Are you feeling the love?

I do feel the love.

I feel the, I feel the One Night in Bangkok love.

Yeah.

You know, it's, uh, it's a great number in the show.

It's the, it's the song that people that know nothing about Chess when they see the show, they're like, "Oh, I know that.

I know that song."

[laughs] Um, have there been any show-nanigans that you can remember from the days of filming Schmigadoon or, or when you guys all get together?

[laughs]

[singing] What a scene, what a joy, what a lovely sight When my game is the big sensation.

As the mark, sport, and taste altered overnight.

Have you found new sophistication? Not yet, they just wanna see if the nice guy needs to bum.

If it's east-west and the money's sky high, they all come.

You can raise all you want if you raise the roof.

Scream and shout, and the gate increases.

What was it like for you to sing this?

[laughs]

Um, so but that's allowed me, I think, the, the, the time that I'm afforded at rehearsal, at the theater, in the show, that I can just completely give all of my energy over.

And there's, there's also another aspect.

You know, my wife Erica is a, an amazing performer in her own right, and she's home right now.

You know? And so, and she's home by choice, and she's ama- and I'm so grateful that she's home with, with our daughter.

But you know, she could be in a show also, and if she wanted to be, we would've, you know, made it work and figured it out.

But she's choosing not to do that, to be home, and so there's also a thing of where I get to go to work and, and, and be fulfilled in this other way that's not necessarily happening with Erica.

Mm.

What was it like for you to sing this?

Uh, I actually had a, a, an amazing time.

It was...

You know, this, it reminded me, I think, not, not that...

You just, you know, sometimes you can't see the forest through the trees.

And so you do, during the show, doing the show eight times a week, you have kind of one, lots of different thoughts.

But to be in that recording studio and just having, like, a fully immersive sonic experience with that music was really remarkable to me.

What was it like for you to sing this?

[cheering] [upbeat music]

What a scene, what a joy, what a lovely sight.

When my game is the big sensation.

As the mob's sporting taste altered overnight.

Have they found new sophistication? Not yet, they just wanna see.

If the nice guy beats the bum.

If it's east, west, and the money's sky high.

What was it like for you to sing this?

So it's very, you know, is it true, though, that Leah taught you some memorization skills, I

hear? Actually, yes.

Wow.

I learned something in this rehearsal process that I'd never learned before.

I looked over and Leah had a Post-it note where she just basically had first letters of, you know, written across the thing.

And I said, what is that? And she said it was basically the first letter of every word of a speech that she had.

And so she was looking at her script and looking at the post.

I find it's