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With The Tonys just a few days away, we were lucky enough to catch Cats The Jellicle Ball's co-director Zhailon Levingston for a minute to chat all about the exciting revival which sets CATS in the ballroom world! He explains how a joke of an idea to do CATS without CATS became the Jellicle Ball when a friend connected him to Bill Rausch who was also thinking about a new version of CATS.
We dish about how they couldn't change the music but if they could, what song he would want to attack first, what he brings back to Broadway after directing community theater in his local hometown, and he answers the question, why this revival and why now??
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We love todays episode with the lovely DEE ROSCIOLI!  An Elphaba, a Celine, both Madeline and Helen - the woman has never had an easy role. Currently the stand by for both lead roles in Death Becomes Her, we talk about how she treated her role in Pokemon live like Chekov and how she could never be Roxie Hart. 
We dish about how not being a dick is a good thing, her long audition for Titanique, how hard it is to rehearse full out by yourself when you get the call that you're going on, and the cost of going to a show. 
******recorded before Death Becomes Her announced closing date*******
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Today on the pod we are so lucky to have director Jack Serio! Jack has made a name for himself as an interactive, small space, actor driven director and we pick his brain about all the nitty gritty stuff that goes into making a show feel realistic. His hit play "Well, I'll let you go" is in it's second iteration after a sold out run and is getting rave reviews. 
We dish about what makes a show feel urgent, what a director actually does, how he loves to be collaborative and what he would tell people about getting something made. Spoiler! There's no magic answer...if you want to see something get made call on your resources and make it! Be that in your mothers basement or an ice cream shop if you want to see something done baby you gotta do it!
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It's Broadway Bitch is going drag with Taylor Ratliff AKA PLASMA! You know Plasma from season 16 of RuPauls Drag Race for her spectacular Barbra Streisand impression as well as being a theater queen. We discuss Broadway dreams for both Taylor and Plasma and how Drag Race was able to get him into the room where it happens.
We dish how much money you need as a queen to go on Drag Race, how his dad dared him to do drag in NYC, what political event would mae a good musical, and giving old musical a new spin. 
IS MISS THING ON the debut album from Plasma avaiable here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/is-miss-thing-on-live-from-joes-pub/1841614237
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SURPRISE! We decided to drop 2 episodes this week for our season 3 premiere because we could not wait to get this one out. Ann James is here! As an intimacy and sensitivity specialist, it's her job to help actors tap into trauma without taking it home.  She establishes a community agreemant for casts and how everyone can move through material with that common goal in mind and it's facinating!
We dish de-roleing, showmances and how theatre is not therapy and your cast in not your family. Ann also worked on ALL THREE Tony nominated musical revivals! When I say this is a must listen.....
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