Hey, theater people, Patrick here. I just wanted to give a huge thanks to everyone who has

supported us via our Patreon page so far. We are obsessed with making this podcast for you,

and we are so, so grateful for your willingness to pitch in a few bucks and help make

theater people and the other podcasts we're working on, like Broadway Backstory and Broadwaycom

the podcast, the absolute best they can be.

If you've been meaning to pledge via our Patreon page, please do take a look and see the really

cool rewards we're offering for donating as little as one or three or five dollars per month.

Including access to our new Facebook group, which we're packing with exclusive videos.

Like the one of Alice Ripley,

bringing down the house with her version of On My Own. You can go to patreon.com and search for

theater people podcast, or you can go to our website where there is a link on the main page.

Second, as many of you know, our brand new podcast, Broadway Backstory, launches tomorrow.

Each episode of Broadway Backstory launches tomorrow. Each episode of Broadway

backstory finds out how a show develops from an idea to a full Broadway production. And we get

the stories from the people who lived it. Our first two episodes tell the incredible true

backstory of the Tony winning in the Heights. The episode includes interviews with Lynn Manuel

Miranda, Miranda,

director Tommy Cale, orchestrator Alex Lackamore, producers Kevin McCollum and Jill Furman,

and so many more. We'll be dropping the first 20 minutes of episode one right here on theater people tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. But you can bypass theater people completely and subscribe to Broadway Backstory right now

to get the first two full episodes as soon as they go online tomorrow.

It takes just a second to find Broadway Backstory on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play,

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