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[0:00] Joel Crump: Welcome back to another episode of Broadway Time by Carmine's.

[0:02] Joel Crump: Today I'm here with Jessica Vosk, who's currently starring in Hell's Kitchen on Broadway.

[0:06] Joel Crump: So let's start this episode of Broadway Time at Carmine's.

[0:14] Joel Crump: Hey you guys.

[0:15] Joel Crump: Today I am here with Jessica Vosk.

[0:18] Joel Crump: We're here for another episode of Broadway Time at Carmine's.

[0:21] Joel Crump: Jessica, how are you?

[0:22] Jessica Vosk: I'm so good.

[0:23] Jessica Vosk: I'm ready.

[0:24] Jessica Vosk: I love Italian food.

[0:26] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[0:26] Joel Crump: I mean, because you are half Italian, right?

[0:28] Jessica Vosk: I'm Italian.

[0:29] Jessica Vosk: Yeah, I'm from New Jersey.

[0:30] Jessica Vosk: I'm a Jersey Italian.

[0:31] Jessica Vosk: I come from a family where if I ever introduce anybody to my family, I like to let them know that, you know, once we're sitting at the table, you'll hear nothing but talking and nobody listens to each other.

[0:42] Jessica Vosk: So this feels like home.

[0:43] Joel Crump: I'm glad you feel like home.

[0:45] Joel Crump: You guys, first I have to start off, Jessica.

[0:48] Joel Crump: You know how much I love you.

[0:49] Joel Crump: I mean, my first Alpha Bar in Wicked.

[0:52] Joel Crump: Dare I say one of my favorite Broadway vocalists.

[0:54] Jessica Vosk: Thank you.

[0:55] Jessica Vosk: Thank you.

[0:55] Jessica Vosk: I think it's funny.

[0:56] Jessica Vosk: We're right across the street.

[0:57] Joel Crump: Yes.

[0:58] Joel Crump: From your current home.

[0:59] Jessica Vosk: Yes.

[0:59] Jessica Vosk: Hell's Kitchen.

[1:00] Jessica Vosk: Hell's Kitchen, baby.

[1:01] Jessica Vosk: Yeah, there's nothing like it.

[1:02] Joel Crump: Let's talk about it.

[1:03] Joel Crump: What has it been like joining the cast of Hell's Kitchen?

[1:06] Jessica Vosk: It's amazing.

[1:06] Jessica Vosk: You know, it was a whirlwind.

[1:08] Jessica Vosk: I joined at a really crazy time, which what we like to refer to as the holiday schedule on Broadway.

[1:13] Joel Crump: Now, was that the best choice of mine?

[1:15] Jessica Vosk: Probably not.

[1:16] Jessica Vosk: Um, but it's been amazing.

[1:19] Jessica Vosk: The thing about Hell's Kitchen that I love most is the cast is so welcoming.

[1:27] Jessica Vosk: The cast all love each other.

[1:28] Jessica Vosk: Everybody's there to support you no matter what happens.

[1:32] Jessica Vosk: So it's just been a support system.

[1:34] Jessica Vosk: Alicia has been there and around for most of my rehearsal process, um, which was fast and furious because it always is when it comes to Broadway shows.

[1:44] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[1:44] Jessica Vosk: Um, so I'm about I'm a little over a month in and I'm just starting to feel what we like to call my sea legs and settled a little bit.

[1:53] Jessica Vosk: Um, but it is a magnificent score.

[1:56] Jessica Vosk: Of course it is, because Miss Alicia Keys is just I mean I bow down daily.

[2:01] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[2:02] Jessica Vosk: Uh and I get to just be in a very meaty acting role.

[2:07] Jessica Vosk: And I we don't often get to have those things as former alphabets who are known for being green and sprouting.

[2:14] Jessica Vosk: Um rarely does it come along where somebody's willing to really give you some a really meaty acting role.

[2:20] Jessica Vosk: So it's an honor.

[2:21] Jessica Vosk: It really is.

[2:22] Joel Crump: I saw this somewhere.

[2:23] Joel Crump: Is it true Alicia Keys called you to let you know?

[2:26] Jessica Vosk: Well, Alicia Keys, I got a phone call.

[2:29] Jessica Vosk: I was in California.

[2:30] Jessica Vosk: Um and I was doing my own concerts because I love to do my own concerts outside of getting to work on Broadway.

[2:37] Jessica Vosk: And it was my manager and agent, and they said, um, uh Jess Alicia Keys would like to meet you.

[2:43] Jessica Vosk: And I said, Why?

[2:45] Jessica Vosk: I mean, I really just it it's who um and and it just we couldn't make it work because I was in LA and she was in New York and I sort of let it go for a couple weeks and then the call came back around and I thought, what?

[3:00] Jessica Vosk: And so uh I came for a meeting, um, and we just sort of sat in a room together with a piano player and Michael Greif, the director of Hell's Kitchen, and we sang together, and I remember feeling so surreal about it.

[3:18] Jessica Vosk: I left, you know, like those pinch me moments where you leave the room and you go, I actually don't ever need to do anything.

[3:24] Jessica Vosk: I'm good.

[3:24] Jessica Vosk: I got to sing, I got to sing Alicia Keys with Alicia Keys.

[3:31] Jessica Vosk: And can I tell you I can I confess something?

[3:33] Joel Crump: Yes, please.

[3:33] Jessica Vosk: Oh my god, I can't believe I'm doing this.

[3:35] Jessica Vosk: Okay.

[3:36] Jessica Vosk: Oh god, I don't know if I should.

[3:38] Joel Crump: It's fine.

[3:38] Joel Crump: No, no, no.

[3:39] Joel Crump: Tell us, tell us.

[3:40] Jessica Vosk: Alright.

[3:42] Jessica Vosk: You know, sometimes people go in and uh audition and they like record it on their phone.

[3:47] Jessica Vosk: I've never done that before.

[3:49] Jessica Vosk: Okay.

[3:49] Jessica Vosk: People do it all the time.

[3:50] Jessica Vosk: They want to hear how they sound.

[3:52] Jessica Vosk: I've never, you know, done that before.

[3:53] Jessica Vosk: I did it.

[3:54] Jessica Vosk: I did that.

[3:55] Jessica Vosk: I I I said, this is a once in a lifetime experience.

[3:58] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[3:59] Jessica Vosk: It's with one Ms. Alicia Keys.

[4:01] Jessica Vosk: I I put my phone in my purse, and I will never get rid of that recording.

[4:08] Jessica Vosk: It's so long.

[4:09] Jessica Vosk: It's mostly me talking.

[4:10] Jessica Vosk: I probably embarrassed myself.

[4:11] Jessica Vosk: I'm starting to itch.

[4:12] Jessica Vosk: I probably embarrassed myself a million times.

[4:14] Jessica Vosk: And um it was the coolest moment.

[4:17] Jessica Vosk: It was one of the coolest moments of my life.

[4:18] Joel Crump: Has to be.

[4:19] Joel Crump: Well, I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm hungry.

[4:21] Joel Crump: I'm ready to eat.

[4:27] Jessica Vosk: The spread.

[4:29] Jessica Vosk: Why aren't we doing this every week?

[4:30] Joel Crump: Somebody told us Jessica Vosk was coming.

[4:33] Jessica Vosk: And I roll out the rigatoni, baby.

[4:35] Jessica Vosk: Please.

[4:36] Jessica Vosk: Roll out the rigatoni.

[4:37] Jessica Vosk: Roll out the rigatoni.

[4:38] Joel Crump: Alright, what else you got for me?

[4:39] Jessica Vosk: Yeah.

[4:40] Jessica Vosk: Let's chat.

[4:41] Jessica Vosk: So this is one of the funniest and craziest stories I've ever heard.

[4:44] Joel Crump: Okay.

[4:45] Jessica Vosk: You're working on Wall Street.

[4:48] Jessica Vosk: And you made a complete 180 to Broadway.

[4:50] Jessica Vosk: I did.

[4:51] Jessica Vosk: Just it's weird, right?

[4:53] Joel Crump: I need to know about it.

[4:55] Jessica Vosk: When I was a kid growing up, I loved doing musical theater.

[4:58] Jessica Vosk: I did all the community theater shows.

[5:00] Jessica Vosk: I did, you know, all the high school musicals.

[5:03] Jessica Vosk: I did choir.

[5:04] Jessica Vosk: Big choir fan kids, big choir fan.

[5:06] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[5:07] Jessica Vosk: And then I thought I wanted to do musical theater, so I thought I was gonna go to college for musical theater.

[5:12] Jessica Vosk: I wound up going for a semester.

[5:14] Jessica Vosk: I didn't jive with it, even though I still love musical theater like no other.

[5:19] Jessica Vosk: I came back home to Jersey, and my parents were like, You still need to go to school, you need to finish college.

[5:26] Jessica Vosk: I said, Yeah, sure, absolutely.

[5:29] Jessica Vosk: So, what did I do?

[5:30] Jessica Vosk: I worked at my side job at Chili's, boneless Buffalo Wings, shout out.

[5:36] Jessica Vosk: And um, and I went and finished up school at Montclair State University in Jersey.

[5:42] Jessica Vosk: Um, in an investor relations communications major, still did choir in college, crazy person.

[5:51] Jessica Vosk: Graduated uh before I actually did graduate, got a job here in Manhattan on 42nd Street and Third Avenue in the Daily News building, where there's a big globe in the building.

[6:04] Jessica Vosk: That was the finance firm that I worked at for almost three years.

[6:08] Jessica Vosk: Um, and I had to take off on a Friday to go graduate that day.

[6:12] Jessica Vosk: So it was uh it was wild.

[6:15] Jessica Vosk: I was like, I dove headfirst into something that I didn't know a ton about.

[6:19] Jessica Vosk: I got a book, dictionary of investment terms, which I still have to remind myself of where I came from.

[6:24] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[6:25] Jessica Vosk: Um, and I was pretty great at it.

[6:28] Jessica Vosk: I but I did not love it.

[6:30] Joel Crump: Right.

[6:31] Jessica Vosk: And it took a toll on my mental health and my um stress, and I think stress is a very scary thing when it comes to your health, and it manifests in panic attacks and anxiety.

[6:42] Jessica Vosk: So I was experiencing all of that and made the decision to leave.

[6:46] Jessica Vosk: And um, and I just pounded the pavement, like everybody says, my grandfather used to say everybody else says it happens overnight.

[6:56] Jessica Vosk: It is a very crazy long road.

[6:59] Jessica Vosk: I mean, I went to every open call, every audition, no agent, no background, no resume, nothing.

[7:07] Jessica Vosk: Um just knocked on doors, knocked on doors um until somebody opened.

[7:12] Joel Crump: That's amazing.

[7:13] Joel Crump: Now, Birdland.

[7:15] Jessica Vosk: You went to the Jim Caruso?

[7:17] Joel Crump: Sure, Jim.

[7:18] Jessica Vosk: Okay, Jim Caruso.

[7:19] Jessica Vosk: Down the street.

[7:20] Jessica Vosk: Down the street.

[7:20] Jessica Vosk: Jim Caruso's a big part of my life.

[7:22] Jessica Vosk: I mean, 44th is clearly the spot.

[7:24] Joel Crump: Just 44th is.

[7:25] Joel Crump: I'm just plugging that a little bit.

[7:26] Jessica Vosk: I mean, really?

[7:27] Jessica Vosk: Yeah.

[7:27] Jessica Vosk: But why isn't Manhattan paying us?

[7:29] Joel Crump: That's we'll talk about it.

[7:30] Joel Crump: That's the question.

[7:31] Jessica Vosk: But Jim Caruso, big part of my life too.

[7:33] Jessica Vosk: Oh.

[7:33] Jessica Vosk: I would go to I go to Open Nights still.

[7:35] Joel Crump: Oh, you do?

[7:36] Jessica Vosk: Open Mic Night still.

[7:37] Jessica Vosk: And he's just, isn't he great?

[7:39] Joel Crump: Jim is one of the most really caring, open-hearted, giving hosts.

[7:45] Jessica Vosk: I mean, when I used to go to Birdland, it was pre-social media.

[7:52] Jessica Vosk: Um it was pre-everything.

[7:54] Jessica Vosk: So there was no like tell your friends it were.

[7:56] Jessica Vosk: It was all word of mouth.

[7:57] Jessica Vosk: It was the started, I think at 11 o'clock at night.

[8:01] Jessica Vosk: Um so you'd get there, I would go after work, it was before I quit my finance job, so I was already uh just as tired as it gets.

[8:09] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[8:09] Jessica Vosk: So I would finish at six, I would wait around in the city, I'd go to Birdland, and I would sign up on the you know, list that he would have and just wait and see.

[8:20] Jessica Vosk: Most times I wouldn't get to sing, nobody knew who I was.

[8:23] Joel Crump: Right.

[8:23] Jessica Vosk: Um, and then there was like one time when I got to go up there, and then it started to become like, ooh, she sings nice.

[8:30] Jessica Vosk: She's she's pretty good.

[8:30] Jessica Vosk: Who's that chick?

[8:31] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[8:32] Jessica Vosk: Um, and that's kind of how it all happened.

[8:34] Jessica Vosk: I always tell people, especially if I'm teaching, um, that it's really about networking and who you are, and of course it's about your talent when you walk in the room, but it's really more so about your heart and your kindness and your gratitude.

[8:50] Jessica Vosk: I keep reminding myself last night after the show I was driving home and I thought, I'm so lucky to do this.

[8:56] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[8:57] Jessica Vosk: Um, and I don't know if it's because I sat at a desk for that long and and just was interviewing CEOs for hours and hours, but there's a part of me that goes, I get to do this every night.

[9:11] Joel Crump: Yeah, and um, and I feel very, very lucky and a responsibility to um to keep doing the thing that I love so much.

[9:20] Joel Crump: I love that.

[9:21] Joel Crump: And yes, Jim was a very big part of that.

[9:22] Jessica Vosk: So stick it on Jim Caruso.

[9:24] Jessica Vosk: Long enough.

[9:25] Jessica Vosk: You'll make it.

[9:25] Joel Crump: I know, yeah.

[9:26] Joel Crump: Living proof.

[9:26] Joel Crump: Shout out Jim.

[9:32] Joel Crump: You kind of spoke this a little bit, but you know, were you a fan of this music?

[9:37] Jessica Vosk: Oh, Alicia Keys?

[9:38] Joel Crump: Yes.

[9:39] Jessica Vosk: Oh my god, who's not?

[9:41] Jessica Vosk: I always say this.

[9:41] Jessica Vosk: When I was growing up, we had MTV and VH1.

[9:45] Jessica Vosk: We had these like um, there were nights when when it would be new videos that would come out, and videos were a huge thing when I was growing up.

[9:52] Jessica Vosk: It was it was like you waited around to see what new video was coming out.

[9:55] Joel Crump: Right.

[9:56] Jessica Vosk: Um, like me, I would wait around.

[9:59] Jessica Vosk: Uh I'm sorry, this might be unpopular.

[10:01] Jessica Vosk: Hansen was a big fan of Hansen.

[10:03] Joel Crump: Mm-hmm Bop.

[10:04] Jessica Vosk: I mean, was it a bop for all of you?

[10:06] Joel Crump: Might not have been.

[10:07] Jessica Vosk: Right.

[10:07] Jessica Vosk: But for me, oh god, I thought I was gonna marry them.

[10:09] Jessica Vosk: Anyway, but that's like what happened with Alicia Keys.

[10:12] Jessica Vosk: She would put these videos out and they would be so dramatic, right?

[10:16] Jessica Vosk: They were really theatrical, like no wonder she made it to Broadway.

[10:19] Jessica Vosk: Um honey, you don't know my name, which is in the Broadway show, spoiler alert.

[10:24] Jessica Vosk: Is one of her coolest videos, in my opinion.

[10:26] Jessica Vosk: She's in a diner, she's the waitress, she's like going over to this guy and not saying anything to him, but the whole song is playing, and she's super, I mean, she's acting in this in this video.

[10:39] Jessica Vosk: And so her videos for me, um, and her catalog of songs have always been so um dramatically driven as far as songs that could be in the musical theater canon because they're storytelling songs.

[10:54] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[10:54] Jessica Vosk: So you don't just hear an Alicia Keys song and you go, Oh, that's a that's a cool pop song.

[10:58] Jessica Vosk: Yes, it can exist that way.

[10:59] Jessica Vosk: But when you come to the show, you realize that oh, there's a story here.

[11:03] Jessica Vosk: I get to sing "No One" with my daughter, and by the end of the show, everybody is in tears because of the journey that we've taken, and then you get to this song, which is again one of Alicia Keys's most gorgeous songs, and you hear it in a different way, and people leave.

[11:19] Jessica Vosk: I can't tell you the amount of mothers and daughters or mothers and kids who leave and go, Oh, I can't stop sobbing because of you know what you just did on stage.

[11:31] Jessica Vosk: Yeah, and it's it's an incredible feeling to be able to do that for someone. Yeah, and it's Alicia's music, I'm telling you, like everything about the show works beautifully together, but I did say to Alicia at the meeting that we had, I said, Did you always know that you were gonna write theater? Like, was this in your brain when you were writing these songs? Because they're so theatrical. She actually said, No. No, it was just this is just how it happened and the way it happened. So the universe is an amazing thing.

[12:02] Joel Crump: It's sure. I think I think so too. I have to agree with you on that. I gotta tell you something. This sausage, delicious. It's really good. All of it. This is my first time ordering sausage, Jessica.

[12:12] Jessica Vosk: Really? Well, I'm I'm I'm a chicken farmer's on guy.

[12:15] Joel Crump: I hear you, I understand it. And so I get it every time. It's kind of a problem.

[12:19] Jessica Vosk: Meet me. It's not me and my chicken farmer and Frankie Blue Eyes. Listen, you have as I said, right? You know, when we sat down, I almost tasted a Frankie Blue Eyes until I figured out the sugar content. But but as I said to all, this is for a fast metabolism.

[12:36] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[12:37] Jessica Vosk: It just goes, it goes, it goes right there. It just, you know, and I love that for you.

[12:41] Joel Crump: Thank you.

[12:41] Jessica Vosk: Pay it for me. Love it for him. Chicken parm? You can eat it all day every day. I'm sure those are. You're still gonna be fine.

[12:48] Joel Crump: Mm-hmm. Not there's not gonna do anything at all. Terry's not gonna do anything to you. Her over here singing Fallen on stage. But Brandon Mr. Dixon. Oh, oh my god. Who wouldn't fall in love with that dude on stage every day?

[13:04] Jessica Vosk: I'm telling you, unlucky. Oh. He's he's from Maryland like me. I'm from the DMV area. DC Maryland, Virginia. And when I met him for like the Tony season, I was like, you know this, but you're my Maryland brother. He's great. He's wonderful. You know, something also, fun fact, I don't think a lot of people know this at all.

[13:21] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[13:23] Jessica Vosk: I met Brandon when I was 16. Or 17. Now, I'm almost 42. Anyway. Did y'all see that cough? Yeah. So we safely cough. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, I'm almost 42. I met Brandon when I was 16, 17. We had the same vocal coach.

[13:44] Joel Crump: Wow.

[13:44] Jessica Vosk: Brandon and I studied with the same vocal coach separately for over 20 years. Um, and we would always pass by each other, either me going into a lesson, him coming out, we would have a master class with our same vocal coach. And it's interesting, I went into the show in December, and our vocal coach, this is the first time that Brandon and I have ever sung together.

[14:09] Joel Crump: Wow.

[14:10] Jessica Vosk: And we are both in the same show, starring together on Broadway. Uh, and our vocal coach was so incredibly proud. And a couple of weeks into my run, um he passed away. He was he was a bit older, and Brandon and I got to call him together. Um, and it just sort of again back to the universe is sort of like right place, right time, you know where you're meant to be. And every time that I'm on stage with him now, I'm like, you know what? We had this crazy journey together over the past 20-something years, and now we finally get to star together upstairs.

[14:43] Joel Crump: Yes.

[14:44] Jessica Vosk: It's just wonderful. It's this world, right?

[14:46] Joel Crump: Yeah, it is. So, growing up in New Jersey, you're a Jersey girl.

[14:49] Jessica Vosk: Jersey Jersey girl, Jersey from Jersey. Jersey's from Jersey. Honestly, it's a great hashtag. And it's it really is. So when I was three, um, my dad would sing with me in the living room, and everything under the sun, and he taught me what harmony was, and I got really into singing. I mean, so much so that my entire life and my parents loved Broadway, both of them. Um the first show that I was taken to was The Secret Garden, starring the one and only Rebecca Lucer.

[15:19] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[15:19] Jessica Vosk: I fell in love. I then saw Le Miz, I saw Phantom. Um, I can't tell you the countless shows that I saw, but um I became obsessed, and I would buy all the cast albums on cassette kids. That's look it up. Um, and then they turned into CDs, but at first they were cassettes, so what I would do is I would sit in my room in New Jersey in the woods of New Jersey, and I would make my own my pretend barricade of pillows, and I would be Epanine and um my pillow would be Mariest, and that I would sing Little Fall of Rain, and I would do that with Phantom, and I would do that with Chicago and I would do that with Insert Cast Album Here Thoroughly Modern Millie I mean you name it um I acted it out in my in my bedroom um and I just became obsessed with music I think there's something incredible about what music does to the brain and I didn't realize it when I was a kid but I when I hear music or when I'm sitting in a symphonic hall or if I'm at a Broadway show and I hear music I my body there's some kind of different you probably understand what I'm talking about.

[16:31] Joel Crump: When I saw Rad time when I when I listened to Racine for the first time something came it it literally was like it's physical right my mom was like are you okay this is we see shows every night I'm like no this is different yeah yeah yeah you physicalize I say the something that we're so lucky to have is the is the fact that we can feel music in a different way than you know somebody listening to it in their AirPods or in the car down the street I mean something physically happens when you hear a piece of music and you're an artist um and I just I think that's incredible so that happened to me a lot when I was a kid yeah and um and I knew I loved to sing and so I asked my parents for vocal lessons and I was classically trained first which I am so grateful for now um and I just kept going and I always say to people you know because there were moments when I stopped i.e finance um but to go after what you love because we we only have this one life yeah you're the only person on the planet who could do what you do.

Um you know, we're so lucky to have peers who do this as well and people to look up to, like Rebecca Lucer. I listened to her growing up, and then I got to do a show with her. And you know, when you put yourself out there, even though it's can be uncomfortable and scary to go audition and and meet people and go to open mic nights like like you do, still it's worth it.

[17:46] Joel Crump: It sure is.

[17:46] Jessica Vosk: It's worth it. It might be exhausting, but it's worth it. And so as a kid, it just was my it was my dream. Let's do Broadway time. Quick round.

[18:13] Joel Crump: I love yeah.

[18:18] Jessica Vosk: Sure.

[18:19] Joel Crump: Three, two, one. Favorite Broadway show The Secret Garden.

[18:25] Jessica Vosk: Dream Roll. CC Bloom and Beaches, the musical.

[18:29] Joel Crump: Funniest moment on stage.

[18:31] Jessica Vosk: When I um had a no uh no, no, funniest moment on stage when I tripped over my Alphabet Act 2 dress releasing the monkeys, tripped, fell on stage, and released them laying down. Absolutely.

[18:43] Joel Crump: Favorite vocal warmup.

[18:45] Jessica Vosk: Favorite vocal warmup um is with a straw in a thing of water. Um is this what Caitlin posted?

[18:53] Joel Crump: Yeah.

[18:54] Jessica Vosk: Yeah. Now I've always been a straw girly, but Caitlin turned me on to this thing. And now I've turned Tisha Lewis onto it. And now what are it's like a domino effect. So we just walk around the theater, look it honestly looks like a bong. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry to say it. I don't, I don't cover your ears, earmuffs. Right. But look, you know, everybody keeps asking me if it's a bong. It's not, it's just water. It's just water. Come on, guys.

[19:19] Joel Crump: Theater inspiration.

[19:20] Jessica Vosk: Yeah.

[19:21] Joel Crump: Okay. Theater inspiration.

[19:21] Jessica Vosk: Theater inspiration. What does that mean?

[19:24] Joel Crump: What do you mean, theater inspiration?

[19:25] Jessica Vosk: Like, who's somebody in the theater realm who inspired the space? Who's somebody in the theater realm? Oh wow. In the theater realm who inspires me, um Audra McDonald. I just, I mean, she's got grit, determination, talent, uh, in spades. Um, she takes risks. I I find that to be, and as a woman, I find it to be incredibly amazing. Shameless plug, also on 44th. Carmine, Us Kitchen, Birdland, Audrey Gypsy. This is the place to be.

[19:58] Joel Crump: I know.

[19:59] Jessica Vosk: I mean, not for nothing. Not for nothing. I have to tell you a secret. Yes, please. Dream of mine, can I tell you? Yes, yes, yes. Oh god, we're in the rapid round, though. You want me to tell you it after? Afterwards, afterwards. We're getting so off track. I'm so sorry, it's me. Favorites on performing Hell's Kitchen.

[20:13] Joel Crump: Ooh.

[20:14] Jessica Vosk: Love looks better. Dream Broadway co-star.

[20:19] Joel Crump: Oh my god, Dream Broadway co-star.

[20:23] Jessica Vosk: Oh, um Brian Stokes Mitchell.

[20:26] Joel Crump: Oh my goodness, favorite place to relax in New York.

[20:30] Jessica Vosk: My car.

[20:32] Joel Crump: Lastly, best piece of advice you've ever received.

[20:35] Jessica Vosk: Be kind. 44th, 44th secret.

[20:37] Joel Crump: Oh, okay. I'm trying okay. If anyone's listening.

[20:44] Jessica Vosk: I want to be with my when Joe, I'm calling him his character name. Uh huh. In Sunset Boulevard. Comes out and does the whole like Sunshirt Boulevard. Yes. You know? They walk through Schubert Alley. They do.

[20:59] Joel Crump: Okay.

[21:00] Jessica Vosk: My dream is a collab. As he's walking through Schubert Alley, don't this is trademarked. Yes. In my mind. T M. Of what I want to do. I want him to walk through and I want to come out of the stage door. And then I want to like have a very Hamilton duel. Hamilton and Burr, no death. You know what I'm saying? I really think it's right.

[21:22] Joel Crump: For you, I think it should happen, yeah.

[21:24] Jessica Vosk: You're walking through the Schubert alley. He's walking through the Schubert alley. You're right there. But I think I think it would be really damn. I think that'd be really good. As long as I can be in the back, like smiling really big. I'll be smiling really big in the back. Like that's I'm I'm ready for my close-up.

[21:41] Joel Crump: No.

[21:42] Jessica Vosk: No, you can. You can totally listen. If we had, they did it for Smash. Did you see that photo that they put up right there? Are you in it? We you didn't look close enough. Babe. You're in the back. Excuse me. Listen. One second. Now that is come over when you do. Shunse bullshit. I open the Schubert Alley door and I go, Tom. No. New York. Concrete dung. It dreams a night. See? You see? And then Sunset Boulevard, New York. All I'm saying is there's something there. There's something there. And I'm gonna make it happen before my tenure is over at Health's Kitcher. Jessica, this has been the best interview ever. You're just the best.