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[0:03] Joshua Turchin: Hello and welcome back to The Early Night Show. Virtual Edition or the Corona Cabaret. Well, thanks for being with us today. I really hope everyone is having a good week so far. In quarantine, these days just seem to blend together. I mean, the middle of the week doesn't really mean a whole lot anymore. Maybe we should make up some like new days. The day formerly known as Sunday could be Shakespeare, where we all try to speak like Shakespearean wrote. Or Saturday could be Suntime Day, where we all have to sing and speak ten times faster than we normally would on Angela Weber Day, which is Thursday. Might make for some interesting days at work or school, though. So for now, until it's a thing, I'll just look forward to the days when I get to come on here and bring on some amazingly talented performers like today.

I have such a great show for you guys. My first guest is the incredible Caroline Basu. You may have seen Caroline as a guest star on Grey's Anatomy a few weeks ago. I met Caroline in New York City when she was starring in School of Rock on Broadway. She's so, so talented. Let's get her on here. Hey Caroline!

[1:14] Caroline Basu: Hi Joshua.

[1:16] Joshua Turchin: Hey, how are you?

[1:17] Caroline Basu: I'm great. How are you?

[1:19] Joshua Turchin: Pretty good. Um, you're in Texas right now, right?

[1:22] Caroline Basu: Yes, I'm in Houston.

[1:24] Joshua Turchin: Oh, that's so cool. How is everything there with COVID-19?

[1:28] Caroline Basu: Um, we're in social distancing like everyone else, but we weren't hit as bad as New York. Our hearts are with all of you guys right now, XXO. I think just you know.

[1:39] Joshua Turchin: Thank you so much. Um, one of the highlights of my quarantine TV, my quarantine TV, um, was watching you on Grey's Anatomy. You were so amazing.

[1:50] Caroline Basu: Thank you so much for that. Um, I recorded it at the end of February, right before it shut down, so.

[1:59] Joshua Turchin: So how many days were you on set for?

[2:02] Caroline Basu: I was on set for two days, but a week before I had to go in to get my prosthetics done for my surgery.

[2:09] Joshua Turchin: Oh, that's so cool. Um, how was your experience like with the TV show different from your experience with School of Rock?

[2:17] Caroline Basu: Well, it's different because there's not a live audience cheering you on, but it's also a bit nicer because you know that you have so much time that you won't like mess up or anything, and it goes by a lot faster than like months and months of rehearsal and stuff.

[2:32] Joshua Turchin: Um, aside from being on Grey's Anatomy, has anything else positive come out of being quarantined?

[2:39] Caroline Basu: Well, getting to spend so much time with my family has been amazing. Like I've been able to sit outside with my dog for hours going bike rides with my dad, and you just don't get to do that in regular life. So I've been grateful for that.

[2:52] Joshua Turchin: Well, what type of dog?

[2:53] Caroline Basu: Oh, we have a Norwich Terrier. He's very cute and kind of so cute.

[2:58] Joshua Turchin: Oh, is he a chunk?

[3:00] Caroline Basu: He's a chunk.

[3:02] Joshua Turchin: He's a chunk.

[3:03] Caroline Basu: He's a chunk.

[3:04] Joshua Turchin: Well, I'm so happy to have you on here today. Um, shall we do a song?

[3:10] Caroline Basu: Sure, yeah.

[3:11] Joshua Turchin: Well, uh, what song do you want to do?

[3:14] Caroline Basu: Why don't we do Don't Lose Your Head from the Musical Six?

[3:17] Joshua Turchin: Oh, I love that song. Why do you choose that song?

[3:20] Caroline Basu: Um, I love it because it's hilarious. And um, Anne Boleyn is probably my favorite character in the show. And I love her little space ones. I'm just obsessed with them. I don't know why. Um, but I think she's just like so cool, and she's feisty and powerful, and I just think that's really cool to try to replicate.

[3:43] Joshua Turchin: I love that character, and I love your singing. Um, do you wanna try to do this?

[3:46] Caroline Basu: Sure.

[3:50] Joshua Turchin: Here we go.

[3:58] ♪ Musical number: "Sorry, Not Sorry" — performed by Caroline Basu ♪

[8:20] Joshua Turchin: That was wonderful, Caroline. You can follow Caroline on Instagram at Caroline Basu. I cannot wait to finally see Six when Broadway reopens. One show I didn't get to see because I was too young on Broadway was Beauty and the Beast. If you've been listening, you know that Alan Menken is one of my absolute favorite composers. And this song is just another reason why he is a musician that I look up to so much. Here's if I loved her from Beauty and the Beast, and in my twisted face, there's not the slightest trace of anything that even hints of kindness, and from my tortured shape, no comfort, no escape.

[10:30] ♪ Musical number: "If I Can't Love Her" — performed by Caroline Basu ♪

[10:30] Caroline Basu: No spirit could win me, no hope left within me. Hope I could have loved her and that she'd send me free.

[12:27] Emily Zimmerman: But it's not too if I can't love her. Let the world be done with me. Thanks for all the music, Alan. I can't wait to hear some of what he's working on in quarantine. I'm sure there's gonna be something new that will emerge soon from his brilliant mind. Perhaps uh quarantinian, the musical about a child trapped in his house whose only social connection is through the internet, and maybe some evil company slows down the internet connection. Oh wait. That's just my life now. Actually, I think it's pretty much all of our lives right now. It's all okay though, because we're flattening the curve and hopefully on the way to healing. Well, the world.

[12:40] Joshua Turchin: Hey Emily!

[13:42] Emily Zimmerman: Hi, how are you?

[13:44] Joshua Turchin: How are you?

[13:45] Emily Zimmerman: I'm good, I'm good. Um, how have you been during this like crazy pause?

[13:51] Joshua Turchin: I've been pretty okay. Um, I've been focusing a lot on my schoolwork um with e-learning, and I've been trying to keep my voice as healthy as I can, and I'm out I've also been kind of like creative in other ways. I've been actually drawing a lot more, and um, I don't know, just like writing, and um, yeah, I'm really focusing in on my craft. Um, has anything else positive happened as a result of like being quarantined?

[14:18] Emily Zimmerman: Um well, something positive that happened is my dad is actually an emergency room doctor for um kids, and he lives in Nevada, Las Vegas, so he can work at a hospital out here. And normally my mom, my brother, and I we live in Illinois, and um because of corona, we've been able to come out here right before everything got crazy and spend time with him, and um I haven't been able to spend a lot of time with him recently because um we live so far away from one another, so it's just been a lot of family time that I wouldn't have had.

[14:52] Joshua Turchin: I'm really glad that you finally got to see your father because you're after like long distance stuff because you you were in New York, right? Before?

[15:01] Emily Zimmerman: Well, I was about to go to New York for um an off Broadway show, but it unfortunately got postponed um because of coronavirus.

[15:11] Joshua Turchin: Oh no, I'm so sorry.

[15:13] Emily Zimmerman: It's okay. Um it was actually uh Sarah Silverman's new musical, um, The Bedwetter, and we were actually supposed to start previews in a couple of days, but um yeah, it got postponed, and it's everything's kind of TBD right now, so yeah, it's kind of really hectic.

[15:32] Joshua Turchin: I'm really sorry. I was in an off Broadway show too that had to go on a short suspension off Broadway too because of COVID-19. Um, but now I'm back here in South Florida and ready to play some songs.

[15:47] Emily Zimmerman: Oh, and speaking of songs, what song are you gonna be singing?

[15:51] Joshua Turchin: I'm gonna be singing History of Wrong Guys from Kinky Boots.

[15:55] Emily Zimmerman: Oh, I love that song.

[15:57] Joshua Turchin: It's a really fun song to play. I think I'm ready whenever you are.

[16:01] Emily Zimmerman: I'm ready.

[16:02] Joshua Turchin: Here we go.

[16:56] ♪ Musical number: "History of Wrong Guys" — performed by Emily Zimmerman ♪

[19:38] Joshua Turchin: That was so wonderful, Emily. You can follow her on Instagram at Emily F. Zimmerman. If you're enjoying these virtual cabarets, please consider making a donation to the Actors Fund's Emergency Relief Fund at www.actorsfund.org to support people working in the entertainment industry who have suddenly found themselves out of work. Any bit helps. I'm really excited to feature some more students from around the world in future episodes. If you're a student whose show was canceled or postponed and you want a chance to sing on our show, send an email to earlynightshowcasting@gmail.com and include your name, social media handle, and a link to a video of you singing. We hope to show your talent off to the world. Our plan is to air these um show segments every Monday.

[20:33] Joshua Turchin: Thanks to my wonderfully talented guests, Caroline Basu and Emily Zimmerman. Thank you so much for watching. You can find the Early Night Show wherever podcasts are found. And we love five-star ratings and really positive reviews. And let's keep entertaining! Any artists who want to be virtual guests, send me a direct message on my Instagram at Joshua Turchin, and let's keep making music to help the Actors Fund. Stay healthy and wash your hands.