Sunday Nice Things: Broadway Husbands

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Technology, Kids & Family, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.3 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Stephen and Bret—aka the Broadway Husbands—have spent their careers lighting up the stage, from The Little Mermaid to Billy Elliot. But their most moving performance is the life they’ve built together as husbands and now as dads. In this episode, they join Committed to share their story: how they met in sobriety, fell in love over Christmas parties and theater trips, and eventually tied the knot with a rooftop proposal at the Empire Hotel. They talk candidly about their four-year surrogacy journey, the emotional rollercoaster of becoming parents, and the ways fatherhood has reshaped their relationship, their boundaries, and their priorities. We also get into how they balance Broadway careers, creative projects, and parenting, while still making space for each other as partners. And yes—there’s singing, laughter, and plenty of joy. Stephen and Brett’s love story is not just a Broadway tale, it’s a human one—about resilience, partnership, and building a family against the odds. Follow the Broadway Husbands here. You can see Bret's Go Fund Me here. Binge all the episodes of Committed here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey all, happy Sunday. Today's Sunday Nice Things is an episode of my podcast committed that I recorded earlier this year.
0:09.2	I love the couple on this show. Stephen and Brett are Broadway actors and dancers, but I first found them,
0:17.2	as you'll hear in the episode, on the Broadway husband's Instagram account. And I just
0:23.3	fell in love with them. I fell in love with them and with their love story. And like me, they
0:28.6	love belting out a good lay miss in the middle of dinner. I recently just found out that Brett,
0:36.5	one half of the couple, has been diagnosed with a form of T-cell lymphoma, a rare and life-threatening immune condition.
0:44.1	He's currently going through treatment while he and his husband Stephen continue to raise their young child, and I wanted to drop this episode in your feed.
0:52.1	Just to raise awareness about this wonderful couple, I'm going to put the
0:55.3	go-fund to me to raise money for Brett's treatments and family in the show notes. And I just think
1:00.7	after hearing their love story, you are also going to fall in love with the two of them.
1:15.4	Stephen and Brett are both Broadway actors and dancers.
1:20.7	I first discovered the two of them on their Broadway husband's Instagram account.
1:23.3	They're also Broadway dads, by the way,
1:27.1	which is why I think their account was served to me in the first place.
1:31.6	And frankly, I just cannot get enough of these two.
1:33.3	I'm a musical theater geek.
1:43.2	So, I mean, naturally, naturally, I just, I want to see everything that they do, all of their singing and they're dancing, and their dadding, and their husbanding, they're loving each other.
1:46.5	There is so much joy in this account. There is so much joy in this account.
1:48.4	There is so much joy in their relationship.
1:51.2	I'm going to play you a little taste of some of the musical antics that the two of them get up to.
1:55.5	For those of you who've never joined us before,
1:57.6	my name is Stephen, and this is Brett.
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