Latest / The Breakfast Club / Exclusive Take on Megan Thee Stallion on Broadway
Transcript
- 0:02Speaker 1: I'm a homegrowd that knows a little bit about everything
- 0:04Speaker 1: and everybody.
- 0:06Speaker 2: I don't know if you don't lie about that, right Lauren, Hey, y'all,
- 0:10Speaker 2: what's up.
- 0:10Speaker 1: It's Lauren Rosa and this is another episode of the
- 0:13Speaker 1: Latest with Lauren de Rosa. This is your Deli Dig
- 0:16Speaker 1: on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of
- 0:19Speaker 1: the conversations that shake the room.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Baby. Now, first we have to do the thing that
- 0:24Speaker 2: we do over here where we.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Check in behind the scenes of the Grind, and checking
- 0:32Speaker 1: in behind the scenes of the Grind today. I mean,
- 0:34Speaker 1: I'm just happy that it's almost Friday. I'm gonna just
- 0:37Speaker 1: be honest with you guys, like I am looking forward
- 0:40Speaker 1: so much, just been in the holiday weekend, Easter is
- 0:43Speaker 1: coming up with my family, and just taking that time
- 0:46Speaker 1: to do so that I have been counting down. I
- 0:50Speaker 1: kicked off the week, not the week, but I kicked
- 0:54Speaker 1: off kind of like my weekend, or I was supposed
- 0:56Speaker 1: to be kicking off my weekend. We're heading on over
- 0:58Speaker 1: to see Meg thea Sallion on Broadway in mulin.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Rude and that completely went left field.
- 1:04Speaker 1: I just rapped and you guys can catch those live now.
- 1:08Speaker 1: I just wrapped two interviews about that experience the Broadway,
- 1:13Speaker 1: one with Inside Edition and one with the Good Morning America,
- 1:17Speaker 1: where we talked about the fact that I went to
- 1:19Speaker 1: go see megda Stallion on Broadway and abruptly the show
- 1:23Speaker 1: stopped because Meg got sick and was taken to the hospital. Literally,
- 1:28Speaker 1: very abruptly, not planned. So you guys can imagine I
- 1:33Speaker 1: would say that it caused this shake up, but honestly
- 1:37Speaker 1: it didn't. Like I mean, they paused for a second.
- 1:40Speaker 1: In the moment, it felt like, what the hell has happened?
- 1:42Speaker 1: Is super confusing, but then they continued on. But now
- 1:47Speaker 1: it's the after conversation of what happened. So I received
- 1:52Speaker 1: a statement from a spokesperson from Megdae Stallion, and that
- 1:57Speaker 1: statement says on Tuesday even Meghan was transported to a
- 2:00Speaker 1: local hospital to undergo a medical evaluation after experiencing concerning symptoms.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Doctors ultimately identified extreme exhaustion, dehydration, low metabolic levels as
- 2:11Speaker 1: the cause of her symptoms. Megan has since been treated, discharged,
- 2:14Speaker 1: and is down resting. Megan is incredibly grateful for the
- 2:17Speaker 1: prayers in the world, which is from her supporters, and
- 2:19Speaker 1: is looking forward to resuming her role at Ziddler on
- 2:22Speaker 1: mulin Rouge or at Mulin Rouge on Thursday. Now Magde
- 2:27Speaker 1: Stallion herself posted to her Instagram as well, just thinking
- 2:32Speaker 1: people for the support and providing some more information. So
- 2:34Speaker 1: Megan posted a photo of her from Ziddler from mulin
- 2:38Speaker 1: Rouge and she says last night was a real wake
- 2:40Speaker 1: up call for me. I've been pushing myself, passed my
- 2:42Speaker 1: limits lately, running running on empty, and my body said enough.
- 2:46Speaker 2: It's honestly scary for me. I thought I was gonna
- 2:48Speaker 2: faint on.
- 2:48Speaker 1: Stage, which is crazy because watching her, you couldn't tell that, Like,
- 2:53Speaker 1: I think that's the scariest part about all of this.
- 2:57Speaker 1: You know, her saying that she felt like she was
- 2:59Speaker 1: going to faint, and then you bring in dehydration and
- 3:02Speaker 1: exhaustion and all these things. You could not tell that
- 3:07Speaker 1: when she was on that stage, y'all. And again she wasn't.
- 3:10Speaker 1: She wasn't there long, Like she didn't appear too many
- 3:13Speaker 1: times on stage prior to the moment that we're talking
- 3:17Speaker 1: about where she had to no longer be on the stage.
- 3:19Speaker 1: But the times that she appeared, like I literally remember
- 3:22Speaker 1: sitting and thinking like okay.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Number one.
- 3:25Speaker 1: The cast was just fire. It was very timely, like
- 3:28Speaker 1: the music that they used to create the Mulin Rouge
- 3:32Speaker 1: vibe wasn't like I thought it was gonna be time
- 3:35Speaker 1: piece stuff. So I thought the music was gonna be
- 3:37Speaker 1: like a lot of older like Ballady, you know, like
- 3:40Speaker 1: those type of things. And it wasn't like they were
- 3:42Speaker 1: doing Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner.
- 3:46Speaker 2: It was a vibe.
- 3:47Speaker 1: But Meg the Staggen fit right in, like her energy,
- 3:50Speaker 1: her voice, even though she's not like a sanger at all,
- 3:53Speaker 1: but just even in her speaking role because Ziller is
- 3:56Speaker 1: more of like the orchestrator of all of the madness
- 3:59Speaker 1: in the show, because Zidler is the person that is
- 4:02Speaker 1: running the cabaret, the Mulin Rouge location. But you know
- 4:07Speaker 1: how megda Saliu has that like animated hot voice. It
- 4:10Speaker 1: just fit with the show. She looked good, she fit
- 4:13Speaker 1: with the cast. She didn't feel like the celebrity on
- 4:16Speaker 1: the stage at Broadway. And I'm I'm very surprised to
- 4:19Speaker 1: hear this, but you know, you don't always know what
- 4:22Speaker 1: that looks like. Exhaustion and all the things that she
- 4:25Speaker 1: is claiming, and she then continues to go on to
- 4:29Speaker 1: say that she hates letting people down. She wants to
- 4:32Speaker 1: be real with the hotties who are her you know
- 4:34Speaker 1: her you know her followers because they mean everything to her.
- 4:38Speaker 2: But she just needs a day of rest.
- 4:39Speaker 1: She says she'll be back on that stage this coming Thursday, stronger,
- 4:44Speaker 1: clearer and ready to give you one hundred percent the
- 4:46Speaker 1: way you deserve. Thank you for always riving with me
- 4:48Speaker 1: and loving me through everything. The hotties was in the building, okay,
- 4:52Speaker 1: because there was a few girls.
- 4:54Speaker 2: There was a few ladies.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Who got up and left once it was announced that
- 4:57Speaker 1: Megd Salia would not be returning back onto the stage,
- 5:00Speaker 1: as well as like people just sitting there with well wishes.
- 5:02Speaker 1: I stayed as long as I could. I didn't finish
- 5:06Speaker 1: the show, though, but I say as long as I
- 5:07Speaker 1: could because I still wanted to see the show. And
- 5:10Speaker 1: it was great. The understudy who came in from Meg
- 5:12Speaker 1: the Sallium was great. The rest of the cast was
- 5:14Speaker 1: great as well. Like the lead who plays Celestine, the
- 5:17Speaker 1: woman who plays her, her voice.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Is like not real.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Like at one point we thought, well I knew, I'm
- 5:24Speaker 1: like this is live. It's no way that this is
- 5:26Speaker 1: like pre taped that much. I know that they probably
- 5:29Speaker 1: might add some like, you know, support vocals, but to
- 5:32Speaker 1: hear a person sing live and sound the way that
- 5:35Speaker 1: the lead of the play sounded was everything.
- 5:38Speaker 2: But yeah, just I don't know.
- 5:39Speaker 1: It's just I didn't expect sitting there in the show
- 5:43Speaker 1: for any of that to happen. And then I was
- 5:46Speaker 1: talking to I reached out and just text Charlemagne and
- 5:50Speaker 1: Envy because I was trying to figure out what was
- 5:53Speaker 1: going on. When after I reached out to me Mex's
- 5:55Speaker 1: team and they didn't tell me anything, right, I hit
- 6:01Speaker 1: them and I'm like, yo, can y'all reach out to
- 6:03Speaker 1: somebody that y'all may know in the camp because I
- 6:06Speaker 1: need to know what's going on. Number one, just as
- 6:08Speaker 1: a person sitting here in the theater who was being
- 6:11Speaker 1: told not to go anywhere, to sit down and have
- 6:13Speaker 1: a seat, right, that was number one, Just make sure
- 6:15Speaker 1: I'm cool. But number two also now it's like the
- 6:20Speaker 1: journalist and me is kicking in. I made notes inside
- 6:22Speaker 1: of the theater just in the moment of things because
- 6:26Speaker 1: I just wanted to document everything that was happening.
- 6:28Speaker 2: And I didn't even remember taking these notes. That's how fast.
- 6:31Speaker 2: Everything happened. When I came in.
- 6:34Speaker 1: To work the following day, I remember or saw these notes.
- 6:39Speaker 1: So at seven forty pm, they paused the show and
- 6:42Speaker 1: execue to clear the stage and said that they'd be
- 6:44Speaker 1: making an update for the audience, but to stay seated.
- 6:48Speaker 1: And then I just talked a little bit about some
- 6:49Speaker 1: of the songs that you know they were doing, like
- 6:52Speaker 1: Elton John I told you guys, Britney Spears, Tina Turner.
- 6:57Speaker 1: When I heard What's Love Got to Do with It?
- 6:59Speaker 1: I was like, okay, so this this is I like,
- 7:02Speaker 1: they take the newer songs. I mean, not that song's
- 7:05Speaker 1: not super new, but you guys get what I mean,
- 7:07Speaker 1: like songs that you would recognize and identify with, but
- 7:09Speaker 1: they make it fit within the love story of Mulan Rouge.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Now I do want to go back. I do want
- 7:15Speaker 1: to go back on Thursday. I should actually try and
- 7:16Speaker 1: buy a ticket right now. I think I'm gonna do that.
- 7:19Speaker 1: I want to go back on Thursday, purchase a ticket
- 7:22Speaker 1: because I doubt anybody want to invite me because I
- 7:24Speaker 1: don't put this story out.
- 7:25Speaker 2: But I didn't know that the story would do all
- 7:27Speaker 2: of this, y'all. Like I really didn't. I didn't.
- 7:30Speaker 1: I knew that it was news, and I knew that
- 7:32Speaker 1: I was going to make it news, but I had
- 7:35Speaker 1: no idea, you know, the reach and the legs that
- 7:37Speaker 1: this thing would have. But I think it's because, you know,
- 7:40Speaker 1: people are just nosy. If we've been honest, people love
- 7:44Speaker 1: anything drama, and it had all of the you know,
- 7:46Speaker 1: the elements.
- 7:48Speaker 2: But I think that there.
- 7:48Speaker 1: Just is a really there's a crowd of people who
- 7:52Speaker 1: are really invested in Megda Sali, and whether it's for
- 7:54Speaker 1: positive things because you care about her, you wanted a
- 7:56Speaker 1: hotties you want to support, or is for negative things
- 7:59Speaker 1: following it everything with Tory Lanez like, I think that
- 8:01Speaker 1: there are people on both sides that are super super invested,
- 8:05Speaker 1: and I can see why. You know, she is doing
- 8:10Speaker 1: like pushing herself to the limit that she's pushing herself.
- 8:12Speaker 1: Not that I think that it's right, but I can
- 8:14Speaker 1: understand it just because of how big the conversation around
- 8:18Speaker 1: her gets.
- 8:19Speaker 2: She's superstar, so I get it. So I'll keep you
- 8:22Speaker 2: guys posted. I'm actually gonna go in.
- 8:23Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy some tickets to return back to Mulin
- 8:25Speaker 1: Rouge on Thursday. We'll let you know how the full
- 8:28Speaker 1: show would make the sigion goes when I am able
- 8:30Speaker 1: to do so, you were told to be seated, And
- 8:35Speaker 1: people keep asking me in these interviews that I'm doing,
- 8:38Speaker 1: did they turn the house sitsle on? Like you know
- 8:40Speaker 1: how much of an abrupt stop was this? And I'm
- 8:44Speaker 1: gonna tell you, guys, this is how I knew because
- 8:46Speaker 1: when I reached out to Meg's team, They're like, oh,
- 8:49Speaker 1: you know, it's just intermission. It's just you know that
- 8:51Speaker 1: happens all Broadway, And I'm like, I've been to a
- 8:53Speaker 1: Broadway play several times. This is not intermission. They never
- 8:58Speaker 1: turn the house lights on. Really, what they did was
- 9:01Speaker 1: is like they kept they lit it up more than
- 9:03Speaker 1: it was lit when the actors were on the stage,
- 9:06Speaker 1: as you guys are going to be able to see.
- 9:10Speaker 1: But they had some music playing in the background, but
- 9:13Speaker 1: it's every as you literally people were just sitting here
- 9:17Speaker 1: and we're just in quiet, and we're like we're kind
- 9:19Speaker 1: of like on the edge of our seats waiting to
- 9:21Speaker 1: hear what the next instruction would be.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Because we were told in the.
- 9:24Speaker 1: First next announcement that came over the speaker in the
- 9:27Speaker 1: house that we will be receiving more instruction.
- 9:30Speaker 2: No, you know, so security wasn't.
- 9:33Speaker 1: Super high specifically because Meg thee Stallion was there. That's
- 9:35Speaker 1: another thing too that you know, as I'm painting the
- 9:38Speaker 1: picture of this that I want people to understand, and
- 9:41Speaker 1: which is why I thought maybe there was even like
- 9:43Speaker 1: something related to security that might have happened, because security
- 9:47Speaker 1: was normal, like you know, there was the security check
- 9:50Speaker 1: when you walked in the door or the Hirschfeld Theater.
- 9:53Speaker 1: There were you know, the guards who helped escort you
- 9:56Speaker 1: to your seats and all black. Of course, there's security
- 9:59Speaker 1: on the out front of the door before you walk
- 10:00Speaker 1: in through the you know, security scanners.
- 10:04Speaker 2: But other than.
- 10:04Speaker 1: That that I saw, at least not in the theater.
- 10:07Speaker 1: I don't know what her backstage is like, whether she
- 10:09Speaker 1: I'm sure she has like other guards.
- 10:11Speaker 2: I mean I would be.
- 10:12Speaker 1: I would be so confused if she did not, So
- 10:16Speaker 1: I put, maybe there are other guards in the back
- 10:18Speaker 1: with her, you know, for her personal like persons.
- 10:21Speaker 2: But from what we saw in the theater, security was
- 10:24Speaker 2: just normal.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Security was very normal for it to be you know,
- 10:29Speaker 1: Meg Decillion on Broadway. But again this is also kind
- 10:32Speaker 1: of normal in that area where celebrities come they pop
- 10:35Speaker 1: in a Broadway for several weeks at a time, and
- 10:38Speaker 1: the Broadway goers just come and see the celebrity like
- 10:40Speaker 1: they're not there to harm or you know, like any
- 10:43Speaker 1: bad intentions. But I think it's so crazy tho the
- 10:45Speaker 1: world that we're in and just how you know what
- 10:49Speaker 1: it was too. It was the Rihanna story, like reporting
- 10:52Speaker 1: on that Rihanna story and just seeing how like obsessed
- 10:55Speaker 1: and crazy fans can be. I think my first instinct,
- 10:59Speaker 1: in my first thought, this was something security wise must
- 11:02Speaker 1: have happened, and they're having to like lock it down,
- 11:05Speaker 1: get her out of here, make sure she's safe.
- 11:07Speaker 2: That was literally my first thought.
- 11:09Speaker 1: And that's what made me call her team so fast,
- 11:11Speaker 1: because I'm like, you know, if anybody is going to
- 11:14Speaker 1: Before it was about reporting the story, I was really
- 11:17Speaker 1: just trying to make sure that, like I knew for
- 11:19Speaker 1: myself what the hell was going on, and I'm like,
- 11:22Speaker 1: if anybody's gonna know, her team is going to know
- 11:25Speaker 1: because they have to like make sure she's good too.
- 11:29Speaker 1: So Mulin Rouge, I have not seen the movie. I
- 11:32Speaker 1: only knew what it was about before going into the
- 11:34Speaker 1: show because I reported about the fact that megda Stallion
- 11:38Speaker 1: was making her Broadway debut doing this play, and also
- 11:42Speaker 1: like loosely because of the song with like Christina Aguilera
- 11:44Speaker 1: and like whatever you know, I knew somewhat very loosely
- 11:48Speaker 1: the Tale of Mulin Rouge. But I'm gonna be honest
- 11:51Speaker 1: with you. I looked more into it because Megda Stallion
- 11:53Speaker 1: was on Broadway. And I will say when Candy wrapped
- 11:58Speaker 1: in Juliet Candy Birds of Real Housewives of Atlanta, We've
- 12:01Speaker 1: also had her here on the podcast. You guys can
- 12:04Speaker 1: go watch or listen to that interview in Fool. When
- 12:07Speaker 1: we had her here on the podcast, she had just
- 12:11Speaker 1: wrapped Broadway. And when she rapped, I reached out to
- 12:14Speaker 1: a really good publicist friend that I know that does
- 12:16Speaker 1: pr for all the Broadway shows, and I had asked, like,
- 12:21Speaker 1: you know, what does Megaci like what we're seeing Candy,
- 12:25Speaker 1: you know, Burds, Magda Stallion, you know Denzel did Othello
- 12:30Speaker 1: not too long ago, just to name a few, you know,
- 12:34Speaker 1: very like super big names. You know, Megda Sallion is
- 12:40Speaker 1: very young on Broadway, and I wanted to know, like why,
- 12:45Speaker 1: like you know, I think during a certain time period
- 12:48Speaker 1: in television and movies or whatever.
- 12:50Speaker 2: I think things were very much like for.
- 12:53Speaker 1: The goers of that storyline, right, So everybody in the
- 12:57Speaker 1: Moulin Rous theater was like very very French, you know,
- 13:00Speaker 1: so like it felt like, Okay, these are people who
- 13:02Speaker 1: have been so invested in Mulin Rouge and these characters
- 13:05Speaker 1: or whatever. But then now you have the Megda Stallion elements.
- 13:10Speaker 1: So she's bringing people like me who loosely know Mulin
- 13:13Speaker 1: Rouge but want to see Megda Stallion but also love
- 13:16Speaker 1: live theater and live performance, right, And I was like,
- 13:20Speaker 1: why are celebrities jumping to do this right now? It's
- 13:22Speaker 1: not the pay, so what is it like why? And
- 13:26Speaker 1: what my friend told me was like, you know, it's
- 13:28Speaker 1: different for different people. There are some celebrities who do
- 13:31Speaker 1: it just because it's like always been a goal of theirs.
- 13:34Speaker 1: There are some celebrities that do it because they're trying
- 13:36Speaker 1: to prepare themselves for like something else, whether it's an
- 13:38Speaker 1: acting role or you know, another play. There are some
- 13:41Speaker 1: celebrities to do it because they want to be taken
- 13:43Speaker 1: more seriously about things. I know Candy Burrs, who we
- 13:46Speaker 1: you know talk to from formerly of Real Houseworst of Atlanta,
- 13:49Speaker 1: She mentioned, you know, going back to theater and doing
- 13:52Speaker 1: certain things because she wanted to be taken more serious
- 13:54Speaker 1: after Reality TV when she was auditioning for things like
- 13:58Speaker 1: The Shy and things that she was doing. And I
- 14:01Speaker 1: don't know what megde stallions, you know, like what she
- 14:04Speaker 1: plans to.
- 14:05Speaker 2: Do after this.
- 14:06Speaker 1: I know nothing Rock Nation is just loosely done. You know,
- 14:11Speaker 1: their strategy and intent and focus and passion behind everything.
- 14:15Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see what comes out of this
- 14:18Speaker 1: and kind of what this was preparation for. But yeah,
- 14:23Speaker 1: I never like, no, I wasn't like a person that
- 14:29Speaker 1: just subscribed to all things mulin Rouge. But a lot
- 14:31Speaker 1: of the people there were like they were like die hard,
- 14:35Speaker 1: like yeah, and that's why, like when I talk about
- 14:38Speaker 1: people getting up and leaving the show, I make it
- 14:41Speaker 1: a point to after it was announced that megda Stallion
- 14:43Speaker 1: wasn't going to continue as Zetler or a Ziler, I
- 14:46Speaker 1: make the point to say that majority of the audience stayed.
- 14:50Speaker 1: And this is no shade to Megda Sallion. Love her
- 14:53Speaker 1: down and again she was doing amazing, but a lot
- 14:55Speaker 1: of the people in that audience were people that were
- 14:57Speaker 1: die hard Mulin Rouge fans, not just Meg thee Stallion.
- 15:01Speaker 2: Do you know what's crazy?
- 15:05Speaker 1: So so the question in the room was, do I
- 15:07Speaker 1: think they're trying to push Megda Stallion into like TV
- 15:10Speaker 1: more and things of that nature. And you guys mentioned
- 15:12Speaker 1: what was the TV show fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.
- 15:17Speaker 1: You know what's crazy is as much as I follow
- 15:19Speaker 1: celebrity news and you know, pop culture and stuff, I
- 15:23Speaker 1: know that Megdae Stallion had done like I know, she's
- 15:25Speaker 1: like big in anime and she was working she's working
- 15:27Speaker 1: on something with the Boondocks, but I didn't know how
- 15:30Speaker 1: like the few like TV things like, I had heard
- 15:34Speaker 1: about something with her in The Hawk, but for some reason,
- 15:37Speaker 1: it didn't click in my brain that she was like
- 15:39Speaker 1: an actor in it. I thought maybe she was gonna
- 15:42Speaker 1: just be like creating some music for it or whatever.
- 15:43Speaker 1: But that also came up on The Breakfast Club as
- 15:45Speaker 1: well too, and I'm like, maybe, so it would make
- 15:49Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Because I'm gonna be honest with y'all,
- 15:51Speaker 1: like I've seen Megda Stallion perform, just as Megdae Stallion
- 15:54Speaker 1: the music artist, one hell of a performance. She performs
- 15:58Speaker 1: down okay, dancing, singing, baby the knees, be working, you
- 16:03Speaker 1: know all of that. When I say singing, I mean
- 16:04Speaker 1: like little cue stuff because you know she's a rapper, right,
- 16:06Speaker 1: but it'd be look, you know she's she could get
- 16:08Speaker 1: a little melodica time, but rapper like performance. But I
- 16:13Speaker 1: think she would be the she'd be. She's going to
- 16:15Speaker 1: be amazing in this space. Whatever they're trying to grow
- 16:18Speaker 1: her too or whatever. This you know, this round of
- 16:21Speaker 1: Broadway is is stretching her her palette for she's gonna
- 16:27Speaker 1: kill it. Because again I didn't get to see much
- 16:29Speaker 1: of her, and I am't gonna go back. But what
- 16:31Speaker 1: I saw, she fit right in with the audience, Like
- 16:34Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not with the audience, she fit right
- 16:36Speaker 1: in with the cast like she was keeping up, she
- 16:38Speaker 1: was holding her own. So that has been another episode
- 16:42Speaker 1: of the Latest with Laurna Rose. I love it when
- 16:44Speaker 1: I could take you guys on location with me. The Latest,
- 16:47Speaker 1: you know, spends all things celebrity, news, entertainment conversations that
- 16:51Speaker 1: shake the room. But a lot of times it's like
- 16:53Speaker 1: we outside, we are the Latest on location and our
- 16:56Speaker 1: latest location just happened to be Broadway for Mulin Rus
- 16:59Speaker 1: And like that at Megda Salian, you know Phil Illwin
- 17:01Speaker 1: had to abruptly leave the show, so brought you guys
- 17:04Speaker 1: straight live into that. I appreciate you guys being here
- 17:08Speaker 1: with me, my little Riders. I tell you every single
- 17:10Speaker 1: episode it could be anywhere with anybody, but.
- 17:13Speaker 2: You choose to be with me. I appreciate you, guys,
- 17:15Speaker 2: and I'll catch you on my next one.