6 Tips For Bringing Your Solo Show to Broadway (and the West End!)

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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Mike’s creative collaborator and director Seth Barrish returns for a special episode of Working It Out announcing the UK premiere of “The Old Man and the Pool” at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London as well as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. Mike and Seth share their excitement about bringing the show across the pond, and Mike expands on his New York Times piece “6 Tips For Bringing Your Solo Show to Broadway,” using it as a jumping off point for a discussion about creativity, writing, and performing. Plus, jokes and stories about New York City overheards, and the time Mike performed a show for 2 audience members.

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0:00.0	I'm here with my director, Seth Bearish.
0:02.4	We made a show called The Old Man of the Pool,
0:06.7	and it was our fifth solo show collaboration
0:10.0	that he directed and dramaturged,
0:11.6	and I wrote and performed.
0:14.1	And we're announcing today that we're going to London,
0:17.4	to the West End.
0:18.2	Yeah.
0:20.8	That's.
0:21.6	That's a lot of things you can have.
0:22.8	No, that was good though.
0:24.5	Well, you and I have one, that actually makes me think
0:27.5	well, one of the things we have in common
0:29.2	is we're both low energy.
0:33.6	We're both, how'd you describe it?
0:35.7	Well, I would describe it if you hear good news
0:37.4	that the first thing comes up for me,
0:39.0	I don't know if that way for you is like, maybe.
0:42.3	That's so funny.
0:45.0	That's so funny because every correspondence you and I
0:49.0	have had about the London announcement has been,
0:52.2	hey, Seth, just so you know, these dates,
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