Want to tell you about my weekend, especially the parts involving Sierra, so let’s get right to it Your Daily Lex As you would expect I presume I love all my kids I probably get to do the most kind of father-kid bonding stuff with Liam because he’s the one who wants to the most we Do those albums together?

He loves to play games like he’s 12 and he’s a boy and he really likes hanging out with me Ani and I and Sierra and I we obviously have things that we do together But I probably overall have the fewest Bonding times frankly with Sierra, which you know, I sometimes even talk to her about Sometimes we do like a drawing class together from YouTube, even though I’m not a good drawer Just because it’s a thing we can do together.

And you know, it’s that’s fun and You know, she and Lauren have done a variety of shows together I’ve done one show with Sierra that Lauren is also in but Lauren is here have had, you know some extra bonding time that I’ve been envious of Because they have the drive to and from the theater and then the actual rehearsals and then being in the shows and that’s a lot Of time that can be fun but regardless so this weekend Ani was mostly quarantined in her room because Of a kovat exposure Ani is negative.

So it all worked out and I had a busy weekend of doing things.

I But My Sunday, which is my point was all about Sierra We were all supposed to go see a show called ride the cyclone on Friday night Ride the cyclone is a musical about you know the typical story a group of kids who are on a roller coaster and It crashes and they all die and then in the afterlife they have to decide which one of them gets to go back to continue living while the rest of them remain dead, you know that old story and because of snow we couldn’t go see that show it eventually got canceled and on the rescheduling side, it turned out that Sierra and I could go Sunday and Lauren and Ani could go the following Sunday and Liam was just not gonna be able to see the show at all now Which is I think probably for the better now that I’ve seen the show because it was pretty inappropriate for him But anyway So Sierra and I got to go have the trip of going to go see that show together and Sierra’s the one who knows that Show the more than anybody else in my family.

And so that was a lot of fun and you know We had the somewhat lengthy drive there.

It’s about 45 minutes away She was helping me run lines for misery and it’s funny because anytime she gets to a bad word in the script She won’t say it.

She wouldn’t even say cockadoody, which I really encouraged her to say I thought it’d be fun to hear Sierra say cockadoody, but she wouldn’t do it But then on the way back, we’re you know, we’ve talked about the show and then as we’re driving I don’t know exactly why or what happened, but we go by some road sign and I sang it aloud like like Lane ends must turn right And Sierra doesn’t comment on this in any way because she’s my kid I guess and she reads another sign like Albertsons and so we’re reading story names.

We’re reading street signs.

We’re reading street names road signs of every kind at one point She’s like an arrow to the right And I was like plus an arrow to the left with a blobby circle in the middle and each road sign Had its own melody its own style of song These weren’t all just one kind of song and we’re just doing this over and over again reading everything and eventually Somebody sings one that is just so ridiculous that finally we crack up and acknowledge the insanity of the situation and I say to Sierra We got to take this show on the road and Sierra says it Literally is and that was also very funny and I wanted to hear that story just because Sarah’s very funny And I liked that joke.

It was on the road.

You get it Anyway, then later Sierra and I went to go to Fiddler on the Roof auditions Lord had already auditioned But you know This is the same theater where I’ve done Avenue Q and Elf and where I’m currently doing misery And I wrestled with do I want to audition for Fiddler on the Roof and I was convinced I didn’t and then as it got Closer, I was convinced.

I do think I want to audition for it.

But and that’s why I’ve been growing this beard I realized, you know, I’m too old to play any of the Suns or the suitors, so I had to play one of the older guys and I Think I’m a little young and maybe Maybe a little thin to play those guys Because they’re typically a little bit older and a little bit heavier But I thought you know, I’m gonna just go for it and Sierra really wants to be in this show she’s never done a show at that theater, so we were gonna go to audition together and That’s a nice long drive that we got to do together.

And then you know, we’re Going through nerves and warm-ups and that sort of thing and then we’re just hanging out waiting to audition We have to separate and I go in and I do my audition I sang the song mushnick and son from Little shop of horrors because it’s a nice gruff Jewish voiced man and that felt right to me and Then you have to do the dancing and they had separated the men and women for dancing which For the Jews in the audience was kind of funny.

That’s not why they had done it but this is how it worked out and it was humorous to me and You know, I did dance fine There were groups of male dancers learning the dance And I was definitely not the worst and I will say With no offense intended just with you know being a human who observes the world some of the folks who were not good at dancing were so not good at dancing that I would not have I would have absolutely believed it if somebody came out and said I was on a prank show like a hidden camera show because The the not accurate dancing was so insane Like there were people who as if they had not seen the dance and somebody said, okay now just you know Flail around wildly to this music and that’s what they did.

It was bonkers.

But anyway After my audition song before the dancing the director had said to me you have misery rehearsal tomorrow and I said, yes, I do She said well if we’re gonna have callbacks are gonna be able to come like yeah I’ve talked to the director like we’ll work it out and you know, I can go back and forth.

Yes, I can be here She’s like, okay.

Well, I’ll email you but just come straight to the the rehearsal studio space where we’re doing callbacks Don’t come to the stage for a rehearsal.

I Said oh great.

She’s like well anyway, I’m like, okay good and then like well, did I get a call back?

Was that a call back?

Was that a verbal call back and Come home Go to sleep without an email Wake up in the morning without an email But with a text from Sierra saying I got called back saying Sierra got called back for the role She wants Hava and I was like, oh, I guess I didn’t get called back and there could be a lot of reasons Maybe they had other better people.

I only listed myself as interested in two roles Maybe my dancing was just not nearly good enough.

Well, that’s kind of a bummer.

But then I was really thinking about What the director had said where she’s like, you know, you have misery We’ll just come straight to this place and don’t go to the other place Tomorrow and I’ll email you like she said that so I’m really struggling because like it definitely felt like a call back But it wasn’t like you are explicitly called back, but it was it seemed pretty clear And eventually I decided you know, I’m gonna send a text I’m gonna send a text to the director cuz I know her we’re friends and I I Crafted the text as best I know how and I was like, hey, I gather you don’t need me I said this is why I’m now I’m gonna read verbatim.

Good morning Just confirming you don’t mean we tonight and I can go straight to misery and again truly Please let me know if slash how I can be helpful on any topics regarding Judaism the language and themes in the show or anything Else I can’t wait to see it Because I’d already discussed with her being a Jewish consultant for the show and she writes back almost instantly No, I sent you an email.

Well, I didn’t get that email.

It did not come through So I have no idea why her email did not come to me successfully but I’m glad I texted her one because it helps me know that I’m called back tonight and two because I was asking this morning Because I was about to shave this ridiculous beard off my face and now instead did not I’ve already gone so long that I’ll hold the next track from the Lehman Lex album until tomorrow Anyway, I didn’t even tell you know what know what I’m no, I was gonna wrap it up and I’m not wrapping up There’s another story.

There’s gonna be a 10-minute.

You’re doing like so you can’t stop me.

There’s no rules.

There’s no rules.

Okay Fiddler on the roof Has a song you probably know it called sunrise sunset In my family growing up we would make fun of my mom because my mom always cries when you hear the song sunrise sunset With its lyrics about your kids growing up and the passage of time and I guess mortality I Believe at my wedding.

I had a father.

Nope.

I’m the son I had a mother-son dance with my mom to the song sunrise sunset and On the way home from our auditions I was like Sierra wanted to hear the song matchmaker And so we were listening to that and then the soundtrack keeps going and it gets to sunrise sunset And as it starts to play I’m like Sierra We had an ongoing joke in my family growing up because my mom can’t hear this song without crying and then as it’s about to Start the lyrics.

I’m gonna sing along in case I have to sing it a callbacks It’s like is this the little girl I carried and then the wife sings Is this the little boy at play and then the father sings?

I’ve never I guess I’ve sung on the spot Where I don’t remember growing older When did they?

so I start singing along to the words and Immediately start sobbing in the car and see it was like, oh my god, why daddy?

You don’t know and I’m like, but then it was it was very low It’s like well This is hilarious crying because we used to make fun of my mom for crying and now I really can understand better what my mom Was thinking when she was crying about it and that has its own emotional way to it Plus it’s just the words and the whole thing Came home and was thinking about it more and when I was assuming I was getting called back But hadn’t yet been called back and then sort of wasn’t and then was called back again I was trying to sing that song without crying last night couldn’t do it this morning I found out I really was called back tried to sing that song this morning without cry I don’t think that’s I’m gonna be a part of the callback audition But currently at this moment, I am NOT capable of getting all the way through the song without crying I can get further than I was able to last night But man, it is just so funny to me that I’m like, is this the little girl I carried?

Okay, I can get through that one.

And then the wife sings.

Is this the little boy play?

I don’t remember growing older when did they if you can get that far into it good But then you get this next verse was like when did she grow to be a beauty?

When did he grow to be so tall was it ain’t yesterday when they were small and then you get to your chorus?

sunrise sunset anyway, I Managed to get through it just now without crying But I was able to cry just now like because I was doing it for a podcast and thinking about you the podcast listener I was able to kind of make my way through without tearing up the man.

Oh Yeah Emotion the worst right?

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