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Ask Me Another

Lena Hall: From Yitzhak to Hedwig

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Tony Award winner Lena Hall tells us about her next level audition for the Hedwig and the Angry Inch revival. Then she plays a game based on her monthly EP covers project, "Obsessed." This episode originally aired on March 27, 2018.

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0:00.0

From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,

0:09.2

its NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.

0:13.4

I'm Jonathan Colton.

0:14.4

Now, here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:17.6

Thank you, Jonathan.

0:22.6

We've got a great show for you four brilliant contestants are here to play our nerdy games.

0:27.5

Our backstage looking for the hidden immunity idol, but only one will be our big winner.

0:33.9

And our special guest today is the multi-talented Lena Hall.

0:37.2

She played both of the major roles in headwigs and the angry inch, both headwigs and yitzek.

0:44.8

That's amazing.

0:45.8

That's like playing the fiddler and the roof.

0:48.4

We're like mama and Mia, we're God and spell.

0:53.8

Our first two contestants will play a game where singers stop being musical and start

0:58.0

being real, real pretentious.

1:00.7

Let's meet them first up, Adrian Bruney on buzzer number one.

1:04.9

You write reports for the UN.

1:06.7

Welcome.

1:07.7

Thank you.

1:08.7

Your opponent is Megan Ballback on buzzer number two.

1:11.3

You're a high school art teacher.

1:13.8

Welcome.

1:14.8

Thanks for having me.

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