David Byrne on the Advice Hugh Jackman Gave Him

David Byrne opens up about the advice he got from Hugh Jackman about being on Broadway: "Don't go out partying with your friends after the show!"

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00:00Hugh Jackman, and I'd met him once, just kind of like a social thing.

00:07So I reached out and said, do you think I can do this?

00:13He said, yeah, you can do it, you can do it.

00:15And, but, don't go out partying with your friends after the show,

00:22because if you go to a noisy bar and you're shouting and everybody's having a great time,

00:26that's like adding another show to your voice.

00:31He also said, if you've got two shows in one day, don't take a nap in between.

00:37You'd be really tempted to go, okay, let me just relax and get ready and think about it.

00:43Don't think about the next one.

00:45And he said, because then you're, you've kind of woken up your body for the first one,

00:51and you're going to go back down to like zero.

00:53And then you have to kind of get yourself all revved up for the next one.

00:57He said, no, just kind of stay up there, power through the next one.