How to pronounce “backstage” in English

Yeah. So you talk a lot about your parents in the book, and your mom cracks me up, like, and her heckling behindbackstage or about shows.It's just such-- it's so funny.

I mean, before this, I was mostly seen as children, which is normal.Backstage, we're all like-- Yep.

And I hope that it allows the actors to then get the right lift-off into each scene.Backstage, do you have your own character arc that you're dealing with with all of this?

say it's a really good venue. But what you haven't seen and it's I don't know how quite how you get this here, but thebackstage is phenomenal. The backstage is great. It's just It's actually just a bunch of porta cabins, but it's done really nicely but with, you know, withcare, with that kind of thing that, you know, people who give a and I and I believe that, you know, Google's a

So if you have questions that you're thinking of, whether it's-- we have the Dory here or here in the audience, feel free to start prepping those.But backstage, we had talked a little bit about representation.And right now, you said simple answer is more.

And we wrote it that way."The backstage was full of queens and transgender women." We sent that chapter to this 75-year-old queer historian, whose opinion we respected, who knows a lot about this culture.And we said, "Could you read this chapter and make sure we got it right?" He came back a couple of days later,

So it's always a bit of fun.Great backstage snack. All right.This might be-- is this Jamie Oliver?

Of the men men they left behind.And-- Backstage is crazy at the Tony's.

like ah morally is but then I started thinking about something else as I was signing this thing uh and I was talkinguh backstage before and she me you know like Hillary Clinton gave one of these and like Katie Kirk I guess did one ofthese you know big time people and I was like I've never seen one of these though

And really, where my mind starts to go is: prepare.I get backstage, I sit down, and I start to think about all the things that I wish were a little bit different --the things that would be better if they were my way.

But then I would do a recipe that was famous in a particular place.We were talking backstage about St. Louis.St. Louis. B. DYLAN HOLLIS: The city of St. Louis.

And we've gone out of town.I'm backstage. It's like I'm on call in case of emergency.

And I remember we finished it.We were backstage. And he was like, man, what the fuck are we doing with our lives?

And I remember we finished it.And I remember walking backstage and calling my managers, and saying, you know, I'm not inspired right now.

REGGIE FILS-AIMÉ: You highlighted all of that exceptionally well.It made me blush backstage.I'm glad. Never my intention, but I'm glad.

And you go backstage to see them, and it's almost like they don't know.

She came backstage. And I was like, oh, wow.

There are no perverts in this.But the whole backstage was nothing but queens and transgender women putting this show together.And we wrote it that way.

Because I don't want to take that out.There were trans women backstage.They just weren't openly trans at the time.

Any good stories from backstage?

But the backstage is always different.

Sometimes the backstage is different.

The young women are backstage.

The young women are backstage the whole time, right?

When she was backstage, we all sort of collapsed.

We were just talking backstage.

I met them backstage, and they said, they wanted to do a show and film it.

I was telling you backstage.

If you have hiccups backstage, you won't have them onstage.

She came backstage, and I was like, oh, wow.

But the backstage show, if you ever want a really, really, really entertaining night, pay somebody to sneak you in and sit

I was telling them backstage, I had Stacey Abrams on four months before it was even a thing in Georgia.

And Josie's backstage, and there's more women.

We were talking backstage earlier that everything was shot on location-- your opening party at The Art Gallery.

I remember sitting backstage with Lin when Facebook was the thing we were making videos for, in the Heights, and it was still like the craziest thing

We can see the backstage.

And the backstage, it was just a teeny, little stairwell.

I'll get you backstage.

And so we stand backstage.

I did go backstage and threw up a little bit.

Do you have any backstage rituals before you go on?

My question is around backstage and how confusing it is and how organized it is because there's monkeys everywhere.

The people backstage are so on it.

And I'd be backstage.

Yeah. So like the hype is out in front of us, the audience.But when we're backstage, we're all goofballs.Completely. Follow an Instagram story, and you'll see some weird things.

One thing we mentioned backstage, every installment of "The Dark Knight Returns" has now happened during a Republican administration.

Of the men men they left behind.And then you go backstage, then you go on, and you go back to the bus.

And I was backstage.

I'm backstage at Caroline's.