Daniel Does DFW Theater
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Daniel Does DFW Theater
M Pptte and Other CENSORED Stories (with Dani Holway)
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 2:don't know when am I.
Speaker 1:Who 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 2:Chocs.
Speaker 4:We haven't tried this yet, mmm.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:There are hands and knees, well.
Speaker 1:No, because Danny was there when it like popped into my head and I was like I need to tell someone about this.
Speaker 2:Over three different flavors of souffle.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, if you have this, they do not sponsor me.
Speaker 2:This is not a sponsor post. This is not an ad.
Speaker 1:But 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 2:Playing club Another club.
Speaker 1:We did the whole prefix menu.
Speaker 2:So good, great deal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Which was like a mac and cheese souffle.
Speaker 1:No, no no, my main was like a ham and cheese. We got the mac and cheese to share.
Speaker 2:Oh, I did, because we got a third one. I got the mushroom truffles souffle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:I was like I left I said, hmm, I gotta go.
Speaker 1:Absolutely and there.
Speaker 3:I was.
Speaker 2:Wow, 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 1:We'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 3:Vodcast.
Speaker 1:No, 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 1:So 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 2:No, but I remember.
Speaker 1:Do I? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Keep going.
Speaker 1:Okay 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 3:That's such an easy one. It's so funny.
Speaker 1:That's great lore. I'm Daniel Um.
Speaker 4:Your name is your literal name is Danny and you're like oh my God, yes, third time.
Speaker 1:Hi. How do you know, emily, what's your name?
Speaker 2:And 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 1:And she doesn't.
Speaker 2:And I don't remember it. I remember nothing. I remember nothing, john Snow it was just so.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:She doesn't remember.
Speaker 1:I 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 4:I did not? You asked us to bust the tables?
Speaker 2:I did not. Can you imagine Like this is no one interrogation. I'm like yeah.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Ashton Kutcher, she's been pugged.
Speaker 1:Pugged so but yeah, so I met you through them. But we actually, awkwardly, have a mutual friend.
Speaker 2:You sure do, we do.
Speaker 1:And then, like I, You're so right.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, are you okay?
Speaker 1:Um, and then I want to say that, like the moment that I was like, oh, she is so cool.
Speaker 2:It 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 1:I'm going to give it to someone special. Thank you, you should.
Speaker 3:So, last.
Speaker 1:Christmas.
Speaker 2:When you came to my apartment?
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, so, um, I really didn't know you, but I met one of your really close friends, one of my close friends.
Speaker 2:No, he, I guess he is. I have to claim him.
Speaker 1:Should we say his name?
Speaker 2:John.
Speaker 1:Oh, andrew Kyle, Look up.
Speaker 2:Andrew Kyle, andrew Kyle, andrew Kyle.
Speaker 1:Andrew Kyle.
Speaker 2:Andrew Good old. Andy Good old.
Speaker 1:Andrew.
Speaker 2:And of literally, and it grew. You have little. Never called him that in my life, it seems, kyle.
Speaker 1:But if you've been moment it's Andrew Kyle.
Speaker 4:His pinmull is at him.
Speaker 1:So, 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 2:And 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 1:So, 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 2:Oh, this night was so. There were so many. This night was layered. Keep going.
Speaker 1:And then it was a oh well, sure, daniel can come too.
Speaker 2:It was not, I was excited.
Speaker 1:No, and it turned out being a great time. It was so fun, and I was also you know how we sealed the deal.
Speaker 2:You know you're sealing the deal with me I guess other people but like I sealed the deal by sharing location.
Speaker 1:And that was the night we did.
Speaker 2:I said, we thought and we did, and here we are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, love it.
Speaker 2:I'm doing this because every other white girl gets to, so that's enough.
Speaker 3:It'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 4:She'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 3:It'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 4:And 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 2:Yes, 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 1:I 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 2:Oh, that, um, yes, you know.
Speaker 1:They'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 2:Uh, 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 1:I 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 2:But 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 1:I get that. So you're from Berlson? No, oh, you were just happy that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, For all my Berlson peeps. They know who they are.
Speaker 1:Because there's like five of them, correct?
Speaker 2:And one of them is Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 1:No, okay. So if you didn't grow up in Berlson, where did you grow up?
Speaker 2:I 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.
Speaker 1:Dallas. Well then, how did you get involved with? Because you were one of Vonda's kiddos, right?
Speaker 2:I was shout out Vonda K E-band. Yes, e-band, I went to. What is this?
Speaker 1:Strattle with girl.
Speaker 2:Sorry, 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 1:Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:But 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 2:We did. It was little shop.
Speaker 1:Oh wait, what did you play, don? This is so bad. Did you do the little Dennis girl?
Speaker 2:No, it's fine, I'll call myself out. It is not.
Speaker 1:I was 16. You were not one of the street urchins, were you?
Speaker 2:Sure 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 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know, everyone, I know, I know that is so bad, I know. I really believe that correct, it's so bad.
Speaker 1:That is so.
Speaker 2:so like T though, because and it was let it be known that was not.
Speaker 1:Vonda, so Vonda would never.
Speaker 2:Period she would never.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Ah, 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 2:She 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 1:So we can thank Vonda.
Speaker 2:We can thank Vonda. Vonda's the best, vonda's the best, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wonderful, yeah, so did you get into next to normal? No, which I think you would make a great. The daughter.
Speaker 2:Natalie, 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 3:Like the Wednesday.
Speaker 2:Adams of the.
Speaker 3:Maybe Wednesday.
Speaker 2:But 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 1:We do have a lot of. We have a lot of. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:quite frankly, Would you say that that's still like a dream role for you? It's a dream musical, for sure.
Speaker 2:Dream 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 1:Oh my God, yeah, I know which was like, which is so freaking awesome.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:That 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 2:Yes, period yes.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:I 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 1:Yeah, no, the musical seems queer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, correct, I keep saying period. I'm a sign of other words.
Speaker 1:I literally have a degree in the English language.
Speaker 2:Period. 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 1:She's right here, I'm right here.
Speaker 2:It doesn't even have to be me. I just think it would be cool.
Speaker 1:And here's your, miss Lovett, please let it be me.
Speaker 2:But 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 1:Yeah, no, I do. You know what I could see that role as a woman.
Speaker 2:I 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.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:I 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 1:that was a challenge, Um it's still taking me time to even think about getting in one.
Speaker 2:And 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 2:I have to um tattooed and I will um I what did I say?
Speaker 1:Things like this. You, you're behind the scenes.
Speaker 2:Uh, thank you, I no, I lost it, it's gone, choo, choo, bye.
Speaker 3:I tried Bye.
Speaker 2:I really like, I swear I'm going to get there.
Speaker 1:I like I she got it by George. I think you got it. Here's the thing about DFW theater.
Speaker 2:There'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 2:I 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 1:Yeah. 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 3:What about my auditions?
Speaker 1:You're um. We're only going to do four measures.
Speaker 2:No 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 2:young. 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 4:And 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 1:You make a great nun, thank you, but I want none of that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4:None of that, that's good.
Speaker 2:Thank 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 2:I would be like yeah, look how funny I am.
Speaker 1:So 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 1:The 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 2:That 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 1:Oh, 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 3:Good good.
Speaker 2:I guess it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:It was non-eck. Oh God, it was non-eck, it was a non-eckity tour.
Speaker 1:Well, thank goodness, because what happened on that tour Good for all it was.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:Have you told people that were on the not tour? Oh no, everybody knows, right they witnessed it.
Speaker 2:Who didn't witness it was my director and the producers. Oh, dear Lord.
Speaker 1:Hopefully she gets hired again after telling this story. I have never been on a tour, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:So anyway, I was on a non-eckity tour of Rudolph Threadnose Rainier and I played Dolly.
Speaker 1:For those of you that don't know the story, Dolly is.
Speaker 2:The mentally ill one, the doll, that's literally. Her problem is that she has depression, which is so funny.
Speaker 1:So Danny was Ted Cast Period.
Speaker 2:Anyway. 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 3:Why now why?
Speaker 2:that 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 1:The pictures. I've seen old pictures of it and it looks like a good time. It was just a great group of people.
Speaker 2:It 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 2:So 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 2:Danny 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 2:And 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 1:How 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.
Speaker 2:I 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 2:I 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 1:M-P-P-T-E-E.
Speaker 2:M-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.
Speaker 1:Oh, 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 2:I know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 1:Because 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 2:Am I allowed to name the name? Should I?
Speaker 1:We'll bleep it out, if not.
Speaker 2:We'll bleep it out.
Speaker 1:We need to check with our legal team, but I will see the name If you speak right into that camera and I will.
Speaker 2:I took a masterclass with that's not her middle name.
Speaker 1:Well, we've said it 50 million times now.
Speaker 2:So we can bleep it out now.
Speaker 4:I took a masterclass with. I took a masterclass with. I just bleep it out, literally.
Speaker 1:We're getting the fingers from behind the camera, so I took a masterclass with and I paid.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:So anyway, we've all been there.
Speaker 2:We'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 1:Oh whoa, I know, we just did that song.
Speaker 2:Oh 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 1:She has no business with your memories.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:I 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 2:Well 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 2:She 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 1:Did Broadway not pay?
Speaker 2:enough Period. Sorry, but that is a true story, and can you bleep out this? Yeah?
Speaker 1:And I have no business hearing this tea, but I cannot wait to share it. Fuck, you're gonna say it. I love it.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:I was gonna say a 30 year old assistant, or 40.
Speaker 2:A 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 1:Not with the 28.
Speaker 2:They were just really.
Speaker 4:Hey, I am.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:I never led. What are?
Speaker 1:you doing. I was hunting down for some money too after the way you just sang it.
Speaker 2:Quite frankly. Yeah, you should have heard the auditions, the rehearsals.
Speaker 3:There are auditions there are auditions you should have heard the auditions.
Speaker 2:Anyway, 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 1:I literally think she's on one of them all the time Period. But, good for Broadway actors.
Speaker 2:getting on Lawn Order no that, honestly, that might be a dream role, is just being on Lawn, I think she.
Speaker 1:Like a dead body or you, or A little bit of a say that it's like everything to me.
Speaker 2:That's very Taylor Swift to me. I would name my catalytic events in as well, would you really yes?
Speaker 1:Would you say that Lawn Order is one of your?
Speaker 2:passions. Law and Order, maybe not so much more than Law, for sure.
Speaker 1:Speaking 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?
Speaker 2:What 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 2:Someone did, we had someone find it and like message us, which I was like we made it.
Speaker 3:But that's just boyhowdyco. Exactly you for the money, Literally she's like, listen, punk, I found you.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:And 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 2:Oh, but yeah, we do be doing that, we do, we do. You see some spicy stuff.
Speaker 1:You go to our Instagram but you should, yeah, no, I mean obviously.
Speaker 2:I'm dead serious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 2:I love it.
Speaker 1:No, um cool. Yeah. No, I'm super excited about your photography. Yeah sure.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I think that's going to be tons of fun. The photos look amazing.
Speaker 2:Thank you. I'm working really hard on it right now.
Speaker 1:So 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 3:On a cushion.
Speaker 2:On a cushion Like. I've liked, I've subscribed, I've shared.
Speaker 1:All of the above.
Speaker 2:Everyone else should too, definitely. I'm very excited for you and I can't wait to see where this goes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm so happy to be here, thanks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:I think we're going to have a good time with it. Do you know the song my Baby by Little Romeo?
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's find out.
Speaker 2:Wow, 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 3:I'm happy to be here. I wish, I would invite, the best for you both.
Speaker 4:An 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 4:And 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 3:You seem very well, things look peaceful. I'm not quite as well.
Speaker 4:I thought you should know, did you?
Speaker 4:forget 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 4: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. 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 1:I feel like Lady Gaga Talented, gorgeous, amazing.
