Mandy patinkin tictoc1/28/2024 ![]() The pandemic has been a trial for the whole world. But between the kids doing soccer and National Dance Institute, and Daddy being on the road working and Mommy doing her work, we we'd hardly ever get up there. Can you share a few of your favorite things about New York in the Hudson Valley? I know that you you're a resident of New York State, and the Hudson Valley. It's filled with history, you really feel like you're, you know, you're walking down a historical journey when you're in that place. All the signs are the towns that they stopped in. I love the signs on the door that were the old circuit, you know, the Vaudeville circuit. Now, you've been to Proctor's before, right? And without them, the whole thing is for shit. And so the only people that are paying attention and the reason we're doing the whole thing is for the people in the seats. You're with the crew, but they're concentrating on focusing the camera and all the technical details with the lights and everything. When you do film or you do recording or you do television, you're not with the audience. So it's also immediate to the moment to the day for everybody, not just for the lyrics of the song and how they reflect on my life at that moment that day, but on everybody else's life and the world itself. And they infuse evening with the kind of energy that they want to have happening. They dictate everything about the evening. The most important part of the concert is the audience not me. MP: Why? Because it's, it's just that it's immediate. But I've heard you say before that live musical performance is your favorite thing? Can you just elaborate on that and why you feel that way? You are, at least in my eyes, a jack of all trades and master of all of them as well. ![]() JM: Now, you do so many different things. JM: They actually did bring a sheet of ice to Proctors once when I was a kid, and they had all of the Olympians doing backflips on the stage. Why don't I get a little ice pond, put it on stage and you just come up and do 20 minutes? MP: There's nothing more beautiful than watching that. JM: I totally understand the athletic thing. It’s sort of like an athletic event for me. JM: You sound like you're a really busy guy. MP: Indeed, I'm going from here to Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale to Boca Raton, to Bethesda, Maryland, back to New York then to Schenectady and Proctors. JM: Are you in the car headed to the airport? This has been a wonderful experience and at the moment, I do not want it to end. It makes you just want to get in the car and go to the airport and fly to the next place to keep going. And it has been one of the most fun concerts I've ever done in my life and I can't get over the way the audience is supporting us so beautifully. Not dark, but full of fun and feeling alive again. When we started talking about going back on the road after the pandemic, I was very clear about wanting to do something that was happy. It was called “Diaries.” And it was a pretty dark concert because it was a fairly dark time, I guess it osmosed itself into me. Mandy Patinkin: I had a concert that I put together that I liked very much before the pandemic. Jessica Marshall: How do you choose the songs that go into your setlist? Here’s an excerpt of our recent conversation: In addition to “Being Alive,” he partners with his wife Kathryn Grody and son Gideon Grody-Patinkin to make highly successful (and oftentimes hilarious) videos for his social media channels, he works with the International Rescue Committee, and he relishes his newest gig, becoming a grandfather. At 70, he’s a prolific actor and singer balancing a schedule of performances that would make someone half his age exhausted just thinking about. I learned from our conversation that he keeps really busy these days. The journey to the airport on this particular day afforded him a spare moment to hop on the phone with me, generous with his time so that in a semi-starstruck state (I’m unabashedly a big “The Princess Bride” fan), I can pepper him with questions about his new show and his work in general.
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