Talk show interview about Broadway grindfrom @latenightseth

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No, this is very exciting. This is rank eleven year gap better Broadway shows for you. -Yes. -Uh, you were doing Hedwig on Broadway eleven years ago, and now you were doing O'Mary. And how is the return to the Broadway grind treating you? -Well, as the oldest Mary -Yes. -You are the seventh Mary in this show, and you are the oldest. -The oldest Mary. It's a new administration. Rank, and I will be turning sixty sixty three during the run. Wow. Wow. Oh, there it is, dude. I mean, I mean, come on. You're a stun You're stunning for 62. -Stop it. -By the way, you're stunning you're stunning for any age. I'm not gonna put any qualifiers on it. -You're out of the sun, everybody. -So, best it's a grind. I feel like people do not appreciate the kind of grind it is. -Well, I mean, Hedwig was harder, but this is really hard. Eight shows a week. Even rock stars come in and go, Beyonce don't do eight shows a week. -Right. -But it's like, you know, you got to be a nun, as Ethel Merman said, when you do the show. And so most of my time is lying around preparing, resting, watching reruns of The Wire. -Yeah. That's a good way to prepare. And that means, like No when the show's over, I think also people think like, Oh, my Good. Everybody probably goes to the bar and celebrates. But, yeah, those days are over. -This is the old days. That's Patti LuPone. That's Elaine Elaine Stritch. -Yeah. They they put that to bed.