Mama Slay on Broadway

Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

An episode full of fun, fandom, and frisson where Kate and her guest, Caroline Moss, discuss their hot takes about Broadway musicals, but pepper in plenty of tangents from Babysitter's Club to The Beets (from Doug) and beyond. The majority of this episode is in honor of this weekend's long-awaited premiere of Wicked, and they talk through some Wicked lore, detail their favorite Elphabas, and walk through brain-scratching clips of different pre-approved riffs Elphie can use for her final "battle cry" in Defying Gravity. They also share their mutual fascination with Wicked, the complexities of Broadway casting and performances, and their favorite Broadway shows and songs. From vocal endurance to the atmosphere and experience of live musicals, they cover it all (including sharing their favorite clips from iconic songs). And don't let the theater kid vibes scare you if you aren't into musicals—this episode is for the theater fanatics and the average theater admirer alike. They've got a few pop culture and nostalgic rabbit holes to go down as well. Don't worry, by the end they sing a duet because they cannot help themselves. Enjoy!

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Caroline Moss, Gee Thanks Just Bought It, Interview, Guest, Musicals, Wicked, Idina Menzel, Ariana Grande, Laguna Beach

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Be There in Five podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. Every year I have a friend of mine, Caroline Moss on the podcast, to attempt to go over gift guides given her vocation at G. Thanks
0:24.7	just bought it. She's kind of a professional shopper. And we absolutely never get to gift guides.
0:29.6	Because there's always better things to talk about, whether it's Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn
0:34.6	quotes on canvas is it at a T.J. Max or Mama Sle of the Lake inexplicably printed on Driftwood at a lake gift shop in a landlock state, which you'll find this episode title is in reference to. I do assure you if you're new here, this is not speech I regularly use, although I'm sure it would be really likable, if I referred to myself constantly
0:57.0	in the third person and said Mama Slade stuff.
1:02.0	This year, the morning of, I decided, I'd rather talk about Broadway musicals because
1:08.4	Wicked's coming out this week, and I think Broadway is a really
1:12.7	fascinating pocket of popular culture that I'm not a snob or well-versed by any means, so this is
1:18.4	an accessible conversation just even for fans of like prison, goosebumps music, live singing,
1:23.4	or even just like shows that are pretty ubiquitous in the cultural zeitgeist and not like niche at all.
1:29.8	As much as I'd love to have super refined taste, like I don't know the deep cuts.
1:32.8	I mean, I grew up in Short Pump, Virginia, and this is what I think is interesting about Broadway is,
1:36.7	and kind of feeds into the lore and fascination is, with the exception of the big hits that go on tours,
1:43.8	if you can go or if it comes to your town and you can get tickets, there's a level of inaccessibility and wonder that comes along with it where young people like me are just relegated to the cast album and imagining the plot and how everything fits in and filling in the scenes with your imagination, especially before the internet.
2:05.7	So something like Wicked that came out in 2003, you know, used to march around campus and main character to defying gravity and the wizard and I. And it really fits in the, perfectly in the
2:10.8	category of that kind of goosebumps-inducing frisin music I like that motivates you and makes you
2:14.8	want to find your corner of the sky. To this day, I've never seen Wicked.
2:18.4	And I would consider myself a pretty big fan.
2:20.5	But I don't really know a lot about like what goes on, the set, the plot, this side or the other.
2:24.7	It's kind of funny when you think about how frustrating, like the resale market markup and like exclusivity of like the air is tour so frustrating given it's a musical event
2:38.3	of something you really care about and consume from a distance that you can't see in person
2:42.4	that often that has a finite run of shows. It's kind of a similar sensation to a lesser
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