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In The Misadventures of Water Bottles: The Musical, Marco and Amanda settle into a whimsical, gently meandering conversation about everyday mishaps, musical theatre memories, and the small joys that make life feel lighter. What begins with the curious case of a squished water bottle unfolds into reflections on TV favorites like The Traitors, the comforting phrase “gravy and chips,” and the quiet satisfaction of uncancelled stamps or a freshly organized fridge. Along the way, Marco continues his journey through Agatha Christie, and the pair reminisce about stage productions of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Evita, Chicago, Beauty and the Beast, and Dirty Dancing, sharing fond (and funny) stories about spotting familiar faces and watching companions slowly piece together the plot.
As always, this calming podcast is intentionally unhurried and softly spoken — a relaxing conversation designed to help you fall asleep, ease anxiety, or simply quiet racing thoughts. It’s ideal for background listening while you wind down at night or settle back into bed after waking. The playful banter and gentle tangents create a cozy atmosphere where nothing is urgent and everything can wait until morning. Let the light musical nostalgia and easy rhythm of dialogue carry you toward rest.

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 Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax, listen, chill. Thank you for joining us. I'm your host, Marco Timpano.

Amanda: I'm Amanda Barker. Flying by the seat of my pants.

Marco: It's true. It's true. Ten seasons, Amanda. Ten years of podcasting.

Amanda: I can't believe it.

Marco: It's crazy.

Amanda: Congratulations.

Marco: Thank you. It's awesome. So how was your day?

Amanda: So here's the deal. Marco asked me, what are we going to talk about? And I said, I think we just don't talk. I mean, we never. He usually has a sense of what he wants to talk about, and he just sort of throws it at me. But today he didn't have one, and I'm like, that's normally me. So let's just chill and see what comes up. That's what it's meant to be, right?

Marco: Yeah, fair enough.

Amanda: What did I just say? Before we turn. Oh, gravy on chips.

Marco: Gravy on chips.

Amanda: Do you know what that means?

Marco: No.

Amanda: So chips, as in the British sense. Okay, so we are watching one of our favorite reality shows right now. It's called Traitors.

Marco: The traitors.

Amanda: Yep, the traitors. I have to say Traitors UK into our remote so that it knows which one to take me to. And one of the guys on it keeps saying, yeah, that's just gravy on chips. Gravy on chips. So I guess that means, like, it's all good. That's like some sort of Britishy all good kind of statement. Listen, I love my. I love my British slang.

Marco: You know what? I love Amanda. And this happened to us recently. An uncanceled stamp on a letter.

Amanda: You love an uncanceled stamp.

Marco: I love an uncanceled stamp. I love ripping it from the envelope, soaking it water so the stamp lifts off and then gluing it onto another postcard or letter and sending it to someone else.

Amanda: So are we talking about, like, things that give us satisfaction? Yeah, because that gives you a good sense of satisfaction.

Marco: It does.

Amanda: You know, right now our fridge is clean and sparse, and that gives me a certain satisfaction. To have a sparse fridge does that

Marco: mean we ate our fridge. Everything that was in our fridge?

Amanda: Not even close.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: But because my freezer is quite full, it means that we've made space so that we can start to defrost things in our freezer. And that's a great satisfaction because it also is saving money. If you give yourself a couple weeks every year to just make sure you've gone through everything.

Marco: Sure.

Amanda: Depends on the time of week, the month, whatever, but whether we're going away, whether or not. But I just wanted to give us some breathing space. And I grew up with a very packed fridge all the time. My mom made sure that we had everything and that if we were about to run out, there was already another one.

Marco: I find if a fridge is so packed, I can't find anything in it, I don't know what's in it.

Amanda: Your mom loves a fridge that is very clean and organized, and I would say she favors more a couple of fresh things versus a packed. I've never seen your mom's fridge particularly packed.

Marco: Sure.

Amanda: I mean, I have, I guess, but it's a different type of pack than my mom's fridge. But our freezer is quite packed. So I've been trying to go through our freezer.

Marco: I love a packed mailbox, too. When we come home and there's a packed mailbox, I love that.

Amanda: Yeah, that's a great feeling because there's so much possibility in the mail. Is there a magazine? A check you weren't expecting? Who knows?

Marco: A postcard from someone who used an uncancelled stamp?

Amanda: A catalog full of things I want to buy?

Marco: Could be anything.

Amanda: A calendar that a charity sent me because I donated to them at some point in my life. Address stamps from the same charity, Christmas cards from that charity. Right, right, right.

Marco: You name it.

Amanda: Yeah, any. Anything like that, I guess I really like the name Chair. Although, do we say charity more? We say nonprofit. Well, they're two different things.

Marco: Sure.

Amanda: But, yeah, no, I'm really excited to. You should clean out your freezer at least once a year, right?

Marco: Oh, I would imagine a few times a year.

Amanda: I mean, I'd love to think I cleaned it out every month or two,

Marco: but the reality is, every season I think you're okay.

Amanda: Every season is a good way to look at it. I read once a friend of mine runs a. I don't know what it is, like a cooking class company. And so she sends these emails and she says a freezer should be like petty cash, not a safety deposit box.

Marco: Okay, I like that.

Amanda: And not a savings Account either. Just treat it like petty cash. Like, oh, I have this. I can grab this. So I have that. I can grab that. Not like, you know, I have all these things locked in and I'm going to use them or not someday, you know, because they can't live in there forever.

Marco: Fair enough. I. I really recently discovered the cap to my water bottle and they're in two different places of the house.

Amanda: So tell me more about that.

Marco: So I had a.

Amanda: Because I don't know what you mean.

Marco: So we have. We have these water water bottles that we use to drink water with. You know, what do you call them? Water bottles, right?

Amanda: No, water bottles.

Marco: Yeah, water bottles. And I have one that I.

Amanda: And they're not a particular brand. We have different brands. We're not. There's a water bottle or. I don't know if it's a water bottle or coffee or what it is, but there's a certain brand that seems to be Quite trending with 11 year olds right now.

Marco: Okay, so we don't have any. We don't have any fancy ones. Yeah, I had a fancy one once, but Amanda ran over it with the car and I never saw it again.

Amanda: Stop that. He got it for free, guys. So I didn't mean to run over it with the car.

Marco: It was my favorite water bottle. But we won't get into that. Instead, I'll talk about the water bottle.

Amanda: Mark, what you have. You had that water bottle for years. And it's not my fault. I ran over it. What was it doing outside of the car?

Marco: You had dropped it and it rolled under the tire. And then you came back.

Amanda: I didn't know I'd drop it. And you were where in all of this?

Marco: I wasn't even home. You came back and you said, I have some bad news. And then you showed me a squished water bottle, I believe.

Amanda: Is that what happened?

Marco: How that panned out?

Amanda: This was, I want to say, either before we were married or in the first year of marriage. So we've been married 15 years now. So I think it might be time to let the water ball water bottle catastrophe of 2011 go.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: So anyways, I'll let that one go. Even though it's a Sig water bottle. It's such a good waddle. Had a little picture of.

Amanda: He just made a point about how we're not water bottle. Like we're not into brands.

Marco: Right.

Amanda: And you just named the brand of that water bottle and how great it was because it was that brand.

Marco: I know. And then I'VE never bought one since because of it.

Amanda: What am I drinking out of a swell?

Marco: Well, I think a swell's a brand name water bottle.

Amanda: We should say swell more.

Marco: We should, we should. So my water bottle that I keep in here.

Amanda: Hey, we have a cig water bottle upstairs.

Marco: We do?

Amanda: Yeah. That one you hate, the green one. I've also dropped that one. It has a bit of a dent and it's sort of like a muddy green, greenish blue.

Marco: Remember when we left one in the car and it froze?

Amanda: Yes.

Marco: Overnight.

Amanda: Yes.

Marco: And then when the car.

Amanda: Everyone's done that.

Marco: And then when the car heated up, there was a crack in it and so it was spilling everywhere.

Amanda: Everyone has done the water bottle, quick freeze, forget about it situation. Everyone, I think, on the planet has been like, oh, this is warm water. I want it to be cold. I'm going to throw it in the freezer, then it'll be cold. I just have to remember about it in 20 minutes. Cut to a week later. Oh, no. I froze it and then it's destroyed.

Marco: It's like the misadventures of water bottles this episode. So my water bottle that I keep here, I guess I. I filled in the. In the restroom, washroom, bathroom, whatever you call it. That's next to the studio here.

Amanda: The wc.

Marco: The wc.

Amanda: The water closet.

Marco: And I, I had the cap in my hand, I guess.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: And I brought the cap upstairs. And then I guess when you have the cap in your hand, you think the water bottle is near you and it wasn't. And so I was looking for it and then I left the cap upstairs.

Amanda: I've been doing dishes and this cap has been floating around and I don't know what to do about it.

Marco: And then I discovered the water bottle. This is three days after it's been missing down here.

Amanda: So Agatha Christie indeed is on this.

Marco: So yeah. So now the mystery of the water bottle has been solved. I just need to marry the two.

Amanda: Speaking of Agatha Christie, that is. How is your reading going? Good.

Marco: I'm on my last book of her. Sorry, I shouldn't say that because people think I'm reading her last book. I'm finishing up the books she wrote in the 1920s.

Amanda: Oh, you're almost finished the twenties?

Marco: Yeah. So I'm almost finished in the 1920s. I think that's nine books in total.

Amanda: That's amazing, Marco.

Marco: And I'm getting better.

Amanda: What does that mean?

Marco: So this is what it means. I'm figuring out who did it in the whodunit part.

Amanda: Oh, no, you're Knowing formulas and things.

Marco: No, it's not even formulas. The last one, Marco likes to tell

Amanda: you who he thinks did it early in so that he really spoils it for you.

Marco: Just so if I have a suspicion I'm going to mention it one time. I don't remember this.

Amanda: This is actually my mother. I took my mother and father to go see the Scarlet Pimpernel at Stratford, which is a theater festival here in Ontario. And they. At the. So the Scarlet Pimpernel is a scarf. I believe it's a rouge y kind of scarf. And it was like, who's this mysterious person? And at the end of the first act, you see one of the characters and he takes this red scarf out of his whatever, pocket, dabs his face with it or whatever, looks around and then scurries off. And you hear a little hush in the audience, like, oh, he's it. So then lights come up, intermission, go to the bathroom, get a Diet Coke, whatever. Lights go back down. The second act starts. We're about 20 minutes into the second act, and my mother, in a stage whisper, I would say, she's pretty loud. And this was pretty loud. When he's the Scarlet Pimpernel, like, she had just discovered. It was kind of like, I know who it is. 20 minutes in. And I went, mom, they revealed that at the end of the first act, we all know that he's the Scarlet pin. She goes, oh, well, whatever.

Marco: I went to see Evita with your bff, my cousin Danny.

Amanda: Wait, what?

Marco: Years and years ago.

Amanda: You know, Danny going to theater is a very funny. Has Danny done a podcast here?

Marco: He has, he has, yeah. On. On waste management.

Amanda: Fascinating.

Marco: So Danny and I went to see Evita years ago. He. He was with his wife at the time. And I can't remember if I brought anyone or not, but we.

Amanda: So before his kids were born, even.

Marco: Yeah, I think it was before his kids were born. So we went to go see Evita and it was a big thing, you know, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Evita here in Toronto. Not the first time. But do you call it when they bring it back?

Amanda: I don't know.

Marco: When they bring a musical back. What is that called?

Amanda: Bringing it back?

Marco: No, it's not. There's an award at the Tonys for.

Amanda: Oh, revival.

Marco: It was a revival. Okay, thanks.

Amanda: Yeah, but that's a little different in Toronto because it's bringing it back means you launched it here, you went and toured it and then you came back.

Marco: No, it had.

Amanda: You mean a revival.

Marco: It had its run in New York when it had its run in the

Amanda: 70s, you mean, or 80s.

Marco: And then this was in the.

Amanda: Okay. The revival of the 90s. We all remember it. Okay?

Marco: So we go see it. And you know how they play the first. So we. We see it. They play the first song or whatever. And then in Evita, it's. They're all chanting, evita. Evita, right.

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: And so then we go to intermission or something, and Danny goes, that's Evita, the blonde one. And we're like, yeah. They only chanted her name off the top for 20 minutes. It was a new. It was a new discovery to him. I'll never forget that.

Amanda: He took him all the first act. Figure out who Ava Peron was.

Marco: It took him a while. I was like, what's going on here? Right.

Amanda: Oh, my goodness. So that's so funny.

Marco: But I was saying. I was saying something before we got to.

Amanda: I have. I have important. Since you brought up your cousin Danny, I have important cousin updates. Okay. For you.

Marco: All right.

Amanda: Did you know that your cousins were featured in. On tv in the Alps, where they live. And there's some pretty amazing footage here. You might want to have a look.

Marco: What do you mean?

Amanda: Well, I'm on a WhatsApp chat with all your Italian cousins. I don't always understand what they're saying, but I kind of get the gist of it. And so Marco. So it's for his cousins here and at that side of the family, of which Danny, his cousin, is on that side. His mother's side of the family. And anyway, Marco has six direct cousins that all live in Trento, Italy, as well as his aunt. And so this is a WhatsApp chat so that we can all keep in touch with each other. Anyway, someone posted all of this footage. I mean, it looks like Sound of Music. It's amazing. It's like a big folk festival with bands, and everyone's wearing the caps with the feathers in them, and there's a lot of old stone structures that people seem to be marching through joyfully. And it looks like a really fun time. Okay, so I don't know which cousins are on the TV or what the deal is with that, but.

Marco: Oh, I see.

Amanda: I think someone's kids or something.

Marco: Yeah, I'll have to look at that. That's so funny. Yeah. I've never seen the Sound of Music. Speaking of plays that I'd like to see are musicals or revivals.

Amanda: You've never seen it alive?

Marco: No, I've never seen. I've never seen it live. I've only seen the movie.

Amanda: So that's your cousins there? I don't know. They seem to be singing in some sort of Austrian looking choir. I know it's not Austria, it's northern Italy, but.

Marco: Yeah, none of these are my cousins, but they're probably friends of them. Who are? Who they?

Amanda: I think it's someone's daughter, but yeah. A cousin daughter.

Marco: A cousin daughter.

Amanda: If your cousin has a daughter, what is that to you? A second cousin?

Marco: I think so.

Amanda: I don't really know how.

Marco: I think that's how it goes.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: I think. No, my mother's cousin is my second cousin.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: So my cousin's kid in this case, like Jennifer.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: Is my cousin right. Or is that my second cousin?

Amanda: I don't know. I really don't know my family well enough to. To know how that works, but. But I do know that I'm on this WhatsApp thread and people like to send fun Italian videos.

Marco: There you go. You look quite an education. You look at look at it far more than I do.

Amanda: I do, yeah. Yeah. You don't look at WhatsApp ever.

Marco: I don't like those things where I have to look at stuff.

Amanda: Tell me more about that.

Marco: So there's all these apps where it's like, I'm gonna send you a message. Great. And it's a. Marco Polo is the name of the app. One of the apps, but it's a video message. So now I have to watch you talking to me. I don't have time to watch extra video stuff. If you. If you send me a audio recording, I can listen to it anytime. Easy peasy.

Amanda: At your leisure.

Marco: At my leisure.

Amanda: You say leisure or leisure?

Marco: Leisure. You say leisure.

Amanda: No, I say leisure.

Marco: What about when you write in a book? You write all the things that your company has purchased and sent out. What do you call that?

Amanda: Accounting?

Marco: A ledger. Oh, I was wanting to see how you. How you would say.

Amanda: What about the guy that played the Joker?

Marco: Yeah.

Amanda: Heath Leisure.

Marco: Jack Nicholson.

Amanda: Joaquin Phoenix. Anyway, I don't know what we're talking about now.

Marco: Well, we were talking about mail. We were talking about musicals. We were talking about getting a plenitude of mail. Coming home to.

Amanda: That was a long time ago.

Marco: I know. That's what I'm going through.

Amanda: The thoughts that you've never seen Sound of Music in person, but you've seen Evita, even though your cousin didn't know, who couldn't figure out which one on the stage was Ava Perrone. This is very funny to me and

Marco: the actress who Played Eva Perron in that production, Madonna. No, it wasn't. It was.

Amanda: I would love it if you saw. If she was playing in Toronto, a

Marco: woman who was on Miami Vice. So she. Why are you laughing?

Amanda: Because people doing touring musicals make me laugh. I saw Mickey Dolan's in Aida.

Marco: I saw the father on Happy Days. So why are you laughing in Beauty and the Beast?

Amanda: No.

Marco: What's his name?

Amanda: I don't know. Tom.

Marco: Tom. Tom. Tom Bosley. Tom. Tom. Tom Bosley. I think it is.

Amanda: Yeah. I think it is. Yeah.

Marco: He played Belle's father.

Amanda: Oh, my God. That's.

Marco: I would hope. I mean, what else could he have played?

Amanda: The one that makes me laugh the most is Chicago. Everybody plays Roxie Hart. You don't need to have talent to play Roxie Hart because you can just do a kind of cutesy voice and talk through your songs, and then you can. If you move good enough. Like, if you can do a jazzercise or a Zumba class, you could probably play Roxie Hart. But I saw. I don't know if I should name her because it's not gonna be nice, but I saw a model. So everyone plays Roxie Hart, right? So it's like, now I'm on. I have this career and this career. Now I'm on Broadway, and it's like. But in Chicago. Let's chill down.

Marco: When you say model, do you mean, like, Supermodel from the 80s?

Amanda: From the 80s, yes.

Marco: Would she be of supermodel status?

Amanda: Rhymes with risty wrinkley.

Marco: Okay. All right.

Amanda: So, yeah. Anyway, we. So I was doing a show. I was launching a show in Hartford, Connecticut. So we were in the smaller theater launching a very fun show that I ended up doing for three years. But that was the sort of. You need to. When you're going to do a touring show, you need to pick a home. A home base to. To launch it, to figure out all the bells and whistles and the Kinks and all that. And so that's what we were doing. So we had an extended stay in Hartford, Connecticut, and there was a touring production of Chicago was in town for the week or weeks, I don't remember, while we were there. So they gave us free tickets to go see it. And it was so bad.

Marco: Oh, no.

Amanda: And the director that I was working with at the time leaned over and said, she can't even walk across the stage convincingly. And he was right. Like, she couldn't make it look like a person that's walking. I don't know how else to say It. I felt really bad. She couldn't say she couldn't dance.

Marco: They should have just put a Runway. She would have been fine if they had a Runway.

Amanda: But they needed a name that people. Right, exactly. I know. I mean, I feel really rude saying all that, but, you know, they need a name. So it'll be now starring. And it can be pretty much anyone in that role, as long as it's a woman.

Marco: Sure. Okay.

Amanda: Yeah, they can. Or, you know, there's male roles. Like, you could probably play the. In fact, the male role in the lead male role in Chicago. I can't think of his name. Anyway, he sings Mr. Cellophane, the guy that plays the husband, Roxy's husband.

Marco: I think the original guy.

Amanda: Well, John C. Reilly, I think played it in the movie anyway.

Marco: Was the guy who. Who was on Law and Order famous

Amanda: guy who was the original guy in Chicago?

Marco: Yeah.

Amanda: Oh, really?

Marco: Wasn't it? What's his name?

Amanda: Jimmy Smith.

Marco: No, he plays the candle in beauty and the beastly Back to East Everything leads.

Amanda: The guy that we saw when we were eating that day.

Marco: No, that's rich. Richard Belsner.

Amanda: All right. Anyway, it doesn't really matter, but Mr. Cellophane, which is another song from the musical Chicago, I've helped out with various castings. Usually I don't do musical castings, but there's one company I work with where I help them out with that. And Mr. Selphine is the song that the men come and sing when they can't sing, when they're funny guys or whatever, but they can't sing. They all sing Mr. Cellophane from Chicago, or at least the round of auditions that I witnessed did. So it's one of those, like, fun songs that anyone can sing. So you could also put a guy in that role, too. But Chicago just happens to have these roles. In fact, the woman who was playing Velma that I saw play Velma, I was told by people who knew that they cast her because she knows how to bring her performance down so that she never outshines the Roxie Hart. So if you have somebody who's not as versed in the stage, right. Like you had a career in modeling or whatever, and you have a name and you'd like to try something new. So you're going to take on this role, but you're not a singer, dancer, actor, whatever. This girl who plays the other, which was Catherine Zeta Jones in the movie, just for reference, for those who know the Chicago universe, they hire her so that she can do a more toned down performance. So that they're kind of even keel, which is insane.

Marco: But anyway, Jerry Orbach is the person I was trying to think of.

Amanda: The guy from Dirty Dancing. That's all you had to say.

Marco: Oh, the father from Dirty Dancing. I sent the candle from Beauty and the Beast.

Amanda: A Dirty Dancing Beauty and the Beast mashup. Would be amazing.

Marco: That would be amazing. Be my guest. And mixed with.

Amanda: Could use that. She, my guess, could be the. The opening song when they're driving into Kellerman's. Yeah, yeah.

Marco: Anyway, I'm trying to think of other somewhat famous people I saw in musicals.

Amanda: In touring companies of musicals.

Marco: I saw. I saw Karen Kane.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: Who's not. I wouldn't say sort of famous. She's great. She's fantastic.

Amanda: Canadian famous.

Marco: No, not Karen Kane.

Amanda: The dancer.

Marco: No, the one from Taxi. What's her name?

Amanda: Oh, Marlee Matlin.

Marco: No, from Taxi. From the. From the television series Taxi. She played Latke's girlfriend, blonde. She has a very squeaky voice.

Amanda: Oh, that woman.

Marco: Yeah.

Amanda: Kimmy Schmidt. Carolyn.

Marco: Carol Kane.

Amanda: Carol Kane. Is that Carol Kane?

Marco: Carol Kane.

Amanda: What did you say? Oh, you said Karen Kane.

Marco: Karen Kane.

Amanda: Carol Kane.

Marco: Carol Kane in Wicked. Oh, she played the. The teacher of all the witches. I don't know, something like that. I didn't enjoy them. She was great.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: But she was like the only famous person that I knew at the time.

Amanda: But I shot a movie with Anna Gasteyer, who played Elphaba in one of the Wicked's.

Marco: Oh, really?

Amanda: Yeah, yeah. I didn't know she did, but I saw something on her.

Marco: I didn't realize she could sing.

Amanda: She's a great singer.

Marco: Oh, really?

Amanda: Very funny, improviser and very lovely to work with.

Marco: Oh, that's nice.

Amanda: Yeah, we did a. We did a movie, but I don't know what's happening with it, so I don't know. It was a Lilly Singh project.

Marco: We'll keep you posted.

Amanda: Yeah, maybe.

Marco: Is there a musical that you would like to do?

Amanda: I would love to do. There's a lot of male roles that I would love to do. I would love to play Fagin and Oliver. That's a dream role.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: Or the Artful Dodger, but I think Fagin at this stage and age. I would love to play Fagin. I would love to play Judas. Jesus Christ Superstar.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: You need a powerhouse voice, which I don't really have, but I put in my dreams. I do. When I was young, I wanted to play Eponine and Les Mis. That was the dream role. Didn't happen. What about you?

Marco: Probably just Baron von Trapp and the Sound of Music.

Amanda: That's all you ever need. And you've never seen it.

Marco: I've seen the movie many times.

Amanda: With Sound of Music, you got to see a really good production of it because it's a long show, and every community theater does it because families love it and there's kids in it and all those things, but it can really drag.

Marco: Okay. No, yeah, that's. That's the. I'm. You know, me. I'm not.

Amanda: I'd love to do Anything Goes. I've always had a big love of Anything Goes. I'd love to play Reno Sweeney and Anything Goes.

Marco: I would sing that Razzle Dazzle song. That's from Chicago, right?

Amanda: Razzle Dazzle's from Chicago, too. Yeah.

Marco: Is that. Is that Jerry Orbach's role?

Amanda: Yes. Okay, That's.

Marco: Yeah, that's the. That's the one.

Amanda: And the movie was Pretty Woman there. What's his name?

Marco: Richard Gere.

Amanda: Yeah. Richard.

Marco: I feel like we're playing a game

Amanda: of, like, definitely playing a game of celebrity. Yeah.

Marco: This is the type of episode that drives Bill and. To Newey.

Amanda: Yeah, He's. He's. He's not happy with anything right now.

Marco: Oh, my goodness.

Amanda: He's just shouting.

Marco: Is there a musical you haven't seen that you'd like to see?

Amanda: Yeah, all of them. Like, any musical I haven't seen, I'd like to see. I never saw Evan Hansen, and I'm kind of mad because I could have. I was right next to it. It just opened. No one was talking about it. No one had heard of it. It had opened that week. So I could have seen that with Benjamin Platt or whatever his name is. But I was working in New York, and work kind of came first.

Marco: Sure, fair enough.

Amanda: So I don't know. So, yeah, recently, something Rotten, I've heard is really fun. That's a Stratford this year, I think.

Marco: I'd like to see that.

Amanda: Or what? Did it already happen? I don't even know if. Anyways, if it is coming, we should go see it. Okay.

Marco: I like that idea. All right. Maybe we'll. We'll come back with a report on some musicals we've seen. We said the last one I saw was, like, Water for. For Elephants. Is that what it's called?

Amanda: Not like. Like, chocolate, Water for Elephants.

Marco: Like chocolate, Water for Elephants.

Amanda: Water for Elephants.

Marco: Oh, just water for elements.

Amanda: Yeah. It had more promise.

Marco: I'd like to see, like, Water for Chocolate, the musical.

Amanda: I've never seen that. I don't know that movie.

Marco: I remember enjoying it.

Amanda: Yeah, it was. It was all the rage in the late 90s, but I don't know. People love that movie. Water for Elephants had really good parts in it that I really enjoyed, but it could have done more.

Marco: It was all the in between. I want to see more opera. So there's an opera coming to town that I want to see.

Amanda: Which one?

Marco: Madame Butterfly. Ever heard of it?

Amanda: Yes. Okay,

Marco: so there's that.

Amanda: There's actually a musical based on Madame Butterfly, isn't there?

Marco: Oh, I'm sure.

Amanda: I'm trying to think of what it is.

Marco: Isn't it Miss Saigon?

Amanda: Yeah, Miss Saigon. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, there you go.

Marco: Well, there you go, folks. Let us know what your favorite musical is. We'd love to hear it. Or if there's a musical you saw with someone somewhat famous in it. And we'll.

Amanda: Yeah, we want to hear about the touring production and the random person that was starring in it.

Marco: That would be so much fun.

Amanda: Yeah, totally.

Marco: Well, we had fun on this episode, and I hope you were able to have fun. And if not have fun, I hope you were able to listen and sleep.