NIK WALKER joins (AGAIN) for: Shrek the Musical at The Muny

so, you know, you always you said in your last podcast, like, hey, you know, you don't like really like big into, you know, like a musical theater guy.

You keep getting put in musicals.

Yes.

And yet you also wrote a musical.

And we were talking about it before when I realized how bad tech was going.

Yes.

That I asked you, where where is the process with Whiskeyland, which we talked about when I interviewed you for Bull Durham?

Yes.

Where are we with Whiskeyland now, the musical that you wrote?

Yeah, Whiskeyland is gearing up to do its big workshop.

So basically, right, and I think we talked about this a little bit last time.

There's readings that happen where you do like you have 29 hours to put the whole thing up.

And usually people at music stands and they present it to a room of, you know, usually it's more friendlies than people that don't know the show.

But now Whiskeyland has long passed that.

We've done Joe's Pub concert.

We've done readings.

We've done in-house readings that are just for us at a table with the producers and the creatives just listening to the script.

And now we're ready to stand it up.

So that's what's happening.

So for the first time, I'm going to get to see this thing that's been in my head for 10 years, which is very exciting to me.

Wow.

So that's that is coming later in this year, standing it up.

And we have a five week process.

It's very expensive.

Thank you to my producers for for bankrolling that because

so, you know, you always you said in your last podcast, like, hey, you know, you don't like really like big into, you know, like a musical theater guy.

You keep getting put in musicals.

Yes.

And yet you also wrote a musical.

And we were talking about it before when I realized how bad tech was going.

Yes.

That I asked you, where where is the process with Whiskeyland, which we talked about when I interviewed you for Bull Durham?

Yes.

Where are we with Whiskeyland now, the musical that you wrote?

Yeah, Whiskeyland is gearing up to do its big workshop.

So basically, right, and I think we talked about this a little bit last time.

There's readings that happen where you do like you have 29 hours to put the whole thing up.

And usually people at music stands and they present it to a room of, you know, usually it's more friendlies than people that don't know the show.

But now Whiskeyland has long passed that.

We've done Joe's Pub concert.

We've done readings.

We've done in-house readings that are just for us at a table with the producers and the creatives just listening to the script.

And now we're ready to stand it up.

So that's what's happening.

So for the first time, I'm going to get to see this thing that's been in my head for 10 years, which is very exciting to me.

Wow.

So that's that is coming later in this year, standing it up.

And we have a five week process.

It's very expensive.

Thank you to my producers for for bankrolling that because