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[0:06] Jesse McInally: Hello, I'm Jesse McInally.

[0:08] Andrew DeWolf: And I'm Andrew DeWolf.

[0:09] Brianna Jones: And I'm Brianna Jones.

[0:11] Jesse McInally: And welcome to Musicals with Cheese, a podcast where I try to get Andrew and Brie to like musical theater.

[0:15] Andrew DeWolf: Andrew, how are you doing today?

[0:17] Andrew DeWolf: I am doing fantastic. Actually, I have a great offer for you.

[0:20] Jesse McInally: Oh, okay, I'm ready.

[0:21] Andrew DeWolf: I love an offer.

[0:23] Andrew DeWolf: So I've got this really good investment that I think you should take. I'm starting a casino in Miami.

[0:29] Jesse McInally: Alright. I'm listening.

[0:30] Andrew DeWolf: Uh, Miami, everyone's favorite place to be.

[0:32] Andrew DeWolf: Everyone loves Miami, and the weather there is always fantastic.

[0:36] Andrew DeWolf: Um, so I'm thinking you just throw down all of the money, and you know, we make this thing happen. What do you think?

[0:44] Jesse McInally: I don't know. I get it. I'm a little ashamed my wife makes more than me.

[0:51] Andrew DeWolf: Wow, what a coincidence. Me as well. That's why I'm doing this.

[0:59] Jesse McInally: Okay, okay. I'm in, but also you're going to jail for tax reasons or something.

[1:05] Andrew DeWolf: Embezzling. I did an illegal thing off screen. Because my wife makes more than me, and I felt emasculated.

[1:14] Jesse McInally: I'm so emasculated. Not even my ruffled suit can help.

[1:19] Andrew DeWolf: And your wife, she's such a funny girl.

[1:23] Jesse McInally: What are we talking about?

[1:25] Andrew DeWolf: I lost everything. Um, this week we are talking about the Broadway classic Funny Girl.

[1:32] Andrew DeWolf: Hue the music free.

[1:45] ♪ Musical number: "Don't Rain on My Parade" — performed by Barbara Streisand ♪

[2:01] Jesse McInally: So Funny Girl is a musical written by Isabel Lennart, and the revival had revisions by Harvey Fierstein, with music and lyrics by Jules Stein and Bob Merrill, based on the life of Fanny Brice. It premiered March 26, 1964 at the Winter Garden Theater, subsequently transferring to the Majestic Theater and then the Broadway Theater, where it closed on July 1st, 1967 to complete its total run of 1,348 Broadway performances.

[2:26] Jesse McInally: A revival of the show, starring Beanie Feldstein of Booksmart, was with a revised book by Harvey Fierstein, opened on Broadway on April 24th, 2022, coinciding with Barbara Streisand's 80th birthday. The plot of Funny Girl is Jewel Stein and Bob Merrill, and Isabel Lennart's musicalized the life of Fanny Brice, who rose from the ranks of Brooklyn Vaudeville to headline the Ziegfeld Follies but found unhappiness in her marriage to gambler Nick Arnstein.

[2:52] Jesse McInally: Alright, Andrew, let's talk some Funny Girl. Um, what did you think of it?

[2:54] Andrew DeWolf: I mean I feel like it's been so long since it's just us, like being us. Like what do you think of this show?

[3:02] Andrew DeWolf: Honestly, I kinda liked it.

[3:03] Jesse McInally: Just kind of?

[3:04] Andrew DeWolf: I mean, yeah, just kind of. I don't think it was like, you know, one of the greatest of all time or anything, and it seems like no one else does either, since it didn't get revived for 40 years or sixty years or however.

[3:15] Jesse McInally: We're gonna go into that. We're gonna talk a little bit about that, but that is a point. But I mean it's got some pretty good songs in it. And I don't know, I have a thing that I like, which is gambling con men.

[3:30] Andrew DeWolf: That's just a specific thing.

[3:32] Jesse McInally: It is just kind of a specific thing that I like, and there's a lot of it in here, you know. Uh we've been keeping you out since The Music Man. There hasn't been a lot of gambling con men in the musicals since then.

[3:41] Andrew DeWolf: I think I spoke about this in our Music Man episode, but I am a huge fan of con men, um and salespeople and things like that, and this is the first time since Music Man where we really got that. So I'm here for it.

[3:53] Jesse McInally: So Brie, as someone who is a layman, what do you know about Funny Girl?

[3:57] Brianna Jones: Oh, absolutely nothing.

[3:59] Jesse McInally: Okay, so you don't even know the Barbara Streisand of it all.

[4:01] Brianna Jones: Barbara Streisand.

[4:03] Brianna Jones: Barbara Streisand.

[4:04] Brianna Jones: I do know that because of previews, but for the sake of this bit, no, I don't.

[4:10] Jesse McInally: Okay. So let's talk about the history of Funny Girl. Um, so this was a project that was really, really difficult to put on the stage. Um, did you know there was basically everyone in Broadway was attached to Funny Girl at one point or another?

[4:25] Jesse McInally: Um really it was Ray Stark who commissioned like the musical or the original autobiography for Brice, Isabel Lennart, who did the book's really, really big like passion project. And it was originally developed for Mary Martin, who originated the role of uh Maria from The Sound of Music and was Peter Pan in Peter Pan. Very white blonde woman to play the very Jewish Fanny Brice, which not a great look.

[4:50] Jesse McInally: Um, so she was origin. Um, guess who was originally contacted to do the music and lyrics?

[4:55] Andrew DeWolf: Oh boy, do I have to guess?

[4:57] Jesse McInally: No, just throw a guess.

[4:58] Andrew DeWolf: Who, who at this time do we talk about way too much?

[5:01] Jesse McInally: Um, what is this, 1968?

[5:04] Andrew DeWolf: Yep.

[5:04] Andrew DeWolf: Uh oh jeez.

[5:05] Jesse McInally: Is it Sondheim?

[5:06] Andrew DeWolf: Yes, it is.

[5:07] Jesse McInally: So it was Jules Stein and Stephen Sondheim were brought in to compose the score, but Sondheim left the production, stating I don't want to do the life of Fanny Brice with Mary Martin. She's not Jewish. She needs someone ethnic for the part. And shortly after that, Martin left the production as well.

[5:23] Jesse McInally: Um, so then we bring in Jerome Robbins, who we all know is like a very ideal person, but and would eventually take it to where it would eventually be. But you know who else was temporarily brought in to direct the show?

[5:37] Andrew DeWolf: Uh who's the other person we always talk about during these times?

[5:40] Jesse McInally: He was known for being a director. It was like Hal Prince.

[5:42] Andrew DeWolf: The other one.

[5:45] Jesse McInally: Oh, jeez, I don't know the other one.

[5:47] Andrew DeWolf: The dancey one.

[5:48] Jesse McInally: Oh, oh. I actually I know who you're talking about, and I can't remember his name right now.

[5:52] Andrew DeWolf: It's your favorite movie guy.

[5:54] Jesse McInally: Bob Fosse.

[5:55] Andrew DeWolf: Bob Fosse, that's it, yeah.

[5:57] Jesse McInally: Um, so originally, then Bob Fosse was developing it for Carol Burnett, who is also just fundamentally wrong for the role, and then he left, and he was eventually replaced by I believe Jerome Robbins, who was also very well known for doing Garson Canaan and choreographed by Carol Haney under the supervision of Jerome Robbins. So that's what eventually happened.

[6:19] Jesse McInally: So all of that came in, and then Barbara Streisand takes over the role at long last. She's this big nobody, very Jewish, but immediately starts turning the show to her own advantages. Um for example, you have Nick's song, um, I am man, you are a woman, right?

[6:34] Andrew DeWolf: Yes.

[6:35] Jesse McInally: That was originally a solo, and then the song just wasn't working, and then the director's like, you know what? Write Barb some lyrics in here, and we'll see if we can make this work. And everyone else in the production is just getting pissed off because every other song was being turned into a Barbara Streisand song, a song for Fanny. Um just because Barb could actually sing this shit and knock it out the park.

[6:55] Jesse McInally: And she's someone who is big in Broadway that we have really yet to talk about in our entire coverage in our nearly 200 episodes of musicals, which I think we've mentioned her once.

[7:04] Andrew DeWolf: The Barbara Streisand special.

[7:06] Jesse McInally: Here we are. Ah, we finally got there. There's a lot more to talk about with her, but this is the first big one.

[7:12] Andrew DeWolf: We need Streisand Month.

[7:14] Jesse McInally: Where's Streisand?

[7:15] Andrew DeWolf: Uh-huh.

[7:17] Jesse McInally: Um I'm not ready for that. I don't think I could do that. I don't think I have the emotional willpower, to be honest.

[7:23] Andrew DeWolf: Streisand effects.

[7:24] Jesse McInally: Um that, that, that, that's much later in her life. But the Streisand effect here was turning an entire musical around one actress that can nail it. However, no other actor could ever step into the role because no one has those specific sets of traits, which is why it was nearly impossible to revive this for nearly half a century.

[7:43] Andrew DeWolf: Could have just gotten Barbara Streisand to do it again.

[7:45] Jesse McInally: She didn't really have interest. She did the movie, um, which I watched a lot. I have seen this movie quite a bit. Um you did not watch the movie, you didn't have time for it because unforeseen circumstances, but the movie is a pretty interesting time capsule of Barbara Streisand's performance.

[8:01] Jesse McInally: But on the when this came out on Broadway, it was up against another big happy jazzy musical called Hello Dolly, where Carol Channing charmed everyone's pants off, and everyone was like, that's great. And so it's Barbara Streisand versus Carol Channing, and Carol Channing wins the best actress.

[8:16] Andrew DeWolf: Barbara Streisand stands up in her seat and screams out, "You're all anti-Semitic," and then storms out of the Tony awards.

[8:22] Jesse McInally: Hell yeah. Um, I love Carol Channing. Um by all accounts, yes, that is. And my resource there is my little Tony's. Not that the story is true. Did she actually not get it because of anti-Semitism?

[8:35] Andrew DeWolf: I don't think so. I think Carol Channing's just very charming.

[8:38] Jesse McInally: That being said, Barbara Streisand took that so to heart that when it came to the Hello Dolly movie, she campaigned to take the role so Carol Channing couldn't have it. So Carol Channing couldn't be the role she made iconic on Broadway.

[8:50] Andrew DeWolf: Um and it doesn't work because she was like 21 at the time.

[8:53] Jesse McInally: Uh Barbara Streisand was a child, and that act that is an old widower in that musical doesn't work and ruined an entire musical.

[9:00] Andrew DeWolf: Um so Barbara Streisand goes on to perform Fanny Brice in the movie version of um Funny Girl, which was very, very well received and pretty much made her a movie star on top of the big Broadway star she was.

[9:13] Jesse McInally: She tied for the Academy Award there, though, which I don't think ever happened. Like she won Best Actress and tied with um, let me see the other actor's name.

[9:23] Andrew DeWolf: I don't know that they could tie.

[9:25] Jesse McInally: Yeah, they can, and um what's her name? Uh Bekind Rewind did an incredible video about the tie. I want to figure out who it is.

[9:32] Andrew DeWolf: Um but Catherine Hepburn.

[9:33] Jesse McInally: So they tied for Catherine Hepburn in the 1969 Oscar race. Um, so the thing I'm trying to make crystal clear is Barbara Streisand was Fanny Brice in a way that even the other divas at the time weren't their characters. Carol Channing was by all means Dolly Levi, but if Bette Midler's gonna step in, it still works. Um Ethel Merman was Mama Rose, but if Patti LuPone's gonna step in there, it still works. No one has ever really been able to step into this role ever.

[10:01] Andrew DeWolf: And to this day, the shadow looms large of Barbara Streisand over this role so much that when the closest thing to a revival we've had was a 2002 Kennedy Center performance, um, where instead of one actress playing Fanny Brice, in each scene there was a different Broadway actress playing Fanny where the rest of the cast stays the same.

[10:21] Jesse McInally: So you start with Sutton Foster, Whoopi Goldberg, Judy Kuhn, Jane Krakowski, all these A-list actresses stepping in for one song because no one else could do this role. She is in every single number and she has to belt with all of her throat the entire time. This is not an easy role to do, even for the best of actresses.

[10:39] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[10:40] Jesse McInally: And there were attempts to get it revived. I'm looking at the song list here, and there's like three songs where she doesn't sing.

[10:48] Jesse McInally: And there were attempts to get it revived. Um like once, right before the pandemic, and I think around 2018, they had built sets and everything, got canceled, producers pulled out, and it did not happen for real until 2022 with Beanie Feldstein.

[11:02] Andrew DeWolf: And then Beanie Feldstein is a movie actress. She could probably sing a note or two and make it sound really good. She's in the Marilee movie that will come out in when we're all dead.

[11:11] Jesse McInally: Um Yeah, we'll never get, we will never see that.

[11:13] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, it will never be covered on this podcast.

[11:16] Jesse McInally: This podcast will probably be gone for like 20 years by the time that comes out.

[11:20] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, uh, that guy with the glasses will be reigning strong again, though.

[11:23] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[11:23] Andrew DeWolf: Doug Walker will never die.

[11:25] Jesse McInally: He will review it. You know, I thought it was pretty good.

[11:29] Andrew DeWolf: Um that is the reason why this show has such a lasting impression.

[11:35] Jesse McInally: And as Brie will tell us later in the preview segment, every review basically it's like, you know what? No one can step into Barb's shoes, and the woman's eighty years old, like half a century's past, and still no one can fill those shoes.

[11:47] Andrew DeWolf: Barb can't wear those shoes anymore. You kidding me?

[11:50] Jesse McInally: Um, so what does that context give to you, Andrew, after seeing that show and seeing all that?

[11:56] Andrew DeWolf: I mean, the one I saw was pretty decent, I thought. For context, Andrew watched the West End revival um that they did and screened in cinemas a few years ago.

[12:05] Jesse McInally: Um, because I want him to get the full experience of the show, which I don't think the movie gives.

[12:09] Andrew DeWolf: The movie gives a different experience, which is Barbara Streisand's really pretty, isn't she?

[12:13] Jesse McInally: Yeah, which I mean fair, but cool, you know.

[12:15] Andrew DeWolf: Okay. What is the plot of Funny Girl, Andrew?

[12:18] Andrew DeWolf: Um Funny Girl is about Fanny, uh Fanny Brice.

[12:23] Andrew DeWolf: Is that the right last name?

[12:24] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[12:24] Andrew DeWolf: Um, who uh is a she's trying to be an actress.

[12:29] Andrew DeWolf: Um I I don't actually know what she's in.

[12:32] Jesse McInally: Are they all the follies?

[12:33] Andrew DeWolf: Uh she's in the vaudeville.

[12:34] Jesse McInally: Yeah, vaudeville to the follies.

[12:35] Andrew DeWolf: Okay. So she's trying to become successful.

[12:38] Andrew DeWolf: She isn't doing great, but then she gets given a chance by this uh dance uh choreographer guy um who kind of just gets friend zoned.

[12:48] Andrew DeWolf: Uh running theme this week.

[12:51] Jesse McInally: Uh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, next week.

[12:54] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, a lot of friend zone talk.

[12:56] Jesse McInally: Um, so she gets to go out and she's a very big success, and this uh very uh rich looking gentleman, uh uh what is his name?

[13:05] Jesse McInally: Nicky Arnstein.

[13:06] Andrew DeWolf: Yep, or Nick Arnstein, they have different names for him.

[13:09] Jesse McInally: Nicholas Arnstein.

[13:10] Andrew DeWolf: Nick, Nick.

[13:12] Jesse McInally: Nicky.

[13:13] Andrew DeWolf: This Nick guy is really, he looks like a really wealthy gentleman, comes in and he basically gets her a good job and then she is able to move up to the, um, the Follies.

[13:25] Jesse McInally: The, um, what's the guy's name?

[13:27] Andrew DeWolf: The, uh, it's not really that important.

[13:29] Jesse McInally: But, um, Zigfield.

[13:30] Andrew DeWolf: The Zigfield Follies.

[13:31] Jesse McInally: And that's like, that's like the big thing, and everyone's super happy that she got in.

[13:36] Andrew DeWolf: But she, she gets in by using her own traits of being a funny girl.

[13:41] Jesse McInally: She's not gonna play by their rules.

[13:43] Andrew DeWolf: She's not gonna be the butt of the joke.

[13:45] Jesse McInally: Yeah, she tells her own jokes instead.

[13:47] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[13:47] Jesse McInally: Um, yeah, because that's like a big part of it, is she is, uh, not like a traditionally attractive woman, or at least, uh, according to the show itself.

[13:56] Andrew DeWolf: Um, so she's more of a comedian, um, in all the roles that she takes.

[14:01] Jesse McInally: But they wanted, they wanted her to just be like the ugly girl everyone laughs at, but she's like, No, I'm gonna tell jokes.

[14:07] Andrew DeWolf: And it ends up working a lot better.

[14:09] Jesse McInally: And she has a lot of staying power because of that.

[14:12] Andrew DeWolf: And Nick Arnstein, uh, wants to, uh, wants to date her, basically.

[14:17] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[14:17] Andrew DeWolf: And eventually they get married.

[14:19] Jesse McInally: Yeah, because, and then she sings a song about being named Sadie because all married women are named Sadie.

[14:24] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, which is just kind of a weird thing.

[14:26] Jesse McInally: I, it's one of those things where I feel like the song came first.

[14:29] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, I kind of feel that as well.

[14:31] Jesse McInally: And there's like a weird moment where like Nick calls her Sadie, and I'm like, wait, is this implying that he doesn't remember her name or like what's going on?

[14:40] Andrew DeWolf: No, no, that was to say, like, I'm ready to marry you.

[14:42] Jesse McInally: Yeah, I, I figured that out later, but at first I was like, I was like, wait, are they trying to imply that he's like a cheat that doesn't like, doesn't really love her or something?

[14:50] Andrew DeWolf: I kept waiting for that to drop, but that never happened.

[14:53] Jesse McInally: No, no.

[14:53] Andrew DeWolf: Which is actually good.

[14:54] Jesse McInally: I'm glad that never happened to be.

[14:56] Andrew DeWolf: But that's more accurate to real life, sadly enough.

[14:58] Jesse McInally: So Fanny Brice is actually a fairly tragic figure in reality.

[15:02] Andrew DeWolf: Um, died at like age 59.

[15:05] Jesse McInally: Husbands left her just for her money and then just sold her out and cheated on her all the time.

[15:11] Andrew DeWolf: Like, she wasn't not living her best life.

[15:13] Jesse McInally: And this movie kind of rewrites her history a little bit to give it a happier tint.

[15:18] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, I mean it changes a lot of stuff.

[15:20] Jesse McInally: I was reading up on like the actual history.

[15:22] Andrew DeWolf: Like, uh, in this, in this, Nick goes to jail and then they break up, but in the act, in like real life, he was in jail when they started dating.

[15:30] Jesse McInally: Um, sometimes you need to change a narrative to make people seem smarter.

[15:35] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[15:35] Jesse McInally: Um, yeah, so basically, uh, act two is like they're married and they're living happy, but Nick is, uh, not making very much money, and she's making more money, and he's emasculated and needs to be more.

[15:48] Andrew DeWolf: He got small dick syndrome.

[15:50] Jesse McInally: So he can't find any investors for his big casino project.

[15:53] Andrew DeWolf: Um, so he has her invest in it, even though that's not a great idea, probably.

[15:58] Jesse McInally: Um, and then the casino gets wiped out by a hurricane, and then he decides, well, now my only chance is to literally break the law and do illegal embezzlement, and then he goes to prison, and then he gets out and they break up in the end.

[16:12] Andrew DeWolf: Okay, so the movie does something different, which is interesting, because I'm much more familiar with the movie.

[16:17] Jesse McInally: Uh, I've seen the stage show, I watched the same thing.

[16:19] Andrew DeWolf: But the movie literally has him gamble a bunch, lose a bunch, um, and then his old buddy comes in and he's like, Hey, hey, you guy.

[16:29] Jesse McInally: We, we got this new plan coming up, like, um, I'm putting up 50 grand into it, my buddy's putting 50 grand.

[16:34] Andrew DeWolf: He's like, Alright, then what am I putting into it?

[16:36] Jesse McInally: He's like, Nothing, you're good, you're gold.

[16:38] Andrew DeWolf: We just want your, your smarts.

[16:39] Jesse McInally: And then Nick's like turns to Barbara Streisand, he's like, How much did you put into it?

[16:43] Andrew DeWolf: 50,000.

[16:44] Jesse McInally: Get out of my house!

[16:46] Andrew DeWolf: How dare you?

[16:47] Jesse McInally: They do that as in this as well.

[16:49] Andrew DeWolf: In the stage show.

[16:50] Jesse McInally: It's just a little bit different, and it's like, it's not that important really, but it's like right when he decides to do the illegal thing.

[16:57] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, that was like his turning point.

[16:58] Jesse McInally: How dare my wife trick me?

[17:00] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, they, it was like a, uh, it was like a actor, um, what do you call them?

[17:05] Jesse McInally: Like a agent agency for actors, basically.

[17:09] Andrew DeWolf: Um, and they were like, Oh, we just want your connections that you have, and it turns out that she put in like a bunch of money.

[17:15] Jesse McInally: Um, what did you think about the character of Fanny?

[17:19] Andrew DeWolf: Um, she felt like a real character, like a real person, like obviously a little bit, um, too forgiving of, uh, her husband in a lot of cases.

[17:29] Jesse McInally: Yeah, but it feels like, like something a real person would be like, you know?

[17:33] Andrew DeWolf: Mm-hmm.

[17:34] Jesse McInally: Um, you didn't feel she was like a little too cartoony, 'cause that has been a critique of the show where it's just like she's always doing the shtick and making faces at the audience and all that.

[17:43] Andrew DeWolf: I, I kind of just feel that that's like a, that's like a coping mechanism almost.

[17:48] Jesse McInally: And they, they portray it that way as well.

[17:50] Andrew DeWolf: It's like every time something really bad happens, she has like a joke immediately ready.

[17:55] Jesse McInally: Um, so I, I didn't feel like it was too much.

[17:58] Andrew DeWolf: And where do you d, like obviously she and Nick don't belong together because, you know, he, he's kind of got his own stuff to worry about.

[18:06] Jesse McInally: Nick is just, um, and I think he, he knows it is the thing, is he's not good enough for her.

[18:12] Andrew DeWolf: Mm-hmm.

[18:13] Jesse McInally: And I think that at the beginning it felt like he was doing her a favor by giving her the time of day.

[18:18] Andrew DeWolf: Like there's like that line where she's like, I was embarrassed because the groom was prettier than the bride, like that kind of stuff.

[18:24] Jesse McInally: Like, and then she grows beyond him in a way.

[18:28] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, and instead of him being able to accept that, it's like he can't accept that he doesn't have the power anymore.

[18:35] Jesse McInally: Mm-hmm.

[18:35] Andrew DeWolf: And the entire second act is just him like desperately trying to reclaim the power of the relationship.

[18:42] Jesse McInally: And it's good to see when it, they finally break up, though I almost wish it wasn't him that initiated the breakout.

[18:48] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, that's always been kind of an issue with me in this musical and a lot of it.

[18:53] Jesse McInally: Uh, Nick has a lot of the agency in this relationship where Fanny doesn't.

[18:57] Andrew DeWolf: Fanny has the agency in her career, which is great, and something different, and her taking control of that is pretty empowering for to see.

[19:05] Jesse McInally: But the relationship side of it, ugh.

[19:07] Andrew DeWolf: You almost want to see at the end her to finally, like the big moment should be her being like, This isn't working.

[19:14] Jesse McInally: And I like, I could see Nick being like, okay, you're right in and leaving without like fighting about it, but I don't think it should be him that is the one that's like, I think we need to break up, it's over, you know?

[19:24] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, um, I, I agree.

[19:27] Jesse McInally: So I, when I first heard about Funny Girl and like the relationship side of it, I expected it to be like a star is born or something like this, where he's like properly abusive, like a real piece of shit.

[19:37] Andrew DeWolf: And he's not actually not, he's not that bad, all things considered.

[19:41] Jesse McInally: I mean, he's bad.

[19:42] Andrew DeWolf: Like he's not a guy you want to be married to, but he's not, you aren't gonna look back at only the bad stuff with this guy.

[19:48] Jesse McInally: No, I mean he's in especially the first act, he's actually a pretty nice guy and like kind of fine.

[19:54] Andrew DeWolf: Uh, it's really act two where he starts to be like, he's just too driven by needing to be the guy that has a lot of money and is, yeah, well respected, and he can't bear that his wife is the one that actually has that.

[20:06] Jesse McInally: It's strange, because I do think he loves his wife, and I do understand why Fanny loves him.

[20:12] Andrew DeWolf: Like, I get both sides of this.

[20:14] Jesse McInally: There's never that like scene where he's like, he's gonna slap her or something, and or like something like that.

[20:19] Andrew DeWolf: And you never concerned that we might.

[20:22] Jesse McInally: No, you never are, which is surprising because this is from like the 60s, which is, there's a lot of musicals there where it's just like, yeah, spousal abuse, that's just a thing.

[20:34] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, that in the romance, it feels very mature.

[20:37] Jesse McInally: I feel like this feels very 21st century, which is why it shocked me that there hasn't been a proper revival so long.

[20:44] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, I think honestly, the whole thing, the only change I would make is what I already said, just give her the agency of breaking the relationship off.

[20:52] Jesse McInally: Allow her to like finally realize that she doesn't need him and that it's not working.

[20:57] Andrew DeWolf: I like the final scene where they meet up much later and they're like, Yeah, what we had was alright, but we're better off.

[21:03] Jesse McInally: We're better humans now.

[21:04] Andrew DeWolf: Which is such a strangely mature way to end a comedy musical.

[21:08] Jesse McInally: So what happens in the sequel?

[21:09] Andrew DeWolf: Um, I have not seen the sequel, but I'm glad you've read into it.

[21:14] Jesse McInally: What, what happens in the sequel to Funny Girl, which is like, what is it, Funny Lady?

[21:19] Andrew DeWolf: I think it's called Funny Woman or something.

[21:21] Jesse McInally: Funny Woman.

[21:22] Andrew DeWolf: I didn't actually read what happens.

[21:23] Jesse McInally: Well, Bree, why don't you tell us what happens in the sequel to Funny Girl?

[21:28] Andrew DeWolf: I feel like that would be a fun little bit of.

[21:30] Jesse McInally: Can we just get the Wikipedia like synopsis?

[21:36] Andrew DeWolf: Alright, Bree.

[21:37] Jesse McInally: We, uh, lay it on us.

[21:38] Andrew DeWolf: I'm very curious.

[21:39] Jesse McInally: I know it's got like overwhelmingly negative reviews.

[21:43] Andrew DeWolf: What can you do?

[21:43] Jesse McInally: Because the, the movie was such a big success, Oscar winning, all of that.

[21:48] Andrew DeWolf: Like, we need to capitalize on it.

[21:49] Jesse McInally: It's the Grease 2.

[21:51] Andrew DeWolf: Okay, it was Funny Lady, by the way.

[21:53] Jesse McInally: It is Funny Lady, okay.

[21:54] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, don't look up Funny Woman because, um, you won't find it, and you'll actually see some weird.

[22:00] Jesse McInally: Pictures of Kate Metakin or something.

[22:02] Andrew DeWolf: Okay, let's see.

[22:04] Jesse McInally: Funny Woman, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[22:06] Andrew DeWolf: Funny Woman.

[22:10] Jesse McInally: Funny Woman, share your smile with me.

[22:14] Andrew DeWolf: Okay, so a Funny Lady um is the sequel to Funny Girl.

[22:20] Jesse McInally: Um, it is a highly fictionalized account of the later life and career of comedian Fanny Brice and her marriage to songwriter Billy Rose.

[22:30] Andrew DeWolf: Oh, it's just the second marriage.

[22:32] Jesse McInally: Yeah, that makes sense.

[22:34] Andrew DeWolf: Um, okay, so Funny Lady received mixed to negative reviews from critics.

[22:39] Jesse McInally: It holds a rating of 29% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews.

[22:45] Andrew DeWolf: Um, let's see.

[22:46] Jesse McInally: Vincent, is there even a plot?

[22:48] Andrew DeWolf: I, I don't know.

[22:49] Jesse McInally: Let's, um, let me look.

[22:51] Andrew DeWolf: How many years later was this?

[22:52] Jesse McInally: Oh, this was like most of a decade later.

[22:55] Andrew DeWolf: So the, the movie came out in like sixty-eight and this came out in seventy-five.

[22:59] Jesse McInally: Maybe this is why there was never a revival.

[23:02] Andrew DeWolf: It got nominated for five Oscars.

[23:04] Jesse McInally: Wait, this did?

[23:05] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[23:05] Jesse McInally: Candor and Ebb wrote songs?

[23:07] Andrew DeWolf: What?

[23:07] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[23:08] Andrew DeWolf: Arnstein came back.

[23:10] Jesse McInally: No, it's not even the guys that, it's not even Jules Stein who did it.

[23:13] Andrew DeWolf: It's the cabaret guys they got.

[23:15] Jesse McInally: They hired the guys that did cabaret and didn't even do Jules Stein again.

[23:19] Andrew DeWolf: There is actually no plot synopsis on Wikipedia.

[23:22] Jesse McInally: No, there's not.

[23:23] Andrew DeWolf: Or on IM, wait, wait, I found one on IMDB.

[23:26] Jesse McInally: Are we ready?

[23:27] Andrew DeWolf: Yes.

[23:27] Jesse McInally: Alright.

[23:28] Andrew DeWolf: The continuing story of Fanny Brice, following that depicted in Funny Girl 1968, is presented.

[23:34] Jesse McInally: An established star on Broadway as a headliner for the Ziegfeld Follies.

[23:38] Andrew DeWolf: Fanny and the rest of the world are hitting difficult times entering into the 1930s.

[23:42] Jesse McInally: Her marriage to Nicky Arnstein, who she still loves, is ending in divorce.

[23:46] Andrew DeWolf: And even Florence Ziegfeld Jr.

[23:48] Jesse McInally: is having trouble coming up with money to continue to produce the Follies.

[23:51] Andrew DeWolf: Along comes brash, nightclub owner and song lyricist and wannabe impresario, Billy Rose, who says he can raise the money and has the material to produce his own review.

[24:00] Jesse McInally: And he wants Fanny to star.

[24:03] Andrew DeWolf: Fanny is both attracted and repelled by Billy because of his stubbornness, and knowing that underneath his outer veneer is the soul of a true hustler.

[24:11] Jesse McInally: Much like she was when she f was first starting out, and much like she still is now.

[24:17] Andrew DeWolf: Though their professional trials and tribulations, they slowly start to fall for each other.

[24:21] Jesse McInally: But Fanny admits that Nikki is still never far from her mind.

[24:25] Andrew DeWolf: I can see why that isn't like, it's the same movie.

[24:29] Jesse McInally: Yeah, we have to, uh, we'll have to cover this on something.

[24:33] Andrew DeWolf: It was, oh go ahead.

[24:34] Jesse McInally: Well, what was that?

[24:35] Andrew DeWolf: I just said yeah.

[24:36] Jesse McInally: Oh, I was gonna say it was the seventh highest grossing picture in nineteen seventy-five.

[24:41] Andrew DeWolf: Like it was up there.

[24:43] Jesse McInally: So people wanted to see it.

[24:44] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[24:45] Jesse McInally: It just wasn't good.

[24:46] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, I mean good for them, I guess.

[24:49] Jesse McInally: Um, James Caan, you know, famous actor, he was in The Godfather in Elf and no other movies.

[24:55] Andrew DeWolf: It was three after three years after he was in The Godfather, he decides, you know what?

[25:00] Jesse McInally: Funny Lady, it's time for me to get funny.

[25:02] Andrew DeWolf: As long as Miss Streisand as Fanny is singing the blues or singing anything else, Funny Lady is superb entertainment.

[25:09] Jesse McInally: But the minute she stops, the movie turns into a concrete souffle.

[25:13] Andrew DeWolf: It's heavy and tasteless.

[25:15] Jesse McInally: That's my review of every Marvel movie.

[25:18] Andrew DeWolf: A concrete souffle, heavy and tasteless.

[25:20] Jesse McInally: Unless, unless Barbara Streisand is singing, Marvel's just really boring.

[25:24] Andrew DeWolf: Yep.

[25:26] Jesse McInally: You know what? That's a pretty good review.

[25:28] Andrew DeWolf: But we should transfer into our favorite section about reviews.

[25:31] Jesse McInally: It's time to compare our opinions to that of the New York theater critics.

[25:34] Andrew DeWolf: It's time for previews.

[25:36] Jesse McInally: It's time for previews.

[25:41] Andrew DeWolf: It's time for previews.

[25:44] Jesse McInally: Alright, Bree.

[25:44] Andrew DeWolf: We've got a lot of reviews.

[25:46] Jesse McInally: Um, courtesy of DidTheyLikeIt.com.

[25:48] Andrew DeWolf: DidTheyLikeIt.com.

[25:50] Jesse McInally: The New York Times, this is March 27th of 1964.

[25:55] Andrew DeWolf: Who wouldn't want to resurrect Fanny Bryce?

[25:59] Brianna Jones: What a what a question.

[26:02] Jesse McInally: Oh my goodness.

[26:03] Brianna Jones: Someone hasn't read Frankenstein.

[26:07] Andrew DeWolf: Funny Frankenstein.

[26:10] Jesse McInally: She was a wonderful entertainer. Since Fanny herself cannot be brought back, the next best thing is to get Barbara Streisand to sing and strut and go through comic routines, a la Bryce.

[26:12] Andrew DeWolf: A la Bryce.

[26:23] Jesse McInally: A la Bryce, I love Bryce. God damn.

[26:26] Andrew DeWolf: Okay. Yes.

[26:30] Jesse McInally: Miss Streisand is well on her way to becoming a splendid entertainer in her own right. And in Funny Girl, she goes as far as any performer can toward recalling the laughter and joy that were Fanny Bryce.

[26:45] Andrew DeWolf: I love this review because for the life of me, I could not figure out who the fuck wrote it. It just says New York Times, it's on their website. No attribution to the writer. I don't know if it was one of the famous ones.

[26:55] Brianna Jones: Barbara Streisand wrote it.

[26:57] Andrew DeWolf: I wrote it.

[26:58] Jesse McInally: Rachel Berry, the character from Glee wrote it. Back in 1964.

[27:02] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, yeah, she did it.

[27:03] Jesse McInally: She time traveled.

[27:04] Andrew DeWolf: I like that in 1964 they actually are talking about Fanny Bryce.

[27:09] Brianna Jones: Since that actually probably wasn't that long ago, was it?

[27:11] Andrew DeWolf: No, no.

[27:12] Brianna Jones: She had like that would have been in their lifetime.

[27:14] Andrew DeWolf: It's what would be an equivalent? It would be like us talking about Diana, Princess Diana.

[27:19] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[27:19] Andrew DeWolf: It's um it almost puts the revival just in a different perspective because it's like nobody actually knows who this person is. It's not like a real character anymore.

[27:25] Brianna Jones: At this point, it's just a character.

[27:27] Andrew DeWolf: At this point, it's Barbara Streisand.

[27:31] Jesse McInally: It's just an extension of her. Yeah. It's uh it's interesting. Well, how you speak of the revival, but how about we transport ourselves into time and talk about that revival?

[27:40] Andrew DeWolf: Yes.

[27:40] Brianna Jones: Oh boy. I can't wait for everyone to say, Where's Barbara Streisand?

[27:46] Jesse McInally: Jesse Green, um, from the New York Times said, This could all have been predicted. Over the years, many revivals have been attempted and defeated because the thing a revival is trying to revive is not to be found in the property itself. It's in the personality of the necessary star.

[28:10] Andrew DeWolf: Someone not nice but inevitable, not diligent, but explosive, not well-rounded, but weird.

[28:22] Brianna Jones: Thanos.

[28:23] Andrew DeWolf: Wait, Thanos is the necessary star. Let's go.

[28:26] Jesse McInally: Sadie, Sadie, merry lady. They don't grow them that way much anymore, nor write new material for them.

[28:36] Brianna Jones: Paging Miss Streisman.

[28:40] Jesse McInally: That's actually what it says.

[28:42] Brianna Jones: It is.

[28:43] Jesse McInally: Um, so fun fact that typo has been thrown around all day. It's like cruel.

[28:50] Andrew DeWolf: Mr. Reisman. I have no idea. No one knows why he wrote that.

[28:55] Jesse McInally: Streisman.

[28:57] Andrew DeWolf: Did he forget her name?

[29:00] Jesse McInally: I have no idea why he wrote that. Like, I think it's been corrected since, but you can't go back on that, Jesse Green. What the fuck? Streis man.

[29:11] Brianna Jones: Um I don't like this mentality at all. Um no Barbara. Other people are able to perform the way Barbara Streisand did.

[29:22] Andrew DeWolf: It might be hard to find them, but to say that they don't grow them like that anymore. Like, come on. Take off the nostalgia glasses.

[29:32] Jesse McInally: Like, they grow them like that. You just might not know the person. But also, if you were around in 1960, whatever, you probably wouldn't know who Barbara Streisand was. So that's fair.

[29:44] Brianna Jones: Let's see here are some more reviews, Bree. We got a few more. I wonder if they're gonna say variations of the same thing.

[29:49] Andrew DeWolf: Okay. This is Variety Frank Rizzo. Um, same year, this year. The problem with the uninspired revival of Funny Girl.

[30:01] Jesse McInally: Should I continue? I feel like it's gonna say the same thing, which opened at the August Wilson Theater on Sunday, marking the show's Broadway return after nearly 60 years.

[30:12] Andrew DeWolf: Is not simply the signature or singular ghost of she who shall not be named.

[30:17] Brianna Jones: Alright, it's Barbara Streisand. Great Harry Potter references. We're really doing good.

[30:21] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah. Rather, the issue here is the production's inability to live up to its star-making potential that would have made us once again forgive the simplistic, sentimental, and sanitized original book credited to Isabel Leonard.

[30:42] Jesse McInally: Isabel Leonard. Once again, where's Barbara?

[30:47] Andrew DeWolf: Ain't no one gonna be able to do that. I mean, maybe the actual critique is that they didn't find someone who could do it, but I don't really know if that's that is that is the actual critique, and they aren't wrong, but I'll go into that after Brie reads this last review.

[30:59] Brianna Jones: Okay, and this is from Vulture, Helen Shaw, um, again from 2022. Why was Bryce such an immense star? Watching clips of her work, it seems a mystery.

[31:12] Andrew DeWolf: Some alchemy must have taken place, and we in the future are missing the chemical ingredients.

[31:21] Brianna Jones: I can picture a version of Funny Girl that makes that case that an odd lady with an odd voice nevertheless had it. But Feldstein doesn't give us that either.

[31:33] Andrew DeWolf: Vocal issues, you can work around, but presence, that one you gotta have.

[31:38] Brianna Jones: Alright. So imagine you're this brand new lead that everyone was like ready to welcome with open arms. Um, then you hit the stage and you come out, and every review is just like, is she bad? She is the bad part, she is the reason why this doesn't work, she's not Barbara.

[31:53] Andrew DeWolf: Every review is tearing her apart. So much that two weeks after her premiere, she is not in the show right now.

[31:59] Brianna Jones: As we speak, she is her understudy is going on.

[32:02] Andrew DeWolf: Is her understudy doing good?

[32:03] Brianna Jones: Yes.

[32:04] Andrew DeWolf: Oh no.

[32:05] Brianna Jones: Yeah.

[32:06] Andrew DeWolf: That's sad.

[32:07] Brianna Jones: So much that people are like re-taking the reviews and being like, with her, it's really good. She's a she's the present, she's great.

[32:14] Andrew DeWolf: Oh, that's good for the understudy, but damn, you gotta feel bad for the Yes, and credit to Beanie Feldstein. She is a Hollywood actress. She was in Lady Bird, she was in Booksmart, she is Jonah Hill's sister. All those things are true.

[32:28] Jesse McInally: Um, and she does have a voice, but these are this is a very difficult role that only one actor really could play.

[32:35] Andrew DeWolf: And the only reason why the show is written like this is because it was written for that one actor and around that one actor. So those were big shoes to step into, and Beanie Feldstein could probably do like a mama rose or like Mary in Merrily, like that's ideal.

[32:50] Brianna Jones: Um, but this this was just too difficult for her.

[32:53] Andrew DeWolf: I feel bad. I feel really bad. She was thrown to the lions and no one's standing up for her.

[32:58] Brianna Jones: Yeah. A similar situation is happening with Katrina Link over at Company who also doesn't have the voice to sing the role Bobby right now. Like I just heard her on when she performed it on whatever late night show, and she is struggling.

[33:10] Andrew DeWolf: She is screeching through, and it makes me feel really bad. I'm not a singer, but I just lower the fucking notes, guys. Break bring it down a little bit.

[33:18] Brianna Jones: You can have your stuck casting and have them not destroy their vocal cords. This is a particularly difficult one to do that type of casting as well.

[33:27] Andrew DeWolf: There's just there's a lot of songs and they don't really hold back. And I don't like the framing of like we need Barbara Streisand. She's the only person who could ever possibly do it.

[33:34] Jesse McInally: I agree. But you do have to cast someone who can do it. Which is why I like remember that production I talked about, the 2002 production where they just had a different Broadway actress play the role for each song, basically.

[33:48] Brianna Jones: Which I think is embarrassing.

[33:49] Andrew DeWolf: Well, that was just a for funsi night. Now the one we watched, what was that? That was the West End production, and they did kind of change the vocals a bit for that one.

[33:59] Jesse McInally: Okay. Honestly, that's fine too, in my opinion. I don't think there's anything wrong with lowering the key.

[34:04] Andrew DeWolf: If you can get it so they can sing it, the audience is not gonna care. Maybe some of these snooty critics will be like, I noticed the key was very different.

[34:12] Brianna Jones: They can't really sing like Streisand, but like who gives a fuck? The show's good, and you have a but the interesting thing is the one that's like you can work around vocal faults, but presence is I I don't think that's fair.

[34:25] Jesse McInally: Presence is a thing that you either have or don't, and it's subjective as fuck.

[34:29] Andrew DeWolf: I mean, maybe they're talking about like vocal like resonance, like no, they're talking about like presence as an actor on stage.

[34:35] Brianna Jones: Oh, well, I guess I wouldn't know what that looked like. Um also did any of these people ever see Barbara Streisand do it besides the movie?

[34:43] Andrew DeWolf: Probably not.

[34:43] Brianna Jones: So what the hell are they talking about? Shut up.

[34:46] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, I'd say probably not. Um Do you even know what Barbara Streisand looked like when she was performing it every single night? You guys weren't even alive.

[34:55] Jesse McInally: You make good points, Andrew. Um I feel like we had to go to classic reviews for a while here, but I do want to dive a little bit into the letterboxd reviews, Brie.

[35:04] Brianna Jones: Um, are we ready for that?

[35:06] Andrew DeWolf: Yes.

[35:07] Jesse McInally: Um, uh Andrew versus Brie. How's that sound?

[35:10] Brianna Jones: Sure.

[35:11] Andrew DeWolf: I like it.

[35:11] Jesse McInally: Yeah. Alright, alright. Alright, so this is one star or five star. These are pulled from the website, Letterboxd.com for the reviews of the Funny Girl movie.

[35:20] Brianna Jones: Alright, Brie, you're up first.

[35:22] Brianna Jones: Alright, hit me. Here's the full review. You expect me to believe this movie takes place the same year as Downton Abbey?

[35:29] Andrew DeWolf: One star.

[35:30] Brianna Jones: That is correct.

[35:31] Andrew DeWolf: Yes.

[35:32] Brianna Jones: Alright, Andrew, you ready?

[35:33] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, let's do it.

[35:34] Brianna Jones: The letter E.

[35:35] Andrew DeWolf: Is that written out the letter E, or is that just E?

[35:38] Brianna Jones: That's just E.

[35:40] Andrew DeWolf: Hmm. Is there like a picture of uh Markiplier on Farquad next to it?

[35:47] Brianna Jones: No, no, no. Nothing like that.

[35:48] Andrew DeWolf: Okay. Hmm. Not very much context clues then.

[35:52] Brianna Jones: Um five stars.

[35:53] Andrew DeWolf: That is a one star.

[35:54] Brianna Jones: Alright, Bree.

[35:55] Andrew DeWolf: Yes.

[35:56] Brianna Jones: Nick Arnstein. I'm living in your walls, and I am your sleep paralysis demon, and I am following you wherever you go. I will haunt you for the rest of your life.

[36:04] Andrew DeWolf: Um I mean, it sounds like a one-star, but I'm gonna go five.

[36:08] Brianna Jones: That is correct.

[36:08] Andrew DeWolf: Yes.

[37:02] Brianna Jones: Alright, Andrew, you ready?

[37:02] Andrew DeWolf: I am Barbara Streisand or are you ready, Andrew?

[37:02] Andrew DeWolf: Yes.

[37:02] Brianna Jones: Ugly bitches be like, hey twin, hard eyes.

[37:02] Andrew DeWolf: Um what does that mean?

[37:02] Brianna Jones: Hard eyes, I get it.

[37:02] Andrew DeWolf: Okay. Uh geez. Five stars?

[37:02] Brianna Jones: That is correct.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Okay. Okay. Alright, Bree, you ready?

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Tough ones.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: This is tough ones.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Yeah, yeah.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Um, this musical, it's a musical that's 2.5 hours long. Dot dot dot. And still, it's a good watch. Made me smile and I liked it. Smile with hearts around it.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Um, I'm gonna go five.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: That is a one star.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: What?

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: I was just as baffled as you were, Brie.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Literally the entire thing is just like Love it. It was super good. Love it. It was great.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Um, one star.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Alright, Andrew, you ready?

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: I'm ready.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Four tomato emojis.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Four tomato.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Okay. Wait. Oh, jeez, that kind of implies that it's four tomatoes out of five, but we can't give a four star.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Uh throwing tomatoes is generally bad.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Yes.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: One star?

[38:25] Brianna Jones: That is correct.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Okay. Alright, we're tied now, guys.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Okay, okay.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Bree, you ready?

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Yes.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Guys will always be intimidated by girls who like chopped liver.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Five stars.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: That is correct.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Andrew.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Yes.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Barbara, you fucking ate that shit up, bitch. You are that bitch. Dot dot dot dot dot.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Five stars.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: That is correct.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: It got easier.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: It got easier.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: That one was pretty easy, I think.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Alright, Bree.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Damn. Period. I think I'm a funny girl.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Damn, I think I'm a funny girl.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: I'm gonna go one star.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: That was a five star.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Damn, I was gonna I was gonna go five.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Alright, Bree, are you ready?

[38:25] Brianna Jones: I'm ready.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: I'm ready. I'm ready. I only watched this because of Glee.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Really? That's the only reason you watched it?

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: Okay. I mean, Rachel Berry was obsessed with Barbara Streisand. A ridiculous level in that show.

[38:25] Brianna Jones: Honestly, if they liked Glee, their standards are probably all out of whack. So they probably hated this.

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: So one star?

[38:25] Brianna Jones: That is correct!

[38:25] Andrew DeWolf: That was a good ratio. That was my logic too, Andrew.

[38:23] Brianna Jones: That’s what I was thinking.

[38:26] Andrew DeWolf: Alright, Bree. You ready?

[38:27] Brianna Jones: Yes.

[38:29] Andrew DeWolf: This is for Rachel Berry, comma. You big fat, white, nasty smelling fat bitch.

[38:35] Brianna Jones: One star.

[38:35] Andrew DeWolf: That is correct.

[38:36] Brianna Jones: Andrew, you're ready?

[38:37] Andrew DeWolf: I'm ready.

[38:38] Brianna Jones: Let's do it. I'm sorry, Rachel Berry.

[38:40] Andrew DeWolf: Oh my goodness, the Glee references.

[38:43] Brianna Jones: Um, one star?

[38:44] Andrew DeWolf: Correct.

[38:45] Brianna Jones: Three.

[38:46] Andrew DeWolf: Okay. Yes.

[38:47] Brianna Jones: The moral of this film is, comma, straight people are wild.

[38:52] Andrew DeWolf: One star.

[38:52] Jesse McInally: That is correct.

[38:54] Andrew DeWolf: Andrew!

[38:54] Jesse McInally: Yep.

[38:55] Andrew DeWolf: Saw colon at home in HMB.

[38:58] Jesse McInally: HMB, what does that mean?

[39:00] Andrew DeWolf: Do I do I know what that means?

[39:01] Jesse McInally: I I do not know.

[39:03] Andrew DeWolf: Can we Google what HMB is?

[39:04] Jesse McInally: Oh my goodness.

[39:05] Andrew DeWolf: I think it just means he watched it at home.

[39:07] Jesse McInally: Um geez, five stars?

[39:11] Andrew DeWolf: I like watching things at home.

[39:12] Jesse McInally: That is a one-star, Andrew.

[39:14] Andrew DeWolf: Alright, but.

[39:14] Jesse McInally: If I knew what HMB was, I probably would have known.

[39:17] Andrew DeWolf: This is your chance.

[39:19] Jesse McInally: Alright, you ready, Brie?

[39:21] Brianna Jones: Yes, I am.

[39:23] Jesse McInally: The review says, okay, the letters O and K.

[39:27] Andrew DeWolf: Okay.

[39:30] Jesse McInally: Well, I only put O and K when I'm upset.

[39:33] Andrew DeWolf: So one star.

[39:34] Jesse McInally: That is correct. Andrew, this is your last one, and it's your chance to tie it.

[39:38] Andrew DeWolf: Okay.

[39:39] Jesse McInally: Nah, she was treated so bad.

[39:40] Andrew DeWolf: They're not wrong, but they're also not like fully right.

[39:43] Jesse McInally: I don't know.

[39:44] Andrew DeWolf: I need this one.

[39:46] Jesse McInally: Uh I need this.

[39:49] Andrew DeWolf: Five stars.

[39:50] Jesse McInally: It's a five stars.

[39:51] Andrew DeWolf: That is correct, and you tied the game!

[39:54] Jesse McInally: Good job, both of you.

[39:56] Andrew DeWolf: Okay, I figured out what HMB could mean.

[40:00] Jesse McInally: Alright, well.

[40:00] Andrew DeWolf: Oh no.

[40:01] Jesse McInally: Um, hit me back.

[40:05] Andrew DeWolf: Hold me back.

[40:08] Jesse McInally: It's gonna fight Nikki Ernstein.

[40:10] Andrew DeWolf: Hold my beer.

[40:12] Jesse McInally: Or heavy menstrual bleeding.

[40:15] Andrew DeWolf: I like that one.

[40:16] Jesse McInally: Saw at home in heavy menstrual bleeding.

[40:19] Andrew DeWolf: Okay.

[40:19] Jesse McInally: Yeah, I see, I would have gotten it if I knew that.

[40:22] Andrew DeWolf: Because that would have been that would have been like.

[40:24] Jesse McInally: Okay, yeah, they probably didn't like it.

[40:29] Andrew DeWolf: That doesn't sound like a great experience, I don't think.

[40:32] Jesse McInally: So you know, the best way to watch Funny Girl is in Heavy Menstrual Bleeding.

[40:38] Andrew DeWolf: On that note, let's go into a mid-show announcement.

[40:47] Jesse McInally: Hey guys, sorry to interrupt you in the middle of the show, but we've got a shill at you.

[40:53] Andrew DeWolf: Oh boy, Patreon's where you can go if you want to give us money.

[40:55] Jesse McInally: Money, money, money.

[41:01] Andrew DeWolf: It must be funny.

[41:03] Jesse McInally: Give us money now.

[41:05] Andrew DeWolf: If you like Mamma Mia, uh giving us money is uh a good way to force us to watch Mamma Mia again.

[41:11] Jesse McInally: Uh yes.

[41:13] Andrew DeWolf: No, we have um we have commentaries, we have more episodes, we have video versions of our episodes.

[41:20] Jesse McInally: Uh at a certain tier, you can request episodes from us.

[41:24] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, like our CRO episode was requested.

[41:26] Jesse McInally: Um a bunch of our episodes have been requested lately.

[41:29] Andrew DeWolf: So we do so many requests.

[41:32] Jesse McInally: It's not even funny.

[41:34] Andrew DeWolf: So, yeah, check it out.

[41:36] Jesse McInally: Patreon.

[41:37] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[41:37] Jesse McInally: Um also it makes us possible for us to do fun things.

[41:41] Andrew DeWolf: Um, I think we can say this here.

[41:42] Jesse McInally: Andrew will be flying out to us, and we will be doing a special live stream all together in person for the first time.

[41:48] Andrew DeWolf: Completely paid for with Patreon money.

[41:50] Jesse McInally: So thank you guys for that.

[41:51] Andrew DeWolf: And we're gonna be watching really great movies.

[41:55] Jesse McInally: Grease one and two.

[41:56] Andrew DeWolf: And if you are on our Patreon, you will get the movie streamed to you, so you don't have to like push play.

[42:01] Jesse McInally: You'll see exactly what we see when you're in it.

[42:03] Andrew DeWolf: You'll be in our Discord.

[42:04] Jesse McInally: So honestly, there is no reason why you shouldn't be on our Patreon, especially if you enjoy that more.

[42:09] Andrew DeWolf: Don't tell them that, because now they're gonna think if they subscribe to our Patreon, they have to watch Grease One and Two.

[42:14] Jesse McInally: Oh, you're right.

[42:15] Andrew DeWolf: You don't have to.

[42:16] Jesse McInally: You you just have the opportunity to.

[42:18] Andrew DeWolf: You don't have and you're not required to watch Grease 1 or 2 if you're our patron.

[42:24] Brianna Jones: Have either of you seen Grease 2?

[42:27] Andrew DeWolf: Um, I've literally seen more of Grease 2 than I have Grease 1.

[42:32] Jesse McInally: Okay.

[42:33] Andrew DeWolf: I have seen all of Grease 1, and I don't remember fucking anything.

[42:37] Brianna Jones: I have not seen Grease One.

[42:38] Andrew DeWolf: Um I do know Michelle Pfeiffer is the lead of Grease 2.

[42:41] Jesse McInally: The thing I remember the most about Grease One is there's like that one guy that looks like he's like 40 years old.

[42:46] Andrew DeWolf: You mean every actor?

[42:48] Jesse McInally: You mean every actor?

[42:49] Andrew DeWolf: There's one in particular who like is like it's not even close to believable.

[42:54] Jesse McInally: Um I think a lot of them are that way, aren't they?

[42:54] Andrew DeWolf: Aren't they?

[42:57] Jesse McInally: So yeah, yeah.

[42:58] Andrew DeWolf: Um, but we will be drinking.

[42:59] Jesse McInally: We'll be having a drinking game.

[43:01] Andrew DeWolf: Um, and this will be on May 21st at 7 p.m.

[43:04] Jesse McInally: Um, live streamed to both our Twitch accounts and YouTube.

[43:06] Andrew DeWolf: So get set to get wet because we're gonna get fucking toasted that night.

[43:10] Jesse McInally: We're going to drink until we think that they are actually high schoolers.

[43:14] Andrew DeWolf: That's a good one.

[43:16] Jesse McInally: That's a good one.

[43:17] Andrew DeWolf: By the end of the Grease 2, we're gonna be like, man, they they do look like children.

[43:23] Jesse McInally: Andrew, who's currently supporting us on Patreon?

[43:27] Andrew DeWolf: Our current patrons are Melissa Goldman, Layton Accles, Danielle Rennox, Justice Stampede, Ewan Cassidy, Monica Thoreau, Mina Maniri, Brent Black, Lathaniel Stacey Coombe, Joseph Evans Green, Carrie Ahern, Mary Lou Choquette, John Van Alves, Russ Walker, Musical Hell, Emily Gracy, Kyle Summers, Scoot and the Technical Our Dreamcoat, Liz Limb, Alice and Staller, nothing is certain except Beth and Taxes, Thesbian, Ren Cullen, Raphael Martinez Salaz, Robert Benjamin, Jessica T, Mitchell Young, Chai Teacup, Katie McDonough, um, Timothy Keyes, Chris McCoat, uh, Mimu, KG Marie Anastasio, Leela, RJ Noriga, Avan Reagan, Charlie B, Patrick Deering, Joe, Avery Brinson, Bjorn Herman's Back the Knife, uh, Erica S. Toriana Frazier, Sammy the Most Lopez, Liana Morton, Angela, Kaylee Blazier, uh, Birdman69, Daniel Smith, Cinemageddon Reviews, Villainous Miss, Showana Enders, Sophina Ali, The Omega Geek, Tori C, Patron Evans, Paige Pearson, and Maddie Wargel.

[44:27] Jesse McInally: They give us a little financial support that helps us keep the lights on here, musicals of cheese, including paying Bree and doing a lot of other fun activities.

[44:34] Andrew DeWolf: If you would like to join them in supporting us and get all those fun perks we listed earlier, come join us over at Patreon.

[44:39] Jesse McInally: Also, we have a merch store.

[44:40] Andrew DeWolf: A lot of people are buying merch lately.

[44:42] Jesse McInally: Honestly, I am shocked because we don't promote it enough, but like within the last week, a lot of people.

[44:46] Andrew DeWolf: People promoted at all.

[44:49] Jesse McInally: A lot of people bought merch within like the last two weeks.

[44:51] Andrew DeWolf: I don't know why, but hey, keep doing that.

[44:54] Jesse McInally: We have cool merch.

[44:55] Andrew DeWolf: I think we actually do have pretty nice merch from what I've seen.

[44:58] Jesse McInally: Have you bought any of our merch, Andrew?

[45:00] Andrew DeWolf: Um, my parents have shown me some that they've gotten, but I have not.

[45:03] Jesse McInally: They bought themselves merch and didn't get you any.

[45:06] Andrew DeWolf: They did not get me any.

[45:07] Jesse McInally: I have no musicals with cheese merch.

[45:09] Andrew DeWolf: Uh, even Bree has musicals with cheese merch.

[45:12] Jesse McInally: Well, that's because you keep an extra store in your house and hand them out, don't you?

[45:15] Andrew DeWolf: Uh people ask for them.

[45:17] Jesse McInally: Will I be getting any on my trip?

[45:19] Andrew DeWolf: Maybe.

[45:20] Jesse McInally: We'll we'll have to see.

[45:21] Andrew DeWolf: Uh, you're definitely getting a Danny Zuko coat.

[45:24] Jesse McInally: Oh no.

[45:24] Andrew DeWolf: Of course, I of course.

[45:25] Jesse McInally: Oh, Bree.

[45:26] Andrew DeWolf: I I forgot to mention, feel free to cut this.

[45:28] Jesse McInally: Um, I got you a costume that I might need to have you try on.

[45:32] Andrew DeWolf: Eventually.

[45:33] Jesse McInally: Okay.

[45:34] Jesse McInally: You are wearing a cheerleading outfit, and I'm wearing a pink lady coat and scarf and wig.

[45:40] Andrew DeWolf: What's did you order?

[45:42] Jesse McInally: I own a leather jacket, you know.

[45:44] Andrew DeWolf: This says T birds on it.

[45:46] Jesse McInally: Oh, okay, okay.

[45:48] Andrew DeWolf: Like these are cuss actual film um equivalents.

[45:52] Jesse McInally: Very nice.

[45:53] Andrew DeWolf: Okay.

[45:53] Jesse McInally: It's not like it's not like a chinty kind of gross looking cheerling outfit.

[45:57] Andrew DeWolf: It's like it's the Sandra D outfit.

[45:59] Jesse McInally: Oh, yeah, I'll be good.

[46:00] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, you'll be fine.

[46:01] Jesse McInally: Alright, let's get back to the show.

[46:14] Andrew DeWolf: If a girl isn't pretty, like a Miss Atlantic City, all she gets from life is pity and a patch.

[46:23] Jesse McInally: Kindly name a Star who hasn't won a contest or a pageant.

[46:28] Andrew DeWolf: If she hasn't, she just never gets to bat.

[46:32] Jesse McInally: She must uh shine in every detail like a ring.

[46:36] Andrew DeWolf: You're buying retail.

[46:38] Jesse McInally: Be a standard size that fits a standard dress.

[46:42] Andrew DeWolf: Let's talk about the opening number, which is if a girl isn't pretty.

[46:47] Jesse McInally: Which is a very mean opening number because every Fanny Bryce I've ever seen has been like so cute.

[46:55] Andrew DeWolf: Including the real one.

[46:56] Jesse McInally: Yeah. I think I don't even really know.

[46:59] Andrew DeWolf: Maybe it's like a 20s, like a 1920s thing where they're trying to be like women had to look like exactly perfect or something.

[47:06] Jesse McInally: I don't I don't know.

[47:07] Andrew DeWolf: I saw a 20s women look like and uh yeah, you know, I think you're right about that.

[47:13] Jesse McInally: Um yeah, it's a very mean spirited one, although I guess it kind of makes sense.

[47:18] Andrew DeWolf: It's like uh this is what she's fighting against.

[47:21] Jesse McInally: Yeah, but look at what Fanny Bryce really looked like.

[47:24] Andrew DeWolf: She was fine.

[47:25] Jesse McInally: She No, yeah, I I saw that as well.

[47:28] Andrew DeWolf: I mean, she was like a a clown in a way, like she liked to do funny faces, but Barbara Streisand has like a little bit of a weird nose, and Beanie Feldstein is a bigger, I guess, and that's it.

[47:40] Jesse McInally: It confuses me.

[47:41] Andrew DeWolf: They uh, you know.

[47:42] Jesse McInally: They're going for a thing, and it's yeah.

[47:45] Andrew DeWolf: Act one is a lot of act one is about that, so you know, it's like I don't know.

[47:49] Jesse McInally: I feel like they're they're writing a bill they can't pay off.

[47:52] Andrew DeWolf: It's kinda like Violet.

[47:54] Jesse McInally: Remember that show where they're like, oh, you're ugly because you got the scar.

[47:57] Andrew DeWolf: Oh yeah, that one that one was whack.

[47:59] Jesse McInally: But it was like in your mind, like you're supposed to imagine the scar.

[48:03] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, it's like you're supposed to like picture that they're h horrible, but like they're not.

[48:07] Jesse McInally: It's like what?

[48:09] Andrew DeWolf: But this is like if a girl isn't pretty, like a Miss Atlantic City, she should jump dump the stage, try another route, and any guy who plays a quarter for a seat that just feels like he oughta see a figure and his wife can't substitute.

[48:21] Jesse McInally: Basically, if you ain't prettier than a guy's wife, you shouldn't be on stage.

[48:24] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[48:25] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[48:25] Andrew DeWolf: This is just a weirdly mean-spirited song, um, which almost makes her I want song sell even harder.

[48:32] Jesse McInally: Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's a bad number or anything.

[48:35] Andrew DeWolf: I think it makes sense that they would want to have something like that.

[48:38] Jesse McInally: It is just it's another like case of them telling you that somebody is ugly, but then when you look at them, you're like, well, no.

[48:46] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[48:47] Jesse McInally: And it's I don't know, it's just mean in in general.

[48:49] Andrew DeWolf: Like you really shouldn't have to try to think.

[48:51] Jesse McInally: And we're not holding this to like present standards, like at all.

[48:54] Andrew DeWolf: It's just kind of like, oh yeah, the song's kind of mean, but I feel like she she the actors never s sell that part of it.

[49:00] Jesse McInally: It's fine.

[49:01] Andrew DeWolf: I I'm fine with it.

[49:02] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[49:02] Andrew DeWolf: Um, I'm the greatest star, which is her I Want song, where she's trying to convince um them that she's actually better than everyone else.

[49:10] Jesse McInally: I got 36 expressions.

[49:12] Andrew DeWolf: Sweet as pine at tough as leather.

[49:14] Jesse McInally: And that's six expressions more than all them uh baramours put together.

[49:18] Andrew DeWolf: Instead of just kicking me, why don't they give me a lift?

[49:23] Jesse McInally: Well, it must be a plot.

[49:25] Andrew DeWolf: Was this scared that I got such a gift?

[49:29] Jesse McInally: Well I'm miffed.

[49:32] Andrew DeWolf: Cause I'm the greatest star.

[49:38] Jesse McInally: By like, do you think she's actually a good performer?

[49:41] Andrew DeWolf: I think as far as the stage show is presenting.

[49:44] Jesse McInally: I think she's a good comedian, but she is not a good dancer.

[49:47] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[49:47] Jesse McInally: Um, and they make it very clear, like, even up until the end, like, she just doesn't actually have good dance moves at all.

[49:53] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[49:54] Jesse McInally: Um, I I think obviously intentionally so.

[49:56] Andrew DeWolf: Like, I'm pretty sure the performers actually could dance well if need be, but they don't on purpose, is what it seems like to me.

[50:03] Jesse McInally: Um, so I don't know.

[50:04] Andrew DeWolf: I think as a comedian, she's got some funny stuff, especially for uh comedy standards of uh probably vaudeville, weren't very high.

[50:11] Jesse McInally: I mean, do you want to describe to Brie like one of the big big comedy moments?

[50:16] Andrew DeWolf: The the wedding song.

[50:17] Jesse McInally: Uh the wedding song?

[50:19] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, basically they she's told by Mr. Zigfield, like, like, hey, I don't you're gonna be in this wedding number.

[50:25] Jesse McInally: She's like, I don't want to be in this wedding number.

[50:28] Andrew DeWolf: If I go up on stage and I say I'm the most beautiful girl in the world, they're all gonna laugh at me.

[50:32] Jesse McInally: He's like, You're a comedian, they should laugh at you.

[50:34] Andrew DeWolf: She's like, Yeah, but that's laughing at me.

[50:36] Jesse McInally: I want them to laugh with me.

[50:37] Andrew DeWolf: I wanna be the one that chooses it.

[50:38] Jesse McInally: He's like, You're gonna sing the song, goddammit.

[50:40] Andrew DeWolf: And she's like, Alright.

[50:42] Jesse McInally: And then when she goes out, she puts a pillow under her stomach and shows that she's pregnant and they're laughing.

[50:47] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, I that one I could not figure out.

[50:49] Jesse McInally: I was like, what's the joke?

[50:51] Andrew DeWolf: What is the joke here exactly that she's pregnant?

[50:54] Jesse McInally: The joke is like she is beautiful because her husband knocked her up and he stuck with her.

[51:00] Andrew DeWolf: Like in the way that she specifically delivers, like the result of my husband's affection makes me beautiful.

[51:06] Jesse McInally: Like that's like the perfect kind of description of her kind of humor and using the follies to her advantage.

[51:11] Andrew DeWolf: I feel like she has much better jokes later, but yeah, that's one of the big numbers that she does.

[51:17] Jesse McInally: I mean, it works because they set it up straight with like all the beautiful like brides, then she steps up and the lyrics mean different things where she steps up with this giant belly and she dresses it like I'm the beautiful reflection of my love's affection, a walking illustration of his adoration, and his love makes me beautiful.

[51:34] Andrew DeWolf: Or it's like, yeah, I'm beautiful because he nutted inside me and made a baby.

[51:38] Jesse McInally: You're so you're so good with words, Jess.

[51:40] Andrew DeWolf: I I am.

[51:41] Jesse McInally: I I I they should have said a poet, but they said me instead.

[51:47] Andrew DeWolf: What do you think of I'm the greatest star, though?

[51:49] Andrew DeWolf: Not moving away from that. Um I think it's a good number. I think it's catchy. I like what she does in it. And honestly, I like the whole beginning of this a lot. I like the next one as well, the uh cornet man, where she's like doing the dances with the trumpet guys.

[52:06] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[52:07] Andrew DeWolf: Um, I think that's a pretty funny one. That song is actually cut in the movie and replaced with another one specifically written for Barbara Streisand, which is um, ooh, it's something about being blue.

[52:17] Jesse McInally: Um I'm blue, daba daba die.

[52:19] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, she goes up there and she's like, I'm blue, da ba di da ba die. Um, what was it called?

[52:27] Jesse McInally: Funny.

[52:28] Andrew DeWolf: I mean, it's a replaceable song because it's it's not a story song at all. It's just like this is it's a show number. So basically, instead she's asked if she knows how to roller skate. She's like, Yeah, I know how to roller skate, and then she goes out, doesn't know how to roller skate, fucks it up hardcore, and then they're like, well sing a song. She sings a song about like I'd rather be blue thinking of you rather than be happy with somebody else, which I think thematically leads up to the arc better.

[52:54] Jesse McInally: Which is I I kinda like this song better than the Coronet Band, even though the Cornet Man song is kind of funnier.

[53:00] Andrew DeWolf: I just I mean, I'm sure it fits well. I I don't think of the Cornet Man song as like part of the story at all.

[53:10] Jesse McInally: No, no, I agree.

[53:12] Andrew DeWolf: Then we're gonna get into like the famous ones, like people. People is like so famous I heard it 50 times before I even heard Funny Girl.

[53:26] Jesse McInally: People who need people.

[53:48] Andrew DeWolf: This is um she's singing about uh how like she wants someone who makes her want people or something like that.

[53:56] Jesse McInally: Yeah, people, people who need people are the luckiest people in the world, and all of that, like how much she loves this guy and how much how good it feels to be wanted.

[54:05] Andrew DeWolf: I feel like so much of the love story with Nick Arnstein in act one was me. It was it was me waiting for the shoe to drop, though. I kept waiting for like the reveal, like she runs off to meet him in New York and he's with a different woman, or you know, something like that, and it never happens, which I think is actually good.

[54:26] Jesse McInally: Because I think that that story would have really sucked.

[54:28] Andrew DeWolf: Um I feel like if you spend too much time on it in Act One, which they do, uh you don't want to see it fall apart in the traditional, like he's such a monster kind of way.

[54:37] Jesse McInally: No, I and I didn't want to see that, which is why I was so pleasant to be. It didn't happen. I was like, oh shit, he's actually just like really in love with her.

[54:45] Andrew DeWolf: Wow. You do have a little bit of like the red flags popping up during You Are Woman.

[54:51] Jesse McInally: Um, where the lyrics are literally like, You are woman, I am man. You are smaller, so I can be taller than.

[54:57] Andrew DeWolf: But but rem as I said earlier, that was written just to be a solo for him.

[55:01] Jesse McInally: But the best part is you get her reaction, which is like, isn't this the height of nonchalance? Furnishing a bed and restaurants. Well, a bit of a dinner never hurt, but I guess he's gonna be dessert.

[55:10] Andrew DeWolf: Like you get her telling jokes, undercutting every horrible thing he's saying.

[55:15] Jesse McInally: I think it's a good setup though, because that song actually sets up why he does what he does in act two.

[55:20] Andrew DeWolf: Exactly. It does like fifty things, and then she tells jokes, so you're too busy laughing at the jokes to see the red flags, and you're in her position too.

[55:28] Jesse McInally: Yeah, you're kind of like you're with her, where she's like excited about this and she's not actually paying attention to like how the misogyny so he's so like patriarchal that he's going to be like very upset when he's not the one making all the money and he's not the one like with all the respect and she is instead.

[55:44] Andrew DeWolf: Um yeah, I like that song a lot. Um I just remember like the actor playing, um, Nick King really pissed that Barbara's just kept taking every song, everything out of me about her.

[55:55] Jesse McInally: Then we've got the act one closer, which everyone fucking knows, everyone and their mom knew. Did you know the song before hearing it, Andrew?

[56:03] Andrew DeWolf: I did.

[56:04] Jesse McInally: Don't rain on the parade.

[56:05] Andrew DeWolf: Yep.

[56:06] Jesse McInally: Get her out of homie love, cause I'm a coma.

[56:09] Andrew DeWolf: I simply gotta march my heart's a drama.

[56:12] Jesse McInally: Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade.

[56:18] Andrew DeWolf: I'm gonna live and live now.

[56:21] Jesse McInally: Get what I want and know how.

[56:24] Andrew DeWolf: One roll home gun home shabang.

[56:27] Jesse McInally: Come roll that bell with a clang.

[56:30] Andrew DeWolf: Eye on the target and wham.

[56:33] Jesse McInally: One shot, one gunshot, and bam.

[56:36] Andrew DeWolf: What happens to the song? What what triggers this song, Andrew?

[56:40] Andrew DeWolf: Oh boy. I don't this is um she sings this because he's going to New York.

[56:46] Jesse McInally: Am I geez? I'm actually not I can't remember why she sings this song.

[56:49] Andrew DeWolf: Basically, yeah.

[56:51] Jesse McInally: He's about to take off for the second time.

[56:54] Andrew DeWolf: He's about to leave for the second turn.

[56:56] Jesse McInally: Yes.

[56:56] Andrew DeWolf: And she just sneaks on the boat and she's like, How dare you tell me he's gonna be bad for me? I'm gonna make him mine.

[57:02] Jesse McInally: Yeah, so like, yeah.

[57:04] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, and then she sings one of the most iconic songs in musical theater history.

[57:08] Jesse McInally: It's a very good song.

[57:09] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, it gets that heartbeat to pumpin', gets you into the intermission, which the movie has a proper intermission.

[57:16] Jesse McInally: Um, it has an overture and a proper intermission. I I assume you'd love that.

[57:20] Andrew DeWolf: I can't believe that they would allow people to go to their bathroom during a movie.

[57:23] Jesse McInally: Nope, not all not allowed any. Movie theaters should be uh poopy pee holes, um, where everyone shits their pants.

[57:33] Andrew DeWolf: The movie's three hours long and there's no intermission.

[57:36] Jesse McInally: A theater to Doctor Strange is a poopy pee hole.

[57:41] Andrew DeWolf: I would like um take us to the poopy pee hole, please.

[57:45] Jesse McInally: Where there's also a movie play.

[57:47] Andrew DeWolf: I hear Multiverse of madness is uh four and a half hours long, so that'll be a deep poopy pee hole.

[57:54] Jesse McInally: Movies eventually are just a full day. You just have to sit in the theater for an entire day, and you can never use the bathroom unless we miss something.

[58:01] Andrew DeWolf: Don't tell me not to poop, I'm peeing in it.

[58:04] Jesse McInally: Don't bring around a film and my poopy pee.

[58:08] Andrew DeWolf: No, it's a good number, and it I mean, as an act one closer, you definitely would want to come back. I'm grateful for it making it making it really gauche to ever rhyme putter and butter again.

[58:19] Jesse McInally: I feel like once this song's done it, no one else could do it ever again.

[58:22] Andrew DeWolf: Putter and butter.

[58:23] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[58:24] Andrew DeWolf: Don't tell me not to live, just sit and put her. Life's candy and the sun's a bowl of butter.

[58:28] Jesse McInally: Yeah, but you think that that would be common? You think more people would be doing that if this song didn't exist?

[58:33] Andrew DeWolf: Yes, I do. I think everyone would do it.

[58:35] Jesse McInally: Where would that be in like a modern show?

[58:37] Andrew DeWolf: Where would they put that in uh like Dear Evan Hansen?

[58:39] Jesse McInally: Well, it would happen when um the dad takes him off to the golf course and makes some toast.

[58:46] Andrew DeWolf: Hey, hand me the putter. Don't get any butter on it.

[58:50] Jesse McInally: You know what? Actually, you're right.

[58:52] Andrew DeWolf: Shit.

[58:54] Jesse McInally: And this is why my son's dead.

[58:58] Andrew DeWolf: Okay, act two.

[59:00] Jesse McInally: Yes.

[59:00] Andrew DeWolf: Um Sadie, Sadie, what the hell?

[59:04] Jesse McInally: What about this song, Andrew?

[59:05] Andrew DeWolf: It's a perfect act two opener. It has nothing to do with the plot, it's charming as hell and a lot of fun.

[59:10] Jesse McInally: They do mention Sadie in Act 1, I'm pretty sure.

[59:12] Andrew DeWolf: They do set this up.

[59:13] Jesse McInally: Yes, they set this up pretty well, and then she doubles down on it. Like, all married girls are called Sadie.

[59:18] Andrew DeWolf: That's the only weird part, is it's like, why like no, that one girl that you know is named Sadie. Like, what?

[59:24] Jesse McInally: Yes.

[59:24] Andrew DeWolf: And I think it's charming that it shows that he's listening to her when he she's like, I want to get married and people get married. And he's like, Alright, after I get enough money, we'll get married. He's like, like the like that girl Sadie. And she's like, all married people should be made named Sadie.

[59:38] Jesse McInally: Then he comes home, he looks really distraught, and she's like, What happened? Come on, come on. He's like, Look at me, Sadie. And then we just cut to them and they're married.

[59:45] Andrew DeWolf: And it's great.

[59:46] Jesse McInally: It's great.

[59:48] Andrew DeWolf: It's so cute. I love that all of Act One, they never tell you what his job is.

[59:52] Jesse McInally: He says gambling.

[59:54] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, uh is that really was that his job?

[59:58] Jesse McInally: I guess so.

[1:00:01] Andrew DeWolf: Damn, I want to be a professional gambler. Can you imagine?

[1:00:02] Jesse McInally: Yeah, it's called making a podcast.

[1:00:05] Andrew DeWolf: You gamble on whether people are gonna listen every week.

[1:00:08] Jesse McInally: They're gonna listen to the poopy pee-pee hole.

[1:00:14] Andrew DeWolf: Slap a diaper on it, we're going.

[1:00:16] Jesse McInally: I'm a crinkle into the Broadway show.

[1:00:21] Andrew DeWolf: No, Broadway has intermissions.

[1:00:23] Jesse McInally: You don't you don't have to You're right, you're right.

[1:00:24] Andrew DeWolf: I'm crinkling to Avengers Endgame. Can't wait to fill it up before the end credits.

[1:00:33] Jesse McInally: Um you don't like Sadie Sadie.

[1:00:37] Andrew DeWolf: No, I think it's fine. It's just a weird, it's a weird premise for a song, and I think you said it earlier, it's like they wrote the song first.

[1:00:45] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[1:00:46] Andrew DeWolf: They're like, we got all these rhymes for Sadie.

[1:00:49] Jesse McInally: Like I do want to say too bad nobody's named Sadie in this show, and they're like, Well, what if you notice when comparison the comparing the movie soundtrack to the st original album?

[1:01:01] Andrew DeWolf: Um, Barbara Streisand is kind of known for doing like the you know, like Fran the Nanny voice, like, oh, what like put some feet stuff on my feet, please?

[1:01:11] Jesse McInally: Um, and that's very throughout the entire movie.

[1:01:14] Andrew DeWolf: But the original album, the original stage album, she doesn't really do that.

[1:01:18] Jesse McInally: That's not like a shtick she pulls.

[1:01:20] Andrew DeWolf: And yeah, I just found it weird that between doing the original cast album and going to the movie, she had solidified her shtick that she would stick to for the next 50 years.

[1:01:30] Jesse McInally: Well, don't tell anybody that reviewed the Broadway show about that.

[1:01:33] Andrew DeWolf: But it bothers me.

[1:01:35] Jesse McInally: They probably have only seen the movie, so.

[1:01:37] Andrew DeWolf: It bothers me a lot because there's no clips of Beanie Feldstein anywhere performing this.

[1:01:41] Jesse McInally: I cannot find a bootleg. Nothing.

[1:01:44] Andrew DeWolf: Do we even know that she's bad?

[1:01:46] Jesse McInally: Um, I can take people's words.

[1:01:47] Andrew DeWolf: I haven't heard a fucking peep. The only thing we have is the commercial where she looks at herself in the mirror, does a barber story standard practice, and is like, how gorgeous, and then that's it.

[1:01:57] Jesse McInally: Yeah, they're just they're just going off the movie.

[1:01:59] Andrew DeWolf: Um but speaking of that, let's move on to the music that makes me dance, which is pr the 11 o'clock number, and a great song.

[1:02:08] Jesse McInally: A beautiful, beautiful strisand ballad.

[1:02:17] Andrew DeWolf: I know he's around.

[1:02:24] Jesse McInally: When the sky and the ground starting ringing.

[1:02:35] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[1:02:36] Jesse McInally: Um, this is like right after he gets put in prison, I'm pretty sure.

[1:02:40] Andrew DeWolf: Um, and she's like, No, I'm not gonna leave him because he's the music that makes me dance.

[1:02:46] Jesse McInally: It's a short song, it's beautiful, but she she made that song last forever.

[1:02:50] Andrew DeWolf: It's good.

[1:02:50] Jesse McInally: Um, yeah.

[1:02:51] Andrew DeWolf: It makes the uh it makes the ending kind of sad because it's like they it doesn't work out.

[1:02:56] Jesse McInally: It's bittersweet in the best ways.

[1:02:58] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, but yeah, this is uh it's a good one, and it's a whole the whole show's just good.

[1:03:02] Jesse McInally: I don't know.

[1:03:03] Andrew DeWolf: Um it's hard to say, but most of these songs are a lot of people.

[1:03:05] Jesse McInally: I do want to say that in the revival, this is no longer the second to last number, but the third to last number.

[1:03:12] Andrew DeWolf: What did they add?

[1:03:13] Jesse McInally: They added a song called Funny Girl, and then they gave a don't random I parade reprise and then the people reprise.

[1:03:20] Andrew DeWolf: Oh, the people re that's a weird one.

[1:03:23] Jesse McInally: Yeah, that's what they end on.

[1:03:24] Andrew DeWolf: Um a lot of the critics also complained, and this is rightfully so, that the show is over three hours on in the revival now.

[1:03:32] Jesse McInally: Like even Late Middle is currently not even close to three hours in its current form.

[1:03:37] Andrew DeWolf: That's fair.

[1:03:38] Jesse McInally: This it should not be that long.

[1:03:39] Andrew DeWolf: This is not that long of a story.

[1:03:42] Jesse McInally: Yeah, I I I will say the movie is like 245, and it feels like it moves.

[1:03:47] Andrew DeWolf: The movie feels right.

[1:03:49] Jesse McInally: I feel like the stage show that I watched was only like two and a half.

[1:03:53] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, they kind of sped through a lot of stuff in the stage show.

[1:03:56] Jesse McInally: And the movie gives you the intermission and the overture and all those great things too.

[1:04:01] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, so three hours, bit a bit on the longer side. I think I don't think that's a good thing.

[1:04:07] Jesse McInally: For such a small show, like where you're just relying on the star quality of your actors, that's a lot of that's a big ask.

[1:04:13] Andrew DeWolf: I get that this is like kind of a bigger uh harder show to do, and they probably wanted it to be like a big event type thing, but longer is not always better.

[1:04:22] Jesse McInally: In fact, I think we're pretty pretty thoroughly on record at this point that longer is usually worse.

[1:04:27] Andrew DeWolf: At least I am.

[1:04:29] Jesse McInally: So Bree sent us a link of of Beanie Feldstein singing a tiny tiny bit.

[1:04:49] Andrew DeWolf: Hey, what are they?

[1:04:50] Brianna Jones: Blind?

[1:04:51] Andrew DeWolf: Henry Street!

[1:04:52] Brianna Jones: No, it ain't wrong, but it's Henry Street!

[1:04:54] Andrew DeWolf: Long up to me, I guess lit up with Ryan is alive. House Prime.

[1:05:00] Jesse McInally: Um, she she's fine. I guess fine isn't really good enough for a show like this, though.

[1:05:05] Andrew DeWolf: I guess. Um, and but they're very conservative in showing what she's singing. Even you have to admit that, Bree.

[1:05:10] Brianna Jones: No, there's like she sings a bit more at the end. Hang on.

[1:05:15] Andrew DeWolf: Mr. Ron Singh.

[1:05:30] Brianna Jones: Yeah, I can. I can sort of see what people might be saying.

[1:05:35] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[1:05:35] Brianna Jones: I think she's great. I think she's a great actress. I don't mean to pick on her.

[1:05:39] Andrew DeWolf: I don't want to jump onto that bandwagon.

[1:05:41] Brianna Jones: Yeah, it's just the show, the show requires somebody who will put the entire show on their back.

[1:05:45] Andrew DeWolf: Are we so are we ready to talk about the Leah Michelle of it all?

[1:05:49] Jesse McInally: Um, before we wrap this all up. Uh Bree saying don't talk about it.

[1:05:52] Brianna Jones: Bree saying don't do it.

[1:05:54] Andrew DeWolf: What um what are we talking about?

[1:05:55] Jesse McInally: I don't know about this.

[1:05:56] Andrew DeWolf: Okay, talk about it.

[1:05:57] Jesse McInally: Alright, I'm ready. So, Rachel Barry from Glee was played by Leah Michelle.

[1:06:02] Jesse McInally: Um, and Leah Michelle is not a nice person by all accounts. She she she can be considered a cruel, mean person.

[1:06:11] Jesse McInally: But she is very talented, has a great voice, all that type of shit.

[1:06:15] Jesse McInally: She openly campaigned to be Fanny Bryce in a revival of Funny Girl for many years, including her time at Glee.

[1:06:22] Jesse McInally: Um, so much that when Beanie Feldstein was announced to get the role on Broadway, Beanie Feldstein didn't trend. Leah Michelle did.

[1:06:28] Jesse McInally: Um, so somewhere out there. Because everyone's like, Leah Michelle yelling at herself.

[1:06:35] Jesse McInally: And not only that, playing Fanny Bryce's mother is Leah Michelle's co-star from Glee, Jane Lynch.

[1:06:40] Jesse McInally: Um, so everyone thought it was like obvious middle finger to Leah Michelle, but as soon as the reviews came out, everyone's like, they should have just picked Leah Michelle.

[1:06:49] Andrew DeWolf: I don't care.

[1:06:50] Jesse McInally: And I'm like, she was Leah Michelle's kind of a monster by everyone's everyone's belief.

[1:06:55] Jesse McInally: She has been blackballed from Broadway, like, which is an open secret.

[1:06:59] Jesse McInally: I I don't I'd rather a nice person who can't quite do it get the next up level and risk than a horrible person who can sing very well.

[1:07:08] Andrew DeWolf: What are your thoughts here, Andrew?

[1:07:10] Andrew DeWolf: I don't know enough about Leah Michelle to like say anything, although I think you're usually pretty well connected with this type of drama, so I have heard one-on-one stories um that I cannot say here, but yeah.

[1:07:23] Andrew DeWolf: So I think I'll trust you on this and say, uh yeah, let's keep assholes off the stage.

[1:07:28] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[1:07:29] Andrew DeWolf: Uh keep them keep them out in the seats where they're gonna be wearing diapers and and Leah Poopy poopy poop.

[1:07:36] Jesse McInally: Alright.

[1:07:37] Andrew DeWolf: Can I do one more Leah Michelle conspiracy theory before we wrap this up?

[1:07:40] Jesse McInally: Okay, this one's a conspiracy though. Do you know this one, Brie?

[1:07:44] Brianna Jones: No, I don't.

[1:07:44] Brianna Jones: I don't know anything much about her except that she's like horrible.

[1:07:48] Jesse McInally: She's a very mean person.

[1:07:49] Jesse McInally: Also, she might not be able to read.

[1:07:52] Brianna Jones: Oh, well, that's that's a little sad.

[1:07:54] Jesse McInally: Yeah.

[1:07:55] Jesse McInally: Well, the it's a rumor started by the Gleeks in the olden days, where anytime she was.

[1:08:03] Andrew DeWolf: Why did they call themselves Gleeks?

[1:08:05] Jesse McInally: I hate it.

[1:08:05] Andrew DeWolf: I know you thought in the olden days, like what it's called when like spit comes through your teeth, a gleek.

[1:08:13] Jesse McInally: Yes!

[1:08:14] Jesse McInally: Yes, that's what that's called.

[1:08:18] Andrew DeWolf: Brief froze on me, so I can't hear what she's saying.

[1:08:20] Brianna Jones: I wasn't saying anything.

[1:08:21] Andrew DeWolf: You're good, Andrew.

[1:08:22] Andrew DeWolf: Can you not hear me?

[1:08:23] Brianna Jones: She was just talking about how gleaking is when spit comes out of your teeth.

[1:08:26] Andrew DeWolf: Oh, like that?

[1:08:27] Brianna Jones: Did did you just gleak on your mic?

[1:08:30] Andrew DeWolf: Past my mic, but yes.

[1:08:31] Brianna Jones: Bro, what the fuck?

[1:08:35] Jesse McInally: Um, okay.

[1:08:37] Jesse McInally: So anytime she was given paper, she'd give it to someone else to read to her.

[1:08:41] Jesse McInally: Um she was never seen reading a script.

[1:08:44] Jesse McInally: She would always ha have it on her, and anything that she was ever writing, it was like in short, like what or two-word things.

[1:08:52] Jesse McInally: So the rumor became that Leah Michelle didn't know how to read.

[1:08:56] Jesse McInally: Um, and that all of her tweets and she admitted this, like all of her tweets are not written by her.

[1:09:01] Jesse McInally: She just tells someone what to tweet, just like Donald Trump does.

[1:09:04] Jesse McInally: Um so the joke is Leah Michelle would be really upset about reading the Bienyfeld seeds playing Fanny Bryce if she could read.

[1:09:12] Andrew DeWolf: That's the um what's that King of the Hill meme?

[1:09:15] Jesse McInally: Yeah, or no, it's Arthur meme.

[1:09:17] Jesse McInally: This can't affect me because I can't read.

[1:09:19] Andrew DeWolf: Oh, I think it's I think it's both.

[1:09:20] Jesse McInally: I'm pretty sure there's a King of the Hill one also.

[1:09:22] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah.

[1:09:22] Jesse McInally: So either way, Leah Michelle, bad person monster.

[1:09:25] Jesse McInally: Don't put her on Broadway again.

[1:09:27] Andrew DeWolf: Maybe maybe find someone else.

[1:09:28] Andrew DeWolf: What's what's who else can sing?

[1:09:31] Jesse McInally: Is there anyone else that can actually sing on Broadway?

[1:09:33] Andrew DeWolf: I there's not very many.

[1:09:34] Andrew DeWolf: I mean, Broadway, it's it's kind of there's no talent on Broadway.

[1:09:38] Jesse McInally: Yeah, it's just Hugh Jackman and everyone else.

[1:09:40] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, Hugh Jack.

[1:09:41] Andrew DeWolf: I mean, Hugh Jackman maybe could play uh player.

[1:09:44] Jesse McInally: Oh, tell me, watch her live, I'll sit in potter.

[1:09:47] Andrew DeWolf: I'm out of play on my butter part.

[1:09:54] Andrew DeWolf: You know, Evan.

[1:09:55] Andrew DeWolf: I bought him these putters years ago.

[1:09:58] Andrew DeWolf: Don't don't get any of that butter toast on them.

[1:10:02] Jesse McInally: Alright.

[1:10:03] Jesse McInally: Andrew, what is your overall thoughts on Funny Girl and your cheese rating?

[1:10:08] Andrew DeWolf: Um Honestly, I enjoyed it, and I I didn't even watch the Barbara Streisand version, so all this talk about how she's the only person who could ever do it is a little bit uh over my head, I suppose.

[1:10:20] Andrew DeWolf: Because I I thought the person I saw do it wasn't even that bad.

[1:10:25] Andrew DeWolf: Um I guess they changed some of the keys for that, but I don't know.

[1:10:29] Andrew DeWolf: It's pretty good show.

[1:10:30] Andrew DeWolf: I liked it.

[1:10:31] Andrew DeWolf: Um the whole thing was great.

[1:10:33] Andrew DeWolf: I liked it.

[1:10:34] Andrew DeWolf: Maybe we could try to revise stuff more often and not lock lock certain roles in to s whatever wealthy person decides it's theirs.

[1:10:45] Jesse McInally: Yeah, you're not wrong.

[1:10:47] Jesse McInally: Like, okay, Barbara Streisand was good.

[1:10:49] Jesse McInally: Guess what? Other people can be good too.

[1:10:50] Andrew DeWolf: My goodness.

[1:10:52] Jesse McInally: Um, but uh I'm gonna give it a um a uh Sadie's Longboy Cheeseburger.

[1:10:57] Andrew DeWolf: Ooh, that's a good cheese rating, Andrew.

[1:11:00] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, it's uh from somebody's grandma Sadie, who is Australian.

[1:11:04] Andrew DeWolf: They make long cheeseburgers.

[1:11:07] Jesse McInally: Long cheeseburger.

[1:11:08] Jesse McInally: Long boy.

[1:11:10] Brianna Jones: Do you have a picture of this?

[1:11:11] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, we need a picture of this, Andrew.

[1:11:14] Andrew DeWolf: Um, yeah, hang on.

[1:11:15] Andrew DeWolf: Uh can I is it in a hot dog button?

[1:11:18] Andrew DeWolf: Can I put pictures somewhere?

[1:11:19] Jesse McInally: You hit share, share screen, then pick your tab.

[1:11:22] Andrew DeWolf: Okay.

[1:11:23] Andrew DeWolf: Uh share, share a screen, dish here.

[1:11:26] Brianna Jones: Oh my god, there's so much frozen porn on your computer.

[1:11:28] Andrew DeWolf: What the hell, Andrew?

[1:11:30] Andrew DeWolf: Oh yeah, I mean that's that's normal.

[1:11:32] Jesse McInally: Yeah, and we got this.

[1:11:33] Brianna Jones: Oh my god, that looks terrible.

[1:11:35] Andrew DeWolf: It does look awful, but I mean, you know what they say.

[1:11:39] Andrew DeWolf: Just because they're a little bit ugly doesn't mean they aren't funny, right?

[1:11:42] Jesse McInally: That's the that was the that's the message of the the moral of the story, I think.

[1:11:46] Brianna Jones: Yeah, even ugly girls can be funny.

[1:11:49] Andrew DeWolf: Alright, Bree, what is your overall thoughts in cheese for the girls?

[1:11:54] Brianna Jones: Someone's gonna clip that.

[1:11:56] Brianna Jones: That's gonna live forever on the internet.

[1:11:58] Andrew DeWolf: Um I feel like there's so much stuff that I say that no one everyone could just clip, and I never get clipped.

[1:12:04] Brianna Jones: I don't know why.

[1:12:04] Brianna Jones: Yeah, it's always me for some reason.

[1:12:06] Jesse McInally: Jess gets clipped, but I'll like I'll just say something sarcastically, but it doesn't sound like a sarcastic and no one ever clips it.

[1:12:13] Andrew DeWolf: Okay, so the one time I had dinner with Brent, he described to me a s a sensation of recording with you that I've never had with anyone else.

[1:12:21] Andrew DeWolf: Where me and someone else will be talking, and then he'll see a smile creep across your face, and he knows Andrew's gonna say something just to piss everyone off.

[1:12:30] Brianna Jones: And he's just waiting for the nuclear bomb to drop.

[1:12:33] Andrew DeWolf: And it does happen.

[1:12:34] Andrew DeWolf: You do do that.

[1:12:36] Brianna Jones: I love it.

[1:12:37] Brianna Jones: I love doing it.

[1:12:38] Andrew DeWolf: Or I know something's coming and I wanna be sure to tee him up perfectly for it.

[1:12:43] Brianna Jones: Yeah, I mean, that's how I do it.

[1:12:46] Brianna Jones: That's my style, I think.

[1:12:47] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, so we that's the reason why we work, and sometimes when we get other folks in here, it doesn't always work.

[1:12:53] Brianna Jones: Yeah, because they don't want me to drop the bomb.

[1:12:54] Brianna Jones: They can't handle it.

[1:12:55] Brianna Jones: They're not emotionally prepared for that for that blast.

[1:12:59] Andrew DeWolf: For the gamer word.

[1:13:00] Brianna Jones: Alright, Bree.

[1:13:14] Brianna Jones: Overall thoughts and cheese rating.

[1:13:17] Brianna Jones: Um, you guys convinced me I want to watch this.

[1:13:20] Brianna Jones: Um, I think I probably will watch the Barbara Streisand version, the movie version first.

[1:13:26] Brianna Jones: Um, but I have to agree with Andrew that we don't need to gate like gatekeep this.

[1:13:31] Brianna Jones: Other people can play this role.

[1:13:34] Brianna Jones: Um, there are lots of talented women out there that could could definitely sing these songs and do it.

[1:13:41] Brianna Jones: Like, come on, guys.

[1:13:43] Brianna Jones: Um, but I'm gonna give this a uh Barbara's cheese puff.

[1:13:48] Andrew DeWolf: Barbish cheese puffs.

[1:13:49] Brianna Jones: They look good.

[1:13:51] Brianna Jones: Um I love Funny Girl.

[1:13:54] Brianna Jones: Funny Girl's great.

[1:13:55] Brianna Jones: Um it's a funny show.

[1:13:58] Brianna Jones: It's a lot of a lot of good times to be had while watching and listening to it.

[1:14:02] Brianna Jones: The album, highly recommend it.

[1:14:04] Brianna Jones: Every song is a banger.

[1:14:05] Brianna Jones: I know we didn't talk about every song, but I don't think there's like a really bad song in the bunch, and that's rare for like even classic musicals.

[1:14:12] Brianna Jones: I am slightly more interested in funny lady now that I know Candra and Ebb did the music.

[1:14:18] Brianna Jones: Um, so maybe maybe that'll be a Patreon episode.

[1:14:20] Brianna Jones: Um, patrons, let us know if you'd want us to cover that in our like a little mini episode just for you guys.

[1:14:26] Brianna Jones: Um, but my cheese rating is parade shop sharp cheddar cheese snack spray.

[1:14:32] Brianna Jones: Um, sold at Bernards.

[1:14:34] Brianna Jones: Because ain't no one gonna rate on my parade cheese snack spray.

[1:14:38] Brianna Jones: Don't you bring around a cloud to rate on my parade cheese snack spray?

[1:14:42] Jesse McInally: Um, alright, guys.

[1:14:43] Jesse McInally: We that was funny girl.

[1:14:46] Jesse McInally: Look at us.

[1:14:47] Jesse McInally: We did it.

[1:14:49] Jesse McInally: We covered the thing.

[1:14:52] Jesse McInally: We did the funniest of girls.

[1:14:55] Jesse McInally: It is modern and relevant, and it happened in 2022 and we covered it.

[1:15:01] Andrew DeWolf: Yeah, we certainly talked about a musical on a podcast where we talk about musicals.

[1:15:05] Andrew DeWolf: We did the bare minimum of our jobs.

[1:15:07] Jesse McInally: We talked about the m controversy happening at the moment.

[1:15:11] Jesse McInally: We did everything we were supposed to.

[1:15:13] Andrew DeWolf: We did everything that people come to us for.

[1:15:15] Andrew DeWolf: Good job.

[1:15:15] Jesse McInally: We didn't talk about that guy with the glasses nearly as much, though.

[1:15:18] Andrew DeWolf: We could kind of cram that in here if you want.

[1:15:20] Jesse McInally: I mean, what would the cinema stub say about this musical?

[1:15:24] Andrew DeWolf: Cinema Snub would say it's not nearly pornographic enough.

[1:15:29] Jesse McInally: Alright.

[1:15:31] Jesse McInally: Okay.

[1:15:32] Jesse McInally: Glad you glad that made it in.

[1:15:34] Jesse McInally: Um thank you guys for listening.

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[1:15:51] Jesse McInally: Our keeper of the cheese is Juliet Antonio.

[1:15:53] Jesse McInally: You're the fucking tits, Juliet.

[1:15:55] Jesse McInally: Um this show is produced by the wonderful, the incredible, one of my favorite human beings on the entire fucking planet.

[1:16:01] Brianna Jones: Brianna Jones.

[1:16:03] Jesse McInally: Our theme songs were created by Robin Nash of IOU Music UK.

[1:16:07] Jesse McInally: Thank you to the Broadway Podcast Network for having us on the platform and for not kicking us off for, you know, gliking all over the place.

[1:16:19] Andrew DeWolf: Sometimes you just gotta gleak into each other's mouth.

[1:16:22] Jesse McInally: You know, Jess, I was I was watching Pop Quiz Hotshots the other day.

[1:16:26] Andrew DeWolf: Oh, as you do.

[1:16:27] Jesse McInally: It's it's so rewatchable.

[1:16:30] Jesse McInally: It's very Did you know they had a they had a trivia question on there, and then the answer was Miss Saigon and no one got it?

[1:16:37] Andrew DeWolf: Oh my gosh.

[1:16:38] Jesse McInally: Did you know the answer?

[1:16:39] Andrew DeWolf: I did know the answer, actually.

[1:16:40] Jesse McInally: What was the question?

[1:16:41] Andrew DeWolf: It was uh it was just asking like what what musical had a big helicopter that landed on stage.

[1:16:47] Jesse McInally: And you know it because of course you I knew it.

[1:16:49] Andrew DeWolf: So this musical me or this podcast would have helped you win Doug Walker's trivia challenge.

[1:16:56] Jesse McInally: It would have helped me beat Doug Walker's uh character, the nostalgia critic, in a uh in a 1v1 trivia battle in Pop Quiz Hotshot, the classic um trivia program.

[1:17:07] Andrew DeWolf: It cost $250,000 to make.

[1:17:12] Jesse McInally: I thought I'd just remind everyone of that.

[1:17:18] Andrew DeWolf: Okay, we're done.

[1:17:18] Jesse McInally: We're fucking done.

[1:17:21] Andrew DeWolf: Alright, we'll see you next time.

[1:17:24] Jesse McInally: I'm on musicals with cheese.

[1:17:34] Andrew DeWolf: I'm Sadie Sadie, Married Lady, but when I go by