![]() ![]() We talked after the show and she reminded me that when I first met her, I had immediately told her that she devastated me in the early ’90s. I actually have a recording of that very backer’s audition and did a breakdown. It was originally written to be a B but Betty arbitrarily went up to the E during the backer’s audition and people flipped out. Incredible! If you don’t know, one of the notes I’m obsessed with is her sustained E in “The Writing On The Wall” from The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. Most thrilling for me was the fact the Seth’s Broadway Breakdown features so much Betty Buckley, and she was right there in the second row. Watch this TikTok boomerang created by TheBroadwayWiz that features some of the stars who came to my show doing sassy poses. Orfeh was there with her amazing Tony-nominated, Olivier-winning husband Andy Karl and they did fab posing with me on the red carpet with so many other peeps. Here’s me doing a breakdown of Orfeh and Mariah Carey. And I did a whole section on riffing that, at one point, featured the amazing Orfeh and she was in the front row. I also do a whole section on belting and there was Beth Leavel and then there was Adam Pascal (I showed that his final note on his big song in my show Disaster! is the same final note as Ethel Merman’s as Mama Rose… for reals). They do “To Life” with the groove of a Barry White makeout song. Of course, because he directed the Yiddish Fiddler, I also felt the need to apologize when I played the Fiddler medley sung by The Osmonds. I talked about Cabaret and there was Joel Grey. My first performance had me emotional because there were people in the audience whose singing I played examples of. The show’s premise is that in order to never take Broadway for granted again, we need to break it down to understand what makes it amazing. I did a preview performance September 12 and it was so amazing. Speaking of Asylum NYC in Chelsea, that’s also the theatre where I’m running my new show Seth’s Broadway Breakdown. You can hang out with me and not only watch the festivities, but do singalongs, answer Broadway trivia, get some sassy prizes, and “much more” (as Luisa sang in The Fantasticks). It starts at 7 PM ET (‘natch) and it’s at Asylum NYC. I will however say that I am hosting a Tony Award Watch Party during the show. Happy almost Tony Awards! I’m not going to talk Tony's this column because I’m going to dedicate an entire column to inside Tony Award stories-so stay tuned for that. ![]()
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