Theater Kids Are Full of It: Broadway, Phantom, and Cousin Bobby Lopez

• 1:14:39Theater people are full of it; the Ferryman show was great but nobody cares about those performers.
• 1:15:05Phantom of the Opera has gotten so bad, with a drunk lead singer performing for $600 tickets.
• 1:15:38Tim knew the actress who played Meg in Phantom; she was deeply pensive, spending her days in the Food Emporium staring at rain.
• 1:16:09His third cousin Bobby Lopez wrote Avenue Q, Book of Mormon, and Frozen—a winner of two Emmys, two Grammys, one Oscar, and two Tonys.
• 1:16:29Lopez's agent told him they'd get him more work, which makes no sense because there is no more work in theater.
• 1:16:45Lin-Manuel Miranda, theater royalty and Lopez's best friend, visited Tim's grandmother once and gave her a cryptic compliment.
• 1:17:03Lopez's little brother pitched an idea to Nickelodeon or Adult Swim and three months later saw them steal it and make it themselves.
• 1:17:26If you dedicate four years to theater, you should at least try to make it work—the profession is incredibly hard.
• 1:17:40Idina Menzel became superstardom through Rent, Wicked, and Frozen, but only about three Broadway performers ever reach that level.
• 1:18:11Houston kids claiming they have the third-largest art scene are delusional—they have the third-largest waistline, not art.
• 1:18:39After New York and LA there's a real drop-off in art scenes; maybe Houston is fourth, nowhere near legitimately third.

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