Alex Newell on Stage Door Boundaries and the Worst Things Fans Say

Tony winner Alex Newell pulls up a barstool for the Season 2 premiere of Drama Club with Matty — and holds absolutely nothing back. Alex won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Shucked, becoming one of the first out non-binary performers to win a Tony in an acting category. You know them from Glee, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, and Once on This Island, and lately from stages everywhere — the Boston Pops, Café Carlyle, and a Vegas residency at Aria. Over gin, Alex and Matty get into why Broadway has gotten too soft, why they've never actually made money on Broadway, the thing they'd ban from Broadway for the next 25 years, and the "we're a family" line they say the industry needs to retire. Plus: blacking out through their first Tony performance, where the Tony actually lives (hint: a box under the TV), the worst things fans have said to them at the stage door, a diva bracket that ends in a photo finish, and Met Gala stories involving Diana Ross, Viola Davis, and zero food. 🎭 Subscribe for new episodes every week. 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/dramaclubwithmatty 🎵 TikTok: @dramaclubwithmatty 🎧 Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/51iDywV... Follow Matty: @mattymaggiacomo Follow Alex Newell: @thealexnewell #AlexNewell #Broadway #DramaClubWithMatty #Shucked #Tonys #MusicalTheatre #BroadwayPodcast