Ep 3: Elphaba is…Green? Broadway’s MK Morrissey Loves Golf, and a Wicked Fantasy Casting Draft

On this episode of Quiet Please!, Mel Reid and Kira Dixon sit down with MK Morrissey, who’s currently starring as Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway—and just so happens to be an avid golfer. MK shares how she first picked up the game in New York City, why it’s become a key part of her routine during her year-long run, and how the physical and technical demands of performing are not dissimilar to those of a professional athlete. Kira shares her deep love of musicals, Mel takes plenty of notes, and it all leads to a Wicked Fantasy Draft you never knew you needed—actors, golfers, and maybe even hosts… 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, with Mel Reed and Kira Dixon, is an
iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports
and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back

(00:23):
to Quiet Please, Episode three.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Mel, We're on a roll.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
We are on a roll. Third week in a row.
We've not been canceled yet. There's still time, There's still
still a lot of time care. But uh yeah, it's
it's well, we said this in the last one. An't me.
It's very real. But I think we're kind of actually
somewhat getting into the flow of things. Imagine in like
one hundred and fifty episodes.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I know we're gonna be I feel like we're in
a flow state with this. We're booking guests left and right.
We're having episodes come out edits and stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's cool.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
I know we're we're legit. We are legit, which is
very exciting. But but yeah, what's new with you?

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, I've got a busy week ahead. I am working basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
I am working curling. Olympic Trials of mixed doubles curling.
Have you ever done curling?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
That's the stone thing, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
It is yet That's what I said when they asked
me to work it. I was like the stone thing, right.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
The stone thing. No, I have not, but they don't
They make the curling stones off North Berwick, the little Island.
Yes I think they do, don't they.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
The only thing I know about curling is fact.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yes, it's same. That's what it's about this podcast. We're
bringing it all back to golf. But no, I've never
tried it. I actually have wanted to try it. It's
obviously quite big in like Scotland in the UK, so
I've always wanted to have a go at it. But
it's just I'm a little bit like bambion ice. I'm
not at a flow.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I don't know if I'm going to actually try it
when I'm there, but please do how it goes.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
You have to try it. Do you have a different shoes?
You have to wear weird shoes.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
They told me that I should wear shoes with rubber sols, okay,
like winter bootspe.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Okay, so like no open toe shoes.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Definitely no open which what are those again?

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well now I google it. It's just shoes there if
your toes out.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Basically, okay, that's limited to just peep to well.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I thought it was just pizzo that the queen wears,
but now I've actually did my research on it, Kira.
They're so disgusted with myself last time we discussed this.
So no, yes, I now know that any part of
the toe that is out in the open and in
nature is an open so shoe.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yes, yes, that is correct. Can confirm speaking of being
in nature? Where are you this week?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
I am in my favorite place in the world, Colorado.
So I've come here with a couple of friends who've
kindly invited me, and I've basically crushed the party. So
I appreciate Bren and Laura for having me, But winn
Beaver Creek and listen, I love my wife to death, right,
I really do. Fat personal world, I love we love Carli,

(03:05):
friend of friend of the part. She's not the most
confident skiers. So, like I before, we're going away in
a couple of weeks, me and her, like a little
just me and her kind of married couple retreat, just
getting away from people I know and having time together.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Is it like other people are going on this retreat?
You're a couple's trip.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's the first time away from Kurie for Carly.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, what are you guys going to do? I'm
making her go snowboarding for two days, which she doesn't
want to do, but hmmm maybe, Well what do you know,
I'm so I'm literally the most unselfish person ever.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Uh huh, yeah, you and ever get a golfer?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oh jesus, what is the one with us? Look, we're
gonna I'm gonna get a two day pass because we're
there for like two and a half days, but we
don't have to see the second day. But I will
probably get up early and kind of just have a
little bit of a play around on the mountain. But
there's no doubt we'll probably go to a pub find
a bar the first night or so, and I'll probably
make friends with someone, which will piss her off even more.
So I'm going to try my best to be my

(04:12):
best behavior and actually do what Carli wants to do
on this trip.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Look at you, now, I know your good wife.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
So so yeah, So basically I'm here away.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
From but you're also on a ski trip.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Now, yeah, I'm on a snowboarlling trip because I need
to get out of my system. I like to get
first this and one of them kind of crazy people
like you know, I've got three days here. I'm just yep,
I'm just a corner of yes, I want to. I
don't what do you pack lunch?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Do you stop for lunch?

Speaker 3 (04:38):
No, we will. We're in a skiing ski out, so
we'll probably come here for lunch. And I've a quit
a little bit, so that's nice.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yes, my husband's family is a big like sandwich in
your pocket type of family, like can't even stop.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Okay, which is funny going to that because you spend
so much money on a ski holiday, yet you save
about five dollars fifty packing your own sandwich.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I don't think it's about money, although maybe in theory
it is. It's about you can't get off the mountain.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
You're in your close state, okay, you got hard ohs only.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, I've probably done it before. Disc Yeah, I guess so. No,
you're right as usual. I just think you're ski You
ski though, don't you I ski?

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
I don't think that I need a trip to get
skiing out of my system, to be fair, but my
husband will ski like jump out of a helicopter and
goes cat skiing and all that sort of stuff, like
he's a mega, mega skier.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
I feel like Andrew's he's got that in him. Isn't
a little bit adventure?

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, he loves that. He loves that.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
I'm more of a of a champagne, a prey after
an hour on.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
The slopes, looking so cute. Do you have like snow bunny?

Speaker 3 (05:46):
No, not that bad, but like us, skin tight light
light colored skin type pants.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, no, no, no, I have light colored pants, but they're
not skin tight.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Okay, so I'm half right.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
They're white.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
I can see, I can people like you and Marlov Kira.
You look fantastic, I will say, do.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
You know what it's all about the aesthetics?

Speaker 4 (06:04):
For me?

Speaker 3 (06:04):
No, I'm going to be there then, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
You might take why are we here otherwise?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
No?

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Okay, So today we have a really.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Fun guest with have Mk Morrissey, Yes, who is currently
playing Alphaba in Wicked on Broadway, which is so cool.
And she's also a golfer, which is how we came
to know her. What what did you think when I
suggested her to be on the show? Because I know
that you're not a giant Broadway.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Buff No, I am not. However, however, I love you, Kira,
and I trust your intuition. And You're like, this girl's
gonna be sick, and I was like, well, I've definitely
heard of Wicked long years ago. Yeah, and honestly, it
was one of the most incredible musicals I've ever watched
in my life. But it's definitely out of my comfort zone. Okay,

(06:55):
like musicals. I was actually very very looking forward to
this interview because I kind of wanted to understand how
she got into golf. Being on Broadway and then living
in the New York City, it's quite funny to take
up golf and how she kind of approached it and
how she got into it was quite fascinating to me
and very very cool, to be honest, that's a cool story.

(07:16):
And you made me see Wicked. You made me watch
it as a bit of homework before we interviewed her,
and I'm very glad you did because I took lots
of notes.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Which you will hear about in the interview. Mels and
outs are very detailed.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
As usual. Yes, they all say thank you. She told
me to take notes, so I got a brand new
little pad and I was taking notes the whole way.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
So thank you, You're anytime, anytime.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
You're changing me for the better, for.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Good, as the people of Wicked would say, thank you.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Know this interview really defied gravity, didn't it, Mel Jesus?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yes. I don't know any other words from it, so
I was.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Just oh, our podcast is popular.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Oh, here we go, here we go, okay anymore?

Speaker 2 (07:57):
You know, getting to a podcast with you makes me
feel unlimited.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, this is okay, ud okay, all right, should I
you the interview?

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yes? Please? That was very impressive. Thank you, Kia and Hype,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, without further ado, here is MK Morrissey on Quiet Please. Okay,
we have a very special guest today. MK Morrissey currently
stars as Alphaba in Wicked on Broadway.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
She's an actress, singer, voice teacher. Very relevant to us.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
She's a golfer and her run is Alphaba ends in March. MK,
welcome to Quiet Please.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Hey, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
We are super pumped to have you, especially me. I
would describe myself as a bit of a theater geek.
I don't know about Mel, but you could tell that
Mel was doing research about you and could we have
a shared Google doc, and I was like tracking some
of her notes and she so she writes, oh, sang
in the NYC Pride Parade, and then the next line

(09:01):
a couple down, Wow, you hear this queen sing?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Like damn.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
I know.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
I was doing like a full commentary like I was
going for your Instagram, and then at the end I
just said, yeah, you heard this queen saying. I'm like damn,
I'm like, she's really fucking good.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Like she was so shocks that you were so good.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
I mean, I expect you to be good, but like
you actually gave in like a feeling, like a goosebumps feeling.
There was also kind of looking through your Instagram and
seeing all the cool stuff you do. And I'm really
really happy that you play golf, man, Like it's yeah,
really glad that you got into the spot. And it's
probably as it does hooked you like it does everybody else.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
It totally hooked me.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
And it's been so good, like this year with Wicked,
to have something that's a hobby that's not theater, and
it's like I can do.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Quietly like talk about my please, you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
And I was just talking to my mom because I
got into the.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Game because my mom bought me as at a club.
She retired and she's playing every day. It hugged her
like really a lot, like quickly.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
She was like.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Like that she was a high powered, like corporate business
woman and then all of a sudden had nothing to
do and so golf was perfect. And so she bought
me out a club and she's like, if you want
to hang out with me, you have to learn how
to golf. Like, okay, great, love it.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
I love it fine.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
I was like, all right, fine it.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Begrudgingly took it up, and then immediately was like, oh
my god, this is perfect. This is like exactly what
my life. This is the hobby of my life needed.
I think called me yesterday because we hadn't played since
like September because it's so cold here on the East
Coast and she's in Florida with our friends, and she's like.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
I'm playing and I missed it so much, and I
was like, oh, that's it would be so fun to
play again.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
And you were just on vacation and you got to
play a little bit on vacation.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
We did. We went to Cabo. It was amazing.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
We played Cabo Real and Portolos Cobos and Portos los Cobos.
Every four or five holes there's a comfort station. We
can get a shrimp taco and.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's like the good side of golf. That's where it's at.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
I was like, Oh, this is this is great? This
is it?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
So our show is all about you know, it's not
necessarily about golf. It's golf adjacent, but it's about all
the cool people that we meet through golf, and there's
you know, everybody, all different walks of life, people from
like Michael Phelps to a broadcaster to you. So it
just goes to show how it's such a cool crossover.
But I feel like the golf world anytime we have

(11:22):
somebody new and awesome that's really interested in the golf space,
like everybody in golf just freaks out and really tries
to bring you in. What are your thoughts on kind
of the reaction that the golf world has had to you?

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Oh my gosh, it's exactly that. I'm like, as soon
as they were like like golf, I just reached out
to my agents, and my agents were like, what.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Is this.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
A photo shoot?

Speaker 4 (11:46):
They're like, do you play golf? Do you want to
do this.

Speaker 6 (11:49):
And I was like, yeah, I totally do.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Like this is going to make my dad more proud
than just playing off Broadway, Like put me.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
On the cover.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Let's do it. So we did the whole photo shoot and.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
Everything, and then since that came out, I've been to
play so many different courses and I'm going to the
Masters this year and oh yeah, I've had like pros
at the show come backstage like it's been so fun.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
It's been really and I'm just like wow, like I'm
just trying to break a hundred, you know what I mean,
like shagg get left there. I just started.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
But people are so excited and I I'm so excited,
and I think that that feeds off of each other.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Is not that all right, we're here to play golf.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
It's like, yeah, we're gonna It's like the nerves and
the jitters of that sort of like first couple of
years playing, it's like still very much present with me,
and the bug is strong and I've gotten all my
friends into it too.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Which is fun.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
So it's just I've been welcomed with open arms, even
though I've major imposter syndrome and basically just happy to
be here because I'm like, it's just like a sport
that I'm playing for fun. I'm never trying to do
this professionally, but it's really fun to just be like, hey.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
Let's do you want to come to our party.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'm like, yeah, for sure, Yeah I do.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
There's going to be some people listening to this podcast
going have been waiting for decades to go to the Masters.
You pick up golf, you do a fancy for comfort
golf digetic and got fired to the Master is so sick.
I think that's so funny. Last year, I've only been once,
so you literally may I think that's so awesome. You're
gonna love it. By the way, it's like Disneyland for golfers.

(13:18):
It's one of the most weirdest places, but like most
amazing experiences I've ever experienced in the golf You're gonna
absolutely just love it.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
I'm so excited. My parents are coming too, so it's
gonna be.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, it's going to be like everything we've ever done
is paid off.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
We're good. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Basically yes, I'm like, Okay, I've achieved it. I've hit
the mountaintop. Now I owe you nothing.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh and it's so good because, like all the merchants
are green and alphabet.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Like, oh there there.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
You just at all ties together.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
And you wouldn't believe the amount of golf flows I've
been sent. I can imagine everything is green and pink,
which personally I love, but wow, I really there's no
room for anything else.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
So this is where you're gonna be playing in for
the foreseeable future.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's fine.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Absolutely, I'm like, look, if it's freeze for me, I'll wait.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
I love it. I love it. Do you live in Brooklyn? Right? Yeah?
When I was looking through your instagram, did you start
like a simulator?

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Then?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Is that how you got into it? It's like the
modern golf now like loads of people are doing that
stuff and get that's how they get into golf nowadays,
especially open city kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
It's impossible here, Like the closest driver, I could go
to Chelsea Pierce for a driving range, but it's like
sixty or eighty bucks an hour to play for range
for driving for the range.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah that's stupid. What so Chelsea, what is get your
shit together? Beginner's here?

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Like if you want to hit actual balls, maybe it's
forty for like an off time, but it's super expensive,
or I could drive all the way down to Marine Park,
which would be like twenty five minutes out, but like an.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Hour fifteen back just to go.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
So there's a simulator in my neighborhood golf ve too
that I reached out to and I was like, hey,
I really want to learn the game, and they hooked
me up with one of their pros, Kyla Williams, and
I took a lesson with her every single week for like.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
It was like we took maybe thirty lessons in a row.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Wow, So that's really impressive.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
Yeah, it was just like very much a part of
the routine because my life is super routine and disciplined
right now while doing the show. So it was like
every Thursday at two, that's like my fun. It's right
in the middle of the week, so I'm not super
tired yet not on the two show day. I have recovered,
so I can go play for an hour and it's
not going to wear me out. We just focused on

(15:42):
a couple of things. She is a theater person too,
and so she understand it if I needed to not speak,
and so we would build her own language on how
she would coach me. And so she's since left and
now she's at five Iron and so I've been taking
it with Liz Breed and her over at five Iron
and that has been really fun too. But like, yeah,
everybody in New York plays in the simulators. You'll see

(16:02):
like guys with their like massive golf bags on the
sub I've never gotten more like checked.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Out in my life. And I have my bag on
the subway.

Speaker 6 (16:10):
You know, twice, look twice at me before my name's.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
On the bag though, because my husband didn't know that.
You're not supposed to do that, but he bought it
for me.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
What you can do it? Yeah, actually you can do
it you basically now anyway.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, take the Mastery stuff. You're going to the Masters,
You're legit.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Take the family the Masters and walk around with it
at the master Don't do that.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Don't come on.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
I am bringing my bag because I've got a sawgrass
right afterwards.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh, I live in Jacksonville, you do, I do? I
live near Neptune Beach. Yeah, so I'm like twenty minutes
some saw grass.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Can give you.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
We're gonna go play.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Let's go give me a lesson. Of course it will.
I'm absolutely ship to give a lessons. But I'm more
happy to help you laugh the whole time. Yeah yeah, yeah,
hook me up. Yeah yeah, just dm an will sort
some me out. Yeah for sure. You can come play
my course if you want as well. I'm in let's
do it all right, that's a good time. We've got
a fantastic halfway Hurt slash clubhouse, which is like a
rooftop bar.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
That sounds awesome.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
That sounds amazing. I've never gotten invited, weird, Like, what's that? Yeah?
Can we talk you at your routine because I feel
like mel especially can relate to this the golfer routines, Like,
can you give us like a snapshot of the how
this routine for the week works.

Speaker 5 (17:21):
Yeah, I'm sure that it probably is close to like
a professional athlete if you're playing on the weekend. So, like,
my big days are Saturday and Sunday because we do
two shows a day and it's super vocally and physically
demanding because the show is on a raked stage, so
it's an incline from back to front, one percent incline,
so you're never fully centered, you never feel your feet,

(17:45):
and the ground can ground yourself. I'm always singing toes down,
which is really tough, or I'm singing like cocked into
a hip, so my body takes a huge beating through
the show, And so the whole day usually is meant
for recovering and then preparing, So like the first half
of the day is like steaming, resting, vocal stuff, body work,

(18:10):
things like that, and then the second half of the
day would be like going to the gym to warm
myself up, warming up my voice, getting to the theater,
doing all the things I need to do there before
doing the show, and then usually like giving a backstage tour,
getting home at midnight, and then waking up to do
it all again.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
So what time is that your first show? Then on
a Saturday too, what time do you get up? Then
in the morning night, what time do you start this process?

Speaker 5 (18:37):
I try to roll myself out of bed and get
to forty five by ten fifteen.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Okay, because the night before, the night before, you would
have been out till midnight.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
You get home at midnight or get home at like one.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
I homet like twelve fifteen, twelve thirty usually.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
And so in bed by one.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, it's hard to come down though, because the curtain
comes down at ten forty seven.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
You still got your adrenaline going, and I've.

Speaker 6 (18:59):
Been looking directly into those lights for two and a half.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Hours, So, yeah, can you think of that?

Speaker 4 (19:05):
I have to like knock myself out to get to sleep.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
So I was just going to say, it's crazy because
like in the golf world, like I would say, majority
of professional golfers do this, Like it's within whatever your
tea time is, Say it's eight o'clock in the morning,
my routine will start exactly three hours before that. Like
it takes me three hours, yeah to kind of get
ready and prep like mentally, physically and all that kind
of stuff. So I was just I was super intrigued
by it because I also saw that you do like

(19:29):
cool downs, Like I didn't even think of that, like
you guys having to do cool downs with your voice
and stuff, because we do cool downs as golfers, and
we think we're psychotic because we're like one of the
only athletes that do work after grinding for six hours.
But I had no idea you had to do that,
Like that's probably a bit ignorant of me, but I
had no clue.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
No, Yeah, because of all of the massive amount of
singing you do in the show and using your voice.
That's in sort of a non pedestrian way. You have
to like reset your voice back down to speech level. Wise,
your risk of injury is greater. And then it's the
same with your body. Like after doing all of that,

(20:06):
it's almost like being on a ship if you.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Like you're like, oh god, and then you're walking.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Against So I have to, like I have a foot
injury and I have a back injury. That are from
the show.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
Yeah, I think everyone should cool down after everything they do.
It's like stretching after a run.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah, I didn't know the offers to that though. That's cool.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
I should probably Oh yeah, dude, we have to.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
I have to. Yeah. Activation is I absolutely hate it
as well. It's like the most boring thing on the planet.
But like, if I don't do it, I physically can't
like feel anything. Like I can get by because of
the technique stuff, but not really. Okay, it's awful, Like
I literally can't feel things, and like I use the
wrong body parts like my hip wall like overspin and
things like that. Yeah, it's absolutely world. Yeah, it's kind

(20:45):
of tedious, but it's just things you gotta be done.
It was just fascinated by that me, I was talking
to Curas. I mean're basically a professional athlete. You just
got a best singing voice than most of us.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
Then all, well that's my sport is Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
That's the thing I like about OFF two, Like everything
feels very very technical, and that's how I think about
singing too, so like everything is extremely technical to me,
Like I don't know every single piece of the anatomy
and how I'm using it and where I'm using it
in constriction.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Versus pressure and things like that. And it's the same
with golf.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
Like as soon as I started to learn like the
little tiny interpieces of stuff, it started to make sense
because I could relate it to what I already know
it sense.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
It's so much easier to understand the golf swing and
what you're supposed to do when you're actually thinking about, okay,
what are my hips doing, what's my rotation? Like where
should my arms be? Because otherwise you're kind of just
praying blindly.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, this is going to be such a
dumb question. I hope it's not that dumb, but okay,
So in golf, right, there's like days where like we'll
be hitting it and we're thinking oh my God, like
I'm God right now, like I cannot like I know
exactly where everything is and exactly where it's going, like
I just need to look at it and I just
know the feeling, and you think, oh my god, I
finally correct it, and then the next day you cannot

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hit bond or like is it like that with like
do you feel yourself like at absolute peak? And then
the So was it just a bit more way more
consistent than something like golf?

Speaker 5 (22:03):
I would say that the technique of singing is extremely consistent,
but the elements are not.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
So that's what changes for us.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
If there's extra dust in the air, you're going to
sound a lot different, and you have to be really
attuned to the elements so that you're like, why do
I sound different? Why is it harder for me to
produce function today? Because like I love my order ring.
It's like, oh, it's because they only got this much
amount of sleep, or it's because we really need rain,
so my voice is feeling really dry, so that's harder
to produce sound. Or like they turn the heat on

(22:31):
the building so it's really dry, so that's harder for
me to produce sound.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
It makes sense.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
That's why.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
We have elements and conditions.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, and like elt tune and all that stuff. Yeah,
it's it's the same but different. Yeah, yeah, that is wild.
I didn't even know like that much intricacy like went
into it.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
It's super tech.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
When you're performing at this level, it's like just as
technical as I think like a professional athlete or liked,
you know, it's corporate theater.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Well, yeah, you're the best of the best. Let your
top dog, top dog go right now. Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
You're like talking with your hands and we can kind
of see the green.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Want to be rude.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
I was like, oh, I think it's the coolest thing. No,
it might be your natural you know what.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
It's just not a priority at this point anymore. I'm
just like everybody in my neighborhood knows what I do.
Everybody ride gym knows.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
What I do.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
How long does it? Tights? Put on twenty minutes?

Speaker 2 (23:28):
But you're not doing your whole body.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
No, it's just like your hands to hear your chest
like this, your chest down, your back.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
And then your face and then you get complete.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
What's hard about.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
Alphaba is that in other shows, when you're off stage,
you get a chance to rest. But with Alphaba, you
always have a team of three around you. Someone in
front of you, someone's beside you, and someone behind you
every time you're off stage.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
So the person in front of me is.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Always touching up my face.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
The person to the side is like holding my hair
up so that they can fix like off on the
back of my costume, like my wings and stuff, and
then that's what the person on the back is. So
it's always people around you every time you're off stage,
even in intermission, like other actors get a break, it's
like interimssion, it's a break we can sit down and
chill or go chat with somebody.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
You're like glued to the chair because they repaint.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
You completely at intermission, but they give you like fierce,
smoky eyes and like a black lip and contour to
make her. The first line that Alphabet says and the
second act is well, it seems the beautiful get more
beautiful and the green just get greener. And it's because
they paint us darker. Yeah, to insinuate that she's like

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grown a little bit ripened almost.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
I just had a weird vision in my head. I
was like Ripen does.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Like Ripen do you know what I meant word, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
That's fine.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
You know, I know Broadway as much as like a
regular Broadway fan, But in my mind is a third party,
non biased consumer is like.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Alphaba is it? That is the role, that's the dream?
Like is that how you see it? And also how
did you get here?

Speaker 5 (25:18):
That's one hundred percent how I see it. But I
think that everybody in their role on Broadway feels that
way about it.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
I don't care about what they think.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
I think about what the audience, Like the consumer thinks
that Alphaba is it.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
I think that the consumer does think that Alpha Butt
is it. But I would also argue that like they
think that the Hamilton is it, they think that whatever
they think that like Audra and Gypsy is it? Like
that is but like to the sort of non theater insider, yes,
you see Alpha Button Wicked, especially this year, and it

(25:55):
feels very like Acropos and Big. But I was listening
to this podcast and they were talking about this quote
from The Hours and the author said, like, there's no
such thing as talent. There's only someone who got really
obsessed with something and saw a way that they could
make it better and went after it with like their

(26:17):
entire self, and I think that that's how people achieve
great things. I don't think that what I started as
the standby on tour, which is like.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
A moment on the total pole, they like, give me
this shot.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
I'm like working, work and working because no matter what
you're going on, like, no matter what, you're going to
be in front of twenty five hundred people. So you
have to figure out how to do it and fast.
But then I get the whole week to sort of Okay,
how did that go? What were the problems spots, what
were the hot spots? How can I make it better?
So then I came back and did the principal track out.
So the difference between a standby and understudy and the

(26:52):
principal track. A stand by is off stage the entire show,
like in their pajamas, eating a frozen burrito, doing a
crossword while the show is going on.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
That's that license specific.

Speaker 6 (27:03):
That's what I was doing. Yeah, exactly, I can do
export level Noku.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
And the understudy had a track in the show, so
they're in the ensemble doing their track, but they're there
just in case something happens. Standby's off stage just in
case something happens to the principal who's doing it. So
I was a stand by and then took over full
time and then still had the chance to fail. But
when I was failing, I was failing in like Toledo,
or like failing in you know, Cleveland, instead of on Broadway.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
So you could settle into your.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Job and be like, Okay, this is what I do
and this is how I do it. But I never
felt that way. I was always like, how can I
make my voice better? How could I study with this
other person, how can I do this?

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Blah blahlahlah blah.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
And so then when I was doing it last year
as to stand by on Broadway, I was like, I
never wanted to do it full time again after I
did it on tour because it was so hard.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
It was like the hardest thing I've ever done.

Speaker 5 (27:57):
And I broke a couple times too, where I had
big mid show callouts and like.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Scary like almost injuries and ended up being fine and
things like that. So I was like, it's too much,
it's too hard, too much. And I did it like
I already can say, like did it.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
And so then I was standing by and I had
done another couple gigs that had taught me other things
for like my toolkit, and I was doing the show
again and I was like, oh, I actually think I
probably could do this full time, and I think I
would be really good because I never never wanted to
do it and just be like one of the girls
who did it. I wanted to do it and be
like this is someone that people will look to to

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be like that was a performance that I either saw
or I missed.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
So when they offered it to me full time, I
still had to audition.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
I was playing the role so often when I was
to stand by, and every time I had to audition
for the role full time. I was on that night
playing the role on Braahway. I was like, couldn't you
guys just come and see the show, like you know,
I'm doing it. Oh no, And so they would me
on tape and then they didn't like the tape. So

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then the associate director took her phone down. She's like,
what you're doing in the show is exactly right, it's
just not translating in the room.

Speaker 6 (29:10):
So she went down and she was like shakily trying
to like take a bootleg of BI performance.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
I was like, I just have.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
To keep doing this show and be so good that
it makes the decision easy for them, because casting this
role is so tricky and so hard, and I was like,
let me just be nice and my work ethics stand
for itself, and like my loyalty to the show stand
for itself and discipline, and then it'll be easy for

(29:38):
me for them to cast me. And then that's exactly
what happened, which is such a gift.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
But it's also been like a.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
Really hard year, but like a really really rewarding year
doing it.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah. No, I'm a big believe in that stuff. I
think that we get given like certain gifts, Like it
doesn't matter how hard I worked. I generally don't think
I could even come close to the way you all care.
A sings cares a little singer, by the way.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
And if you knew that we're going to do karaoke
pretty good, I would love to do karaoke back in
the day. Okay, girl, she's good high school, she definitely sang.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
I don't like to give care of many compliments, but
I actually found a little video last night going through
some stuff, and she's pretty damn good, I must say,
I will. I'll send it to you my talent.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
You're so impressive, dude, yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Totally really are you really are? Put the crown on?

Speaker 6 (30:35):
I don't want to make it all about me, like,
oh yeah, it was my talent. It was America.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
What a bitch?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Can you imagine just saying like oh yeah, I just
play off the Broadways?

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Oh that's so funny. And if you would wait, mates,
do they are they playing golf with you?

Speaker 6 (30:52):
I have one friend Libby. It's funny, like the.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Dancers are so good at it, Like my friend Libby,
you're athletes.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
Yeah, just started and we would like go to the
pitch and put She'd just be like think and it'd
be like straight and right there.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Her swing would just it'd be like like what what
is happening?

Speaker 6 (31:10):
So it's like you have to teach it.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
Like as if it's choreography to them, like okay, here's
the tempo.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
You have to be like one, two, three.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
Four, So that's.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
That's fine exactly.

Speaker 6 (31:24):
It's exactly that though.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
It is so annoying, but it's really fun because like
I don't have to wait for her to get good too,
like it's just like naturally good. And so that's been
really fun for her to play with me. It's just
tough in New York to get people to play. Yeah,
But Hen Davenport is one of the biggest Broadway producers
and he has like a big Broadway tournament and I'm
going to play in that this year and hopefully not

(31:46):
make a fool of myself. But that's like where all
the Broadway golfers come together to play, but.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
There aren't that many women.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
So like my whole like thesis of this whole thing
is like trying to get my like girlfriends into play, you.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, can relate to you a little bit because when
I post Missmerica, I was invited to a lot of
golf tournaments and a lot of like to play in
a lot of pro ams and stuff like that, and
I was often the only woman, and so I felt
so much pressure to play well.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
And I played decent, but nowhere near way. I thought
I needed to be blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
And then I come to find out or come to
realize that people were just happy you're there. You know,
you hit one good shot and people are like wow,
and then the rest is like shaking it left.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
And right, but who cares?

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yea, And it's just I was so in my head
about it and felt so judged. Meanwhile, everybody's so focused
on themselves. No one's judging you. Everybody's just you know,
super kind and happy to be there. So I think
it's awesome that you're willing to take that, you know,
put yourself in a bit of an uncomfortable situation and
just be yourself and be happy to be there.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, I'm wagreen or you happy to wag Yeah, it's
just why both? Yeah, I just mix up.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Can we talk about the movie and what it's been
like to be the Alphaba on Broadway?

Speaker 2 (32:55):
While the movie was coming out.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
You know, I thought it would be a lot different.
I don't know how I thought it would be different.
The only thing that I have seen change is the
ticket price going up, going up, Like we did a
five million dollar week in December, which is crazy.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
So you're just setting out every single session.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
We're sold out every night.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yeah, holy shit, and we're not kind of expected that.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
We were always full, like at ninety percent, So it
doesn't feel different. But we used to get staff rate
seats and now we don't get them anymore because there
aren't any seats. And we used to be able to
get like unlimited house rate seats, and now we can't.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
We only get four.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
It hasn't been great for like us necessarily, probably we
don't make any more money. The show is making more money,
but we don't make it. I still can't take like
an uber home. They're still not like paying for my
cars or like paying for anything like that.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
You know what I mean, let's get the agent on that.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
Oh if you don't think, yeah, if you don't think,
he tried, he tried.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
But because like we just don't do that fascinated, they
don't have to. But like there have been like fun
little perks, like sometimes the partnerships will send us a
little thing. But the other thing is that like our
producers want to make sure that it's like separation of
church and state, so like we can't promote anything movie wise.
We can't like partner with movie stuff. We can't do

(34:13):
anything like that.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
And you had like a fun appearance on I saw
on Instagram when I think, like all the Alphaba's and
Glinda's got together with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Rivo.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
What about something like that.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
That was really cool and really special? And I think
I will I feel like, I never want to.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
See the movie again because the way I thought it
was so perfect.

Speaker 5 (34:33):
They invited every Witch who had ever done it on
Broadway full time, so every Glinda and every Alphaba, the
current cast of Wicked and the current crew of Wicked
and the original Broadway cast of Wicked, all the producers
and I think, yeah, the producers and like the company
managers and things like that. And they held this screening

(34:55):
at the Director's Center in New York, and Cynthia and
Ariana and everybody all came and introduced the movie, and
Kristin Chenowith and Ariana Grande sat right in the middle
of the theater. And then I sat with my very
best friend, who was Mike Linda on Tour, like right
next to me, right here, and then Mike Linda on
Broadway right behind me, and we all watched.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
The movie together.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
So it was really so when it was.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
Oh aged and all the different.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
Voices popping out, everyone would be like head to that
ensemble member, like head to that, so everyone was.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Like the circle.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
So it was really cool and really sweet because we
like really participated watching yea watching the movie and it
was really moving and it was really but my favorite
part about the movie is that I got to watch
it with like my people because at the end of
the day, we saw it on a day off, like
we get one day off. It was a Monday, and
it was still work, you know what I mean, because

(35:56):
we had we went to this movie screening and then
to this party with all this, so we still work
on day off. But if it was like the best
day of work you could have.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Really it was really really special.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
That's incredible.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
What's it like for you to see somebody else sing
the role in the way that they approach it in
just their interpretation of of Alphaba?

Speaker 5 (36:17):
Yeah, on Broadway, you don't get a whole lot of
wiggle room. You're like very directed into what you're doing,
and then all of the little bit of magic you
can bring is like within the night that you see it.
But Cynthia had a lot of say in what they did.
She's say in the hair, say in the nails, And

(36:38):
it's a totally different character that I'm used to. So
when I was watching it, I was like, it's not
even the same thing, you know what I mean, So
like it's so different even vocally, even vocally, like we
would never be allowed to do any of the things
that she did, like I get a note, if I
like hold like a quarter note to a quarter half,
like it's They're like, okay.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
What you like connecting this note for too long?

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Huh?

Speaker 4 (37:02):
And She's like doing whatever she wants, you know what
I mean. So it seems to me.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
Like her part in Wicked was extremely collaborative. She's the star,
and it's very like star treatments, whereas on Broadway, I
feel like I'm leading a company and so I'm faced
with all of these different notes, all of these different
people that I have to please and also be an
example and a voice for my company and the people

(37:30):
who are on stage with me every single night, and
so therefore I have to be a part of this team,
you know what I mean. I feel like I'm a
captain and not a star.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah? Yeah, that was good.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Good.

Speaker 5 (37:43):
It just feels like a very different I think we
both had a very different experience of it, and I'm
thrilled for her that she's gotten to put her stamp
on it in such a massive way that will be lasting.
The thing that would mean the most to me in
my participation of it is that I like leave that
stamp on my company and the people.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
That I Yeah, because you know, alphabet the role, you
only get to do it for a year, right, Like
no actress does it longer than that because it's like
physically probably impossible to do it longer. So you've got
a year to kind of put your stamp on it.
And people can be like, wow, like I worked with
m K. Morrisy and it was like an amazing experience.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Or it was a terrible experience and she fell apart.
We don't know.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
We can check in with the cast in a year
and see what they're saying with the people who exactly.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
You've seen Wicked on Broadway? You have, kire, haven't you?

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Because the sky Blue Okay, yeah, I knew that.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
I was as kind of a times. How many times
I bet you've seen it?

Speaker 1 (38:32):
I have seen it four times on Broadway, never with
MK and the show was like, oh, I haven't seen
it in a while.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
I've seen the movie twice just for science.

Speaker 6 (38:39):
Yeah, of course, have you seen it now?

Speaker 3 (38:42):
I saw in the West End ten years ago in London,
one of my exits at the time a long while ago.
Was very much into like musicals and like theater and stuff.
And so I used to get dragged along to a
lot of different things, like Billy Elliott and like Calendar Girls.
And then I went to Wicked, and I will say
and I'm not just saying this because you it literally
blew my mind. Like it was the first one that

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I was like, holy ship, like this is really cool.
The talent was just like insane, and I was just
I was honestly blown away by it. And yeah, I've
watched the movie as well.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Yeah, even when.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
I finished it next morning.

Speaker 6 (39:21):
You had to do it in two parts.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Note looks the notes?

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, I had someone your notes smell.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
So is it Glinda or Glinda as Linda? And then
she finishes and then she can't because the goat can't
say it, So it's now Glinda Linda. Okay, spoil gets
own way was my note with her? Yeah, and then
Alphaba was green you misunderstood? Well, yeah, that's pretty much

(39:58):
all the Bland notes. Handsome love interest.

Speaker 6 (40:02):
Yep, that's basically it.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
That's basically it.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
Er on Broadway as a professional athlete.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
He did the Olympic Trials for swimming.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (40:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (40:13):
What's his name?

Speaker 6 (40:14):
Jordan Ltz. He's like very.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Beefy, beefy guy, beefy guy.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
Because I'm a tall girl.

Speaker 6 (40:21):
I'm five to seven.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
There's nothing worse than being a tall, five to seven
green girl with a short, tiny fiera.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Let me tell you, Oh yeah, brilliant. It just doesn't sound.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Like beefy.

Speaker 5 (40:34):
I'm like, give me beef, don't give five five, don't
do it.

Speaker 6 (40:40):
Don't give me chicken leg. I don't want that.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Okay. Did you get my message about our fantasy draft?

Speaker 4 (40:54):
Yes, but I hadn't brainstormed. But let's do it.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
That's okay. You can do whatever take you want on it.
It's like super fun and cash. I may or may
not have spent hours on mine, but it's fine.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
I'm going to offend a lot of people with mine.
So we'll see how this.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Maybe we can do like a kind of a round
robin style, like Mel can start and then MK and
then me, and then I'll go again, and then MK
and then Mel Mel will go again, and then we'll
just like we'll go around like that.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Does that work?

Speaker 4 (41:23):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (41:23):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Did you cast somebody for like the funny friend, like
the bowen? Mel? Did you pick somebody for like the
sidekick roll.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Mkay, I'm doing golfers because specialty. If you don't know anyone,
I can explain them. But I'm sure you will. Joel Damon,
Oh that's a great one. Thank you. I just thought
he's funny. MK.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Do you know who Joel is?

Speaker 4 (41:42):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
He took his top off Google Waste Management, Joel Damon
and get pretty good character with his top off.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Yeah, when they're throwing the beers and he throws takes
a shirt off, that's that guy.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
But he's a funny dude. He's a great guy. So yeah,
I put Jill Damon.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
That's so funny. That's so good. Okay, MK, go I
think probably Melissa McCarthy.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Oh, that's a good one. She's funny.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
So I had two. I love this. I said, either
Josh gad or Nikki Glazer.

Speaker 6 (42:16):
Oh, that's both so good.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
I don't know who either one of them?

Speaker 1 (42:19):
No you Donkey Blazer just hosted the Golden Globes and
she did the funny Tom Brady roast.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Oh she's brilliant. Yeah, she's funny. Okay.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Josha just had a book come out and for the
sum reason, Top of Mind is hilarious.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
Broadway legend comedian.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
I think that this will be good.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Oh okay, okay, so me again fierro Okay, So mel,
I know you're a lesbian, but do.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
You know what I have that in my nights. If
you saw.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
This man sing on Broadway, I think even you might
get Fanny flutters I don't actually don't know how to
say his last name.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
Aaron tight He was a Fiera.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Was he? Okay?

Speaker 1 (42:58):
I saw him in Mulan Rouge and just hi, you
need to google him school.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
I'm only like seventy two percent lesbian.

Speaker 5 (43:07):
So that's everybody perfect. So you got just enough for
Aaron Okay, I have one, okay, like a young Kevin Costner,
like tin Cup.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Oh oh, look at her making a well done. That's
a good one.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
Very nice people a loof sort of like jerk but
part of gold.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Okay. Mine is Ludwig Oberg, and I actually put my notes.
She can't say it by put being lesbian turns my head.
So I did put my notes. I was a lesbian
and even well. I sometimes have to remind my wife.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
But that's a great one.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Ludwig is like a young up and coming star. He's
from Sweden.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
I think, yeah, he's like jacked, and he's just a
really nice kid. He actually just moves to Jacksonville. But no,
he's a really nice guy. And like even he played
in that TJL golf league the other night. And apparently
Carli found a bunch of Twitter stuff saying like all
the wise were like who is that? And they're like
he was eighteen months ago, is in college? Calm down?

Speaker 2 (44:11):
But they were doing like up close on his face?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
A handsome wives on Twitter were like, wow, look big
in four k.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Yeah, he's a very handsome young man. But that's why
I picked play love It right, what's next?

Speaker 6 (44:25):
Back?

Speaker 4 (44:26):
Oh my god?

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Okay, okay, listen to this because I found this hilarious.
I don't know how else it's gonna go down already.
Two thousand and eight Rory McElroy in the necklace and
there I was dying when I figured that. Honestly I was.

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I made myself chuckle with that one. Two thousand and eight.
So a two thousand and eight Rory McElroy. Google it
and it is okay, So I say, you can you
can see what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Because and the belt, it was like a white yes situation.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
It was hair.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Yeah, oh my god, is that good his hair?

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Thank you? Honestly, that was I was pretty happy with
that one.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
You should put yourself on the back of that one.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (45:26):
All right, Okay, I feel like for a golfer, even
though he's tall Tom Kim, so it's not really adorable.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
That was good.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
I didn't think any golfers.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
I just think that this person is this character I
put justin Bieber.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
I don't know. I just to me and a lot.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Of people think I think that he's like the super
hot guy, and I just think he's just like this
little nerds.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
No, he's in my eyes, he's still twelve Coddie obsessed
with and I'm like, he's ten, but he's obviously not.
But I can't get on board with it. Sorry.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Yeah. Yeah, he's my book for doctor Dilomand I said,
Paul and the reason, the reason you know a teacher. Yeah,
he's got that there.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Rup Paul was on Jimmy Fallon at some point recently,
and Jimmy Fallon introduces him as like the greatest drag
queen of all time, and Rue Paul goes drag Queen,
Drag Queen, and Jimmy's like, oh my god, I've offended him,
and ru Paul pauses and goes, honey, I'm the Queen
of drag.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
And I just felt like that was doctor Diloman energy.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Oh very good.

Speaker 6 (46:42):
Wow, I don't know how you could do.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
That was what I was most proud of.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
That was pretty good. I don't care. Thanks while you're thinking, okay,
I did Tiger Woods just because he's a goat. That's oh,
that's good, thank you. I mean it's very different from
for but yeah, he's just a go in.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
He I just thought both of their respective field.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Actually, well said yes, we.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Can come back and come back to me. Okay, Mel,
why don't you do your madam morble.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Oh this is where I'm just going to start get
myself in trouble. Okay, because okay, just bear with me
here and my thinking process might be wrong. I put
Jamee on a hand because.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
He's the commission of the pgatory.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
He promised one thing and then kind of went back
on his words and then went to the other side.
And so that's why I chose Jay.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Yeah, he's been through a lot recently.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
He's been through a lot, and he means to do well.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
He's working with the wizard. Yeah's live.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Yes, this is where my Wizard's going to come in.
So yeah, that was my thinking process.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
I think that they missed an opportunity to cast Hannah Wattingham.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
I think, oh, yes, the incredible like, yes, she is
the West End musical theater actress.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
First Yeah, okay, I didn't realize that was her background.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
Yeah, she's awesome. I'm such a big fan of hers.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
I think she's so they definitely missed an opportunity casting
because they should.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
That would have been so good.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
She could like dance that line of being mentor mother
and also something yeah would you put.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Okay, so I said Kristin Chenowith that would have been
cool and mel Kristin Chenowith was the original Glinda on
Broadway and it's like a legend, legend. I just I
don't know. I just wanted more. Either Kristin or a
Diner are both in the movie, because it's like such nostalgia.
But I feel like she just would have fit, like

(48:44):
the hair and.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
The makeup and blah blah blah. I think that Kristin
would have been good.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
Yeah, it would have been amazing.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Or Meryl Streep. But I don't think Maryll can sing.

Speaker 6 (48:50):
She actually can, She's been in so many music.

Speaker 5 (48:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:53):
Well she was in MoMA Mia right.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Back of the Woods, okay, and act she was in
Alice at the Palace, which is like an old musical that.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Literally just put on a ass right now. I appreciate it.
Thank you so much, Thank you so much, all back.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
I should never be allowed to do this ever. All right,
Meryl's it, Kristen.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Sit down, maryl ur It would have been amazing.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
So my Wizard was Alan Combing, mostly because I love
him and is the host of Traders right now, and
I feel like it's very wizard esque. Yeah, and obviously
Cabaret and his singing and all that.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
Yeah, mine's a golf thing and that's why I know.
Tell me, But I did know Meryl Street was a singer.
I mean, want me living down, No way. Mine would
have been dis Greg Norman just because of the whole
like Jay Mohan and I don't know, just working together.
That's perfect, That's where I was going. Yeah, and I
think he's like got gray hair and he's tall, and
I think he would be a pretty decent wizard.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
I think that's a great wizard.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
I think that they killed it with the casting in
the movie. But I have the best wizard on Broadway
that I've ever like. My wizard on Broadway. Brad Oscar
is a Broadway legend. He's been nominated for two Tony's
and he has been in the business for years and years,
and it's almost like his performance jumps off the page
and is just brought to life.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
That is the wizard that he.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
Gives me every night, Like, I don't think I could
see another wizard than Brad Oscar.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
And to do that so consistently every night, every night
for however long, it's crazy. Do you have Vanessa Rose Smell?

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Not really? I mean I just put Alex Fitzpatrick because
I just thought of brothers. He's a he's a little
brother trying to make a name for himself and be
on his own and be independent, and so I just
put Alex Fitzpatrick, which is Matt's Fitzpatrick's little brother.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Oh yeah, that's a good poor guy.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
You seen him on Full Swing if you watched Full Time.

Speaker 5 (50:49):
I'm like, oh, it's hard to be that guy because
he like really wants it, and his brother's so good.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Yeah, he's actually playing good right now. He's doing really
well for himself. He's got I think he's got full
status on in Europe on tpple. So yeah, he's a
really good player, really good things.

Speaker 6 (51:03):
Yeah, Nessa so hard because she's like such a bitch,
do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Yeah, Well, I'm like, why are you not standing up
for your sister? Why is it all about you?

Speaker 4 (51:11):
It's all about her.

Speaker 6 (51:12):
She's like the world revolves around.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
And maybe it's because like her dad put her on
a pedestal and never now I'm like Therapizingnessa.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
I don't know who would play her well though. I
know that everyone wants Rachel Zegler to be like an
alpha BA, but I feel like she would be a
really good messa.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Mmm okay, I don't know who that didn't.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
Play that really well.

Speaker 5 (51:32):
She was in the most recent Hunger Games movie. She's
playing Juliette on Broadway and Romeo and Juliet right now. Well,
she would never take NSSA, but I think she'd be
a really good one.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Okay, yeah, yeah, this one I kind of struggled with.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
I put Zendeia oh, just because I know that Zendeia
like sings ish. I don't know that Nissa is like
the most intense singing role, but I think she'd be fine.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
What's hard to get the Nanessa's on Broadway is that
they are in these really heavy, not normal wheelchairs, these
like proc wheelchairs that are like a thousand pounds because
they have automation and machines built into them so that
they can be automated off stage for like some of
the magic stuff, and they're on that on the rake
and they have to sing and move themselves around. So

(52:15):
there's like this thing called nessanek that these actors get
that they have permanently chronic nex spasm towards the end
of their contract.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
Stop it, yeah, stop it.

Speaker 6 (52:24):
Not kidding.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
That is insane.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
You know that's crazy, Like you don't think about that
when you're sitting in the audience and how insane physicality
is okay for Alphaba, I obviously okay, But if I
have to choose somebody else just because I stop anything
I do to listen to this person saying, I said, Jennifer.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
Hudson, Oh my god, I just think that she would
be an incredible like her battle cry at the end
would be wild.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
That's really good.

Speaker 6 (52:51):
There's so many people who I would love to hear
sing this stuff.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
I'd love to hear Miley Cyrus do it.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Oh ah, that's a great.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (53:01):
She's such an underdog, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (53:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (53:04):
And I feel like that's he's got energy, got Alphabet energy.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Yeah, that's a great one.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
Sometimes when I'm like really tired, I say I'm giving
it a Miley Cyrus show because it's gonna sound like
a little last few.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Yeah, mine sounds like ship. I've clearly not understood this song.
Mine is bryceon de Shambo because he's a bit of
a misfit. No one really likes him. These are my notes.
Now the world is seeing him for who he really is,
and he's trying to do good and he's a good
guys town. He's a fierro really yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
Because Fierra is misunderstood too. Everyone thinks that he's like
this heartless.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Hot guy but pretty boy.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
Yeah, but he actually like starts to show his heart
and that's why Alphabet falls for him, and he falls
for her because he falls for the person that he's
not supposed to be with.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Got you Okay?

Speaker 4 (53:50):
Yeah, but yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Don't take his ship.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
I just don't think that he's an alpha ba shut.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
Down, cheers. Okay, we were getting somewhere when we were
taking a piss out, when we gained up on Kira.
Now it's yeah, here we go.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Ok well, give us your Glinda.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Well this is going to be shipped as well, now,
isn't it pull the creamer because she likes pink the
creamer and she's like American sweetheart.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
I think that's a nice pick, thank you us open.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
Yeah, yeah, I think like golf girl.

Speaker 5 (54:25):
Wise, I would pick like Nellie Corda is Glinda and
Charlie Hall is Alphaba.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
Like to have those two.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Alphabet smoke, because Charlie will only be able to do
if she can rip some cigarettes. That's during the performance
to Alphaba, she'd be like, no.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
Good deed, ripe Alphaber exactly, ripe Alphaba.

Speaker 5 (54:45):
Yeah, ripping darts on the stage like you're badass and
you're a good girl.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Yeah, that's too much. That's good. Okay, I'm going to
change my alphabet from price to the Shambo to Charlie.

Speaker 6 (54:54):
Thank you? All right, how many do you have for
this one? I?

Speaker 2 (55:00):
I have two?

Speaker 1 (55:00):
One serious want to joke. My serious one is Serena Carpenter.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Yes, she is so good, and my joke is me.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Actually, you would be a good Glinda.

Speaker 6 (55:12):
You should sing someone.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
You should give us a little popular.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
No, give us the high stus, give us wicked.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Okay are you kidding?

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Give the people what they want here, Just do it.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
You're a friend. No no, no, no, you do it. Okay, No,
you do it.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
I do it every night.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Yeah, you get paid to do it. I am a
podcast host.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
I'll twenty bucks if you do.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
No, we're not doing it anyway.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Thank you for participating in our Wicked fantasy draft.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
That was lovely.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
The people will love it, Okay, no anything else for okay,
before we let her.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Go, not at all. That was awesome, And hit me
out when you're in Jackson, we'll get a game together.
Let us know. And honestly, that was really insightful. I
had no idea. I mean obviously knew you worked really
really hard, but the physical and just like all the
different like intricacies to it, it was really honestly cool
to listen to. So yeah, thank you ever so much
for your time and we really appreciate it. And thanks
for ripping into care with me. It doesn't happen very often,

(56:12):
and I'll tell you those opportunities very seriously.

Speaker 4 (56:16):
I gat her.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
And also just like, congratulations on almost completing what's been
a crazy year. You finish in March, and I think
I saw somewhere you want to go on like a
golf camp for a month after the show, and just
can't wait to see what you do next.

Speaker 7 (56:33):
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