Ashley Brown

To do that, to star in the West End and then take it to Broadway, and then you've made your life out there.

Yeah, I mean, that show, they asked me and Ashley Brown, who was the original Broadway Mary Poppins, after two years on Broadway, to go and open the national tour.

So my wife auditioned and then got in the show.

And so we then toured the US for nearly two years, which was amazing because I just wanted to explore this fabulous country.

Jodie Benson, who came in to help out with some Little Mermaid stuff.

I mean, we had Sierra Bojas, Ashley Brown, like so many incredible people over and over.

Mandy Gonzalez, that's, you know, Kara Lindsay, which is where I met Kara.

Adam Jacobs just over and over and over and they do these 30 minute sets of the songs and they're not even just their songs it's like whatever songs and my dear friend Jim Abbott's a music director for it and I just have sat there and just like lived my best Disney Broadway girl moments and I'm having the opportunities to interact with them and become friends with some of these people and And they really are just some of the coolest people you'll ever meet.

So it would be, you know, it was like Emily Skinner is the sort of diva and she likes the sort of younger guy that's in the group recording songs.

And then, uh, you know, it was, uh, um, uh, She just did Elf, Mary Poppins, Ashley Brown.

Ashley Brown was, you know, the young ingenue.

And she also had a crush on, you know, it was just like all of these.

And if you have Emily sing Baby Mine and you think she might have lost a child.