Yah yah yah yah it's Julia Murney,
who made that phrase famous in The Wild Party.
She was a brava in that. By the way, she was wearing
a blond wig, although someone once accused her, go:
A woman at Manhattan Theatre Club
in a subsequent show that I did said to me,
Oh, after the show, oh and you've dyed your hair brown for this show.
And I'm like, oh no no no, I was wearing a wig
in The Wild Party. She goes, no, I can tell a wig.
So she was informing me that I was wrong
in that I was, I was like, no I'm pretty sure
I've pin curled my hair every night I...
and we were in front of a picture of me.
And I was like, look, do you see? My hair couldn't do that
on any day of the week, it couldn't. No.
Yes it could.
I know a wig. Okay ma'am, you win.
And Sally Rudetsky, my mother.
So Julia is wearing green because at one point she was...
Elphaba yaaaa
That's not why. It's Christmas, that's why.
Okay, this is not gonna be shown at Christmas.
It's not Christmas.
It's Martin Luther King... I don't know when this is gonna be shown.
It's nothing. Forget it.
Jewish.
The point is, I want to talk to Julia about one moment
that happened the end of Act One.
She was Elphaba and normally, you know, when she goes, "It's me..."
"...so if you..." so the crazy cherry picker
rises up and she's flying over the stage, so you get
hooked in her pick arises you're flying.
Now what happened one night when it did not work?
One night, through the magic of the live theater,
the computer glitched and I
did not go up, but there's a plan B
that you're taught and you have to disengage
yourself from the, the sort of lock
that you're in, and you run straight down
stage with all of your accoutrement, your bag and your
broom and your hat your cape, and
you just keep on singing.
And everybody else all the guards and the
townspeople who are supposed to be looking up at you,
they all lie on the stage as if you're in the air,
except, they are as close to you as Seth is to me,
lying on the ground, and they're all going,
"Look at her she's wicked, get her!"
And you're like, well get her, I'm right here.
It's devastating. And the night that it happened
They had put in, I think, a new sort of light plot from the
London production. They'd added lights and they
enhanced shows..
Zest it up.
Yeah, as they make new productions and, and somehow
because there's a whole light plot that they go into if you go into Plan B,
and I finished and somehow the plot B lights hadn't been
put into the plan B the thing, so I was lit, and I remember,
so "Ahhhhh..."
And I wasn't totally lit, but there was a little string of
lights, I was very clearly still lit.
And then I was aware that the curtain was
going to come down on my head at some juncture very
soon if I'd, but I was like no I must maintain the illusion
of the Witch. I am a thespian. I have a BFA in
musical theatre. And I was like ya, **** I'm out.
And I just walked off.
She gave up.
Without grace. Oh well, I tried
Alright, so the lovely Julia Murney, by the way,
has made a S load of money doing voiceovers.
Um, can you just give us one of your current ones?
Estée Lauder
Let me hear it.
I don't know what it, usually I'm talking
about the product, whatever the product may be,
It's something about, you know, something your skin can't live without.
It's that sort of stuff.
Do you actually add the air to it?
Yes, I do. And then, but then we have to
speed it up when it's gift time because you have
a really short way to be, It's time at Macy's.
This, whatever, deluxe gift set yours for
$29.99 with any $59.99 purchase exclusively at Macy's.
And, own's her apartment.
Part two, just quickly, didn't you, I remember once an interview with you and
either you were a porn star or you advertise a porn, what?
I did, I did promos
for the spice channel. Promos are usually things
like "coming up on NBC," that's a promo,
but I did promos for a porn Network called the Spice Channel
Natch?
Like you do. At the time, there were two layers
of spice if you will there was
the regular that you could just get on your basic cable
and that was just um soft porn.
And then the the second layer was paid by the hour.
I did promos for the pay by the hour.
Let me hear em.
And no offense meant to anyone over what I'm about to say.
Go.
If you like your **** with an Asian twist and all the **** you can handle,
welcome to the month of **** October on Spice.
That's not gonna make it on this take. Are you serious?
Literally one word out of that can make it.
And I had to tell you that you do need to go
on to Jeff Blumenkrantz's podcasts because for,
he's writing a song per month for a year,
and a bunch of people, like he was out with Jason Robert Brown,
he's like, Jason what should I write for October?
He was like call Murney, call Murney,
she's got the October story. And he wrote a song about it.
Which I recorded, called "Welcome to My Apartment."
It's hysterical.
Anyway, kids, watch this.
So um, we're gonna focus on a big act respond concert I did many
years ago, now 10 years ago.
How long ago was it?
Almost 10 year, it was 2002.
Oh actually it was 10 years ago. Isn't that crazy.
Julia had not yet done Broadway, which is crazy,
and it was the different Fanny Brice for each song so either got like a big amazing star
that was brilliant or I got some of that not many people
knew aka Julia Murney, who would then become brilliant and people would freak
that H out by how good she was.
so I gave Julia literally the classic song "People", and
I'm sure she came on stage and people were like, we're angry, want to start
singing this, how dare this person sing the song,
and then by the end freaking out.
We were so amazed at how much the audience loved you. Did you take it in?
I actually was, I really was.
But did you love it also?
It was very, because it was at the New Amsterdam,
which, where the Folly, the Zigfield Follies had taken place
back in the day and you can see the the sort of ornateness from the stage and
the boxes. And it's so beautiful. And I had Peter Gallagher
on stage playing Nicky Arnstein
We got to kiss. It was amazing.
and he was totally agreed to sneak on,
everybody sort of made an entrance, each new Fanny Brice,
and my arm was linked with his and I before he walked down I was so nervous and I went,
oh and he looked at me and he went,
"You're gonna be fine."
And I was like, I'm gonna be fine because he says
I'm going to be fine and so he was there with me for almost the whole piece until the
very end, and I it was and the roar that came back that was a cool night.
And once I was done with "People," I was done.
Poor, brilliant Carolee Carmelo had the last number
in the show. We were eatin pizza, me and Lilius...
Flossing.
We were all just having a grand ol time cuz we were done. We were so, it was
it's a stress bucket.
It was delicious.
Ok, we're gonna do the very last section.
Two things I'm obsessed with: Julia's Rs,
deep in your soul, you'll hear the arc,
and then I'm also obsessed with the lack of breathing.
So just spot the phraseology.
I just love it. So just have fun.
Julie, we literally haven't sung this,
I can't even tell you in how many years.
Have we even done this? I think maybe we did it once,
maybe once. You know, you know what's funny?
I never want to do it because it feels very precious.
I know.
To not have the orchestra and Peter Gallagher, and
Ladies and gentlemen, no,
I kind of look like Peter.
You do.
Well, the eyebrows. Alright, here we go.
With one person
One very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you were half now you're whole
No more hunger and thirst
First be a person who needs people
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world