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Speaker 1: Hey, congratulations on this. This right here is it's I

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feel like that I'm witnessing something that is going to

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be absolutely legendary because the kids are excited about going

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to school. This is so positive.

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Speaker 2: Kindergarten the musical.

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Speaker 1: Where where did the idea come from? Because I mean

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when I went to kindergarten way back in the nineteen sixties,

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I too was just like these guys. I would want

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to sing all the time. I was so in love

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with being in school, and my teachers were just amazing.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that's exactly where it came from. We,

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you know, where songwriters first and foremost, and you know,

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we were in the rock and pop world for a

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long time, and and you know, the idea came from

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Charlton and one of our other writing partners, co EP

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Michelle Lewis and uh and and then you know when

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we when we brought the idea to Disney and they

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were like, we love it, let's make a show it.

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You know, we the Berdie, Radish and Rose are lead characters,

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are really just avatars for ourselves, if we're being honest,

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you know, they're the feelings that you have as a

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five year old. It turns out. They don't really change

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that much as you get older, So it's not really

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that hard to write from the headspace of a five

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year old because we've I'm kind of still there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's liberating, if anything, you don't have to pretend.

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You can just be your your raw self.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as a writer, kind of a dream scenario.

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Speaker 1: That's what makes it so special because one of the

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things that I caught up on right away, only because

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I have little ones in our neighborhood is the camaraderie

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with the friendships. I love seeing kids play, explore, and

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and and just do things together.

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Speaker 3: Totally. I mean, that's that's life at that age, right,

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You're you're just beginning to have these friendships that that

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you know, you're you're learning to do and kind of

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learning to be a social creature. It's it's it's life.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you the character that I'm really pull to.

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First of all, I do love Birdie, but I love

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me some Radish. Radish to me. I don't know if

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it's because I can relate with Radish, but what what

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a character.

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Speaker 2: Radish is awesome. He's our resident explorer ner, you know,

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he's a of of fanny pack wearing nerd and he's

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just so, he's so lovable and great.

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Speaker 1: So how did it? How does it come about? Then

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do you do? You write the music and then the

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storyline and then you take it to the animators. What

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what is the process or did they come up with

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the animation and you build around that.

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Speaker 3: No, No, it's story first, but the stories and songs

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kind of co evolve, like, you know, will hash out

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the basic story beats for an episode and then figure

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out where the songs go, you know, usually at the

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big emotional moments, and then the script and songs kind

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of happen concurrently, and then the whole thing gets storyboarded

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and then sent to animation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I can still relate with that because my past

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two published books, I did a lot of music while

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writing the book, and I feel like that you guys

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experienced the same exact thing and putting a story together.

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You're putting a story together. Oh my god, this is

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a good reason to sing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the same question is always, you know, where

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where are people's emotions getting so big that dialogue doesn't

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capture it? And that's the moment we go into song

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or we go into those two d fantasy sequences where

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you know, we get to actually show the kind of

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things that we imagine.

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Speaker 1: Self expression is so important in this storyline. And I

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mean as a grandparent and even as a parent, it's like, yeah,

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where was this when when I was a kid, so

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I could be just as expressive? Expressive that's a.

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Speaker 2: Really good point er. I mean, the the learning. When

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when we're talking about kids learning, I think we kind

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of underplay how how important it is to teach kids

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about you know, how to express your feelings, like math

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and reading, it's all very important, but but your social

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emotional life and learning how to mature in that area

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and how to develop healthy communication habits and you know,

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how to manage your feelings. It's like that's a huge

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part of learning at that age. And that's sort of

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where we come in. I think, not that we we

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we didn't really mean too, but but that's that's that's

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that's just how we you know, the stories that we

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ended up really feeling the need to tell.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you when you talk about about this being

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avatar avatars of who you guys were as children at

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five years old, that's like stepping back into your past

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and reliving it and It's like that's one of those

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things that it's like we should all do that, go

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back and learn from what we did and be excited

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about being alive and then just explore.

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Speaker 3: Wait did we say they were us at five? I

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thought they were us? Now.

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Speaker 1: See, you know people always ask me how old I am.

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I'm seventeen. I'm never going to stop being seventeen.

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Speaker 3: Totally, I'm like eleven. Yeah, I mean, you're giving us

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the doubt.

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Speaker 1: Choosing the Broadway style of music. I mean, because we

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are in a generation of sound right now where we

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want the dancing, we want the songs, we want all

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of that, and it just allows us to find entertainment

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even as adults. And I think adults are going to

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fall in love with the show as well.

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Speaker 2: That week.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, where does it go from? The merchandising is that?

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Speaker 2: I mean?

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Speaker 1: I mean you got to you gotta be sitting there thinking, man,

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we can get merch out of this, like you wouldn't believe,

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because there is people all over, young and older people

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that want a T shirt with Rattish on it, or

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they want it with rose on it, you know, and toys.

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Oh my god, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean that that that that is that is all up

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to Disney and not up to us.

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Speaker 3: But if this flaws up to us, there would be

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so much stuff, I mean so much.

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Speaker 2: But the thing is that there would be like be

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dazzled backpacks and like platform sneakers and like many many

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different kinds of I don't know if I should be

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in charge of warmers so many leg warmers, I mean

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we and I'm sure that that was all coming because

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it's Disney, But you know, I think it's just the

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fact that you say that is just a testament to

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like the richness of the world. Like this kindergarten classroom

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that the kids exist, I mean, the kids are all

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so incredibly uh you know, they just have so much

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personality and each of them as individuals is so just

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pops off the screen and they have and they're just

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in and the classroom is just very warm and colorful

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and Ms. Moreno is the best tee, all of the

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best that we've ever had rolled into one. And and

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I do think that, you know, it's it's sort of

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right for like lots of merchandising and stuff. But again

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that's that's not up to us. That is up to

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Disney Junior.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Kindergarten the Musical on Ice. I can see

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it now.

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Speaker 3: We were just talking about that. That's the dream, that's

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what you know.

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Speaker 2: You've made it.

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Speaker 3: You haven't made it till you're on Ice.

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Speaker 1: You're so true. Please come back to the show anytime

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in the future. The door is always going to be

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open for you, guys. Sarah, well, you be brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yes, and don't forget to watch Kindergarten the Musical

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on Disney Junior every day and stream at anytime on

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Disney Plus.

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Speaker 1: See that's another reason why I love my Disney Plus

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because that's exactly what's going on. We do it all

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the time. Be brilliant, awesome,