October 28, 2024 • 15 mins
Michael Riedel and Christine Nagy recently spoke with Andy Karl, a three-time Tony nominee who stars in the new musical TEETH. Based on the hit 2007 screenplay by Mitchell Lichtenstein, TEETH delves into the story of a girl whose curse may also serve as her salvation. Karl described the show as one that “must be seen to be described!” Perfectly timed for the spooky season, this dark comedy will open on Halloween night, October 31, and is currently performed at New World Stages.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
iHeartRadio Broadway presents Inside Broadway, the podcast about everything theater.
It's where you hear what happens from the ticket window
to the stage door, with the stars and creative forces
that make it all come alive. Here are your hosts,
wo Rs Michael Riedle and Light FM's Christine Nagy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
All right, Michael, just in time for Spooky season, we
have a musical that I guess we could describe as
like a dark horror thriller musical that had a great
run at Playwrights Horizons and is now at New World Stages.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Teeth The musical Oh Yes, based on a movie.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Right yes, it's got quite a following and also with
quite a following, is the star, one of the stars
of the show. He's got three tony nominations to his name,
a Drama Desk Award and Olivier Award. Andy Carl joins
us to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hi, Andy, how are you good to be with you guys?
So please tell us about his show?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Well, okay, it's sort of a show that must be
seen in order to be described, because if you'd asked
anybody that's seen it, they could go on for an
hour about what.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
The show has and does.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
And it's based on the two thousand and seven horror
film cult classic Teeth, and we are now a musical
about that incredible film.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Written by Michael R.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Jackson and Anna Kate Jacobs and directed by Sarah Benson.
Just a really amazing creative team behind it, but also
an incredible cast. This was a show that premiered at
Playwrights Horizons has now moved to the New World Stages
in an epic way. I think they've really upgraded a
(01:47):
lot of the horror and tech. I mean, we have
flames and lakes and blood and core sort of the
site you wi't the sites you won't belie to be seen.
It's gonna be great for horror horror fans, especially fans
of the movie, including ah Jess Wessler came to see
(02:10):
our first preview and she was the lead of Teeth
the movie, and she came to see our show and
just loved it. But yeah, horror fans will be happy.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
But it's not a it's not a jump scare show.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It's like a sort of a psychological dive into you know, teeth.
I can still describe it as such. I I that
even more, you know, I can get into trouble.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Fair to say it's not a musical comedy, correct, Yeah, well, it.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Is definitely comedy.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It has comedy in it, which is this great incredible
mix of like horror and comedy but also you know, ideology,
religion and suppression of sexuality and a girl you know,
coming into her to her own and so it's it's
really sort of epic and complex at its core, but
it's wrapped in this like comedy and and uh and
(03:08):
music and this bangers I call him, the kids are
calling them now bangers, and it's just really it's really
like a journey. When you come watch it, you'll you'll
be uh. The first two rows, let's just put it
this way. The first two rows do have to wear
ponchos because it may be covered in some blood.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
So, oh wow, we do go for it. So and
and what character are you playing? Are you?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Are you a creepy dude?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I am, I am, I'm, I'm I'm a couple of
creepy dudes actually, But my main character that is past
your Bill and he runs this town within iron fist
of religion. Uh, and he's trying to keep his young
congregation under you know, under some sort of like, you know,
Father God is will it wants you to be pure
(03:56):
and keep your purity. The girls of the town belong
to a sort of like a group called Promise Keeper Girls,
So they're making a promise of their purity to God
and also to the pastor. And he certainly, he certainly
is a zealot and in ways, but he's a cool zellot.
(04:19):
But unfortunately he follows religion down his path to suppress everyone,
and out of that comes this beast, this monster. When
you suppress something so much during this show, you know,
things happen. Things happen when when that suppression is being made,
(04:41):
and then out of it becomes this teeth, this dentata
if you, if I could be so bold.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So if somebody does the wrong thing by this girl,
they pay a big price.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, well, any male that does wrong by this girl
price probably the biggest to a lot of males. So yeah,
we certainly have there's you know, prosthetics involved and things
in your face. We definitely pushed the envelope with this show,
which I truly love. I'm so happy to be a
(05:17):
part of them, so happy that they asked me to
come on board and play these parts.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Playing parts that I'm playing a part that loses parts.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, is that what we have to watch in the
first couple of rows, is that.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Like you may, I mean, I don't think any any eyes,
any open eyes in this show that is watching it
is unscathed. They walk away unscathed. So for you, that's
the way you think about the show. That you do
leave thinking about the concept and the theme and the
idea behind it, but you're also just incredibly taken away
(05:53):
by all the the props and the fantasy of the show.
And it's really, like really unusual that New World Stages,
this off Broadway place, really just went for it and
they are so happy to have us.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
There because there it is.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
We are doing things that have never been done at
New World Stages, and it's a great return for me.
The last and first show that I ever performed there
was Altar Boys.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Which is all right, yeah, I forgot about.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
That based on another like religious esque show, and now
you know, fast forwarding to this many years later, I'm
still carrying the cross.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
You're going to say something, Christine, I.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wanted to just ask you how the audiences have been responding,
Like I imagine they're loving this, are they freaked out at
the same time.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
All of it. They from the very beginning.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I mean, there's certain fans that saw the show and
Playwrights Horizons, so and there's a lot of talk about
the show and this cast is so amazing.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
A lot of them came with the show. I'm new
to the show.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Stephen Pascal did tremendous job at play Rights and I'm
coming in as a part that he was playing, parts
that he was playing, and the response has just been
insane and rightfully so, because we go for it. There's
if you if you aren't reacting and laughing and responding
and sort of like it's sort of the laughter is
(07:19):
coming from the horror and the outrageousness of things that
are happening every night.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Especially at the end of the show.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
You're really getting You're getting your money's worth it for
an off Broadway show.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Are you a horror movie fan?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I think I was when I was younger. You know,
I don't get a kick out of him as much
as I did, But yeah, Teeth I just watched recently,
and I just I love movies, horror movies that have
a have something to say. And I thought Teeth the
movie and the musical have this incredible thing to say
(07:55):
about repression and and putting putting. I guess male and
female and an equal physical play playfield. So if you
threaten the woman, she can easily take away anything that
means to you by taking away what it means to
(08:16):
be a male, which I thought was a really great
experiment and the idea of like what horror films.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Can offer something about, you know, some sort of.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Ideology and something you can take away and really like
twist your mind on and think about. Well, after you've
left the show, you're going to be thinking about the themes,
but also all the insane things.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
That you've seen.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
And I was trying to think of other musicals where violent,
horrible things happen to people, and the only one I
can think of as a spider Man turn Off the Dark.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But that wasn't intentional.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I think one of our cast
members was in that show Wow, so he survived only
to be only to be you know, have his uh
be emasculated every night.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I guess maybe like the closest would be Little Shop
of Hors. Do you think if you had to.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I'd say it's a mix, right, we got little chop
of hors but we also have a rocky horror and
then like mix in with Jennifer Jennifer's Body, that one
with Megan Fox. Like in those three things you've got,
I think you've got something close to what we have.
But it's it's definitely Yeah, I think you'll leave the
(09:30):
show just, uh, you know, wide eyed and ready for more.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Perfect for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm convinced I want to go perfect for Halloween.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
We're opening on Halloween and we're in previews now, I
think it's it's perfect timing for that. But yeah, again,
I think I'm hoping the show lasts a long time
because it really has something to say, and the cast
is incredible and it's hilarious and gory and fun and
makes you think. So I'm really proud to be a
(10:00):
part of it. Honestly, I'm one of the It's is
gonna be one of the greatest experiences of my life.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
More blood than Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, I think it's a theme throughout Broadway. Now, let's
get the blood in there. I wanted to, like Andy
Carl be emasculated and set on fire.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Least, all right, we'ren how do they fake the blood.
What do they make blood out of on stage? What's
the material?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I don't know, you know, it's blood is I don't
know the exact mix, something to do with water and
color and some sort of glucose, but I don't know.
But it's it's awesome and it goes everywhere. It's it's
we're wiping ourselves down every night after the show with
baby wipes and trying to take showers, and you know,
(10:46):
I'm there's some of my sheets are have blood on them.
I wake up in the morning and I'm like, no,
that's not me.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I don't want to freak out over that. Well, Andy,
Carl is so fun to talk with you. This show
sounds fantastic. So it's at New World's Stages your opening
night Halloween, and hopefully there for a long time so
we can get in there.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Thanks Andy, Yeah, thank you, thank you. So you caught
Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I here, I did, Michael, I was there the day
before you, So I guess I saw one of the
final previews. Yeah, Saturday, Mattinee Nicole Scherzinger. You told me
she was incredible.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, because I saw in London in Clashire.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yet yeah, she was amazing. She was absolutely wonderful. So
our crowd was going crazy, honestly, almost interrupting the show,
like constantly to stand up and applaud for her.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Oh yeah, well I was there opening night. She had
a six minute standing ovation after the song with one
look I heard about that amazing And this is a
this is a very spare, almost I would say, avant
garde production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard with only
two chairs and a black wall, and everybody's in black.
There's no no mansion, no paramount gates, no famous car
(11:53):
that Norma Desmond drives around in, no fancy costumes, no
fancy costumes at all, No, no, no at all, and
it's almost when it was I thought an interesting choice
that when a character is done and they're done with
their story, they kind of just take off their headset.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, we're relieving, we're out now.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's right, right.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
And also they film a lot of it too. They
have a live camra on stage. It's about you know,
it's about the movies. It's at Boulevard, So they filmed
the actors and they have all the close ups of
Nicole's Sugar in the space, and I.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Thought the cast was excellent. I love you know. I
don't want to give too much away, but where we
had some filming out on the street outside of the
theater and then the entrance, so a lot of people
were wondering, is that happening in real time?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Are they really out there?
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
There is.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
He goes outside and they film it in front of
a I was going to say, a live studio audio.
It's in front of a live audience of people on
the street.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
On Broadway and then come back in. Yeah, it was
really interesting choices it was. It was a really good show.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
I actually think it's one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's strongest
scores too. I think with one look and as if
we never said goodbye, great theater songs, great theater songs.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I mean, how was it received at the time when
it first it was.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
A hit because of Glenn Close.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
She was Norma Desmond and she gave a sensational performance
at the time, completely different from what Nicol Schuerzinger is doing.
But it was, Yeah, it was very well received and
it did. It ran about four or five years on Broadway,
I think, so it was it was considered an andrew
Ed weber Hitten. It's not the size of Cats or
a fan of the opera mark, you know, nothing is.
(13:22):
And it was completely reinventing and Andrew. At this point
in his life, he is allowing a younger generation of directors,
in this case, the director Jamie Lloyd, to look at
his material and say, I can figure out a way
to restage it completely. And Andrew says, fine, I don't
want these things to live as museum pieces. You want
to try something different with it?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Do it?
Speaker 6 (13:40):
You know they did the Drag Cats off Broadway earlier
this year and it was all you know, it was
drag Queen's doing Cats. And there's an immersive phanto with
the opera that's in the works. Oh really, Yeah, you're
gonna be able to go to the theater. I don't
even know if it's going to be in a theater wherever.
They're going to put it here in New York, and
you'll be able to follow whatever actors you want throughout
(14:00):
the whole evening. So you can follow the phantom like
Sleep No More, Yes, that kind of but you can
follow the phantom into his lair, or you can follow
Christine when she gets on the boat, or you can
follow Madame Jeery or something.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh that sounds really cool.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah, so that's that's the concept. We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
And he's good with this because you you went to
the opening night with Andrew Lloyd Webber. He's happy with
his production very much.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
So yeah, yeah, no, as I say, he's a at
this point in his life, he wants a whole new
generation of directors and artists to play around with his
material and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Did you like the mix of how we know the
time period it takes place in, but they mixed in
a lot of contemporary Yeah, like in the dance and
the camera.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I mean a lot a lot of shows are doing
this now that there's no real specific time frame for anything.
You know, it's set what in the nineteen fifties of
course the Agil Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
But you know, the.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Point of the show, I think you know is sadly
still true that when women in show business reach a
certain age, you get cast aside.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Right when we're done, we're done, and she's all of
what did they reference forty?
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yeah, which well people don't people think you know Norma
Desmond's this old lady. Yeah, you think Glenn Close was
older played her and Glorias Watson the movie. But in
point of fact, Norma Desmond was a star in silent
movies when she was a teenager, so when the talkies
came in, her career was over with by the time
she was thirty.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Oh it was thirty. I used her up and tossed
her out.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, because again I had the different impression of it,
like a much older woman. And then you find out
she's forty and it's like Pete what.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Yeah, no, yah, people are realizing that she was she
was a teenage star and then the talk that's gone and.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
She was gone.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah yeah, really fascinating.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But check it out Sunset Boulevard and Neicol shehers in
her great performance.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
All right, we'll talk to you next time on Inside Broadway.
iHeartRadio Broadway presents Inside Broadway, the podcast about everything theater.
It's where you hear what happens from the ticket window
to the stage door, with the stars and creative forces
that make it all come alive. Here are your hosts,
wo Rs Michael Riedle and Light FM's Christine Nagy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
All right, Michael, just in time for Spooky season, we
have a musical that I guess we could describe as
like a dark horror thriller musical that had a great
run at Playwrights Horizons and is now at New World Stages.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Teeth The musical Oh Yes, based on a movie.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Right yes, it's got quite a following and also with
quite a following, is the star, one of the stars
of the show. He's got three tony nominations to his name,
a Drama Desk Award and Olivier Award. Andy Carl joins
us to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hi, Andy, how are you good to be with you guys?
So please tell us about his show?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Well, okay, it's sort of a show that must be
seen in order to be described, because if you'd asked
anybody that's seen it, they could go on for an
hour about what.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
The show has and does.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
And it's based on the two thousand and seven horror
film cult classic Teeth, and we are now a musical
about that incredible film.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Written by Michael R.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Jackson and Anna Kate Jacobs and directed by Sarah Benson.
Just a really amazing creative team behind it, but also
an incredible cast. This was a show that premiered at
Playwrights Horizons has now moved to the New World Stages
in an epic way. I think they've really upgraded a
(01:47):
lot of the horror and tech. I mean, we have
flames and lakes and blood and core sort of the
site you wi't the sites you won't belie to be seen.
It's gonna be great for horror horror fans, especially fans
of the movie, including ah Jess Wessler came to see
(02:10):
our first preview and she was the lead of Teeth
the movie, and she came to see our show and
just loved it. But yeah, horror fans will be happy.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
But it's not a it's not a jump scare show.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It's like a sort of a psychological dive into you know, teeth.
I can still describe it as such. I I that
even more, you know, I can get into trouble.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Fair to say it's not a musical comedy, correct, Yeah, well, it.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Is definitely comedy.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It has comedy in it, which is this great incredible
mix of like horror and comedy but also you know, ideology,
religion and suppression of sexuality and a girl you know,
coming into her to her own and so it's it's
really sort of epic and complex at its core, but
it's wrapped in this like comedy and and uh and
(03:08):
music and this bangers I call him, the kids are
calling them now bangers, and it's just really it's really
like a journey. When you come watch it, you'll you'll
be uh. The first two rows, let's just put it
this way. The first two rows do have to wear
ponchos because it may be covered in some blood.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
So, oh wow, we do go for it. So and
and what character are you playing? Are you?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Are you a creepy dude?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I am, I am, I'm, I'm I'm a couple of
creepy dudes actually, But my main character that is past
your Bill and he runs this town within iron fist
of religion. Uh, and he's trying to keep his young
congregation under you know, under some sort of like, you know,
Father God is will it wants you to be pure
(03:56):
and keep your purity. The girls of the town belong
to a sort of like a group called Promise Keeper Girls,
So they're making a promise of their purity to God
and also to the pastor. And he certainly, he certainly
is a zealot and in ways, but he's a cool zellot.
(04:19):
But unfortunately he follows religion down his path to suppress everyone,
and out of that comes this beast, this monster. When
you suppress something so much during this show, you know,
things happen. Things happen when when that suppression is being made,
(04:41):
and then out of it becomes this teeth, this dentata
if you, if I could be so bold.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So if somebody does the wrong thing by this girl,
they pay a big price.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, well, any male that does wrong by this girl
price probably the biggest to a lot of males. So yeah,
we certainly have there's you know, prosthetics involved and things
in your face. We definitely pushed the envelope with this show,
which I truly love. I'm so happy to be a
(05:17):
part of them, so happy that they asked me to
come on board and play these parts.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Playing parts that I'm playing a part that loses parts.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, is that what we have to watch in the
first couple of rows, is that.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Like you may, I mean, I don't think any any eyes,
any open eyes in this show that is watching it
is unscathed. They walk away unscathed. So for you, that's
the way you think about the show. That you do
leave thinking about the concept and the theme and the
idea behind it, but you're also just incredibly taken away
(05:53):
by all the the props and the fantasy of the show.
And it's really, like really unusual that New World Stages,
this off Broadway place, really just went for it and
they are so happy to have us.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
There because there it is.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
We are doing things that have never been done at
New World Stages, and it's a great return for me.
The last and first show that I ever performed there
was Altar Boys.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Which is all right, yeah, I forgot about.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
That based on another like religious esque show, and now
you know, fast forwarding to this many years later, I'm
still carrying the cross.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
You're going to say something, Christine, I.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wanted to just ask you how the audiences have been responding,
Like I imagine they're loving this, are they freaked out at
the same time.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
All of it. They from the very beginning.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I mean, there's certain fans that saw the show and
Playwrights Horizons, so and there's a lot of talk about
the show and this cast is so amazing.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
A lot of them came with the show. I'm new
to the show.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Stephen Pascal did tremendous job at play Rights and I'm
coming in as a part that he was playing, parts
that he was playing, and the response has just been
insane and rightfully so, because we go for it. There's
if you if you aren't reacting and laughing and responding
and sort of like it's sort of the laughter is
(07:19):
coming from the horror and the outrageousness of things that
are happening every night.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Especially at the end of the show.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
You're really getting You're getting your money's worth it for
an off Broadway show.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Are you a horror movie fan?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I think I was when I was younger. You know,
I don't get a kick out of him as much
as I did, But yeah, Teeth I just watched recently,
and I just I love movies, horror movies that have
a have something to say. And I thought Teeth the
movie and the musical have this incredible thing to say
(07:55):
about repression and and putting putting. I guess male and
female and an equal physical play playfield. So if you
threaten the woman, she can easily take away anything that
means to you by taking away what it means to
(08:16):
be a male, which I thought was a really great
experiment and the idea of like what horror films.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Can offer something about, you know, some sort of.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Ideology and something you can take away and really like
twist your mind on and think about. Well, after you've
left the show, you're going to be thinking about the themes,
but also all the insane things.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
That you've seen.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
And I was trying to think of other musicals where violent,
horrible things happen to people, and the only one I
can think of as a spider Man turn Off the Dark.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But that wasn't intentional.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I think one of our cast
members was in that show Wow, so he survived only
to be only to be you know, have his uh
be emasculated every night.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I guess maybe like the closest would be Little Shop
of Hors. Do you think if you had to.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I'd say it's a mix, right, we got little chop
of hors but we also have a rocky horror and
then like mix in with Jennifer Jennifer's Body, that one
with Megan Fox. Like in those three things you've got,
I think you've got something close to what we have.
But it's it's definitely Yeah, I think you'll leave the
(09:30):
show just, uh, you know, wide eyed and ready for more.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Perfect for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm convinced I want to go perfect for Halloween.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
We're opening on Halloween and we're in previews now, I
think it's it's perfect timing for that. But yeah, again,
I think I'm hoping the show lasts a long time
because it really has something to say, and the cast
is incredible and it's hilarious and gory and fun and
makes you think. So I'm really proud to be a
(10:00):
part of it. Honestly, I'm one of the It's is
gonna be one of the greatest experiences of my life.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
More blood than Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, I think it's a theme throughout Broadway. Now, let's
get the blood in there. I wanted to, like Andy
Carl be emasculated and set on fire.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Least, all right, we'ren how do they fake the blood.
What do they make blood out of on stage? What's
the material?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I don't know, you know, it's blood is I don't
know the exact mix, something to do with water and
color and some sort of glucose, but I don't know.
But it's it's awesome and it goes everywhere. It's it's
we're wiping ourselves down every night after the show with
baby wipes and trying to take showers, and you know,
(10:46):
I'm there's some of my sheets are have blood on them.
I wake up in the morning and I'm like, no,
that's not me.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I don't want to freak out over that. Well, Andy,
Carl is so fun to talk with you. This show
sounds fantastic. So it's at New World's Stages your opening
night Halloween, and hopefully there for a long time so
we can get in there.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Thanks Andy, Yeah, thank you, thank you. So you caught
Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I here, I did, Michael, I was there the day
before you, So I guess I saw one of the
final previews. Yeah, Saturday, Mattinee Nicole Scherzinger. You told me
she was incredible.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, because I saw in London in Clashire.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yet yeah, she was amazing. She was absolutely wonderful. So
our crowd was going crazy, honestly, almost interrupting the show,
like constantly to stand up and applaud for her.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Oh yeah, well I was there opening night. She had
a six minute standing ovation after the song with one
look I heard about that amazing And this is a
this is a very spare, almost I would say, avant
garde production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard with only
two chairs and a black wall, and everybody's in black.
There's no no mansion, no paramount gates, no famous car
(11:53):
that Norma Desmond drives around in, no fancy costumes, no
fancy costumes at all, No, no, no at all, and
it's almost when it was I thought an interesting choice
that when a character is done and they're done with
their story, they kind of just take off their headset.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, we're relieving, we're out now.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's right, right.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
And also they film a lot of it too. They
have a live camra on stage. It's about you know,
it's about the movies. It's at Boulevard, So they filmed
the actors and they have all the close ups of
Nicole's Sugar in the space, and I.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Thought the cast was excellent. I love you know. I
don't want to give too much away, but where we
had some filming out on the street outside of the
theater and then the entrance, so a lot of people
were wondering, is that happening in real time?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Are they really out there?
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
There is.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
He goes outside and they film it in front of
a I was going to say, a live studio audio.
It's in front of a live audience of people on
the street.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
On Broadway and then come back in. Yeah, it was
really interesting choices it was. It was a really good show.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
I actually think it's one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's strongest
scores too. I think with one look and as if
we never said goodbye, great theater songs, great theater songs.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I mean, how was it received at the time when
it first it was.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
A hit because of Glenn Close.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
She was Norma Desmond and she gave a sensational performance
at the time, completely different from what Nicol Schuerzinger is doing.
But it was, Yeah, it was very well received and
it did. It ran about four or five years on Broadway,
I think, so it was it was considered an andrew
Ed weber Hitten. It's not the size of Cats or
a fan of the opera mark, you know, nothing is.
(13:22):
And it was completely reinventing and Andrew. At this point
in his life, he is allowing a younger generation of directors,
in this case, the director Jamie Lloyd, to look at
his material and say, I can figure out a way
to restage it completely. And Andrew says, fine, I don't
want these things to live as museum pieces. You want
to try something different with it?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Do it?
Speaker 6 (13:40):
You know they did the Drag Cats off Broadway earlier
this year and it was all you know, it was
drag Queen's doing Cats. And there's an immersive phanto with
the opera that's in the works. Oh really, Yeah, you're
gonna be able to go to the theater. I don't
even know if it's going to be in a theater wherever.
They're going to put it here in New York, and
you'll be able to follow whatever actors you want throughout
(14:00):
the whole evening. So you can follow the phantom like
Sleep No More, Yes, that kind of but you can
follow the phantom into his lair, or you can follow
Christine when she gets on the boat, or you can
follow Madame Jeery or something.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh that sounds really cool.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah, so that's that's the concept. We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
And he's good with this because you you went to
the opening night with Andrew Lloyd Webber. He's happy with
his production very much.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
So yeah, yeah, no, as I say, he's a at
this point in his life, he wants a whole new
generation of directors and artists to play around with his
material and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Did you like the mix of how we know the
time period it takes place in, but they mixed in
a lot of contemporary Yeah, like in the dance and
the camera.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I mean a lot a lot of shows are doing
this now that there's no real specific time frame for anything.
You know, it's set what in the nineteen fifties of
course the Agil Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
But you know, the.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Point of the show, I think you know is sadly
still true that when women in show business reach a
certain age, you get cast aside.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Right when we're done, we're done, and she's all of
what did they reference forty?
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yeah, which well people don't people think you know Norma
Desmond's this old lady. Yeah, you think Glenn Close was
older played her and Glorias Watson the movie. But in
point of fact, Norma Desmond was a star in silent
movies when she was a teenager, so when the talkies
came in, her career was over with by the time
she was thirty.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Oh it was thirty. I used her up and tossed
her out.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, because again I had the different impression of it,
like a much older woman. And then you find out
she's forty and it's like Pete what.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Yeah, no, yah, people are realizing that she was she
was a teenage star and then the talk that's gone and.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
She was gone.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah yeah, really fascinating.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But check it out Sunset Boulevard and Neicol shehers in
her great performance.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
All right, we'll talk to you next time on Inside Broadway.
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