Jonathan Groff

I came out here.

I have no idea what I'm doing.

Such a funny song.

This writing is so genius.

It's so surprising.

It's like the first time people aren't rapping.

So all the white people in the audience are like, oh, no.

Yes.

On so many levels.

Dramaturgically.

Yes.

It's hitting on so many levels.

And that like...

lesson of like oh I have no idea what I'm doing but this song is killing was then when I was when then for the next two months when I started to learn the very specific upper whatever accent and I was watching all the I'm also so different than Brian Darcy James I was watching these clips of Barbara Streisand from her TV special My Name is Barbara and I was watching her come out on stage and like basically

like fuck herself with her own voice.

Like, like so, so enjoy, so small, but like enjoying every little, I was like, okay.

And then I started to build the character, but it was, I'd never built a character in front of an audience in a show before.

And so that was also a bit of like, like getting pushed out there.

And because the show is so great, I was able to just play catch up because you can be,

completely unaware of what you're doing, but sing that song and it nails it.