Jenn Colella

We couldn't get to our feet fast enough and clap.

And more specifically, I mean, I could go on and on, the choreography, the way they use the chairs, but Jen Colella's solo, Me in the Sky, I think it was called.

Oh my God, it just, I mean, still to this day, it just, it shatters me.

That is one of my, Favorite show in the top three.

And so when I was writing some of the earlier material, I had Melissa's voice in my head and I wrote a couple of songs with her phrasing and her artistry in mind.

And that's what happens sometimes is, you know, when I think about a specific voice, like Jen Colella has been part of Wild About You since the beginning.

And sometimes I hear her voice in my head, either, you know, in the comedy or some of the scenes or in the music.

And, uh, Yeah and I just think that they're like little muses that kind of keep flowing through everything that I'm doing and I in a way feel like I'm constantly writing for other people.

But when he eventually gets going in the second act, some of the emotional choices that he made just broke me.

I was reminded of seeing the Come From Away pro shot and Jenn Colella stopping herself from crying during one of the early phone calls in the show while playing Beverly Bass, and it being this gutting moment that I wasn't expecting.

Patrick Page did that for me after Epic III, when he is deciding what to do and he's singing, "The devil take this Orpheus and his Belladonna Kiss." And it's his very measured, thoughtful delivery of the final lines of this section when he says, "Doubt, doubt comes in." And he reflects on it as he's saying it, and it's clearly the voice of experience.

I've come to really appreciate the duality between Orpheus and Hades and the implication that Hades really used to be a lot like Orpheus as a younger romantic man.