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8 min
March 01, 2024#195 - Adrianna Hicks
GRAMMY Award winner and Broadway star, Adrianna Hicks joins us to Take A Bow for her work in the entertainment industry. Adrianna has a wealth of knowledge from performing around the WORLD. From Germany to Austria, touring the United Stated to Broadway. She's done it all while performing in at least one of your favorite shows! Hear all about:
Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
Why being an adventurer can help you as a performer
Aladdin, Sister Act, Dirty Dancing, Legally Blonde and more!
THE COLOR PURPLE
Influences of other performers as a young actor
What performing with Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Holliday, and Heather Headley taught her
Going out on tour
SIX
Living out her Beyonce dreams on a Broadway Stage
What changes were made from London to Broadway
SOME LIKE IT HOT
The GRAMMYs
Becoming a GRAMMY winner
+ So much more!

Curtain up, Adrianna Hicks

Connect with Adrianna Hicks on Instagram: @missadriannahicks

Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast

Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli

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1 hr 27 min
February 22, 2024#194 - Jordan Fisher, Lola Tung, and Ani DiFranco
The new STARS of Hadestown come to Take A Bow chatting all things HADESTOWN! This episode features the different perspectives of performers in different stage of their career with different relationships with the show. Hear all about how the show began with Ani, to Lola making her debut in this GIANT show fresh off of a hit tv show, to Jordan Fisher cherishing the moment in his life he gets to tell this story.
Ani Di Franco
How HADESTOWN was made
Hadestown as a concept album
Why she decided to make her Broadway debut
Finding the balance of Persephone
Lola Tung
The Summer I Turned Pretty
On set vs on Broadway
Surprising people by showcasing her singing talents
Learning from Jordan Fisher and previous Eurydice such as Solea Pfeiffer and Eva Noblezada
Jordan Fisher
Becoming a Broadway Veteran
What he has learned from playing Orpheus
How he approaches a role
THE GASP
How he relates to all of the characters he's played on Broadway
Fan-girling over the MUSIC
+ So much more from each of them!

Curtain up on Jordan Fisher, Lola Tung, and Ani DiFranco!

Connect with Jordan Fisher on Instagram: @jordanfisher
Connect with Lola Tung on Instagram: @lola.tung
Connect with Ani DiFranco on Instagram: @anidifranco

Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast

Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli

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1 hr
February 16, 2024#193 - Nik Walker
Broadway and Tv actor and writer, Nik Walker joins us to Take A Bow for his work in the entertainment industry. Nik is a true student of the art and takes you through his philosophies and ideologies of how to approach text as an actor. Hear all about:
Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
What excites him most as an actor
Why are stakes important
How can being an actor, a writer, and a director all at the same time impact your work
How taxing a role can be and how to take care of yourself
Hamilton
Hardest part of performing HAMILTON
Spamalot
Sharing a stage with your best friends (Alex Brightman, Christopher Fitzgerald, Ethan Slater, Leslie Kritzer, James Monroe Iglehart, etc.)
How Motown influenced Broadway
+ So much more!

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Connect with Nik Walker on Instagram: @nikkywalks
Bio: Nik Walker is a Boston native, theme park nerd and proud NYU Tisch alum (Adler, Classical and Stonestreet)- who’s been earning a living in the industry for a decade and counting. He’s been seen on Broadway as Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Otis Williams in Ain’t Too Proud, and as Sir Galahad in the revival of Spamalot; on screen in Blue Bloods, Law and Order SVU, and in the upcoming AppleTV+ film The Instigators, alongside his hometown hero Matt Damon. Cleaners, the animated series that he created and writes with partner Alex Brightman, is in development at Warner Bros. Animation, and his musical, Whiskeyland, is being developed with veteran producers Hunter Arnold and Tina Cocumelli at TBD Theatricals. He is the co-host of the arts/activism show The Chaos Twins, and his movie podcast, Little Justice, is streaming where ever podcasts are imbibed. In the free time between all of this, Nik can either be found writing plays at a coffee shop, teaching incredible NYU students, or annoying his talented wife, Sarah Joyce.
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast

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1 hr 16 min
February 09, 2024#192 - Mahi Alam + Sydney Lucas
Mahi Alam is a rising star of the screen who you may know him from Disney +’s American Born Chinese and the new hit movie musical Mean Girls where he plays your favorite character, KEVIN G. Mahi has also appeared in many of your other favorite tv shows such as New Amsterdam, Strangers, and Hungry. Mahi also has an incredible singing voice that he showcases on Tiktok/Instragram. Maybe we'll see him on Broadway one day?
Journey to the big screen
Performing Arts School training
Growing up together
On Set stories
American Born Chinese
Mean Girls Movie
Improvising for Tina Fey
Studying music at NYU
+ So much more!

Curtain up, Mahi Alam

Connect with Mahi Alam on Instagram: @mahialam03

Connect with Sydney Lucas on Instagram: @sydneylucasnyc

Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast

Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli

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1 hr 43 min
February 01, 2024#191 - Matthew Mucha
Joining us this week is another back bone of Broadway who is making his Broadway Debut in the OBC of HARMONY. He is carrying the show as he covers 8 different tracks, while also taking on a 9th role as the Social Media Captain.
Journey to Broadway
Touring the world with Bandstand
How he became associated with Harmony
A CRAZY audition story for his first audition with Harmony
Backstage stories with Julie Benko, Sierra Boggess, and Chip Zien!
Broadway newest role "Social Media Captain" (WHAT?!)
How social media has impacted his career/can be a career on Broadway
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Matthew Mucha

Connect with Matthew Mucha on Instagram: @matthewmucha

Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast

Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli

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1 hr 14 min
January 19, 2024#190 - Jim Hogan
Joining us this week is a social media singing star who is currently making his Broadway Debut in the OBC of Kimberly Akimbo. Jim Hogan's journey through the industry is nothing sort of incredible and almost "new-age" like with the rising influence of social media.
Journey to Broadway
Touring the world with Waitress, Spring Awakening, and more.
Going back to school to learn
Creating T.3 group
From singing in subway stations in Philly to performing on AGT, Broadway, and more
Broadway Debut in Kimberly Akimbo
Favorite backstage shenanigans
TONY Award Night
How social media has impacted his career
Tips on using social media (tik tok, instagram, etc.) to share your talents with the world
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Jim Hogan

Connect with Jim Hogan on Instagram: @jimhogan220

Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast

Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli

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1 hr 22 min
January 12, 2024#189 - Aidan Gemme!!!
Starting 2024 off right, with the most requested guest in Take A Bow history. The OG Peter Llewlyn Davies comes to Take A Bow.
Journey to Broadway
Mary Poppins
Disney Magic
Booking a Broadway show under the condition of getting voice lessons
Finding Neverland
Creating a show from paper.
Telling Stories you care about
Naomi on CW/ working with Ava DuVernay
On set vs Theatre skillsets
+ So much more!
Curtain up, Aidan Gemme

Connect with Aidan Gemme on Instagram: @a.gemme

Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast

Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli

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1 hr 35 min
December 29, 2023 #188 - 2023 Season Review + 2024 Preview
Eli shares his season review and which shows he's most excited about for the upcoming calendar year!

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1 hr 6 min
December 21, 2023#187 - Sammi Cannold
The future of Broadway in one episode? Yes, please! In this episode, hear all about
Journey to directing
Youth in the industry
Rent
Sunset Boulevard
How directors get attached to a show
An iconic meeting with Stephanie J. Block
What exactly a director does? (Spoiler alert: EVERYTHING!)
How to Dance in Ohio
Making Broadway more accessible for all
+ So much more!

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Connect with Sammi Cannold on Instagram: @sammi.cannold

Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast

Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli

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1 hr 16 min

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As a showbiz kid, host Eli Tokash knows what it’s like to balance childhood normalcy and the demands of starring on Broadway, Television, and Film. Kids in the industry have to balance multiple jobs,…