From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment, the home edition.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

My guest, we may know from his role, of girls or perhaps a little Tony-nominated show called.

Oh, yes, the Book of Mormon or another Tony-nominated show, falsettos.

Currently, he's starring on this series Black Monday on Showtime.

My guess is, of course, Andrew Rannels.

Andrew, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you for having me. I'm so happy to talk to you, as always.

I've got to say one of the things I just find to be so much fun about you, and just it goes

back to me again, reading the book, is just that some of these characters you play,

we can say that might be the case of Blair or certainly the case in Hedwig, are people who are trying to figure out the

relationship to the truth? Yeah, I think that's, I think that's very true. Yeah. I, and I feel like

I'm on that journey with all of those people. I guess that's why I'm sort of drawn to those

characters is, I think, you know, I'm, I'm also trying to figure that out. So I'm very much

drawn to characters that are all, you know, on that path and trying to figure out what,

what is best for them and what is right for them. And, you know, there's a lot of stumbling along

the way, but I'd like to be on that journey with them.

I mean, we can say that being the case for Book of Mormon as well. And again, it really

landed for me in reading your terrific memoir, which is why I'm able to sort of talk about your

relationship to Britney Spears and Hedrick, among other things. But, and I mentioned that to me, when I met you, I mean, you're just, it was so fascinating.

Because so often in the book, it's about trying to figure out who you are versus who you want to be.

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