We are IN THE ROOM with Lance Horne & Kurt Phelan! Thrilled to get to talk to these two creative powerhouses who are also husbands as well as business partners as well as cuties as well as expert conversationalists. Lance is an Emmy award-winning composer, pianist, singer, and music director who has arranged for/performed with: Alan Cumming, Kylie Minogue, Liza Minnelli, Kristin Chenoweth and Ben Folds, just to name a mere modest handful. He is also a Steinway Artist which is a BFD (big forking deal.) You can catch him (& Kurt!) at his Monday night piano parties at Club Cumming (Monday’s In The Club With Lance) and Tuesdays at The Q NYC Nightclub. Kurt is an award winning Aussie actor, theatre maker, and sommelier. Together, they make….. CANDLES that support artists!  WE LIGHT HOME  Now through October 11th, 2021, you can get $5 off with the code: BROADWAYSBACK at: www.welighthome.com (@welighthome). PLUS - any order over $50 gets a $20 cash back! @lance_horne @kurtphelan.au @welighthome @mondaysintheclub @spidermanhamlet @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @broadwaypodcastnetwork We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Deep Butter (feat. Lance Horne & Kurt Phelan)

We are IN THE ROOM with the stars of the upcoming “Hairspray” National Tour - Niki Metcalf and Toneisha Harris! Niki Metcalf (Tracy Turnblad) and Toneisha Harris (Motormouth Maybelle) will be lighting up the country in the new National Tour of Hairspray, starting November 12th! You may know Toneisha Harris as the Season 18 runner-up on NBC’s “The Voice” (famously half-filmed during quarantine) or from Season 4 of BET’s gospel competition show “Sunday Best.” During the finale of “The Voice,” Toneisha was able to share an original song, “My Superhero,” written for her youngest son during his battle with leukemia, which reached #8 on iTunes. And we are so excited for America to get to know the dazzling Niki Metcalf! This tour is in great hands. We LOVED our conversation with these two! They are thrilled to be spreading the message of love, hope and inclusion across the country and their generosity of spirit is infectious! Topics covered: showing your range, taking on new adventures and experiences, finding “your shine,” ASL SURPRISE!, leaving folks better than you found them, reading, cooking, tour hobbies, and more! HAIRSPRAY TOUR TICKETS: https://hairspraytour.com/ www.toneishaharrismusic.com www.nikimetcalf.com @iamtoneishaharris @nikimetcalf @hairsprayontour @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @broadwaypodcastnetwork We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Beat Cannot Be Stopped (feat. Niki Metcalf & Toneisha Harris)

We love TV. STEVEN'S COUPON CORNER ALERT! WE LIGHT is offering listeners of IN THE ROOM $5 off their order through AUGUST 10, 2020!! Use code INTHEROOM at checkout! www.welighthome.com | @welighthome | @lance_horne | @kurtphelan.au @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @broadwaypodcastnetwork We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Smart TV

We are IN THE ROOM with singer-songwriter Eleri Ward! (New album: “A Perfect Little Death” by her - let’s say… alter ego - SUF/SOND is now on Spotify and Apple Music). www.eleriward.com NEW BEST FRIEND ALERT: Our first podcast of 2021 with a guest couldn’t have been more delightful! Eleri Ward is a musical theatre-lovin’ Chicago native who went viral on TikTok due to the fact that she’s undeniably great at mashing up her indie rock influences (most notably, Sufjan Stevens) with Mr. Stephen Sondheim. Hence, her SUF/SOND brainchild. We chat about Boston, the actual horror of moving, our shared love of “Documentary Now: Original Cast Album: Co-Op,” pop music influences, high school, exorcising demons, social media hacks, creative output (yay!) and so much more. PS. Eleri's second EP "Friction" JUST came out and is available on all platforms! June truly is busting out all over and we are into it. @eleriward @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @broadwaypodcastnetwork @ghostlightrecords We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You Just Did That (feat. Eleri Ward | SUF/SOND)

Steven and Dana brush up on Pippin! We were able to watch it via Amazon Prime at time of recording. ALSO! BIG NEWS! The Broadway Podcast Network has a new iOS App! Check it out in the App Store or by visiting bpn.fm/app! (Pro Tip: You can add your non-BPN podcasts to the BPN app and make it your new favorite podcast app!) @sferezy @danakellycraig @intheroompod @broadwaypodcastnetwork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BROADWAY BLINDSPOT: Pippin

Steven & Dana watch the movie musical version of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) and discuss. This episode is dedicated to character actors everywhere and to Mary Blair - color designer and animator. @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @broadwaypodcastnetwork We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BROADWAY BLINDSPOT: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

*CONTAINS SPOILERS!* We were supposed to see Barb & Star together last summer. We all know how that ended. *CONTAINS SPOILERS!* Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EMERGENCY PODCAST: Barb & Star Go to Vista del Mar

Dana finally saw “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street!” Other topics covered: WW, egg cookers, greek wings, Jeffrey Epstein, pedicures, and Tim Conway! @sferezy @danakellycraig @intheroompod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BROADWAY BLINDSPOT: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Part 2)

Happy 2021, listeners! We took January to refuel (also Dana moved to Wisconsin for a couple months) but we are BACK with a new series: Broadway Blindspot! We all have one so once a month Steven and/or Dana will watch a piece of theatre they've never seen and report back. We invite you to watch with us! *Normally these episodes will be released in their entirety, but due to a very, very sad technical oopsie-doopsie-whoopsie this first one will be released as a two-parter so come back next week for Dana's reactions! As a HUGE Sondheim nut, Steven couldn't live with the fact that Dana had never seen Sweeney Todd. Thankfully, the original tour was filmed in 1982 and Dana didn't have to watch the film. Come listen to what Dana thinks she knows about Mr. Todd and Mrs. Lovett and join us next week for Part 2!! We'd love to hear what's in your Broadway Blindspot! Let us know! Please rate us. Please review us. Please enjoy us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BROADWAY BLINDSPOT: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Part 1)

Just us today, kids! We’re going to keep this one short and sweet. We play our favorite end of the year calendar game - “What Were You Doing On…” and well, not much on the calendar this year for obvious reasons, but we play anyway because the show must go on! Thank you so much for listening, we’re so glad you’ve joined us this year. We very much look forward to 2021, and the return of live theatre. Stay healthy, safe, and we’ll see you on the other side! @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @broadwaypodcastnetwork We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

End of Year Cheer

If you don’t follow @adventcarolndar on Instagram & TikTok yet, this is your 10 minute warning to do so immediately. Joel & Julia have been dropping some serious Holiday HEAT with their one minute Christmas Caroling DOOZIES. 25 new holiday carols for 25 days, starting on December 1st! They are hilarious, catchy, highly creative, epically stupid, and have become essential holiday viewing. We talk origin stories of them meeting each other, becoming comedy partners, starting the advent calendar songs and sharing them with the world, singing back up for Ben Platt on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and how they collaborate on writing these tiny-silly-dumb-and-executed-perfectly miracles. In the middle of the episode, Dana falls over her box of Playbills and onto her face. She is ok… just FYI. And no podcast featuring Joel & Julia would be complete without an original tune made up on the spot - we leave you with “Pigeon the Teacup Reindeer."   As we head into cooler weather, we will be getting cozy with some of our favorite cast mates from various shows and “things.” We are calling this mini-series “GETTIN’ COZY WITH CASTMATES,” natch. So put on your sweaters, pour yourself a hot chai, and join us for some little mini-reunions! Double the pleasure, double the fun! @adventcarolndar @joelwaggoner @juliamat @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @broadwaypodcastnetwork We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gettin’ Cozy With Castmates: ADVENTCAROLNDAR (feat. Joel Waggoner & Julia Mattison)

We are IN THE ROOM with our favorite “undie rock” duo - The Skivvies!  The Skivvies bare it all on this episode of “Gettin’ Cozy With Castmates!” You’ll get answers to questions such as - what was Lauren Molina buying at Rite Aid when she heard Joe Biden was elected? Lauren & Nick clench their butt cheeks during what song during their shows? How did Nick’s actor/musician version of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” come to fruition? What vehicle did they bond in on their first day of meeting each other? What song did they BOTH happen to sing at their respective senior showcases in college? What is Lauren’s best advice for creatives?  The Rocky Horror Skivvies Album is out now on iTunes and Spotify! And everywhere you can buy music!   As we head into cooler weather, we will be getting cozy with some of our favorite cast mates from various shows. We are calling this mini-series “GETTIN’ COZY WITH CASTMATES,” natch. So put on your sweaters, pour yourself a hot chai, and join us for some little mini-reunions! Double the pleasure, double the fun! @theskivviesnyc @clearlycearley @lomo212 @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @broadwaypodcastnetwork We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gettin’ Cozy With Castmates: THE SKIVVIES (feat. Lauren Molina & Nick Cearley)

We are IN THE ROOM with our new favorite ghost enthusiast, Jacob James! Today we welcome our first Canadian - coming to us straight from Stratford, Ontario! Jacob James is a professional actor, Professor at Queen’s University, Artistic Director of the Theatre Curation Project (subscribe to the channel on YouTube - link below!) and most fittingly for this Halloween season - a casual ghost hunter who may have “the talent.” He definitely has the stories to back it up! Jacob shares many real life spooky tales with us and he also brought a couple audio clips of what he picked up on his EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) reader. We’re buying one immediately. Ever since Jacob was little, he has been able to intuit spirits and unexplainable vibrations surrounding him. As he has gotten older, he has defined himself as a skeptical believer, while at the same time - has leaned in to learning more about the things that have happened to him in his life. We have to agree - some of the things we hear in today’s episode are completely chill inducing! Happy Halloween everyone! Theatre Curation Project -  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLhEdMQ-NVs_WC61tHYw7yQ @jacoboneilljames @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @broadwaypodcastnetwork We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The One With the Ghost Stories (feat. Jacob James)

We are IN THE ROOM with two of our favorite cast members from Kinky Boots: Jen Perry & Blair Goldberg!  You know Jen Perry as Trish from Kinky Boots - but did you know she is an OG cast member??? She was also in Mamma Mia on Broadway and we are unhealthily obsessed with her. Blair has the unique perspective of being both in the National tour of Kinky Boots and in the Broadway company. She has been on Broadway since she was little - her first show was starring in Annie Get Your Gun with our queen Bernadette Peters. Also fully obsessed. Jen & Blair share the backstage juice with us: they cover tricks to being cool moms on Broadway, filthy hardcore rapping, backstage naked dance parties, mice, the final performance, cut moments from the show,   and how to give your nearest and dearest an enema in their time of need! Also… ghosts. It gets a little spooky, ya’ll. As we head into cooler weather, we will be getting cozy with some of our favorite cast mates from various shows. We are calling this mini-series “GETTIN’ COZY WITH CASTMATES,” natch. So put on your sweaters, pour yourself a hot chai, and join us for some little mini-reunions and ghost stories! @funnijen @blairgoldberg44 @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @broadwaypodcastnetwork We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gettin’ Cozy With Castmates: KINKY BOOTS (feat. Jen Perry & Blair Goldberg)

It’s just us today, ya’ll! You know we love to debrief at the end of every season. We saw each other for the first time since March, got chicken, took a stroll through Shubert Alley, and had a picnic by the Hudson River. We announce a new IN THE ROOM mini-series for the fall! Steven has a new artistic business venture! Follow his fabulous new drawings (@illinktothat) and associated blog at www.illinktothat.com! And if you’d like to support Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids, please head on over to www.broadwaypins.com and get yourself the new Broadway Ghostlight Pin! @intheroompod @danakellycraig @sferezy  @illinktothat @broadwaypodcastnetwork We would be gob smacked into next week if you gave us a rating and review on iTunes! We so appreciate your lurve, shout outs, and support! XOXO IN THE ROOM is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. www.bpn.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ye Grande Ole Debrief

"IN THE ROOM with Steven & Dana" aims to answer the question "What's it like to invite ourselves over to (insert gorgeous entertainment professional's name here)’s house and overstay our welcome?" Well you're in luck because your hosts Steven Ferezy and Dana Craig are industry insiders with monthly unlimited MetroCards and mics that travel. The twice monthly podcast delivers intimate fly-on-the-wall interviews with theatre legends, up and comers, award winning luminaries, drag queens, comedians, actors, directors, composers, company managers, agents, backstage crew, and everyone in between who is part of the live performance making process! Our passion is theatre and it's our pleasure to share these conversations with you. Cheers!

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