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events that are around the community and there are so many lunier new year events going on who wonder whether they should send their kids to school even and even as much as i said that they should continue doing that, i could feel the fear in their voices. so it is with great relief that we can tell them this shooter is no longer a threat and that they can feel safe and that they can do the things they would normally do during this lunier new year period supposed to be the highlight of the year. we talked about the last time you and i saw each other in person was likely when you came to visit atlanta after the spa shootings there. now, we re talking about two very different scenarios because the motives can be very, very different here but can you speak to the impact of the asian-american pacific islander community across this country when we first hear about a shooting in a predominantly asian neighborhood, everyone s mind this morning went to the same place. yes. ....
A lot of emotion. i feel like i remember what i was experiencing at that time and how i was insecure about a lot of things. and so the casting of that role and getting to live inside of that character and what i needed to learn as a human being at that time were kind of synonymous. and i was just really trying to similar to the elsa stuff was just like step into my own power and really believe in myself and own the space that i was in. i was always worried i was going to get fired in all of those workshops leading up to wicked, to the broadway run of wicked. each one of those steps i was always wondering am i going to get fired. so i was watching that and there s such a sense of pride that it that i did win that award and she did change my life, that character, and that she means so much to people. ....
Everything full circle in this interview, that used to be the song that when we were doing weddings, they would say ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats, enjoy your main course. and then my band leader would say idina, stay on stage with the piano player, and we would do i dreamed a dream. that was one of the only times i could do it because the audience was quiet. so you killed on the long island wedding circuit with that song. i killed it. a jewish girl singing the broadway song, come on. you have been called the queen of broadway, but i checked. you have not played on a broadway musical stage in seven years. do you have any plans to return? yes. it s my it s what i love the most. people have asked me what do you love, you know, film, tv, stage. and i love it all. i love that i can have the balance and i can leave one when it gets tiring and sort of ....
Preparation going on. and they get me out there and they set me and the spotlight comes on and he says that and i have about eight seconds to get my together. s together. and what goes through my head all in those eight seconds is did he just screw up my name? oh, my god. why is this happening to me? this is my dream come true to be at the oscars. get over yourself. stop having a pity party. oh, my god. brad pitt is there. and sing. it was all in eight seconds. and then it was just like sing to walker, sing to walker. be serious. and then yes, i came off stage and then i realized that what a great gift it would be because i had all these followers in sort of the broadway world and people that were saying how could he screw up her name? but then there were all these people that didn t know me from other demographics and walks of ....
Musical performers often have microphones. but what does it take physically to fill a broadway theater with your voice as you are able to do, to hit the rafters? well, it s interesting because back in the day they didn t have am pplification. so i think that s where the idea of a broadway singer, that volume, that projection came from, because they did have to hit the back row. now as technology developed we do have little mikes. we have a mike that sort of sits right here in our head or sometimes it s here. and so that s tricky, actually. i find that to be tricky for me because sometimes songs are written in a range that you could be in a studio way mike really close and not have to project and get that really nice intimate character in your voice and that texture but then broadway people also want you to hit the back row. so there s different styles of ....