Episode Description
What’s the most awesome theater moment you’ve had? Not, like, the biggest show you’ve been in, or the biggest audience you’ve played to, or the best tickets you ever had…those are important. I want you to think about awesome…the time you were in times square on the way to a show, stopped to take a picture with Elmo, and got photo bombed by Patrick Stewart. Or the time you were in a production of In the Heights and right before the blackout scene the power really did go out…Or you were on stage and your fellow performer forgot all their lines and you successfully improved Weird Al Yankovich lyrics for 5 minutes. I mean, AWESOME.
Today’s guest is Emily Clark, and she’d have a tough time answering that question, because her life, and she, are awesome. But for my money, it was this:
BIGFOOT!! She was in Bigfoot the musical! That’s like an 11 out of 10 on the awesome scale. And it’s obviously tounge-in cheek, but works as a comedy, has great music, according to Emily is about to open off-broadway, definitely won the 2024 Best of Fringe award…but more than any of that…it’s just awesome.
Today we are going to meet performer, educator, townie in Bigfoot, and Cal. State Fullerton Master’s candidate Emily Clark, who is going to share with us her research about the Secret Garden, which is of course a beloved children’s book and was a Broadway musical that had 7 Tony nomination and 3 wins in 1991…and it was one of the first ever show with an all-female production team. We’ll cover all that ground, and get to meet Emily, but first…let’s run the intro…