Hey everyone it's Seth Rudetsky I've been here for five minutes and I've been sassed literally 20 times
Unbelievable ok! Billy Porter, putting on his nice face
Okay, I've known this clown since the late 80s don't even try it
shhhh
Hush now
We don't have to tell everybody the year
We- let's just say, we met and
In the 80s
in the 80s and now it's like,
black don't crack
I know but why- Jew does
you don't crack either beige don't age you look good girl
beige don't age....the point is,
Yeah so now he has a Tony award now I have a Mac award the point is he's-
and a Grammy
You have a Grammy too?
yes
I was talking about me for-
ok, here's a star. By the way, your new CD what's the name of your new CD? isn't it called Billy's-
Billy's Back on Broadway
Billy's Black on Broadway
Essentially it's all these amazing Broadway tunes sung Billy style. Now that's a relatively new thing for you to do, to make something your own, am I correct?
I've actually been known to
make things my own
Since I sort of got here so
Literally we're doing Grease together and he's doing Beauty School Dropout and they added- now by the way, they- basically you,
me
Okay, Billy
that would be me
Billy arranged that song. You gotta watch my Deconstruction, I'll put a link right here
Hey so I didn't get no credit for it but I arranged that song
He means he didn't get any credit. Double negative.
The point is there's a part where literally it's just going
(sings) high school! And he's just like making up like don't drop out of high school
Cuz you're gonna miss your friends and then you start listing- just- do you remember what you did
what about money? (riffs and vocalizes)
So stupid! But hilarious
By the way he walked in and he goes "don't make me sing it in the original key"
okay yeah but I sang it in
A head voice mixy place I used to belt that s***
anyhoo please by the way describe Jessie Mueller you just saw Jessie Mueller in Beautiful and describe the transition of voice so she begins as Carole King
I just said she sings as you know she does her Carole King
homage through the show but then they give her that mic, that good government mic at the end of that show,
government mic?
and she said
Now I did it like her,
Now I'ma sing like me and I'm a lay it down I'm gonna sing y'all into the ground and she proceeds to sing us under the ground
Camera just cracked. okay by the way how are you in the audience are you like...work
No I was screaming, I was trying to scream, but I didn't want to scare the white people
you know black audiences and white audiences are different. Black audiences respond vocally,
We call and respond, we answer back. When I find myself in
An audience that is not
you know, a lot of black people, I find my vocals
can sometimes get a little bit louder than the people around me are used to so I try
white people think it. "She's wonderful"
Yes and I say it out loud (yells) SING IT!
Any to the hoo alright so this amazing- your CD, Billy's Back on Broadway
Takes all these songs,
makes em his own and I decided
that Billy's so good at making things his own- I mean these are all like amazing classics so it's not that hard to make your own with all these phenomenal songs
But Billy can take actually the worst songs on Broadway and make them his own so I
challenged him to take to me the biggest headache
from Broadway it's an "In One" number because it's done in front of the curtain like you need something while we change the set, just sing
something boring ass for three minutes Louise you'll be fine so they stuck this horrible song with Sondra Church
It is the worst
You're gonna make it his own and I'm gonna have a tip of the hat to Kinky Boots at the end are you ready
(sings an uptempo jazz rendition of "Little Lamb" from Gypsy)
cause you know the sex is in the heel
Thinking: "he sounds good". White.
Still got it