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[0:01] Josh: Hey Queens, what's going on? Today is a huge, huge episode for us. We are hitting the big 4-0. That is right. 40 episodes of the Queendom Podcast brought right to your earbuds right here, wherever you get your podcast. And I just want to thank you guys so much for your love and support over the last 10 months. It has been a wild ride. Obviously, we've had coronavirus and everything to go with that that we've had to deal with, but we are sticking together as a big family and we are pushing on through. And we've got so much more to come in the next hopefully 40 episodes. But this week we have Courtney Mack from the Broadway cast. She is a swing out there. We are so excited to have her on this week. So this is her episode, and as always, it is time to get down. I'm the Queen of the Castle. Get down, you dirty Ross.

[1:03] Josh: Hey Queens, and welcome back to the Queendom Podcast. We are jumping back across to the United States this week with Miss Courtney Mack from the Broadway cast. Hey Courtney, how you going?

[1:14] Courtney Mack: Good. How are you?

[1:15] Josh: I am fabulous. So I've got a fun one to start you off with. So what's better? Deep dish or New York pizza?

[1:23] Courtney Mack: Deep dish.

[1:26] Josh: Yeah, I agree. 100%. I can't really get over like the pizza that's been sitting out in like in New York. It kind of grossed me out a little bit, not gonna lie. Just something about Chicago deep dish. It's real good.

[1:41] Courtney Mack: Yeah, 100%.

[1:44] Josh: Um, what's the best piece of advice you've ever been given?

[1:51] Courtney Mack: In terms of acting or anything?

[1:54] Josh: Whatever. What what's that one thing that sticks out?

[1:59] Courtney Mack: Um probably just being kind to everybody. Um whether you're kind of low on the totem pole, and um like just that little kindness that you receive from somebody that could be on a higher level than you are, yeah. It makes a world of difference to that person, you know.

[2:25] Josh: I love that. That's so good. Um I watched Aladdin last night, so we're gonna go down a little Aladdin theme. Go into the cave of wonders and you find the genie's lamp. Right now, what are your three wishes?

[2:40] Courtney Mack: Oh probably to end the pandemic for sure. To um get some peace with uh the racial injustice going on. Um find some peace in that. Um and um gosh, I don't know. Probably probably get married. But I know that's gonna happen, so I don't need to worry about it. I don't know, world peace. How about that? Three selfless wishes right there.

[3:25] Josh: And maybe a little easy one to wrap it up before we jump into the show. What is your favorite show that you've ever seen?

[3:35] Courtney Mack: Um, I remember like the first show. Actually, my first Broadway show I saw was In the Heights, I think. That one was pretty cool. I love it. I was really with that show. Um But I don't know, I I don't really have a favorite.

[4:02] Josh: Okay.

[4:03] Courtney Mack: There's like I love too many moments in shows and I don't know.

[4:10] Josh: I love that. All right. So for anyone that doesn't know Courtney, she is the one of the alternates and was the Kay Howard cover for a while, um, while the US tour was happening. Um how did you get into the performing arts, Courtney? What was your introduction to theater?

[4:29] Courtney Mack: Well, I um my older sister, she did musicals in high school and so I wanted to be just like her. So then I decided to do choir, get into the musicals, and um that's where I kind of found my love of it, but I was super super shy. Um still probably am to some extent. Um but like being on stage, you know, getting to play a different person to um just to, you know, play make believe is is what really drew me to it. And then um I went to uh Luther College for a year, super private college. They're basically breeding opera singers and uh music teachers, which is not what I wanted to be. Um, so I went to uh Chicago and went to Columbia, and then the rest is kind of history, but I always had a love for singing and and growing up, I always was like, ooh, I'm gonna be on the Disney Channel, or I'm gonna be an actor, I'm gonna be a singer one day and kind of get best of both worlds with theater right here.

[5:52] Josh: Um so how did you find out about Six? What was your introduction to this show?

[5:57] Courtney Mack: Well, I was working on a cruise ship, um, and I had messaged Mallory, who's also um an alternate in Six in the Broadway cast, and she was like, I can't talk right now, I am auditioning for Six. So I was like, what is Six? So I was looking it up and stuff, and then I was like, oh, this is kind of cool. Um, and then I got a message from Roberta, who's one of our music directors, and she was like, When are you off the ship? And I was like, not until May 9th or something like that. And so she was like, uh we're looking to cast somebody for Six. And I was like, Well, I can get off the ship at any time. So I was having a horrible time. Um, well, not a horrible time, but ship life is not for everyone, so it's definitely not for me.

Um, so then I messaged my agent right away and was like Roberta just messaged me, and I also was a uh one of her students for voice lessons. So I was like, she messaged me, can we can I get like scene for an audition or something? So then my agent was on it and I got sent sides and um choreography videos and had to send like I probably sent like 13, 14 videos um of sides and dancing and that.

[7:37] Josh: Um so yeah, I I was on I was on in the uh high seas when I I love that. So your was your main audition process pretty much all video based or once you got through that first section it was in person or it pretty much was I mean I so when I was getting off the ship, um I we were we were doing a transatlantic so we were over in um France and um so we we flew back or we no we stopped in we were in London and then we flew back to New York and they had wanted me to um I had another audition for Beautiful, uh the musical um for the national tour in New York. So I was working on that as well and um they were like well we'll just rent out a studio for you um before your Beautiful audition and then we'll hire like uh an accompanist to come in and play for you and we'll do like a recording thing, whatever.

[8:51] Courtney Mack: So I was supposed to do another video in New York, but I got so sick I couldn't talk. I had a fever and um so we canceled both auditions and then we flew straight home from New York right when we got there and then um I had said I was gonna be in Chicago in like the next couple of days so they were like okay we'll just see you when you get here and I was like okay great that's perfect um so I had they they wanted me to see the show first so I saw the first preview in Chicago and I was sitting right next to Carrie Ann and I was like are you the choreographer? She's like yes I am I was like you look so familiar I watched like all of your videos that you guys sent me and I have an audition with you tomorrow and she was like what nobody told her and I was like I I was so excited because I was like oh my gosh I get to meet you before my audition this is wonderful and she was like I don't know what you're talking about.

[9:57] Josh: Um but it was great so then the next day I come in and I'm still kind of sick I'm not very like vocally well um but I felt super great about my audition and they were looking for a replacement for Kay Howard for um the end of the Chicago run and then Boston and it was kind of that was it and I was like cool um and then yeah that was it um crushed it and now we're here.

[10:33] Josh: So I was gonna ask you what you preferred tour or cruising, but you pretty much summed that up in a sentence just before. Um so how easy was it for you to adapt to that touring life like on land opposed to being away from everybody at sea?

[10:55] Courtney Mack: Well, being on the ship, I had to pay for internet. So that sucked, and the internet was so spotty all the time. So um I was basically just using internet to call my now fiancé, um, and my family and my friends, just to kind of keep up with um like that part of my life. Um not that I didn't have friends on the ship, I did, and I they're I would still consider them to be my good friends of mine. Um but it's just a different like if you're you're like eating, you're living, you're breathing, you're working like on top of each other basically. So it's like I grew up in Wisconsin, you know, I'm out in the boonies and I, you know, live on a lake and there's so much space, so I don't necessarily like the confined like being confined.

[11:56] Josh: Yeah.

[11:59] Courtney Mack: And I wish I would have known that before I got on. That's all right. I learned a lot. Um especially as a performer, I think I learned so much being on the ship in terms of just like in terms of acting, in terms of like socializing and all that.

[12:24] Courtney Mack: There we go.

[12:25] Josh: Oh no, did I lose? Yeah, just for the last like two seconds?

[12:30] Courtney Mack: Okay.

[12:31] Josh: I'm sorry.

[12:32] Courtney Mack: That's okay. Um, yeah. So like when you're on tour, you know, you're on land, you have your phone, you have your, um, all your electronics. It's easier to just call somebody and be like, hey, what's up? And, um, also being able like when we were in, um, uh, Cambridge, that was one of the most amazing places that we were at because we could walk down like these cobblestone streets and like there's so much history in that little town.

[13:10] Josh: Yeah, um, and we're so close to Boston, so we just like walked across the bridge and in and so you don't get that being on a ship. Freedom is the main thing here.

[13:27] Courtney Mack: So learning the show, um, knowing you were coming in as a replacement because Sam was jetting off for Vader and that type of stuff. What was your learning process for the show? Uh, how did you put together your K Howard?

[13:41] Courtney Mack: So I was kind of super lucky with K Howard just because in a bad way, but Sam was leaving super soon, so I didn't have the luxury of like getting to watch her all the time and get her version stuck in my head, if that makes sense. Um, because I don't want to copy what she's doing because she has her own beautiful K Howard and I wanted to find my own.

[14:12] Josh: Yeah.

[14:13] Courtney Mack: Um, so I was working with Mallory and Roberta and the associate director, Megan Farley, and it was basically like an eight-day back-to-back kind of, uh, a thing. So I would learn the choreography, um, and I was learning music on certain parts of the day and, um, then working kind of on acting bits. Um, so it was a very like fast and furious kind of a thing. Um, and yeah, I was at I was basically in the green room for every show, and I was watching on the screen and just like running through the whole show or the parts that I had learned that day. Um, and then I got to do like a run through with the girls, which was awesome.

[15:17] Josh: Um, yeah, so it was it was very like fast and furious process. It was only like an eight-day thing, and um, that's crazy. It wasn't a lot of time now that I think about it.

[15:32] Josh: That's awake. That's insane. Uh, how was it like learning this show? Because there is a lot of like interaction portions, especially with Howard. So what was it like kind of learning that with only Mallory and not like the full presence of everybody there?

[15:49] Courtney Mack: It was weird. Um, yeah, because you know, you need that interaction and you need to like play off of the other people on stage. So like most of the time I'm looking at the floor at where people would be.

[16:03] Josh: Yeah.

[16:05] Courtney Mack: Why are you looking at the floor? And I'm like, it's awkward looking in the space. I don't know. I'm looking at something solid. Um, I don't know. Um, but yeah there at the very end of um, um Howard's song, um, when they're like hands with the hands and everything, Mallory would just like sneakily come in she'd like place her hands at like one part, um, like this is where Abby's hands would be and then this is where Brit's hands will be or whatever just so I kind of get the feel of um, the placement of where they kind of are. Um, but yeah, it was a very weird, weird thing.

[16:57] Josh: You've definitely out of everyone I've spoken to, you've definitely had like the weirdest kind of learning process. Like that's a lot to like shrink into eight days and then have to kind of learn it without it like props to you because that's just insane.

[17:11] Courtney Mack: Yeah, and like the first couple performances I wasn't really interacting with anybody. I like couldn't I couldn't really have fun with it because I was still like don't mess up. Don't mess up this part of um, I just remember I wasn't looking at anyone like I couldn't look at anybody.

[17:34] Josh: I would just like kind of, you know, schmacky.

[17:40] Josh: So what was it like that first show? Um, getting your pink on and getting everything together. What was it like kind of getting into Howard and knowing, okay, we're doing this, all right.

[17:54] Courtney Mack: It was kind of a blur. I mean, looking back on it now, I did a run through before, um, uh, the actual show and I was super overwhelmed and afterward after that like little run through, I was just bawling my eyes out. Cause I also, you know, I didn't have the luxury of having like a month-long rehearsal process, so I didn't know all the girls and I didn't have the connections that they made, you know, with Sam.

[18:30] Courtney Mack: Um, so I was just like so overwhelmed about everything. But then they all hugged me, um, after our little run through and then, um, yeah, it was it was it it was awesome. I mean, I had like I had my fiancé in the audience, I had a lot of friends in the audience, so it was really nothing but like love and, um, I don't know.

[19:07] Josh: Yeah.

[19:08] Courtney Mack: You just feel like proud of yourself after that like that kind of stuff, you know?

[19:12] Josh: Yeah, get all that kind of full work up where you're like stressing out and then it finally hits that point where you're like, Oh yeah, this is pretty cool, like I got this.

[19:20] Courtney Mack: Yeah. You like get approve of it and you're like, why am I freaking out?

[19:25] Josh: Yeah.

[19:26] Courtney Mack: Well, since then you you've played Howard another hundred and one times. So you you've done a pretty good job, I'd say.

[19:58] Courtney Mack: Um, 'cause I really didn't know if I was going to be a part of like moving forward.

[20:04] Josh: Yeah.

[20:05] Courtney Mack: Because I always knew Sam was coming back for the um Canada little sit down. Um, so I didn't know if there was a place for me after that. And so once we finally learned that it's been a journey on really what I am doing because when I first got my call, they had said that I was covering like two people and then it turned into three people.

[20:16] Courtney Mack: And then it turned into five people. Um, but uh going back, um, learning and Bolin and then learning Seymour. It was just tough because like you're on stage, like after you do however many shows as one character, the people who play those characters, they kind of are ingrained in your brain in how they act and how they say things.

[21:15] Courtney Mack: So like having to step into that role and like trying I'm trying to get Andrea out of my head or trying to get Abby out of my head. Um, it's really hard because like I said, I had the luxury of, you know, not having to watch Sam. I didn't have that with the other girls, so I don't know, it was just kind of a hard way to find my own Boleyn and find my own Seymour and all these other entire show that has done it in reverse, gone from kind of like that single cover back to a swing.

[21:58] Josh: Usually it's like swing through to Maine.

[22:01] Courtney Mack: So like I never thought of that. Like that's you yeah. Wow. It's weird. You don't get to learn the show on your own without kind of you get to create your own character and then say everybody else. You're seeing everybody else and then having to be like, okay, like who am I though? Like, oh wow.

[22:21] Josh: Yeah, it's it's like a it's it's very bizarre. They literally threw you in the deep end, didn't they?

[22:27] Courtney Mack: It's like, let's just do everything according.

[22:32] Josh: Yeah, and I mean when I got to so they had to fly me out to um Canada because it was just kind of a hot mess happening over there. Um, people were hurt and stuff like that.

[22:46] Courtney Mack: So, um, so they were telling me that I needed to learn Boleyn. And so I was like talking to my agent and they they were like you haven't signed a contract yet or you like we haven't gotten your contract yet so you shouldn't be learning anything like so I like I was freaking out because I I was being told one thing then being told another and then when I finally got to when we all got to Minnesota I found out that I was covering three tracks.

[23:24] Courtney Mack: So then I was starting to learn Boleyn because they told me to do that one first kind of um I don't really know why but they just did so then um I actually had to go on for Boleyn and I had just learned um all you want to do the choreography because I didn't know what was happening behind my back when I was playing K Howard.

[23:54] Courtney Mack: I was like what the heck are you guys doing back here? Okay there's there but like who's are they there's like so many turns and like it's a lot so I just learned that so like I had this huge mental breakdown because I found out the day after opening and we had a there was a 12 o'clock student matinee um I found out an hour before I was going on for Boleyn I never had a run through never did whatever on stage so it was a hot mess.

[24:37] Courtney Mack: So I had like a full mental breakdown and like with this kind of show there's so many details and there's so many movements and like you kind of have to be spot on otherwise you can tell that you're messing up.

[24:52] Courtney Mack: Yeah it's not like a lame is or anything where you can kind of blend into the ensemble and fudge right you know all the queens are out there they're loud and proud um and so I I lost it before um because I was just so scared it's like it's a very like when you have to go on and I'm very new at like swinging and alternates and stuff like that because not to sound some sort of way but like the majority of the roles that I've had have been leads or like the roles that I've had where I had to understudy have never gone on for.

[25:33] Josh: Yeah.

[25:34] Courtney Mack: So this was a very new experience for me. So it's a very like fight or flight kind of a thing. It feels like a life or death experience but afterwards like you're saying it's like oh cool I did this I'm super proud of myself.

[25:51] Josh: Yeah.

[25:52] Courtney Mack: Yeah it was it was yeah it's crazy.

[25:57] Josh: Yeah that's a pretty good way to sum it up so getting through Minnesota um you then had by then the announcement had been made that it was transferring to Broadway by the end of Minnesota or isn't that right?

[26:13] Courtney Mack: Yeah. Um so what was it like kind of getting that message and be like, okay, uh, we're going to Broadway. Buckle up.

[26:23] Courtney Mack: Well, I found out we were going to Broadway after the Chicago. Um so I I found out about that a while back. But we didn't really have any details. It was all um yeah I think they were all just because it's a new show and everything. Um so I was uh I found out I was about to go to a core power class, the yoga class and my agent called me and instead of like process every process processing everything, I decided to take the class because I thought it would like chill me out.

[27:07] Courtney Mack: It didn't afterwards I le I called my my fiance and I was like I'm I'm going to Bradley I was just bawling. I don't know I don't know. It was it's yeah I don't even what was your question?

[27:25] Josh: I'm just rambling I thought that was that was pretty much a good summary.

[27:29] Courtney Mack: That was just like your complete mindset of taking a call.

[27:32] Josh: That was great. We just stepped back in time just then cool. Let's touch on the three days that you guys um partied in New York before jumping into rehearsals.

[27:47] Josh: Um so between Minnesota and opening on Broadway there was a little thing called Broadway con that happened um and I was lucky enough to be there and the vibe around the show was just insane. Um so what was it like kind of going in there because I remember seeing you and Anna walk kind of walk through and everybody was kind of looking at you and it was kind of like and then you did the performance on the stage. So what was it like kind of walking in and seeing everyone so hyped about this show?

[28:20] Courtney Mack: I mean, it's been like that since day one, and it's so crazy because I've never seen a show like this have like this big of a reaction, or I've never been a part of a show that's had you know, um, so I've to experience it firsthand is incredible and the fact that everybody is so nice, like I I have not seen like one mean fan or critic or whatever. Everybody's been so nice, yeah.

[29:01] Courtney Mack: Which is not the norm. I mean it's definitely a different vibe. Definitely a different vibe here. And I think yeah, and I think I think because everybody can relate to it on some sort of level or they can take away from it, learn something from it, and it's just such good music and and an amazing message, and you don't really get to see a lot of just all women on stage.

[29:32] Josh: Yeah.

[29:33] Courtney Mack: All different colors, all different sizes, just kicking butt on stage. So like walking into that room and just feeling all the love basically is I don't know, it's incredible.

[29:49] Josh: Yeah. It really I I want to jump into the sing along, but before we do, um, we'll touch on like your announcement uh coming on as K Howard because I forgot to do this earlier. So what was it like kind of getting that Queenham's response to the announcement of you kind of coming in to the role of Kay Howard for that little bit and seeing the Queenham kind of come into your life?

[30:13] Courtney Mack: It was awesome. Everybody like everybody is so nice. Like I was really um so grateful to get the part. So I would try my best every night to come out and sign and get to meet some of the fans and and they were giving me gifts and making me things, and I was like, what is happening? Thank you. Um just so nice, and like, you know, you get to see some of the fans return and so I can be like, Oh hey, what's up, how are you? Um so it's it's everybody was so welcoming and so loving. Um yeah, it was uh it was awesome.

[31:08] Josh: Yeah.

[31:09] Courtney Mack: And then walking into a room of I think it was nearly 400 people, um, just kind of there only for that show at Broadway Con, jumping on stage and then that sing along. What was that like on stage? Because like I was at the front of the pack and hearing it come just to me was incredible. What was it like for you guys to hear so many people like full on belting this show back at you?

[31:36] Courtney Mack: I mean, it that was awesome because then we didn't have to sing. Um, no, but it it's awesome because everybody knows the words and people were dressed up in um their costumes and wearing their their fan shirts that they made or whatever it was. Um it was just it's so cool to know that something like this it's kind of a small show, you know, in in terms of length, and it's just it's it's not a typical Broadway show, and to know that it affects people on such a large level is insane. Like everybody loves it.

[32:30] Josh: Yeah.

[32:30] Courtney Mack: I don't know. It feels like I'm we're all Beyonce and and we're just I don't know.

[32:39] Josh: That's a pretty solid yeah, I love that.

[32:43] Courtney Mack: Um so coming off Broadway Con pretty much it was like a day turnaround straight into the rehearsal studio to get prepped for um opening on Broadway. Wow. Um so what was that like to kind of because everybody was in New York for those rehearsals. So what was it like to have that full force creative team, Jamie, Toby, Lucy, Carrie Ann, absolutely everybody in that room to kind of refresh but also just go over and make the changes for Broadway?

[33:12] Courtney Mack: It was um it was kind of intense because I I felt like I was just stepping into something for the first time because um I never had that kind of moment with the creatives and had to 'cause I was always learning it from other people.

[33:33] Josh: Yeah.

[33:34] Courtney Mack: So it was kind of fresh and new and exciting for me. Um and I was trying to be a sponge and absorb literally everything I could. Um there was a lot going on. Um and it you know we really there weren't like tons of changes but we really focused on scene work and um acting um the acting in the songs and everything. Um so it was just it for uh for us alternates it was kind of a lot of watching yeah um and working on the sides um and it was cool for for me to be able to get information from the source.

[34:33] Josh: Yeah.

[34:34] Courtney Mack: Um not that it's bad getting it from somebody else but to just hear how they created it and hear their vision for everything. Um it was just a really 'cause it's not something you get to do very often as a as a performer. You don't get to often work with the writers and composers of the show. Usually either they're long gone or moved on to other projects by the time you get to the show. And this is their baby, so it's like, of course they're gonna be involved.

[35:09] Josh: So going from the rehearsal space and then 40 second, moving four three blocks, four blocks, four blocks up to the Brooks, what was it like going into that theater that's hosted some pretty big and cultish shows as well. When you look at Rock of Ages, Spring of Wake uh Spring Awakening, Waitress, what was it like kind of going into a theater that has that history and is just one a Broadway stage as well?

[35:41] Courtney Mack: My answer is probably gonna sound not very cool, but it's like any other theater. No, that's I mean, it's and I even asked Abby Mueller, I was like, So how is it performing on Broadway? She's like, honestly, Court, it's like any other theater. And she was right, but I I mean, not to take away from working at like a a cool spot that you know has had a lot of history and um a lot of shows, because it is cool to work in theaters like that.

[36:16] Courtney Mack: Um this theater in particular is super small compared to the other ones that we were performing at. So um for us, I feel like to have that kind of intimacy with the audience is great.

[36:35] Courtney Mack: Um to just to get used to the the space.

[36:40] Josh: Yeah.

[36:40] Courtney Mack: For anyone that hasn't been in the Brooks Atkinson before, um, I feel like the the dress circle is a lot closer to the stage than most other theaters in New York. Like the the everything's kind of bought forward. There's a lot less seats, but it's kind of like once you walk in, you're kind of on top of everything um just to kind of try and give you a little mental picture of what it's like being in the Brooks. Um but yeah so taking everything getting in and then the first kind of night of show the previews on Broadway having the crowd there what was it like having that audience in for that moment I mean I know I keep saying it but it's incredible it really I mean I enjoy watching the fans and the the audience just have an amazing time.

[37:44] Courtney Mack: Yeah and like I was brought to tears. I feel like it was such a the crowd it was electric I feel like it really was we were I don't know however many standing ovations the 75 minute show had yeah but um it it really was and it was so just and I was sitting with um my fiance and um we were watching it and you know I had some people stop me and they were like oh my gosh you're Courtney Mack I was like yeah have fun is the show um I don't know why I even said that, but that just popped in my head. Um but like little moments like that where where the audience they just love it and I heard nothing but awesome things once once the show was done and and um it was it was so cool it really was and I wish I would have been able to get to opening just to see because I've I honestly feel like nothing could top that first preview performance. I remember just in terms of the audience.

[39:06] Courtney Mack: But even that like after the show, I hadn't like I saw stage door pictures and I hadn't seen crowds like that at a stage door since Hamilton. Like not even maybe Dear Evan Hansen, like in its early days or when there was a cast change, but like not for previews, like that was just there was four people deep but all corners, it was just incredible. Um so what was it like kind of walking out that door to that and hearing that I well um so I like now that we well me, I'm not one of the the queens. Um I feel weird going out and signing because I'm like, you didn't see me, but I'm a part of the show. Um let me sign your mind ball. I feel weird about that.

[40:12] Courtney Mack: So but everybody was signing since it was the first preview. Um uh Toby and Lucy, they were signed, like everyone was signing, which was cool. So um it was it was crazy. And and uh everybody was just so excited, they were excited uh to I think meet everybody and and I don't know it was just honestly it's kind of a blur yeah I one of my friends lives next door to the Brooks and he was like sending me photos and he's like look at this I'm like it's in like insane I wish I was there I left New York like a week earlier and I was just so dead but yeah um it looked amazing I wish I could have been there but throughout this whole time with the show cool what's your best memory what's your thing that you're holding on to right now that really sticks out like a good a good one oh it can be a funny bad one if you want to totally up to you because the let's go with I mean I think okay so for opening night in Cambridge when we were at um American Repertory Theater I I like pride myself on really trying to give the same show every night not not necessarily in terms of acting or or or whatever but in terms of like vocally getting all my lines right all that kind of stuff.

[42:02] Courtney Mack: So this happened to be the day where I mess up. And um it was super embarrassing, but it was also very funny. So it was the Howard monologue right before um All You Wanna Do And so there's the line where it's like you're right. You're right. I've I um I'm gonna need all the luck I can get. Your life sounded so terrible. I mean of songs really helped to convey something. Yeah your songs really help see I haven't I'm losing it um away from so long. But yeah it was that and then um I got through that part I think and then I got to I mean Catherine and I just stood there and poor Adriana she was like she really was trying to help me out so much she was like yeah I'm I got sent to a nunnery like under her breath and I was like patted her on the shoulder moved on to Andrea and and you got beheaded and then I left and then finally when I got to Seymour I pulled my stuff I pulled myself together and was able to finish it off but afterwards I was like so hard it's opening what the heck um but that that's probably the funniest moment with me involved um that happened to me, but I think overall um just like having the response from and feeling the love from the audiences has been probably just it just shows you how special the show actually is.

[44:17] Josh: Yeah, 100%. Throughout your touring and Broadway time, what's been your favorite stop or theater performing?

[44:27] Courtney Mack: I mean, probably Cambridge. I just loved I loved that um I mean I think Chicago was super cool too. I think we had maybe um some of the best audiences there on like the tour. Um, but I think I think overall all of us girls we really loved Cambridge being able to like walk to the theater. Um just being in that environment was um just made everybody I think kind of happy and yeah, yeah.

[45:03] Josh: Yeah, awesome. So you've gotten to perform in the pink and the green. Out of those two, what's been your favorite to wear?

[45:14] Courtney Mack: My favorite to wear. Yeah, probably pink, just because I'm so used to it. I only got to wear Bolins twice. The first time was a blur. The second time when I did my Broadway debut for Boleyn, um I feel like I had a better sense of the character, so I was able to like have fun and like move around in the skirt and that kind of stuff. Um but I think there's so much um I'm just too familiar with K Howard that it's just like I don't know, you're putting on pajamas, even though it's like really uncomfortable pajamas, you know.

[46:05] Josh: And then out of the other four that you haven't worn yet, what one do you really want to perform in?

[46:13] Courtney Mack: I oh I really I mean I don't cover her, but I wanna wear cleaves. That's not the best answer. On I honestly I'd probably say Aragon. Cleves, Arrogan, we don't know. I mean, I love her spectrum costume and killer boots.

[46:40] Josh: Yeah.

[46:42] Courtney Mack: Yeah.

[46:46] Josh: Well, Court, guess what? That brings us to the end of the episode. Thank you so much for coming and hanging out.

[46:51] Courtney Mack: Uh I know, right?

[46:56] Josh: I really like you. I feel like we could go for another hour, but we might have to get you back for another episode.

[47:02] Courtney Mack: We'll we'll do that. We'll get everybody in and we'll do a Broadway reunion, maybe.

[47:08] Josh: We'll do a Oh, that'd be fun. We're putting things out into the universe, folks. We're right here. Um if you guys don't already follow Courtney Mack, please do her uh links are all in the description box below. Uh if you want any of your other Broadway podcast related content, please check out the Broadway Podcast Network.

[47:25] Josh: Um and to wrap things up, Courtney, what has been your what what is your favorite moment in the show?

[47:34] Courtney Mack: It can be to perform or just watch. I love watching um well, I love the final scene. Um like the last like five minutes of the show. I love that moment, but I also really enjoy just watching Anna play par. Um just like her whole monologue and her journey throughout the whole song, and just like you're just sitting on the steps and you get to like watch that happen, and it's really magical.

[48:13] Josh: Awesome. What a wonderful note to wrap things up on. Queens, we will be back next week with a brand new episode of the Queendom Podcast. So make sure you have subscribe subscribed, lost my English, and we will see you then.

[48:32] Josh: We're six.