A Prince Charming For The Prom | With Tituss Burgess

Modern Love

The New York Times

Nytimes, Redemption, Society & Culture, New York Times, Love, Essay, Storytelling, Loss, Nyt

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Tituss Burgess, the Emmy-nominated star of the Netflix series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," reads us a story about teenage dreams -- the good, the bad, and the prom.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:10.2	From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:19.9	Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.
0:31.0	Everyone's got their own prom night stories.
0:35.0	I went to my high school prom without a date.
0:39.0	And maybe this won't surprise you, but I went as the yearbook reporter,
0:43.0	complete with film camera and super dorky handmade press badge.
0:48.0	So what about your prom night?
0:51.0	Maybe you loved it.
0:52.0	The corsages, the rented tux, the dress you probably never wore again.
0:57.0	Or maybe it was a total disaster.
0:59.0	Or maybe you just skipped it all together.
1:02.0	Well, when Frank Paiwa was a senior in high school,
1:05.0	he wrote a Modern Love essay about his prom experience,
1:09.0	or actually, experiences.
1:12.0	Eminominated actor Titus Burgess reads us Frank's essay.
1:16.0	You may know him as Titus and Dramadon
1:18.0	from the hit Netflix sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
1:21.0	Here he is reading Frank Paiwa's essay,
1:24.0	a Prince Charming for the Prom, not ever after though.
1:29.0	Lately, I become wary of the question, Frank.
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