This week we're backstage on Broadway with Vicki Lewis, the beltingest redhead Must-See TV ever did see. You Might Know Her From NewsRadio, Mouse Hunt, Finding Nemo, Pushing Tin, and the Broadway productions of Anastasia, Chicago, and Damn Yankees. We dish with Vicki about moving back to New York, losing Phil Hartman, holding Dixie Carter’s spit cup, and working with Matthew Broderick + a giant green screen on the blockbuster, Godzilla (she also delivers a pitch perfect impression of director, Roland Emmerich).

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Discussed this week

Vicki’s IMDB & IBDB

Bart Simpson Butterfingers commercial

Phenom (and holy hell the theme song is Carly Simon)

Child star, Ashley Johnson

Luke Perry RIP (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Oz, 8 Seconds, Rocky Horror on Broadway)

Recent celeb deaths: Penny Marshall, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Carol Channing, Nipsey Hussle, Robin Williams, Joan Rivers, Della Reese, Prince, Whitney Houston

20 Feet from Stardom and Judith Hill (alleged of Prince & Michael Jackson)

Celine Dion’s Twitter

Deaths that will destroy us:Julie Andrews, Liza Minnelli, Carol Burnett, John Travolta, Olivia Newton John

Anastasia on Broadway

Vicki as Velma doing “All That Jazz”  || Bebe Neuwirth as Mama Morton

CCM and her cohorts: Faith Prince, Liz Callaway, Jason Graae, Jim Caruso

Dixie Carter in Mame

Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Shine Up?

Famous redheads in Hollywood (Nicole Kidman, Kathy Griffin, Marcia Cross)

Vicki in commercials for York Peppermint Patty, Cascade, Sweet Crispers, Chips Ahoy

The Crucible with Harriet Harris, Kathleen Chalfant, Justine Bateman, et al (Giles Corey, Ann Putnam, Mary Warren, Mercy Lewis)

Vicki doing “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo” from Damn Yankees at the Tonys (1994)

NewsRadio (1995-99) Andy Dick, Joe Rogan, Dave Foley, Stephen Root, Maura Tierney

Nick Nolte and Vicki Lewis

Vicki singing “Makin Whoopee” with Phil Hartman

Death of Phil Hartman

Bea Arthur singing on Golden Girls, Megan Mullally sings on Will & Grace

Three Sisters

Bye Bye Birdie (TV movie, 1995) with our beloved Tyne Daly

Godzilla with Matthew Broderick (dir: Roland Emmerich)

Pushing Tin with John “Labrador” Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Angelina Jolie, and Cate Blanchett

Sarabeth’s, Popover Cafe (RIP), Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

Beth Leavel, Karen Ziemba, Charlotte d’Amboise, Rachel York, Nancy Opel

The 5 Mrs Buchanans

High school theatre that did Alien got a shout-out from Sigourney Weaver