Josh Gad & Andrew Rannells talk GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!, THE BOOK OF MORMON I Happy Sad Confused

they have me in M diapers in this show they come up to me one day and they go Josh we notice that you're come and undone a lot so they go we'd like to propose that we fasten your shirt to your underwear so they fastened me up and one night I have to make a number four and I'm like oh God prepare your ears humans happy sad confused begins [Music] now hi guys uh I'm Josh harowitz and welcome to a live edition of happy sad confused at the 92nd Street y with Josh Gad and Andrew rolds thank you all so much for coming out tonight be one one of these guys has enough Charisma for an event at 92nd Street wde but two of them you guys are just in for a treat tonight um look I know uh it's insane out there in the world tonight but we're going to have fun tonight we're going to escape Gutenberg the musical is an escape on Broadway you all should check out it is about to open I have seen it it is remarkable that's an escape tonight's going to be an escape for us we're going to have a lot of fun um I don't know what to say about these guests other than they are two of the most talented gentlemen uh I know they of course teamed up on a little show called The Book of Mormon over a decade ago um and when I say you're in for a night of hilarity at Gutenberg the musical I truly mean it get your tickets now before they sell out uh but in the meantime let's have some fun tonight and enjoy a conversation with Josh Gad and Andrew rolds everybody here we go hello hello hello hello hello oh oh w oh guys so look at that lovely thank you for being here thank you for being a [Applause] friend he's very warm we didn't license that Josh you already have us in trouble and now I'm happy sad and Confused there you go happy sad confused we're all very confused but we're happy that we're that you're here like I was I was sitting out here going how are they how am I hearing St so I forgot about this you're always they place this on me these guys have a very busy Broadway schedule this is your day off what is wrong with you why are you here you should be in bed you should be sleeping we've been asking ourselves oh I mean no no we no we're excited to be here yeah what very excited this is my first time I've never gotten to do one of these at the 92nd Street wide very excited same I I went to I went to marry Mount Manhattan College just down the street thank you one person full disclosure I did not graduate but um I would come and see things here when I was in school and i' so I'm very excited to actually get to to be a part of one Josh how are you first of all because you gave us all scare the don't be scared I'm good I'm good I so what happened was I had some lower abdominal pain I had like sweats and so my doctors out of an abundance of costum were like that's not a normal thing to experience go to the hospital uh so I went to the hospital and I was able to be treated with antibiotics and I'm fine and I went back on Broadway on Saturday night did a show and I feel great I feel great thank you for asking meanwhile this guy if he gets like a slight little twinge you are out for the week right you are I would yeah I call out all the time it's a miracle if you actually see Andrew in the show it does like one out of seven this is this is actually my understudy here right I'm not even here so we're going to talk a lot about Gutenberg a lot about your relationship over the years cuz you've worked together a fair amount have you two ever had a real argument have you ever been actually pissed off at each other we got pissed at each other once do you remember I do but I don't think we should tell that story I want to no no I don't three think you should Andrew tried to steal my wife from me oh that's story I'm fine with I did have an affair with his wife had we've had a tiff once but it was it's it's it's I explain it like if anyone has a sibling correct Josh and I sort of tend to fight like siblings that is ACC so we punch each other we do we're two men in our 40s who smack each other and like he burps in my face and I shove him and it's really like and no so if any if there's ever any like words that are said it happens and then it goes away that's accurate that is accurate and it really does we fight like we're brothers Andrew and I truly love each other I think more slow down well little imbalance in the relationship perhaps yes more than uh let me finish more than more than most enemies love each other you want that France of yes you want a little bit of I know that's yes can you tell when the other is annoyed they must have tells by now can you tell like oh this is this is underneath my friend really trying to build like a I was saying to Andrew backstage I want to end this friendship tonight um I can I can tell when Andrew is annoyed like right now he's annoyed this is my annoy face no yeah I you have a tell I I you know what I feel like comes in handy with us is because especially in a situation like with Gutenberg where it's just the two of us on St I we have a fantastic Band by the way three people band on stage with us but it's really just yes oh they're not here you don't have to applaud them they might be here but it's you know it's the it's the two of us sort of you know doing the show that when we're in rehearsals I feel like we have a good sort of telepathy of like when someone needs a break when someone needs space when so like if Josh senses that like Andrew's getting tired or Andrew's getting cranky he sort of like can step in and like you got to take care of each other behal which is really great 100% true we always we always are usually hungry yes I'm like I need a snat yeah uh which is why the two of us are sharing one small water today no you have one oh great okay you got one I was like one of us is going to have to get that sip zp at least you're on antibiotics so there we go we are kening toward WS opening night just hours away for Gooden the musical Thursday do you prefer opening nights or closing nights oh my body prefers closing nights uh I'm excited about our opening I think it's going to be really special um th this show you know it took me 10 years to get back to to do a Broadway show and I had two prerequisites I wanted to to do a I wanted to do something that felt like it was there's nothing as funny as Book of Mormon but something that felt like it was a worthy successor to Mormon and I wanted to do something with rolds and and to be here and and have both of those criteria met is really exciting and it's been 12 years since my last Broadway opening which is crazy and so I'm really looking forward to Thursday and and it's been uh quite a road to get here yeah and I think we have talked about you know together this that the Book of Mormon was such sort of a whirlwind of activity and we were neither one of us had ever opened a show on Broadway and to open that particular show was very overwhelming and I feel like I know for myself the just all of the activity surrounding that I didn't really have my feet underneath me at all when that show opened because it was just a lot of pressure and it was very exciting but it was also kind of scary and I was very nervous and I think we were both Running on Fumes and anxiety by that I was on so much prazone to sing through that show it was like and do you feel like you enjoyed it were you able to like no yes we did enjoy it no or yes no definitely enjoyed it but I feel like I sometimes was not fully present I I agree I agree Andrew was not fully present it's like a sharp size nothing behind yeah yeah this time I feel like no it was it was wild I had a three month old I I was uh I I had literally turned 30 the day before we opened like my it was a very oh you okay back there um I I was uh it was it was a whirlwind and and you know we none of us knew at the time that the show we were doing was going to run for more than 3 months like I think we were all sort of expecting I don't know what we were expecting we sort of just were like this is a very different show than anyone has seen before and it really may not work yeah and so it was a quite a surprise to see just every day this like group of people build I remember like the first day there were like 10 kids waiting for lottery tickets and by the end of the first week there were like 400 people standing outside the theater waiting for lottery tickets and you just could tell that something was in the air and Tom Hanks came to like one of our previews and we were like okay this is this is this is not mam Mia no I I was going to say it became one of those shows where everybody had to see it and I'm sure having each other at relatively similar points in your career you'd experience some success but not nothing at that level and you could lean on each other at the time be like this is [ __ ] crazy isn't it yeah and then we got to look at each other and be like what is happening like one of my I it's a very vivid memory cuz we had we had very small dressing rooms at the Eugene O'Neal it's a very old theater and the and the dressing rooms are very small and our rooms were next to each other and and sometimes you know if they were like a real big celebrity they wouldn't wait on the stage they would just come up to our dressing rooms which was very jarring um and one day there's a after the show there's a knock on my door and I am changing out of my like Mormon underwear and I open the door and it's Goldie Hanan Joel shoem marer and Kevin spy n they're not together they are with different groups of people and then Josh came in my room and the five of us were standing in this very small room and I just remember looking at you and being like what no that was the night you died you died that night strange it was pretty surreal they there was uh do you remember when Natalie Portman was she came backstage she was pregnant oh yeah and like yeah it was a it was a very wild uh it was a wild ride uh it was really special how ingrained is that showing you right now if I if I forked over a million dollars could you perform book if you for over a million dollars you would lose a million dollar uh cuz I've had nightmares about this where like we had to go back on and I knew nothing there's whole sections of the show that I don't remember no yeah I mean we I remember us uh two years ago almost we did this concert at Carnegie Hall for Bobby Lopez and Christen Lopez and we sang a couple songs from from The Book of Mormon and we were talking about it and there were whole scenes that we forgot that we did we were like oh yeah that part I for I mean I forgot the lyrics I think that night in the song I mean I we we did I we did um you and me but mostly me I did baptize me with Nicki M James and you did I believe and it was uh it was surreal but it was also like putting on kind of an old hat like it it was familiar and I think like with a week like it would come back but but definitely would need uh 10 days happy sad confused is 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a brief questionnaire you get it matched with a licensed therapist and you can switch therapist at any time for no additional charge make your brain your friend with Better Health visit betterhelp.com HSC to get 10% off your first month that's betterhelp hp.com [Music] HSC so it's been 12 years since your your runs ended on Book of Mormon uh in those years um Andrew you've done Hedwig mhm how falsettos boys in the band a lot of Broadway time y as alluded to and I saw a lot of theater you attend are you going to list all the shows I watched during that I can guarantee you the list is longer okay it's fair it's true so was it just look you've you've been very busy the last Dozen Years just not with Broadway were you were there Temptations over the years have you guys Ted talked about other yeah we definitely talked I there were always Temptations I you know I I live in LA my my I have a wife and two girls we they go to school out there and it's very hard the the the idea of relocating was never something that was in the cards and so the decision to come back to Broadway for me was always how do I do it without disrupting my family's lives and a lot of the shows I was looking at like I had explored Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum you know they wanted me to do for close to a year and I sadly I couldn't do it um and we had talked about stuff but nothing ever felt quite right and and then Alex Timbers our brilliant director um called me up one day and he and I were were looking at Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the form to do together and he goes look well we're sort of putting a pin in form what have you ever heard of Gutenberg the musical and I said no I've never heard of that he goes well I'd love to send you the script and I'd love to send you the music and and take a list and see what you think so I I I read the script I listen to it and I go you know I have some thoughts this is really funny I would only ever consider doing this with Andrew ranold and he goes well funny you should mention that because I also sent it to Andrew and uh son of a [ __ ] played us right into his hands and uh and Andrew and I were pretty aligned with like we we saw the potential of what it could be on Broadway I'm I guess I'm always skeptical of anything called the musical something something the musical scares me like it feels spoofy and so I was like well what you know what is this and I said let's do a reading of it let's do it uh so Andrew was kind enough to to fly to LA with Alex and and our brilliant writer Scott and Anthony and we did a reading and we all looked at each other at the end of it and we said this feels right and that was March of 20 20 and uh they went and I go have you guys heard about this virus that's going around and they were like it's not going to be a big deal and two days later the world shut down and uh out of sight out of mind and then um about was like a little over a year ago I guess about a year ago Alex called us up and he said look I I still am committed to this if you guys are and we were both sort of like the idea of it sounds promising but it's been a while let's get in a room and do it again we got in a room we did it and it felt great and it felt great because I didn't have to wear hats and do choreography once that part came into it it no longer feels great um not metaphorical hats by way no literal we Andrew and I wear 120 hats in this show and Andrew claims I knew this I don't remember knowing that I don't know how didn't know this I don't read stage directions I don't know how you didn't know this to be clear the whole concept is based on these hats the hats convey we should educate the audience on what this is about a little bit so this is not necessarily the most factually accurate no telling of the inventor of the prin the least factually accurate telling of the printing press you'll ever see so how would you describe to the unaware what they're walking into Hamilton without any information right yeah Lynn did a lot of research these Scott and Anthony did not um this was so it's two guys bud and Doug who have have are big lovers of musical theater but are sort of new fans of musical theater so they're just sort of discovering the joys of musical theater for the first time and they decide they want to take a crack at it they they try a couple different shows which we talk about in the in the course of Gutenberg but the one that they really land on is this idea we're going to to do like a biopic musical about Johan Gutenberg the inventor of the printing press there's not a lot of information about Johan Gutenberg so then they just start making things up and they create a whole crazy narrative about his life and they add in other characters and love interests and and they're very passionate about writing this show and telling this story and what we are trying to do what bud and Doug are trying to do is is do like a backers audition to get funding to take the show to Broadway so we've taken all of our resources we've rented a Broadway Theater for one night and we are presenting it to the audience but it's just us it's just the two of us playing all these parts and sort of in their minds like a lay Miz Style Show with like a huge Ensemble and like but it's just two guys and there's a turn there's a turntable turn except except they couldn't afford an actual turntable so they just walk um and it's it's uh at the end of the day what's so what was so appealing to us was it's one of the funniest things either of us had ever read but where it really sort of has this magical quality to it is it it has such heart so by the end of the show and you know we we've done it for three plus weeks now audiences start tearing up it's a it's a pretty magical thing where you can do something that and Book of Mormon was kind of that way where you can do something that feels really funny and the audience never stops laughing but it's it at the end of it you just you feel for these guys and thematically the show is about dreams right and when you see that we literally invite the audience to dream with us um without giving away how uh there's there's a really beautiful ending to the show and and it's really nice to see it lifts everybody's Spirits especially at a time in which it seems like there's a lot of cynicism out there and the the show is all about pure optimism and joy is it joyful to go through it it's a physically taxing show I we've already alluded to this it's just the two of you you're running around you're singing you're dancing you're donning many literal hats so can you like in the moment are you enjoying it in the moment I go oh no wonder it took me 12 years back to uh when I'm done with the moment I always say the end justifies the means cuz by the end seeing the audience but it's a grueling show we're we're sweaty we're mess what is what is my favorite part is this guy like doing it there were we had a tough audience this week one night and it was there were a there were a smiling audience not a laughing audience it's a room full of smilers sure it was it was the way you would watch Terms of Endearment um and so they were yeah yeah so Andrew I was miserable on stage cuz he handles it better than I do but I'm like I'm a needy little pig I'm like laugh at me or I don't want to perform for you and Andrew D that what Andrew's always say the the the glasses half full of the two of us and at one point he digs his nails into my back and it was the physical representation of my anger with his audience I was like that's right I he and I are in the same boat and as long as we have each other we're here together we're going to be okay uh and we also challenge each other to like well I try my best to sort of surprise oh yeah we always surprise each other but the funny is is we'll always have this ritual before we go on stage which I won't reveal because it's our little thing um but it but it involves Seance and calling dead people uh so it's going to be wild articles some um satanic Gutenberg just a normal blood dance right before the show yeah but Rands looks at me before we go out and he goes whatever you do don't be angry with them he knew don't hate the audience be angry at the audence I should have stayed in the [ __ ] hospital bed while we're talking about negative a audience experiences I always like to hear a horrible uh audience experience over the years in your annals on on stage um what's been the worst I the one I always think about what do you got Michael Shannon and Paul Rd were in a play do don't get nauseous guys there was somebody that threw up off the balcony really that's the worst theater story I've ever heard right so so I've I've thrown The Gauntlet down what do you got I got well I it's not about us but I I was to so early on in the process of the show I would throw actual jelly beans into the audience and one day and one day uh I had the entire creative team come up to me and be like you can no longer throw jelly beans into the audience no and of course that meant I was going to throw more jelly beans into the audience and I did it the next day and they go you don't understand the sherts are saying you cannot throw jelly beans and I'm like there's like actual shoer and they're like well the the people the the theater people don't want you to throw this so I go all right and I was like well I need a reason and they go okay well the reason is verman and I go oh well that makes sense and and the the prop guy pulls me aside and he goes so last year Joshua apparently there was an incident okay where Audrey McDonald was on stage and a rat fell onto her in the middle of a show we could no longer have that problem at our theater by the way you should all come see the show it's been eradicated because I stopped throwing jelly beans but there no jelly beans but there's no jelly beans there's no rats but that was the most horrifying story I've ever and I don't know if it's apocryphal like he said that to me because he knew I was very sad to lose real jelly beans but could be D we we had some weird well the one that pops out this it's not from the book Mormon but when I was in Jersey Boys which was you know sometimes it got a little rockus and it was like it could get it could it could turn into be a little bit of like a singal so there was like at one point in the show they do you know we would sing Sherry Big Girls Don't Cry and walk like a man and it was the they called The Big Three it was like their first big three three number one hits so we sang them all in a row and apparently someone was really going to town was really singing along so this couple behind this man was like please be quiet please be quiet and it escalated to the point where a fist fight broke out in the theater which didn't seem very Broadway to me it seemed very aggressive um so we had to stop the show because there was a full fist fight and like the police had to come it Jersey Boys I I was like settle down Andrew's got another story about Jersey Boys that makes me laugh so hard when literally a part of the set fell onto the audience no well Josh likes this story because I really showed my true colors I was it was I was on tour with it and there was a a a chain link fence like a huge it was like the you know up to the prenium and we were on tour and the fence at one point at the beginning of the second act we're all singing some Four Season song and I'm playing my fake keyboard and every so my back is to this fence and all the other boys who have like guitars and stuff are like oh no and they they turn around and they all sort of put their hands up like they're going to catch something and I turn around and see that the fence is falling and I just walked off the stage because I was like well I'm not going to try to catch that so unfortunately I you know was the The Only Gay Four Season and I was also like no I will not be helping with that but you boys can fix it just to be crystal clear the Gutenberg sets are lock down lock down no rats nothing's falling no we've had a very solid safest place you can be yes okay so again as mentioned you play a lot of roles done a lot of very unique voices in the the course of the show uh there are little girls there are drunks Etc what makes the other laugh what is what's the what's the voice character when you stare at them you're like this is going to be tough well Josh Josh do I mean it's just Josh's voice um but he does something sometimes to me very deliberately on stage that he knows that makes me laugh and we've specifically gotten a note from our very kind very patient director Alex Timbers please do not laugh at this one moment and he still does it to me and really takes all of my I have to think about like all of like every dead relative I have I'm like focus focus focus it's literally just it's so stupid and it's not going to make you laugh but it's just he knows it makes me laugh and he does it Andrew and I both play this character named helvetica uh and named after the font and we it's it's so wildly different yeah the way both of us approach this ridiculous character uh neither of which is correct by the way and uh I sort of play her kind of like sweet and as an airhead and Andrew plays her with this like deep kind of husk and she struggles to speak words and every time I'm on stage with him and he's doing this it's single stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life and it kills me um but but pretty much the entire show we are at risk of of laughing it's it's bad so so not only when you guys see Gutenberg the musical do you get Josh and Andrew there are some guest stars that sometimes pop in to the show you've posted some of these on your social so I feel like we can show so let's show a couple photos yeah let's let's take a look there's wonderful Janan gra yeah sort of sort of looking like Jeffrey dmer in that photo but he really does it's odd Choice the next one CYO lovely and the noted actor and uh sometime director the third one is oh JJ [Music] yes our producer that's a good producer to have at your back yes no it's um yeah we definitely have a type we go out um it's it's a it makes the show really fun for us because it's sort of like you know the thing about theater is you're you're you're doing the same thing every single night with small variations but usually it feels similar and so throwing something unexpected like a new energy is always like a fun way to keep us sort of like oh well what's tonight going to be what's it going to be yeah who decides on the playlist that of the music that plays before the show because Alex timers oh is it okay Billy Joel all Billy Joel it's all Billy Joel because you know we're are it doesn't by the way this makes no sense to me because tell them okay so it's we play all Billy Joel music we played two guys from New Jersey and when I said to Alex I was like he was like you know you're playing Billy Joel you're from New Jersey I was like I said well Billy Joel is from Long Island I was like shouldn't we be doing Springsteen and he was like No And that was and look I love Billy Joel that's great I also love spring but by the way it tracks with every other Str thing in the show just but it is all Billy Joel yeah it's all Billy Joel did you have a favorite were you I was a big I mean as a teenager Billy Joel I was obsessed so it by way I was so excited I took my girls 9 and 12 to their first concert this year and I was so excited to share it with them and it was it was Billy Joel in LA and I couldn't wait I like played all the music that was like and then he's going to sing this and he's going to sing We Didn't Start the Fire he's going to sing Piano Man within 10 minutes of getting there they both were fast asleep what and they only woke up for Piano Man and they go oh he's singing it okay we know this one and I have never been so pissed off I know I'm going to have to speak to your daughter I was so angry but then I I apologized that I took so I took him to Taylor Swift and that made up for uh that heals me dragging them to Billy Joel but but um for the youths out there they're choosing if they the choose between a Taylor Swift concert and Gutenberg the musical what would you say to them how how do you make that choice um well there's less costume changes but um tickets are cheaper there you go there we go tickets are cheaper uh is probably the only good argument we have I hear they drop raps on audiences twift that's there we can't compete with that okay so we were talking about these two gentlemen you play are are dreamers that so much is riding on this this showcase that they're doing I'm curious like in your own life and career this water is unmarked it's just unmarked water we're not we're not selling a brand here we're not going they take they took a label off don't be worried well I want to drink it but I feel like somebody just like no no no this came from my faucet at home this is Josh hor yeah what's the do you I still got Andrew we're fine yeah was was there a performance on stage an audition where it felt like everything was riding on your career similar to the characters you play yeah in this what brings to mind I have one yeah I so I was about two and a half years out of college I went to Carnegie melon I um I was about to give up on acting I was done because I had been rejected so many times and I was just like I can't do this anymore and I had met my then girlfriend now wife and so wanted I thought it would be the responsible thing to do to go to law school and to you know make a living and I called my mom who's here Mom you in here yeah she's right there she's right oh there she is she is my mom's right there so I called Susan Gad Schwartz up and I said um mom you're going to be very happy cuz both my brothers went to law school I said I'm I'm I'm going to apply to law school and she started getting sad and angry with me and I was like What U was not expecting this response and she goes I'm disappointed in you and I said why she goes because you've spent 15 years dreaming about becoming an actor and only three years trying to live out that dream and I think that that's a cop out and I was like whoa [ __ ] all right Fierce uh so I I was up for this audition for a show called the 25th putham Annual County Spelling beat and and uh a buddy of mine had said you know there's only one guy who could replace this guy who just want a Tony for this and that's you and I I had I I didn't get into musical theater at my school I was I was in the acting program and when Josh groin left my class to go become Josh groin um the the two people competing for his spot were me and my college classmate roral Mali who we did book of Mor and uh thank you uh and also [ __ ] you because Rory got that position so uh Rory uh got the spot I didn't and and so I I didn't do musical theater and I auditioned for spelling be and I felt like I had everything writing on it and I went in there and um I gave you know I I think a a pretty good audition and uh I booked the job and that was all because of my mom can you make us cry too Andrew you can use my mom in your example too to Josh's mom and I was applying to law school called Susan Gad Schwarz and um do uh you don't need it's okay you know um I auditioning for musicals in New York especially like when you don't have an agent and you're like just starting out it's like you go to so many auditions and you're you're going to several a day and you're going to open calls and like and even when I got lucky enough to like get an agent and like even when I had you know had done you know a couple Broadway shows like you're still like hustling all the time to try to get that next so I feel like I kind of got into like the the I remember when it happened I like I went to this audition for this musical that I didn't end up getting but I had this like Moment of clarity in the waiting room that I was like oh I can only do what I do and I'm not going to compete with any of these people and try to sing like that guy or act like this guy like I'm just going to go and do my thing and if they respond to it then I'll get the job and if they don't like that's the that's all I can do I can't read their mind I'm just going to do my version of it and I went in and I think I was like you know sounded fine and was funny and did all that stuff but I didn't get the job I'll tell you about this later um didn't get the job but it was I left it was the first audition that I ever left and I felt like oh I don't feel gross about this I feel like I did everything I was supposed to do and if I get it that's great and if I don't that's okay it's not my job and it just changed the whole way I auditioned for stuff and it was not long after that that I auditioned for the book Mormon and it very much felt the same way that when I got to La for my final call back to read with Josh I was like I can only I can't compete with these other guys that are here I'm just going to like do my thing and if they respond to it there we go and if they don't um I got a free trip to West Hollywood for 24 hours yeah So speaking about like husing for the next gig especially early on in your careers you both have foolishly posted over the years your first head shots let's take a look let's see let's see let take a look at Andrew's first head shot there I am that's me that is that is a silk shirt yeah can you recreate that pose for us is that I was on a stool yeah yeah that's me sweet J that was that was so I could do a um a production of uh On Golden Pond at a dinner theat in omah BR I needed a head shot and that was my head shot I would have cast you thank you let's move on to the heart on the who's that smiser look at that look at you I don't know why the photographer thought that the bench should get more yeah it is bench heavy I would say very it's very bench forward that picture um what is that out of colge is that in college that is uh that is right post College got it it I think I took that picture horizontal head shots were all I took that picture on an empty bench in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania you can see the snow sure and uh and the person was a bench photographer yeah well you could you could put all your friends in po yeah just line up up the opportunities are endless I think was what we were trying to get across yeah this was my Mark Ruffalo face oh yeah it's a good Le jacket turtleneck It's haunting bench haunting lots of I was also auditioning for Community Theater production of On Golden Pond yeah you're really you're it's it's you're saying a lot and yet so little you have that posted in your dressing room for inspiration I should have a copy of that we can take we get off we embarrassed you you guys enough we really you know we made a a choice for Gutenberg that we were not going to use head shots in our play Bill all right because they you know asked for the play Bill to do head shot and Josh and I talked about it and I was like I don't I don't I don't know oh God this is they told us not to get scared everything is fine everybody is okay we're good everything is fine um but anyway we ended for more of whatever this is we ended up using childhood photos rather than head shots cuz the show is about dreamers you guys um I'll leave you my urine sample [Laughter] after is this it this is the this is when it starts in a moment we're almost there we're almost there I got nervous why did you have a bad experience with the audience question yes always no this is going to be great cuz this is a smart crowd yeah it's a smart crow it's a smart sexy crowd uh a few more of my stupid questions before we get to them uh who among you is more likely to forget a line in the show I don't know about that I feel like we're I do Josh my fre I paraphrase everything I do a lot of parap I forget I freeze like a deer in headlights I forget and I cannot recover there's a horrific incident that happened in Book of Mormon where I and incident uh literally I there was somebody who was a celebrity in one of the first three rows and they were so obnoxious and I was so pissed I get very angry at audiences sometimes and um and I I was thinking about I was preoccupied thinking about that and uh I somehow came back into my body and forgot where I was in the show and I could not only did I forget my line I forgot the human languages and I had ringing in my ears so it was like tontis where I was like and people were screaming the line at me and I could not hear it and that was that was one of the only times we did not get a standing ovation for the book of [ __ ] that was a rough one true who uh among you is more like more likely to spit in the other's face in the course of the show oh just because of on purpose no on purpose that the uh I don't know we're not real real expectators no okay no we don't spit too much we've kind of alluded to this but more likely to improv a line I noticed in the show I was at you made a reference to Beetlejuice oh Margery ta great action yeah Lauren B learn Boer oh sorry no they we we're both pretty we're we both kind of improv a lot when we feel like it it's it's sort of like and what's terrible about it is is the two of us will derail the show it really takes like one of us to be responsible custodians and be like let's get back on task here but we both kind of run with we've been good lately we've been good lately yeah we've had a a good run of one show one in a row really pulled it together yeah uh more likely to suffer wardrobe malfunction I don't know you and I'll tell you why you why because I'm literally sewed to my entire [ __ ] costume so they they have me in M diapers in this show so yes yes they I should have this is an instance where I should have helped you more and I didn't know had I been at your fitting I could have assisted they come up to me one day and they go Josh we notice that you're come and undone a lot the shirt the shirt not mentally shirt was coming on his and so they go we'd like to propose that we fasten your shirt to your underwear and I was like is that a thing yeah that's a thing I said all right fasten me up so they fastened me up [Music] and one night I have to make a number four and I literally could not there are 10 buttons and I'm like oh God I did not realize how fastened I was yeah until that night God bless our dresser Alex Bartlett he was right there he was there I said I finally slammed the door open and I said get me out of this [ __ ] underwear shirt I know it's like wearing a jumper no woman wears a jumper with 10 buttons I don't know I'm sorry I asked very angry Josh they put me in a man diaper man I know I know I know I'm sorry compare yourselves with these other famous Duos who is for instance who's thma who's Louise in the relation why are we both dying in this you just spoiled the end of the movie um I mean I would say I think I would be Louise yeah I'm thalma okay okay who's uh who's that was an easy one next who's who's Bert who's Ernie oh oh that's a good one uh you're more Bert you think yeah all right I'll take that yeah you want to be yeah yeah uh yeah I'm Ernie okay live action yeah we'll do live action oh that'll be so great oh yeah yeah seems to no that's not going to work scrapped it Matthew bro Rick Nathan Lane who's who oh wow well that's actually a that's a good one that's um those are very big shoes you know physically it's it's it's uh it's easy um physically this is an easy one but it was funny because at one point when we were talking about doing shows we had jokingly said what if we do the producers what if we did a Revival of The Producers which we would never touch because it's it's it's the greatest thing ever and those two guys are so iconic in it but we both struggled with it because we thought in many ways he actually would play the biali stock role like better and I'd play the Matthew BR girl better and it was a really interesting thing because we're like oh yeah it's you know physically it makes sense the other way but yeah but what what we comedically do feels more right yeah in that sense uh a couple more who's uh Schwarzenegger who's DeVito uh you do the math our bodies will answer that question for you [Laughter] who's Barbie who's Oppenheimer oh wow oh wow okay um wow well Josh and I can I can I okay so Josh and I saw Oppenheimer together has everyone seen Oppenheimer I don't want to I don't want to spoil the ending um the end is a blast no but no Josh and I were sitting there and we became the most needy actors ever that it's just a festival of white men that movie and anytime a new white actor came on stage Josh and I would go he's in this that's right get an audition we really he's in this movie everyone's in this movie like oh man like how many more people well he's in it our three we were still flabbergasted we were like how is this possible uh to answer your question sorry to answer your question Andrew's Barbie I'm I'm unfortunally Oppenheimer we can all be Oppenheimer oh it's going to be your Valentine's Day cter um we do have some wonderful questions from the audience uh Craig wants to know uh first says hello uh I'm in the current North American tour of Book of Mormon no wait Craig congratulations C understudying Elder price amazing Andrew any advice oh um where is Craig you raise your hi Craig um it's a hi it's a beast of a role right yes yeah I would say um uh you got to find those moments where other people are singing to tap out let that Ensemble carry and remember to always support your Cunningham with whatever he needs um good luck to you break a leg Bud yes what other Broadway role would you like to see one other star in a role that you think they'd thrive in yeah I mean I would love to see Josh do Forum I think I would love to see you um yeah Andrew said something to me the other day and I was watching uh the Wham documentary oh and I honestly now cannot unsee it and I I think at some point in all of our lifetimes that you need to play [Applause] George maybe def do you have a biop pick in mind do you have someone you would want to play on the big screen or on stage um the other guy in Wham yeah yeah um this is more like a a a uh a merch question Riley wants to know are the drunk number one and number two hats available oh what JH predicted did I say they did not make those hats but Josh said we should sell drunk number one went up to them and said you're idiots for not selling so I believe that is being developed Ved as we speak but that was Josh called it from the very start thank thank you for having my back person um Felicity wants to know what advice would you share with an actor dreaming of getting to Broadway um law school go to law go to law school tell your mother you want to go to law school no you know I here's what I would say a lot of people will tell you it's about luck and it's about being on the right place at the right time I think all of that is true but I also think it's about you having nothing else that you want to do as passionately as that because it requires sacrifice it requires you know the ability to deal with a lot of people telling you no and it requires a lot of not self-confidence but self- reminder that eventually something will happen and you push and you push and you push and you push that boulder up that hill and you believe in yourself more than anybody else will believe in you and eventually somebody will believe in you because they'll see your own belief in yourself that's that's been my experience and you you you said that with your audition I think that that's so profound and so accurate because I I had a similar moment where that was like I was so afraid and then I stopped being afraid and I started being comfort able in my own skin and that was so of changes everything yeah advice that seem that would seem like the the poignant profound way to end this but I've got a couple minutes left so I've got some more Sil questions for you the happy say I confused profoundly random questionnaire for you guys uh do either of you collect anything what do you collect I collect Andrew Ran's teeth so I have a collection of baby teeth this this is a real surprise w i sweet in a way I want to clone Andrew one day and I want to make him fight my Andrew and so I'm meet you guys so uh do you collect anything ex-boyfriends there it is H um no I wish I did I wish um I wish I did have a collection when I by the way when I was a kid this is true my mom can attested this I used to collect a lot of Disney merchandise I used to like Disney memorabilia I was obsessed with Disney we I grew up in Florida we used to go to Disney World all the time and I had a giant poster of Aladdin in my room and the genie uh was my favorite character ever and I would constantly tell my mom I want to do that one day I want to do what Robin Williams did in this one day and that that's weird kind full circle what's uh anyone want to reveal the wallpaper on their phone I feel like that tells something about a human being sure family friends yeah um mine is it's the uh it's the opening night card that my boy my boyfriend tuck Watkins and I met doing boys in the band so it's the card that he gave me for opening [Applause] night what if I turned mine around and it was just an Apple wallpaper I was going to say if it was a if it was the same is my two daughters a look at us my babies last actor you were mistaken for Andrew rold well I just I think I just told you this story that J Josh and I went to see parade and this woman next to me would not let it go she insisted that I was Michael Yuri and I'm friends with Michael Yuri and I love Michael Yuri I don't I don't think that you know we don't we don't really look very similar and finally I just had to say to this woman you just mean another gay person and then she was and then she realized that it was correct I that she was like oh I was thinking of that other G this happened to me like uhhuh this happened to me Josh got to witness my like full meltdown he he had a I uh at last night when we left someone at the Stage store goes I love you on I loved you on SNL and I was like sweetheart I've never been on SNL so I don't know if it was Bobby moan was one of the fat guys she was like I one of those it's like those are the best when it's like anyone's guest I got confused for Jonah Hill I get confused for Bobby Mo I get confused for uh Andrew ranold yeah what's the worst note a director has ever given you oh I've got some I've got some great ones what you got um uh uh okay I got I got two I got two good ones same same director and I used to keep them because he wrote them down the first one was um uh quit acting with your hair and um the other one was Charming is not a choice and I was like okay and I used to hang on to those and I was like and then one day I ripped him up but yeah act quit acting with your hair I was like friend I'm going to make a career out of this this is look out what do you got Joshy stop using your eyebrows I literally was doing a movie and stop using your and the director kept coming up to me and saying stop using your eyebrows and I was like I don't know what I'm just living we were on like take 10 and I was like I can't move I can't move my face I didn't understand what was does he mean get BOTOX what is he what is the intention of this oh my God so hopefully after this wonderful run by the way when does The Run extend next week through January 28th January 28th so get your tickets now while you can hopefully it won't be another dozen years before you guys retam what's next is it are we doing Waiting For gdau Love Letters what do you have in mind love letters sounds right cuz we just get to sit yeah just get to sit down I'd like to do something that's one act that has no choreography no choreography do you still want to sing though no okay maybe no hats right um we can find the right something like that yeah sitting down no choreography I know it's a limited amount of plays that offer what I'm looking I mean I think it's love letters bab I think it's that's that that's in there or just something else we could read right yeah well catch it while they're willing to be able-bodied human beings I would say because you yeah this is my Elton John farewell tour what a glorious run it was though uh congratulations in advance uh their opening night is Just days away guys get your tickets while you had it's an amazing show thank you so much and andad everybody thank you thank you very much thank you for coming thank you guys thank you so much and so ends another edition of happy sad confused remember to review rate and subscribe to this show on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast I'm a big podcast C person I'm Daisy Ridley and I definitely wasn't pressured to do this by Josh

Channel: Josh Horowitz

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Length: 60min 4sec (3604 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 12 2023