Josh Gad

And you're like, oh, boy.

And you just have to figure out a way to sing around it.

But it was after previews, after opening, after the Tony Awards, I hadn't missed any performances.

And I started my career as a replacement singer.

As an understudy, I just – I was not accustomed to the idea that I could call out of a show and I probably shouldn't have done the show that night.

But I remember it was like a couple weeks after the Tony Awards and I sang this duet that Josh and I sang called You and Me but Mostly Me and it was –

kind of a disaster but I just continued I just continued with the show and I was like I'm gonna try to make this work it was actually remarkable to watch but then by the I don't know I pulled that very deep out of my soul and I got through I Believe somehow and like sang the whole thing and I amazed myself that I could do it and then I got to another song that's called Orlando I don't know if you remember this Josh mhm

And it's supposed to end with a little falsetto thing where I say, and I'll never go back to.

And I'm supposed to go.

And instead I went, never go back to you.

And the curtain flew up and all the missionaries come out and everyone was laughing.

Then after the bows that night, I walked off stage and I remember Karen Moore, our stage manager, was standing there and I.

burst into tears and I said, I have to miss a show.

And she said, you're allowed to miss a show.

And I just like cried and cried about it.

It was so, yeah.

It had never occurred to me.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Or when your voice is low and all of a sudden you sound like Kathleen Turner and you're like...