Cynthia Erivo has some tips for Marc on how to get more out of his time on set. For example, she always makes sure to get her steps in. So when you see her playing Elphaba in Wicked, she’s wearing her fitness watch under her witch costume. Cynthia and Marc share their thoughts about the vulnerability of singing, with Cynthia having studied the psychology of music before becoming an award-winning stage performer. They also compare notes on Aretha Franklin from their respective projects about the Queen of Soul.Click here to submit a question for an upcoming Ask Marc Anything episode. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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all right let's do this how are you what the fuckers what the fuck buddies what the fuck nicks what's happening i'm mark maron and this is my podcast wtf ongoing ongoing going on. Today I'm going to talk to Cynthia Erivo. She's a Tony, Emmy, and Grammy winner. She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for the movie Harriet. Amazing woman. born and raised in London.
Her big breakout in the U.S. was on Broadway in The Color Purple. She's been in Bad Times at the El Royale, which I liked. And she played Aretha Franklin in the Nat Geo series Genius. And that was with David Cross playing... Jerry Wexler, who I played in the Respect movie. I always wanted to... I think I told Cynthia that. I've always wanted to do like a dueling Wexler thing with... With Dave.
But I had a great conversation with Cynthia. I'll be back on tour starting in January, Sacramento, California. I'll be at the Crest Theater on Friday, January 10th. Napa, California at the Uptown Theater on Saturday, January 11th. I'm in Fort Collins, Colorado, Lincoln Center Performance Hall on Friday, January 17th. Boulder, Colorado at the Boulder Theater on Saturday, January 18th.
Santa Barbara, California at the Lobero Theater. on Thursday, January 30th. San Luis Obispo, California at the Fremont Center on Friday, January 31st. And Monterey, California at the Golden State Theater on Saturday, February 1st. Go to wtfpod.com slash tour for all my dates and links to tickets. Also this week is your last chance to submit Ask Mark Anything questions.
We'll be posting the latest Ask Mark Anything bonus episode next week. Just go to the link in the episode description to submit a question. What have I been doing? I went to an art opening. I did. I went to an art opening. Nick Kroll's wife, Lily Kwong, she does a lot of work with plants. I know that sounds odd, but I think it's a photographic process.
I don't know if they're called... Are they called photograms? There's a lot of pieces where the actual plants are laid onto photographic paper, and then there's some... You know, the process of exposure and the process of developing the paper. And it's very it was very interesting. It was a beautiful show. It's always nice to go to the art opening. Saw some old friends there.
But what was funny was I saw Jonathan Ames there who had been on this show maybe a couple of times years ago. He was consumed in panic. And I ran into who else was Ed Helms. Oh, this is what happened. The art was great. It's down at the... The space is amazing. I think it's called the Night Gallery. But it was nice to go to that. So anyway, I run into...
Ed Helms, who I haven't seen in probably decades, probably since he's done this show, and he's a nice guy, banjo player. He famously did this show, and he was having a cat allergy, and he was just wheezing out there in the old garage, and I didn't help him. I needed to get that allergy. He's going to play some banjo. He got through it, but I felt bad that I...
Kind of kept him wheezing to get through the show. But anyway, so I'm talking to Ed and he goes, I got a split. And I'm like, where are you going? He's like, this is going to sound weird. but I'm going to a listening party for Ringo Starr's new record. And I remembered that I had been invited to that by T-Bone Burnett. This is not dropping names. I get invited to nothing.
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