Steve Peebles

And then we go into another room and we meet the cast and crew who have all been assembled.

And the director says, hey guys, this is Steve.

He's gonna be taken over as Alan.

And that's the sound you hear.

And I said, hey guys, I saw your show tonight.

I'm really excited to jump into this with you.

And that is the exact response that I get.

Because I'm not the understudy in this situation.

I'm the outsider who's shouldering out their friend.

And I was prepared to do a show at a high school.

I was not prepared to be in high school again.

So I go home and I slam a script through my ear.

Because if I don't show up memorized, ready to go, these kids are never going to give me an inch.

And I do it.

And I show up on Monday and I'm playing and I'm singing songs about losing my daughter and destroying my life and they're playing

with me, and then it's Friday, and if you've never gone on as an understudy, it feels a lot like this.

You don't really know what's going to happen next, no matter how much you've rehearsed.

It's blind adrenaline.

It's like, catch me if you can.

It's just two hours of me being like, do you concur?