-You're gonna be in New York for a while,
so hopefully you can come back and play more stuff with us.
-I would love that! Anytime.
-The whole family, I heard, is moving here this summer.
-Yeah, they finish school in a couple weeks,
then they'll be out. I'm very, very excited.
-How old are your boys now? -We have three boys.
We have twin 10-year-olds. -10 years old?
-And our oldest turns 13 in five days.
-You're kidding me? -You know, which is --
Oh, thank you. -That happens so fast.
-It's so fast, but he's the greatest kid.
But 13 is just such a pivotal age, you know?
-Yeah. That's the cool guy,
"I'm not sure if I want to hang out with you, Dad."
-Yeah. Suddenly, there are clouds of Axe Body Spray
emanating from his room.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
-He wants to go shopping for hair gel and...
-Yeah! It's all that stuff.
-But he's actually gonna be my date to the Tonys.
He's coming to the Tony awards with me,
and I'm very excited about that.
-Have you brought him on a thing before?
-I haven't. This is his first one,
and he's been so cool about it. -Well, that's awesome.
-He said to me, he was like, "Listen, I know there are
gonna be a lot of people there, but I want you to know,
I don't crack under pressure." [ Laughter ]
And I was like, "Buddy, don't worry, there's no pressure."
He was like, "But is someone gonna do my hair?"
[ Laughter ]
-It's all about his looks. -I was like, "Yes.
We'll do your hair, man." -You're gonna be a stud.
Don't worry about it, pal.
Let's talk about this -- "The Boys in The Band."
May 31st is when it opens.
Look at this cast. I love everybody in this cast.
-That's a lot of black turtlenecks.
-It is a lot -- [ Laughter ]
That's what it's about -- it's a turtleneck factory.
-Yeah, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
-But what is this -- What is this play about?
-This play is from 1968.
It's the 50th anniversary of the play.
It's about a group of gay men, pre-Stonewall,
who gather together in an apartment
because it's illegal for them to celebrate together in public
to celebrate their friend's birthday.
And slowly, over the course of the evening,
as more and more alcohol is imbibed,
things start to go off the rails,
and it takes a sharp, dark turn. -It does, yeah.
-But it's really important -- I hate that word, important,
but to look back and see how far we've come in 50 years
and how much all the great legislation
and equal civil rights that we have now
enables us to look back and really realize
just how far we've come.
-Yeah, absolutely. [ Cheers and applause ]
Also, when you think about it, too,
50 years is not that long ago.
-It's not that long. I mean --
-50 years is not that long ago.
-And Mart Crowley is a fantastic playwright,
and this dialogue feels just as fresh and crisp now
as it did 50 years ago.
-And you must have good chemistry.
I mean, we've had Andrew Rannells on the show
who's just the most fun. -The best, yeah.
-He said that his job is not to just act in this play.
His job is to make you laugh on stage
and try to crack you up while you're doing your lines.
-That's not hard to do. -[ Laughs ]
He said, he's like, "Oh, dude, Matt's so much fun."
He's like, "But I'm just gonna try to break him on stage."
-We do, but I fight back. -Oh, you do?
-Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Oh, and you try to make him laugh, too.
-I've gotten him a couple of times, too.
And Jim Parsons. -Jim is great.
-Did Jim just fall down a flight stairs recently?
He hurt his -- -First of all, Jim's great.
-He's fine, he's okay. -He's amazing.
He's back in the show, everything is great.
He didn't miss a beat. He is a total trooper.
But, yes, he fractured his foot during curtain call one night.
But he's back. He's a total trooper,
and it's like he didn't miss a beat.
I mean, he's -- -He is, yeah.
But is he wearing like -- Does he have a cast?
-He has a boot for now and --
-Is he using it as his character?
-You know, the interesting thing,
the first couple of performances back,
he had a cane, and a lot people thought
it was part of the character. -A cane.
-Because it does have kind of a "Richard III" vibe, you know?
[ Laughter ]
-He's coming on our show. He better bring a cane.
[ Laughter ] Jim Parsons should totally --
-Just a pimp cane. -Yeah, just like a full-on cane.
I want, like, a staff cane and, like...
-just a goblet on top. -Yeah.
-Sip on it from time to time.
-He has to have a crazy cane, yeah.
Oh, my gosh. And this is your Broadway debut.
-It is, man. -Anything go --
-I'm having the best time. -Good.
-Yeah. It's a great group.
Joe Mantello is like the director of a generation.
But I did -- Yeah, I did make a rookie mistake
on our third preview, I think -- -Forgot your lines?
-No, I didn't forget my lines.
I forgot to check my props before
and set my props before the play.
-Oh, you're like, "I'll get it, I'll get the phone."
You're like, "No phone." [ Laughter ]
-I wish that's what had happened.
My character takes a shower
within the first five minutes of the play.
-Okay. -And I'm in the shower,
and talking the whole time I'm taking a shower.
And I realize that there was no towel for me...
[ Laughter ] ...when I got out of the shower.
-Are you really in -- -And I'm naked.
-You really are.
So I had the choice to either --
-There's no clapping. [ Laughter ]
Hey, grow up, yeah. Grow up.
-No, I had a choice to either do the rest
of the 10-minute scene buck naked...
which would not have made any sense,
or there's, like, a glass partition,
so I had to kind of coyly reach around...
[ Laughter ] ...and grab my tighty whities
and put them back on my soaking-wet body
and then do the rest of the scene in wet tighty whities.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Should've just picked up --
Should've taken Jim Parson's cane.
-Something. Something. -Should've took Jim's cane
and just came out with a cane and go like,
"Guys, we have to discuss something."
[ Laughter ]
And you planned on celebrating, of course, after --
-Yes! -I heard you're planning
on a karaoke jam with the cast. -We are.
We are planning on having a cast karaoke jam.
-What is -- What's your go-to song?
-Well, you know, I have a lot of solid down tempos.
-[ Laughing ] -You know?
-I love that you're really thinking about this.
-Yeah. -What's happening?
-I don't have a good up-tempo.
I went a couple years ago when Joe Manganiello and I
were doing "Magic Mike."
-I love Joe Manganiello. [ Cheers and applause ]
-He's, like, the best. And he crushed it.
He did "Kiss," by Prince.
Which if you've never seen a 6'6" man get up on stage
and do falsetto that well... [ Laughter ]
Like, women were just throwing everything at the stage.
[ Laughter ] Everything at it.
Like, "I didn't know you had two bras on, but, yeah.
Yeah. They did.
-They brought them all that night.
And I thought, "Well, we're in Tampa."
We're in a place called Ybor City, in Tampa,
which is like -- -Whoo!
-Okay, yeah. But it's like one of
the strip-club capitals of the world, right?
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
So I thought, "I'm gonna sing the 'Thong Song,' by Sisqo."
[ Laughter ]
Crickets. [ Laughter ]
Crickets. -Crickets. Really?
-They were not feeling it. It was too real.
It was too real. [ Laughter ]
It was too -- It was too fresh.
-All right, so we got to get you an up -- an up-tempo song.
-I need a good up-tempo. -All right, we can do --
Quest, do you have any good up-tempo --
What's a good up-tempo jam that he can do in karaoke?
-"Sussudio." -"Sussudio"?
-Ooh. -"Sussudio."
-Phil Collins. -Ooh.
♪ Su-su-sussudio ♪
♪ She don't even know my name ♪
♪ but I think she likes me just the same ♪
♪ Su-su-sussudio ♪
-Ready? That's it.
♪ Su-su-Sussudio ♪ -♪ Whoa-oh-oh ♪
That's the one. You're gonna try it.
Matt Bomer, everybody! [ Cheers and applause ]
See him on Broadway in "The Boys in The Band"!
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