't I? Went up Thursday, helped open up a show.

[8:17] Amber Brzezinski: Um Friday, I did boop. I won lottery for boop. Let me tell you guys.

[8:24] Heather Bedor: And I again, like it was like, you know, I want to go see the show, and you know, it's it's it's boop, and like I don't know what they're gonna do with it.

[8:32] Amber Brzezinski: It's on the top of my list. It's one of my top shows.

[8:35] Heather Bedor: It was so freaking fun. Um, it's a brand new show, like it's a new boop story.

[8:41] Amber Brzezinski: Jasmine, who performs as Betty Boop, she has to be nominated.

[8:47] Heather Bedor: She has she has to be so, and it's her freaking Broadway debut, y'all.

[8:53] Amber Brzezinski: Incredible, but the costuming, the design, um, oh my god. Seeing Pudgy, I didn't even grab my Pudgy because I had to buy him.

[9:05] Heather Bedor: I had to get the little plush um so much. Um, but Philip Huber did an incredible job, not only building Pudgy, but also performing.

[9:14] Amber Brzezinski: Um it was so stupid cute. It was in lifting uplifting.

[9:18] Heather Bedor: Um, I still have, if anyone's seen it, the top of the second act, uh, where is Betty? And I'm not gonna give anything away, but I'm gonna tell you the and I Amber, I think I rambled about this for 20 minutes at dinner or two.

[9:32] Amber Brzezinski: They start off and they're in like grayscale, so black and white and grayscale, and they're like doing this whole line and and tapping and dancing and singing this really catchy song, and then they rotate, and their literal costumes from everything from hair, makeup, costume design, the hats that they're wearing, the shoelaces turn into color, and then back, and they do this, and you're just like, holy crap, holy crap!

[10:00] Heather Bedor: Uh yes, Jeffrey, exactly. Boop second act number, one of the best, 100%.

[10:05] Amber Brzezinski: And I was like, this show was so damn good, and the house management staff was on top of it.

[10:12] Heather Bedor: Um the merge staff was like every single person was so good and so accommodating.

[10:20] Amber Brzezinski: And the lottery seat, and guys, I don't know where they usually have the lottery seats.

[10:25] Heather Bedor: I won the freaking lottery of the lottery seats, second row center orchestra aisle.

[10:31] Amber Brzezinski: Mind blown, mind blown.

[10:34] Heather Bedor: But um the the actor Steven, who plays Grampy is actually in our group, so it was a pleasure to meet him at the stage door and to talk to Philip Huber because one of his dear friends, David, is in our group, so it was so nice, everybody was so cordial.

[10:49] Amber Brzezinski: Jasmine didn't come out, but everybody at the stage door was like, Oh, I'm sorry, am I too close? Am I okay?

[10:54] Heather Bedor: But then, like a rush of like little girls went up, which I thought was cool, and Amber's like, hey, I'm here, and so I'm standing at the stanchion, and I'm looking behind me across the street, and she's standing, standing across with Casey, not our Casey, but her Casey, and I'm like, I'm messaging her, and I'm like, I'm trapped.

[11:15] Amber Brzezinski: There was a wall of people around me.

[11:17] Heather Bedor: I couldn't get out. I was like, Well, I guess I'm here for a few minutes, sorry.

[11:22] Amber Brzezinski: And then, and then where do we go for dinner, Amber?

[11:25] Heather Bedor: Oh, of course, we went to Didi's.

[11:27] Amber Brzezinski: That was the only reason I went to Didi's always a little cheap and cheerful.

[11:31] Heather Bedor: Yes, oh, so good. But um, yeah, so what did you think of O'Mary besides the fact that you were already obsessed with it?

[11:39] Amber Brzezinski: Also, um, so in anybody's face right now.

[11:45] Heather Bedor: I've been uh I've been in the the jumps, I've had the sads.

[11:52] Amber Brzezinski: You have had the the meeps and the moops and the sads, yeah.

[11:56] Heather Bedor: I've been a little bit um stressy depressy, yeah, yes, I do.

[12:02] Amber Brzezinski: Um so to quote Madeline Ashton, it feels so good to laugh again.

[12:12] Heather Bedor: And was it just like silly goofy or talk to me?

[12:17] Amber Brzezinski: Like, if if Cole and the crew over at O'Mary get the noms, like, where are we at? What are we thinking?

[12:24] Heather Bedor: As I eat my spring clean cookie from Chapaco, um.

[12:30] Amber Brzezinski: Um what do you mean?

[12:33] Heather Bedor: What am I thinking?

[12:34] Amber Brzezinski: Like, do you think Cole's gonna get nominated? Do you think anyone else is gonna get nominated? Are they gonna get the nom for the best play?

[12:41] Heather Bedor: Um, I think they will definitely get nominated for best play because of how momentous their impression on this season was.

[12:57] Amber Brzezinski: You cannot deny that O'Mary has left its stamp on Broadway forever.

[13:04] Heather Bedor: Whereas and yeah, Cole has really just been a complete standout.

[13:12] Amber Brzezinski: So I think I I do think that they're gonna be stiff competition to beat.

[13:20] Heather Bedor: Well, let's remind our friends at home that are playing along what new plays came out this year and what are eligible, just to remind everybody.

[13:28] Amber Brzezinski: So you have and remember, just because a show is not currently playing does not mean that they are not eligible.

[13:34] Heather Bedor: So eligible new plays, All in Comedy About Love, Cult of Love, English, Good Night and Good Luck, Job, another one of your favorites, John Proctor is the Villain, Left on 10th, McNeil, O'Mary, of course, Purpose, keeping in mind Stranger Things, the First Shadow is also considered a play.

[13:58] Amber Brzezinski: The Hills of California, the picture of Dorian Gray and The Roommate.

[14:05] Heather Bedor: So there's a lot of contenders out there, but I definitely think Cole is, uh, they have to be in the running.

[14:05] Amber Brzezinski: They have to be.

[14:11] Heather Bedor: Oh, absolutely, and I do think that John Proctor is gonna get a nomination as well.

[14:17] Amber Brzezinski: I think it's firmly believed that.

[14:19] Heather Bedor: Absolutely.

[14:20] Amber Brzezinski: No, we really didn't get a chance to talk about John Proctor as a villain. You saw it a couple of weeks ago. Do you want to talk about that a little bit?

[14:27] Heather Bedor: Absolutely. It left a serious mark on me. I thought about it for weeks.

[14:31] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, if not like a month, still thinking about it after I saw it.

[14:39] Heather Bedor: It was absolutely empowering. It was a, um, it was really just like a very strong piece.

[14:50] Amber Brzezinski: Do you want to give like a cliff notes for people who know nothing about the show?

[14:55] Heather Bedor: Um, yeah, so it's about high school students who are studying The Crucible during the wake of the Me Too movement and things that are happening in their small town in, I believe, rural Georgia are kind of echoing the sentiment of the Me Too movement. So there are parallels being drawn that they're facing within their own communities that they're kind of having to deal with that also parallel things that are going on in The Crucible while they are kind of eye-opening, like, oh wow, this is actually happening.

[15:33] Amber Brzezinski: Right, yeah. I loved it. I thought it was, I thought it captured like high school brilliantly. Like I thought it was just like a, I loved it.

[15:44] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[15:45] Amber Brzezinski: All right. Well, that's, it's important to have something different. Like, you know, just be, and I see like some of our comments say, like, ah, it wasn't my favorite. That's just important. I read something today. Um, I've going back, going back to Christopher Levy's comment of I'm hoping the nominators will have better taste than Adam Feldman or Jesse Green.

[16:06] Heather Bedor: Jesse Green, New York Times snub Sunset.

[16:10] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but what he did do right was made a comment to somebody, and I thought it was really important because somebody was like, Mr. Green is obviously not a fan of Sunset Boulevard, and then like went on saying like Nicole's Strusinger gives a performance of a lifetime. And what Jesse says, I really appreciate it because it's smart. I'm glad when we can have fun while respectfully disagreeing. So just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean that you know that person's on the wrong or the right for sure.

[16:39] Heather Bedor: But yeah, I mean, I'm not a plays girl. It takes a really special kind of like show for me to sit and not be singing along. Um, but Amber, you do really well with plays.

[16:52] Amber Brzezinski: So yeah. Um, and can I just like pop in with like pepper and like some Sunset Boulevard news?

[16:57] Heather Bedor: Pepper it up while I am, uh, eating my cookies. I purposely waited all day to rub this in your face. Sorry, I love you.

[17:05] Amber Brzezinski: Do we know who is at Sunset Boulevard?

[17:09] Heather Bedor: Glenn Close.

[17:10] Amber Brzezinski: Do we know Glenn freaking Close?

[17:14] Heather Bedor: And she loved it.

[17:17] Amber Brzezinski: So I think who cares about the Tony? Glenn Close loved it. Did you know?

[17:23] Heather Bedor: Patty Lupone loved it.

[17:25] Amber Brzezinski: Patty Lapone loved it. Glenn Close loved it. Like, let's, who cares? Did you hear who was at Smash?

[17:32] Heather Bedor: Um, I don't think so.

[17:35] Amber Brzezinski: Lynn Manuel Miranda with his dad.

[17:37] Heather Bedor: Oh, that's cute. Did you hear who was at my matinee of Justin Time on Sunday?

[17:43] Amber Brzezinski: Um, no.

[17:44] Heather Bedor: Tom Hanks.

[17:46] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, I mean, oh, I did hear that. Yeah, I did hear that. For some reason, like ran into him.

[17:52] Heather Bedor: For some reason, I, when you said Justin Time, my brain heard Facing.

[17:58] Amber Brzezinski: Oh god.

[18:00] Heather Bedor: And I was like, why didn't you tell me that?

[18:02] Amber Brzezinski: No.

[18:03] Heather Bedor: Nope.

[18:05] Amber Brzezinski: Um, all right. So Friday, we got covered. Saturday. Let's move into my Saturday.

[18:10] Heather Bedor: Your Saturday was not as exciting as my Saturday. I came over to these Bozos' house. I've been with them ever since. Well, Saturday I left the hotel in Fid Eye, so staying in the financial district, and I decided I needed to move back to Midtown. I was like, all right, I gave it a try. Not a problem. Um, the officer was there for Julia.

[18:32] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, on Sunday. Is that what you're referring to?

[18:35] Heather Bedor: Yes, Juliet. If that's what you're referring to, she says, stop it. Is that who the officer was there for?

[18:39] Amber Brzezinski: Yes. We'll get to that in a moment. But yeah, so Saturday I hauled all of my shit from Fid Eye to Midtown. I dropped it off at the new place, and I immediately went over to try to get rush tickets for Pirates, the Penzance musical.

[18:53] Heather Bedor: It was sunny, right?

[18:55] Amber Brzezinski: Huh?

[18:56] Heather Bedor: It was sunny, right?

[18:58] Amber Brzezinski: It was sunny, yeah.

[19:00] Heather Bedor: Yeah, on Saturday. It was sunny and felt like it was 95 degrees because all of the rain was staying inside of the air.

[19:14] Amber Brzezinski: Ah, okay.

[19:15] Heather Bedor: It was pouring all day here.

[19:17] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, no, it was hot. Like, I live in Orlando, it was hot and sweaty, but no, it was sunny Saturday. But I go up, there's a couple that are standing in front of me, and I'm like, wow, there's no rush line, and we're standing for like 15 minutes, and some guy's taking a picture of the door. He goes, Yeah, they're out of rush. And I was like, I didn't get the digital rush. So that makes sense.

[19:38] Heather Bedor: Well, I'm as I have hiccups. Well, I might see. I might see if they have something because my goal going into this weekend was I want to see Pirates during the matinee on Saturday and do, um, uh, Zen Outlaw Sunday or Saturday night. That was my goal in my head. I don't know why, but that's what I decided. So I said, all right, so I went to go to Rush. There's no rush tickets, but box office had an incredible seat at a very good price, and I got to see it. And I got to meet, uh, Zephora, who is their house manager who is delightful, and, um, Oscar, who is like security slash usher. He's been there for like 21 years. He wants to be on the podcast. He asked for a card, and I love it simply because they know so much about the history of the theater.

[20:28] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I was invited to, so it's a Roundabout Theater Company production. So I was invited up to like the VIP lounge because if you're a member, you get up to the VIP lounge. I got Amber a Pirate's Cup. I'm so excited.

[20:39] Heather Bedor: Um, yes, excited. She won't let me buy her like a magnet for many shows unless she's seen the show.

[20:47] Amber Brzezinski: That's true.

[20:48] Heather Bedor: I know. Um, and but it's like this New Orleans spin, and it's for me and Karen Lou, like literally just jumping all over the place as a Pirate King, and Jink Monsoon is there, um, who is eligible to be nominated for, um, a Tony, and it's really fantastic. But David Hyde Pierce with the frickin' patter of the major general, holy crap. The set design was fun because it was like the classic like golden age of Broadway, but, um, with the modern twist in it, like the pirate ship coming in was very cool. Um, and it takes place in New Orleans, which how could you not love that? So got to see that. Um, enjoyed it. It was interesting because the crowd was a little bit older of a crowd, and like some of these old people can like party because they were just pounding back alcohol and hitting their vape pens during the show. So that was cool. That was a fun thing I learned.

[21:40] Amber Brzezinski: Uh, and then, um, Saturday night, um, I had gone over to the Lawn Acre to go see what there was available for, um, Dead Outlaw.

[21:55] Heather Bedor: Mm-hmm.

[21:56] Amber Brzezinski: And I got quote Dead Center Orchestra for a very reasonable price, and I was a very happy camper. Uh, thank you, TKTS booth always takes care of your girl. Um, and my goodness, um, if Dead Outlaw doesn't win 5,000 Tonys, I will be shocked.

[22:19] Heather Bedor: Shocked.

[22:20] Amber Brzezinski: Um, now, Amber, do you know much about that show?

[22:24] Heather Bedor: Which one?

[22:24] Amber Brzezinski: Dead Outlaw?

[22:27] Heather Bedor: Um, I know it's like based on, don't, now I'm gonna pull like myself. It's based on like a real guy, and I know that it's the opposite of a marriage. Um, and then I know that for like the first like exceptionally long time, uh, Andrew is like motionless.

[22:47] Amber Brzezinski: Second part. So, and I'll Chris Relevy, I see your comment. Chris is asking if we go Dead Outlaw versus maybe happy ending. I will hit that in a second. So, Dead Outlaw is a show about Elmer McCurdy, it's a true story, and it shows his life, and God, Andrew Durand, like I saw him in Shocked, he pulls his own weight. The house band, which is also the narrator, which is also part of the show, and the set design, it's so simple. And if anybody recalls, the Long Acres also were swept away, so it has an intimacy to it, it's really lovely, but it's a cool like box, and it's a stage that rotates and it works so well. It plays a train at one point, and of course, they're doing the bouncing thing like Waterfare Elephants did, and I love that.

Um, but they go through this whole story and like how he was kind of a failure as being like an outlaw, and he finally does something, he pisses off a bunch of people, he gets shot and dies. And because he had changed his name so many times, there wasn't anyone to claim him. So, this is a true story. So the coroner decided he was gonna embalm him with arsenic to keep him around a little bit longer because he wanted to make his money back, and then people started to come in from all over the country to look at the dead body of a dead outlaw, and started charging and became really greedy, and then started selling the body, and the body was being moved around. So, yeah, it's a 92-minute show, there's no intermission.

Um, but once Elmer is shot and killed, Andrew is standing in a coffin with his hands like this, and at one point they talk about the body like zombifying, so he shrinks them up a little bit more, and I'm like, your hands must hurt so much, or like his, I hope there's some kind of support, but he is just in this coffin, just facing everybody.

[24:36] Heather Bedor: Um, and you guys have seen online, I'm sure. Um, but the songs are really fun and catchy and tongue-in-cheek, but it's a true story, and like I'm not giving anything away because this is really a true story. The way that his body was discovered was like in the 70s. Uh, there was a dark ride in an amusement park, and they were shutting down, and there was a body that was hanging that was a prop, like that was day glow red, like glow in the dark red, like a noose. And when they took the prop down, a part of the fabric ripped, and they could see male genitalia and realized it was an actual body.

[25:17] Amber Brzezinski: And um, this poor man went through this whole thing after death of just being sold, so it was really interesting to kind of see his soul be put to rest, but it was so good, and even during like the solemn parts, there was like a lot of tongue-in-cheek and a lot of fun. They like literally cover his grave with concrete. This is a real story, and they all you have is like the little shoot that beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, and pours the concrete down. Very fun. Um, I heard that the pose that Andrew does in the coffin is based on a real photo he saw of Elmer McCurdy, like with his hand, like in a certain specific way. So when they were touring the body as part of a wax museum, um, they decided to hang a shotgun, a shotgun across the way.

So technically, he's supposed to be holding on to the shotgun, but then his hands started to shrivel back, so they were kind of like a thriller kind of style. It's so cool, and the history behind it, and the cast was just delightful. Like I staged ordered or it obviously. That night was freezing cold because it rained for a hot minute, and then the skies exploded, and then it was like 40 degrees. Um, and I was soaking wet, so that was fun, um, but everybody was so nice. Andrew didn't come out clearly, and that was because they had opening night the following night, so um, which went spectacularly as well. Um, but yeah, like I'm rambling, but I'm going I really did love the show so much because it's like just up my, up my kind of like beat of what I like.

Um, Chris, to answer your question, Dead Outlaw versus maybe happy ending, totally different stories. Um, I want Dead Outlaw to win something I know, but and maybe happy ending I think is going to go farther, but I think that that's because they've had a much longer run thus far, um, and it's not based off of anything. It's an original IP, but I love the way that Dead Outlaw makes this show what it does and really celebrates the life of this guy who really kind of got the short end of the stick for sure.

[27:30] Heather Bedor: So that was that, and then Sunday, um, I did my Justin Time matinee, and I will tell you guys I went on Telecharge the night before I left to go to New York and spent 45 minutes being kicked out of Telecharge's website because it was the last seat in the house, and it's in Circle in the Square, which Amber, you and I have been to for Romeo and Juliet.

[27:51] Heather Bedor: Right. And the theater is so intimate I literally sat the last row but it was center orchestra because there's two smaller stages and it's like, you know, from one end to the other. And it was perfect seats. And the show is amazing. And there was a couple sitting next to me who kept gunning on their phone because there was a problem with their dog. Whatever. Um, I bought the most unique souvenir that I've gotten at a show thus far, which says a lot. It was a set of um rocks glasses with different Bobby Darin songs. I want the matchbooks, to be honest. I didn't there didn't have any for sale. Um, they're on the website. Oh, I believe it. They just didn't have anything there. Probably they can't sell it in the theater, maybe.

I don't know. I think they're adorable. I think they're cool. Um, but yeah, no, I got the glass cups, and like, yeah, they didn't have the Romeo and Juliet um water bottles, but they did have the plastic cups. I know those were cool. Every show should have the water bottles. If you don't remember what's the show, we're done. We're closing, we're done, we're ending the night. We're closing up shop, we're done. I'm done. Romeo and Juliet had metal very similar to my SNL, but they were like, what, eight bucks? And it was a reusable water bottle, but had the logo of the show. I will say, Circle in the Square does have a reusable water bottle. It's white, it says iHeartNY on it. Um, but I think every show needs a logoed water bottle for sure.

Um, but yeah, it was really incredible. My god, the cast was incredible. Um, Gracie, who's the assistant house manager um that you and I met during Romeo and Juliet, she's still there, she's delightful. Um, went down to the accessible bathroom because I was not about to try to do stairs with my concussion.

[29:39] Heather Bedor: And I'm walking with a bunch of these like older ladies, and all of a sudden this guy pops out, and like it took my brain a second to register. He pops out, he's wearing like a Yankees beanie and like a blue shirt, and he's like talking to a security guy who brought us down the elevator. He goes, Well, there you are, I was looking for you. And all of these older women go, Oh my god, oh my god, that guy looks like Tom Hanks. And I take a look, and it's very clearly Tom Hanks. And then I'm like, Oh yeah, kind of. And Lady's like, What do you mean, kinda? That is Tom Hanks. Oh my god. Like we're in a ladies' room, and the whole conversation is he must have lost so much weight. Oh my god, he's so handsome.

It was the funniest thing ever. And I come out, and he was, I think, in the green room downstairs is what it was. But then everybody at the stage door started realizing that while they were looking at the videos they had taken during like the mega mix, which you can actually record, and I'll be posting in our group that Tom Hanks is in their videos. They're like, Oh my god, Tom Hanks is there. So, yes, to answer Juliet, uh Juliet, your question, yes, Tom Hanks was there. NYPD was there for extra security. Um, most of a cast came out, Jonathan Groff did not, but it's kind of a normal thing. Um, and I stood next to the loveliest mother and her daughter who um are big fans of ours, which I thought was cool.

And but the daughter, she is gonna double major in theater, and every time somebody came out of a stage door from the show, she's like, Oh my god, you were in this show! Oh my god, you're this, and like one of the actresses was in Gilmore Girls, and she's like, Oh my god, you're Francie from Gilmore, and the girl, yeah, it was just like so freaking cute.

[31:18] Heather Bedor: Hold on, oh Casey has been blowing us up in our private chat, and I just noticed it. Okay, all right. Thank you, Casey, for all of the information. I appreciate you. Amber, do you see those as well?

[31:31] Amber Brzezinski: Yep.

[31:32] Heather Bedor: Casey, you having fun so far. Give me a good thumbs up in the back.

[31:36] Casey: Yay!

[31:36] Heather Bedor: She gave us a thumbs up, it'll just be really fun. It'll be a pup. Oh, Julian, yeah, okay. It was yes. I was like, okay, good. See, I don't ever want to call anyone out. Um, yes, you guys are so much fun, and thank you so much for making it stage roar what it was. Uh and Amber is gone.

[31:53] Heather Bedor: Amber's gone, it's just me. All right. Well, Casey, you're hanging out until Amber comes out. Hi.

[31:58] Casey: Hello.

[31:58] Heather Bedor: What just happened?

[32:00] Casey: Okay, there we go.

[32:02] Heather Bedor: Juliet, you're so cute. Juliet says you made Amelia's night for shouting us out.

[32:06] Casey: Are you guys kidding me? You guys made my stage door.

[32:08] Heather Bedor: Casey, you doing good so far?

[32:10] Casey: Yeah.

[32:11] Heather Bedor: How's it feel to be part of the first half of our show? Welcome to it.

[32:15] Casey: It's good. I mean, it's good because I can hear the podcast. Well, like as background noises, I'm doing everything. So it's better than the baby crying.

[32:25] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[32:26] Casey: She's back there with dad now.

[32:28] Heather Bedor: Okay. Go back to your little corner.

[32:30] Casey: Okay, goodbye.

[32:34] Heather Bedor: Um, but yeah, Julia, you guys were so wonderful at the stage doors, so thank you so much. Like, so sweet. Um, and so smart. And it was funny because I was really cold. I was wearing a dress, and I shoved my Just In Time cup into my cleavage because I had no place to hold it, but it kept my chest warm. So we had a good time with it. Um, and then I left. And uh, dear friend to the show, Neil Bennington, photographer extraordinaire, wonderful all-around good guy, goes. You just need to show up at drag because you're gonna come into the show. I said it's like beyond standing room only for drag's closing night. And I was very fortunate enough to be invited in and did standing room only for the closing night of Drag the Musical.

[33:21] Amber Brzezinski: So sad.

[33:22] Heather Bedor: Amber, you go.

[33:23] Amber Brzezinski: Oh, you did standing room.

[33:24] Heather Bedor: Yeah, I'm just doing the missed groups.

[33:26] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, by standing room, I was bending, I was leaning, I was sitting on the floor inappropriately for a second.

[33:33] Heather Bedor: Um, but it was great. And it was like the electricity in that room was nuts, like nuts. I have videos to prove all of it. Um, they dedicated the show to Jigley Caliente, who unfortunately lost her life um literally the day after having a leg amputated with sepsis, like poor dear. Um, but dedicated the entire show, and it was really cool because every time one of like the queens would come out, or god, Adam Pascal just got like the craziest amount of people ever. Um, but every time somebody finished their song, it was standing room only. Applause, applause. It was just nuts. Um, and it was so cool to see.

[34:12] Heather Bedor: And um, yeah, even like walking. Oh, RL says to say hi. Um, but it was just so nice to see our friend celebrated, like really truthfully. Um I got the poster that is the exclusive one of a kind giveaway for our Drag the Musical group that if you pre-save the iTunes or Apple Music um cast recording or order it, show us proof of a screenshot, and you'll be entered to win this exclusive Drag the Musical poster, but a signed by the entire cast, including Joey McIntyre and Adam Pascal. So make sure you do that. Check out our website, which is www.thebroadwayfanclub.com.

[34:54] Heather Bedor: Um, it is being updated. I've moved some things around and update more with some of our newer groups. We're up to 102 groups, Amber. Holy crap.

[35:02] Amber Brzezinski: That's a lot of groups.

[35:04] Heather Bedor: It's a lot of groups, but we love it.

[35:06] Amber Brzezinski: That's a lot of groups.

[35:08] Heather Bedor: Yeah, yeah. Olivia. Hi, hi my friend. How's your foot?

[35:12] Amber Brzezinski: How is your foot?

[35:13] Heather Bedor: For those of you guys that can't see all of our comments, we love seeing our regulars here. It's like walking into cheers. Um, but yeah, so and then Monday I spent kind of you know, dilly-dallying a little bit, and I made my way out to the Bowery Ballroom to go see our boys at the Swept Away reunion concert. Holy crap, that was incredible.

[35:40] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I specifically exchanged my tickets for the second show because I wanted to like let the first show like that kind of super fan. A lot of people stayed for both that room, Amber.

[35:52] Heather Bedor: My god, I wish you were in that room.

[35:55] Amber Brzezinski: Do you know that I brought my mom back to the airport on Monday the 21st, and I like put it on on the drive to the airport because I was like, what's like something that she'll kind of enjoy? Because she's like a she like lists like country, so I get like American. Kind of vibe, so like I put that on, and like it ended like as we got to the airport, and we're like almost pulling up, and I'm like, I'm gonna fucking cry.

[36:14] Heather Bedor: I'm gonna fucking cry at the end of this fucking album.

[36:29] Amber Brzezinski: Hmm, like that show just gets me right in the goddamn feels.

[36:34] Heather Bedor: Yeah, it really does. And I mean, I will tell you, I was very fortunate. Shout out to Juliet, not our Juliet here, but another Juliet, too. So, double shout out, uh, venue manager over at the Bowery who made sure not only my needs for accessibility were met because it was like elbow room, like I have with my concussion. I'm afraid of like getting bonked in the head, it's just not fun. Um, so she took very good care of us. I met this lovely couple, my god, Brittany and Neil, if they're watching, I love them so much. We spent the whole time hanging out.

[37:06] Heather Bedor: Neil knows every freaking word to every song. We were in the front. Um, one of the co-pros came down afterwards and like, huh?

[37:14] Casey: You don't?

[37:15] Heather Bedor: I do, but I'm saying like every every dial, every lyric, every spoken word, every everything. What do you got? Beans in your ears. My god, you nerd. You have been listening to it. Uh, but I got some cool shots, and then um Amber shared some photos from People magazine, and it was spot Heather's head.

[37:40] Heather Bedor: So I officially am in People Magazine, just the back of my hair. It was fantastic. I'm sitting at dinner last night and I showed my mom was like, where's your daughter? She's like, right there, and I'm like, god damn it, mom.

[37:53] Amber Brzezinski: But nailed it.

[37:55] Heather Bedor: It was so funny because we were primarily like stage right, um, house left, so if you're facing a stage to the left, and um, dear old Josh Breckenridge, love him.

[38:05] Amber Brzezinski: He's heading over to the Apple Boys.

[38:07] Heather Bedor: Um he was right in front of me the whole time, but after spoiler alert, after the crew dies and they're all just hanging out as ghosts, um, they all would sit down. So, like the main four, like uh big brother, little brother, mate, and captain, um, would have their performances. So Josh is a sitting hanging out with us the whole time. It was so much fun. But I took so much pride in being there and seeing like our friends perform. Matt DeAngelis is on the other side, but I got to hang out with him and his wife Christine afterwards for a little bit, talk some Janice jam stuff.

[38:38] Heather Bedor: The energy in that room. And I tried calling you, Amber, because I wanted to see if you wanted one of the limited edition posters or a merch, but you didn't answer your phone because where your dog sitting has no reception. But I did get myself a poster.

[38:53] Amber Brzezinski: But it's okay.

[38:55] Heather Bedor: I don't really have like space.

[38:56] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[38:57] Heather Bedor: Or money.

[38:58] Amber Brzezinski: Or money for posters.

[39:00] Heather Bedor: But thank you. Um, but I did record um a good portion respectfully. Um, there was a photographer who told me she didn't care that I had a concussion and literally was shoving my hand out of the way and told me she was being paid to be there, so it didn't matter.

[39:17] Heather Bedor: And I was like, cool, thanks for trying to ruin the night. Uh but if this is like a funny like way of me like trying to explain myself, which everything everyone is used to at this point. You ever go to a wedding and as a bride enters, everybody looks to the bride.

[39:33] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[39:34] Heather Bedor: Okay. I like looking at the groom because like that speaks volumes for the whole relationship. So while Stark and Adrian and Johnny, like everyone's singing.

[39:45] Amber Brzezinski: I looked down to the audience, and these people were like so engaged and so involved.

[39:50] Heather Bedor: And then I looked, right, Juliet. I looked back at like Josh or Matt's face or Cameron's face, and the look on their face was just like, holy crap. Like I think they were so affected. And I after speaking to half the cast afterwards, it meant so much to them to see how much people are still resonating with the show and still like so in love with the characters. It was so lovely to see.

[40:16] Amber Brzezinski: It was so lovely to see.

[40:18] Heather Bedor: Read Johnny's letter.

[40:20] Amber Brzezinski: No.

[40:22] Heather Bedor: Oh, someone posted it in the Swept Away group.

[40:25] Amber Brzezinski: Um don't read it unless you want to just like sob.

[40:28] Heather Bedor: Oh, I mean, that's kind of how the whole night is. Um, but like he did make like a speech at the end, curtain call speech.

[40:36] Amber Brzezinski: Um a second.

[40:41] Heather Bedor: Christopher Levy already has all of Dragged Out.

[40:44] Amber Brzezinski: I love it.

[40:45] Heather Bedor: Um, yeah, these boys were so emotional, and like I talked to Stark for a little bit afterwards, and like the look on I think you and I both know, like between Adrian and Stark, like they're very emotional, like very, very, and they were so like taken aback. Age Green was getting swarmed.

[41:05] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I think Stark was just there, like kind of taking it in.

[41:08] Heather Bedor: But it was just so nice to see like people that we are friendly with be so shown how much love they deserve. Um, now Swept is considered eligible for new musical.

[41:22] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I'll read you the rest of the list because there's a lot of them, and I kind of want everyone to tune in and and also shout out what you think.

[41:31] Heather Bedor: So, new musicals that are eligible for Tony's. Um, it's a lot, it's it's a lot, but it's uh not overwhelmingly a lot, but it's a lot.

[41:43] Amber Brzezinski: So you've got a wonderful world, which is a Louis Armstrong musical, which was opened like two weeks, right?

[41:51] Heather Bedor: I think longer than that, and then you've got Boop, When I Miss a Social Club, Dead Outlaw.

[41:58] Amber Brzezinski: So, just in that, literally, those Boop, When I Miss a Social Club and Dead Outlaw are the newest.

[42:04] Heather Bedor: Death Becomes Her.

[42:05] Amber Brzezinski: Just in time, literally came in just in time because they came in the very last day of the season.

[42:10] Heather Bedor: Maybe Happy Ending, Operation Mince Meat, Real Women Have Curves.

[42:14] Amber Brzezinski: Also just opened this past week.

[42:18] Heather Bedor: Steven Sondheim's Old Friends, Swept Away, and Tammy Faye.

[42:24] Amber Brzezinski: So and I know we were talking about it a little bit before a couple weeks ago, but Swept Away is available for the rights.

[42:32] Heather Bedor: So if you want to put it on in your hometown, you can.

[42:37] Amber Brzezinski: And make sure you join our group and show us how you do the ship.

[42:42] Heather Bedor: Oh, yes.

[42:43] Amber Brzezinski: Do the ship proud.

[42:45] Heather Bedor: I will tell you, um, there was a group of people who had the SS little boat.

[42:50] Amber Brzezinski: They were both, it was fantastic.

[42:52] Heather Bedor: Um, and then there was another woman who literally, I don't know, the ghosts of the ship are here.

[43:01] Amber Brzezinski: My whole background just fell.

[43:02] Heather Bedor: Well, that's fine.

[43:04] Amber Brzezinski: Um, scare the crap out of me.

[43:06] Heather Bedor: Hello, welcome to the ghosts of my apartment.

[43:09] Amber Brzezinski: Um, but I don't know how she did it, but she created the little crochet of every character.

[43:15] Heather Bedor: So cute.

[43:16] Amber Brzezinski: So cute.

[43:17] Heather Bedor: Super cute.

[43:18] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and this one girl was like so shy to give Adrian a bracelet.

[43:21] Heather Bedor: She's like, Can I just give this to you?

[43:22] Amber Brzezinski: He's like, Yeah, sure.

[43:23] Heather Bedor: And she like flung it out of.

[43:27] Amber Brzezinski: But it was just, it was so intimate and so nice, and they sound better than ever.

[43:31] Heather Bedor: And my god.

[43:34] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I don't know.

[43:36] Heather Bedor: I, I don't, I just don't know.

[43:38] Amber Brzezinski: I don't know.

[43:39] Heather Bedor: All right, let's get back into what other shows are eligible for Tonys.

[43:43] Amber Brzezinski: So let me pull up here.

[43:46] Heather Bedor: Musical revivals.

[43:48] Amber Brzezinski: So these are musicals that have there.

[43:50] Heather Bedor: Huh?

[43:51] Amber Brzezinski: I knew we were gonna get there.

[43:53] Heather Bedor: Sorry, but it's not bad, it's not bad.

[43:57] Amber Brzezinski: So musical revivals.

[43:59] Heather Bedor: You've got Elf the Musical, Floyd Collins, which just opened up a couple weeks, not even a couple weeks ago.

[44:05] Amber Brzezinski: Gypsy, Once Upon a Mattress, Pirates De Penzance musical, Sunset Boulevard, and The Last Five Years.

[44:15] Heather Bedor: So realistically, for revivals, it's not as many as it could be.

[44:19] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[44:20] Heather Bedor: But I don't know, Amber, what do you think for revivals?

[44:23] Amber Brzezinski: Like I had friends that worked as flyers on ELF, but I never saw it.

[44:28] Heather Bedor: I'm personally, and oh my god, I'm gonna get so much hate mail for this.

[44:31] Amber Brzezinski: I am not personally a Floyd Collins fan.

[44:34] Heather Bedor: I think the category is dominated by two shows, regardless of who else is nominated.

[44:41] Amber Brzezinski: I think it's gonna be a tight race between two shows.

[44:44] Heather Bedor: I think it's gonna be a tight race between four.

[44:48] Amber Brzezinski: Okay.

[44:49] Heather Bedor: But I already know your two shows, Gypsy and Sunset.

[44:52] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, but Once Upon a Mattress just had their um brought uh their cast recording signing and it was massive.

[44:59] Heather Bedor: And the powerhouses behind Pirates, I think is also gonna put it out of question.

[45:05] Amber Brzezinski: But I agree.

[45:05] Heather Bedor: I think Gypsy and Sunset, at least for between Audra and Nicole, for sure.

[45:05] Amber Brzezinski: For sure.

[45:14] Heather Bedor: Oh yes, Christopher Levy.

[45:16] Amber Brzezinski: I would love to see Elf get some love, especially Gray.

[45:19] Heather Bedor: I agree.

[45:20] Amber Brzezinski: I just think there's heavier contenders out there right now.

[45:24] Heather Bedor: Um, I do.

[45:25] Amber Brzezinski: And Last Five Years is limited, but you know, you do have a good cast over there too, and it's the first time that it's actually seen a Broadway stage.

[45:34] Heather Bedor: Um also I don't think it got the best reviews, though.

[45:41] Amber Brzezinski: So it has not, but also Boop hasn't gotten the best reviews.

[45:45] Heather Bedor: But every single person I've met that has gone to see Boop was like, oh my god, have you seen Boop?

[45:50] Amber Brzezinski: And like that is not a show that some of these people, like I would think would come out of their mouth.

[45:55] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[45:55] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and then we have play revival.

[45:57] Heather Bedor: So play revival revivals.

[45:59] Amber Brzezinski: You have Eureka Day, Glengarry, Glenn Ross, which I think is going to just dominate home, Othello, Our Town, Romeo and Juliet, also I think will dominate, and Yellow Face.

[46:14] Heather Bedor: So keeping in mind that like Yellow Face, Eureka Day, and even moving up to like um Floyd Collins.

[46:22] Amber Brzezinski: Let me see if there's anything else that I've donated here.

[46:25] Heather Bedor: Um, those are shows that have appeared on Broadway, or this is the first time they're appearing on Broadway, but they've appeared in other formats before.

[46:35] Amber Brzezinski: So it'll be interesting.

[46:37] Heather Bedor: But yeah, I don't know.

[46:38] Amber Brzezinski: I know everyone's kind of shouting it out from the rooftops in the comments section.

[46:42] Heather Bedor: Like, I don't know, Amber, who do you think is gonna be like up or who who would you like to see for best actor?

[46:49] Amber Brzezinski: Like, you give me your category rundowns for best actor, yeah.

[46:58] Heather Bedor: For best actor, I think it's gonna come down to Darren.

[47:04] Amber Brzezinski: And in a musical, sorry, let me specify in a musical.

[47:08] Heather Bedor: I think it's gonna come down to Darren Chris.

[47:11] Amber Brzezinski: I think it's gonna come down to Andrew Durand.

[47:14] Heather Bedor: Okay, I think it's gonna come down to Tom Francis, Jonathan Groff, yeah.

[47:22] Amber Brzezinski: And then as much as I would love it to go to John Gallagher Jr., I think it's gonna go to Jeremy Jordan.

[47:29] Heather Bedor: So it's funny that you say that.

[47:31] Amber Brzezinski: Um because the New York Times has written their list, and I will read you through their list.

[47:40] Heather Bedor: I'll kind of start around the corner here.

[47:43] Amber Brzezinski: So for best actor in a musical.

[47:48] Heather Bedor: There we go.

[47:49] Amber Brzezinski: Um Jesse Green has listed Darren Chris, maybe happy ending, John Gallagher Jr.

[47:55] Heather Bedor: for Swept Away, Jonathan Groff for Justin Time, Joshua Henry for Ragtime.

[48:01] Amber Brzezinski: Okay, and Jeremy Jordan for Floyd Collins.

[48:04] Heather Bedor: But Jesse is also infamously known for not loving Sunset.

[48:08] Amber Brzezinski: So I feel like Joshua Henry can be subbed out for Tom Francis for sure.

[48:14] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[48:15] Amber Brzezinski: Um, other I don't want to say other suggestions that Jesse has had, but for best play, the time is kind of going with Cult of Love, English, The Hills of California, John Proctor's Villain, and O'Mary.

[48:30] Heather Bedor: For Best Musical, they're saying it's gonna come down to Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, maybe Happy Ending, Smash and Swept Away.

[48:39] Amber Brzezinski: Um Best Play Revival.

[48:43] Heather Bedor: They're looking at Eureka Day, Our Town, Vanya, and Yellow Face.

[48:50] Amber Brzezinski: The Jellico Ball, Floyd Collins, Gypsy, Once Upon a Mattress, uh, Best Actor in a Play, Cola Scola, O'Mary, Jake Gyllenhaal for Othello, Louis McCartney for Stranger Things of Foreshadow, Jim Parsons for Our Town, and Andrew Scott for Vanya.

[49:07] Heather Bedor: Best Actress in a play, Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California, Susanna Flood for Liberation, Deedra O'Connell for Glass Kill, What If It Only Imp.

[49:17] Amber Brzezinski: Uh Lily Robb for Ghosts and Sarah Snook for the picture of Dorian Gray.

[49:22] Heather Bedor: I think that's a sleeper cell for sure.

[49:24] Amber Brzezinski: And Jeffrey, yes, Bragtime is Drama Desk and not Broadway.

[49:27] Heather Bedor: I'm just saying this is the New York Times is like ultimate um like dream dreamcast or dream list is for Tony's.

[49:35] Amber Brzezinski: Um let's see.

[49:37] Heather Bedor: And then for best actress in a musical, they are talking Megan Hilde for Death Becomes Her, Audra McDonald for Gypsy, Jasmine Amy Rogers for Boop, Jennifer Samar for Death Becomes Her and Adrian Warren for The Last Five Years.

[49:49] Amber Brzezinski: Um I believe what we discovered is that wasn't there something where Jennifer was like not supposed to be in the best actress, or are they sharing that category?

[50:02] Heather Bedor: Jennifer Smard.

[50:07] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I don't know, they haven't announced it yet.

[50:10] Heather Bedor: No, no, no.

[50:10] Amber Brzezinski: I'm saying you and I were talking about this at dinner.

[50:13] Heather Bedor: Like, I wonder if they're gonna split it.

[50:15] Amber Brzezinski: I don't know.

[50:15] Heather Bedor: It's very confusing.

[50:16] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, because there's so many, like, there's multiple people in multiple focused roles.

[50:21] Heather Bedor: Like, you can't have Death Becomes Her without Megan and Jennifer, right?

[50:26] Amber Brzezinski: Like one is not the main performer over the other.

[50:29] Heather Bedor: Um, but and Chris has a great question.

[50:34] Amber Brzezinski: Does first winning, I'm gonna pull this up.

[50:36] Heather Bedor: Does first winning a best musical Olivier curse of Broadway musical at the Tony's, i.e., Groundhog Day, Back to the Future, and Operation Mince Meat.

[50:50] Amber Brzezinski: I hope not.

[50:51] Heather Bedor: Because I'm gonna tell you, I think Operation Mince Meat needs to be in there somewhere.

[50:55] Amber Brzezinski: That is such a phenomenal show.

[50:57] Heather Bedor: Yeah, it's funny, it's not serious.

[50:59] Amber Brzezinski: I'm gonna pick this up before my antique breaks.

[51:01] Heather Bedor: Oh, this is gonna suck.

[51:05] Amber Brzezinski: The facade is gone.

[51:07] Heather Bedor: That's fine.

[51:09] Amber Brzezinski: Ta-da.

[51:13] Heather Bedor: Dog bark or something.

[51:15] Amber Brzezinski: Come on.

[51:16] Heather Bedor: Jesus.

[51:19] Amber Brzezinski: You told them not to.

[51:20] Heather Bedor: That's why they're not barking.

[51:21] Amber Brzezinski: So the ghosts in my house are knocking shit over.

[51:23] Heather Bedor: It's great.

[51:26] Amber Brzezinski: But I don't know.

[51:27] Heather Bedor: I'm gonna bring Casey in.

[51:28] Amber Brzezinski: Casey, I want your opinion.

[51:29] Heather Bedor: Prepare yourself.

[51:30] Amber Brzezinski: Stop picking your nose.

[51:33] Casey: Hi.

[51:34] Amber Brzezinski: You're on mute.

[51:36] Casey: Yeah, I saw that.

[51:38] Amber Brzezinski: She's learning the ropes.

[51:40] Casey: What am I coming in for?

[51:44] Amber Brzezinski: Do you have any no?

[51:45] Casey: How what was last time you saw a show?

[51:50] Amber Brzezinski: Um Broadway.

[51:52] Casey: She basically lives in Vegas.

[51:55] Amber Brzezinski: On Broadway or off Broadway, or does it matter?

[51:57] Casey: A show that was touring or on Broadway.

[52:00] Amber Brzezinski: Okay.

[52:00] Casey: Um, so I saw Kimberly Akimbo in March.

[52:06] Amber Brzezinski: Okay, touring.

[52:08] Casey: Touring, yes.

[52:09] Amber Brzezinski: Very cool.

[52:09] Casey: Now, did you get to see Phantom in Vegas when it was there?

[52:12] Amber Brzezinski: I did, but it obviously that was a long time ago, so it was I was little.

[52:16] Casey: Um now I will tell you something.

[52:18] Amber Brzezinski: For anyone that's a Phantom fan, they definitely have to check out the masquerade NYC group that we run because I'm may have oh see your mom called you out.

[52:28] Casey: My mom called me out.

[52:30] Amber Brzezinski: Um We saw Company back when I was pregnant, though.

[52:33] Casey: That was last year.

[52:35] Amber Brzezinski: That's recent.

[52:37] Casey: But I I took a walk, a walk.

[52:39] Amber Brzezinski: I took a subway and a walk over um to Lee's art shop, which is where the new immersive Phantom is going to be.

[52:47] Casey: And it is very cool.

[52:51] Amber Brzezinski: I took pictures of the different articles at the front.

[52:55] Casey: Um I went into Nordstrom across the way to get a little bit of a bird's eye view and learn that the apartment complex next door had a better one.

[53:04] Amber Brzezinski: But their uh Dorman was not the nicest person, and I was okay with just not having people be rude to us.

[53:12] Casey: But yeah, um, I don't know.

[53:14] Amber Brzezinski: Are you looking forward to the Tonies, Casey?

[53:16] Casey: Or are you just kind of I know that you love Broadway, but you're not like me and Amber kind of Broadway.

[53:23] Casey: Um, I mean, definitely gonna watch him, so I just I've been kind of listening to what you were saying, and I'm like, I don't know any of these.

[53:31] Amber Brzezinski: That's okay.

[53:32] Heather Bedor: All right, we can go back into Casey's corner now.

[53:35] Amber Brzezinski: You're you're released, all right.

[53:37] Casey: Stand by.

[53:38] Amber Brzezinski: Bye.

[53:38] Casey: Bye bye.

[53:39] Amber Brzezinski: I'm just so glad that she's here to help us.

[53:43] Heather Bedor: This is fun.

[53:44] Amber Brzezinski: Look at my boxes of crap.

[53:46] Heather Bedor: Okay.

[53:46] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and then yes, Jay says you're handling it so well though.

[53:50] Heather Bedor: Um, yeah, I just I want this Tony season to go well.

[53:54] Amber Brzezinski: Tony's is very much a popularity contest, in my opinion.

[53:58] Heather Bedor: Um and it blows my mind sometimes.

[54:00] Amber Brzezinski: It's like a show that's doing so well.

[54:04] Heather Bedor: Um, like let's talk Swept.

[54:06] Amber Brzezinski: Like Swept's doing so well.

[54:07] Heather Bedor: They have fans months after they've closed that are just even more obsessed, and they're selling out of vinyls and they're selling out of this.

[54:14] Amber Brzezinski: It shouldn't have closed, but also like having conversations like what we were talking about with Matt when he was on the show a couple weeks ago.

[54:21] Heather Bedor: Of shows are not meant to be open for 25 years.

[54:26] Amber Brzezinski: Like that's not what Broadway is meant to be.

[54:28] Heather Bedor: It's meant to come in, surprise and delight you, entertain you, make you think, make you hmm, and then leave.

[54:37] Amber Brzezinski: So it's just it's kind of fascinating that you know, these seasons, it just kind of feels like this weird roller coastery thing.

[54:45] Heather Bedor: And next season's already stacked.

[54:47] Amber Brzezinski: Like they're talking about Mama Mia coming back, Lost Boys is coming out, like it's great.

[54:52] Heather Bedor: Heather's is yeah, Queen of Versailles.

[54:56] Amber Brzezinski: A lot of the shows that we're we're at.

[54:59] Heather Bedor: Um Jay says this is exactly how I felt about Lampica.

[55:04] Amber Brzezinski: They were robbed.

[55:05] Heather Bedor: Yeah, it's just it's kind of mind-blowing that when you have these shows that are like so poignant, and then it's like replaced with something else.

[55:15] Amber Brzezinski: Believe says midnight in the garden of good and evil.

[55:17] Heather Bedor: So, you know, what do you guys think?

[55:19] Amber Brzezinski: Give us in our peanut clock peanut butter peanuts gallery and our comment section.

[55:26] Heather Bedor: I can talk tonight.

[55:27] Amber Brzezinski: What do you guys think?

[55:28] Heather Bedor: Who would you like to see hit for best musical, best play?

[55:32] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and I'm gonna throw the same questions to me and Amber.

[55:35] Heather Bedor: Best actor in a musical, best actress in a musical.

[55:39] Heather Bedor: Um, you know, best stage design, like set design, best um music, like best book.

[55:46] Amber Brzezinski: What do you think?

[55:52] Heather Bedor: I think let's go best.

[55:56] Amber Brzezinski: What are we doing first?

[55:57] Heather Bedor: Best musical.

[55:59] Amber Brzezinski: I think it's going to maybe happy ending.

[56:01] Heather Bedor: I think so too. I would love to see that happen.

[56:04] Amber Brzezinski: I agree, yeah. I think maybe happy ending is just in a class above itself.

[56:15] Heather Bedor: Like it is just a good thing. It's a new scene that makes you think. It's just so unique.

[56:20] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. It's so unique and it's got a talented cast. My god, do they have talent?

[56:26] Heather Bedor: Um and it's simplistic, yes, yet it's high technology. It's great.

[56:31] Amber Brzezinski: Um, okay. Best actor in a musical.

[56:45] Heather Bedor: I want my sweet baby angel Tom Francis to get it.

[56:49] Amber Brzezinski: I know you do. However, however, in my heart of hearts, uh are we saying who do we think is gonna win or who do we want to get it? Because I feel like those are two different answers.

[57:02] Heather Bedor: Let's do both.

[57:04] Amber Brzezinski: Okay, in my heart of hearts, I think it's gonna go to Jonathan Groff.

[57:08] Heather Bedor: Yeah.

[57:09] Amber Brzezinski: I want I want Johnny to get it again. Um I can also see it going to Darren.

[57:14] Heather Bedor: Yeah. I can see it going to Darren.

[57:16] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I think he's been around the block long enough. I would love to see Jonathan Groff hit it with just in time. Um, so we'll see for sure. I would love Andrew Duran to get it, but I don't think that would happen.

[57:28] Heather Bedor: Um yet.

[57:30] Amber Brzezinski: Yet. Um he's almost there. Um especially because you know 75 minutes or 65 minutes of a show, he's just dead.

[57:41] Heather Bedor: No offense.

[57:41] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[57:42] Heather Bedor: Um, okay. Um best musical.

[57:49] Amber Brzezinski: We did that.

[57:50] Heather Bedor: I don't know. My brain is not processing.

[57:54] Amber Brzezinski: We literally just did that five years ago.

[57:57] Heather Bedor: I want you to do it again.

[57:59] Amber Brzezinski: Um I'm gonna say maybe happy ending.

[58:04] Heather Bedor: We're still gonna go through maybe happy ending. All right, I'm trying to see if you can do your mind because you really want Jonathan to win.

[58:10] Amber Brzezinski: But you also forgot about swept away.

[58:14] Heather Bedor: No, I know. I did not forget about them. I just I'm giving you an opportunity to change your mind.

[58:25] Amber Brzezinski: I just think it's going maybe out in the let's go best set design.

[58:25] Heather Bedor: Best set design.

[58:32] Amber Brzezinski: Ooh. Um, I haven't seen boop, so I feel like it would be between boop and death becomes her.

[58:50] Heather Bedor: Okay.

[58:51] Amber Brzezinski: I can get on that for sure.

[58:53] Heather Bedor: For sure.

[58:54] Amber Brzezinski: Or also swept away.

[58:57] Heather Bedor: Yeah, because of the ship.

[58:58] Amber Brzezinski: Because of the damn ship.

[59:00] Heather Bedor: Because of the ship.

[59:01] Amber Brzezinski: Yep. Um, yeah, no, I think so for sure.

[59:05] Heather Bedor: For sure. Um, I want swept to get something, and maybe it'll be like best lighting, because it was pretty good.

[59:06] Amber Brzezinski: Pretty good.

[59:12] Heather Bedor: But death becomes her could also be in that because of the stunt down the stairs.

[59:17] Amber Brzezinski: Right.

[59:18] Heather Bedor: So there's a lot to it. Alright, let's go best choreo.

[59:22] Amber Brzezinski: Again, that's a tie-up between boop and death becomes her, I think.

[59:27] Heather Bedor: Yeah, because it's more the crowd pleasing.

[59:29] Amber Brzezinski: It's fun though, because there is some great choreo and pirates.

[59:33] Heather Bedor: Some great choreo, but I think boop, because it is a lot of tap dancing, there's like integrated of like street dancing, like hip-hop. It's really cool.

[59:43] Amber Brzezinski: Um very cool, but it's like massive, this massive ensemble. Um, okay. Um I don't know. I'm trying to think of like a fun one.

[59:55] Heather Bedor: Um what about director?

[1:00:00] Amber Brzezinski: Ooh, I like it. Um honestly, I could see sweat for that.

[1:00:07] Heather Bedor: Okay.

[1:00:08] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah. Okay, Mary Francis comes up with a new one, mince meat.

[1:00:12] Heather Bedor: I I like it. Mince is great, but what would you do for mints? What would you what would you say minced meat would be good for?

[1:00:20] Amber Brzezinski: Um, okay. You're gonna go over John Proctor.

[1:00:33] Heather Bedor: Yeah, okay. And Olivia's coming in for best director, saying Jamie over at Sunset.

[1:00:38] Amber Brzezinski: I can see that. I I agree with Olivia for sure.

[1:00:42] Heather Bedor: So I mean, I think there's a lot. We'll find out in the morning. Um, we'll be keeping everybody very adamantly posted. Um, I will be watching them live. Amber will probably be at the office doing the same thing and not supposed to be doing that, but we'll do our best to cover it as the announcements are coming out.

[1:00:59] Amber Brzezinski: Um, well, we did best actor. What about best actress?

[1:01:02] Heather Bedor: I knew that was coming.

[1:01:04] Amber Brzezinski: No, I have a hard time with that though.

[1:01:07] Heather Bedor: Our time.

[1:01:07] Amber Brzezinski: I don't care.

[1:01:07] Heather Bedor: I asked you first.

[1:01:08] Amber Brzezinski: I asked you first.

[1:01:09] Heather Bedor: Oh, I don't like it. Um best actress in a musical or play.

[1:01:14] Amber Brzezinski: Like best feature actress in a play, best music.

[1:01:18] Heather Bedor: Let me go to my list.

[1:01:22] Amber Brzezinski: Okay.

[1:01:24] Heather Bedor: I'm gonna get so much hate for this. I hope I don't get a hate for this. I'm gonna save us. So before I saw Jasmine and Boop, I was down for Nicole. Even though I'm not a Nicole Schusinger fan, I thought Nicole was gonna get it over Audra.

[1:01:40] Amber Brzezinski: Um I'm not leaving Megan and Jennifer out of anything, and I have not seen Smash to be able to say okay yes or no. And I haven't seen last five years to say okay, yes or no. I think if I go based off of you have a female protagonist, so a main character that carries the entire show and pretty much is in every scene.

[1:02:04] Heather Bedor: I would say Jasmine. I think Jasmine's gotta do something for her Broadway debut. I want the show to do so well, but she is up there busting her hump every freaking scene, and it's incredible to watch. Incredible.

[1:02:19] Amber Brzezinski: Um I know where you're going with it. So but I would love to see Jasmine win it. Um I think that Nicole will still take it. What about you?

[1:02:35] Heather Bedor: Might I remind you.

[1:02:38] Amber Brzezinski: It's also Nicole's Broadway debut.

[1:02:43] Heather Bedor: Yes.

[1:02:44] Amber Brzezinski: I'm just saying, but she's not tap dancing every five minutes.

[1:02:48] Heather Bedor: Alright, I'm just saying.

[1:02:52] Amber Brzezinski: I'm just saying. But go on.

[1:02:55] Heather Bedor: It's her Broadway debut, too.

[1:02:56] Amber Brzezinski: But go on. So let me hear your list.

[1:02:59] Heather Bedor: Um, you want all my nominees?

[1:03:02] Amber Brzezinski: Yes.

[1:03:03] Heather Bedor: Um, I think it's gonna be Audra and Nicole. I think it's going to be Helen Jay Shen.

[1:03:09] Amber Brzezinski: Absolutely. Yes, Helen is great. Absolutely.

[1:03:11] Heather Bedor: Um, I think Jasmine will get a nom based on everything you're telling me.

[1:03:18] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah.

[1:03:20] Heather Bedor: And I'm thinking it will be a Megan or Jennifer situation.

[1:03:24] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, yeah. No, Jay says, girls, stop fighting.

[1:03:31] Heather Bedor: Um, and then Patty says, Oh no, I missed your pick for best actor. I don't think we've gone over officially best actor, although we kind of did go over best actor.

[1:03:39] Amber Brzezinski: Um, I think I kind of want to add John Gallagher back into the running.

[1:03:43] Heather Bedor: True.

[1:03:44] Amber Brzezinski: I want in my heart of hearts, I want John Gallagher Jr. to get some sort of something playing mate. I would love him to be nominated for best actor. Like I said, I give him a nomination. I would love it. Give him a nom.

[1:03:57] Heather Bedor: Um, I just want to add him back in for best actor. But to kind of uh wrap that, Patty.

[1:04:03] Amber Brzezinski: Um, we were talking about um Tom Francis versus Darren Chris versus Jonathan Roth, and then I'm adding John Gallagher Jr. in.

[1:04:11] Heather Bedor: Andrew Duran and potentially Jeremy Dor, Jeremy Jordan.

[1:04:17] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, all of the above. Um, all of you above.

[1:04:20] Heather Bedor: And I mean we could completely miss the mark, and Christian Burrell get nominated for Tammy Faye.

[1:04:27] Amber Brzezinski: Right. There's a lot of there's a lot of ifs and what's and whatnots.

[1:04:31] Heather Bedor: So um, I don't know either.

[1:04:35] Amber Brzezinski: And I just it's an it's a weird season, guys. It's a really weird season because usually like Amber and I are like, oh, it's totally this. I think we're both going, I don't know. Like, I want this, but like it could happen, but this, but I don't know.

[1:04:50] Heather Bedor: Um, Jay, Tammy Faye, Tammy who yeah, it's fair.

[1:04:56] Amber Brzezinski: Um I heard of Christian Burl for the first time on the Broadway cruise last year.

[1:05:02] Heather Bedor: Casey, excuse me, you're coming back in the studio. Ma'am, you're on mute.

[1:05:09] Casey: Yeah, I know. I need to just keep that I can give you shit right here and now it's fantastic.

[1:05:14] Heather Bedor: Really? That was the first day you ever heard of Christian?

[1:05:17] Casey: Yeah.

[1:05:18] Heather Bedor: Which is surprising because he was in Legally Blonde and I love Legally Blonde.

[1:05:22] Casey: So yes, he was. He was actually at the Museum of Broadway yesterday when everything was wrapping for the um the search for El Woods.

[1:05:29] Heather Bedor: So Christian and Lauren Belt Undy were there. And Seth Rudeski.

[1:05:37] Casey: Seriously.

[1:05:38] Heather Bedor: I'm so she's gonna go back into her Casey's corner over there. Um, and we're gonna wrap up because it is 906.

[1:05:47] Amber Brzezinski: Yeah, it's something. Do you know where your children are?

[1:05:50] Heather Bedor: Um, mine's right behind me in there. Yours is there, and Amber has for each other.

[1:05:55] Amber Brzezinski: I have dog children, yeah.

[1:05:57] Heather Bedor: I have ghosts.

[1:06:00] Amber Brzezinski: Yes, Jeffrey Cohen loved him in Little Shop.

[1:06:03] Heather Bedor: Damn right. I got to see Christian in Little Shop. And the first thing I ever said to him after the stage door when I saw him at the Broadway cruise last year was, I got to watch her nine and a half minute death as Orin at Little Shop.

[1:06:16] Amber Brzezinski: And he goes, Oh my god, I'm so sorry.

[1:06:18] Heather Bedor: I said, No, it was the best nine and a half minutes of my life.

[1:06:20] Amber Brzezinski: Um, Juliet, yes, he was in some like it hot.

[1:06:23] Heather Bedor: He was fantastic too.

[1:06:25] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and I have a fun story about that year's Tony as I was walking out of juniors and Christian was a little bit inebriated walking the red carpet they had leading into the theater and was trying to take selfies of his friends that were in front of him.

[1:06:38] Heather Bedor: I kept kneeling down and falling over and burping. So that was really fun.

[1:06:43] Amber Brzezinski: Anyways, we have so much much, much, much, much more to talk about.

[1:06:48] Heather Bedor: Um, Casey, you hung in there the whole show. You didn't leave us in a cloud of smoke. So thank you for that.

[1:06:53] Casey: You're welcome.

[1:06:54] Heather Bedor: Um, my husband's hungry and he's like, when's dinner? We're all gonna, we're gonna end just to do that.

[1:07:00] Amber Brzezinski: Um, also some housekeeping for everybody. Um don't forget to check out our website, www.broadwayfanclub.com. There you can see our merch.

[1:07:09] Heather Bedor: We have our bracelet bonanza. Don't forget for your Tony's party. We can do custom bracelets, we can do all of the fun stuff.

[1:07:18] Amber Brzezinski: Um, Amber's got all sorts of baubles and trinkets and whatnot. We have had a lot of people asking us where to go stay when they're staying in the city.

[1:07:27] Heather Bedor: So don't forget that you can use our code for the W Timesquare to the Marriott property. It's E7103. You can also use that at the Weston Times Square off 39th, both really great properties.

[1:07:38] Amber Brzezinski: Very appreciative to both of them for making sure they take care of our members for sure.

[1:07:44] Heather Bedor: But we appreciate you guys. We'll see you next Monday. Um, which is Cinco de Mayo.

[1:07:49] Amber Brzezinski: We'll say hola, and uh I will probably be drinking a margarita.

[1:07:54] Heather Bedor: Amber is what is what's happening here?

[1:07:56] Amber Brzezinski: Uh, should we mention Broadway weekends?

[1:08:00] Heather Bedor: Um, we'll talk about that after the show.

[1:08:03] Amber Brzezinski: Okay.

[1:08:04] Heather Bedor: Yeah. It's coming up soon. If they've used the promo code that we had, they absolutely can use the promo code on Broadway weekends. Go to Broadway Weekends.com.

[1:08:11] Amber Brzezinski: But yeah, for sure. Join us next Monday, May 5th at 8 p.m. Uh, where we are gonna sit here and be.

[1:08:21] Heather Bedor: I'm drinking margarita, screw it.

[1:08:23] Amber Brzezinski: Uh I don't drink.

[1:08:26] Heather Bedor: You can have some tacos.

[1:08:28] Amber Brzezinski: Casey will drink if she has a drink package on.

[1:08:33] Heather Bedor: But we really appreciate you guys joining us for this midweek breakdown of Tony's. Um, definitely make sure you're following us on social media at the Broadway fan club um directly on our Facebook page, our Facebook group.

[1:08:46] Amber Brzezinski: If you go to our website, you can actually see almost all 102 groups that we're operating.

[1:08:52] Heather Bedor: And if you're on Instagram, it's at the B Way.

[1:08:55] Amber Brzezinski: So B W A Yannot Dog.

[1:08:58] Heather Bedor: B Way fan club.

[1:09:00] Amber Brzezinski: And then you will see your Instagram, which is where we'll also be updating all the nominations in the morning.

[1:09:05] Heather Bedor: I am tired and I'm gonna go get dinner. I hope that you guys have a great time uh going to sleep or staying up and making sure you don't miss the nominations.

[1:09:14] Amber Brzezinski: Casey, thanks for hanging out with us.

[1:09:16] Casey: You're welcome. I'm going to let dogs outside.

[1:09:19] Heather Bedor: Okay, who let the dog out and forgive. Good morning.

[1:09:22] Amber Brzezinski: Good night, everybody. Happy Wednesday.

[1:09:25] Heather Bedor: See you guys next week.

[1:09:27] Amber Brzezinski: Ciao for now.