How

dare you? You did this to me.

Where's Alicia? Where's Alicia? I was like, I had never seen a response like that in a theater before.

for a long time, like, cause it's kind of like a black theater tradition that was kind of relegated to just one, to black theater, but to see a room full of a fully diverse crowd engaging in this kind of theater where we're allowing you to respond, verbally respond was like, okay, that's something new for me because you know, I'm the queen of immersive theater.

After Oklahoma and Guys and Dolls.

And I was like, this is the next level of immersion where we can allow the audience to be in the play, which is so cool.

And then Douglas, we did Book of Mormon tour years ago.

Just let me do it by myself.

What is it? What do you say is the difference from, would you say West End? So I

just went back to Broadway last year to do Cabaret with Billy Porter.

Wow.

I mean, Billy Porter.

It was amazing.

We were the first black.

sally and mc in that show in the 60 year history of the show 60 years they've never had a black sally and mc together and the cliff at once so it was the first time i think layton williams had done the first mc but we've never had a black sally mc clip cliff full time And it was so incredible because we were like, what has taken so long? Why do we not get to play oppressed people? We know better than anyone what oppression looks like.

I remember I

And, like, tea and scones

... and tea and everything.

[laughs] He was like, "Okay, this is what you have to do." So he was like, "Why don't you just get a visa and stay?" And I was like, "Okay, let's just see what happens." I, I had just been through a divorce.

I was like, was like, "I wanna change my life.

Like, people like me here." I was doing principal work 'cause I was leaving...

When I was on Broadway, it's crazy because your dream is to get on Broadway.

Like, you're like, "Oh, Broadway is like, oh, yeah." So I had accomplished that, but then when I got there, I was like, "Hmm, there must be something better than this.

What do you do when something like that happens? It's really tough.