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Tiana Youtzy on playing roles ranging from Sondheim survivors to Bible villains to Disney heroines in the same season; Tiana and Jacob talk about the Acting Singer and the Singing Actor; their formative influences on stage, film, TV and video games, and share the surprising and secret superpower of finding Joy and Nobility in Barista work. Who doesn’t love a Disney heroine who is this relatable, down-to-earth, and no-nonsense? She’s one "class Belle" you’ll want to stay seated for.

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Mark Pino, after playing the Disney Beast in 2020 at ALT returns this December as The Beast in this beloved holiday classic playing December 6 to 24. Mark, or the Double Beast as we sometimes call him, shares his origin story as a shy child who broke out of his shell, grabbed all the school play leads, and worked for Oprah Winfrey as a TV producer in Chicago for several years. Listen to Mark reflect with Jacob on dream roles, and on the Pandemic shutdown as a kind of Enchanted Castle that froze time for all of us, before the spell finally broke.

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Megan McCormick, (Two-time Mrs. Potts in Beauty and The Beast ) Spills the Tea with Jacob; The Matriarch of the Kitchen dishes out celebrity encounters, acting training, and tells you how to empower your local theatre using Phone-A-Friend! Jacob and Megan wonder, What will the Disney licensing embargo mean for future generations of BATB superfans?

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Tables Turned! Jacob undergoes his own actor’s grillin’ as Dracula, interviewed in Journey To the Stars segment by Pocket Theatre Producer Christy Burbank. We’ll get a sneak peak into Laura Cummins-Wright’s Director’s notebook for Beauty and the Beast, and The Reign in Spain falls mainly on the Plane: Traveling Europe to find Shylock’s Origin Story, part 1, In which local playwright Rob Armstrong Martin reads a scene from his upcoming debut play Refuge, the origin story of Shakespeare’s Shylock and prequel to the Merchant of Venice.

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Kristen and Isaac speak to Jacob about their comic role models and influencers.Kristen goes from Class Valedictorian to “Pinky and the Brain” to nationally known Cos-player: How does a (self-described) All-Encompassing Nerd play both patriarch Dr. Westfeld and bug-eating Renfield?

Issac as A Man who Couldn’t Get Cast suddenly becoming The Man who is Cast in Everything! Give us the shirt off your back: how to keep fit for roles that show an actor's body-odd-oddy! (Hint: do 1000 of these before bed)

Dracula Tickets:

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Journey to the Stars, Dracula A Comedy of Terrors Edition: DACOT's Devoney and Jacob dish on horror books, horror movies, and propose a Mt. Rushmore of the Slashers! Then they serve you a few bits of scholarly history of pop culture, just to keep ya’ trippin!

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Actor as Thinker: Meow Wolf’s Brent Whitted on making comic and demonic choices for Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors

Brent as Meow Wolf’ Mindsplitter Oleander:
https://meow-wolf.fandom.com/wiki/Superconductor_General_Oleander

Pocket Theatre’s Exit Pursued By A Bear coming November 15-Dec 1
Tickets at: https://albuquerquelittletheatre.thundertix.com/events/235518

The Prom coming in January
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Dracula A Comedy of Terrors Director Robb Sisneros on why every actor matters; True West directed by Jacquline Reid sweeps the Fusion Theatre Company with true Sam Shepard grit. And listen for a special flash-sale code given in this episode that will unlock a deep ticket discount on a special musical coming soon.

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