Joy Woods

Wow.

And we have Joy Woods as Virginia Galilee.

And we have some other, Javier Munoz as the Cardinal Morosini, who's from Hamilton.

So Jeremy Kushner, Bradley Dean, just a great, great cast here.

My

days, if you have not seen my days sung by Joy Woods, what are you even doing with yourself, you

know? Shit.

Does that song still live in you? Do you ever find yourself humming it?

oh I've been waiting for him I love Raul Esparza that is a legend to me

But also like in this cast, Joy Woods, who we love.

Crazy.

Jeremy Kushner is in this cast.

I don't really have much to say on this other than I think we have some incredible voices in this cast about to be on stage.

I mean, I love Rose Barza.

I mean, Joy Woods, what a talent.

Jeremy Kushner, Canadian, what a talent.

The vocals were, of all of, of all of them were absolutely phenomenal but Joy-

Was Joy Woods crazy?

Joy Woods.

And I was looking at her going "So you need to be studied in a lab-"

Hm.

which is a humongous statement for you For how much you love Ariana

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because it tends to ignite something of an incendiary conversation, and also because all of these performers have prior performing experience, which is all that Six really needs, though it is a deceptively difficult show, not just from a vocal perspective, but also because you are dancing and standing the entire time in heeled boots.

And where previously the show had been filled with rising Broadway talent, including the sensational original cast, but also performers like Joy Woods and Kyla Wilcoxson and Jasmine Forsberg, terrific talented individuals, we began to see names like Kristen Maldonado, Abigail Barlow, and my friend Dylan Mulvaney.

which, welcome as it was and exciting as it was for their fans who had the chance to see them on stage in a Broadway musical, was also something of a warning light for the show.

When shows tend to cast this way, unless they are Chicago, it is often an indicator that they are looking for a significant boost at the box office, which threw Throughout this recasting period, Six never really saw.

Fine.

But I... where I don't, I'm just like, you have to, in my opinion, I won't produce a show without having like kind of something else in line for fear of this happening to now that they're like, okay, well shit, we really want Joy Woods and she's booked for the next year and a half.

So we're going to wait.

Or we really want Jasmine Amy Rogers and she's booked and we're going to wait for the next year and a half.

This is at the Schubert Theatre.

The first preview November 10th, opening December 6th, starring Raul Esparza, Joy Woods, Jeremy Kushnier, writers Zoe Sarnak and Michael Winer, music and lyrics, and Danny Strong, the book, director Michael Mayer.

Musical centered on the historical scientist Galileo Galilei.

It premiered at Berkeley Rep in 2024.

Uh, what do you think?

Um, I love Joy Woods, so I'm excited about this, and I've, I've heard great things about this play.

It's not something that I'm like, "Oh my goodness, I need to run and see that," but I'm intrigued by it, so that, it would be, it's a four for me.

Yeah, I mean, I lo- I do, I love Joy Woods, but I, um, mean Raul Esparza's a super fan going on here.