Hello everyone, I'm Jinx Monsoon, and welcome to a brand new episode of Hi Jinx with me, Jinx Monsoon.

Today, my guest is Charlotte Dembois, who is currently playing Roxy Heart with me on Broadway in Chicago The Musical.

And if you don't know her from that, maybe you know her from Cats or Pippin or one of the countless other Broadway productions

she's been a part of because she is a New York ballet legacy baby, a Broadway superstar, and royalty in every sense of the word.

It's all today on a brand new episode of Hi Jinx, so buckle up, hunk her down, and sink your teeth into some brand new Hi Jinx!

Hello everyone, I'm Jinx Monsoon, and welcome to Hi Jinx, a podcast where I, an international

nationally tolerated drag superstar, get to interview compelling and fascinating people about how they became who they are and why they do what they do.

Today we are joined by Broadway royalty actress singer and dancer Charlotte Dembois, and I should say she's also my Roxy Heart in Chicago on Broadway right now.

It's Charlotte Dembois, Hi Charlotte! Hi Jinx! How are you this morning? I'm good, I'm good, I'm fabulous, I'm so happy to be talking to you, and it's a gorgeous day, and I have a dog that's very needy of mine, so I'm literally talking to you and throwing a ball at the same time.

Pents are always so needy of our attention when we're doing podcasts, my cat will, it's like she doesn't care a lick about my computer the rest of the time, but if I'm on it, that's the only place she wants to sit, it's right on top of the computer.

It's like she feels like she's being left out of something anyway, how you're focusing on something and it's not them.

So we just finished, we did four shows this weekend, but it's just a part of doing an eight show weekend, for anyone who doesn't know, most Broadway shows take Monday off, so you do your four show weekend and then you have a day off.

Chicago is one of the rare exceptions where we take Wednesday off, that means we go Thursday, Friday, doing one show each, two shows on Saturday and Sunday, then a show on Monday and Tuesday, and then you get a day off, so it's a full week of work, before you're one day off, and then you go right back into another week of work.

And you have been doing this kind of schedule for years and years and years.

And how did it start? What was your first Broadway production?

The first one I did, I lost you for a second here, was my first Broadway show was Cats in like 1984, I think 83.

You know, yeah, a long time ago, just cats, just cats, you know, it had just opened and I did the first national company of that, and it's funny because I also did the first national company of Chicago.

So that's how I got involved in Chicago, and that was 20 Chicago, I think it's been 26 years, so that was like 25 years, and I played Roxy on the first national tour, so that's how long I've been doing this show.

But I've been in and out of it, so this show has been going forever.

I started the national for a couple of years, maybe not even, did Broadway, I mean, did Broadway, and then I stopped and did other shows.

But every year they'd call me usually, if I was free, to come in for a couple of months here or there.

And so this time they called and it actually was a little longer than a couple months, it'll be five months, that's really long for me.

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