July 6, 2026 • 33 mins
Today on The Josie Show, Josie Passantino-Boone chats with Keri René Fuller who is currently playing Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway.
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Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Josie Show. I'm Josie
Pasentino Boone and we have a very exciting show for
all of you. Today. We have special guest Carrie Renee Fuller,
who is currently playing Alphaba in Wicked on Broadway. So
we're going to talk about that and so much more.
So stay tuned to the whole show. You will not
want to miss a second of this interview. All right,
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let's just jump right in it. Here is Carrie Renee Fuller.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Hello, Hi, Josie, how are you. Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I'm doing wonderful. How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh? I'm so good. It's a beautiful day to day.
So I'm so happy to be outside talking to you.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yes, oh, I'm so glad, And I've been really looking
forward to talking to you because you are incredible, my friend.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I need to start there.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I think you You're welcome. I have to give you your
flowers because your performance of No Good Deed on Broadway
dot Com was mind blowing, Like you did that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh, thank you. It's my it is It is my
favorite song to sing in the show. So I was very,
very fortunate that they that they allowed me to sing
that song because normally, you know, out of context, yeah,
that song can be kind of you know, uh, it's my.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Niche right, Yeah, for sure, it was. It was just amazing.
And you know, before we really dive in a little
bit more on you playing Alphabat on Broadway, I love
to hear kind of about how your journey into musical
theater first began.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So I've been singing my whole life. It's something that
I've always just naturally loved doing. We I was raised
in Oklahoma, so there was you know, my parents didn't
really know what to do with me. I was always
singing in church choir. I was always singing in school choir.
I was always singing somewhere, but they didn't really as
far as you know, how to set me up for
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a possible career. They had no idea, bless them what
they were doing. And so I eventually got into voice lessons,
and I mean I for the longest time we couldn't
afford voice lessons, but I would listen to Celine Dion
and I would listen to Idina Menzelle and I would
listen to Linda Edar and I would just try and
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copy them. So those were my I I like to
call them my original voice teachers. But I eventually got
in voice lessons, and I started singing in you know,
malls around the city, and I remember like my parents
were like, okay, maybe performing, maybe performing is a thing.
So when I got picked up from a summer camp,
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I believe it was seventh grade, my mom brought a
newspaper clipping for a local production of Annie Junior that
was happening, and she was like, you don't have to,
but do you want to audition this something that you
would maybe want to do. And I was like sure, sure, sure.
I didn't know anything about musicals, and I auditioned with
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the song flash Dance? Well, sorry, what is this feeling
from flash Dance? So not even remotely in the world.
I didn't know that you had to like choose a
song that related to the show you were auditioning for. Yeah,
so I just sang a song that I loved and
then that was that was it. I did Annie Junior.
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Then I did a lot of Shakespeare. Then I did
just like musical after musical, play after play, and I
just you couldn't stop me. So I went to college.
I went to Baldwyn Wallace in Ohio, and then moved
straight to the city and here we are. It's a
it's been a long, long road, but a very very
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rewarding and ye and fraught with many self with much
self doubt.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
But right absolutely. I mean the think people when they think,
you know, musical theater. Of course, you know, physically and
vocally demanding, especially with a role like Alphaba, but I
can imagine it's also mentally and emotionally taxing as well,
especially just musical theater being a part of it in general.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean music theater and theater live
performance in general, where you're kind of like asking other
people to say yes to you in order for you
to do what you love doing. That's just when you're
putting your you know, for lack of a better word,
your fate in other people's hands, to say yes, you may,
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you may do this. There's always you know, you deal
with We talk about rejection in this business all the time.
You hear way more nos than you hear yess. I mean.
But also I do think that in my case, what
has made this you know, quote unquote when so worth
it and I carry it with such with such a
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heavy and I mean heavy in a good way, responsibility
has been all of the times I've heard no, all
of the times where I you know, I've auditioned for
Wicked many times and they've all been knows. So doing
it this time around has been has been really really
really rewarding. And it found me at the right time
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in my life. I even even if I would have
booked it earlier, it just I wouldn't be I wouldn't
have been the alphabet that I am now. And I'm
really glad it happened when it happened.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yes, it all is timing. It all happens when it's
supposed to happen. And yeah, and you've gone from, of course,
the alphabet standby to principal Alphaba on Broadway. Can you
walk me through that moment when you received that call
that you would be the new full time Alphabet. What
was going through your mind?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, what's crazy is it's kind of a bittersweet story. Actually.
So last year in May, I lost my father quite suddenly,
and so that was just, you know, I was doing
another show at the time. It was truly obviously devastating,
and I felt I felt lifted up and I felt
so supported. So I was very, very lucky in my environment.
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He wasn't my husband at the time, but my boyfriend
at the time, who is now my husband, was amazing,
absolutely so amazing. I found out about my father, and
so we you know, we had planned and I and
I knew that I was going to be the stand
by while I was doing this other show, and so
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I ended up calling my stage manager for Wicked, which
was my stage manager when I was in Sex on Broadway,
and so and so I got to talk to her
and I was able to tell her what was going
on and that I needed to start rehearsals a week
later than initially planned. So I know that I'm going
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back further than full time Alpha BA, but it all
ties in it. We had set my father's celebration of
life ceremony and that was actually the day that I mean,
we didn't plan it this way. It was after the
fact that I realized that it was this way. Was
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the day that they announced my stand By casting. Wow,
so very full circle there, and then get this, I
do stand By. It's been amazing. In November, on November eighteenth,
I got the call from my agent, which was the
sixth month anniversary of my father's passing to the day
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that I that I got that call, and so yes,
I was so excited. It was obviously what I was
hoping was going to happen, sure, and you know, kind
of what was you know, rumored, but you nothing is
ever certain, Nothing is ever certain in this industry, and
so I just truly didn't know. I like, it will
be a done deal when I get the call, when
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I have the offer, and so of course when that
offer came in on that particular day, it was just
so meaningful to me. Yeah, it felt like like, let
me find the right word, it felt it felt like
a blessing in more ways, than one. It felt like yes,
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go be alpha the yes. But also it also felt
like yes from my father, like you're moving on, You're
moving on beautifully. Continue.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And you know, it sucks a little because he never
got to see me in the show, but I know
that he did, you know, in the in the grander
scheme of what happens after we leave this earth. You know,
I believe, I do deeply believe he's seen me in
the show. So extremely meaningful that day and I think
about it often.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
It was definitely meant it was meant to be that way.
And you know what's so interesting is I'm glad that
you shared that story because my husband, he's a music artist,
and he lost his he lost his both of his
parents suddenly.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Oh gosh, yes, yes it was.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
It was a horrible, horrible time. And of course, you know,
just like your husband, you know, you're you're always there.
You're trying to support your spouse, you know, and you know,
he he finally had the chance to perform at the
Grand Oltpry House in Nashville, which his dad always wanted.
Yet his dad always wanted him to perform on that stage.
You know, his parents, and you know, at that moment
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he said the same thing. He's like, I really feel
like my parents are here, they're just proud, and yeah,
it's it's just it's a beautiful thing, but bitter and
so like.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's like such a such a huge moment for your
career and and like how you kind of see yourself
as you know, a success. We always use that word
very in quotations because it's always such a it's such
a it'sive thing as well. Yeah, it's also a reminder
those those moments where you're like, oh, here's you know,
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a thing and the tangible, my tangible version of reality.
My my loved one is not here to experience it.
But like I would be, I would be so so
egotistical to think that I knew what happened after people
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pass on from this physical world. Right, So I I
do believe. I do believe that my dad has seen
me perform Wicked nearly every show.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yes, I believe so absolutely. I'm the same way as you,
you know, in my in my thought process, and you
you were just doing such a phenomenal job. I've seen
so many reviews, so many incredible comments, and people just
absolutely love your take as Alphaba and I wanted to ask,
you know, has your approach to playing Alphaba kind of
evolved since the very first time is a standby to
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to now?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Absolutely absolutely, I think there was a point. I mean,
as a standby, it's a very different job than full
time because you kind of are until you get several
in a row, you don't really know what it's like
to play Alphabet. And I mean that in a very
optimistic way. You're finding your sea legs, You're you're kind
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of remembering all of your lines, You're remembering all of
your words, You're remembering where you're supposed to be, where
you're definitely not supposed to be, because in Wicked there
are many places that you should not be during during
the sea. Yes, so you're it's kind of survival mode
and that is extraordinarily riveting when it's happening. It's also terrifying.
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But if you can embrace how terrifying it is and
really just focus on the fact that you were doing
something that is impossible, it's impossible. Yeah, you become very
very proud of yourself in a way that you know
otherwise otherwise you just wouldn't you wouldn't know anything about
you know, coming face to face with that fear, so
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standby was always kind of adrenaline induced. I never really
felt like like I was bringing myself to it. I
felt like I was just really trying to, you know,
prove that they gave they gave me the job for
a reason, you know.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
And then.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Now that I'm Alpha, but it is similar. I still
want to make the people proud. I still want to
make you know, casting and the creatives and and everyone
that's believed in me throughout this process proud. Of course
I do. But I realized that the way that I
will make them proud is by letting myself, you know,
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off the hook to a certain degree. Right, I would never, ever,
in a million years show up to that theater and
give anything less than one of what I have that day.
I don't think that I'm capable of it, and I
don't really want to be capable. I love the challenge
of playing this role that is so you know, hot, tempered, passionate, messy,
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full of love that that she's discovering as it's happening. Pure,
She's so pure. And I think that the Alpha, by
I believe is the best and worst of the world,
the best and the worst of me is Carrie. I
definitely do have have a temper when I believe in
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something deeply.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yes, I hear you saying, and I.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Definitely am very emotional, very hot and cold. But the
reason that she is all of these things is a
reaction to how much she deeply cares about agency and
advocacy and truth and honesty, because I do think that
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truth and honesty are are different things, and I think
that she fights for both of them. I think the truth,
I think truth is a nebulous thing that we're not
exactly sure even what it is, because one person's truth
is not another person's truth, so really what it's truth.
Honesty is absolutely to each their own. Like whatever whatever
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I show up with on that stage, I don't believe
that the audience doesn't see. So I take it very
seriously when I step on that stage, and I if
I'm exhausted, They're gonna see me be exhausted, and I'm
gonna make it work. I'm gonna make it work, and
I'm gonna give them absolutely everything that I have within
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how exhausted.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I come, for sure the stage. That's what I love.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You really do try, I really really do try, because
I I don't know. I think it comes down to it.
I I get kind of called woo wu a lot,
But I do think it comes down to a belief system.
And mine is probably not very fair to myself my
belief system, but I do believe it's all I have.
I I can't do anything less. I really Sometimes when
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I'm like, you know, on my period, or when I
am I've done nine shows in a row without a
day off, or when you know, all of the life
things that happen outside of that show, I think people
forget that, Like, yes, we are living our dream on
that stage, yep, but we also have a life off
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of that stage that is just as tumultuous, that is
just as dynamic and complex as anyone else in this world.
And showing up to do that, to be so emotionally
raw eight times a week, yeah, requires a level of
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resiliency that not just in myself but in every single
Broadway performer that does that. Oh yeah, it requires a
level of tenacity and resiliency that I think is very
often overlooked because we are constantly talking about how it
was our dream to be there, right, And that is true,
that is so true, But that does not mean that
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sometimes we wish we didn't have to go to work,
you know, right, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That's the thing is you're human, you know what I mean.
At the end of the day, you know, when we're
sitting there watching it, you know, in theater, we're like, wow,
you know that you know that person, they look like
they have it all together. You kind of get lost
in you know, Hey, that's that's all.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I mean, partially, that's our job too, is to make
me believe that.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Right, But at the end of the day, you know,
you may not be feeling so good. You may be
going through you know, something behind the scenes. I mean,
you know at the end of the day that's kind
of you. It's so hard to work through. I just
don't know how you do it, you.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Know, honestly me either. But I'm so grateful because I
definitely a I know that I couldn't do it by myself.
You a great team possible way, yes, oh, my husband,
my cast, my entire green team, yes, my my stage management,
my company management. Like I feel so encouraged and so
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supported my friends that have kind of like so graciously
allowed me to go m I a so like not
hear from me, and then all of a sudden, I'll
wish them happy birthday and I'll be like, I'm so sorry,
I haven't reached down there. Girl, you're playing alpha though.
You're fine.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Listen, you got a lot on your play right now.
That is so funny. You need those friends out there
that like understand you know what I mean, and if you're.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
True, you really really do.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Especially in this business. Yeah, for sure. And it's just
it's so important to have those grounded moments where you you,
you know, have a great team behind you off off
stage as well, you know, like family husband. I mean,
you need that to kind of remind you, hey, you
know what you need to sometimes have your normal sea
but then also on stage kick major boutet, you know
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what I mean?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, yes, my mom My mom still texts me before
every single show, two times on two show days. She
always sends me break legs, some version of like break legs,
shugy and then like green and red hearts. It's very sweet.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Cute, that's so sweet. You need that. See, moms are
the best in that way. I'm telling you, Yes, I
love it. And then I wanted to also ask you,
you know what does for someone who may not be
you know in the know of Broadway how that works.
What does your typical day look like on show days?
Because of course you have to do the makeup, you
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have to of course get there, you got There's so
much to prepare, right, how does that work for you?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I mean, honestly, if you would have asked me at
the first part of my contract several podcasts did and
several interviews did. It looks very different now than it
did even then. Yeah. I think when I was starting out,
I was being so thorough, which I wouldn't I wouldn't
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go back and change it for anything, But I definitely
have found a bit more of a balance now, prioritizing
more as opposed to like ritualistic things. Yeah, I'm prioritizing
now listening to my body more and allowing myself to
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steam when I feel like I need to steam, and
to allow myself to go to bed earlier when I
don't feel like I need to steam, you know, right. So,
typically on a one show day, I will my sweet husband.
He normally wakes up about an hour hour and a
half before I do. He goes about his morning. I
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wake up, I go, I bring my dog to wherever
he is in the park that's not too far from
our house. Yes, and we have a coffee together now
that the weather's nice. That's kind of what we do
is as a morning. This morning, we actually rescued a
caterpillar and gave it a home inside of our apartment
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so it could turn into a butterfly and piece amazing.
That obviously doesn't happen every day, but today it's a
good day.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
It's already a good day.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And so then we'll typically work out together, have breakfast,
to have lunch, some sort of meal, and then around
three three point thirty, I will start getting all of
my stuff ready to go to the theater for a
seven o'clock show. I tend to try and leave around
three hours. This is kind of my new ritual that
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I do that I find to be really effective for me.
I go to the theater around three a leave for
the theater around three hours prior to the show. That way,
I can get to the theater, I can make sure
my nails aren't chipped, I can I can get all
of my liquids in order for the show. I can
get my uh like dressing room set up. That way,
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everything is you know, zen and peaceful as much as possible,
and then I will go upstairs in our rehearsal studio.
We have a treadmill, and so I will go up
and I'll go on the treadmill and I will start
warming up while I'm jogging, just to get my body moving,
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getting get things jiggled out, get you, get myself out
of my head, and just get my voice moving, get
everything everything lubricated, you know what I mean. And then
then I'll head back. I'll head back downstairs, grab my
little bag of like theater stuff because I go to
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the theater. After that, I go to the to the
actual house of the theater. Yeah, this is actually new.
I've started doing this for the last month.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I just go sit in the theater, I sit in
the house. I sing a little bit in the house,
just to kind of hear what my voice sounds like
in the actual space, because, believe it or not, it
sounds drastically different on stage than it does in the house. Yeah,
I mean, we the way that our sound system is
set up is that we don't have any vocal monitors
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on stage for us at all. Oh okay, so the
only sound that we hear of our own voice is
what bounces off of the house.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, it's a fun fact because it's actually very very
very difficult to hear.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, that's yeah, and so that's.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Been something that I've been learning how to navigate. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
So I just I like to get my expectations set
based on the humidity in the house, based on how
my own sinuses are feeling, and then most.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Journal in the house for a little bit, and I'll
head back to my dressing room and get my my
underlayers on, get my foundation on, and then get ready
to be painted. Ring. Yeah, it's it's a pretty big
pocket of time, but it's jam packed with oh a
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lot of things that I feel, for the time being
are really setting me up to do the show. And
then that is just kind of expedited. On a two
show day, I pretty much do exactly the same thing,
but just and I'm much tighter here.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Oh my goodness. Like I love how I love how
you prepare, but also you take care of yourself, you know,
like what you said earlier, You listen to your body,
and I think more of us need to do that anyway,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'm really trying. It's it's hard in the in the industry,
doesn't really set your set yourself up. It doesn't set
you up very well for that. But I think when
you when you really start prioritizing that, it really does
it changes everything.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
No, yes, it does, it really does. And I just
I hope everyone who is able to go out and
make sure you see Wicked with this fabulous lady right here,
Carrie Renee Fuller. And you have just such an incredible,
incredible cast. I mean, Emma Flynn is your Glinda, carl
Mans Fear the UK, Yes, from the UK, and it's
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just such an incredible, incredible crew. So make sure you
go and support. And I have some fun questions for
you from fans if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oh my gosh, I would love that. I would love
hurt so much. Perfect.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
It's perfect. So I put it out there once I
knew that we were gonna record this interview today. I
put it out there on Facebook and social media so
fans would be able to ask some questions. So I
have a few here for you because I couldn't get
to everybody. I'm sorry, guys, but you did get a
lot exciting.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Kristin Morgenstern asks how do you get your voice in
tip top shape for eight shows a week?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Honestly allowing my warm up. And this is something I've
also learned with this contract as well, So full disclosure,
I haven't fully figured it out yet, but I am
working on it. So allowing my warm up to be
a warm up, allowing myself to when I start warming up,
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not forcing myself to be ready for the show immediately.
The voice is made up of a lot of different
intricate oh yeah things, oh yeah, oh yeah, and it
just like our body if you're If you to use
the metaphor that my husband uses when he's helping me
warm up, you don't immediately wake up, get out of
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bed and drop into the splits. So you want to
allow your vocal warm up to truly be a warm up.
And sometimes that means that you warm up for fifteen minutes,
you're still not where you want to be. You let
it rest for a second, give yourself ten minutes to
just go about your morning, come back to it, allow
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the musculator to reset, to wake up, and then you'll
stretch it even further, and you'll stretch it even further,
and then eventually you're ready for the show. And so
that's what I mean when I say that I'm still
figuring it out because I still don't know how long
that takes for me. And I've and I've been doing
the show. I'm about to wrap up my fourth month.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
My goodness, time flies.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
That's a never ending journey, my friend.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yes, great question. Great question. Hannah's summer on Facebook here
says do you pull a Jessica Boss? When she said
that she slid slides down the stairs backstage, I'm thinking
she's talking about four you have to come out for
no good deed. You have to go down.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
There are some very very steep stairs that we have
to go down. I do not slide down the stairs
because I do not find myself to be coordinated enough
to do that. I grab my skirt. I just go
down those stairs as fast as I possibly can. Yeah,
and I pray that I do not trip and fall,
which has almost happened a couple times, but luckily knock
on wood has not happened so far.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Naga would absolutely absolutely all the different alphaba's. It's so funny.
Have said, you know about that kind of run up
before you know fero, you know, and it's yes, and
everybody does a different ways. Jessica Vosk slides down on
some people have done all sorts of different ways. But
that's a good question, Hannah. Let's see here. Marvilla Marsin says,
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besides Alphaba, of course, what other would be a dream
role of yours. Wow, that's tough.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
And it's tough because, like right now, I'm in the
mindset of the next thing I want to do. Yeah,
I want to maybe sing a little less. I think
that there would be a little more work life balance.
But I you know, I'm just gonna say the first thing.
I'm not going to say that this absolutely beats out
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every single other thing that I would like to do.
But right now, the first thing that comes to mind,
because I would love to do a play. I would
love to play Diana in stereophonic, which also has music
in it, so that is as a play that currently exists,
that's out there in the world. I would love. I
would love to do that one. But but dream dream,
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I would love to originate something again, I truly I would.
I would be beyond honored to be the first person
to do a production of something.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yes, that would be amazing. Oh my goodness, I could
see it. I could see it happening. I'm telling you
another thing question here, which is a really good one,
Carmen Tibbett. I hope I'm saying that right. Sorry. So,
just as month you ran your very first half marathon,
I would love to do something like that. What was
that experience like and how did you prepare?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Oh my gosh, that was That's a very good question
because it was so fun and something that I wasn't
entirely sure that I was going to actually be able
to do. So when I was preparing for the half,
I started training while I was still stand by. When
I say training, I began prioritizing running more consistently. I
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wasn't on a program yet. So when I actually decided,
you know what, I think that based on what I've
run so far, I do believe that I could run
a half marathon. I would spend like. I wouldn't do
it on two show days. I wouldn't run on two
show days as full time alpha bah. But but I did.
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I did really start taking my long runs seriously on
like the Tuesdays, Thursdays or Fridays where I only had
one show. Yeah, it was I'm not gonna lie and
say it was easy. It was definitely hard to get
myself out and train because I was just so tired
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from doing the show. But when I ran the actual half,
I had two shows afterwards, and I was like, I
have no idea. I didn't set any expectation that I
was going to do both of them or even one
of them. I was like, I'm just going to see
how amazing the human body is and see what it's
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capable of, and I'm going to listen to it whatever
it tells me to do. I was very lucky and
I ended up running my half marathon in very good time,
no injuries, and then I was I was able to
do both shows that day and then the single show
the following day, the single show Matinee.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
That's incredible.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
It was definitely, it was definitely. I guarantee you. I
was running on a lot of adrenaline because I was
just so chuffed that I had done it. He was like,
this is wild. So yeah, that's how I it's somehow,
my friend, how I did it. I can't really tell
you how how I.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Managed, but you got it done.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
The marathon gods are on my side, I say, do it.
You never know how you're gonna handle a half marathon
or a marathon until you do it.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You never know. Listen, you can even surprise yourself. So Carmen,
I say, do it, do it, do it. Yes, you
may learn something new about yourself too, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I definitely will. Yeah, have a lot of time to
think when you're running those thirteen.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Some odd miles exactly, exactly. Oh, my goodness, I love it,
And thank you so much for taking all this time
to chat with me. I really appreciate it, and have
a great show tonight.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, my gosh, of course, thank you so much for
having me. It was really really nice chatting with you.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Oh, it was so nice chatting with you. It was
really an honor and I'd love to have you on anytime.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Okay, that would be great. You just let me know when.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Thank you all so much for tuning into the Josie
Show today, and a big special thank you to Carrie
Renee Fuller for joining me. It was such a pleasure
getting the opportunity to chat with her and get to
know her better. And my next show is July tenth.
Our special guest is Juman Wong from Anne and Juliet
on Broadway. We're going to talk about that along with
his new book that's out, so we are very very
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excited to welcome him to the show and make sure
you stay tuned to josishow dot com or wherever you
listen to the Josie Show because we have so many
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Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Josie Show. I'm Josie
Pasentino Boone and we have a very exciting show for
all of you. Today. We have special guest Carrie Renee Fuller,
who is currently playing Alphaba in Wicked on Broadway. So
we're going to talk about that and so much more.
So stay tuned to the whole show. You will not
want to miss a second of this interview. All right,
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let's just jump right in it. Here is Carrie Renee Fuller.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Hello, Hi, Josie, how are you. Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I'm doing wonderful. How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh? I'm so good. It's a beautiful day to day.
So I'm so happy to be outside talking to you.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yes, oh, I'm so glad, And I've been really looking
forward to talking to you because you are incredible, my friend.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I need to start there.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I think you You're welcome. I have to give you your
flowers because your performance of No Good Deed on Broadway
dot Com was mind blowing, Like you did that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh, thank you. It's my it is It is my
favorite song to sing in the show. So I was very,
very fortunate that they that they allowed me to sing
that song because normally, you know, out of context, yeah,
that song can be kind of you know, uh, it's my.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Niche right, Yeah, for sure, it was. It was just amazing.
And you know, before we really dive in a little
bit more on you playing Alphabat on Broadway, I love
to hear kind of about how your journey into musical
theater first began.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So I've been singing my whole life. It's something that
I've always just naturally loved doing. We I was raised
in Oklahoma, so there was you know, my parents didn't
really know what to do with me. I was always
singing in church choir. I was always singing in school choir.
I was always singing somewhere, but they didn't really as
far as you know, how to set me up for
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a possible career. They had no idea, bless them what
they were doing. And so I eventually got into voice lessons,
and I mean I for the longest time we couldn't
afford voice lessons, but I would listen to Celine Dion
and I would listen to Idina Menzelle and I would
listen to Linda Edar and I would just try and
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copy them. So those were my I I like to
call them my original voice teachers. But I eventually got
in voice lessons, and I started singing in you know,
malls around the city, and I remember like my parents
were like, okay, maybe performing, maybe performing is a thing.
So when I got picked up from a summer camp,
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I believe it was seventh grade, my mom brought a
newspaper clipping for a local production of Annie Junior that
was happening, and she was like, you don't have to,
but do you want to audition this something that you
would maybe want to do. And I was like sure, sure, sure.
I didn't know anything about musicals, and I auditioned with
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the song flash Dance? Well, sorry, what is this feeling
from flash Dance? So not even remotely in the world.
I didn't know that you had to like choose a
song that related to the show you were auditioning for. Yeah,
so I just sang a song that I loved and
then that was that was it. I did Annie Junior.
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Then I did a lot of Shakespeare. Then I did
just like musical after musical, play after play, and I
just you couldn't stop me. So I went to college.
I went to Baldwyn Wallace in Ohio, and then moved
straight to the city and here we are. It's a
it's been a long, long road, but a very very
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rewarding and ye and fraught with many self with much
self doubt.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
But right absolutely. I mean the think people when they think,
you know, musical theater. Of course, you know, physically and
vocally demanding, especially with a role like Alphaba, but I
can imagine it's also mentally and emotionally taxing as well,
especially just musical theater being a part of it in general.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean music theater and theater live
performance in general, where you're kind of like asking other
people to say yes to you in order for you
to do what you love doing. That's just when you're
putting your you know, for lack of a better word,
your fate in other people's hands, to say yes, you may,
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you may do this. There's always you know, you deal
with We talk about rejection in this business all the time.
You hear way more nos than you hear yess. I mean.
But also I do think that in my case, what
has made this you know, quote unquote when so worth
it and I carry it with such with such a
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heavy and I mean heavy in a good way, responsibility
has been all of the times I've heard no, all
of the times where I you know, I've auditioned for
Wicked many times and they've all been knows. So doing
it this time around has been has been really really
really rewarding. And it found me at the right time
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in my life. I even even if I would have
booked it earlier, it just I wouldn't be I wouldn't
have been the alphabet that I am now. And I'm
really glad it happened when it happened.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yes, it all is timing. It all happens when it's
supposed to happen. And yeah, and you've gone from, of course,
the alphabet standby to principal Alphaba on Broadway. Can you
walk me through that moment when you received that call
that you would be the new full time Alphabet. What
was going through your mind?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, what's crazy is it's kind of a bittersweet story. Actually.
So last year in May, I lost my father quite suddenly,
and so that was just, you know, I was doing
another show at the time. It was truly obviously devastating,
and I felt I felt lifted up and I felt
so supported. So I was very, very lucky in my environment.
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He wasn't my husband at the time, but my boyfriend
at the time, who is now my husband, was amazing,
absolutely so amazing. I found out about my father, and
so we you know, we had planned and I and
I knew that I was going to be the stand
by while I was doing this other show, and so
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I ended up calling my stage manager for Wicked, which
was my stage manager when I was in Sex on Broadway,
and so and so I got to talk to her
and I was able to tell her what was going
on and that I needed to start rehearsals a week
later than initially planned. So I know that I'm going
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back further than full time Alpha BA, but it all
ties in it. We had set my father's celebration of
life ceremony and that was actually the day that I mean,
we didn't plan it this way. It was after the
fact that I realized that it was this way. Was
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the day that they announced my stand By casting. Wow,
so very full circle there, and then get this, I
do stand By. It's been amazing. In November, on November eighteenth,
I got the call from my agent, which was the
sixth month anniversary of my father's passing to the day
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that I that I got that call, and so yes,
I was so excited. It was obviously what I was
hoping was going to happen, sure, and you know, kind
of what was you know, rumored, but you nothing is
ever certain, Nothing is ever certain in this industry, and
so I just truly didn't know. I like, it will
be a done deal when I get the call, when
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I have the offer, and so of course when that
offer came in on that particular day, it was just
so meaningful to me. Yeah, it felt like like, let
me find the right word, it felt it felt like
a blessing in more ways, than one. It felt like yes,
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go be alpha the yes. But also it also felt
like yes from my father, like you're moving on, You're
moving on beautifully. Continue.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And you know, it sucks a little because he never
got to see me in the show, but I know
that he did, you know, in the in the grander
scheme of what happens after we leave this earth. You know,
I believe, I do deeply believe he's seen me in
the show. So extremely meaningful that day and I think
about it often.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
It was definitely meant it was meant to be that way.
And you know what's so interesting is I'm glad that
you shared that story because my husband, he's a music artist,
and he lost his he lost his both of his
parents suddenly.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Oh gosh, yes, yes it was.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
It was a horrible, horrible time. And of course, you know,
just like your husband, you know, you're you're always there.
You're trying to support your spouse, you know, and you know,
he he finally had the chance to perform at the
Grand Oltpry House in Nashville, which his dad always wanted.
Yet his dad always wanted him to perform on that stage.
You know, his parents, and you know, at that moment
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he said the same thing. He's like, I really feel
like my parents are here, they're just proud, and yeah,
it's it's just it's a beautiful thing, but bitter and
so like.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's like such a such a huge moment for your
career and and like how you kind of see yourself
as you know, a success. We always use that word
very in quotations because it's always such a it's such
a it'sive thing as well. Yeah, it's also a reminder
those those moments where you're like, oh, here's you know,
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a thing and the tangible, my tangible version of reality.
My my loved one is not here to experience it.
But like I would be, I would be so so
egotistical to think that I knew what happened after people
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pass on from this physical world. Right, So I I
do believe. I do believe that my dad has seen
me perform Wicked nearly every show.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yes, I believe so absolutely. I'm the same way as you,
you know, in my in my thought process, and you
you were just doing such a phenomenal job. I've seen
so many reviews, so many incredible comments, and people just
absolutely love your take as Alphaba and I wanted to ask,
you know, has your approach to playing Alphaba kind of
evolved since the very first time is a standby to
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to now?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Absolutely absolutely, I think there was a point. I mean,
as a standby, it's a very different job than full
time because you kind of are until you get several
in a row, you don't really know what it's like
to play Alphabet. And I mean that in a very
optimistic way. You're finding your sea legs, You're you're kind
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of remembering all of your lines, You're remembering all of
your words, You're remembering where you're supposed to be, where
you're definitely not supposed to be, because in Wicked there
are many places that you should not be during during
the sea. Yes, so you're it's kind of survival mode
and that is extraordinarily riveting when it's happening. It's also terrifying.
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But if you can embrace how terrifying it is and
really just focus on the fact that you were doing
something that is impossible, it's impossible. Yeah, you become very
very proud of yourself in a way that you know
otherwise otherwise you just wouldn't you wouldn't know anything about
you know, coming face to face with that fear, so
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standby was always kind of adrenaline induced. I never really
felt like like I was bringing myself to it. I
felt like I was just really trying to, you know,
prove that they gave they gave me the job for
a reason, you know.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
And then.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Now that I'm Alpha, but it is similar. I still
want to make the people proud. I still want to
make you know, casting and the creatives and and everyone
that's believed in me throughout this process proud. Of course
I do. But I realized that the way that I
will make them proud is by letting myself, you know,
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off the hook to a certain degree. Right, I would never, ever,
in a million years show up to that theater and
give anything less than one of what I have that day.
I don't think that I'm capable of it, and I
don't really want to be capable. I love the challenge
of playing this role that is so you know, hot, tempered, passionate, messy,
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full of love that that she's discovering as it's happening. Pure,
She's so pure. And I think that the Alpha, by
I believe is the best and worst of the world,
the best and the worst of me is Carrie. I
definitely do have have a temper when I believe in
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something deeply.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yes, I hear you saying, and I.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Definitely am very emotional, very hot and cold. But the
reason that she is all of these things is a
reaction to how much she deeply cares about agency and
advocacy and truth and honesty, because I do think that
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truth and honesty are are different things, and I think
that she fights for both of them. I think the truth,
I think truth is a nebulous thing that we're not
exactly sure even what it is, because one person's truth
is not another person's truth, so really what it's truth.
Honesty is absolutely to each their own. Like whatever whatever
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I show up with on that stage, I don't believe
that the audience doesn't see. So I take it very
seriously when I step on that stage, and I if
I'm exhausted, They're gonna see me be exhausted, and I'm
gonna make it work. I'm gonna make it work, and
I'm gonna give them absolutely everything that I have within
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how exhausted.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I come, for sure the stage. That's what I love.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You really do try, I really really do try, because
I I don't know. I think it comes down to it.
I I get kind of called woo wu a lot,
But I do think it comes down to a belief system.
And mine is probably not very fair to myself my
belief system, but I do believe it's all I have.
I I can't do anything less. I really Sometimes when
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I'm like, you know, on my period, or when I
am I've done nine shows in a row without a
day off, or when you know, all of the life
things that happen outside of that show, I think people
forget that, Like, yes, we are living our dream on
that stage, yep, but we also have a life off
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of that stage that is just as tumultuous, that is
just as dynamic and complex as anyone else in this world.
And showing up to do that, to be so emotionally
raw eight times a week, yeah, requires a level of
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resiliency that not just in myself but in every single
Broadway performer that does that. Oh yeah, it requires a
level of tenacity and resiliency that I think is very
often overlooked because we are constantly talking about how it
was our dream to be there, right, And that is true,
that is so true, But that does not mean that
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sometimes we wish we didn't have to go to work,
you know, right, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That's the thing is you're human, you know what I mean.
At the end of the day, you know, when we're
sitting there watching it, you know, in theater, we're like, wow,
you know that you know that person, they look like
they have it all together. You kind of get lost
in you know, Hey, that's that's all.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I mean, partially, that's our job too, is to make
me believe that.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Right, But at the end of the day, you know,
you may not be feeling so good. You may be
going through you know, something behind the scenes. I mean,
you know at the end of the day that's kind
of you. It's so hard to work through. I just
don't know how you do it, you.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Know, honestly me either. But I'm so grateful because I
definitely a I know that I couldn't do it by myself.
You a great team possible way, yes, oh, my husband,
my cast, my entire green team, yes, my my stage management,
my company management. Like I feel so encouraged and so
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supported my friends that have kind of like so graciously
allowed me to go m I a so like not
hear from me, and then all of a sudden, I'll
wish them happy birthday and I'll be like, I'm so sorry,
I haven't reached down there. Girl, you're playing alpha though.
You're fine.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Listen, you got a lot on your play right now.
That is so funny. You need those friends out there
that like understand you know what I mean, and if you're.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
True, you really really do.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Especially in this business. Yeah, for sure. And it's just
it's so important to have those grounded moments where you you,
you know, have a great team behind you off off
stage as well, you know, like family husband. I mean,
you need that to kind of remind you, hey, you
know what you need to sometimes have your normal sea
but then also on stage kick major boutet, you know
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what I mean?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, yes, my mom My mom still texts me before
every single show, two times on two show days. She
always sends me break legs, some version of like break legs,
shugy and then like green and red hearts. It's very sweet.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Cute, that's so sweet. You need that. See, moms are
the best in that way. I'm telling you, Yes, I
love it. And then I wanted to also ask you,
you know what does for someone who may not be
you know in the know of Broadway how that works.
What does your typical day look like on show days?
Because of course you have to do the makeup, you
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have to of course get there, you got There's so
much to prepare, right, how does that work for you?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I mean, honestly, if you would have asked me at
the first part of my contract several podcasts did and
several interviews did. It looks very different now than it
did even then. Yeah. I think when I was starting out,
I was being so thorough, which I wouldn't I wouldn't
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go back and change it for anything, But I definitely
have found a bit more of a balance now, prioritizing
more as opposed to like ritualistic things. Yeah, I'm prioritizing
now listening to my body more and allowing myself to
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steam when I feel like I need to steam, and
to allow myself to go to bed earlier when I
don't feel like I need to steam, you know, right. So,
typically on a one show day, I will my sweet husband.
He normally wakes up about an hour hour and a
half before I do. He goes about his morning. I
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wake up, I go, I bring my dog to wherever
he is in the park that's not too far from
our house. Yes, and we have a coffee together now
that the weather's nice. That's kind of what we do
is as a morning. This morning, we actually rescued a
caterpillar and gave it a home inside of our apartment
(21:23):
so it could turn into a butterfly and piece amazing.
That obviously doesn't happen every day, but today it's a
good day.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
It's already a good day.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And so then we'll typically work out together, have breakfast,
to have lunch, some sort of meal, and then around
three three point thirty, I will start getting all of
my stuff ready to go to the theater for a
seven o'clock show. I tend to try and leave around
three hours. This is kind of my new ritual that
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I do that I find to be really effective for me.
I go to the theater around three a leave for
the theater around three hours prior to the show. That way,
I can get to the theater, I can make sure
my nails aren't chipped, I can I can get all
of my liquids in order for the show. I can
get my uh like dressing room set up. That way,
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everything is you know, zen and peaceful as much as possible,
and then I will go upstairs in our rehearsal studio.
We have a treadmill, and so I will go up
and I'll go on the treadmill and I will start
warming up while I'm jogging, just to get my body moving,
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getting get things jiggled out, get you, get myself out
of my head, and just get my voice moving, get
everything everything lubricated, you know what I mean. And then
then I'll head back. I'll head back downstairs, grab my
little bag of like theater stuff because I go to
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the theater. After that, I go to the to the
actual house of the theater. Yeah, this is actually new.
I've started doing this for the last month.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I just go sit in the theater, I sit in
the house. I sing a little bit in the house,
just to kind of hear what my voice sounds like
in the actual space, because, believe it or not, it
sounds drastically different on stage than it does in the house. Yeah,
I mean, we the way that our sound system is
set up is that we don't have any vocal monitors
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on stage for us at all. Oh okay, so the
only sound that we hear of our own voice is
what bounces off of the house.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, it's a fun fact because it's actually very very
very difficult to hear.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, that's yeah, and so that's.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Been something that I've been learning how to navigate. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
So I just I like to get my expectations set
based on the humidity in the house, based on how
my own sinuses are feeling, and then most.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Journal in the house for a little bit, and I'll
head back to my dressing room and get my my
underlayers on, get my foundation on, and then get ready
to be painted. Ring. Yeah, it's it's a pretty big
pocket of time, but it's jam packed with oh a
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lot of things that I feel, for the time being
are really setting me up to do the show. And
then that is just kind of expedited. On a two
show day, I pretty much do exactly the same thing,
but just and I'm much tighter here.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Oh my goodness. Like I love how I love how
you prepare, but also you take care of yourself, you know,
like what you said earlier, You listen to your body,
and I think more of us need to do that anyway,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'm really trying. It's it's hard in the in the industry,
doesn't really set your set yourself up. It doesn't set
you up very well for that. But I think when
you when you really start prioritizing that, it really does
it changes everything.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
No, yes, it does, it really does. And I just
I hope everyone who is able to go out and
make sure you see Wicked with this fabulous lady right here,
Carrie Renee Fuller. And you have just such an incredible,
incredible cast. I mean, Emma Flynn is your Glinda, carl
Mans Fear the UK, Yes, from the UK, and it's
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just such an incredible, incredible crew. So make sure you
go and support. And I have some fun questions for
you from fans if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oh my gosh, I would love that. I would love
hurt so much. Perfect.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
It's perfect. So I put it out there once I
knew that we were gonna record this interview today. I
put it out there on Facebook and social media so
fans would be able to ask some questions. So I
have a few here for you because I couldn't get
to everybody. I'm sorry, guys, but you did get a
lot exciting.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Kristin Morgenstern asks how do you get your voice in
tip top shape for eight shows a week?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Honestly allowing my warm up. And this is something I've
also learned with this contract as well, So full disclosure,
I haven't fully figured it out yet, but I am
working on it. So allowing my warm up to be
a warm up, allowing myself to when I start warming up,
(26:30):
not forcing myself to be ready for the show immediately.
The voice is made up of a lot of different
intricate oh yeah things, oh yeah, oh yeah, and it
just like our body if you're If you to use
the metaphor that my husband uses when he's helping me
warm up, you don't immediately wake up, get out of
(26:52):
bed and drop into the splits. So you want to
allow your vocal warm up to truly be a warm up.
And sometimes that means that you warm up for fifteen minutes,
you're still not where you want to be. You let
it rest for a second, give yourself ten minutes to
just go about your morning, come back to it, allow
(27:13):
the musculator to reset, to wake up, and then you'll
stretch it even further, and you'll stretch it even further,
and then eventually you're ready for the show. And so
that's what I mean when I say that I'm still
figuring it out because I still don't know how long
that takes for me. And I've and I've been doing
the show. I'm about to wrap up my fourth month.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
My goodness, time flies.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
That's a never ending journey, my friend.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yes, great question. Great question. Hannah's summer on Facebook here
says do you pull a Jessica Boss? When she said
that she slid slides down the stairs backstage, I'm thinking
she's talking about four you have to come out for
no good deed. You have to go down.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
There are some very very steep stairs that we have
to go down. I do not slide down the stairs
because I do not find myself to be coordinated enough
to do that. I grab my skirt. I just go
down those stairs as fast as I possibly can. Yeah,
and I pray that I do not trip and fall,
which has almost happened a couple times, but luckily knock
on wood has not happened so far.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Naga would absolutely absolutely all the different alphaba's. It's so funny.
Have said, you know about that kind of run up
before you know fero, you know, and it's yes, and
everybody does a different ways. Jessica Vosk slides down on
some people have done all sorts of different ways. But
that's a good question, Hannah. Let's see here. Marvilla Marsin says,
(28:35):
besides Alphaba, of course, what other would be a dream
role of yours. Wow, that's tough.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
And it's tough because, like right now, I'm in the
mindset of the next thing I want to do. Yeah,
I want to maybe sing a little less. I think
that there would be a little more work life balance.
But I you know, I'm just gonna say the first thing.
I'm not going to say that this absolutely beats out
(29:02):
every single other thing that I would like to do.
But right now, the first thing that comes to mind,
because I would love to do a play. I would
love to play Diana in stereophonic, which also has music
in it, so that is as a play that currently exists,
that's out there in the world. I would love. I
would love to do that one. But but dream dream,
(29:23):
I would love to originate something again, I truly I would.
I would be beyond honored to be the first person
to do a production of something.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yes, that would be amazing. Oh my goodness, I could
see it. I could see it happening. I'm telling you
another thing question here, which is a really good one,
Carmen Tibbett. I hope I'm saying that right. Sorry. So,
just as month you ran your very first half marathon,
I would love to do something like that. What was
that experience like and how did you prepare?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Oh my gosh, that was That's a very good question
because it was so fun and something that I wasn't
entirely sure that I was going to actually be able
to do. So when I was preparing for the half,
I started training while I was still stand by. When
I say training, I began prioritizing running more consistently. I
(30:14):
wasn't on a program yet. So when I actually decided,
you know what, I think that based on what I've
run so far, I do believe that I could run
a half marathon. I would spend like. I wouldn't do
it on two show days. I wouldn't run on two
show days as full time alpha bah. But but I did.
(30:36):
I did really start taking my long runs seriously on
like the Tuesdays, Thursdays or Fridays where I only had
one show. Yeah, it was I'm not gonna lie and
say it was easy. It was definitely hard to get
myself out and train because I was just so tired
(30:56):
from doing the show. But when I ran the actual half,
I had two shows afterwards, and I was like, I
have no idea. I didn't set any expectation that I
was going to do both of them or even one
of them. I was like, I'm just going to see
how amazing the human body is and see what it's
(31:18):
capable of, and I'm going to listen to it whatever
it tells me to do. I was very lucky and
I ended up running my half marathon in very good time,
no injuries, and then I was I was able to
do both shows that day and then the single show
the following day, the single show Matinee.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
That's incredible.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
It was definitely, it was definitely. I guarantee you. I
was running on a lot of adrenaline because I was
just so chuffed that I had done it. He was like,
this is wild. So yeah, that's how I it's somehow,
my friend, how I did it. I can't really tell
you how how I.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Managed, but you got it done.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
The marathon gods are on my side, I say, do it.
You never know how you're gonna handle a half marathon
or a marathon until you do it.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You never know. Listen, you can even surprise yourself. So Carmen,
I say, do it, do it, do it. Yes, you
may learn something new about yourself too, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I definitely will. Yeah, have a lot of time to
think when you're running those thirteen.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Some odd miles exactly, exactly. Oh, my goodness, I love it,
And thank you so much for taking all this time
to chat with me. I really appreciate it, and have
a great show tonight.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, my gosh, of course, thank you so much for
having me. It was really really nice chatting with you.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Oh, it was so nice chatting with you. It was
really an honor and I'd love to have you on anytime.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Okay, that would be great. You just let me know when.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Thank you all so much for tuning into the Josie
Show today, and a big special thank you to Carrie
Renee Fuller for joining me. It was such a pleasure
getting the opportunity to chat with her and get to
know her better. And my next show is July tenth.
Our special guest is Juman Wong from Anne and Juliet
on Broadway. We're going to talk about that along with
his new book that's out, so we are very very
(33:05):
excited to welcome him to the show and make sure
you stay tuned to josishow dot com or wherever you
listen to the Josie Show because we have so many
more great guests joining me and we will see y'all
next time. Bye bye,
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