IN THE ROOM with Steven & Dana

We are IN THE ROOM with musical director and composer Adam Wachter, who is starring in our new favorite show on Disney+: Encore! Happy New Year’s Eve! We get REAL musical theatre nerdy here with our friend Adam – who is not only on the best new reality show of 2019, he is also a Visiting Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. If you haven’t seen Encore! yet – it’s about people all over country going back to their high school to put on their high school musical again for an encore performance. Most of them haven’t performed since high school. It’s a beautifully touching, hilarious, real and inspiring show that we simply can’t get enough of! Adam gives us the scoop on how they pull off rehearsing for (and putting on a show) in only 5 days, working with the cast as well as the local musicians and pros, and what it’s like to be on an original series for Disney+! We also talk about living in London, taking scary but necessary risks, dating abroad, his Broadway career, leaving NYC, his show “Tarrytown,” and much more! And as always, we play our favorite year-end game: ‘What Were You Doing October 22nd?” Get your tickets to BroadwayCon! We will be hosting a fun moment with Nancy Opel on Sunday, January 26th. @zebraadam @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy @broadwaypodcastnetwork IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are IN THE ROOM with Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford! (Masters of Sex! Kinky Boots! Second Act! You Can’t Take It With You! Legally Blonde! Wicked! Sylvia!) We talk iconic eyebrows, Splash Mountain, Barbra Streisand, beta blockers, mental health, RENT, Sunday in the Park, the art of cabaret, early inspirations, RuPaul, growing up in the 90s, energy spreading, Hal Prince & Stephen Sondheim, diversity in the theatre, playing Paula Jones in the upcoming American Crime Story: Impeachment, appearing in John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch on Netflix, playing a dog via chakra work in Sylvia, and the art of the perfect wink. We also play our favorite end of year calendar game. Enjoy our chat with this very special unicorn person, and have a fabulous holiday season! Cheers! Get your tickets to BroadwayCon! We will be hosting a fun moment with Nancy Opel on Sunday, January 26th. @annaleigh_ashford @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy @broadwaypodcastnetwork IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are IN THE ROOM with Time Out New York theatre editor and critic Adam Feldman! We talk about our love for Encore! on Disney+, Ken Davenport’s Super Conference, the state of criticism, Adam’s obsession with the show Caroline or Change, being Canadian, downtown & uptown cabaret, Club Cumming on Mondays, John Simon’s complicated critical legacy (RIP), singing again, and we get the scoop on how freelance writers can submit their writing to Adam! @adfeldman @timeoutnewyork @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy @broadwaypodcastnetwork IN THE ROOM WITH STEVEN & DANA is delightfully sponsored in part by Babe Rosé (@drinkbabe) We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are IN THE ROOM with theatre renaissance man Will Blum (Beetlejuice! School of Rock! Book of Mormon!) We talk the best BBQ in NYC, understudying for Alex Brightman in two Broadway shows, their working relationship, his early years at Boston Conservatory, the realities of “Broadway dreams,” an audible Elaine Stritch-is-in-the-audience moment, assisting Lonny Price, how to sustain energy for high octane roles, directing, the realness of reviews, and more! Beetlejuice is playing NOW at the Winter Garden Theare. @willblum @beetlejuicebway @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy IN THE ROOM WITH STEVEN & DANA is delightfully sponsored in part by Babe Rosé (@drinkbabe) We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are IN THE ROOM with the sparkly Katrina Newman (Broadway dresser for Disney’s Frozen!) We are super jazzed to get the chance to talk to our first guest who works in the wardrobe department on Broadway! Halloween just happened, so we delve into our love of creative costumes this time of year and favorite Halloween traditions! Dressing the characters in Disney’s Frozen on Broadway is so interesting and we learned so much about how everything is intricately choreographed, what her work actually entails, her background as an actor & dancer, how she transitioned into another job within the theatre world, how she got the job, and we even get some tricks of the trade! We love you Katrina!! The first National Tour of Disney’s Frozen just began, so be sure to go see it if it hits your neck of the woods! And if you are in NYC, come see the magic of Frozen on Broadway! @katrinaknew @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy IN THE ROOM WITH STEVEN & DANA is delightfully sponsored in part by Babe Rosé (@drinkbabe) We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are IN THE ROOM with Jamie DuMont and Rob Russo from THE FABULOUS INVALID theatre podcast! (Missed you Jennifer Simard!) We recorded this episode at the Broadway press company DKC O&M on National Coming Out Day, naturally. Rob worked in politics as a close aide to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and is also a writer and theatre critic. Subscribe to his theatre blog: Stage Left (www.stageleft.nyc)! We talk about the time Secretary Clinton was a guest on their podcast as “theatre’s biggest fan” – it’s a fabulous episode if you haven’t listened yet. Jamie is an event planner extraordinaire, chef, and has also enjoyed a career in the theatre. We’re obsessed with them. Please rate and review! @fabulousinvalid @troutinnyc @stageleft_nyc @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy @broadwaypodcastnetwork IN THE ROOM WITH STEVEN & DANA is delightfully sponsored in part by Babe Rosé (@drinkbabe) and Broadway Crew (broadwaycrew)! We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Completely unnecessary mini episode alerting you all that we have some news a brewin’ in our cauldrons which we will disclose on next week’s episode! Happy October, Roomers! Please take a moment to subscribe, rate, and review if you haven't already! Now would be an EXCELLENT time to do so. xoxo, Gossip Girl (jk. Just us. Steven and Dana.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are IN THE ROOM with the fabulous Courter Simmons! (aka drag queen Cacophony Daniels! Jersey Boys!) We talk about our love for Bette Midler because why would this episode be different than all the rest? Ever the inspiration, Courter began his career by taking a literal page out of Carol Burnett’s book and moved to NYC to pursue his dream. His drag queen persona – Cacophony Daniels - was born while he was on tour with Jersey Boys and she’s made quite a name for herself in NYC. Courter and his husband Jason also adopted an awesome kid and we get ALL the deets on how that happened! You can find Courter in Jersey Boys (sometimes!) and you can find Cacophony around town hosting things like the Drag Debutant Ball at Albatross in Astoria and Broadway Monday’s at Hardware Bar every Monday! @cacophonydaniels @courtersimmons @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy IN THE ROOM WITH STEVEN & DANA is delightfully sponsored in part by Babe Rosé (@drinkbabe) and Broadway Crew (broadwaycrew)! We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are IN THE ROOM with ourselves for a cute debrief of our busy AF summers! We did some traveling (LA, Maine, Chicago, New Hampshire), did some eating (mostly tacos & lobster), got our NYC Pride on, Dana threw an epic bachelor party and officiated a big gay wedding, is appalled by the LA scooter situation, shouts out her fave podcasts of the summer, Steven discovers big gay fans for the first time and we update ya’ll on some past guest news. “Thrilling episode” –Vulture We are back to our regularly scheduled programming. @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy IN THE ROOM WITH STEVEN & DANA is delightfully sponsored in part by Babe Rosé (@drinkbabe) and Broadway Crew (broadwaycrew)! We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices