00:00From what I'm seeing in the room so far, I am just like, get ready.
00:06It's some of the most extraordinary singing I've ever heard in my entire, entire life.
00:14So we're starting the kindergarten process now.
00:17I have heard it can be quite a stressful process, but we're trying to stay positive.
00:22And I'm so proud of our son and the little man that he is.
00:27And very just excited to see what direction he goes in and what his interests become.
00:33He has so many different things that he likes right now.
00:37And I'm so curious to just see, you know, where that all goes and the person that he becomes.
00:43My husband and I have been together for many years, but we'd never been together with me doing a Broadway show.
00:49You know, we were together while I was doing television and things like that.
00:53And then we moved back to New York and I jumped into the Broadway, you know, world again and the Broadway schedule.
00:59And that was not necessarily challenging, but it was just, it was a lot of like shifting of gears of figuring out like, oh, okay.
01:06But now you're actually gone a lot in the evenings.
01:09And how do we work that out with our children?
01:12And at the time it was only our son.
01:14But I think we have a pretty good, you know, education now.
01:17We're still learning.
01:18We're still figuring it out.
01:20We know that it's not going to be totally smooth sailing, but we have so much support from both my family and his family.
01:28Great, wonderful childcare that we're so grateful for.
01:31And we really lean on those people and open communication and just making sure that we are present with our children when we're there and give them as much time.
01:42Like when I'm working, I won't do anything other than be with my children and do my job.
01:46If you want to have dinner, I'll see you in, you know, a year.
01:51Like that's the truth.
01:52It's just, I clear my schedule.
01:55I'm either, you know, doing things that are involved with my job or I'm home with my family and that's it.
02:01When I'm working on a show, I try to do nothing.
02:05Like I try to either take a bath, meditate, maybe go to the gym and swim, just something, you know, very easy and let my body restore as much as possible.
02:20You know, right now I'm not working.
02:21And if I have like a free mom moment, it's like I'm at Pilates, I'm meeting a friend for lunch.
02:26Like I'm trying to keep moving.
02:28But when I'm working, I really try to go inward, keep things as grounded as possible.
02:34You'd really love that.
02:35I mean, I think that some people have different approaches and I'm not even quite sure what it will be like for me.
02:40But some people really just need to be able to go to work and have it be the place that they can focus.
02:45Broadway is incredibly challenging.
02:47It's eight shows a week.
02:48It's singing, you know, multiple songs a night and tons of lines that you have to know and memorize.
02:54And everyone's different.
02:56And some people really like to have people around them and that kind of like energy and support.
03:00And others really need the opportunity to just zero in and focus.
03:04And I kind of go back and forth a little bit throughout.
03:06But I love like my son came to see me in Funny Girl and it was like the greatest night of my life.
03:10My son gets it.
03:11He knows I'm a singer.
03:13He asked me the other day, he was like, Mommy, who's a better singer?
03:16Eliana Grande or you?
03:18I was like, Ariana Grande?
03:21I mean, obviously I told him that Ariana is a better singer than me.
03:24Yeah, no, he gets it.
03:26He gets that I sing and that people know my music and he's not familiar with anything of the television world that I've done.
03:35But yeah, I think it's beautiful that he knows what I do and what my job is.
03:39I'm proud of it.
03:40I really can't wait.
03:42I love Glee.
03:42I'm so proud of the work that we did on that television show.
03:45I can't say like if and when I'll show it to him.
03:48I mean, I will.
03:49I can't say when.
03:50I love Glee and I love Rachel.
03:52And I think that even if it's not like watching the whole show, like the musical numbers are so fantastic.
03:57A song here or there is like, you know, also something very special that I can share with him.
04:02I'm not listening to versions of myself, but I'm definitely like I love listening to, you know, Broadway soundtracks or I love listening to Glee of the songs that I didn't do.
04:14So I'll listen to other versions, you know, the other kids and the songs that they did.
04:20I really love listening to that.
04:23Like Darren's Teenage Dream, like I love listening to or Jonathan when he did Bohemian Rhapsody.
04:29Oh, so good.
04:31Like I'll listen to that a lot.
04:33Heads Will Roll, the thriller Heads Will Roll mashup from our Halloween episode was incredible.
04:38That was really good.
04:39So it's funny, I just met the daughter of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill recently and she sang and it was one of the most incredible voices I've ever heard in my entire life.
04:54She is so profoundly gifted.
04:55Her name is Gracie McGraw.
04:57It was in that moment that I was like, well, obviously her parents are singers.
05:00And it like had never dawned on me for some reason that like my children could be singers.
05:05I guess it is genetic.
05:06I mean, she made me a believer that it is like genetic.
05:09She is so gifted.
05:10And so I guess it's possible.
05:12My son does like to sing.
05:14He loves his uncle Jonathan so much.
05:17And I took him to see Jonathan's new Broadway show, Just in Time, the Bobby Darin musical, which is fantastic.
05:24And he now loves singing all Bobby Darin songs and performing for us.
05:29And my daughter will like mimic me if I go like, ah, she'll like do it back, which is like very cute.
05:36So we'll see.
05:37I just want my kids to like be happy, whether it's performing or like my husband played sports.
05:42My husband played lacrosse in college.
05:44Having a passion and something that you really believe in, I think is an incredible tool for children.
05:51So whatever it is, the debate team, singing, sports, building robots, like whatever, I just want them to have a passion and something that they really believe in and that they feel really drawn to.
06:04It was like an episode of Glee.
06:06It was bizarre.
06:07It really was so crazy.
06:09And I was so happy for the both of them.
06:12What an amazing accomplishment.
06:13And the fact that we were all there that night, I couldn't have been more happy for Darin and, you know, his show is fantastic.
06:21I've seen his show twice.
06:23I've seen Jonathan show three times.
06:25I'm just so excited for the, for the both of them and for their incredible accomplishments.
06:30Yeah.
06:30Well, Funny Girl was interesting because I came into that process.
06:34The show was already open.
06:36The cast is already together.
06:37I'm really excited to have the opportunity now to start something from the beginning and like really be in the room together.
06:44And I was rehearsing by myself for Funny Girl in the rehearsal rooms and occasionally would get to work with other people.
06:50It wasn't until my opening night that I got to actually perform with the entire cast on the stage.
06:57And so this is a very different experience.
06:59And I'm happy to be able to be there from like the ground up.
07:04And I am unbelievably excited about working with Nick and Aaron.
07:09They are both so incredibly talented.
07:11And from what I'm seeing in the room so far, I just like get ready.
07:18It is so good.
07:20It's some of the most extraordinary singing I've ever heard in my entire, entire life.
07:25And I've worked with some pretty fabulous people.
