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Video: On the Red Carpet for Opening Night of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY
May 17, 2024
Second Stage Theater's production of Larissa FastHorse's play, The Thanksgiving Play, directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin is now open at Second Stage's Hayes Theater and BroadwayWorld is taking you to the red carpet arrivals with special guests Tony Goldwyn, Bowen Yang, Brandon J. Dirdon, Andrea Burns, Robin de Jesus, Kara Young, and more in this video!
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Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World
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The latest from Second Stage Theater is Larissa Fasthorse's hilarious new comedy
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The Thanksgiving Play. And we're here on opening night to celebrate with our first nighters
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It's opening night, how do you feel tonight? I'm just like, this has been truly one of the most like
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for a heavy and silly and beautifully like exuberant play, this has truly been one of the most joyful
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and weightless processes I've ever been a part of. And it feels like we're caring a lot
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and also giving a lot of it away. And I just am so excited for opening
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Now I can officially say it, welcome to Broadway. How does it feel
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Oh my gosh, it's overwhelming honestly. And it's just so moving. I mean, right behind you are some of our super fans
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who've been to this show dozens of times and we haven't even opened yet. This community is like no other, it really is
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I've gotten to know people here. I feel like I'm leaving a family when I leave tomorrow
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to get to my next show, it's beautiful. You're making your Broadway debut
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a native writer introducing your work, what that means to you? It means so much
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I mean, I'm so honored to follow in the footsteps of the great Lynn Riggs. Someone sent me a beautiful article about him today
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just to reflect on the legacy that he left. And then I'll admit it, it's a little bit of pressure
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I'm a little nervous, I wanna make sure it goes well and I wanna make sure there's so many more native artists
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who deserve to be here walking in the same carpet and having this experience that I'm having right now
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How excited are the two of you to be here for another second stage opening? Well, you know, he's all proud of this
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because he is part of the second stage family but now we get to celebrate our Scandal family too
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Yeah, Scott Foley who's in the show. Yeah, who's our old pal
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And Katie Finneran. And Katie Finneran. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So lots of reasons to celebrate and this amazing play
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Thanksgiving play, which we're super excited to see. Wait till you see this, this is super, oh, okay. Me
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Well that's right, you already came. Yes, yes, yes. Isn't it amazing? It's hilarious
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And you know, we should all listen, it's cautionary. How excited are you to be here tonight
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I can barely contain myself. I think the last time I was at this theater was for Between Riverside and Crazy
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I had my mind blown, I saw some of the greatest acting I've ever seen and I expect a robust followup to that, yeah
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But see, this is what second stage does. Oh, second stage, they do it like nobody's business
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I mean, to have these living playwrights actually get another chance at sharing their great plays
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it's just something that doesn't happen enough and I just love the mission of second stage
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I'm stoked, to put it simply. I just, I love the haze
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This is my second time back since Take Me Out. I saw Riverside here and yeah, just another, you know
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wonderful reason to celebrate and, you know, honor American writers, real American writers, you know
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the most American it gets. How excited are you to be here tonight? So, so, so excited
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This is bringing so much back for us because I met Scott
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We actually met when he was on Broadway 20 years ago doing The Violet Hour. So it's 20 years later, we moved back to the East Coast
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and he's on Broadway again and it is like kismet. I'm so, so happy, yeah
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I'm ready for some laughter. Yeah, we deserve a moment of laughter. A moment of levity
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Also, can you imagine, not just on stage, their backstage life? How hilarious, like literally, I just
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I don't even want to be in the play with them, I just want to be in the dressing room with them
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Like that would be the best. I'm so excited. I'm so excited to see Darcy and her Broadway debut
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I'm excited to see Katie Finneran. Everybody's Scott Foley is like someone who I've loved
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my whole life. Would you like to do Broadway? I don't think I have the stamina for it
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I don't. I think I've like aged 40 years working at SNL
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I don't think my body can handle it. Eight shows a week is like, I do two a week
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and it ruins me, so I don't know. If you do SNL, trust me, you could do eight shows a week
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on Broadway. We'll see, I mean, I don't know. I hope to find out if that's, I don't think
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I think I will perish if I ever try. I love Katie Finneran, we've been friends
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for a long, long time. I'm a huge Darcy Carden fan from the Good Place. Yeah
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Oh my gosh, to see Darcy Carden on stage is wonderful, but also Katie Finneran is a favorite
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Oh, you're gonna have the four of them up there. I'm sure the men are fine, I'm sure the men are fine
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The ladies, the ladies, hello. How excited are the two of you to be here tonight
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for this opening? First of all, best date ever. We're having an amazing little friend day tonight
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and also to see my girl Katie Finneran display all of her comic gifts tonight
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It's always a reason to celebrate Katie on Broadway. You two grew up together, right
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Yes, we grew up together in Miami and I've been giving her standing ovations
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from my living room since we were 14 years old. I am so excited. I'm always excited to be invited
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I'm always really excited because opening nights always feel like the most profound vibration of love
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for the actors, the storytelling, all of the elements coming together and just saying tonight is magic for you
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the offering of just being there for you. Everything is sort of like left out of the, at the door
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Ego is left at the door and it's love. Since this is a play that takes place in like a school
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when you were young, like doing a school play, did something crazy go wrong or something
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Would you have a fun school play that you did? We did, oh, we did Star Wars
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I was R2-D2. Yeah, I had to make my own costume and everything
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Did you look like R2-D2? Just like R2-D2. And my girl Tamara was C-3PO
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And you turned it out. We turned it out. I mean, listen, we were the ones
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who were facilitating the whole story. So you were following us. Forget about the rest of them
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Obi-Wan Kenobi or Luke Skywalker. Nope, nope, nope. Just you two. R2-D2, C-3PO
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