Barrett Wilbert Weed

All the girls were brilliant, right?

It's like every singer-dancer you know and every triple threat was in this room.

It was an embarrassment of riches and there was one girl that was going to get it that day.

And they just went... Yeah, a little bit.

They threw spaghetti at the wall.

But...

You know, I got to say, like, yes, it is an amazing achievement to be on Broadway.

I would never, ever put that down or make anyone feel less about it.

But it has become, especially now, is this the Broadway we knew about growing up or we dreamed of growing up?

No, it's very different now.

And there's so much money on the line.

It is...

you know, one movie musical after another, and there is some amazing, amazing, amazing work on Broadway, but there is also a lot of, like... There's a lot of speaking of throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.

Yeah, and there's a lot of, like, repetition.

Yeah, and, you know, there's a lot of...

Work that after, at the end of the day, it does become a day job.

I think it was Alex Brightman had said it because they were asking about, it was either like School of Rock or Beetlejuice.

And he was like, you know, he was kind of saying what you were saying, Bear, like my power, I want to go in and I want to do the thing.

And he's like, when I'm in these shows, was he in Wicked?

He was talking about some show and he was like, I'll never forget this interview because it was so powerful.