Daniel Does DFW Theater
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Daniel Does DFW Theater
M Pptte and Other CENSORED Stories (with Dani Holway)
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Take a peek behind the curtains at the thrilling (and sometimes wild) adventures in theater. Dani and I swap stories from the rush of auditions to the unexpected mayhem of touring, including a hilarious social media gaffe that had us in a tizzy. We even shed light on the bittersweet symphony of personal upheavals, like navigating the aftermath of a breakup (HA!). Wrapping up, we unveil her newest artistic endeavor, Boy Howdy Co., and the exciting prospects ahead. So, pull up a chair and join us for a rollercoaster of tales that are as real, raw, and riotously funny as live theater itself.
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Hey guys and welcome to Daniel Daz's DFW Theater. I haven't even introduced you yet. I was sharing for you. Oh, thanks, it is my podcast. Thanks, we're retalking theater and today I have my first guest on the show. It's going to be one of my best friends, but do I know you? I?
Speaker 2don't know when am I.
Speaker 1Who are you? I'm a writer, but a really good friend of mine and someone that I like we just immediately clicked. I would say Period, yeah, that's how it was, but we have Danny Hallway. Cheers Chocs.
Speaker 2Chocs.
Speaker 4We haven't tried this yet, mmm.
Speaker 1I'm going to drink more of that in a minute, but no. So the reason that Danny is my first guest is because she begged me to.
Speaker 2There are hands and knees, well.
Speaker 1No, because Danny was there when it like popped into my head and I was like I need to tell someone about this.
Speaker 2Over three different flavors of souffle.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, if you have this, they do not sponsor me.
Speaker 2This is not a sponsor post. This is not an ad.
Speaker 1But if you have not been to Rise Sous-Fle, there is a location in Fort Worth, annandale. It's high sponsor us. But delicious, amazing, it was so good. I felt like Lady Gaga Talented, gorgeous, great, amazing.
Speaker 2Playing club Another club.
Speaker 1We did the whole prefix menu.
Speaker 2So good, great deal.
Speaker 1Yeah, but not only that, but then we also ordered one of the special T-Souffles, obviously, so not only do we have a three course marshmallow soup. Hoola-la-la, hoola-la-la Marshmallow soup, our main.
Speaker 2Which was like a mac and cheese souffle.
Speaker 1No, no no, my main was like a ham and cheese. We got the mac and cheese to share.
Speaker 2Oh, I did, because we got a third one. I got the mushroom truffles souffle.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then we each got a dessert and it was so good no rugs, no raggards, no go-gards? Not at all. But we were sitting there and I was like I have an idea that I want to put out into the theater world and what do you think of this? And Danny was like stupid.
Speaker 2I was like I left I said, hmm, I gotta go.
Speaker 1Absolutely and there.
Speaker 3I was.
Speaker 2Wow, great idea. Anyway, it was an excellent idea and I'm so glad you're doing it and I'm so grateful and honored to be your first guest on your new podcast.
Speaker 1We're going to try to make a podcast work Vodcast. It might already be out there, but I'm going to make it. Oh, it's not, no, okay, vodcast, vodcast. You heard it here first you heard your first voice and saw it here first, because it's a Vodcast.
Speaker 3Vodcast.
Speaker 1No, but yeah, I was just like spitballing these ideas. Oh, that sounded dirty. I was spitballing these ideas and just, I mean these ideas. Yeah, thank you. And Danny was like, go for it, do it. And so I have this awesome team that helps me out. That's behind the camera and they're amazing. I'm not going to say their names because I don't know all of them, so they're all strangers. No, I do, but they are. No, you'll see them in credits later. We'll do it in post. And here are their names. Now, no, but yeah, and actually let's backtrack a bit. Danny, we met, okay, no, no, no, no. I have to tell you something funny. You already know this, mom, I'm scared. You already know this.
Speaker 1So I wasn't sure if I liked it first, which isn't that the sort of all I got that a lot Really good friendships. But can I tell you why that's true? So I met you a couple of times out with Emily, kay and Ally, yes, and the which, yeah, love, love Girlies, yeah, love them. But we went to I can't even remember the first place, but the second place was definitely Sambuca we met each other. I remember, I remember you know what I'm about to say.
Speaker 2No, but I remember.
Speaker 1Do I? I don't know.
Speaker 2Keep going.
Speaker 1Okay good. So the first time we met, you're like, oh my God, it's so nice to meet you. And I was like, hi, I'm Daniel. And you were like that's going to be so easy to remember my name's Danny. Oh my God, we're like practically the same name Second time at Sambuca. You're like I don't think we've met before. It's like I'm I'm.
Speaker 3That's such an easy one. It's so funny.
Speaker 1That's great lore. I'm Daniel Um.
Speaker 4Your name is your literal name is Danny and you're like oh my God, yes, third time.
Speaker 1Hi. How do you know, emily, what's your name?
Speaker 2And I was like I'm done, done, I'm done, I'm done. That is literally my go-to line for anyone whose name is Dan, daniel, daniel, anything. I'm always like, well, great name, great name. It's so easy to remember for me.
Speaker 1And she doesn't.
Speaker 2And I don't remember it. I remember nothing. I remember nothing, john Snow it was just so.
Speaker 1I remember Like I even went up to Ally and Emily was like I don't think she likes me. I was like this girl does not like me at all.
Speaker 2She doesn't remember.
Speaker 1I just want to keep everyone on their toes and I was like I get it. The chubby Mexican in the corner. She's not going to remember him, Right? I think she asked me to like refill her sweet tea. One time we were at a restaurant and you thought I was a service person there.
Speaker 4I did not? You asked us to bust the tables?
Speaker 2I did not. Can you imagine Like this is no one interrogation. I'm like yeah.
Speaker 1So this isn't actually a podcast. This is actually I was bringing you here to embarrass you. I was bringing you here to torture you, ashton Kutcher.
Speaker 2Ashton Kutcher, she's been pugged.
Speaker 1Pugged so but yeah, so I met you through them. But we actually, awkwardly, have a mutual friend.
Speaker 2You sure do, we do.
Speaker 1And then, like I, You're so right.
Speaker 2Oh my God, are you okay?
Speaker 1Um, and then I want to say that, like the moment that I was like, oh, she is so cool.
Speaker 2It was a last Christmas when I gave you my heart but then the very next day you came away this year Just had a really big mother Tears.
Speaker 1I'm going to give it to someone special. Thank you, you should.
Speaker 3So, last.
Speaker 1Christmas.
Speaker 2When you came to my apartment?
Speaker 1Yes, yeah, so, um, I really didn't know you, but I met one of your really close friends, one of my close friends.
Speaker 2No, he, I guess he is. I have to claim him.
Speaker 1Should we say his name?
Speaker 2John.
Speaker 1Oh, andrew Kyle, Look up.
Speaker 2Andrew Kyle, andrew Kyle, andrew Kyle.
Speaker 1Andrew Kyle.
Speaker 2Andrew Good old. Andy Good old.
Speaker 1Andrew.
Speaker 2And of literally, and it grew. You have little. Never called him that in my life, it seems, kyle.
Speaker 1But if you've been moment it's Andrew Kyle.
Speaker 4His pinmull is at him.
Speaker 1So, um, he was doing a gig at enchant, where I was working in last year, and we decided oh my God, you're a theater gay, I'm a theater gay, let's hang out and be friends. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2And he's like I'm actually going over to a party and I was like let me be clear Party Meaning five at most people in my apartment, and I think I even just texted Kyle and said come over, yeah Well valid and true.
Speaker 1So, anyway, I found out that all of my friends were also going to Danny's house, so it was more than five friends, Um, and I was like that's so weird. All of my friends are going.
Speaker 2Oh, this night was so. There were so many. This night was layered. Keep going.
Speaker 1And then it was a oh well, sure, daniel can come too.
Speaker 2It was not, I was excited.
Speaker 1No, and it turned out being a great time. It was so fun, and I was also you know how we sealed the deal.
Speaker 2You know you're sealing the deal with me I guess other people but like I sealed the deal by sharing location.
Speaker 1And that was the night we did.
Speaker 2I said, we thought and we did, and here we are.
Speaker 1Yeah, but that's when I knew I would grow to love this bike girl. Speaking of bike girl that's me. Maybe we'll move on to some singing.
Speaker 2Great.
Speaker 1Yeah, love it.
She Used To Be Mine
Speaker 2I'm doing this because every other white girl gets to, so that's enough.
Speaker 3It's not easy to know, I'm not anything like I used to be To true, I was never attention sweet center. I still remember that girl.
Speaker 4She's imperfect but she tries. She is good but she lies. She is hard on herself. She is broken and won't ask for help. She is messy but she's kind. She is lonely. Most of the time she is all this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie. She is gone, but she used to be mine.
Speaker 3It's not what I asked for. Sometimes life just slips in for the backboard and car goes out of her sight Makes you think it's all true.
Speaker 4And now I got you. You're not what I asked for. If I'm honest, I know I would give it all back for a chance To start over and rewrite it. Ending or two For that girl that I knew, who was reckless, just enough, who gets hurt but who learns how to tough it up and she's bruised and gets used by a man who can't love and then she'll get stuck and be scared of life. That's inside of her, getting strong each day, till apparently her mind's hurt. A fight, just a little, to bring back the fire in her eyes. And all that used to be mine. She is messy but she's kind. She is lonely. Most of the time she is all this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie. She is gone, but she used to be mine.
Speaker 2Yes, my girl Voice cracking. I think it's not like I got to sing that song. I always wanted to, but everyone always does it, which is fine.
Speaker 1I think you should sing a song, no matter what. I mean, I thought I was hanging out with Shashana Bean how dare you my name, my name but who hasn't sang that song on that show? I feel like every single girl who has ever played it has gone on Broadway World or whatever that is.
Speaker 2Oh, that, um, yes, you know.
Speaker 1They've all done it, they have. They've done everything from Jennifer Nettles to Jordan Sparks. Correct, have done it because they're all beautiful and amazing. My girl Jordan. Yeah, did you see? I actually just saw a post that Sarah Berlus wants Kelly Clarkson out to play?
Speaker 2Uh, that's kind of my eyes are water Like instant. That's the Berlson, our Berlson dream, where Kelly Clarkson has needed to be on Broadway for a while, oh my god, the water works for the Arkham. I love Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 1I think she's an angel and she would kill it. I don't know if she would act. I mean from Justin and Kelly was a little I don't know.
Speaker 2But I feel like I don't know. I think she could. She has so much personality, have you watched her talk show. Yeah, I do yeah, it's like I think it would translate to the stage.
Speaker 1I get that. So you're from Berlson? No, oh, you were just happy that.
Speaker 2Yeah, For all my Berlson peeps. They know who they are.
Speaker 1Because there's like five of them, correct?
Speaker 2And one of them is Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 1No, okay. So if you didn't grow up in Berlson, where did you grow up?
Speaker 2I grew up in mainly Plano, I would say. My school was in Addison. I have divorced parents and my mom was in Addison and my dad was in Plano. As a young, young kid, we were in Plano, but I'm from so North Dallas, North.
Dream Roles
Speaker 1Dallas. Well then, how did you get involved with? Because you were one of Vonda's kiddos, right?
Speaker 2I was shout out Vonda K E-band. Yes, e-band, I went to. What is this?
Speaker 1Strattle with girl.
Speaker 2Sorry, you hear that voice from that mom. Anyway, I went to Greenfield School at Addison and I was actually everyone's going to be like, oh my God, I was so sporty growing up. I played lots of sports, every sport ever, which is hilarious.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2But in my in sophomore year I was like, oh, my friends are doing music and the art and stuff like that. Not that I didn't like art, but so I joined choir because my friends did excellent and I'll do. And I met Vonda because she was the choir teacher at the time and she was pretty new I think I was only her, maybe her first or second class being at Greenhill and so I was in choir the beginning of my sophomore year and then there were the fall musical happened in this. The fall musical happened in the spring is what I just said. The spring musical happened hilarious, guess what? It was in the spring and I, all my friends were going to audition for the spring musical and I was like I'm really, really fans and so I did not go play basketball like I normally did in the spring, I went and played, played a role.
Speaker 2We did. It was little shop.
Speaker 1Oh wait, what did you play, don? This is so bad. Did you do the little Dennis girl?
Speaker 2No, it's fine, I'll call myself out. It is not.
Speaker 1I was 16. You were not one of the street urchins, were you?
Speaker 2Sure was. They added actually, because it was three senior girls, all white, don't worry and they added a fourth one as a sophomore and they called. They called my character, my theater director called my character Aquanit.
Speaker 3Oh.
Speaker 2Oh, I know, everyone, I know, I know that is so bad, I know. I really believe that correct, it's so bad.
Speaker 1That is so.
Speaker 2so like T though, because and it was let it be known that was not.
Speaker 1Vonda, so Vonda would never.
Speaker 2Period she would never.
Speaker 1So my senior year we also did Little Shop at my little school as well. All three of the urchins were white girls as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Ah, different time that would have been. My sophomore year was probably like 2000,. It just is not an excuse. But it was 2008 probably, and so but I had a great time doing that show. I loved it. It was so fun. But through that, vonda was like you need to be if you're liking and having fun you need to be doing this and you should come to.
Speaker 2She runs a theater camp in Haswell forever with Mark Molno, kelly McCain, a bunch of people who are really, really wonderful. And so I joined. That summer I did my first year at Dallas Young Artists, which is one of the most life changing experiences of all time. And I did that camp and that was brought me into more of my first kind of musicals. Did that camp until I graduated High school and I kept up. I started auditioning in Dallas professionally. I was like I thought I was. I was like, oh my God, my first audition was for next to normal at Uptown players. I remember that and I was probably actually 16. I don't even remember what I was saying and yeah, that kind of was like got the ball rolling.
Speaker 1So we can thank Vonda.
Speaker 2We can thank Vonda. Vonda's the best, vonda's the best, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, wonderful, yeah, so did you get into next to normal? No, which I think you would make a great. The daughter.
Speaker 2Natalie, yeah, thank you, I would have loved to. I think I truly believe I can play pretty young. I do believe I've aged out. I think it's official.
Speaker 3Like the Wednesday.
Speaker 2Adams of the.
Speaker 3Maybe Wednesday.
Speaker 2But I think I'm aged. When I think of people in the DFW sphere who could play there's so many I think better choice like nothing against me, but better choices for Natalie.
Speaker 1We do have a lot of. We have a lot of. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2So like why not cast somebody in that? You know, I just don't think you need to be casting me in that role anymore.
Speaker 1quite frankly, Would you say that that's still like a dream role for you? It's a dream musical, for sure.
Speaker 2Dream musical yeah, that was my dream role. Obviously, I think age appropriately as I was introduced to it. I saw it on Broadway with Marin Basie.
Speaker 1Oh my God, yeah, I know which was like, which is so freaking awesome.
Speaker 2So definitely a dream show, and I'm kind of in that weird awkward age where I can't really play either right now, which is totally fine. So I'm hoping one day I get to play Diana. That would be.
Speaker 1That would be really cool. I know that you're one of your big dream roles as well, because we talked about it is a female version of Sweeney Todd.
Speaker 2Yes, period yes.
Speaker 1I think that that would be. Would you also do? Would it be roles reversed, like Mrs Lovett would be a guy, or would it be?
Speaker 2I don't think I mean I don't have a preference. I kind of love if Miss Lovett is female identifying. I kind of love the queerness of that personally.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, the musical seems queer.
Speaker 2Yeah, correct, I keep saying period. I'm a sign of other words.
Speaker 1I literally have a degree in the English language.
Speaker 2Period. Yeah, no, I love darkness broody. I did go through a very heavy goth phase in middle school. And so Sweeney, I don't know. I just I've loved the story, I love the music, I love Sondheim, and I don't even it's not necessarily even my favorite Sondheim show, but it. I just think that I don't know why I just feel so attached to that role. I think it would be so cool, as a woman, to play Sweeney. I don't know who's brave enough to do it, but someone should.
Speaker 1She's right here, I'm right here.
Speaker 2It doesn't even have to be me. I just think it would be cool.
Speaker 1And here's your, miss Lovett, please let it be me.
Speaker 2But that's the choice. Please let it be me. No, I'm serious. If you're going to do it, please let it be me?
Speaker 1Yeah, no, I do. You know what I could see that role as a woman.
Speaker 2I just think it would be. Yeah, there's nothing that really like grounds it in masculine, like it's not that there's nothing. It's not about nothing in the script suggests it has to be. There's nothing. I don't know.
Recent Auditions and Theater Experiences
Speaker 1So it's an interesting take on it, though I like that I just think it would be really cool. So have you auditioned for anything recently, or any upcoming projects or anything?
Speaker 2I did audition, for I had my first audition in a while, actually, um this past week, which I was just proud. You know after, you know, we all know, after the pandemic, getting back in those rooms was like a really chat.
Speaker 1that was a challenge, Um it's still taking me time to even think about getting in one.
Speaker 2And I've done a couple, but, um, I moved around a lot through the pandemic so it was nice to get back. Just I was just proud of myself for just getting back in the room and um, I'm much more comfortable auditioning for plays actually than music goals, oddly enough, and it was a. It was a play by Lauren Gunderson and I love her. Um, but otherwise I over the last three, four years since, arguably since the pandemic or since I went to grad school, I've been doing a lot more um of like the behind the scenes, like curation and kind of like things like this, like this broadcast, like I really love Vodcast, vodcast.
Speaker 2I have to um tattooed and I will um I what did I say?
Speaker 1Things like this. You, you're behind the scenes.
Speaker 2Uh, thank you, I no, I lost it, it's gone, choo, choo, bye.
Speaker 3I tried Bye.
Speaker 2I really like, I swear I'm going to get there.
Speaker 1I like I she got it by George. I think you got it. Here's the thing about DFW theater.
Speaker 2There's so much amazing talent here and something I've really that I love about DFW theater is so many people are multi-passionate and have so many different talents. Besides, like the clinical formula for success in musical theater or theater, and I love the idea of taking those talents people have and using like what we learn in theater and educational theater and things like that. But like creating other types of expression, because I don't think it's the, I don't think it should sit in, you show up and you audition and you either get it or you don't, and then you like it's just it's which. That's also great and and exercise is a great muscle. But, um, I would.
Speaker 2I really enjoyed working with local artists and doing like. I've done a lot of poetry workshops. My grad degree is in creative writing and poetry and play writing, and so I've done like some writing workshops that incorporate different art things Like I. That's why I was so excited about this podcast, because I was like what a great way to tie in theater with like other talent and like showcasing talent as well and just celebrating other forms of art.
Speaker 1Yeah. No I and I mean, that's why I wanted to do it right, um, but uh, speaking of auditions, we're going to go ahead and take a small little uh, run over to the keyboard so that we can hear your audition.
Speaker 3What about my auditions?
Speaker 1You're um. We're only going to do four measures.
The Life I Never Led
Speaker 2No canary. No, we'll see you in a bit. That's someone else's joke I stole. This was one of my um early twenties audition songs that I pretend like I would still play this role you could I read?
Speaker 2young. She can't. This is me. I have to pause. This is me doing this because one time I this is a funny story, it's worth it. I did this because one time I played Molly and Peter in the Starcatcher and that's 13. I was probably 25 at the time. In my literal review. The one sense about me in the review said Molly is definitely not 13.
Speaker 4And begin and I may not surf, I may not see friends, but I have to know I still have the chance and maybe I'll make a painful mistake. It's my thought to take a refuse and all of the doors yet to open and all of the rooms ahead. They're beckoning bright, scary and new. But I'm standing tall and I'm walking through what's gone, maybe gone, but I won't go unplayed dead. It's time to start living the life I never loved.
Speaker 1You make a great nun, thank you, but I want none of that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4None of that, that's good.
Speaker 2Thank you, that's God, I did not steal it from someone. I'd be wondering what my movie is doing. In high school this is nothing to do with anything I was notorious for being in a group of people and some were saying it was funny, but they're shy. But they're funny but they're shy. And so they'd say it soft and I would literally say that was funny and I'd say it's so loud and everybody would be like, ah, Danny's funny person ever and I would not give them credit.
Speaker 2I would be like yeah, look how funny I am.
Speaker 1So glad we got things from the Addams family to be part of. Thank God, the broadcast for us the broadcast the broadcast. Um, no, okay, so I needed more wine, because this is where we get into the good stuff.
Speaker 1The spillage of the tea, the good stuff, right, the spillage of the tea-tor, the tea-tor, the tea-tor, the tea-tor, the tea-tor. Tea I think I've had too much of this wine. No, um, okay. So the thing I love about Danny is that okay. So I will say, like you were kind of like an and you still are right, this is not a pass-dence, but like an icon for me, like in DFW theater, oh, my God. Like you were always getting booked, like all that good stuff.
Speaker 2That is literally so funny that you think that Really Thank you. But uh could be, the wine Could be got. Them all Could be confused with someone else, because I don't know your name. Got them. Yeah, again, part of the roast. Your serrata was booked all the time. Ask somebody equity points they had how many Zero?
Speaker 1Oh, ask me how many. Two thousand I'm on insurance now. Good for you. No, I'm not girl, okay Well anyway, I also have zero points, oh good.
Speaker 3Good good.
Speaker 2I guess it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1Well, no, it doesn't, I don't care. Anyway, I'm not paying, I don't need that, okay. So, speaking of equity, yes, tell me, you did an equity tour, did you not? It was non-eck.
Speaker 2It was non-eck. Oh God, it was non-eck, it was a non-eckity tour.
Speaker 1Well, thank goodness, because what happened on that tour Good for all it was.
Speaker 2I'm just gonna spill. It's about me, so everybody relax. I was on a. This is so funny. I can't really say this it's fine. I literally don't care.
Speaker 1Have you told people that were on the not tour? Oh no, everybody knows, right they witnessed it.
Speaker 2Who didn't witness it was my director and the producers. Oh, dear Lord.
Speaker 1Hopefully she gets hired again after telling this story. I have never been on a tour, okay, okay.
Speaker 2So anyway, I was on a non-eckity tour of Rudolph Threadnose Rainier and I played Dolly.
Speaker 1For those of you that don't know the story, Dolly is.
Speaker 2The mentally ill one, the doll, that's literally. Her problem is that she has depression, which is so funny.
Speaker 1So Danny was Ted Cast Period.
Speaker 2Anyway. So and it was also, I was that plus like a puppeteer, which is really cool. I have puppeteering, love it Anyway. But I played Dolly and it was called a snookin, which is what's so funny. But in my I was in I just looked like I always say I look like a cute tipper or a sperm. It was like head to toe white and like I had a hood and you can only see this much of my face Sperm. I'm not seeing sperm.
Speaker 3Why now why?
Speaker 2that sperm? Anyone? Anyone? Why now? Why this sperm? Keep going, okay, non-eckity tour of Rudolph. And so one night we're in Louisville, kentucky, and we were pretty wild, like the cast was. First of all, I was on it for three years, free, three separate holidays the most fun I've ever had in my life. I loved being on that tour.
Speaker 1The pictures. I've seen old pictures of it and it looks like a good time. It was just a great group of people.
Speaker 2It was so freaking fun and we were pretty off our rockers just to I'm just gonna be on it. So this was the had to be the final year, I guess. And we I was in Louisville, kentucky, and my cousin lives in Louisville, and so after the show I went out with my cousin while everyone else went out. So I just like, according to the cast, I, you know, I floated away with my cousin. It was never to be seen again and I was rooming with my friend, erica. And I'll tell it from Erica's perspective, because that's really because I quite frankly don't remember, but I do know I was. All I remember from my perspective is like with my cousin and we go to this house and I have like a beer, and then I go to this bar and I have like a bourbon and coat, because we're in little Kentucky, and then we go to this bar and I'm like some meatball pizza giant size gets put in front of me and then I remember nothing else, nothing else. You got drunk on meatballs Always, anyway.
Speaker 2So Erica the next morning, so cozy and cute in her bed, wakes up and is like and looks over and apparently I'm like fully clothing when I was wearing the night before like a like, literally like, on the bed. It's just fully like she was like Danny and I was asleep. And then she goes to the bathroom. This is gross, by the way. So vomit warning, trigger warning. Erik apparently opens the door and, like you could tell someone had thrown up all of the bathroom, but it was like, for the most part, cleaned up Cause I'm polite, but for the most part Erica was like ooh, yikes, it goes back and she's like, she's like Danny, danny. And then this is my favorite Erica quote she goes Danny, it's a puke bathroom.
Speaker 2Danny it's the bathroom, it's puke, it's puke bathroom. And it was like and apparently I shot up and was like it fit like panic, grabbed my suitcase that was not unpacked whatsoever and walked out the door and Erica was like goodbye. Next, next chapter. I'm down in the lobby I'm clearly still wasted and I'm in the corner in this little chair of this hotel and I'm like I don't remember anything. I'm like they're gonna probably like oh my God, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 2And we had a matinees in like Alabama Maybe it was a night show, I can't remember, but we had a show that day and Erica, sweet angel, is like helping me get on the bus, like get my stuff, and she's like get to the back of us, get to the back of us, get to the back of us, get to the back of us. And my friend Kyle and Rashawn like get to the back of us, get to the back of us. And so I get to the back of us and I go in lane to suck and never to be seen again, truly like we stopped three, four times, not three, four times, that's an exaggeration, but we stopped and I just never emerged.
Speaker 1How did you not get sick again on the bus? You got it all out, I guess, in that picture. Oh yeah, no, I'm good.
Wild Tour Mishap
Speaker 2I can like I don't rally, but I'm like, oh, but I took care of it, I took care of the business and then we're good. So I emerged, so now we're back to my perspective and I like I'm in the bunk, I'm like I wake up and I'm fine. I'm like, oh, we're good. What happened, I don't know, but we're good. And I checked my phone and I literally have hundreds of text messages not hundreds again, an exaggeration.
Speaker 2I never exaggerate Probably 30 text messages from Erica and she's like I opened. She's like do you wake up? Wake up? Wake up, I go what. And I walk out and Erica's like get on your Facebook. And I went what she goes and I look at my Facebook and I have shared An old I'm talking like seven years prior. I went to theater camp with this little random person and I had gone back through their profile photos just scrolling, so haven't talked to them in seven years went to like the furthest one of the further profile photos, shared it to my Facebook page with we call it M-P-P-T, M-M-P-P-T-E-E, and like shared it. And I woke up to that and Erica's like you have to delete this. And I was like you're so right and so I deleted it and I checked my messages and I had to message this girl and be like hey.
Speaker 1M-P-P-T-E-E.
Speaker 2M-P-P-T-E. So sorry about that. No one ever found out. I'm not. I will name names, but someone also during this tour I had to get carried out of a bar in Nashville, tennessee, like by hands of feet. Get carried out of a bar and lost their keys and wallet. Won't name names. It was a wild time Director never found out. I did the show flawlessly. Obviously it was also this I could tell Sony stories from this tour, but that was the really big one. That was really funny. And if anyone wants the proof of the Facebook post, I do have screenshots.
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Speaker 1Oh, wow, okay. It's a lot to unpack. That was a lot to take in for me it was a lot to unpack. Speaking of a lot, you know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 2I know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 1Because this person is a lot, yes, and, but she's also one of our. She's a local favorite, but she is a lot and Dany got to experience a lot of her. One day, tell us about a masterclass that you went to.
Speaker 2Am I allowed to name the name? Should I?
Speaker 1We'll bleep it out, if not.
Speaker 2We'll bleep it out.
Speaker 1We need to check with our legal team, but I will see the name If you speak right into that camera and I will.
Speaker 2I took a masterclass with that's not her middle name.
Speaker 1Well, we've said it 50 million times now.
Speaker 2So we can bleep it out now.
Speaker 4I took a masterclass with. I took a masterclass with. I just bleep it out, literally.
Speaker 1We're getting the fingers from behind the camera, so I took a masterclass with and I paid.
Speaker 2I was maybe I had to have been 21 or two, 21 or two, very young Paid for myself, was very excited. I went to UNT at the time and I'm infamous for that time in my life in DFW because not to be Debbie Downer, but I was dating like an atrocious person at the time.
Speaker 1So anyway, we've all been there.
Speaker 2We've all been there and it was like a really bad time and like drama and whatever. So I was going through, I was still with that person and was going through a lot, and there was this whole backs, which it doesn't even. The whole point of the story is that it doesn't matter what was going on in my personal life outside of this masterclass. So I'm in this masterclass, it's like day three or whatever, and what's hilarious is that I'm singing Life I Never Led as my cut.
Speaker 1Oh whoa, I know, we just did that song.
Speaker 2Oh my God, I mean what I hold and I go up and I sing it. And then she was actually she was really good friends with somebody who took her masterclass all the time, who was a classmate of mine, who was not my biggest fan and apparently spilled all my tea to the b****, thought it was appropriate, in front of everyone's class, to air my tea in front of everyone, to use it as motivation slash. Get on to me about it, like telling me like I suck and should leave this man, which is not what you tell someone in that type of situation.
Speaker 1She has no business with your memories.
Speaker 2I have to go Um, so which is like okay, that's like the boo part, this is when it gets funny. So I, being the little rat, punk teenager, not teenager I was 21 was, I was like I'm not coming into this class ever again. I'm not paying my final installment, which was maybe a couple hundred bucks like something whatever. But I was so mad I didn't go back to the masterclass. In my brain I'm like honestly, yeah, I was 21.
Speaker 1I was a child. I was a child. If she was like airing your drama in front of everyone in this masterclass, it was horrible. Instead of actually letting you sing and do the masterclass.
Speaker 2Well as well. I'm like that's not the no, it was. Just the whole thing was rotten Rotten. Anyway, what's hilarious was that because I stopped showing up, didn't pay this thing, and I'm at work and my boss because I can go, there's someone on the phone for you and I was like who? And long story short, how to resist it? Like full dog, the bounty hunter me. Like calling my place of work, called my mother, call my mother. My mom call my mom on her cell phone and said your daughter's a delinquent.
Speaker 2She owes this much For not paying a couple hundred dollars For not paying a couple hundred dollars, because you're a fucking. I don't understand what it was?
Speaker 1Did Broadway not pay?
Speaker 2enough Period. Sorry, but that is a true story, and can you bleep out this? Yeah?
Speaker 1And I have no business hearing this tea, but I cannot wait to share it. Fuck, you're gonna say it. I love it.
Speaker 2I'm just gonna be there with the bleep button. That was like, yeah, it was. It's pretty funny when you have a full grown, 40, something year old assistant. I shouldn't actually judge rate, but she was probably.
Speaker 1I was gonna say a 30 year old assistant, or 40.
Speaker 2A 27, like 20 years being assistants, Quite frankly, literally hunting down at 21. Where do you get off? I forgot, they're just obsessed with me. I understand, I understand.
Speaker 1Not with the 28.
Speaker 2They were just really.
Speaker 4Hey, I am.
Speaker 1So that's one of my favorite stories, though, because I think that that is just hilarious, and this Broadway star had to hunt you down for a couple hundred dollars A 21 year old, because I sang 16 bars of life.
Speaker 2I never led. What are?
Speaker 1you doing. I was hunting down for some money too after the way you just sang it.
Speaker 2Quite frankly. Yeah, you should have heard the auditions, the rehearsals.
Speaker 3There are auditions there are auditions you should have heard the auditions.
Speaker 2Anyway, that's a pretty funny story. It's one I keep with me, and every time her little face comes on Lawn Order SVU, I'm like Stop, it meant to be SVU. It's one of those though.
Speaker 1I literally think she's on one of them all the time Period. But, good for Broadway actors.
Speaker 2getting on Lawn Order no that, honestly, that might be a dream role, is just being on Lawn, I think she.
Speaker 1Like a dead body or you, or A little bit of a say that it's like everything to me.
Speaker 2That's very Taylor Swift to me. I would name my catalytic events in as well, would you really yes?
Speaker 1Would you say that Lawn Order is one of your?
Speaker 2passions. Law and Order, maybe not so much more than Law, for sure.
Speaker 1Speaking of passions, I'm really excited about something that you have recently started in your personal life as well. Yes, tell us about Like what have I done?
Start Photography Company and Share Journey
Speaker 2What have I done, sweet Jesus? What have I done? Tell us about your photography. I speaking of other like art forms that incorporate aspects of what you learned in theater. I started a photography company with my pal. We're called Boy Howdy Co. It's been really fun. I actually did. That was my first career choice with photography. I was going to be a photojournalist until I found theater. Until Von Nk Boling Thanks a lot. Von Nk Said no, you're not, and yeah. So I recently got back into it and it's been really fun. I really enjoyed it. And yeah, I don't even know. Check us out at. I guess I can plug at. Boyhowdyco is on Instagram and we have a website up. It's not very good right now, but you can find it.
Speaker 2Someone did, we had someone find it and like message us, which I was like we made it.
Speaker 3But that's just boyhowdyco. Exactly you for the money, Literally she's like, listen, punk, I found you.
Speaker 2I found you, miss Newfieldy, yeah, but it's been a really fun. We take my. Our goal, our eagerness with me, is to do a lot of traveling and like a little bit of adventure photography. But we're local to Fort Worth, dallas area and so we do like events photography, we do portraiture, we do, we love to travel. We're going to Marfan in. July. What literal month is it January?
Speaker 1And yeah, we're just trying we're just trying something new, and he's been a photographer for a really long time and and I'm just jumping into it- yeah, I'd love to do it to our session.
Speaker 2Oh, but yeah, we do be doing that, we do, we do. You see some spicy stuff.
Speaker 1You go to our Instagram but you should, yeah, no, I mean obviously.
Speaker 2I'm dead serious.
Speaker 1Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 2I love it.
Speaker 1No, um cool. Yeah. No, I'm super excited about your photography. Yeah sure.
Speaker 2And.
Speaker 1I think that's going to be tons of fun. The photos look amazing.
Speaker 2Thank you. I'm working really hard on it right now.
Speaker 1So put out there. But no, I want to thank you for your time today, though. Thank you, I know I've had blast. I think that this has been, you know, just a like passion project for me and a love project, and I'm glad that you're a part of it and you sat on this. I was going to say couch, we're not on a couch but, on a seat next to me.
Speaker 3On a cushion.
Speaker 2On a cushion Like. I've liked, I've subscribed, I've shared.
Speaker 1All of the above.
Speaker 2Everyone else should too, definitely. I'm very excited for you and I can't wait to see where this goes.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I'm so happy to be here, thanks.
Speaker 1Yeah, and make sure you check us out. We're going to be at Daniel does DFW and that'll be on Instagram, the Tik Tok, all of the above, any social media and of course, you're watching this probably on YouTube, so that's where you can find all of our podcasts as well. And of course, we're going to do the Facebook page, all of that, but it'll be down in the link with this, so make sure you check that out. Once again, one big hand for Danny, but we are going to close out this podcast with one more song to have some fun with, and I mean I think.
Speaker 2I think we're going to have a good time with it. Do you know the song my Baby by Little Romeo?
Speaker 1Yeah, let's find out.
Speaker 2Wow, this is my sweet spot song and I love this artist because my mom this is what I grew up on pretty much Divorce, divorce. I want you to know that.
Speaker 3I'm happy to be here. I wish, I would invite, the best for you both.
Speaker 4An older version of me. Is she perverted, like me? When she go down on you in a theater does she speak eloquently. And when she have your baby, I'm sure you make her really excellent, Because the love that you gave me made wasn't able to make it enough for you to be alright.
Speaker 4And now you speak his name. Does she know how? You told me? You told me until you die, Until you die. But you're still alive and I'm here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away. It's not fair To remind me of the cross I bear that you gave to make you. I don't know.
Speaker 3You seem very well, things look peaceful. I'm not quite as well.
Speaker 4I thought you should know, did you?
Speaker 4forget about me, mrs duplicity, I hate to mug you. In the middle of dinner. There was a slap in the face. How quickly I was replaced. And are you thinking of me when he fucks you Because the love that you gave me made wasn't able to make it enough for you to be alright? No, and every time you speak his name, does she know how? You told me? You told me until you die, until you die.
Speaker 4But you're still alive and I'm here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away. It's not fair To remind me of the cross I bear that you gave to make you. I don't know. I'm gonna jump the delay to the bed that was made. I'm not gonna fade as soon as you close your eyes, and you know it. And every time I scratch my nails and someone else's back, I hope you feel it Well. Can you feel it Well? I'm here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away. It's not fair To remind you of the mess you left when you went away. It's not fair. Divorce.
Speaker 1I feel like Lady Gaga Talented, gorgeous, amazing.
