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And the play was fine, but I. I purely went to see her in it, and specifically I wanted to get her to sign one of my Carousel playbills. There's like, I do not. I do not stage door anymore. I'm mostly just. I feel like I'm not too old for it, but, like, I. I'm just. I'm too involved in the scene now to go and just be a fan. It's a little like there's too much 6 degrees of separation from everyone. But also, it's just like that's. It's not my gig. I have to really, really, really, really, really want to meet the person to do it. And she was sort of like one of my last two or three that I wanted, and Michael Hayden's the other one. And I went to go see Admissions purely for her. And my friend Sarah met me afterwards because she was like, you need someone standing next to you who's calm and normal, who can vouch that you're common normal. So when you meet her, she's not, like, afraid you're going to do something weird. And true to her word, Sarah was there with me afterwards. And Sally took a minute to come out, and when she. She was about to walk out the stage door, and I had to stop her, and I was like, oh, Ms. Murphy, would you sign this for me? And the Admissions playbill and the Carousel playbill look very similar. They had similar color palettes. So she was ready to just sign an admissions play. Bill realized all of a sudden what it was. Looked up at me and went, do you want to talk? And I was like, I would love nothing more. And so we talked, got a photo with her and everything. That was my one time meeting her. It went so well. I don't ever need to meet her again. I just have no problem supporting her whenever she does stuff. So, like, saw her in the Minutes, saw her in this, saw her in Linda Vista. It's like, I. Same thing with Michael Hayden. If I know Michael Hayden is going to be in something, I'm just going to go see it anyway. Downstate, extraordinary play. It's. I think it's the best American play in years. Go Steppenwolf By. The only reason I wanted to go to Broadway is because when you go to Broadway, whether we want to accept it or not, there becomes a slight level of legitimacy to the piece of just. It's been on Broadway, it had the run. Even if Even if it closed in a week, it opened there, you can say the Broadway show and there becomes a wider landscape of audience members who can, who will are willing to go see it, who are willing to take that chance. Unfortunately, a lot of them are stupid because, you know, they go and they're like, I want to be entertained. I'm putting down 200 bucks. I want a big old set. Yeah, I don't mean to do the southern accent. Stupid. People can come from anywhere. But even so, just the fact of being on Broadway, Tony eligible, you get your headlines just get a little bit bigger, your credentials get a little shinier, and people are more willing to, you know, perform the show after it's closed. Once it's had the Broadway run. It's just sort of like the simple matter of the fact. And that is like the only reason I really want downstate to transfer is I wanted to go, I wanted to get the Tony for best play because it fucking deserves it. And then once it closes, I want theater companies all over to be brave enough to do it and not just do Noises off for the 9,000th time. Much as I love noises off and I feel like sometimes that happens with a lot of off Broadway musicals is like the legitimacy of once you. Of getting to Broadway and the having the larger. I was having. Having more eyes on it once it moves, you know, it's sort of like it doesn't matter if you had a successful run off Broadway and then you had an unsuccessful run on Broadway. More people are going to know about you anyway. And that's why I feel like a lot of off Broadway musicals want to do that transfer, want to take that risk because they're like, I just, I want the visibility. I want people to know about me. Yeah, a shame, because there are some shows like, like title the show which really, as much as I love it, really should never have transferred to Broadway. That like, that's just a show that doesn't really fit there. It's a wonderful piece.
