Every Little Step

god it was a weird time it was a very weird time

Right before Legally Blonde went to Broadway, I was up for Val and a Chorus Line, and it's heavily documented in Every Little Step.

Oh, in Every Little Step.

Right.

So I had had that experience, too, where, thank God, whoever was in the editing room seemed to like me and I came off as not a crazy lunatic.

Um, what was the other? Oh.

Every Little Step was-

Mm

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There were lessons for me in Pippin that I didn't realize until much later in life.

I always remember the line in Pippin after the war sequence where, you know, Ben Vereen goes, what'd you think? And he goes, I thought there'd be more plumes.

And I kept thinking throughout, I thought there'd be more plumes.

We opened on Broadway in Merrily and I thought, it's amazing.

I had really never been with other people who, whose living depended on it, and that changed my perspective entirely.

[upbeat music] I ended up going to Yale and majoring in English and theater, and I think that sort of a, was a microcosm of my indecision.

Once I was out of college and I was a member of Equity because of Merrily, so I could get on that Equity line.

I didn't have an agent.

It's so difficult.

So my homework, which I'm just gonna say now, is the documentary Every Little Step, um, which is-

Yes

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I, I started crying.

Like, it was, I...

This monologue, and again, referencing Every Little Step, they have, truly, they don't show anyone's monologue except for the guy that they end up casting, and they show his entire monologue, of the guy who ends up playing Paul.

And he-