Roomies for a Weekend: We Did a Live Show in Denver
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Folks, we did it! We did another live-recording and dipped our toe into the world of academia. Thank you to CU-Denver and Professor Stephanie Kornick for bringing us out and thank you to Beth Malone for being down to clown with us for the peoples. We are just doing a little check-in here and giving you some of mindgrapes the morning after. Won't you indulge us, babe? Patreon: Follow us on social media: on IG || on TT || Discussed this week: We like from Good Morning, Miami Banana Split drag queen dressed as Cousin Itt for the rerturn of DD Fuego on Drag Race @ We can't find a...
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Donna Lynne Champlin
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You Might Know Her From Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Perfect Couple, The First Lady, Birdman, and Broadway productions of Hollywood Arms, By Jeeves, and Sweeney Todd. This week, Donna Lynne gave us the goods on figuring out the rules of the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend universe and now the fans helped shaped the show’s future. We also talked about bringing the authentic Fall River accent to The Perfect Couple, nailing that one iconic scene in Birdman without any permits, and her short hand in the theatre with legends like Sondheim, Carol Burnett, and Hal Prince. Patreon: Follow us on...
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Betty Buckley
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You Might Know Her From Carrie, Split, The Happening, Frantic, Oz, Eight is Enough, Tender Mercies, Wyatt Earp, Eternity, and theatrical productions of CATS, Sunset Boulevard, Gypsy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and 1776. We talk to Tony-winner Betty Buckley about her upcoming residence at Joe’s Pub April 24-26 2026. Betty also teased the new Amanda Kramer sci-fi drama By Design, the Annie Get Your Gun rodeo pitch that never came to be, and all the Easter-egg voices she’s provided from Tender Mercies to Hair. Betty also gave us all the epic juice from starring in Brian De Palma’s Carrie...
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Vanessa Bell Calloway
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You Might Know Her From Shameless, One of Them Days, Coming to America, Coming 2 America, Harriet, Bebe’s Kids, Saints & Sinners, Daylight, the original cast of Dreamgirls on Broadway, and What’s Love Got To Do With It? We talked to Vanessa about her full-circle Tina Turner moment from the “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” music video to the Angela Bassett-led biopic; playing Tina’s Ikette-turned-bestie Jackie; and the stunt gone wrong in the diner. Plus barking in Coming to America, acting opposite influencers and “housewives,” and originating in the iconic OBC of...
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Harriet Sansom Harris
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You Might Know Her From Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza, Addams Family Values, Desperate Housewives, The 5 Mrs. Buchannons, Ratchet, The Agency: Central Intelligence, and the Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. Harriet Harris gave us the skinny on being directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, acting opposite Daniel Day Lewis in Phantom Thread, and being pied in the face (at least twice) at the hands of Paul Rudnick. All that plus she walked us through all of Felicia Tillman’s delicious Desperate Housewives plotlines, the “queerness” of The 5 Mrs. Buchannons, and her influence...
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Patreon SNEAK PEEK: Andy Beckerman and Naomi Ekperigin on Anal Glands, Webster, Diff'rent Strokes, & Archie Panjabi
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Folks, we're here with our pals Andy Beckerman and Naomi Ekperigin. Both brilliant writers, comedians, and performers who also co-host the podcast Couples Therapy together. We were so tickled to have them join us on the show to talk sitcoms, Hollywood gossip, body talk, our dogs being actors, and more. Interested in more of this? Subscribe at the Patreon for AD-FREE LISTENING and lots od extra Damian and Anne stuff. ==== || beef Go watch
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Olga Merediz
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It’s Olga, with the German name! That’s right, we are here with actress and singer Olga Merediz. You Might Know Her From In the Heights, Encanto, Blockbuster, Eternity, Evita, Music of the Heart, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Orange is the New Black, and the Original Broadway Company of The Human Comedy. Olga gave us all the good on her Tony-nominated turn in In the Heights and recreating Abuela Claudia 14 years later in Jon M. Chu’s 2021 film adaptation. Plus, we got to hear what it was like to play ONLY the singing voice for a character in Encanto, working on a never-saw-the-light-of-day...
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Patreon Sneak Peek: Oscars 2026 Recap
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We watched the Oscars and want to discuss with you. We're elated for Amy Madigan! Enjoy this sneak peek of our 2026 Oscars Recap and head on over to patreon.com/youmightknowherfrom to hear the rest where we get into Barbra and a missing Wendi McLendon-Covey. We will be movie clubbing Amy Madigan's other Oscar nominated performance, .
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Dawnn Lewis
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We are here with the one and only Dr. Dawnn Lewis. You Might Know Her From A Different World, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, Young Rock, Major Crimes, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Wood, Dreamgirls, and the Broadway production of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. We talk to Dawnn about writing the theme song for (and starring on) A Different World, how she’ll be involved in the Netflix revival, and what it was like when Jaleesa went to Africa AKA Hangin’ with Mr Cooper. From her almost-runs on Broadwa–in Sister Act as Dolores and How to Succeed in Business Without...
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PATREON SNEAK PEEK: Oscar Predictions & Lore with Nathaniel Rogers
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HOH BOY, it's Oscar talk with film critic and writer Nathaniel Rogers of ! We're thrilled to chat with Nathaniel about general Oscar lore (Is Glenn going the way of Deborah Kerr? Is the Best Supporting Actress curse real?) + this year's nominations (and snubs) for the (women) acting categories + and who Nathaniel believes should and will win on March 15th. For the full episode: Patreon: Follow us on social media: on IG || on TT || Women acting nominations, for reference: Best Supporting Actress 2026 Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value) Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value) Amy...
info_outlineAchoo! We’re falling in love with the one and only Faith Prince. You Might Know Her From Modern Family, Emily in Paris, Melissa & Joey, Spin City, My Father the Hero, The Last Dragon, and Broadway productions of Guys & Dolls, A Catered Affair, Bells Are Ringing, and BOOP!
Faith talked to us about grounding her character, Valentina, in the cartoonish plot of BOOP!, coping with fame during her star-making turn in Guys & Dolls, and leaning on her co-star Gerard Depardieu in one of her first leading roles on camera in My Father the Hero.
Faith also shared stories from working as a Broadway replacement in the cumbersome costume of Ursula in The Little Mermaid and the notoriously “realistic” production of Anne as Miss Hannigan. All that, plus working with theatre legends like Jerome Robbins, Abe Burrows, Betty Comden & Adolph Green, doing dialect work at Joey Lawrence and Lily Collins, doing her best Cyndi Lauper in cult fave The Last Dragon (and making pals with Berry Gordy, and working with Jean Smart and Mary McDonnell in the short-lived High Society.
This one was a HOOT.
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Discussed this episode:
Evergreen topics for Anne and Damian: Tyne Daly in Gypsy, Grease, Spice Girls track listings, we look like cats in Heathcliff, the cast of Mannequin 2 aka is it Jonathan Silverman, no it’s William Ragsdale in Herman’s Head, Sex and the City/AJLT
Tom and Lorenzo and their SJP adventure
Plays Valentina in Boop on Broadway
We love Dancer/Choreographer Rachelle Rak
Coughing as Adelaide was tougher than talking and singing in character voice
Bob Saget used his stand-up to differentiate himself from Danny Tanner
Nathan & Adelaide are famously the SOUBRETTES in Guys & Dolls so Jerry Zaks put them forward instead of Sky and Sarah (this changed how future productions positioned the 2 couples)
Jerry Mitchell says it’s important to pass the baton down to the next generation of musical theatre stars
Arthur Laurents aka “the meanest man in show-business”, Jerry Gutierrez, Abe Burrows, Comden & Green, Sondheim, Barishnykov, Howard Ashman, Jack Plotnick, Tina Landau,
My Father the Hero w/ Gerard Depardieu
“Dirty Books” from The Last Dragon / Suzanne de Passe and Berry Gordy produced the soundtrack. Berry Gordy took her OUT and called her “baby”
“One More Time” in First Wives Club
“How do you know if someone has lived through trauma — by the way they get someone who doesn’t like them, to like them.”
Cole Escola of Oh, Mary! on CBS Sunday Morning
Was in first 6 episodes of High Society with Jean Smart and Mary McDonnell (based on AbFab and Faith played the Saffy character)
Faith Prince’s “Men” from Nick & Nora. The show was a notorious flop. Arthur told Faith she was making a big mistake by leaving show to do Guys & Dolls. Mary Rodgers told her she could find a way into Anna through Gertrude Lawrence, who was a comedienne.
Was offered the role of Audrey in the original Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors
Went to CCM with Jim Walton
Had taken the revue, Scrambled Feet and was doing an IBM industrial so couldn't’ take LSOH
Lance Roberts is currently in Just in Time
Ellen Greene did Adelaide at The Hollywood Bowl
Studied Donna Murphy who she replaced in The King & I and then did Wonderful Town (at LA Opera)
Katie Finneran talked with us about James Lapine’s realistic interpretation of Annie and Miss Hannigan in the 2012 revival. Said it was a challenge in the NYT.
Re the 2012 revival of Annie: Andrea McArdle said “I didn’t know we were doing Secret Garden”
Associate Director Wes Grantham LOVES HUMOR, unlike Lapine
Martin Charnin & Charles Strouse KISSED HER FEET when they visited her backstage
John Doyle who directed A Catered Affair also backs away from the humor
We love Bells are Ringing - Faith starred in the 2001 Broadway revival. Difficult because of Mitchell Maxwell who produced
Had to ride an actor in Grey’s Anatomy because character’s IUD got stuck on her ex-husband’s Prince Albert penis piercing
Does some great character work in the indie film Our Very Own (got gig from doing reading of The Women with Allison Janney)
IMDB lists her on an ep of Mad Men. INCORRECT.
Martin Short was in Dennis Quaid movie, Innerspace
My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies was an incredible, formative concert
Managing Ursula costume in The Little Mermaid was worse than managing the wig in her Lifetime movie with Kathleen Turner, Friends at Last
Vicki Lewis told us she held Dixie Carter’s spit cup in a production of Mame she was in with Faith
Christopher Walken kept pickled things in the pockets of his costume during James Joyce’s The Dead (Marni Nixon was also in the show)
We interviewed Annaleigh Ashford who is maybe made in the mold of Faith Prince
Damian is seeing an Italian production of Cats / Anne is seeing her nephew do Grease Jr. in Sicily
DUCK ASS HAIR for Danny Zuko