Grammy-winner Sara Bareilles is honest about the “so many” experiences in the music industry where someone may be really having a moment and then they disappear from the zeitgeist.
“There’s a lot of getting behind the curtain that I think in the show we do, but also we as people at our point in show business have written and performed and been singers and songwriters.
The show starts when the titular girl group’s hit song “Famous 5eva” gets sampled by a rapper.
“When you’re a kid, they say, ‘One hit wonder, haha, what a joke,’” she continues.
In reflecting on creating the ear worm tunes and equally memorable music video and live performance moments, Philipps points out that because they were filming during the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore new health and safety restrictions, “a lot of times we didn’t get a full dance rehearsal all together.” Additionally, “we would have to wear masks trying to dance.
“Thankfully we’re good on our feet, for the most part.
Goldsberry, who performed as Mimi in the original Broadway run of “Rent’s” final performances and later won a Tony for originating the role of Angela in “Hamilton,” notes that she has been practicing for a show like “Girls5eva” for her whole life.
“That was my biggest challenge — just moving this seasoned arse in a hip-hop flavor,” she says.
Goldsberry shouts out the fact that every episode’s end credits have a fuller version of one of the show’s songs playing over them, an important attention to detail and way to play to the strengths of the show.
“Part of the reason why I didn’t want to be an actor anymore was because of the heartbreak that it inevitably has always brought me.
And for the record, they don’t want to take the tour to “fancy, outdoor, bullshit malls that have a train and are really pretty,” adds Pell.
Also in this episode: Chelsea Handler discusses “Evolution,” her first stand-up special in six years that shows her at her most vulnerable.
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