Exclusive: The TOOTSIE Team Reveals All and Plays Tootsie or Dare!

Hi, I'm Lily Cooper and I'm gonna play Tootsie or Dare

I'm nervous. Well, I have to choose Tootsie. If it's Tootsie or Dare, I mean, I'm choosing Tootsie

So let's see what we got in here. What would your opposite gendered alter ego be named

Uh, Denise, I was gonna say. Because actually, because I spell my name with one N

most people when they read it, like every first day of every grade school class I ever took

they always would say, Denise Jones. I'm going to go with Denise. And I'm enjoying the Tootsie

Has there been a moment in your career that has left you just wanting to quit

Yes. That's it. That's the truth. I'm not telling you when. If you could gender bend any role

what role would you want to play? Any role in the canon of musical theater

Oh, Sweeney Todd. Yeah, that would be delicious. I choose dare Perform the most interesting special skill listed on your resume this is called scary backward talking hello how are you hope you having a great day bye bye

when given the option considering the show I must choose tootsie what would your opposite gendered alter ego be named

Tallah Abdul I'm very tall in case you can't tell So Tallah Abdul

That would be my opposite gender alter ego No question Tootsie I choose Tootsie

What's the worst song you have in your book? Now I assume by book

You mean songs I've written I mean there's a lot of songs I don't like in my book

But they're not in any of my shows There is a song however called

Standing in the middle of a parking lot which I wrote for the full Monty

And when I played the demo for the director, Jack O'Brien, and the choreographer, Jerry Mitchell

there was about a minute and a half pause, followed by some very slow head shaking followed by me saying all right I get it I choose the truth tootsie has there been a moment in your career that has left you just wanting to quit yes the time that

i was cast as jason alexander's replacement in jerome robbins broadway and over the weekend i

had the role and then on a monday morning jerome changed his mind and they pulled it from me

That's when I wanted to quit. I'm going to pick truth. So I open this

What's the craziest thing you've ever done to land a roll? I dressed up in a fat suit that I created myself

which was very sad, I have to say. I think I actually put pounds of sugar bags on my breasts

It was really sad. And what was really sad was that I didn't even get the role

But I get the Tootsie Roll so that that Truth What would your opposite gendered alto be named Oh I a writer I should come up with that quickly

Roberta. Because I'm Robert. So I don't have to change that much. I already have half the

wardrobe, so it's fine. I'll take the dare. Like, do a tap step

It's hard to hear. I picked Dare. Perform a dramatic reading of Wannabe by the Spice Girls

Wait, what is it? Do you have the lyrics? Yo, I tell you what I want

What I really, really want. So tell me what you want. What you really, really want

I tell you what I want. What I really, really want. So tell me what you want

What you really, really want. I want, uh... I want, uh... I wanna...I wanna...I wanna really, really, really wanna..

You have to sing the last part, you have to