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The Upstaging Gentlemen (Chasing Theatrical Dreams)

What Nobody Warns You About Your First Show

6/21/202629 min

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Michael, Nathan, and host Alfonso Garcia interview actress Leah Burns, who is new to the stage, having just landed a role in Frozen. They discuss the audition process and what happens when a new actress joins an experienced cast of a major production.   

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Clips

ChatGPT Helped Land Role
Crying In The Car
Debut Before 12,000 People
Just Do It, Now
Pre-Audition Panic Outside

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First 90 seconds

  1. Michael Tennant· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Welcome to the Upstaging Gentlemen production. This is Michael with Play With Your Food Productions.

  2. Nathan Prince· Host0:15

    And this is [laughs] Nathan with Legendary Productions.

  3. Michael Tennant· Host0:18

    Heck yeah.

  4. Nathan Prince· Host0:18

    What's up?

  5. Michael Tennant· Host0:19

    And our host, Alfonso Garcia.

  6. Nathan Prince· Host0:23

    Hey, you know what?

  7. Michael Tennant· Host0:24

    Love that little ring announcer Before we get started, that is, actually, that was a good sound. It's good.

  8. Nathan Prince· Host0:27

    Mine was like, mm.

  9. Michael Tennant· Host0:28

    Yeah.

  10. Nathan Prince· Host0:28

    Anyways, yours was good. Uh, if you guys hear the air conditioning, oh well, 'cause it's hot, and we wanted to be comfortable. So sorry if you hear the [imitates roaring] sound like that.

  11. Michael Tennant· Host0:38

    It's because we have 20 people crowded in a room.

  12. Nathan Prince· Host0:40

    Yeah, there's, dude, this is so cool. Our pod- This is- [laughs] Our podcast has grown like crazy. We have some cool guests, and I'll let Alfonso introduce our guest today, but we have a guest- Yeah, yeah ... which is so exciting. It's kind of a follow-up to a, a podcast that we did a little while back, but Alfonso, why don't you take it away, bro.

  13. Alfonso Garcia· Host0:54

    Yeah. You know, a lot of people were, uh, a lot of our listeners were reaching out to us about the episode about kind of being new to the theater, and like, things like the unspoken rules. So we thought it would be really, be really cool to bring on somebody who's doing their very first show, and they're doing it on a very big stage this summer. Um, so we have Leah Burns on.

  14. Nathan Prince· Host1:12

    What's up, Leah?

  15. Leah Burns· Guest1:13

    What up?

  16. Alfonso Garcia· Host1:14

    [laughs] Hi. So Leah's gonna be playing, uh, the queen- Wait, is it Lea or Leah? Leah.

  17. Leah Burns· Guest1:18

    Leah.

  18. Nathan Prince· Host1:19

    Leah?

  19. Leah Burns· Guest1:20

    Leah.

  20. Nathan Prince· Host1:20

    Leah.

  21. Alfonso Garcia· Host1:20

    Yeah, Leah.

  22. Nathan Prince· Host1:21

    Oh, okay.

  23. Alfonso Garcia· Host1:21

    [laughs] I, I say it in a way where I'm saying it both ways, so I get away with it.

  24. Nathan Prince· Host1:24

    It was really impressive, 'cause like, did he say Lea or Leah?

  25. Alfonso Garcia· Host1:27

    Yep. [laughs] That's how, that's my strategy.

  26. Nathan Prince· Host1:28

    So is it, I don't know Star Wars,

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