--Hey y'all. It's Desi
Oakley I played Jenna in the national tour of Waitress, and you have just tuned
in to episode three of Pie a la Road. Today is a travel day. We're on our way to
Durham, but in this episode you will see our Tampa life backstage. I take you to
one of the most important moments of each of our stops our sound check and
you'll get a little glimpse of an opening night party and me teaching my
dresser, which is something else I do in every city. Okay y'all here is yet
another dressing room here we are in Tampa at the Straz Center this is
beautiful it's completely renovated. All this amazing space with this
kitchenette. I mean it's a gorgeous... Goodness. They are making us so
comfortable. Anyway yep another week, another dressing room. So obviously in
every city, we have to soundcheck. The band sound checks and all of us
soundcheck with our mics and so I was thinking of maybe bringing you along
this you could see the inside scoop of our soundcheck and what that's like and
what we do in every single new city.
All right tell me what's going on here. This
is Brian Fenker.
--Hi there. --Who do you play in the show?
--So I'm Dr. Pomatter --Yes,
what's going on right now?
--Getting the mic on for the soundcheck here at the
Strad Center --It's something we do every
thing to do for you Tuesday in the new
city
--Yeah 5:30 6 o'clock you show up
here and put our mics on and make sure we sound okay
--Which songs do you do? --Well, you
and I do Bad Idea. That's all I do and then the finale. Yeah
that's it. --Cool. Thanks for talking to us.
--Hey my pleasure.
[band playing]
[singing "I Didn't Plan It"]
to fe-eel!
--Yes, Jeremy! That was amazing.
-- I want to rewatch this to see where I go dead in the eyes
--I got the zoom on because it's
about to go down.
[singing "Bad Idea" from Waitress]
--I've never known anything
so true. It's a terrible idea me and you
--Soundcheck soundtrack check 1 2 1
[SINGING] --Sugar
--Sugar, butter, flour
--My mother
the dreamer
She'd say nothing's impossible
child.
to taste like the real thing.
like some stranger
so pure, so electric.
so sure, so connected.
to those little
--Hi Len! Tell us what's going on tonight. --Um we just finished our opening night
show and the center and in Tampa. They have a
beautiful spread for us, an opening night party. Ontario is
eating
--So so so some venues and throw us --Throw us lovely parties
like both welcomes and like congratulations
opening night yes. And there's a super
special table over there. --Oh okay should I go check it out?
You want to show
me?
--COme on
--Why what is it? --Look at these pies.
--Wait the dessert table oh my
goodness. These look fake Oh marshmallow
mermaid marshmallow!
Based on the pies in the show. Oh my goodness, I wish you
guys could see this like the lighting is oh my goodness, how precious.
They're based on pineapple upside-down, wild wild berry.
White knuckle cream maybe?
--Mermaid marshmallow --For
sure. I love it! How adorable.
--Hey y'all! I just thought I'd show you
another dressing room. Here we are at the DPAC in Durham. Check it out
every theater looks different. This is the life on the road, Everything Changes!
Oh gosh that was so nerdy.
You know different zippers. This guy being like
insanely industrial. So the first change is out of this and into this guy. So we'd
kind of like to run it a little bit if you don't mind.
--Sure. --I'll have you
--You tell me where the bench is
--Oh okay I'll tell you where the bench is. Let's say,
actually, yeah, that's a good place to be. In fact, actually, the way you're standing
right now is exactly how I'll run to you. Perfect. So I'll be wearing this blue
waitress --The bench is here
--The little bench is here yep, and I'm gonna run to you and T
will pull my pony out. You'll unzip. I'll step into this while I'm
doing taking off my socks. I'm dancing while you're buttoning this,
and then I'm gonna go behind you to get on the table. --Cool
--That's my little path.
Perfect!
--So you're literally going to just be doing this as she goes.
--Yep. It's like a full circle. --It's about that fast she'll be spinning around you
--Sometimes I
always like to say these sometimes these magnets love to do their job and other
times they're like I'm not working today. And so you have to kind of like force
them to do their job. And you can get you can get physical with me, so, if you need
--Cool. --Just remember while
this is while you're doing these, she's
gonna be doing this to get into her shoes
--Sock dance
-- Today she's really good about
not doing this anymore, but she will be okay marching marching in place yes.
--Cool.
--Thank you guys so much for tuning into Pie A La Road. Again, I'm Desi Oakley.
Stay tuned in the next couple of episodes to look forward to interviewing
a very very special guest. You're not gonna want to miss this very special
guest who will be featured on Pie a la Road. So stay tuned. I can't wait to show
you more back stage life, more tour life. Thank you so much for joining us. We love
having you. See you next time!
["It Only Takes a Taste" from Waitress]