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Welcome to the Theater People podcast. I'm your host, Patrick Hines.

So you found a place where the grass is greener and you jump the fence to the other side.

Is it good? Are they giving you a world I could never provide?

All right, you guys. Today is the day that we get to bring you our interview with the one

and only Rachel Bay Jones.

You all helped us book her when you all responded to my call via Twitter to let her know

just how much we wanted to chat with her.

So thank you for that, you guys.

She is amazing and hilarious.

She made her Broadway debut in

1989 and Meet Me in St. Louis. She was in the recent Broadway revival of hair. She has the most

hilarious story of understudying Patty Lepone and women on the verge of a nervous breakdown,

and we get her to share that with us here in this episode. You probably also remember her as Catherine in the 2013 revival of Pippin.

And if you're anything like me, you've been crying your eyes out listening to her and the rest of the cast on the recently released cast album of Dear Evan Hanson, in which she stars as Heidi Hanson, Evan's mom.

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