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Exclusive: MID-CENTURY MODERN Stars Reveal Their Characters' Favorite Broadway Musicals
Mar 29, 2025
Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer, and Nathan Lee Graham are all starring in the new sitcom Mid-Century Modern. BroadwayWorld recently sat down with the trio to discuss how this show is different from sitcoms of the past and what might be their characters' favorite musicals. Watch the interview now!
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Whatever Lola wants
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Whatever Jerry wants, Jerry gets. We need a housekeeper. Nielsa quit. Why? I thought Nielsa was happy here
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She said she didn't sign up to clean for three men. Oh, you couldn't talk her out of it
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I tried. I said, what three men? They're gay guys. They barely add up to one
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And the Glad Award for Ally of the Year goes to Sybil Schneiderman. I'll call the agency we
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used before and try to get us someone new. Or, why don't the three of us
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hire a new housekeeper together, you know, so we can prove I am a good shareer
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and you're completely wrong as you so often are. It would be nice to share in some of the household decisions
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because we do need to figure out which soaps are for use and which are decorative, so Bunny doesn't yell at me
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It's not that hard. If it looks like a flower, don't bring it in the shower
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I like this idea. All three of us will hire the new maid. Oh, crows
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It unanimous Oh three out of four is unanimous I didn see the news today Did women lose the right to vote The show falls in kind of a great tradition of sitcoms like the Golden Girls
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but it also tackles, you know, kind of timely and contemporary themes. I'm thinking specifically of like the neighbor, the congresswoman neighbor
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and the complications of those kind of dynamics. As actors and also as executive producers
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how do you sort of keep that balance between paying homage to those classic sitcoms
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while also keeping it, you know, relevant for contemporary audiences. Well, you know, it's, that's kind of the writers, the showrunners question
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You know, it's there, you know, they would, they would talk to us about what, you know
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the kinds of stories they were thinking about doing and where it was going to go
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But it's, you know, I think it's a matter of that we're doing it on Hulu
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so we have a lot more freedom than they had, say, when they were on network doing Will and Grace
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So it goes much further and it sort of R in certain terms of situation and language And I think certainly I know for Max Muchnick you know Norman Lear was a hero of his
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And they, so, you know, a lot of the, you know, some of these stories are just great fun and incredibly witty
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But there's a lot that sort of delve into more serious issues and human stories about
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you know, family and love and, and I think they have struck a nice balance, you know, with both
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And, yeah, so, you know, it's certainly if they ask, you know, we've given our input
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they're very, very collaborative. And we can talk about if something doesn't feel great or we feel
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like it's gone off the rails a little, we can easily talk to the writers. And they've been
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they've been tremendous on this show. Yeah. Well, to shift gears a little bit
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one of the things about the show is sort of these references to theater the opening of episode six features you know great nod to Chicago Bunny sings Follies in one scene If your characters
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could pick a favorite musical or even just a favorite kind of musical, favorite sort of
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genre of musical, what do you think it would be? I think, oh. Go ahead. Well, I mean, got it. I guess it would be, it would have to vacillate
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for me between Dream Girls and Sweeney Todd. I mean, you know, because my life is just that traumatic sometimes
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I mean, it's just like, you know, Mrs. Lovett's meat pies or do I want to put on a sequin gown
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It's just, or maybe I want to do both at the same time. Who knows? Why not? You know
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Well, I guess gypsy for a bunny because, you know, it's about a mother
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Yeah. Oh. The domineering mother. Yes. Yeah. And maybe damn Yankees
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Yes. Yes. I absolutely see it. Whatever Lola wants. Whatever Jerry wants
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Yes
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