Trisha Paytas (13:10)
So I was like, oh, no. And I was like. And I was supposed to go straight to rehearsal. I was supposed to go straight to rehearsal. I had a whole week of press in New York, which I was so excited about. I think we cut it out from our Patreon last week, but I was supposed to go and watch what happens live that Tuesday night. I had, like, all these great outfits planned I was gonna be the MC from Cabaret. I had Little Orphan Annie. I had a Fiero costume. I had all these really good looks. And I was so excited. All the press had to get canceled because I was so sick. That Tuesday, I went to urgent care, but urgent care did a full panel. Like, you're fine. I was like, okay, well, I'm not, so okay. So then I went to rehearsal. They were trying to get me to sing. Like, not a note came out. Like, I couldn't even talk. Like, it was so crazy. I think the food was just. I think the throw up was just from food poisoning. I think that's what we determined because I had. I went to an airport lounge. They had Mac and cheese sitting out. I ate some of that. I think it was. That is what I gathered because I kind of felt fine after that. But I still. Whatever. So then I went to hers. I couldn't get a note out. They had to cancel Watch what Happens Live, which I was so excited about because I was supposed to be on with Bob Harper and Garcella Garcel from Real Housewives. So I was very excited. I thought that was my Real Housewife break, my debut. I thought maybe I could get it invited to be on the show, but that didn't work out. So then Wednesday, I kind of just pushed myself. I was just like. Well, I had a full day, like, doing videos for the show and, like, a Timeout magazine. And I kind of just pushed myself, which was a bad idea because lost the Voice by the end of the day. And I was like, okay. So then Thursday, I was just dead. I was just like, it's like four days, three days till the show. And Thursday just like, couldn't, like, couldn't talk, couldn't talk, couldn't swallow, couldn't anything. So I went to an ENT. Dr. Pittman. He's like, the big one. He does, like, all the Broadway stars. He's like, the big one. And he gave me some medication. He basically put a camera up my nose and down my throat and saw that it was, like, just inflamed and pussy. And it wasn't from, like, oh, Trisha went so hard on rehearsals. I haven't sung a note at this point. Like, there wasn't even, like, a note that came out. I don't know. I just. I really just lost my voice. And. Yeah, so I went to him and I'm just, like, kind of weird. He gave me the amoxicillin and these prednisone. It's like steroid pills. I'M just like kind of weird about putting that in my body. So I was kind of like, I don't know, I kind of waited on the steroid stuff until Friday. I was like, let me just take the amoxicillin. Friday comes around and I'm like, okay, now it's all up in my nose. It's kind of getting better. But anyways, long story short, I basically had only Saturday and Sunday to rehearse the show when I should have had like the full week. They had all these press events, there was like a meta event with all these influencers and there was a Jimmy John's and there was all these things, I think Steve Madden and I just, I couldn't go to any of it. It was so frustrating. And then, so then, yeah, so I had Saturday and Sunday and I was just like, I wouldn't even say sick. I just like couldn't talk. Maybe a stuffed up nose, but everyone was sick. New Yorkers by the way, are not scared of a cough. Tell me, I'll tell you what, like if someone coughs around me in la, I'm like, get, get out, get out. Like, I don't. And I've been, now I've been a coughing man. But New York people, I couldn't. Like I told them I'm like, I'm coughing. And they're like, it's fine, just come. I'm like, are you sure? Because that's like, oh, that's gross that I'm coughing around everyone. But people like, we're just like, it's the time of the season. Like backstage I was just like, all right, so whatever, I guess we're all like coughing on each other, whatever. They were very unfazed by it, which I guess is good, I don't know. So I was. Yeah, but by the time that the celebrity, the Broadway star Ben Platt saw and all like Rachel, they all came in on Sunday. So like by that time I had the amoxicillin, I was taking the steroids, but my voice was just kind of like still not like fully there. So we had, so I had the full day of rehearsal Saturday for my show and then the Sunday for like the, the guest spots. And yeah, I just, I never got a voice lesson. I never got one voice. Clearly I never got one voice lesson in because I just, I couldn't, I couldn't even talk. So it was, it was, it was crazy. But yeah, then Monday rolls around. The thing I knew this whole time was like, I can't cancel it. Like, you know what I Mean, like, if it. Like, I just. I couldn't. I think it was one of my shows. Maybe I, like, would have rescheduled because, like, I, like, couldn't talk, but I think I just couldn't cancel this because it was a benefit. It's for entertainment Community fund, which is great. We raised so much money for them. Obviously, all the stars that donated their time, like, we just got it. We just. All my ensemble members who made their Broadway debut, they're all currently in shows. Like, they had to go the next day to go on the MJ tour. They were in little shop that nighttime. Like, they were all in show. So, like, it just wasn't gonna work if it was. So it just had to happen. And so I just, you know, Monday woke up without a voice again, and I just was like, well, we're just gonna make it happen. And that's what we did. We made it happen. I lit up the Empire State Building. And, yeah, it was. It was great. We did tech in one day. We opened and closed the show in one day. And it was. I also had no wardrobe. I was at the airport when I saw an email that said what to pack, and they wanted me to bring, like, body suits and dresses. And we got there, and they're like, oh, did you bring any? I was like, I got this email on the way to the airport, so.
