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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Broadcasting live from the Josey Network Studios in downtown Madonna, Tennessee.

(00:37):
It's that time of week again. It's time for the
Josie Shoe, bringing you the most exciting music, moves and
guests from around the world right here on the Jersey Show.
Please make Walking beautiful. It's Hannity, Hello, Brady America's Riddy

(01:02):
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Speaker 2 (01:11):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Josie Show. I'm Josie
Pasentino Boone and I have an exciting interview for you all.
She was on Broadway, she worked at Disney, and so
much more. We're going to talk about all of that
and her new album Stages. So we are super super
thrilled to welcome Rachel Potter to the show. Hey Rachel, Hello, Hi,

(01:32):
Thank you so much for joining me.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
How are you.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Oh, I'm doing well, just having a little day off
with my two youngest kiddos, running to Costco and Target.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
You know, urban mom.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Life, absolutely human things. You're juggling at all.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
You really are.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I've been really looking forward to talking to you because
I really love your album Stages, which blends Broadway and
symphonic arrangements in such a beautiful, beautiful way. So for listeners,
for our listeners here at the Josie Show who are
just maybe just now discovering this album, can you tell
us a little bit about what they can expect with
this album and some of the songs that they'll find.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yes, this was like truly my love letter to Broadway
and my time with symphonies. I've been singing with orchestras
all over the country for the past gosh since twenty fourteen,
so twelve years, and I just came to love that
medium so much. It's such a special experience. And of
course I dedicated most of my career to Broadway and

(02:28):
musical theater genre. So this was something I really just
wanted to do that I thought would be really fun
and get to kind of just like get back in
touch with that side of myself and get a chance
to collaborate with some amazing artists. So really, what you'll
find on there are some really unique arrangements like full
lush Symphony orchestrations, and then some really fantastic elaborators friends

(02:52):
of mine from you know, the many decades that I've
been in the musical theater world and the world of Disney,
you know, being able to to bring them into the
fold and get to work with them, and it's just
been It was a blast.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh, I'm sure it was.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
And was it difficult picking and choosing what made the
final album.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Some of them were very obvious to me right away, like,
for example, the part of Your World Disneyland mashup. That
was something that I had written with a friend of
mine named Chris Brent Davis, who was collaborator on a
lot of this that we had done a show and
we wrote a couple of mashups, and I knew I
wanted to do that because the way that I started
in musical theater was that I my very first job

(03:33):
at Disney World when I got hired as the Mermaid,
and so that was where I got my egg toy
cart and where I learned that I really loved musical
theater because previous to that, I was in the recording
arts world, like as a teenager, it kind of started
writing songs and I had a record deal, like really
early on in the Christian industry. And I did chorus

(03:53):
in school, but I was never involved in theater. And
it's so funny because it is, of course exactly where
I fit.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's like a puzzle piece I was just waiting to find.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
But then once I got into it, you know, at
Disney World, that was that was that I was hooked.
So you know, from there on that was like just
such a big part of my life. My time at
Disney and all the people that I met there, my
friendships that I made there, Like that was truly like
my college experience, Like Disney was my sorority, yeah for sure.

(04:23):
So yeah, so super important. And then I had another
another arrangement. I had written the Lame is Or medley
that I did with Natalie Weiss, which was on my
own I dreamed a dream. I mean, I had written
that like seven years ago and just was sitting on
it and waiting to do something with it. So you know,
some of them were just like very obvious, but there

(04:43):
were others where I really just spent a ton of
time researching and listening and you know, hours and hours
of just I made playlists on Stop Guy, and all
this time you know, listening to songs, and then it
was funny, like one night I was listening to Come
What May from Lulan Rouge and I was like, god,
I love this song so much, but it just feels
kind of boring and done and as just as it's

(05:07):
as it stands just as a duet, and I was like,
that's not really very exciting. But then I was listening
to the I Love You song from Spelling Be the Musical.
I was like, God, I love this song so much,
but it's that would be like a very weird choice
to just put this the I Love You song by
itself on the album.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
But my favorite part is that bridge.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
So it's almost like this fever dream idea that I
had of like maybe I could mash this up and
to Come What May, And I kept working on it,
and I kept like working because that's actually that's something
I love to do, is mash ups love them.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
So that that's something that I love, love love.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
And so like years ago, I had done a mashup
of Lover by Taylor Swift and You Matter to Me
from Waitress that I did with my friend Marty Thomas,
and so you know, that was that one was also
sort of a fever dream. I was like, wait, this works,
So it was kind of this like epiphany moment, and
I took it to my producer and that ended up

(06:04):
being one of my most favorite songs on the album.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
And when people hear it.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Like live, there's such a very like visceral reaction because
people love the I Love You song. So it was like,
it's so fun to watch people like, especially like deep
musical theater nerds like go oh, I like, I feel
like such a rock star when people like freak out
about your musical theater arrangement exactly, but it's so fun,

(06:29):
So I mean and and those are so that one
in particularly I did with Marty Thomas and Omar Cardona,
who are old old friends of mine but happened to
be two of the greatest singers ever. So it was
just honestly, like the whole project was just a blast
because I got to hang out with my friends and
make music and make music videos and like it was

(06:50):
this was truly like something I just wanted to do
for me and my spirit and my heart. And what
has been wonderful is that people also connected to it
and loved it, So that's been really fun.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
So beautifully, don And I love when you can match
up two songs then maybe not necessarily you would think
would go together, but then when you put them together,
it's just magical. Speaking of you know, your your music,
you mentioned wonderful music videos. You have a lot of
really great videos on your YouTube channel, Rachel Potter with
like your Matilda Medley with Bactive, Waitress Medley, for Good
with Christine Dwyer, so much more.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
What's it been like, you.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Know, that experience filming these videos.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, just so much fun. I found this really really
great video.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Filmmaker in Nashville named Joey Schrader, and he's you know,
really young, and he's gen z, so he like keeps
me cool, you know, very important because I'm an I'm
an elder millennial, so I don't really know what I'm
doing when it comes to trends and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
And so it's been really fun to dream.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Up ideas with him and just get to like live
out these little musical theater dreams that I have with
my friends. So in every case, you know, like for example,
like Waitress was so fun. I brought all three of
my kids in on that one. Yeah, and we found
this really neat little like set in Nashville and just
basically like, well, if they won't cast me as Jenna,

(08:14):
then I'll just go ahead and cast myself as Jenna
and pretend I'm in waitress for my face exactly.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
That's what I'm saying. And you did a beautiful job.
By the way, I'm my ad. You're very welcome, And
what I love about you is, of course you are
really big. I'm singing with symphony orchestras all across the
Country's it? What's it that you love the most about
those kind of performances?

Speaker 4 (08:38):
You know, the whole experience about getting to work with
symphonies feels really timeless, and you can kind of feel
yourself like in the eighteen hundreds. You can. It's like
such a connection to music through the centuries, truly, because
it's such an old form of making music.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
So I think that that's something that's so special.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
I always felt like that too, in like magical choirs
in high school and stuff when we would do like
all the old material. There's something really lovely about getting
to connect to like what our ancestors did with music,
And so that's that's something really neat that I love.
It's just such a timeless form of being able to
make music, and it's also just a wall of sound

(09:20):
and it's I love you know. They say something and
I'm sure you've heard this before, like in the theater
when everyone is in the in the theater watching a
musical or watching an orchestra or something, that all of
our hearts, like our heartbeats sync up. That there's been
like studies done about this that there's like a connection,
like almost like a soul connection. And so I think

(09:42):
that that's a really a big similarity between musical theater
and then also symphonic orchestra performances where everyone is there
experiencing this art at the same time and there's a
connection that happens, and I just am really fascinated by
that and love that so much. And then not to
mention that it's like, you know, eighty some people on
the stage all like being a cohesive unit to create

(10:04):
this moment. So there's an in both an orchestra or
in a theater production where you have a big ensemble
in a band, you know, So it's a really I
love those kind of community community events where everyone's participating
to create the same moment for the audience I think
is really special and so that I just wanted to

(10:25):
incorporate both of those loves in the film.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
I have one last fun question for you. Are you ready?

Speaker 3 (10:30):
I'm ready perfect.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
So, of course you've performed on Broadway is Wednesday, Adams
and the Adams Family, the Mistress in the Revival of Avita.
Do you have any interesting or funny audition stories, anything
you could share with us today?

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Oh? Sure, yes.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
So I am a person who loves a little bit
of an insinuated costume. So when I went in for
every single one of the roles that I've ever booked,
I had like just said like insinuated costume. So with Glinda,
I wore like a light blue cocktail dress with like
every piece of rhymestone jewelry that I've ever owned and

(11:05):
bright sparkly shoes. Then for Wednesday, I wore like converse
and and I tried to like really capture the Wednesday outfit.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
I put white powder all.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Over my like literally baby powder like all over and
like dark you know, blacked out my eyes and put
my hair in braids. And then for the Mistress funny story,
I went really bold and I literally wore a nightgown
with no bra, no shoes, no makeup, and I it
took every bit of me to not do my hair

(11:39):
and my maid. Okay, but I literally went in there
without my hair done, Like I rolled out of bed and.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
I'm like, this is it. This is how I'm going in.
So that's how I went in. So those were some
fun audition stories. That so fun.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, And everyone's always like, do you think you use it?
You know, do a little costume for an audition? I
say yes, because it worked for me those three times.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Ably Listen, you're serious about it, You're serious.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
About your craft.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Well it also like gives the opportunity for them to
kind of you know, they don't have to use their
imagination as much see you in the role, right, so
without looking like a psycho. You don't want to go
full costume, but just a little in situation never hurt
anybody a little thing.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely. And for those out there, they want
to find you on your website social neworking sites, can
you just give out those for us?

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
You can find me on Instagram and TikTok at the
Rachel Potter.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm also on Facebook.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
I think that's Rachel Potter Music, as is my website,
which is Rachel Potter music dot com.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
To keep up with me and if you're in the
Nashville area.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
We didn't get a chance to chat about this, but
I'm also hosting and producing a show at the Analog
at the Hutton Hotel and it's usually once a quarter.
It's called Off Broadway at the Hutton. I bring in
Broadway stars from New York and all over the country
and we do a themed Broadway cabaret style show. So
that one's happening again on July eleventh, and we're going

(12:56):
to do Adam's Family in Concert October thirtieth and thirty
first at the Huttons. So if you're in the Nashville
area or want to come visit us, there's gonna be
really fun too.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Oh I'm there, all right, perfect, Yeah, wait.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yeah, get back with me and I'll make sure you
have comps and you can come.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
You're so great, Thank you so so much, and thank
you again for joining me.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
It was a pleasure absolutely. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Thank you all so much for tuning into The Josie
Show today, and thank you to.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
My special guest Rachel.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Potter for joining me. It was a lot of fun,
and we'll see you all next time, and wherever you're listening,
I appreciate you for listening always to the Josie Show.
And we'll see you again next time. And have a
beautiful rest of your day, all right.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Boebye.
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