Beth Malone (Episode 57)

Theater People

Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

Tony Awards, Nyc, Musicals, Actors, Creative, Arts, Plays, Writers, Broadway, Theater, Society & Culture, Interview, Comedy, Producers, Performing Arts

4.8 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Beth Malone, Beth Malone, BETH MALONE! We were SO excited to get the chance to sit down with the Tony nominated Fun Home star! Her turn as the grown up Alison--a performance in which she never leaves the stage--is at once intense and vulnerable, sarcastic and so completely honest. In a word, it's unforgettable. And her stories will blow your mind. From making her Broadway debut in 'Ring of Fire,' to rooming with Cherry Jones at the Sundance Theater Lab, to being mistaken for a techie backsta...

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0:00.0	Hey, theater people, Patrick here. Happy 2016. Last week, as some of you know, was our two-year
0:05.6	anniversary. In that time, we've brought you conversations with Lynn Manuel Miranda, Laura Benanti,
0:10.9	Laura Osniss, Norm Lewis, Renee Elise Goldsbury, and so many more. So far, we've produced
0:16.6	57 episodes, and we're just getting started theater people in coming weeks we're bringing you
0:21.9	interviews with megan hilty betsy wolf and other theater superstars we can't tell you about yet we have
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0:48.0	That's it.
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0:50.6	The amazing Beth Malone will be here when you get back.
0:54.0	Yeah, I'm Lynn Manuel Miranda. I'm Celia Kean and Bolger. This is Queen Leslie. I'm Robin DeHsouz.
0:59.5	I'm Aaron Davy. Hi, this is Ellen Marie Marsh. I'm LaShawn. I'm Tally Leong. Hi, I'm Tanya Pinkin's. I'm Karen Levo, and you are listening to The Theater People podcast.
1:15.0	Hello, fellow theater people. Welcome to the Theater People podcast. I'm Patrick Hines, your host.
1:20.3	You guys, there is no other way to say this. Today's guest, the Tony-nominated fun home star, Beth Malone, has cast a spell on me.
1:28.4	Seriously, I am crazy about her. I've talked on the podcast before about how as a gay man who grew up with a
1:34.0	lesbian mother, I always felt a sort of kinship with Fun Home, the book. When I heard there was
1:39.4	going to be a musical based on it, I just thought, how? But then I learned that it was going to be written by the brilliant Janine Tessori and Lisa Crone,
1:47.0	and I knew, of course, that it would be perfect, and of course it is.
1:50.0	But still, there was something about seeing the show up on its feet,
1:54.0	the characters brought to life that shook me, for lack of a better way to say it.
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