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--Hey guys! Did you miss It's Always Sonny? I actually missed doing this. We did take a
little one-week hiatus right around Christmas and I hope everyone had a
wonderful holiday. In my apartment, my wife we put up the tree, we celebrate
Hanukkah and then put up the tree before Thanksgiving. And then we keep it up
until the first warm day. So, we'll have a tree up until at least March. So, yeah. I
mean, our holidays going for a really long time. Maybe yours do too. It's a fake
tree, obviously, for anyone is like Oh my god! Yeah, no, we don't have rotting wood in
the house for that long. I've spoken to people at the stage door. I've spoken to
people have have been sending me tweets and things on Facebook. And I'm really
excited that about all the suggestions that everyone has and things that you
all want to see on It's Always Sonny. I try to cram as many of those things into
of several ideas as possible. So, got a lot of questions people want answered.
The big thing everyone seems to want us to spend a little more quality time with
the three Cher's. So definitely going to do that. So, here's what we're going to do.
We're going to spend the next three episodes, one episode each, with one of
the three Chers, and like getting to know them a little more and asking them
some of these great questions that you all have asked, seeing their dressing
rooms, because that was another thing everyone wants to see dressing rooms. Which
just reminds me, I haven't really showed you my own dressing room. We'll get to
that. And then we're gonna I'll pick one or two of my favorite questions and
ask everyone in the cast. Today, that particular question is going to be... Someone
wanted to say, Please, what is your favorite line of the show? And act it
out. Now, to me that means basically people are saying give us your best
Sonny or Cher impression or a Gregg Allman or something like that. So that's
what we're gonna do. We're gonna ask everyone to give us their favorite line
from the show and act it out. I imagine a lot of these will be making fun of me in
some small way, which is totally great, totally fine. It's Always Sonny. And then
we're gonna spend some some time with Micaela Diamond, our babe, and and see
her dressing room and hear a little bit about her first couple of months on
Broadway because this is her Broadway debut. So yeah here we go!
--Okay, I got a
random visit from Carleigh Bettiol. --Yes.
--Okay so lots of people are asking
questions, and I'm... So, the one that I want to ask everybody right now is you have
to do your favorite line from the show that isn't yours, and I want to
see an impression of it.
And it can be mine. I'm really truly putting her on the
spot. She just walked in, I was like let's do this video!
--Okay... Ha! There's one for the
Goomba. I'm telling you guys. I'm so hot, I feel like there's more than one of me.
--Thank you. --Something like that.
--Oh yeah. That Italian
spirit really came through there. --Hey Bridget. You want to go
get high? --Does Wonder Woman wanna fight crime?
[laughs]
--The world's first hippies! I swear...
--I'll know whose line it is... --You'll know. --Okay
go ahead Fatica.
--Ah, the broken key...
--You, you can arrange...? Why don't you go talk to someone
else's wife, buddy?
--And now a word from Marmite!
The savory spread that seduces your bread. [laughs]
--Tiana's gonna give us a whole, oh, I love that. Something you missed that
used to be in show. All right. Go ahead,
--More Moxie, I like it! --Wait I love that joke!
I love that one, especially because she sometimes she gives a little Woody Woodpecker laugh
right before it. She goes, Hahahahaha more moxie, I
--I like it!
--So whose line is this?
--Micaela's --Micaela.
--Who I love. -- Micaela Diamond, as Babe.
--Ready? --It's when she walks out on stage for
the very first time. --Yeah she walks on
stage and I've never even seen this moment, but I just hear it through the monitor.
--Yeah and she does it the same every night.
--Oh my god. That's a lot of people!
--[Laughs] --But I love her and
she does it amazing! --She's fully committed,
but it is the same. It's just
like that. --It's a lot of people.
--It is a lot of people.
--Actually, --Talk to me about the wig first.
--First of all, this wig is my favorite thing in this show because it's
basically you know real bad hair.
--[laughs] --It was raining yesterday and
I was like, Oh, this is what people with curly hair talk about when there's
humidity. It was all poof
--I have no idea what he means.
--Speaking of...
--Oh, yeah. Go. Give it to me.
--All right, ready? --Yeah.
--That's pretty funny coming from a lady who's so tall, when I climb up to kiss her, my
ears pop. Ha!
--Angel, do it.
--Spill, babe!
--[laughs]
--That is a Bob Mackie/ Michael Beresse,
spot-on impression. --Thank you so much!
--Okay. -- Do it.
--The savory spread that seduces your bread.
[laughs] --That is not the
first time that one's come up!
That's a really popular line!
--We say it every night. --That's really good. And he has that
liquid 'seduces your bread.' --I could just see his face by how he's doing it
--Fatica.
--All right, --Dark lady.
--Ashley, let's okay...She's in full...okay yeah sure go ahead
from there.
--I know how my baby digs a modulation!
--Tory, go.
--I'd like to run through a field and paint
with water colors and I think you're incredibly cool.
[laughs]
--What is this wool? It's so scratchy.
[laughs]
--Okay, we have another submission. Matthew, are
you ready?
Are you ready for...
--997, 998, 999 --You idiot.
It's so straight.
--1,000. Yes?
--Do you have a
favorite line that isn't your own. --Yeah
--That you're ready to do an impression of?
--Yeah. My favorite line in the show is. No. No, no, no, no, no!
The bottom of her boob is showing, Bob! He says, And
you are? Sid. The censor! You can't show the bottom of her boob!
--That is... That is
frighteningly spot on.
--That is a Michael Fatica line, when he comes on during the
Bob Mackie number because Cher is under dressed, if you will. Well done.
Thank you. That was perfect.
-- There she is. --Welcome to mi casa
--[laughs]
--Come in! --Hi.
Okay, wait I'm coming over to the most interesting part of the room.
--Of course, always with the coffee. -- Stand in the corner.
I have a cup of coffee.
--Look right, right. --Okay, what, tell me
about your dressing room. --These are the opening night gifts that
Stephanie, me, Teal, and Dee --I have one of these.
--all got for the cast. --Really cool, right?
--Framed and put on the wall. --There's you, Stephanie,
--Everyone is pictured,
which is really cool --Teal, me.
--Teal's is so good, like cheekbones.
Anyway, --Oh, really good cheekbones.
--It's so good. It's so good.
That's the first thing. --That's the first. What else you got?
--I love the window. It's my favorite part.
--I mean, that you have a window?
--Yeah, it's, and it's so big! And it's night now, but
it's like so much light comes in during the matinee. --Yeah.
--It's beautiful. -- And we can see the Mean
Girls cast across the street.
--Our little neighbors.
Yeah. Their windows say, Cher is a grotzky bitch.
--Yeah. --Really sweet. -- It's really sweet
--What else you got? Show me your mirror and this little... --So, this was the first
thing I did when I got into the theatre was, we were in tech, and tech is like
endless hours. And I sat on my floor and like printed a shit-ton of Cher
pictures, like, but from when she was young, like the banged version, and like
created this thing on the floor and then I was like that's stupid because I can't
pick it up! And so then I just started putting them all on the outside of...
--This is so sweet. --It mostly it's just Sonny and Cher, because so
much so many of the pictures were of them two. I love it.
There are so many good ones. I love this one. --Which one?
--The two of them. --We'll
recreate that photo someday. --We'll recreate that
It's pretty great -But we'll have to have our...
--We do like all time in I Got You Babe.
--Yeah.
--It's pretty great. It's pretty great. Is it. Oh yeah
it's Bob Dylan. --Oh, yeah.
--And that's Georgia, her sister. So fun. --Her
mom?
You said sister. --Oh, Virginia. Sorry.
--That's a little confusing --It is...
--That they named... --We should tell Cher
that is confusing. I feel like we should
call her. --I don't know she would really want that.
Steamer, so necessary. --So important, the steamer.
As you can see, and I don't me to comment on the theaters that we're in, but
this is not a large space. None of ours. Oh, you have a couple things. --Just tiny
--You wanna show us any of these things?
--I do have a couple things. Most of my changes are quick changes, so they're
preset. --Right, downstairs.
--This is my opening costume. So, I get to
have it downstairs. --Right. So, you start
with a little bling. --Pretty small.
--Oh, that's pretty small. --It's pretty small.
The top is tiny, and this goes just right above
the V.
--The V?
--This is one of my first act two looks, and the only time I get to come to my
dressing room during the show.
--Oh sure, is in the middle of Act two. --Is the middle of Act Two,
when you get when you're singing a Dark Lady. -- And intermission.
--I get to listen to him decide when he riffs. It's great. -- I would never riff in a
--That's it. Fun fact: Mandy Moore --In a Broadway show.
wore this shirt on This Is Us.
--Really?
--Yeah . --Same shirt?
--I saw it and was like
gagged. Like, I'm wearing the same shirt as Mandy Moore! It's pretty great.
--Do you want to add oh you have more? --And this little Barbie from Bob Mackie.
--Oh. Did he give this to you?
--Yeah. And he gave me drawings for opening.
--So cool. I know! --Spelled my name wrong, but like still love him.
--He sure did. --You know, it's okay.
--Michael-a --I know those those drawings from Bob
Mackie are the best aren't they?
--They're beautiful. -- I have to frame mine
--I have to frame mine too. --Do you want to answer some questions that people
want to want to know about you? --Yeah. Tell me.
--Wait I'm gonna set up like it's gonna be like an
interview. You're on It's Always Sonny.
--Hold on. -- I have some questions that
people want to know. Now. This is the first time I'm doing this. I
plan on spending some time with the three Chers because that's what you want to
see a little bit. They've asked me.
--They like to see you too.
--They well you know I'm I'm in all of them, so.
So, I'm gonna answer these questions with you is the first time I'm asking.
--Oh great I love that.
--Okay, so top five favorite Cher songs. --Okay, can I
go first? -- I think you should.
--Oh, thanks. Okay
Perfection. --Perfection...
--On the Cher album my favorite gym song. It's so good. Perfection, Teal and I sing it all
the time backstage. Didn't make it into the show. The I Got You Babe on the first
album, very sweet. I would say Skin Deep, maybe. --Okay.
--And like... Oh, Superstar. -- That's okay
--Sorry. We'll get into that.
--That's more, that's next
and then maybe maybe You Haven't Seen the Last of Me, just because that was the first one I
knew.
--Love it. Okay, mine are I Got You Babe
--Uh huh --Baby, Don't Go
Dark Lady --Wonder why
--Why not? Oh because it's a Sonny song --You sing it.
I love it so much.
--And Dark Lady because I also sing it, but but not also because I --See, I watch these
episodes too! --What's your pre-show ritual like? What
are you know.. --Warm up, usually i steam if I'm not rush
--Steam, like she has a little steam inhaler. --Yeah.
a little steamer. --Especially in winter when
it's cold and dry.
--Yeah for sure. Or the seasons are changing or
something. Make up, um, and that's like it usually. If I didn't go to the
gym, I'll do like a five minute physical warm up just like warm my body up.
--So, pretty standard. Nothing very bizarre that you do. --No, no.
--This is your Broadway debut. So, asking you what is your most embarrassing Broadway moment is pretty
specific to like what is the most embarrassing thing that has happened in the last month
and a half.
--Sure. There have been some pretty bad ones!
--Perfect!
--This is a hard gig! --Tell
everyone!
--Um, I was in Beat Goes On, I think we were still previews. And I mean
could have been the other week. But you know um and all the boys are like holding me
spotlight on me. I'm the only one talking, and I'm like telling this story. And the
real line is, Nichols calls me and says the trailer is playing in LA and I
should check it out. And then they flip me, and I say, So I did.
So one day, spotlight on, white room. This happens folks, just white room, no
matter how good of an actor, I think, it's like just a thing that everyone
--Sometimes your brain just
goes blank.
--And I know... I'm pretty confident in this moment. So, I was like
let me just confidently say words. So, I said.
--Just whatever came to mind? --Yeah. So, I, but I knew
like generally what I was supposed to get out. But I didn't know the way, the
words to say it. So, I was like, so, there's a trailer and someone calls me and I go
to LA. And Nichols says, There's a trailer. And then they flip me, and I'm like, So I
did. And we went on with the number. But all the boys carrying me are like dying
laughing.
--Yeah. -- And I'm like, Please! I have
to finish the story. I'm shaking thinking
about it.
--Give me like at least one of someone
else's lines in the show and how they do it that you have a
particular fondness for. -- I get to watch the opening, like the whole opening
every night and so I just am obsessed with the way Stephanie says one of her
lines in the opening. And it's, it's so she does like this whole thing and then
she's like, Well, I'm shy.
And then like walks away. And it's smallest thing, and yet it gets a
reaction every time. It's so, it's so perfectly done. Because it's like you
know she believes it but you also know she knows that the audience is not going
to believe her. And it's just so... She does it perfectly.
--And another one that I
think of that Steph does is, you say, she says to you, We're gonna find you
something even more wonderful. And you say, Like cake?
And she says, No. Love! But
oh my god! Cake is good!
--[laughs]
--It happened in rehearsal. I think we had, just someone brought in
cake, and she had like changed the reading, the line reading, to like, No,
love! But cake's good, too! And it stuck. --Yeah.
--But then she doesn't need to
say it, But cake is good, too. She just, Oh, but cake is good!
--Right [laughs] --It's such a distinct
--And there you have it.
Okay. It's half hour. I know you gotta get to work.
Thank you.
Okay, we'll be back! --Bye, Broadway.com!
Have fun
with the other two!
--Um, also, New Year's is coming up, and it's our last Saturday
night scream of the year. So, it's very possible to mean girls he's gonna do
something exciting. We'll see.
--Okay, it's Saturday night scream. We are out the
second-floor window.
And looks like they're preparing, the Mean Girls are preparing their song.
They've been screaming Cher. Who do we got? You should definitely be shirtless,
Matthew.
--[all sing] Should all aquaintance be forgot
and
never brought to mind!
Should all aquaintance
be forgot
in days of auld langs syne
--Ready? --[all]] Ready!
--One, two, three
[kazoos]
--[laughs] They're playing kazoos?
[kazoos] [claps]
--[all sing] Auld langs syne!
[cheers]
--And that is a wrap on 2018 here at The Cher Show. I think by the time you see this, it
may very well be the new year. So, happy new years everyone! Please be safe. If you
go into Times Square, oh it god bless, but I will not see you
there. We'll see you next year, which basically just means in a couple
of days. Bye!
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