Video: Rhea Perlman & Company Celebrate Opening Night of LET'S CALL HER PATTY

It's just every kind of emotion you can imagine

So it's agonizing and scary as hell and just fantastic ecstatic. Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World

The latest from LCT3 is Serena Shea's hilarious new comedy, Let's Call Her Patty

It stars Ria Perlman, Leslie Rodriguez-Kritzer, and Ariel Goldman. And I caught up with all of them, including the show's director, Margot, Bordelan

just minutes after the opening night curtain, rang down. So when you first got this play and you saw the role of Patty, what made you say

yes, I have to do this? You know, we did a reading of the play. I came in, did a reading, and I just knew as soon as we started saying the words that, I mean

it was other people besides me, but that it was a right thing for me

I mean, it was challenging. There were a lot of words, but I said, I'm going to try it

I'm going to do it. Scary is good. When I talk to people that return to the stage

they're like, it's the scariest thing to do, but it's the most rewarding at the very same time

Yes, and now that we're open, this is what I've been waiting for

for the last two months. You know, a month I had the script, and then we've been here

We really only rehearsed for a couple of weeks, two and a half weeks, then started the previews like out cold

Wow, that was hard. But that's how it's done here. You know, and it's been very

rewarding Very rewarding Talk about your two co again What it like sharing the stage with them the three of you up there The three of us I love it I mean I wish I had more with Ariel my daughter but I love that last scene And you know I think it great And oh my God we get to do that

And, you know, and we share after the stage. And Leslie, she's just brilliant

She's a really great actress. And then every once in a while in the backstage, she'll let out a note

She sings, like, she's got a voice. Oh, my God. And I've never seen her in any of her musical, so I can't wait for that

I'll be in the opening night for that to watch, not to sing

You know, the other thing is LCT3 is for new artists. It's for new writers, new directors, what that means to being a part of this

Yes, I think that it's very rarely done, and it's a very special thing that they carry that on

And the tickets only cost $30, and it's the way it should be

This is how it should be. people should be able to showcase their talent in a real place where real people come to see

And I just think it's beautiful. It's beautiful. I've seen many plays here before

Just people, I just came to see them. And, you know, they've all been good

All been really good. So when I auditioned for this, actually, I was drawn to the script and I really wanted to play this part

I hadn't done a play in New York, ever, a straight play. So I was like, wow, this really

speaks to me and I went through a couple of rounds of auditions and then I booked it and

it just so happens that in the script initially the woman who is in the script playing

my wife her name is Kelly was Leslie and her mother dying and my mom passed away a week before I got the call that I got this So it was really it was crazy and I totally think it meant to me and she so proud and she

looking at me from above so proud that I'm at Lincoln Center working. So it's just a beautiful

beautiful story and this company and cast all female creative team is incredible

Talk about sharing the stage with her two co-stars, what that's like. I mean, I grew up watching Ria Perlman. I know, I mean, I know. I know. I know

know, every affectation, every look, every vocal quality of Carla from Cheers my entire life

So then I got to meet her in the first day rehearsal and I go, oh my God, I'm working with Rea Perlman

She's just a genius and so giving and we're like a family and Ariel is like beautiful and honest and amazing

We actually, we give each other help and know it's like, oh, what did you think of this scene? It was very collaborative and I'm so lucky

I just feel like I'm having the best summer ever. And working on a new play

Oh, it's amazing. A new play at Lincoln Center. What's better? Nothing. When you first got this play and you read it, what were your initial thoughts and what made you say

yeah, I really want to do this? Okay, I read the play in one sitting, and I was laughing throughout and could barely breathe

And then when I finished reading the play, I cried. And I thought, I need to be in this play because I recognize all the people who are in it

Talk about sharing the stage with the other two wonderful actresses. is that you work with

They're incredible. I feel like I've made friends for life, truly. But Ria is amazing

She's so lovely. She brought us all in as a family Leslie is incredible And the three of us are just constantly like working and asking each other about our own lines and how to say this and we such collaborators We such a team It so special

I mean, you're working on a brand new play with a wonderful director. What's it like being working on a new play in the rehearsal room and just finding it

It just feels really special, and it's all women, and it does make a difference

and it feels so good for all of us to be together and be able to, just like collaborate and talk freely and play off of what everyone else is bringing into the room

Zarina and I met a few years ago, actually, and she sent me this play, and I was so impressed by the style and the tone and the way that she writes in verse

and it is so specifically iterated on the page. And I want people to also read the script in addition to watching this production of it because she has really written this tone poem

So to me, that was really exciting because I felt like I heard the story. score of it. LCT3, new playwrights, new directors, new audiences

This doesn't happen everywhere, but it happens here. What that means to is creative artists

I mean, it's meant everything to me personally. This is my first production. I have felt, like, so taken care of, and they have really made a point of making this

a home, Evan Cabinet in particular, and it's just been, it's so meaningful

And the tickets are affordable here. They're $30. Every ticket is $30

Friendly. Yeah, it's how theater should be for everybody. Absolutely, $30 tickets. Yes, theater should be accessible to anyone and everyone and not just a certain subsection of people

So I'm so thrilled that LCT3 makes that a part of their mission