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- Thanks for staying with us
for this latest episode of The Broadway show.
So glad you're here.
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♪ Better than anyone ♪
♪ Anyone I've ever met ♪
- We fell hard for Noah Reid
as David's partner and husband in Schitt's Creek.
Now he's making his Broadway debut in The Minutes.
That's why he's this week's Fresh Face.
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- I'm Noah Reid.
And I play Mr. Peel in The minutes.
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The theater has always been a huge part of my life.
Toronto has an amazing theater scene
and I grew up going to lots of theater
and early on decided that it was something
I needed to be a part of.
I think I did my first play
when I was six, I played Oliver.
And then my first professional play was when I played Chip
in Toronto's production of Beauty and the Beast.
And it was during that rehearsals for that show
when I first came to New York with my mom and you know
wardrobe fittings and seeing the show
and that was an incredibly special experience,
you know to kind of enter in a, into New York
in a behind the scenes way as a kid.
Probably difficult to overcome that,
my parents were probably like, oh God,
this kid's gonna want to do this forever.
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I got a phone call from my agent
suggesting that being a part of this play,
The Minutes by Tracy Letts, was a possibility.
Tracy's work speaks for itself.
He's one of the greatest,
if not the great American playwright of our time.
My wife and I both read it
and we just kind of looked at each other and we were like,
I mean, if this can happen,
we gotta find a way for it to happen.
I love being able to shift gears creatively
and the Amazon show, Outer Range
is such a gear shift for me, character wise and tonally
and then to be in this world of The Minutes
is such a totally different character
and a different way of storytelling.
I think both of those projects
really kind of speak to the American identity.
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♪ And I get you ♪
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And the music for me has always been a place
where I get to just say what it is that I want to say,
whatever's going on in my head.
I'm really drawn to projects that have something to say
you know, every so often I have to check in with myself
about whether or not I have anything to say
and music seems like that's the place where I can do that.
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Cabaret was a fun thing to do on Schitt's Creek
because I knew I didn't have to be good
because it was Patrick, it wasn't me.
I know I didn't have to be the Emcee,
that would be insane.
Of course now The Minutes is happening at Studio 54
where Alan Cumming, you know, did that part so brilliantly.
I think I would have trouble following in those footsteps,
those dance steps you know,
It's not really a strong suit of mind,
so I'm terrified of musicals, but I love to watch them.
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♪ Ooh, darling, 'cause you'll always be my baby ♪
I guess I hope that people who,
you know know me from television
will come and see this show.
From my own perspective,
I love to see plays.
I love to see people who I know from television
or film on stage
because it puts them in real time and real space.
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You know, I think there are probably some similarities
between Patrick and Mr. Peel
in that they both want to be seen as like nice, good guys.
Hopefully people who come expecting Patrick
will get a little shock to the system.
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