Josh Gad
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I really do think that the reason, part of the reason this show endures is because each one of these songs is instantaneously hummable.
Each one of these songs, you say Footloose in the case of Man Up, but each one of these songs reminds you of something, but it's never pastiche.
It's never sort of making fun of a genre.
It is fully embracing it and earning its space.
So you have an 11 o'clock number and I believe that is as powerful, potent and as mesmerizing and memorable as an 11 o'clock number from Guys and Dolls.
Well, I think – and a lot of people would come to see the Book of Mormon and say, I don't really like musicals, but I do like this one, which is always funny to me because every number was – I don't want to say a ripoff, but it was a tribute.
It was so much.
Like, yeah, you and me, but mostly me is essentially the wizard and I from Wicked.
Turn it off.
What's turn it off?
Don't ask me that one.
No, but then like the – 40 seconds.
The pageant at the end of – King and I. That's from the King and I. Yeah.
They built in all of these moments.
Pasadena, Cunha Matata.
Cunha Matata.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The All-American Prophet.
Yeah, absolutely.