In this episode, Emily Lee '27 and Christopher Christensen met with Cornell sophomores Gia Lish and Matthew Kushner to discuss their roles as Viola and Sebastian in PMA's upcoming production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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Chris Christensen 00:11
Hello and welcome to episode 74 of the PMA podcast. In this episode, Cornell senior Emily Lee and I met with Cornell sophomores Gia Lish and Matthew Kushner to discuss their roles as Viola and Sebastian in PMA's upcoming production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Well, welcome to you both to the podcast. Thanks for joining us this afternoon.
Matthew Kushner 00:33
Thanks for having us.
Chris Christensen 00:34
Oh my gosh, absolutely, Emily. How is your day going so far?
Emily Lee 00:38
I went in to take my yearbook photo today in the morning.
Chris Christensen 00:42
Nice.
Emily Lee 00:43
Yeah, and then I had CTB,
Chris Christensen 00:46
and then CTB. Yeah, and that that's been your that's wonderful. That's been it. Yeah. All right, and now here we are back in the podcast studio. All right. Well, why don't we just kick it right off?
Emily Lee 00:57
Could you guys share a little about yourselves and what drew you to audition for 12th night?
Matthew Kushner 01:03
Do you want to go first, Gia?
Gia Lish 01:04
Sure, I'll kick it off.
Gia Lish 01:05
I have been a theater kid forever. I started doing theater when I was in second grade, so I was like seven years old, and I did my first play, which was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which is a canon event for for theater kids. So I have done a show like pretty much every year since then, and I'm also an English major. So when I saw the concept of Shakespeare pop up, I was like, "Oh, that's the one! I'm a total Shakespeare nerd. But I actually wasn't as familiar with 12th Night, so I can't lie. It was kind of on a whim that I actually ended up auditioning. I wasn't sure I was gonna have time in the semester, but I just kind of like tossed my hat in the ring, and that worked out for me.
Matthew Kushner 01:51
Yeah, I'm also a fellow theater kid. I think the first show I did was in like third grade. I did the Addams Family, the YMCA in New York City, and yeah, I've just loved theater ever since. I'm I'm a PMA major and a psych major, so kind of just been doing theater here for a minute. And yeah, I mean honestly, with with 12th Night, I wasn't originally going to audition because I kind of wanted to do musical theater, which I guess we're doing anyways, but but Gia Lish 02:25 get to that.
Matthew Kushner 02:25
I yeah, sorry, jumping the gun here. But a lot of the people who I've met like doing shows last year were gonna audition, and I really like doing shows with them. So I figured I'd give it a try. Also, Shakespeare kind of scares me, just like as an actor, I took Acting II, and we did a lot of Shakespeare there. And I feel like it's a really good skill to have. And I know that David Feldshuh is very knowledgeable in Shakespeare, so I figured I would, you know, give it a try and hopefully learn some cool stuff from him. So, yeah.
Chris Christensen 02:58
Why scared?
Matthew Kushner 03:00
It's just a lot. It's a lot with with like the
Gia Lish 03:05
language
Matthew Kushner 03:06
Yeah, the language I think is really tough, and just like the pacing and and getting your emotion in while also keeping it moving and keeping it interesting. I think is just really difficult. Yeah, so I was a little frightened.
Chris Christensen 03:21
I get it.
Matthew Kushner 03:22
Yeah.
Chris Christensen 03:23
So you are both. So you are playing the characters of Viola and Sebastian. Yes. Yes. Okay. For listeners who may not know the story, why are they so important to the plot?
Gia Lish 03:35
Well, they are twins, and very beginning of the show, they are separated in a shipwreck. So, our director has written this beautiful prolog for us that doesn't typically exist in the show, and and we've we've fabricated this this song and dance where you really get to see how much they love each other and how close they are, and they talk about their parents being dead and and being from a foreign land, and so really the only people they have are each other. So then when they get separated, it really is just so tragic, and we get to watch throughout the play that they're trying to find their way to each other, and and they both kind of think that the other is is dead, and so they've lost all hope, but then there's there's there are hints that that maybe the other may be alive, and so the audience kind of gets to it's very suspenseful to to wait to see if they're ever going to find each other.
Matthew Kushner 04:32
Okay, yeah, I mean she she summed it up pretty well.
Chris Christensen 04:36
So question for you: So when you walked through the door, I got a sense that you have known each other for a while. Is that true, or is or or is your connection like based on being in the play together and like the connection between the two characters?
Matthew Kushner 04:50
I I'm I'm so glad that we're playing twins. I think there is nobody that I get along with more or just like understand the way their mind works. We actually met each other our first semester of freshman year. We did Sweeney Todd for the melodramatics,
Chris Christensen 05:07
Which was a fantastic performance. Loved it.
Matthew Kushner 05:10
Thank you.
Matthew Kushner 05:10
We were some of the crazy people running through the audience, which was cool. Yeah, we met back then. I mean, so I feel like we have a lot of friends, shared friends in that show, and yeah, I love working with Gia. She's great. All right,
Gia Lish 05:26
it's wonderful. He's my twin in real life.
Chris Christensen 05:27
Yeah, I get that.
Matthew Kushner 05:29
We joke about this all the time. Yeah, yeah, love it.
Emily Lee 05:32
And what aspects of your character do you guys think feel the most relatable to you personally?
Matthew Kushner 05:39
That's a good question. I think throughout the show, Sebastian is just very confused, which honestly I resonate with a lot because I feel like there's a lot of times where I just don't really know what's going on. But yeah, I I I wish I resonated with my character a little bit more, I think he's very brave, you know, very like outgoing, and I wish I was a little bit more like that. But you know, he's he's cool. I've I've liked getting to play him, getting to understand his character a little bit more. Yeah,
Gia Lish 06:17
yeah. When I was auditioning for Viola in the I think the last callback before I got the role, David asked me if I could describe myself in one word, and I think I said creative, which I'm a theater kid and an English major. I kind of have to be, but what throughout this this rehearsal process, David keeps saying pragmatic. He says Viola, she's very pragmatic, and I feel like those two things kind of go hand in hand very well. She she lands on this island. She immediately has a plan. She is going to survive. She is going to do what she has to do, and I like to think that I am similar in that way. That I I don't get caught up in how much is going on. I make a plan and I know what I have to do.
Chris Christensen 07:10
Yeah. So I understand there's been a little bit of an adaptation with this performance in pointing specifically to the jazz age. Yes. What excited you most when you learned about this particular adaptation?
Gia Lish 07:25
Ooh, the dancing! I love to dance. I did a lot of jazz and tap when I was a kid, and so he was he was telling us about this particular era of music that we're going to be working with, and I immediately was like, "Oh, I hope there's good dancing, and there is. We've got a real. We've got a whole bunch of really great dancing moments from everyone. Honestly, we've got a. We've got a couple of really good dancers on the cast. The balladeers get up to some some dancing action, so it's it's really really fun.
Chris Christensen 07:59
Do you both have some dancing parts, I guess, or is it parts? Yeah, yeah.
Matthew Kushner 08:04
There's there's only little little dancing. I was, I mean, I've I've done like dancing for musical theater. I'm not like the biggest dancer. I was more excited for just like the music and and some of the songs. I'm very involved in like singing at Cornell. I feel like I'm I'm I'm in acapella group, so is Gia, and we've done like musical theater and stuff like that. And I was kind of excited because I haven't really done a lot of like this kind of songs. I don't know before, and yeah, I just I I feel like I was really excited to sing because I didn't originally know that this was gonna be a little bit more musical when I when I first auditioned. I know that he was looking for some singers, but yeah, it's just been pretty cool getting to learn all this new music.
Chris Christensen 08:50
Anything you're doing in particular to sort of want to warm up to the idea of dancing? Are you doing any? Is there anybody instructing you outside of rehearsals, or the people who are working with you in rehearsals.
Matthew Kushner 09:04
Yes, we have a wonderful movement choreographer, Robin, who I believe works at IC.
Gia Lish 09:17
Yes,
Matthew Kushner 09:17
I think yes.
Gia Lish 09:18
He's awesome.
Matthew Kushner 09:20
Yes
Gia Lish 09:21
And he works with us on a lot of the like anything movement related. If if we're dancing and we're fighting, we're we're drowning. Then then he's on it, and he he has such a talent to move his body. It's incredible to watch because he'll he'll be teaching us you know, how to drown when you're standing on two feet, and it's completely convincing.
Gia Lish 09:45
Yeah, it's so natural. Yeah.
Emily Lee 09:47
So, what's it like sharing the stage with live jazz musicians?
Matthew Kushner 09:53
It is cool. I personally really like when, like. Orchestras will be on stage with the cast and things like that. Like that's what we had for Sweeney Todd, and I just think it's it's it's a really cool experience. We we pretty much have one musician on stage with us, Mike Carbone. He he, I honestly like just seeing him work has been like so so cool. Like there'll be times where David just like improvise over this scene, like just do something, and he'll pull out just like a perfect like melody for it. And I just I think that's such a cool skill to have. Yeah, I just think it's it's kind of really cool to watch and be a part of.
Gia Lish 10:38
And it it augments the acting too, in a way that I'm more unfamiliar with. I was working with him the other day on on integrating a flute line into my soliloquy, and it gave me a lot to pull from because he became the embodiment of my thoughts in that moment. And so, usually, you know, I'll be delivering a monologue, and I'll, you know, be I'll take a pause, and I'll think, and then, you know, I go on. But in these pauses now, there is this flute line, and it's it's showing what's going on in my mind, and I've it's something new that I haven't really experienced, but it helps me as an actor, I think, to really display even better, you know what's going on with this character, what's going on in this moment, and then I also think that for the audience, it just provides another another layer to to the depth of of performance that's going on in that moment. And and Mike is an incredibly talented musician. I I said to him in in this same rehearsal session, I was like, "Yeah, I mean, I I think this moment it's kind of like a flower opening up, and and he played a little cadence, and I was like, "Well, yeah, that is exactly what a flower opening up would sound like.
Chris Christensen 11:53
So I'm understanding you correctly. So so he is the only musician on the stage, or there are other musicians playing with him as well?
Matthew Kushner 11:59
We've mostly been using just like tracks for all the other songs, but he he's like the he's the only one like pretty much on stage with us, yeah.
Chris Christensen 12:07
And he will be present for the performances as well.
Gia Lish 12:09
Oh yes.
Chris Christensen 12:09
Okay, very good. Yes, very good. All right. So you did mention director David Feldshuh, and he describes Illyria as a surreal dreamscape inspired by Renee Magritte, are there moments in this show that you feel especially dreamlike or are unexpected? You mentioned about the the drowning.
Gia Lish 12:29
I was gonna say the drowning. I was gonna say the drowning.
Gia Lish 12:33
The drowning is definitely surreal. It's it's hard to convey because we know we're drowning, and we really hope everyone else knows we're drowning too. But that's definitely a surreal moment, and and everything involving Mike too. I mean, what we just talked about, like it lends a surreal element. He, we are aware of him sometimes, and and we can you know deliver lines to him as if he's in the scene, and then sometimes he's just kind of this ambiguous presence, so he he pops in and out of reality in a really interesting way.
Matthew Kushner 13:10
Yeah, I mean, pretty much same thing. She said, I think honestly, any time that the balladeers are doing something on stage, there's some sort of surrealist like kind of motif going on, which I think is really cool. The drowning, absolutely. That's it's been really fun to rehearse. I do hope it. I hope it translates to the audiences. And I can't like I can't give any spoilers, but I think the ending is also pretty pretty surrealist as well. But you know, you'regonna have to come see and find out. Yeah.
Emily Lee 13:43
What have you guys learned from working with such a large cast that includes actors, singers, dancers, and musicians?
Matthew Kushner 13:50
I mean, I I honestly think it's just like it's put into perspective just how many moving parts of the show there is. Like, whenever we need to figure out something, there's always like, oh, well, we have to check with this person, and then this person, and this person, and I feel like it just puts in perspective just how large scale this production is. And I also think that it's cool because it's like everyone has something to offer to the show. You know, like you've got your dancers, and you've got your singers, and you've got your actors, and I think you know it's just really cool watching everyone work together to put on, you know, one big production. I think it's just a cool thing to watch. Yeah,
Gia Lish 14:27
And everyone has a story too. And since there are so many people working on this, you get to hear about so many people's lives. It's just so much fun to have a lens into a bunch of different areas of campus, and everyone has something to contribute too. This is a very collaborative production, so sometimes we'll we'll just say things during rehearsal, and David will be like, "Oh, actually, yeah, we're gonna pick that up. And everyone has contributed to that, and it's really really cool, just because we're kind of we're all forming this show together, and so having all these people from different backgrounds and from from different places in life gives a really interesting color to to this production that we are forming together.
Chris Christensen 15:14
How is all of that influencing either of you or both of you? You know, in terms of creatively, or maybe personally, are you finding yourself yourselves interested? Maybe in dance, or are either of you musicians by chance? You you are. Okay, both of you are musicians.
Matthew Kushner 15:31
Yes.
Chris Christensen 15:32
All right. What do you play, man?
Matthew Kushner 15:33
I play. I haven't. I'm probably not as as practicing as I should be, but I play the saxophone and the ukulele. Okay, alto saxophone.
Chris Christensen 15:43
Ah, nice.
Matthew Kushner 15:44
I've told you about this for sure. Yeah, but I'm sure she's a lot more locked in musically than I am.
Gia Lish 15:52
Well, I play the violin. I played in the symphony orchestra last semester, for better or worse.
Chris Christensen 15:58
You just took it up last semester, and that was it. I'm kidding, of course. How long you been playing violin for?
Gia Lish 16:02
I've been playing the violin since third grade, so I suppose I don't. Yeah, I don't even know how many years that is off the top of my head, but a lot. And I was in orchestras for a long time. I just did one semester of the symphony orchestra because it was a lot of commitment. I wasn't quite ready for that, but yeah, I mean, having having collaboration in a cast does help musically in in every sense, because music is always a collaborative art. You know, even as in an orchestra, especially like you are working off of the people around you, you are blending with the people around you. We always say that an acapella, you know, blend. And this show in particular has such an interesting blend because there, everyone is drastically different. We've got all these different accents going on. We've got all these different storylines going on, and so it takes a lot of effort to blend. You've got a lot of these pokey pieces that you're really trying to to merge into one smooth production, and it works really, really well, actually, and it provides such nuance. And so I do think that, especially when I go back to acapella and I'm and I'm thinking about like, you know, what we have to do to blend in 12th Night, and how can we then you know blend with this group of of very different and unique people?
Chris Christensen 17:28
Okay, Matt, you keep saying locked in, and and that's okay. That's not a bad thing. No, no, no, that's okay. I was just thinking about as as you're experiencing all of this, as you're working on stage, and you said that you're not as locked into the ukulele or the sax as you would like to be. Do you find yourself feeling now perhaps that you feel motivated to want to be more locked in with your instruments? Are you feeling inspired in that way? Yeah, I mean, or not enough time?
Matthew Kushner 17:53
I've well, one my saxophone, unfortunately, is not in Ithaca. That is back home in Manhattan, so can't really practice that as much, but honestly, I I do play the ukulele every now and then. I really like to to songwrite and things like that. So I would I mean I guess I would say that this show has kind of inspired me to to pick that up again.
Gia Lish 18:15
I'm learning things about you.
Matthew Kushner 18:17
Oh, great! That's exciting. Yeah, I don't know. Just like I, I feel like it's it's been kind of inspiring me to do that. But unfortunately, sometimes time just gets in the way. Other time commitments, you know.
Chris Christensen 18:28
You both get along so so well. Maybe there's like a duo between violin and ukulele.
Gia Lish 18:29
I also play the ukulele.
Matthew Kushner 18:36
I didn't know that.
Chris Christensen 18:37
Yeah, you could play out as a uke duo at one of the open mics locally, I mean, somebody else.
Gia Lish 18:42
You suggest that David will make us do it in the show.
Chris Christensen 18:44
Right, right. You won't hear this till after it's here. All right, I've gone off the rails enough. I've gone. Emily, back to you.
Emily Lee 18:53
Um, I kind of have like a question aside from what we have like up here, but I was just wondering, like, um, so memorizing like all the songs along with your lines must be a lot. So how do you guys kind of like go about that?
Matthew Kushner 19:08
Honestly, I I feel like I don't I don't have as much trouble like memorizing a song. Something about it just like being put to music, I guess. With with like the lines of the show, I just keep repeating them to myself usually, and like we've rehearsed these scenes a lot to the point where it kind of just gets drilled in. Like once you get the gist of the line, like you're you're pretty much there. I'm grateful because personally, Sebastian is you know he's in this show like a few times, but she's on stage all the time, and I don't know how she memorizes all those lines because that's insane.
Gia Lish 19:44
I don't know either, to be honest. It just kind of happens. I yeah, I don't really like drill lines when I'm off stage because I, it doesn't end up helping. It's just rehearsing the scenes and having my scene partner there and having my blocking that. That drills it in. So if I try, if I, I mean, yes, I can employ my boyfriend to run lines with me. But what ends up being the most helpful is just being on the scene and having. It's not that I have motion set to every word, but I have a direction set to every line, and so I know which direction that needs to go, and that brings up the line. And then I agree with Matt for music. It's always easier for me to learn music because it's it's got a rhythm and it's got notes, and it's a lot harder to miss one word in a song because then you're missing an entire section of music. So, but yeah, and I also did a lot of musicals primarily when I was young. I didn't do my first straight play until I was in freshman in high school, so the the musical theater you know integrated genre is much more familiar to me.
Emily Lee 20:56
Do you guys have a favorite line in the play?
Matthew Kushner 21:00
Does it does it have to be is it from our character or just in general?
Emily Lee 21:03
Like in general,
Matthew Kushner 21:04
I've got I've got mine personally. It's not something I say. It's I am a great eater of beef. I I just think that's such a funny like line. I wouldn't expect to be in a position. Yeah, truthfully, they're hilarious. Yeah,
Gia Lish 21:26
I have two, and one of them is my line, and one of them is not. The first is Fabia's line, "Ist so saucy. For some reason, I just it just brings me a lot of joy every time she says that. And then probably my other favorite line is is make me a willow cabin at your gate just because it's it's so iconic that I stand there and I deliver that line and I think about the generations and generations of actresses who've who've played Viola who've delivered that line you know in in theaters across the world and and in the globe and I feel I know I have this. I have this sense of of sisterhood with them.
Chris Christensen 22:04
Sounds fun.
Matthew Kushner 22:06
Yeah. I if if I had to pick one from my character, I'd probably say, "Are all the people mad? Because I think it really sums up how Sebastian's feeling. So he's just so so confused by the way everyone's treating him because they all think that you know he's Viola, and it's just yeah. I think that's that's one of my favorites from my character specifically.
Chris Christensen 22:28
I'm actually going to digress from the list of questions we have because we we don't really we we weren't planning to kind of get into the set and lighting and sound production and that sort of thing. But I I haven't even had a chance to step out onto the kip to look at the set yet. Is there anything that that really sticks with you that you feel you want to impart here that doesn't give away too much in terms of the set, in terms of the just some of that that that behind the scenes that that the audience doesn't necessarily see too in terms of lighting or sound,
Matthew Kushner 23:01
Yeah. I mean, I haven't personally worked with any lighting or sound yet. I think
Gia Lish 23:06
We haven't gotten to lighting.
Matthew Kushner 23:07
Yes.
Chris Christensen 23:07
Okay.
Matthew Kushner 23:08
Sound. I mean, like the tracks and things like that. Certain certain sound cues. I think. I mean, one thing I'll just say is, I think the set's really cool. Like, it's it's definitely interesting. But the fact that it was like you know all hand built and everything and like put together in that short amount of time, like when I walked in, I was like, wow, that's that's really impressive. Yeah, I don't know. Like, can we like give away?
Gia Lish 23:32
I know I don't know how much we can say.
Chris Christensen 23:33
Can we talk about costumes or no? Are we keeping that hush?
Gia Lish 23:37
The costumes are cool.
Matthew Kushner 23:39
Well, we've got the same one.
Gia Lish 23:40
Yes. We do have literally identically matching costumes, which is fun.
Matthew Kushner 23:44
It's been cool trying on like like going to the costume shop a lot more.
Gia Lish 23:49
Yeah,
Matthew Kushner 23:50
like fittings and stuff like that. All feels very very professional.
Matthew Kushner 23:53
Feels feel very professional. I was gonna say that too. I've never done a show of this scale, and it's yeah, it it just makes me very excited, but I mean the set. I mean, if I'm not allowed, if I'm not allowed to give spoilers, we can cut it out. But it's all blue, and the entire thing is blue, so all the same color, and it provides a sense of of uniformity. So it's a little bit like a blank canvas where we can bring things out, and it makes the people and and our bits of furniture and props and stuff stand out so much more because there's just nothing really else to look at besides what we've got on stage with us, and it definitely it helps with that surrealist element, and it's just a really interesting focus. It it draws your eye, and it gives us things to to play with. Of course, we've got a couple stairs and a couple doors, and they're still blue, and so and so we really just get to focus on like each individual scene and what we've got with us, rather than worrying about you know things that are going on on our set.
Chris Christensen 24:58
Okay, and it. This podcast studio must feel pretty comfortable then. Giving the nobody's actually seen a photo of it from our listeners, but the the podcast studio is quite blue. Oh yes, most it's very similar. Very similar color. Yeah. Is are are there any particular scenes within the play that you are very excited for audiences to experience for the first time?
Matthew Kushner 25:23
do you want to go first, or?
Gia Lish 25:24
I think the end. I well, there's some things we need to iron out about the end first, but definitely,
Matthew Kushner 25:30
yeah.
Gia Lish 25:30
The last scene is very chaotic, and everything comes to a head, and and and we you know we figure out whether or not the twins are actually gonna find each other again, and just having all the reveals at once-it's very exciting. And there's so much going on, and so I'm I'm excited to have all of that happen at once. I think it's gonna be cool.
Chris Christensen 25:53
Okay.
Matthew Kushner 25:53
I'm personally really excited to do the prolog for audiences. We have our own little. In my letter, it's a musical number. It's it's me and Gia just like doing a fun little twin performance. I I think there is some stuff that still needs to be ironed out, but I think it's I think it's gonna be really cool for audience to see, and I think it does a good job at kind of setting like a like a an interesting tone for the play. Like there's like something wrong. Like it progressively gets a little bit more.
Gia Lish 26:33
It's a nice beginning. I I mean I imagine how the play would originally start just what country friend is this, and it's like boom, and now we're here. And I don't, I can't even imagine what it must be like without the context that we're giving with the prolog. I think it would be a lot more confusing.
Matthew Kushner 26:51
Yeah, that's a good point. I think it adds some good context, and the songs are kind of fun to sing.
Gia Lish 26:57
They are fun. They are fun.
Matthew Kushner 26:59
Yes.
Chris Christensen 27:00
Okay.
Emily Lee 27:01
What do you guys hope audiences take away from this production?
Gia Lish 27:07
I just-it's we were talking about.
Matthew Kushner 27:10
We were talking about this. We both kind of just had the same answer.
Gia Lish 27:14
Yes, it's whimsical.
Matthew Kushner 27:15
It's so whimsical. I I hope they take away a sense of that whimsy.
Gia Lish 27:19
Yeah, and just that to to not take themselves quite so seriously because it really is a fun show and and and the characters are so ridiculous and and there's some very serious moments and there's also moments of just caricature and so I I do hope that that people can can have some fun and find that fun elsewhere too.
Matthew Kushner 27:39
Yeah I mean, honestly, copy and paste what she said. Yeah, I don't know, I just, I, I hope they. I think a lot of the times, like especially when when I've seen Shakespeare, I think it's it's easy to just kind of fall into that, like, oh, I just I don't get it, you know, like I'm just kind of watching it, I'm just kind of experiencing it, you know, and I, I feel like I just want audiences to really like sit with this one while they're watching it, you know, I mean, like really try and understand what's going on. I know we're not exactly speaking in in in you know the vernacular, the the slang, if you will, nowadays. But you know, there's there's a lot of really cool stuff to come out of this show, and I feel like I just want audiences to to find the value in that, you know.
Chris Christensen 28:22
Speaking of audiences, any audience members you're hoping to see out there opening night? Anybody you're just hope they're sitting in a seat?
Matthew Kushner 28:30
Yeah,
Gia Lish 28:31
my acapella group better.
Matthew Kushner 28:32
Yes, I was going to say! The key elements better be present at this performance. Also, my parents. I'm I'm hoping they get to see it.
Gia Lish 28:40
My family's coming up from Colorado.
Chris Christensen 28:42
Oh my gosh! Wow, that's great.
Gia Lish 28:45
Which is going to be awesome.
Matthew Kushner 28:46
Yeah, my parents have a little less to travel. Yeah, but I'm I'm excited for them to see it. Just hopefully, just the seats are filled. I'm just excited for people to see it.
Gia Lish 28:57
I, I am hoping that the general public is is interested by the concept of 12th Night.
Matthew Kushner 29:01
Yes.
Chris Christensen 29:02
And it's two weekends that it's running?
Gia Lish 29:04
Yes, plenty of opportunity.
Matthew Kushner 29:06
23rd, 24th, and then 30th and 31st. Two shows on the 31st. Yes,
Chris Christensen 29:11
Nice. Emily, we covered everything. Anything?
Emily Lee 29:16
I think we're good. Yeah. Okay.
Chris Christensen 29:17
Anything we didn't ask you that you wanted to talk about any any anything you wanted to plug while
Matthew Kushner 29:26
if you're in the cast of Twelfth Night and you're listening, we love you. You guys are amazing.
Gia Lish 29:30
Yeah, we do.
Matthew Kushner 29:31
Yes.
Gia Lish 29:32
One of my favorite casts of all time. I think.
Matthew Kushner 29:34
Yes, really. I I think the cast wand is great with this this show.
Gia Lish 29:38
Yeah.
Chris Christensen 29:39
All right. Well, on that note, thank you both so much for joining us, and I look forward to seeing Twelfth Night.
Matthew Kushner 29:45
Yes.
Chris Christensen 29:46
All right.
