The Greatest Showpeople

We're big fans of The Greatest Showman so imagine our delight when we learned that Keala Settle was a fan of YDKML! She was introduced to it by our friend actor Jack Plotnick who, funnily enough, was at one of our very first playtests where recalled an enchanting dance he made up as a teenager to Stacey Q's "Two of Hearts").

Jack's longtime friend Seth Rudetsky was in L.A. and loves games so they got some friends together and dived in.

Seth is Mr. Broadway, having appeared in shows like The Rink and Disaster, which he and Jack created together. Seth also hosts a Broadway show on Sirius XM radio. He's tapped in to the Great White Way big-time and is friends with Keala.

They all had a blast playing the game and sent us the above sassy photo of Keala giving her best YDKML face.

​Seth also wrote up the game in his Playbill column. Here's what he had to say:

While I was in L.A., I had a game night at my hotel with Paul Vogt and his husband, Dimitri, who runs the Garry Marshall Theatre, Keala Settle and her young friend, Piper, and Jack Plotnick, and his friend, Jim Hansen. We all played a fabulous new game called “You Don’t Know My Life.” OMG. So fun. It’ll ask a question like “What concert/event did you sneak into?” or “What is something you regret from when you were a child?” and then everyone anonymously writes down an answer. The winner figures out who wrote what answer. If, however, you get it wrong, the person has to say “You don’t know my life!”

It’s so fun because you find out hilarious stories from people’s pasts! When I heard that one of the players was afraid of going to the bathroom in the basement at his summer day camp, so every day he would pee in the staircase (!), I knew it had to be Jack. When I guessed, Jack had to say “You do know my life!” So fun!!!

Thanks Seth and Jack and Keala and friends for embracing the game. There truly are no people like show people.