From Christine to Madame Giry: Lisa Vroman’s Phantom Homecoming

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Green Room On Air.

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Today on The Green Room, we're delighted to welcome back one of America's most

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celebrated musical theater sopranos, Lisa Vroman.

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Audiences know Lisa best for her acclaimed portrayal of Christine in The Phantom

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of the Opera on Broadway in Los Angeles and during the show's legendary San Francisco run.

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Her remarkable career has spanned Broadway, operetta, opera,

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symphony concerts, and major regional theaters across the country.

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Lisa is currently bringing her phantom journey full circle, appearing as Madame

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Zerrie in the North American tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.

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After having performed Christine thousands of times, thousands of times over

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the course of her career. I think 2,500 times or something like that.

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We'll talk about that experience, her extraordinary life in the theater,

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and what keeps her passionate about performing after decades on stage.

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Lisa Broman, welcome to the green room. I'm sorry I had to emphasize decades. I don't know why.

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Maybe because I can relate. I appreciate that. Here, let me just like,

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let me enhance my image a little bit.

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Look, we're over in Marin. Hi, everybody. Yeah. Hello, San Francisco.

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Ray and I are watching the raptors fly across the bridge.

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And it's sunset, even though it's mid-noon. It's early sunset today. Right.

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Yeah. Well, let's do your French diction class first.

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Jiri. Jiri. Perfect. I should know. My wife's from France, but hey.

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I do my best. You do your best. No, you're perfect. So why don't you tell us,

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what you're doing right now here in San Francisco, that we have you back.

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Well, here we go. I mean, like you said, decades of doing this in general.

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And age-wise, you think you're going to do certain things at certain times in your life.

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Phantom was a great time for me. It was 10 years of my life that ended in 2004.

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And here we are, you know, 21, 22 years later, and I get a call saying,

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would you be interested in going back on tour with Phantom?

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And then your whole life takes an L-turn because you have to make that arrangement

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with your home, your life, my teaching in LA, and see if it's going to work out.

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And all these years later, I don't think I would have left home or left.

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Really done this touring again

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if it wasn't for this show and the people that I've known for 30 years.

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And it's, for me, it's kind of a great gift to have been allowed to do it again,

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and asked, and it's a great honor. And I'm having a ball playing Madame Giry.

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It's a wonderful cast. I mean, we'll talk more about that, but it's just so

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great to be back. And then here's San Francisco, where I played the role for five years.

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You know, here we were, becoming the place where a lot of young people came

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over and over to see the show.

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And now, every night, I'm seeing four, five, six people that said,

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I saw you. You're my first, Christine.

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Here's my children. Oh, my gosh.

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Well, I could say the same. And my children are like 22 and 30.

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But it's so sweet. And it's, you know, You know, the other night,

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a few times, one woman last Saturday night just burst into tears.

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She said, you have such an impact on me when I was 16. And I mean,

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you know, as an artist, what gets better?

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What means more than your voice and your work?

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And you get to hear from someone that it meant something to them.

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So it's a beautiful thing. It's really great.

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How fantastic. That's like one of the best stories I've ever heard.

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No, I feel really lucky. I mean, I don't know.

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So many people probably wanted this role. Sure, yeah. And I don't know if I

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was looking for it, but I'm really happy that I said yes to it.

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Yeah, me too. I can't wait to see it. Wait, you've already opened,

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right? Yeah, we've done two weeks. Okay. And how long is it going to last? Two more weeks.

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Oh, I better get going. You better get going. You better grab a ticket. They're selling.

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I better get going. I will grab a ticket.

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Yeah, I'm in a show, but we don't rehearse on the weekends right now,

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so I can definitely go. Oh, how luxurious. Yes, indeed.

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Now, you're doing nine shows a week. Please explain to me how that works.

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Well, not really. We do eight.

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It's eight. It's eight, basically. The first week, because the Orpheum has a

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load-in for the crew that is a little bit smaller than a lot of the theaters

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that we travel to, so they booked an extra day.

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So we didn't begin our first week until Thursday, which meant we did six shows. I see.

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I see. So in order to get those two extra shows, last week we had nine. Yes.

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This week we'll do eight and then spend our day off busy.

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And then we'll have nine the final week. Okay. We'll do that again.

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Yeah. And so you're going to be working on your days off.

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Yeah. You have a one-night-only performance that you're doing, right? Yeah.

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That's the Richmond Hermit Aid Foundation, a group with Ken Henderson and Joe

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Sealer. I've been working with them for, probably did my first benefit 30 years ago with them.

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And we've done shows over the years, millions of them.

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They've raised so much money in such an amazing, amazing organization.

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And we'll probably have you put all the info for this on your little chat and

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your little notes after.

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But we'll do a one night only with the Phantom Cast. And what's special about

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it is this amazing company of singers.

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That they've put together for this brand new production they are the top of

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the top the singing is off the charts and they're going to be singing things

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that is not from the show all of their,

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duets trios choreographed pieces that are great fun we're having a ball and

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i'll be there all day teching and i'm kind of producing and,

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i'll be and seeing a little bit and i think it's going to be a great fun time

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for them i know it's it makes it a really rough week but it's a special LeVette.

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And I wanted to really kind of push these guys to start doing those as they

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travel across the country. It's really important. And that's a great organization.

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They've been on the show a few times. And absolutely, they do a lot of good.

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Friends for many, many years. And I'm so happy to be able to be here and do

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that with them. You know, San Francisco was, you know, my home for six years.

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And sitting in a show is different than traveling city to city.

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This was my community, my home. It always feels like that to me.

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For all the years after that, that I came and sang with the symphony and the

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gay men's chorus and doing benefits for Joe and Ken, this is the place.

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I think because of all those things, I always thought you were from here.

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Yeah. And my cell phone is still 415. Okay.

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I'm so nostalgic. But I love it. I have so many friends here that I've been

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trying to see them all, but there's limited time to get ready and,

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you know, keep yourself rested to do this work.

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I mean, I'm thrilled that I'm able to sustain doing this role and be on tour. I'm excited.

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You know, Christine is a rough go.

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I mean, our girls are just fantastic in it. But, you know, she changes her clothes

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eight or nine times, and she's on stage the entire time. Madame Giry has one dress.

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Nice. Oh, my God.

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It's such a treat. That is a treat. Wow And I love it Usually in musicals You're

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running around Changing your clothes Yeah I mean I'm running around But I don't

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have to change So much But it's a little bit Physically Yeah,

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easier, but you still have to keep up that energy and that conditioning to do it.

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And it's kind of forcing me to stay there. So I think other than just teaching,

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you're sitting a lot at home. I don't know if I was being as active as I should have, but I am now.

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Have you been teaching voice? Yeah. I've been working at a school called AMDA,

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the American Musical Dramatic Academy. It is a BFA, two-year program in New

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York, and a BFA, a four-year in LA.

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And I have, you know, for me, it's part-time.

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A lot of the faculty are part-time working artists, so they come and go.

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I just had to ask for, I have to see you in a year, you know, again.

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But it's such a great, it's musical theater kids and commercial singers,

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and I just, I don't have children.

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So, I mean, being around them just makes you feel so responsible to be enthusiastic

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for them in this business, which we don't know what's going to happen with one minute to the next.

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Right. The pandemic really put a wrench, and a lot of these kids lived through

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it, and their careers, they felt, were very put on pause.

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So I was able to, you know, talk them through that during that time, and it helped me too.

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It helped me keep my enthusiasm, my conditioning up, so I'm able to do this,

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this kind of a thing right now, and I'm, you know, my body, my voice still working

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for me, so I'm, you know, it's this kind of icing on the cake.

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It's like that, you know, another gift from these people, so I'm,

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you know, I will say that I'm having a ball.

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Is it the same people producing the show as 30 years ago?

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It's a different, yes, Cameron McIntosh, this organization, there's an extra

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producing team that's come on with him.

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And the director who used to assist Hal Prince when he was alive,

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he came into the show when he was 19 or 20.

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So Seth Sklarhane is his name, and his ability to honor the history of the show is wonderful.

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He's kept every note Hal ever wrote. Oh, good. And even though he wanted to

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throw it away, I think he would go and pick them up and keep them in his folder.

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It's just, you know, he has a lot of honor for the history of the show.

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There are things that are a little bit different I mean, let's face it,

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technology has improved In 40 years And I think the sound is remarkable That

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technology The orchestra sounds great,

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You know, the back wall is this beautiful LED screen that adds so much depth

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and enhancement to the beauty of this show that I'm astounded by it when I see it.

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I think it's just, I think it's, yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing.

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But by still keeping the original, you know, feel and concept of the show.

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And that, you know, they built us costumes. There's nothing like getting a dress draped on you.

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I mean, what that feels like, I can't explain it. I know a lot of the girls

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really just come back and go, oh, my God, I just feel so beautiful,

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no matter what you're wearing. Perfectly, right? Yeah, it's made for you.

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And that doesn't happen in real life.

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No. I had that once at West Side Story in American Musical Theater,

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San Jose. They actually made me a suit.

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I was like, wow, I want to go get this done for myself. No, can I keep it?

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I remember getting in my dress the first time. I took a picture of it,

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and I came back, and all the dancer girls that I spent a lot of time with and

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all the girls in the company said, oh, Mommy, you look snatched.

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And I, of course, had to say, is that good? It doesn't.

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It sounds a little maybe like it's not so good. No, it is good.

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It's good. It means your waistline looks like snitched. Oh, I don't know all

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the new jargon. Yeah, let me help you out a little bit. okay right,

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yeah i for people who weren't here 30 40 years ago phantom of the opera was

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a phenom a phenom here in san francisco right yeah 25 to 30 years ago,

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how many years how many years did it run here five five yeah and it was packed

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all the time it was hard to get tickets oh we sold out five years we definitely every night,

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Amazing. At the beautiful Curran Theater. I loved that theater.

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Oh, me too. It was gorgeous.

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I love it better than the Orpheum. No, I love it. The Orpheum is beautiful.

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It is beautiful. I actually like the Orpheum. What's the other?

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The Golden Gate. Golden Gate. I've never played there. It's too huge. Oh, is it?

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It's bigger, I think. Yeah, it's just too big. Like, if you're up in the back,

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it's like, where's my...

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I must look very young from the way back to the Golden Gate.

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I'll look like my ingenue self again.

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So do you still get nervous before performances?

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No, I'm excited to get going. Your adrenaline, it's a routine that comes back.

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I'm a very kind of driven person in my preparation routine. Yeah.

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And from years of doing this, I have a particular routine to get ready and timing

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and warming up your body.

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And I find our Jordan, our main Christine here, we would, the first couple of

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weeks, we came into the theater two hours to an hour and a half before.

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And we were like the only ones there for a while.

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And I said, she goes, it makes me happy knowing that my routine is like yours.

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Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And she's like, we just commit every, but there's a big

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level of commitment with this company.

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There's not a lot of jobs like this in our industry right now. In what sense?

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This tier one contract that we're on and how we're taking care of and the big

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shows that are running out and how the contract works. And I think there's a

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lot of gratitude from them.

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And so I don't feel...

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There's not one person that doesn't appreciate being here or appreciate each

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other in all of the talent. So the energy on stage is this incredible group of people.

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Not one. Everyone is doing their job to the best of their and fullest of their ability each night.

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And, you know, that feels good to be in it and have that around me. Nothing like it. Yeah.

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Nothing like it. I mean, the San Francisco company was the same.

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And the five years there of course I have the Bay Area's Krista Weigel,

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who was in the show with me for five years and she lives in and she's also doing

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the benefit with us but to have Krista on the show with me is just you know

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we were each other's touchstones,

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because we already did the show for five years and she's amazing and,

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so to have her here and now she's home in San Francisco and I think she's just,

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loving having all of her people and her friends come and see it also Great. Yeah.

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I don't know her, but I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, she's done a lot of work.

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You have to look for her in the Bay Area. Weigel.

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W-I-G-L-E. I do know who she is. Excuse me. Yeah. I do.

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She's brilliant, brilliant talent. Yeah.

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Incredible voice. Great actress. Great comedian. Just a wonderful girl.

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You're a great friend. I was so appreciative to have her in the company.

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Yeah. And who is she playing?

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She's the wardrobe mistress Which is kind of A lot of little parts,

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In the show In the beginning And if you If you can spy her In it She's All she

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does It's like a three act play She's doing the first scene,

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And she's hilarious Yeah I remember that part You come a few times To watch

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what everybody's doing And it's pretty She's full throttle Oh cool Cool Very nice You know.

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Have you noticed very many changes in how theater is done over the last 30 years,

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or what it's like to experience working on a show?

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You know, I have been doing shows continually, and you haven't.

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So I don't know if I can speak to all of that. They ran this like I was used to.

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Oh, okay. This rehearsal period was run, you know, as we built it.

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We were 10 to 6, six days a week in New York for a month, and it was brutal. Yeah.

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And then you go through your tech period, which we did in Baltimore,

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where you're doing your weeks of, you know, a couple weeks of 10 out of 12, 10 hours a day.

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Yeah. And then you go into a preview situation where you do the show at night

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and you can come in in the afternoon to rehearse.

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How many previews did you do? Oh, I don't know. Oh. I have no. A lot.

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I don't remember. Oh. Well, no, it's previews. Six months ago.

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Yeah, they're wonderful how they build it.

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But it's a dictated kind of span of time. Yeah.

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But our crew was top-notch. We looked out. And what's different is that now,

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so much is computerized and automated that we would, in the tech,

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when you looked out into the theater, all the desks and all the computer screens were set up.

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It was a sea of computer screens. Yeah.

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Which that, you know, didn't happen 30 years ago. It used to be just a couple of boards. Right?

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Yeah. And the director with a microphone. Yeah, exactly.

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But it's all the lighting, all of the automation, everything,

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every department at full throttle.

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Screens and it was pretty incredible yeah it's just the tech is like i said

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but take advantage of it it's improved and what it does is enhance this beautiful

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product which i think it has,

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they can do so much now with those led setups oh my god and they're so,

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i don't like i remember when they first started trying to do it was a little

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i'm not sure about this but now they're so top notch and bright and realistic looking.

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And so what it does, it's glorious. You know, it's adding death, but you don't notice it.

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It's part of the whole package. Yes. Your eye is so treated to that.

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The lighting, you know, is spectacular.

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And they've really kind of stepped up fabrics and costumes as they built this new group.

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I mean, I think the masquerade is like a visual wonder now.

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It just kind of, in a little bit of an enhanced way, pops off the stage for me.

00:18:05.811 --> 00:18:09.401
And there's a couple of things that are a little bit different,

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but I don't want to give those away.

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No, no, no, no, no. If you want to find out what that is, you better go to the show.

00:18:16.051 --> 00:18:18.531
You only have a couple of weeks left. Yeah, and if you miss it,

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we're going to be in L.A. for seven weeks. Oh, great.

00:18:23.126 --> 00:18:27.421
And I live there, so it's, I know, it's a win-win. And it's one of the reasons

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I did take it to the show because we were spending a lot of like six months

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on the West Coast, which is easier for me and my husband and...

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You know, I was going to be with my dog for a while. We just lost our big old

00:18:44.247 --> 00:18:47.039
beautiful boy a few weeks ago. I'm sorry.

00:18:47.944 --> 00:18:49.901
He was going to come up to San Francisco with me. Yeah.

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But he had other plans. He just, he hated the car. So I think he was avoiding the car ride.

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Oh, okay. Oh, so he didn't, he's still alive? No, no. He passed away a few weeks ago. Oh, okay. Yeah.

00:19:02.518 --> 00:19:05.876
You know, it's always, you know, life goes on even though you're doing a show.

00:19:06.745 --> 00:19:10.965
You get so close to your dogs. Oh, I'm crazy for my dogs.

00:19:11.405 --> 00:19:18.293
My first dog was with me when I brought the show back to the Orpheum in 2003 for eight weeks.

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And he spent eight weeks in San Francisco with me.

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And then I went to L.A. for nine weeks, and then I stopped. That was where I

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finished my first 10 years.

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You think you ever might want to go to perform on Broadway again?

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It depends on the role. It depends on what are they going to pay me.

00:19:38.930 --> 00:19:42.727
What is it like being on Broadway? Oh, I loved it.

00:19:43.525 --> 00:19:47.715
New York is exciting. Yeah. There's so many shows and you're there.

00:19:47.715 --> 00:19:53.060
So as Christine, I got a couple of shows off a week and I was able to see so many things.

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Yes. In the years I was there.

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Yeah. You know, and I think age-wise, too, there's a time where I don't really

00:20:00.175 --> 00:20:02.406
want to live there year in, year out anymore.

00:20:02.673 --> 00:20:07.938
If I was working, it would be great, but Phantom bought me a wonderful home,

00:20:10.639 --> 00:20:14.515
near Los Angeles, and I love being home. I do. I love teaching.

00:20:14.515 --> 00:20:17.129
I love—I'm still doing concert work with symphonies, so I—,

00:20:18.697 --> 00:20:22.815
So that's more short-term travel. That's what I've kind of been focusing on

00:20:22.815 --> 00:20:24.645
the last, you know, 25 years.

00:20:26.010 --> 00:20:28.545
So I had to, like, kind of give that up. But it's, you know,

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I'm starting to book in again when I finish my first year.

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So we'll see what happens. You never know, obviously.

00:20:35.873 --> 00:20:38.505
You don't know. You never know what's going to come up, right?

00:20:38.505 --> 00:20:41.125
You don't. Yeah. You don't know what's going to happen. Yeah.

00:20:41.892 --> 00:20:47.063
This was certainly out of the blue, and I thought I had retired from touring, and I guess not.

00:20:49.989 --> 00:20:56.734
Yeah, that's a big commitment, but it sounds like it's a wonderful experience. Yeah, the show is...

00:20:57.861 --> 00:21:04.752
It's run well. We have a great team. We have an incredible top drawer crew,

00:21:05.071 --> 00:21:09.483
and our company managers, our stage management, I just shout out all of them.

00:21:09.483 --> 00:21:10.807
They are the best of the best.

00:21:11.219 --> 00:21:16.763
And it's you know because you like i i read i wrote the letter kind of an in

00:21:16.763 --> 00:21:19.044
the kind of third page in in the playbill,

00:21:19.898 --> 00:21:23.648
uh the the publicity team wanted me to write the welcome letter to the orpheum

00:21:23.961 --> 00:21:28.826
and just talk about that like we are this traveling caravan of crew and it becomes.

00:21:29.838 --> 00:21:35.773
It becomes your little satellite family yeah uh and we are and i i think there

00:21:35.773 --> 00:21:39.401
is a lot of respect and care for each other on this particular group.

00:21:39.894 --> 00:21:41.194
Everyone watches out for each other.

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And we've gotten to know each other rather well, let's say, in six months.

00:21:45.188 --> 00:21:50.193
And I still feel if someone has a hard time, there's a lot of how are you.

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I mean, it's like people are hovering to make sure that we all are taking care

00:21:56.653 --> 00:22:00.663
of each other. And it's a great thing. It's your energy, right?

00:22:00.663 --> 00:22:03.051
Oh, my God. The enthusiasm is off the charts.

00:22:03.544 --> 00:22:09.465
And there's also there's you know they go from my age down to 20 in the company

00:22:09.901 --> 00:22:14.063
and so there's an age gap there's ballerinas there's upper people there's theater

00:22:14.063 --> 00:22:16.472
people there's we come from kind of different,

00:22:16.933 --> 00:22:19.497
craft backgrounds and,

00:22:20.185 --> 00:22:23.873
the age span is is big they've hired a few people that have done this before

00:22:23.873 --> 00:22:26.254
that are kind of legacy cast members,

00:22:27.026 --> 00:22:30.938
and crew and then i think it's really good for the kids that are doing it for the first time.

00:22:31.786 --> 00:22:34.456
I think it's really good for them to watch us.

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Do our job and commit to it.

00:22:38.526 --> 00:22:42.283
And I think they, you know, it's, it's not that we're mentors,

00:22:43.034 --> 00:22:48.356
let's say, but you know, I, I, I know that I feel like both of the girls that

00:22:48.356 --> 00:22:51.608
play Christine kind of, sometimes they treat me like their spirit animal a little bit.

00:22:53.443 --> 00:22:55.110
But you know, it's, you look at,

00:22:55.585 --> 00:22:59.406
like, I, they're, they're unbelievably talented, you know, both of them.

00:22:59.406 --> 00:23:05.556
They, they, and but they have to learn how to do this repetition they've like

00:23:05.556 --> 00:23:09.676
never done a show like this this many times with all this these costumes and

00:23:09.676 --> 00:23:13.277
it's it's a tremendous amount of pressure on your body,

00:23:13.943 --> 00:23:17.826
and your voice and until they got into like the third or fourth month they were

00:23:17.826 --> 00:23:23.746
like whoa this is a lot you know and you can't really tell them you know nothing

00:23:23.746 --> 00:23:28.120
i said like what i felt about it 25 years ago means nothing you know it's just,

00:23:28.705 --> 00:23:34.016
but i i'm there to say yes it is a lot you know just you know you're doing great

00:23:34.016 --> 00:23:38.946
you're you're both unbelievably right and talented and perfect in this role

00:23:38.946 --> 00:23:42.868
and learn what your body needs to so you can do it eight times a week.

00:23:43.926 --> 00:23:47.878
That's all you can do right is encourage but you have to learn by repetition

00:23:48.081 --> 00:23:52.406
and it's it's a it's i think everyone is kind of figuring that out but six months

00:23:52.406 --> 00:23:55.330
in and everybody's work ethic is super high and,

00:23:55.788 --> 00:24:00.194
i am proud of that from them all you know we buoy up each other,

00:24:00.891 --> 00:24:03.764
you know and our and we have a phantom that is,

00:24:04.814 --> 00:24:09.469
i don't know what planet he's from who is he his name is isaiah bailey okay,

00:24:09.980 --> 00:24:17.166
uh he his voice is from heaven above i don't know where but it's every day his

00:24:17.166 --> 00:24:18.786
commitment his voice he never,

00:24:19.786 --> 00:24:25.606
he doesn't he gives 150 every minute he is an incredible he's an angel himself he's,

00:24:26.383 --> 00:24:32.026
a beautiful man and inside and out and his voice is beautiful and i it's kind

00:24:32.026 --> 00:24:36.546
of like that great leadership position for the show i think if if he works that

00:24:36.546 --> 00:24:39.529
hard and he is that generous then everybody else.

00:24:40.873 --> 00:24:46.089
Needs to follow suit yeah and i and that's a good thing that's a great it's you know,

00:24:46.826 --> 00:24:51.434
they make every phantom makes it their own you know and here we had you know

00:24:51.434 --> 00:24:54.754
i opened the show with davis gains who was one of my dear friends and we did

00:24:54.754 --> 00:24:56.242
the sweeney todd with the symphony,

00:24:56.868 --> 00:25:01.084
later on and then frank d'ambrosio and i were in the show together for four

00:25:01.084 --> 00:25:06.067
and a half years so you feel like you know we feel like we're we're ex ex-husband and wife,

00:25:06.700 --> 00:25:11.174
was that the sweeney todd at the San Francisco Simpli? Yeah, the PBS.

00:25:11.797 --> 00:25:15.464
I loved that. Yeah, it was great. I got to go watch it again and see you.

00:25:15.474 --> 00:25:21.124
Yeah, that was pretty amazing. It's one of my favorite things I've ever seen

00:25:21.124 --> 00:25:22.646
on PBS. It was so wonderful.

00:25:22.803 --> 00:25:24.951
Oh. Yeah. And I love Sweeney Todd.

00:25:25.814 --> 00:25:28.717
It was a little nerve-wracking having Sondheim follow us around backstage.

00:25:30.807 --> 00:25:35.683
I know. I heard he's always very protective. He was always very protective. No, he loved it.

00:25:35.892 --> 00:25:39.019
And he was having a ball. And so it was just a little bit exciting.

00:25:40.634 --> 00:25:44.514
Well, so let's make sure everybody knows. So the show is running for two more

00:25:44.514 --> 00:25:48.527
weeks. Yeah. And our benefit, which is called Phantom Sings,

00:25:48.858 --> 00:25:49.926
and it's a one night only.

00:25:50.251 --> 00:25:53.810
And we'll be at the Marines Memorial Theater. I think it's 609 Sutter,

00:25:54.141 --> 00:25:59.893
just off Mason on the 15th at 730. Doors open at 7.

00:26:00.567 --> 00:26:04.994
There's a silent auction, which they usually have. And it's packed with a lot

00:26:04.994 --> 00:26:10.454
of music from the opera world They're going to blow your heads And the musical

00:26:10.454 --> 00:26:11.880
theater world So we're just,

00:26:12.707 --> 00:26:16.814
I think it's going to be a great night And hopefully Ray, can you put the link

00:26:16.814 --> 00:26:18.817
and all of that in your notes?

00:26:19.305 --> 00:26:26.564
Instead of me saying HTTP No, no, no, no No reason I'll put it all Everything

00:26:26.564 --> 00:26:31.088
will be down in the notes below Oh, good, good, good Yeah, make it easy That'll be great,

00:26:31.970 --> 00:26:36.914
and phantom's running for two more weeks right people or come to la find us

00:26:36.914 --> 00:26:39.238
and then after that it's costa mesa san diego.

00:26:40.727 --> 00:26:45.908
And then we kind of dip in over to the Tempe area.

00:26:46.634 --> 00:26:49.519
But this being in the West Coast, I mean, there are people in our company who

00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:52.729
have never been to San Francisco. And their minds are blown every day.

00:26:52.729 --> 00:26:54.732
They come in, they're like, oh, my God. Yeah.

00:26:55.115 --> 00:26:58.349
The most beautiful, big, small city in the world. Yeah, they've all gone to

00:26:58.349 --> 00:27:01.500
Alcatraz. We were at the Giants last night, you know. Oh, neat.

00:27:02.086 --> 00:27:05.744
Yeah, we were on the Jumbotron singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame. It was pretty epic.

00:27:06.144 --> 00:27:09.329
Oh, how cool. I don't know if it's on YouTube. I'll have to check it out.

00:27:09.329 --> 00:27:12.001
It may be. Yeah, maybe someone recorded it.

00:27:12.547 --> 00:27:16.679
Well, thanks so much for being in the green room today. It's so good to talk

00:27:16.679 --> 00:27:19.175
to you. You also. I appreciate it.

00:27:19.970 --> 00:27:21.602
All right. See you soon. Thanks. Bye-bye.