Barrett Wilbert Weed

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.

And he was like, after a while, it's a day job.

And these people will stay in the day job for a long time.

But like the magic's gone.

Like the synergy is really hard to keep alive.

And like I always say, like Broadway is amazing for a week.

especially when you make the debut or you got the opening night or it's just your opening night because you were placed in a show and it's the confetti comes from the sky you have your moment and then it's just a job and then it is same shit with a bigger paycheck maybe and I think that like what we were saying beforehand like

Sometimes it's not necessarily your talent that's really being acknowledged.