The Spektor of performing on Broadway

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor talks with Kurt Andersen about her upcoming Broadway residency and, seated at a Steinway, performs some songs. The story behind the Empire Zinc strike 70 years ago and the film it inspired, “Salt of the Earth.” And how one scene from “Finding Nemo” inspired Kiki Kienstra to up and move to Mexico.

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:06.0	Today on Studio 360, there are people that are like Broadway human beings.
0:11.8	They sort of go Broadway and their whole body vibrates at a different tempo.
0:16.2	Regina Spector is a singer-songwriter.
0:18.4	So how is she adapting her act for a Broadway stage?
0:22.4	I sort of was thinking, like, what's a Broadway-ish thing? Tap dance. Well, let me collaborate
0:27.1	with a tap dancer. Plus, how a certain kids movie changed the life of a school teacher.
0:39.5	I realized when I saw that scene that I needed to make a decision about my life, and I needed to jump and see what happened.
0:50.4	Learning to let go from Finding Nemo. That's ahead on Studio 360 right after this.
1:07.1	This is Studio 360.
1:09.1	I'm Curtis, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:12.1	This first level of garden.
1:13.4	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
1:15.3	I like to have the roasted chicken paste.
1:16.9	Very well done.
1:18.1	Editing is all about timing.
1:19.8	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:22.4	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
1:24.9	Studio 360.
1:26.8	It's Kurt Anderson.
1:35.8	My piano at home in Moscow, it was a little upright.
1:39.7	It was a petroff.
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