[SPEAKER_00]: Have a gay up name for a gay up podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hannah solo Broadway star is on that's a gay ass podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: You currently understudy Mary Todd Lincoln and Oh Mary along with Mary's shop her own and even doing it since the goddamn jump but also Hannah tell the listeners, when did you and I meet, how do we know each other?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, my gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it was when we were in college, which is about, I'd say, was that two years ago?
[SPEAKER_00]: Two.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two and a half years ago, time flies.
[SPEAKER_00]: We met in college, if you can believe it, and our mutual friend, Amiz Hanakim, was your best friend in your youth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and then she became your best friend in college and now she's both of our besties and we always shut up honnily time you have to You have to you also have to shut out Hannah solo went from like UCB improv monster to Broadway star
[SPEAKER_01]: And we might get into that lower a bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're also going to get into your juu daizma.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get into who is your first gay because you did this podcast years ago if you can believe.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have an updated podcast question for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But question number one on Wikipedia under your personal life.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says simply, solo is Jewish.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing else.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing less.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, if we don't get to know about your stunning husband Alex on Wikipedia, we just get to know Jew.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's important as a gauge journalist for me to ask you, but myths with theme.
[SPEAKER_01]: What was?
[SPEAKER_00]: Can I just also start by saying I did not know I had a Wikipedia and you're breaking this news me right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is true journalism.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to have to take a look at that shortly.
[SPEAKER_00]: My bot miss with him was obviously Broadway.
[SPEAKER_00]: My table here spray.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you also just did hairspray at St. Louis's The Muni, which is the town in which I grew up and I used to fantasize about all the equity course members, and I was a closet case.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, when we go to the sub-steck side, I'm going to ask you if all the ensemble boys were fucking each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: Simply so I can live by curiously.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Bob Mitz for Broadway theme, that was my dream, so I'm already resentful of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: When your table was hairspray, can you give us some highlight reals of what any of the other tables were any niche musicals on your your promise for.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a really good question.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need to control my mom, but do know there were props.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the hairspray table had sort of curling tools.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: clips.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a very prop based comedy ever since I was a kid, obviously.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we had sort of the requisite fan of the opera, saw that when I was 10 in San Francisco, life changing moment, rent really, really wanted to play Mark for a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, listen, still available.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, also there was cats.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had seen it when I was four very transformative.
[SPEAKER_00]: They came out into the audience, pot by face.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who did you want to be in cats?
[SPEAKER_01]: Deli Lorum.
[SPEAKER_00]: even if I want, I feel shameful thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know if I wanted to be in cats.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just appreciate the art form.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: We've always said that cats is the highest art form on this podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: I obviously wanted to be Mr. Mastalfoli's sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had glitter ties.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I, you know, body conscious as a 13 year old was like, I don't know if I want to wear the Lea Tard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Body conscious and it seems to be a trend with just about every living person in the entertainment sphere.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, would you say there was a celebrity that made you feel the worst about your body as a kid?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, that's such a good question.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would have to say probably all of them because really at the time It was just sort of like the O.C.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Misha I was like, I don't know if a man if I'd overdosed in Tijuana if a man could pick me up and carry me I would wake up from the overdose and be like, oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, wait.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's not a new
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, no, I'm glad that we're talking about, um, over to the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right away.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, no, I find that your Laura is so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I also think that our shared her story sort of wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know that the first boy that I kissed was very close to your, or like a floor, a floor away from your dorm?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do we speak his name or does it get bleeped out?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we say his name because he did a great job and the Jacob Samuels I'm so grateful to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was a fellow student in a one miss cap 21, which was the musical theater program that you had a solar in with Hanukkahim.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you feel that going to NYU was worth it or do you, what do you tell people, like
[SPEAKER_00]: I tried to have a diplomat against her, but it's funny at the stage door two nights ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a dad and his daughter, and he was like, listen, should she get a BFA or a B.A.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, I've just finished the show, my adrenaline.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could lift a car.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what to say to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she was like, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I might want to be a doctor.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I almost went to medical school.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought maybe I would go to University of California at Berkeley and be pre-med.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I chose musical theater.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's a real sort of sliding door's moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: What would of could of?
[SPEAKER_01]: What sort of doctor would you have envisioned yourself as?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's so crazy is I wanted to be an infectious disease specialist?
[SPEAKER_00]: Could I have stopped COVID who knows?
[SPEAKER_00]: But instead, I did musical theater.
[SPEAKER_01]: instead you toured with Oklahoma.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, and that sort of was helpful to the world as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why would say that production was its own virus?
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a joke.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I was about to say the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pandemic, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: But also that revival, uh,
[SPEAKER_01]: That you the tour that you did was a revival that was you told me off my a couple years ago that it got a really interesting Reception around the country because that production was like just like a big swing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I fucking loved it by the buy but I know that a lot of audiences were like what the food is going on
[SPEAKER_01]: Before we get into that lore, of course we're going to bring up some boop stuff, some more old Mary lore.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to ask you the podcast question that we asked returning guests here, which is Hannah Solo, who was your first gay?
[SPEAKER_01]: What was the first gay person you either saw in the media or maybe in a class room that made you think, huh?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be friends with gay guys forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I went to an arts high school.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I knew a lot of gay men, my choir teacher, my aquapella teacher.
[SPEAKER_01]: Were those two different teachers?
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, you really did go to an arts high school.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two different teachers, both mean both incredible, one of which we obviously did aquapella renditions of George Michael's Faith,
[SPEAKER_00]: And Evan Essence, my immortal.
[SPEAKER_00]: He contained multiple twids, and I, I just woke up.
[SPEAKER_01]: He couldn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that song so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Evan Essence, my immortal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like a bunch of, I'm certain it was all girls being like, whew, wash away your tears.
[SPEAKER_01]: Were you, what, what vocal part were you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Tenor.
[SPEAKER_01]: You look.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were no boys and now that I'm saying it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's why it was tenor.
[SPEAKER_00]: You were tenor singing Christmas music at them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: They made us wear those big flu-fee costumes standing outside the tree.
[SPEAKER_01]: As a Jew who like can appreciate Christmas for what it is, I'm married to somebody whose family takes Christmas very seriously.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have always found
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's one of the nerdy things that you can do.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think like wearing Charles Dickens where going door to door feels like really, and I'm like a fucking nerd.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you appreciate music.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I present character actors.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm not saying I'm too coo for school.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do think Christmas Carolers are.
[SPEAKER_00]: some of the most nerdyest of groups in popular terms and doing it at the mall having sort of like big for attention while people are passing by trying to get to their next store, check something off the list and it's like, no, no, no, why don't you listen to these high schoolers singing the toy shop door is locked up tight and everything is quiet for the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's humiliated.
[SPEAKER_01]: And meanwhile, you're just trying to buy a vibrator at the sharper image.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fuck.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, may she rest.
[SPEAKER_01]: May she rest.
[SPEAKER_00]: We I didn't even finish answering that question because I do want to touch on one thing
[SPEAKER_00]: I was thinking about this recently because I knew a lot of gay men, I knew a lot of gay guys knew no lesbians.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had one teacher that I believe was a lesbian and forgive me, Kelly, if she wasn't, but she had spiky hair, motorcycle jacket, probably was talking about
[SPEAKER_00]: life.
[SPEAKER_01]: What did she teach acting?
[SPEAKER_00]: She told us a story about how she would put marshmallows between her toes for auditions to make herself feel sort of uncomfortable in the moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, you either secret.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know what my secret is, but I have it just for myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's another problem I have with acting programs, which is that the teachers are teaching things that helps their careers when I'm not judging people for being teachers.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's some of the most important work, but marshmallows are paying your toes, led you to teaching at an acting high school in California.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love her.
[SPEAKER_00]: She also told us to like make a book of wins and celebrations to like look through and remind yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which was really sweet, but I bring it up because I thought about it recently because I remember being like, well, I can't like girls like that is someone who like scrolls.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it was like confusing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's kind of a most like difficult part.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think about growing up as someone who's having pangs of gay, which is that if you see another person who is gay, but that's very different from you, you definitely like have an identity crisis.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you're actually landing on something really important.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I was in high school and deeply closeted in self-hating, the only out gay guys in my school were of course like bullied within an inch of their lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: I
[SPEAKER_01]: But also they were like, you know, sort of like fabulous family, which of course, now I celebrate I think it's gorgeous, but that was so triggering as a person trying to just like, it'd be included in the fucking asshole bros. And I did not want to be like them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't want to have a target on my back.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't want to be limp-risty.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I'm thrilled to barely have a wrist bone, but I think to your point, like you didn't see yourself in what was your name was?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I can't remember her last name, but I really want to find out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're listening Kelly, I am so curious what her experience of teaching at that high school was like, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I can only imagine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, their listeners might be wondering if Hannah solo herself identifies with any part of the rainbow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there a specific letter that you identify with or
[SPEAKER_00]: I would say a B.
[SPEAKER_00]: A Q.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love a B. Q.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a B. Q. E. The Brooklyn Queens Express.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't recognize the Brooklyn Queens Express way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and you, you're a Brooklyn Queen.
[SPEAKER_01]: You live in Brooklyn, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, this is my memoir.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're figuring it out as we speak.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brooklyn, Queen, which also, again, honors your Jewish heritage as Brooklyn's famously full of
[SPEAKER_01]: Jews to a spot.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think the listeners will be pissed as hell if I did not get into some old Mary lore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hannah, are you annoyed when people ask you about old Mary?
[SPEAKER_01]: Or is that okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, oh my gosh, please, it's my entire life.
[SPEAKER_01]: We your audition was how long ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like you've been doing this show for about a decade.
[SPEAKER_00]: in basically that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think my addition must have been three years ago almost.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that scary?
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was supposed to be 10 weeks and I was like, oh, it'll be fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be like a summer job.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'll go back to doing my click
[SPEAKER_01]: Click back to, by the way, when we go to Substack, I'm going to ask you what it's like to go from broke actor to actually making money.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's something that I need to know.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that'll be, since that sort of goes to ask about finances, I'll leave it to a paywall.
[SPEAKER_01]: OK, so auditioned for O-Merry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I read a little interview that you originally went in for Mary Shaperone, correct?
[SPEAKER_01]: And they were like, year two, stunning and young.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were like, oh my god, what do you 18?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, yes, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't I'm like 18.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they were like, can you, would you be interested in understudy?
[SPEAKER_01]: You said yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You book the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell me.
[SPEAKER_01]: as you've now been doing it on Broadway and you've been understanding some of the biggest names in the biz.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can you tell me is there one person that you felt sort of an immediate soulful connection with maybe more so than any of the other people who played Mary?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, that's so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I felt a soul connection with each and every one of them, and they've all been so wonderful.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like Betty was the first person after Cole to do the show, and that was so jarring, having had
[SPEAKER_00]: watched and listened to cool do it a million times and then Betty showed up and was an angel perfection on earth and is the nicest human in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it was a beautiful welcoming ray of sunshine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone is just so
[SPEAKER_00]: fun and wonderful and wants to be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: My Rudolph is the best person in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you hope that someone is going to be that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you thank God that they show up and our normal and cool and just want to hang.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I want to crispy cream donuts with my Rudolph.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, what is happening?
[SPEAKER_01]: If I start convulsing with you, is that okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we always joke on this podcast about what made us gay, we're clearly hashtag born this way, but my Rudolph's national and was a very big affirmation of my homosexuality.
[SPEAKER_01]: and to see you in her, there's actually a really beautiful social clip that the Omery team did where it's my Rudolph Janker Kasky and Mason and Hannah Solo and it is like I didn't jerk off to it but I got lost.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a gay dream.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a gay dream to see with these people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the other thing that's kind of crazy part of your story is that the elephant in the room being when you are an understudy to a title character, where I'm not saying that Omere is like stung casting in the gross way, but like Omere is now bringing in name after name after name and when the
[SPEAKER_01]: flyer in the play bill says the role of Mary will we play by Hannah Solow.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't help but think about stories of people and past generations, understanding Ethel Merman, these huge stars, and then hearing screams and groans and angry people in the audience.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have you experienced that yourself when people find out that the star is out and then it's you, have you had to deal with some like soul crushing reactions?
[SPEAKER_00]: I try to avoid it as much as possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: I went on red at one single time and then immediately emailed my therapist at the time and was like, I need a session.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, and I'm not allowed on red anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: But generally, people are nice and my stage managers are so kind and we don't do a pre-show announcement sort of in some ways for that reason because
[SPEAKER_00]: that is such a trope of them being like, and tonight the role of Mary is played by Hannah Solo and you hear the whole audience go like, no, yeah, burn the witch, but like everyone does a really good job of if it's if it's early enough, you know, getting people refunds if they want them,
[SPEAKER_00]: And getting other people in those seats so that by the time I get out there, it's full, I can just do my job and people are already fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will say, you know, there are shows when I go out for the first scene and I feel that the energy in the audience is arms crossed.
[SPEAKER_00]: prove it honey.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to laugh for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think some of that is even subconscious where you see the slip in the program and you think, oh, oh, no, it's an understudy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just sort of say fuck everyone and my job is to just do the show and it's taking me a long time to get there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there a part of the show when you feel that energy at the top?
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there a part of the show you can feel the shift happen?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, definitely.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we all do.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny because after the show will be like, oh, they really switched and seen four or oh, we really got them and seen seven.
[SPEAKER_01]: And some different points during the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: It takes longer for some audiences.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's like the first scene is testing the waters.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then by the time I come maybe and seen four people are like, okay, she's funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I had a friend who went to see, I think it was Titus Burgess and you were on and I was, like, I, of course, had no actual nerves for how he was going to feel because I knew he was going to absolutely love you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's always like a 1% of my brain that's like, you know, like, what if like what if, and of course he raved.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just, I, it's,
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you know this, but I want to remind you that there are so many people like me who have known you for a long time and just brag about what you're doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like very, it's like really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're inspiring because you have remained true to who you are free to be you and me.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that the title is?
[SPEAKER_01]: You were even free to be ever since we were in college.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then it just like, it happened, you know, it like really like you went from, I mean, you really were like doing basement comedy for a while.
[SPEAKER_00]: For a long time, for a long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I saw you do musical improv with the gorgeous Henry Russell Bergstein.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will remind the listeners has done this podcast and is the casting director of Oh Mary.
[SPEAKER_01]: and to see you go from that to this is just, it feels really correct.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another question I have for you is, and we'll still do some more Mary stuff, but I love to sort of lean into my ADHD stuff diagnosed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Same.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're both doctors.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, do you suffer diagnosed as well?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, maybe I'll see D2.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, probably.
[SPEAKER_01]: The way that I,
[SPEAKER_01]: We have toilets in our apartment that don't have a handle like on the side or I can just use my foot and so if I don't if I like don't want to wash my hands after I pee this is too much too vulnerable, but I'm doing it when I don't want to wash my hands after I pee if it's like a quick John and that's ADHD not wanting to wash your hands after your pee.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what they're telling me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will take like a bunch of little bit of toilet paper and then scrunch it up enough so that my finger isn't touching a button.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's on the top of the toilet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will put the toilet paper on the button and then press the toilet paper on the button and then put the toilet paper in the toilet as it's flushing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's I think ADHD and OCD.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think, and please in the comments, we're trying our best to out here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Any doctor's listening?
[SPEAKER_01]: I doubt it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure there's going to be one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people can be doctors.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allegedly.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Betty Boop has a musical that is going on tour.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a big Broadway production and your video.
[SPEAKER_01]: to say where you basically heard an old man say we give it to me what did he say I heard an old man on the street say oh well we could see boop
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you made a like totally off the cuff Instagram video and now your line is the full marketing campaign for a multi million dollar production.
[SPEAKER_00]: I get DM's emails all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey girl, like forting me an email that says that being like, hope you're getting your residuals.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, honey, you don't understand how this works residuals.
[SPEAKER_01]: They, they're trying to break, they're just trying to break even.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's sort of devastating to talk to Broadway people right now, only because just about everyone's like, Broadway's broke.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, like, no one's like, like the, oh, Mary's one of the only shows making money in Broadway.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's say it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's say it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we're so lucky that we've been there for so long and that people are still coming to see us and that audiences are loving it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we have people to come back and see it 30 times 40 times.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's gonna run for a continued run for a very long time to a toe toe toe toe, because who's I just talking to that said like it's oh Joel Compuster was saying that it's like everybody wants the role.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone wants to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, how does it feel to create the marketing campaign for Luke?
[SPEAKER_00]: Does it, does it feel, you know, you understand as a creator artistic person that there is always this little bit of
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to say disappointment, but like the video I made to make Julian my dressing room made laugh where I'm not wearing any makeup and put two seconds into goes crazy viral.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I make a music video and can't get a single person to listen to it after I spent months working on this thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you just really don't know what's going to hit and like the
[SPEAKER_00]: Northern California texted me, being like, my friends are saying we could see boo, but I was like, this is crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I need you to know that I very much affirm the devastation of putting hours into something that no be pays attention to.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know you want to say that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there is a video that I just pulled up, but I don't want to reference that still lives in my heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have so many good videos.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one goes by the tune of someone putting cowboy hats on pigeons and laws values.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, I'm not overnight success.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been putting in the time, though work, making videos known as receiving.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your husband Alex helps you with this music production.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why is he so good at the music?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a composer, went to Berkeley School of Music.
[SPEAKER_00]: I sort of call myself the Lin Menwell Miranda to his, I would guess Alex Wachamore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where like I'm sort of making voice moves, being like, and they goes a little something like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Zana, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: the doubt about bubble and he's like okay choose a key and then he'll make it into something that is gorgeous and we'll work together and I'm so annoying and so bossy and yet somehow we have not killed each other but he really is the secret sauce to it all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah no you and you've also been together for how long?
[SPEAKER_00]: A thousand years.
[SPEAKER_00]: a thousand years.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've been together since the year 2014.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that crazy?
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean crazy, and I'm at Matt 2013.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're like, that's scary.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I was doing hair spray, I was like, oh my god, we're so old, like, these kids probably think we're so old.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Kevin Zach was like, yeah, because we're probably their parents age.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, there was an eight year old in the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, one of the community kids, and it's like, yeah, his mom could be 32.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking at me being like, what's my mom doing here in hair spray?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's my old aunt doing here early and that was scary for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's looking at me and Richard kind going they're the same age.
[SPEAKER_01]: We by the way, the Twitter discourse of Richard kind of not being in full be so funny to me people were really passionate wait so Richard kind and hairspray any stories.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the man he's the most passionate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, he sobbed crying during the Tony Awards.
[SPEAKER_00]: He loves theater.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he showed me a picture of his favorite that died.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't get a fair at this, Mel Bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: An incredible man told me the nastiest, dirtiest jokes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that's so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of everything you dream of.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who has, okay, oh, Mary, who has, who's had the most horny sense of humor or stories backstage?
[SPEAKER_00]: How we jinx?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who would you say an o-marry was the silliest backstage?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who would you say an o-marry was the floriest no matter what sexuality they actually were?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, the flirtiest.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a really good question.
[SPEAKER_00]: Julian, he's all trying to kiss me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell Julian, I think he's cute, by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Get in line.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody DM in me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, who's that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Shut up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are UM, what's your relationships like being around so many horny gay guys?
[SPEAKER_00]: I love gay people.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love gay guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm happy to match make a lot of times, but sometimes I'm like, you guys, don't send the message to me, send it directly to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, knows how to type on his phone, like.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly, go to the source.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, okay, what about, um, celebrities who come to Mary, um, I've read that you were really gagged by weird owl.
[SPEAKER_01]: You love weird owl.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love weird owl.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone was so gagged by weird owl.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've never seen everyone act so insanely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who else?
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you feel crazy around?
[SPEAKER_00]: There's different levels of crazy because Jennifer Lopez was crazy in a way of like, whoa, I'm in the same room as Jennifer Lopez, her skin is so smooth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is kind of going to be, it's not crazy to think in 20 years.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're stories about this time or going to be that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can truly only hope that I'm like, well, you know, Titus and I was sitting backstage eating fried rice and they called places and he wasn't wearing any makeup.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then after the show, Jennifer Lopez came back and Jennifer Lopez asked me if I had a chicken low main from put on satch one.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's only.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, can we, it's before we cross over to the, to the sub sex side?
[SPEAKER_01]: Um,
[SPEAKER_01]: When people ask you like your professional manifestations, do you have any sort of like answer if it's broadway related?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have like a TV film dream?
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you say when people ask you about your professional aspirations?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a really good question.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am so lucky to do work that is exciting to me and stuff that I think is funny and cool and that I care about.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's kind of my personal manifestation is to keep doing work in TV film Broadway that I believe in that I think is funny and fun or interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would be so sad to be in a show
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't know if I could do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I have been told many times that whatever happens after Omeri, this was such a unique experience.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be hard to sort of compare to my Broadway debut, my Broadway principal debut, all these things wrapped up into one.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'd like to try and do some TV.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be the voice of some kind of freaky animal.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to be in a movie and I want to put my rosacea on HBO, bring normal people back on to the screens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I cannot look at another woman with an iPhone face in a period drama.
[SPEAKER_01]: Say that, Hino Solo.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: We need to get some real fucking people who actually, we can imagine having bad tummy issues in 18 94.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, hello, you want someone who had Scarlet fever.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's me.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not one of these Instagram influencers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because famously, hot people don't have medical issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Back in college and forever, we've talked about having Jewish stomachs.
[SPEAKER_01]: As a Jew, do you have any polybrake during the show in case you accidentally
[SPEAKER_00]: This is actually a really big issue for me personally.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe I'm going to say this publicly, but I often times taken a modium before the show because I am scared that I'm going to have diarrhea and I don't have any bathroom breakthroughs during the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was genuinely so scared at first that my dresser offered to get me a diaper and I said, I can't make my Broadway debut in a diaper.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not exactly how I envisioned and I just don't think we can go that far.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to be really careful about what I eat so that I don't have diarrhea during the show because that is a concern for us for our people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can you imagine to get the guy in my office, oh no, I can actually relate because when I played buddy of the elf, I had about 12 layers of tights on and I remember before one show having an issue and I was all mic'd up and everything and I was like, please don't be listening.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, this is the struggles that people aren't talking about on Broadway.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what stars are just like us because it is very much another connection for you to the gay community, which is like bottoms taking an emotium before or for I hear it's happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm familiar.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been reading a lot of gay porn books.
[SPEAKER_00]: backstage.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, can I say that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not backstage in my house.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's legal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not like exposing myself to anyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been reading all of these like gay hockey books sort of started with heated rivalry and then I've gotten into a bunch of different series.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm learning so much about your community.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that's a great set of it because we're going to talk about what you've learned on some stack and I want you to tell me the most disgusting, filthy thing you've learned.
[SPEAKER_00]: I actually have so many things and I can't wait to hear your take on what they're using as loop.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's also good because then we'll keep our YouTube monetization and then we can do the most disgusting thing topics on sub-stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before we go to sub-second here about Hanna Solo's new knowledge of Lube and nasty butt stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're also going to talk about, yes, more munitails, omeritails, making money.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the final question we ask on the main feed for that's a gay ass podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hanna Solo, that question is, if the world was ending, and you could only save one character
[SPEAKER_00]: Who, what do you, I'm going to give a shout out and a lifeboat to my girl Kathy Fitzgerald, who is Kathy Fitzgerald you ask this is the diva their V character actress, I saw her in a production of the producers, I said that's me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw the corings, eight foot tall Amazon girls.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, I can't be in the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I said, harass.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, there we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could do musical theater.
[SPEAKER_00]: Truly, I met her backstage.
[SPEAKER_00]: She came backstage at Omery with Allison Jenny.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, oh my God.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Kathy Fitzgerald, sobbing to her being like, you made me feel that I could be a part of musical theater.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I literally, I'm like crying backstage.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's crying.
[SPEAKER_00]: The woman mad and mourable.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's done over 2,000 performances of Wick and I read online.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a character actress.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've done over 2,000 performances of Wick and Honey.
[SPEAKER_00]: Get her a medal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody listening is giving you a standing ovation.
[SPEAKER_01]: people are spraying different liquids from their bodies.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can't even explain.
[SPEAKER_01]: Based on that monologue you just gave when you mentioned her name.
[SPEAKER_00]: You fit in your body.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt it because I went immediately to the producers and I immediately went to all of the rules that she played, especially in
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: She plays Shirley Moskowitz and I too saw myself represented in her I think in a way it's so beautiful that you state her name because in a way she makes anybody who does never felt like felt like they fit in with the ongenous or like the jocks that we had a chance, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the fact that you got to weep to her next to Allison Janney is so affirming in such a gay mad live that I feel even lucky to have heard that tale from you and I know everybody listening feels the same way Holy shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so glad you got to tell her how much he means to us
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, it really was so magical.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you don't know who's watching you.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is ultimately what's so beautiful about Peter is you have no idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: I meet people with the seizure.
[SPEAKER_00]: children and then people that are for their grandma's idiot birthday.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have no idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the reason why we do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, isn't that like, is this sort of, I don't think if you go back in a couple, but like, please, it's not like, oh my god, like,
[SPEAKER_01]: normal people like you and me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's true, normal as people exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's so true, and people are like, oh my god, like we were devastated.
[SPEAKER_00]: We wanted to kill ourselves when we heard it was you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they're like, but you were so amazing, like, who are you?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, girl, I don't even know how I'm here either.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know what, that is a message from the universe to me and to everybody listening that we are going to continue to be free to be me and you and just live our truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, but he made with emphysema, it's crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rozinga, emphysema is when you smoke too much and your lungs are real in.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, someone in history has been teaming with the stuff and I'm going to stand by it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hannah Solo, will you tell these listeners where to follow you and there's anything else you would like for them to know before we go to do nasty but talk on substock.
[SPEAKER_00]: Baby McGoo, B-A-B-Y-M-C-G-O-O.
[SPEAKER_00]: Follow me, lots of fun videos, maybe some new things coming up, who knows.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be on his Mary in September, and I post all the dates there if you want to come see me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hell, fuking, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go follow Baby McGoo slash Hannah Solar on the internet, go see her on Broadway, and also in all the other things that she's doing, like the body roll she is doing right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: are going to move the part of the sub-stack and all the hottest listeners are following us to click that subscribe button on sub-stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I guess question number one to get us into it and then we'll sort of cut it off at a really exciting part so people really want to pay.
[SPEAKER_01]: The question I'm going to ask you is yeah like what sort of the nasty gay sex stuff you're
[SPEAKER_01]: insight into what you've learned.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been learning a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Specifically, in this series of books that I'm reading, they have a lot of creative lube uses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, they're using the outdoor shower, they don't have any lube.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, look, there's an aloe plant.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's crack it open.
[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting, feels somewhat safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: You go, okay, weird, but sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then the next book, they are publicly fucking in a movie theater, which, okay,
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have any loop.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do they use?
[SPEAKER_01]: The popcorn butter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, well, the bucket is there's a little bit at the bottom of the bucket.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's where I draw the line.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I, it's helpful to hear you say that because I'm wondering, our, our people out here is this a common occurrence or everybody drop in the comments.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you've ever been penetrated with movie theater butter.
[SPEAKER_01]: If there's one person, if there's one person who has done it, I will rescind my, I will take back my statement and saying that that's too far, but I think we will buy you, we will buy you some movie theater popcorn so you can do your thing I'll do that I'll do that and then you can do that with your Betty Boop residual.
[SPEAKER_00]: the thing about these books is that there's like all these tropes like certain writers have certain phrases that they always use like everybody talks about the slit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can I say this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is this allowed?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: For the rest of the interview, head to sub-stack linked below where you will also find chats with Colin Braun, Rich Burns, Christopher Patterson, Rosso, Tyler Varval, Sebastian Dino, Cody Silver, Johnny Sibly, Sam Altizer, and more.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's at substack.com slash
[SPEAKER_01]: and I will see you there for a gorgeous Harry Hornie time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love you, bye!