Lindsay Mendez

And it's leading ladies, sort of Broadway actresses who have done a lot of Broadway singing different songs.

And Jesse Mueller and Lindsay Mendez.

And I think they were both in that 2018 revival.

They did this number.

You cannot jump between them.

So it's very expensive to pay people that are not in SAG to do a SAG performance, which is why things like Merrily We Roll Along, where the three main leads are already well-known, well-defined actors, Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez, is much easier than a large production like Hadestown, where they are not in that union.

So they're taking most pro shots to London to film them.

They did that with Hadestown.

I say love a lot and I mean it.

When you have someone like Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez and Katie Rose who's just about to open in Dolly and Reg Rogers and people like standing there, you just like go and they're still friends and yeah.

You created that space.

Yeah, we spent two years of our lives together.

Yeah.

That clip of Lindsay Mendez and Betsy Wolfe and Sherry Renee doing up the ladder to the roof.

Up the ladder to

the roof.

Worked with...

Wait, Lindsay Mendez.

Did Lindsay Mendez do anything with Christian Borle? Definitely, right?

It might be through there.

Because I'm thinking Godspell, or I'm thinking...

Christian Borle has been in so much.

Has Christian Borle ever done Wicked? Because Lindsay Mendez did Wicked, and then

that's it.

So let's dive into this actual pro shot, though, 'cause we're gonna start off with talking about our wonderful trio who are situated behind me.

We have Daniel Radcliffe as Charlie Kringas, the wonderful spitting Jonathan Groff as Franklin Shepherd, and the criminally underrated Lindsay Mendez as Mary Flynn, who should have won the Tony- uh, listen, I love the actress who won the Tony for House of Kitchen that year, but the fact she's the only one of the three who did not get her Tony for this is...

I'm just heartbroken.

Anyway, Ryan, let's start with you.

Who is your shout-out of the trio?

It's Lindsay Mendez.

Yeah.

Aha.

That's the thing.

I remember going to Merrily and being so disappointed that Lindsay Mendez wasn't there and being kind of mad at her for a long time because she was out so much.

And so I think what made me mad, not even just for her, but the producers, was I went...

I saw it twice.

I like to see who's going to get nominated so I can have that conversation.

So that's the point.

So that's why I was so irritated that Lindsay Mendez wasn't there.

Well, I mean, that's what we all do, right? You, me, Bruce have like, we have to talk about those who are eligible and getting nominated.