HeyJaredDrama Club with Matty
A new (kind of) Broadway Podcast! Drama Club with Matty is a vibrant, laugh-filled deep dive into the personalities that make Broadway shine—featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes stories, pop culture hot takes, and plenty of nostalgic “drama club” memories.
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Andrew Durand & Kelsee Kimmel on Benjamin Button, Burnout & Broadway (opens the original)
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Aging backward is one thing. Finding a day off in theater? Now that’s a fantasy. Andrew Durand and Kelsee Kimmel join Matty at The Public Theater ahead of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s North American premiere. They get into Cornish accents, sea shanties, and the beautiful chaos of a musical where the actors are also the band. Then the backstage tea starts pouring: Andrew opens up about the exhaustion of back-to-back shows, Kelsee gets candid about life as a swing and standby, and both ha
Nick Rashad Burroughs: Kinky Boots, Ike Turner, and a Lortel for Goddess (opens the original)
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Lortel Award winner Nick Rashad Burroughs joins Matty to talk about going from a Birmingham, Alabama house where gospel was the only music allowed to a Broadway career built on total reinvention. Nick gets honest about booking Kinky Boots out of college while still in the closet, what it meant to play a woman on Broadway before he had ever let himself be seen as a gay man, the typecasting that followed, and how Goddess at The Public finally let him be nobody but himself. He also talks about his
Mary Testa on 50 Years and Still No Career Plan (opens the original)
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Fifty years into a career built entirely on instinct, Mary Testa (Oklahoma!, Nightside Songs, Xanadu, Chicago, Wicked) sits down with Matty, and holds nothing back. Mary talks having no career plan ("I'm a pinball"), what it was really like working with Sondheim, and why she thinks Broadway leans too hard on revivals. She also gets into modern audience etiquette, her take on this year's Tony race and Ragtime, growing up Italian-American in a Rhode Island Catholic school, her no-asshole policy, a
Eva Noblezada on Hadestown, Reeve Carney and Speaking Up on Broadway (opens the original)
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Eva Noblezada is in the Drama Club and nothing is off limits. The Broadway powerhouse joins Matty for a hilarious and deeply candid conversation about Hadestown , The Great Gatsby , finding her voice, falling in love with Reeve Carney, and the wild journey from teenage Jimmy Awards finalist to Broadway leading lady. Eva opens up about the difficult personal chapter she was navigating during Hadestown , what reuniting with the show meant to her, and why watching the filmed production finally felt
John Riddle: Why Broadway Has a PR Problem (opens the original)
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John Riddle — "the gay guy who plays straight guys on Broadway" (Phantom, Frozen, and now the hit Titanic parody) — joins Matty this week. John gets into what it takes to play straight for a living, why he's unapologetically "old school" about eight shows a week, and Broadway's pricing and PR problem. He also talks the humbling years he spent between Broadway shows, nearly getting scammed on a Facebook Marketplace couch, the one duet he'd ban from Broadway forever, dream-casting Jane Krakowski a
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