Rachel Bloom remembers the exact moment that she decided her latest stage project, “Death, Let Me Do My Show,” couldn’t be the lightweight standup show she was hoping it would be.…
remembers the exact moment that she decided her latest stage project, “Death, Let Me Do My Show,” couldn’t be the lightweight standup show she was hoping it would be. It was when she stood in front of a white board looking at an outline of the jokes she intended to tell, reading phrases like “pregnancy tests” and “my butthole is like the hurricane.
So “Death, Let Me Do My Show” became a genre-bending hybrid with elements of a one-act musical. The show itself reflects that transformation, which was prodded by two real-life events that coincided in the early weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown: the birth of Bloom’s child and the death of her close friend and collaborator, musicianFor Bloom, the experience of performing the show serves as a kind of therapy.
“Every song in the show is written with a different collaborator because it’s kind of me experimenting,” Bloom says. “What does my songwriting life look like now that Adam’s gone?”.” That project isn’t discussed in the new “Stagecraft” because “The Nanny” is a TV property and therefore falls under the shadow of the ongoing WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes.
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