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00:00Nails. Come on. Look. There we go. I got pink, green, pink, green.
00:05And my underwear is seersucker. So we were thinking along the same lines.
00:11Do you want to show me the underwear or is that not appropriate?
00:14But it's uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable. It can be a little...
00:17Crispy?
00:18Crispy. It's too crispy for...
00:20You're the wizard.
00:23I know.
00:24You're the wizard.
00:26I know.
00:27When people say the wizard, it's the wizard.
00:31Like there's no other wizard.
00:33I know there's Harry Potter and all that stuff, but you're the wizard.
00:36Well, yes, the wizard of Oz.
00:38My parents... Did I tell you this?
00:40My parents... Listen, I haven't told anybody this.
00:42My parents... Of no importance or interest to anybody, probably, but you'd be the judge of it.
00:46My parents, when I was a kid, would have a kind of cocktail party trick that they played.
00:51They had a fella that they would designate at three in the morning,
00:55whenever they were at a party, they'd call him up and somebody would pick a card.
01:00And then they'd go, hello, wizard?
01:03And based on whether they said wizard or hello, wizard or is this the wizard or hey, wizard,
01:09he'd already know that it's the clubs, spades, diamonds or hearts.
01:12And then the guy on the other guy would go, one, two, three, four, five, yep.
01:16When they stopped, he'd say, okay, he's going to tell you your card.
01:20He'd get on and the wizard would tell them the card.
01:23It was a big party trick.
01:25You grew up in Oz?
01:27No, in the Goldblum House in Pittsburgh.
01:29We had a shuffleboard court painted in our backyard because they'd gone on a couple of cruises.
01:34And then we had the kids in... Why they didn't beat me up more, I don't know.
01:38But we had a shuffleboard court.
01:40The kids who did beat you up? You're the effing wizard now.
01:43That's true. And by effing, he means...
01:46What was it like singing in front of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande?
01:52You said a mouthful because the premise of the question, as you know,
01:56is that Ariana and Cynthia are the greats of all time.
02:00And in this, they're perfectly cast.
02:02And together, their chemistry, the performances of the ages.
02:05And so they're singing.
02:06When they open their mouths, tears spring horizontally from your...
02:10And they spray somebody else.
02:12So I should have been a mess.
02:18They are so sweet and cordial and welcoming that we sang,
02:23not only in the show, but every time in between action and cut,
02:27every song I could think of.
02:29What song did you sing with them that wasn't a wicked song?
02:32Every song.
02:33The song that Ariana's grandfather taught her or showed her.
02:36I don't know why I love you like I do.
02:39I don't know why I just do.
02:41I don't know why I love you...
02:43That song we sang.
02:44Keep going, Jeff. I'm falling in love.
02:46I'm falling in love, Jeff.
02:47I'm deeply in love.
02:48Falling in love with love is like falling for make-believe.
02:51You know that song?
02:52No, but I know it now.
02:54I know, I'll know when my love comes along.
02:58That's from Guys and Dolls.
02:59I'll know then and there.
03:01So you can see I'm a musical and American songbook musical fan.
03:06Are you itching to be on Broadway in a musical?
03:11I need itching powder right now.
03:13I need some sort of salve or topical ointment.
03:15Yes, but I always have and my first, you may not know this,
03:18because it was very little known and didn't make any waves,
03:21but my first professional job when I was 17, 18 years old
03:24was on Broadway in a musical called Two Gentlemen of Verona.
03:28Galt McDermott wrote the music who had just done Hair.
03:31John Guare did the adapt of the Shakespeare.
03:34I had a part in it and then I've done other musicals.
03:37So I got the bug a long time ago.
03:40Do you want to see a third Wicked movie?
03:44Like we're starting the WCU, the Wicked Cinematic Universe.
03:48Who should get their own movie?
03:51Which character?
03:53Oh.
03:55Now you're using the old thinking cap.
03:57I've always loved sequels. I like horror movies.
04:00There were a series of four movies that I saw.
04:03Did you ever hear of, they first did The Thing Without a Face.
04:11Then they came out with The Face Without a Thing.
04:14Then The Face With a Thing on its Face.
04:17And then The Thing With a Thing on its Thing.
04:20That was the fourth movie and then they ran out of steam.
04:23What third movie do you want for Wicked, Jeff?
04:26You insist. You are so determined.
04:29I don't know, Wicked, Wicked, Schmicked?
04:34You know.
04:36We love that, whatever that is.
04:38I don't know. It takes years to develop these things.
04:40Mark Platt took this gorgeous idea from the book.
04:43You don't just toss these things off, as you know.
04:46I'd say Wicked, Seersucker.
04:49That's my idea.