Okay, so here's my song from the first act and all you need to do is just picture this 17 years ago. Okay, let's do it. I grew up in the Roxbury slums with my mom and a series of bombs. Guys, you showed me all the way, as a man can fail. I got through a lot of school, like busting my ass with work, two jobs, and an addition to class. So forgive me for not leaving at your tail. These days I chip on my shoulder, as big as a polar, but the chance I've been given, I'm gonna be driven as hell. I'm so close I can taste it, so I'm not going to waste it. Yeah, there's a chip on my shoulder. You might want to get one as well. So we did the table read of this, and like a couple of months, maybe even a year later, we did another version of the show for investors and producers, the money people. So it was very nice to take some. We did it. Standing and music stands, and you know, the whole score was really good. The script had gotten better, and we did it. It was a success, and I saw Jerry after this reading. He was just on top of the world, and I said to him, what did they say? What did they say? He was like, oh, I talked to like the big money person. I said, what did they say? He was like, well, they only had one note. And I was like, what? He was like, they said, your Emmet isn't handsome enough. Oh. And I was like, oh, okay. And he said, and he was just, he looked me straight in the face, and he said, but I told him, that's the point. I don't go to parties a lot, not get used to the time that I got. Can't spend hours doing my hair and staying in shape. But I know it'll all be worthwhile, and I win my first look at the trial, and buy my mom that great big house out on the cake. And that's the chip on my shoulder. I have my mom and folder, with a chance I'll be giving him. I'm gonna be dreaming as hell, though I can't take the day off. I just think I'll be paying off you and chip on your shoulder. A little misswoods compa- Sidebar ahead of my audition for Celebrity Director Stanley Tucci. Let's hear it for Stanley Tucci. And I'm a great actor. He's directing, of course, on Broadway, and I went in for the Orange and New Guy. And I was feeling grateful of myself, and so I had like 10 pages of songs, and I did not memorize them. I thought, I'm gonna go in and just charm and razzle dazzle and make spontaneous choices. So I got in the room and Stanley Tucci was behind the desk, and he was so handsome, and so nice. And he said, okay, let's do it. And I did the scene. It seemed to last 15 minutes, and not one single lap. I mean, truly, truly bombed. And I was buried in my pages, and he graciously said, let's try it again. And so I did again, 15 long minutes later. I had well and truly bombed. I mean, this is true. It was the lesson to me, was I would never, ever not memorize my side again. It was that traumatic, but he just walked around the table, and he shook my hand, and he said, and I quote, you're a very fine actor. I didn't give it. Well, this man at Israel Picker Reth, but it started its life as a desk, clear it off, and find some room for books instead. Can you live without this? Can you live without that? I don't know what that is. It's for hair, wear a hat, spend some time improving what's inside your hand, out, out, put a new story, sell it on eBay, live behind it. A commercial once for eBay, it went a little something like... When you can't see, define the ways, what that's inside that's on eBay. I know the toy you can find, the men shoot that's the line that's on eBay. And folks that ring, look at my fingers, I'll swing, nice, wing, wing, That's on eBay, like today, and it's on its way, I'll be in the same room, you'll be okay. That's on eBay. Still got it. I've only done something online that I know when that commercial came out, and they're like, I'm so excited for that commercial. I'm sorry, they didn't use your real voice. Up around that time, there was a... I'm sorry, I'm not driving in much of the spots, going from time to time. Around that time, in the commercial community, that commercial had a little bit of what we call it. To it. And so my commercial agent at that time called me up and he said, I have some good news. There was a new serial coming out called Reason Brand Crunch. No, it's my favorite. It's built up exactly. They're doing a national campaign, we're talking a lot of money, get this. The breakdown. And it says what type of actor they're looking for. The breakdown for Reason Brand Crunch said, looking for a Christian Boral town. So I went to the audition. Looking very much like Christian Boral. And all I had to do was sit in the table. The gag was that the serial was so crunchy that when you eat it, you can't hear your boss for writing it and you can find it. So all I had to do was sit at a table, take a spoonful of dry razorbread crunch and eat it. I didn't get it. Out, out, what do you think? You may find a chip on your shoulder, the room just got colder. Oh, the chance you've been given, why are you not trimming his head? There's just no way around it. You've got to put it through till you buy it. So, Elle holds up a textbook, still in a shrink wrap. Been reading it hard, I can tell. I mentioned Spamwell already. I didn't get Spamwell a lot three times before I got it. I would go in, I would bomb someone else would get it. I would go in, I would bomb someone else would get it. And finally, these three incredible Barry Talies were very successful. And now, you're probably wealthy actors. Got it before me, but turned it down for various reasons. So I went in for a fourth time, feeling very rejected. And I was there doing the historian bit. And I could tell I was bombing again. And Mike Nichols and I told the sitting across the table, I could tell that he wasn't buying it. And I found, I just stopped. And I said, is there something I'm not doing that you want me to do? And Mike Nichols just looked at me with big smile and said, yes. And he told me what to do. And I got it. But she got a cheek on the shoulder. Maybe some wise man told her, well the chance we've been given, we got a beat drink in his house. She was something to see there. I was happy I could be there. I worked for the best that she has been. She's so close, she can taste it. She got a chipmater shoulder. Guess you never can't tell. I'm a hell. We're the best ones to come. I'm a hell. I'm a hell. I'm a hell. We're the best ones to come.