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Here's What The "Glee" Cast Is Up To, 10 Years Later

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11-06-2025

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Here's What The "Glee" Cast Is Up To, 10 Years Later

Hey, my name is Abby, and I have a confession: I'm a massive Gleek. I've watched Glee more times than I can count, and nothing fills me with more joy than listening to my "Glee songs that beat the original" playlist. It's the best Glee playlist you'll ever find. Highly recommend downloading. So when I recently discovered that it's been TEN YEARS since the final episode of Glee (which came out on March 20, 2015), I went into a full-blown spiral. Like, no wonder the world has been so dark in the last decade — it's because we're living in a Glee-less world. Anyway, I know everyone isn't as caught up on all things Glee (like, not all of us stalk the entire cast religiously on a weekly basis)...so I thought I'd update everyone on what the cast looks like now, as well as what they've been up to. Because there are TONSSSS of updates you need to know about. Just a note here before we begin: this list does not include Cory Monteith, Mark Salling, and Naya Rivera, as they have passed away. Lea Michele played Rachel Berry on Glee. She was 28 when Glee ended, and now she's 38. As we all probably know, Lea starred in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl in you might not know that she's about to return to Broadway this coming year! She's starring in the first revival of Chess alongside Aaron Tveit (a freaking legend, by the way, who I may or may not be in love with). Lea also has two kids with her husband Zandy Reich. Matthew Morrison played Will Schuester on Glee. He was 36 when the show ended, and he's now 46. Matthew has two kids with his wife, Renee Puente. In 2020, he notoriously starred as the Grinch in Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical Live!, and he was (briefly) a judge on So You Think You Can Dance in 2022. He starred in Hallmark romance A Paris Christmas Waltz in 2023. Matthew is about to begin performing at Café Carlyle in New York City. Dianna Agron played Quinn Fabray on Glee. She was 29 when the show ended, and she's now 39. Dianna has been in a few films since Glee ended, primarily independent films. You might have seen her in Shiva Baby (2020), As They Made Us (2022), Clock (2023) as well as Season 1 of The Chosen One in 2023. My editor also gave me specific instructions to mention her starring in "gay nun movie" Novitiate in 2017, which is nothing short of legendary. She sings at the Café Carlyle in New York City, too. Darren Criss played Blaine Anderson on Glee. He was 28 when Glee ended, and he's now 38. Darren is the latest Glee Tony Award winner! He won his very first Tony for Best Lead Actor in a Musical for Maybe Happy Ending in 2025 (which had me screaming and crying). But before that, he got a Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG Award for his role in the 2018 series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Plus, he's a dad now — he's got two kids with his wife, Mia Swier. Jonathan Groff played Jessie St. James on Glee. He was 30 when the show ended, and he's now 40. Speaking of Tony winners…in 2024, Jonathan won his first Tony for Best Lead Actor in a Musical for the revival of Merrily We Roll Along — yes, the same award Darren just won! He was also nominated (against Darren) this year for playing Bobby Darin in Just In Time, a show he's still starring in. He was also in Hamilton, Mindhunter, Frozen 2…and many, many more. Jane Lynch played Sue Sylvester on Glee. She was 54 when Glee ended, and she's now 64. Jane has been in several shows since Glee, including The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (which won her an Emmy in 2019), Velma, and Only Murders in the Building. She also hosted two game shows: Hollywood Game Night and Weakest Link; she's still hosting the latter. And bonus: Jane was in the same Broadway production of Funny Girl as Lea Michele, but she exited the show in 2022, before Lea started. Chris Colfer played Kurt Hummel on Glee. He was 25 when the show ended, and he's now 35. Chris Colfer isn't really acting anymore — he's a children's book author now! Not too long after Glee, he wrote a six-book series called The Land of Stories, and he's now in the middle of writing another series. The first book is called Roswell Johnson Saves the World! and it came out in 2024. Amber Riley played Mercedes Jones on Glee. She was 29 when Glee ended, and she's 39 now. Amber is a singer (duh), and goes by her stage name RILEY; her EP came out in 2020. Shortly after Glee, she played the first Effie in the London West End show Dreamgirls The Musical. She won The Masked Singer in 2022, and she also starred in the 2022 horror film Single Black Female, which got a sequel in 2024. The third Single Black Female movie comes out later in 2025. Kevin McHale played Artie Abrams on Glee. He was 26 when the show ended, and he's now 36. Kevin has had a range of projects since Glee: he hosted the show Virtually Famous from 2014–2016; competed in The X Factor: Celebrity in 2019 and RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race in 2022; and released an EP called Boy in 2019. But more recently, he's known for hosting (my favourite) podcast, And That's What You REALLY Missed, a Glee recap podcast with Jenna Ushkowitz, who played Tina. And speaking of Jenna… Jenna Ushkowitz played Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee. She was 29 when the show ended, and she's now 39. Now we're all aware Jenna hosts And That's What You REALLY Missed with Kevin McHale. But you might not know that Jenna has TWO Tony Awards (!!!) for producing Once on This Island in 2018 and The Inheritance in 2020. Jenna has also been in a couple shows and movies post-Glee, including Hello Again (2017), 1 Night in San Diego (2020), and Yellow Fever (2017). She appeared in the TV show Unconventional, which premiered in 2022. And can't forget, Jenna now has two kids with her husband David Stanley! Heather Morris played Britney S. Pierce on Glee. She was 28 when Glee ended, and she's 38 now. Heather continued with comedy shortly after Glee on the TV shows Comedy Bang! Bang! and Whose Line Is It Anyway?. She later competed on Dancing With The Stars in 2017 and won The Masked Dancer in 2022. Most recently, she was in Season 2 of the TV show So Help Me Todd in 2024, as well as Santa Fake in 2019 and Cora Bora in 2023. And she's a mom to two kids with her husband Taylor Hubbell. Jayma Mays played Emma Pillsbury on Glee. She was 35 when Glee ended, and she's now 45. Like many of the former Glee stars, Jayma has been acting since the show. Some of her notable projects include American Made (2017), Disenchanted (2022), and voice acting in The Adventures of Puss in Boots and Smurfs: The Lost Village. Plus, we've got another Glee mom here — she has a son with her husband Adam Campbell. Chord Overstreet played Sam Evans on Glee. He was 26 when the show ended, and he's now 36. You probably know Chord's song "Hold On" — it came out in 2017 and went TikTok viral in 2020. Since then, he's been releasing folk/singer-songwriter songs (and they're all bangers, I'll add). He starred opposite Lindsay Lohan in the 2022 romance movie Falling for Christmas, and he's also been in the show Acapulco since the pilot in 2021. Harry Shum Jr. played Mike Chang on Glee. He was 33 when the show ended, and he's 43 now. Harry has been super successful in Hollywood post-Glee, which we absolutely LOVE to see. We all know he was in Crazy Rich Asians in 2018, but he's also starred in All My Life (2020), Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), and the Shadowhunters TV show from 2016–2019. Plus, he just wrapped up his third season starring in Grey's Anatomy. And how could I forget: Harry has a daughter with his wife Shelby Rabara. Dot-Marie Jones played Sheldon Bieste on Glee. She was 51 when the show ended, and she's 61 now. Dot-Marie has been acting a ton since playing Bieste! She was in multiple seasons of American Horror Story, and she appeared in The Resident and Modern Family toward the end of the 2010s. She's also been in several movies since Glee, including Rag Doll (2019), Greener Grass (2019), Golden Arm (2020), and Bar Fight! (2022). Alex Newell played Wade "Unique" Adams on Glee. They were 22 when Glee ended, and they're now 32. Alex is our next Tony-winning Glee cast member, having won their first Tony Award in 2023 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Shucked. (Yes, that means Glee cast members have won Tonys for three years in a row!!) They were also in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island in 2018, and the (incredible) TV show Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist from 2020–2021. Annnnd lastly, you might've recognized Alex in Another Simple Favor alongside Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick. Melissa Benoist played Marley Rose on Glee. She was 26 when Glee ended, and she's 36 now. Melissa is best known for playing the titular character in Supergirl, which ran from 2015–2021. But aside from that, she's been in a TON of other movies and shows — notably, the first and only season of The Girls on the Bus (2024), Patriots Day (2016), and Billy Boy (2017). And she stars in the first season of The Waterfront, premiering on Netflix in late June 2025. Melissa is a mom to one son with her husband Chris Wood. Jacob Artist played Jake Puckerman on Glee. He was 22 when the show ended, and he's now 32. The same year Glee ended, Jacob starred in Quantico. He was in the first two seasons, from 2015–2016, and the following year, he was in the crime-thriller Blood Money. Since then, he was in Now Apocalypse (2019) and Haunting on Fraternity Row (2018), among others. In 2024, he came out with his first single called "BEFORE." Becca Tobin played Kitty Wilde on Glee. She was 29 when the show ended, and she's now 39. Becca has co-hosted the podcast The Lady Gang since 2015, which has been hugely successful — it was turned into a series on E! in 2018 for one season. And she's still acting, too; she starred in the Hallmark movie Love at First Dance in 2018, A Song For Christmas in 2017, and The Wedding Contract in 2023. Who's your favourite Glee cast member? Whose glow-up shocked you the most? Tell me in the comments below! Let's Gleek out together!!! And check out BuzzFeed Canada on Instagram and TikTok for more celeb content!

Tony Danza Makes Triumphant Return To Cafe Carlyle In New York City

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05-06-2025

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Tony Danza Makes Triumphant Return To Cafe Carlyle In New York City

Tony Danza performs at Cafe Carlyle on June 3, 2025. David Andrako Tony Danza commanded the stage and seemed to channel Frank Sinatra during some parts of his new one-man show that's aptly titled 'Tony Danza: Sinatra & Stories' on the evening of Tuesday, June 3, 2025. The riveting performance kicked off his eight-night residency at Café Carlyle, the beloved jazz theater within The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel in New York City. Danza is no stranger to Café Carlyle. He had a sold-out three-week residency last fall, and his new one-man show seems perfectly suited for the intimate venue and audience. Tony performs with a four-piece band: Ed Caccavale on drums, Dave Shoup playing guitar, John Arbo on bass, and Joe Davidian who serves as both the pianist and musical director for the show. The anticipation before a Tony Danza show is always palpable, and pure joy seemed to descend on the room as Tony made his way to the stage. The audience included several fans who have been to many of his shows. Frank Sinatra, whom Danza knew and worked with, is clearly the inspiration for the show, and the passion Danza has for his hero is contagious. He pays homage to Frank Sinatra in both the stories he tells and the songs he sings from Sinatra's well-known catalog of hits. The show also chronicles the ways that the two performers' lives intersected in Hollywood. Like Sinatra sometimes did with his own concerts, Tony opened his concert with ''Come Fly with Me.' This song was written for Sinatra; it was composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Hearing Tony sing the song, though, was like listening to it for the first time. He is so present and connected to the song. He was so in the moment with spontaneity, that it feels fresh and fun. I found myself unable to sit still. Next up was "I've Got the World on a String", a tune composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. Then he sang Cole Porter's 'I've Got You Under My Skin'. With Tony's charisma on full display, it's clear the audience is in for no ordinary show. Fully engaged and connected with the music and the audience, Tony then took a bit of a break in his singing for some storytelling. I shared Tony's wonder as he marveled that, with 9 billion people in the world, 'look where we are', and it was clear from the audience's applause and cheers that there was nowhere they wanted to be but watching Tony perform. Tony then moved on to captivating stories, sharing how his mom made him crazy about Frank Sinatra as a kid, and he seemed in wonder of how he later got to know his idol in Hollywood. As Tony was ready to sit on his stool for the next song, he noticed it wasn't on stage like it was supposed to be, but he didn't miss a beat. He said he'd lean instead and leaned into the piano as he began a gorgeous rendition of 'It Was a Very Good Year' by Ervin Drake. All through the show, Tony gives credit to songwriters, and he teases the audience, telling them they need to be paying attention because he'll quiz them on the songwriters later. Tony didn't need to worry as he had the audience in rapt attention as he went on to sing 'You Make Me Feel So Young', which was composed by Josef Myrow, with lyrics written by Mack Gordon. Next was 'I Can't Believe That You're In Love with Me', a song composed by Jimmy McHugh, with lyrics by Clarence Gaskill. The crowd was all-in, along for the ride and seeming to hang on each note. In trying to make a point about how famous and beloved Sinatra was in his day, Danza brings up the Swifties, Taylor Swift's legion of fans who are known for being especially passionate about their love of the singer-songwriter. He goes on to explain that Sinatra, who he jokingly calls Swoonatra, got so big that he was a combination of Taylor Swift and Tom Cruise in terms of popularity. Tony shares how his mom was unimpressed by his own initial fame. To bring him down to earth when it started to go to his head, his mom told him that, when he introduced her to Sinatra, then he'd be a star. He was later able to do just that. Tony next sang 'Nice 'N' Easy', a song by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith, and Lew Spence. Then he performed "The Lady Is a Tramp", the beloved standard written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. There were breaks for more storytelling, including a sweet story of how Danza met Sinatra, who in turn recognized Tony as 'the kid from 'Taxi'', and the TV star was able to introduce the singer to his son Marc. The meeting occurred on a film set, and its all-star cast came together to pose for a group picture. Marc, who was then 10, went to get the camera he and Tony had brought to the set. By the time the child got himself ready to take his own photograph of all the gathered stars, everyone started to leave the pose, but Sinatra saw Marc trying to take the photo. Seeing the dilemma, the star called every celebrity back over and told Marc to take his picture. After he took it, Sinatra asked if the boy had gotten the photo. Having been taught good manners by Tony, Marc said, 'Yes, sir.' Next up Tony broke into the big band standard song 'Learnin' the Blues,' written by Dolores "Vicki" Silvers and recorded by Sinatra. Danza introduced his ukelele by telling the audience a story of how Sinatra played the instrument. He played and sang to "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry", a jazz standard with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn. He sang "My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)" which was composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. On his next round of storytelling, Tony spoke of different ways that Sinatra stood up against discrimination and bullying all his life. He then went into 'The House I Live In (That's America To Me)', a song that Sinatra performed throughout his life. Its lyrics are by Abel Meeropol, with music by Earl Robinson. Tony sang it with so much heart that I felt each lyric and was moved to tears. UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 28: WHO'S THE BOSS? - "Party Double" - Season Five - 2/28/89, Tony (Tony Danza, right) met his idol, Frank Sinatra (guest-starring as himself)., (Photo by Craig Sjodin/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Tony delighted the audience with his lively tap dancing during his performances, and he thrilled them again when he mentioned a show that continues to endear him to TV fans: Who's The Boss? He played Tony Micelli to perfection for eight seasons, starting in 1984, and it led him to once again spend time with Sinatra when Ol' Blue Eyes had a cameo on the sitcom. Tony was able to have his mother on the set with Frank Sinatra, so she finally got to meet her idol, and Tony was able to show her how big a star he truly was. Danza recalled fondly how Sinatra treated his starstruck mom like royalty. Tony seemed to end the show after performing 'Just In Time', which was composed by Jule Styne, with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. However, the audience wanted an encore, and Tony evoked a sense of fun with 'Luck Be A Lady', written by Frank Loesser. He ended the show on a strong note by thanking everyone from his band to the staff of the theater. His actual finale was 'One For My Baby', a song that was written by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen for the film The Sky's the Limit, and the phrase seems the perfect one for Danza as a performer. Tony Danza has accomplished so much as an actor, and it's wonderful to see this other side of his triple threat talent take the stage. He most recently acted in 'Power Book III: Raising Kanan' on Starz. He starred in 'Taxi' and 'Who's The Boss?', two iconic, long-running series that can still be seen in reruns all over the world. He's also been in many films, and he received critical acclaim for his 2015 turn on Broadway in 'Honeymoon in Vegas'. Tickets to the rest of Danza's June residency shows at Café Carlyle are available now via Tock. As part of the experience, you come early to enjoy dinner before the show. They have a variety of options on the menu, including a delectable vegan mushroom Bolognese pasta and sides like sweet potatoes and brussels sprouts. Café Carlyle is located in The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel at 35 East 76th Street in Manhattan.

Comedian Sandra Bernhard panics audience with 'heart attack' on stage

Daily Mail

02-05-2025

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Daily Mail

Comedian Sandra Bernhard panics audience with 'heart attack' on stage

Sandra Bernhard began her five-night residency at Café Carlyle in New York City on Tuesday evening. During her debut performance, the 69-year-old comedian — who once counted Madonna as a close friend — revealed to the audience she recently had open-heart surgery. 'It was a planned surgery; it wasn't that dramatic,' the actress noted before mentioning other patients in the hospital who were in grave condition. 'This s**t is crazy. I'm gonna pull through and get the f*** out of here,' she said, according to an account from Billboard. Bernhard moved the show along, before later returning to the subject to use it as an unexpected punchline. She clutched her chest and slumped over, simulating a heart attack before quipping, 'That's a new party trick.' In addition to cracking jokes, the multihyphenate entertainer sang a selection of cover songs with her Sandyland Squad Band. Together, they covered recognizable tunes including McFadden & Whitehead's Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now and Lana Del Rey's Young and Beautiful. Sandra's partner of more than two decades, Sara Switzer, was part of the 90-person audience during opening night. On Wednesday she took to Instagram, where she boasts nearly 200,000 followers, and reflected on her first show. Last night @cafecarlyle [was] fun as hell. The band was beautiful, the crowd divine. I'm there tonight through Saturday. Won't you come join us?' she captioned. 'I would if I were you!' she added before crediting her band and her hair and makeup team. For the occasion the Michigan-bred beauty wore a coordinating orange and red top and skirt covered in large round sequins. Her shoulder-length ginger-toned locks were parted down the middle and styled in bouncy ringlets. Cafe Carlyle also promoted her stint at the venue with a supportive social media post. 'Sandra Bernhard made her Café Carlyle debut last night and brought the house down with her one-woman show,' the Instagram account touted. The note continued, 'With her signature mix of cabaret, comedy, and cultural commentary, she delivered razor sharp wit and unapologetic satire.' The post concluded, 'There's only one @sandragbernhard and she's live through May 3.'

Iconic comedian fakes cardiac arrest onstage after revealing she had open-heart surgery

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02-05-2025

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Daily Mail

Iconic comedian fakes cardiac arrest onstage after revealing she had open-heart surgery

Hamilton Leithauser, an Indie-Rock Hero in a Very Fancy Room

New York Times

04-03-2025

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New York Times

Hamilton Leithauser, an Indie-Rock Hero in a Very Fancy Room

Even by Manhattan real estate standards, Café Carlyle is an intimate venue. The storied Upper East Side cabaret is just 988 square feet and seats 90 patrons, which means a performer can hear an audience member's cutlery, not to mention their whispers. When Hamilton Leithauser first played there in 2018, that cozy ambience posed an unexpected challenge: He had to be not just a performer, but also an entertainer. That meant talking to the audience, something he hadn't been inclined to do when onstage as the frontman of the indie-rock doyens the Walkmen, who relied on reverberating guitars and clever wordplay to catapult to the forefront of the early 2000s New York music scene. 'People are right in front of you, and you want to talk to them between songs,' he said in a recent video interview. 'I really wanted to let people in on what I was actually singing about, because I spend so much time on my words.' He's been a fixture ever since. Leithauser returns to the Carlyle this month for the seventh go-round of what's become an annual residency (he missed a year during the Covid-19 pandemic), playing a slate of 15 shows from March 6-29. This time, he has a new album, 'This Side of the Island,' to trot out too. Compared to his last few solo releases, 'This Side of the Island' sounds a bit more frenetic and urgent, which he is aware will bring an interesting dimension to the snug confines of the Carlyle, which was bought by Rosewood Hotels & Resorts in 2001 for $130 million and regularly hosts artists like Isaac Mizrahi and John Pizzarelli. 'That room doesn't see that much of that kind of music,' he said of his new songs. 'I've got to do my own thing. I'm not ready to grow up fully, you know?' For the record, Leithauser, 46, is married to Anna Stumpf, an audio executive with whom he occasionally performs, and is the father to two daughters. Still, the sentiment stands: Leithauser has built a successful career largely by following his own instincts. Born in Washington to a mother who worked in social services at a college prep school and a father who was a curator at the National Gallery of Art, Leithauser was from a young age enraptured by the sounds of Billy Bragg, Roy Orbison and Morrissey. (He is certain he heard Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' in the womb.) He landed a summer gig at Virginia's Inner Ear Studios, where he performed odd jobs, and in school received a crash course in music theory, singing in the glee club and scrutinizing the hymns in the weekly chapel sessions. 'That was when I learned to love deconstructing music, very mathematically,' he said. 'Very not rock 'n' roll.' The rock 'n' roll came in due time. In 1996, while still in high school in D.C., Leithauser and a few friends formed the garage outfit the Recoys. Leithauser moved north to attend Boston University, and the band put out a three-song EP before calling it quits. From there, Leithauser transferred to New York University because, he said, 'I realized how many more opportunities there were for playing music.' The move proved prescient: In 2000, Leithauser, together with the ex-Recoys guitarist Peter Bauer and a trio of musicians from the post-punk group Jonathan Fire*Eater, formed the Walkmen. Thanks to songs that were as literary as they were lo-fi, the Walkmen carved out a distinctive presence in a crowded rock revival landscape that included the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs — and unlike their many downtown- and Brooklyn-based peers, the Walkmen honed their sound uptown in a Harlem practice space. Pitchfork praised the band's first LP, 'Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone,' as one of the year's best. Its second, 'Bows + Arrows," earned it a guest spot on the teen drama 'The O.C.' and a live performance on David Letterman's late-night show. The band released five more records before announcing a 'pretty extreme hiatus' in 2013. (The Walkmen returned to the stage in 2023, including a sold-out run at Webster Hall.) Leithauser's singing in the Walkmen was charmingly raw and ragged, a preacher delivering his lyrical sermons through a fuzzy microphone. But his work outside the band is something different: From his 2014 solo debut, 'Black Hours,' onward, Leithauser showed himself to be a more expressive crooner capable of hitting the notes at both ends of the register. 'There's like a boldness to how he plays,' Aaron Dessner, a multi-instrumentalist in the National, said in a video interview. 'Sort of a raw force.' Dessner should know: He produced 'This Side of the Island,' which is due Friday. Leithauser actually started writing and recording the album's songs about eight years ago. 'The piano and the guitar from the first song on the record, I literally recorded the actual tracks when Barack Obama was president of the United States,' he said of the opener, 'Fist of Flowers.' But the album stalled; Leithauser was working on other projects, and he couldn't decide whether the songs were finished. There's more overt skepticism on the LP ('This side of the island is built out of trash, our love and our city were built to collapse,' he sings on the title track), and the production is more pronounced. Leithauser asked Dessner, whom he'd known for over 20 years and who has recently become a key collaborator of Taylor Swift, to review the fruits of his labor. 'I was mostly just blown away by what he had already done, to be honest,' Dessner said. All the producer needed was a few days in his upstate New York studio with Leithauser to add the flourishes that finally elevated the material to its finished state. 'It really switched my perspective on everything and brought it into a much more modern environment,' Leithauser said. (For example, listen for the acoustic guitar on 'Knockin' Heart,' which Dessner suggested as a way to 'help give more locomotion and bind it together,' as he put it.) While 'This Side of the Island' was simmering, Leithauser was exploring another creative outlet: scoring. He said he's written around 30 different theme songs for podcasts. 'I do hip-hop, I do old-timey,' he said. 'They're all over the map, and that's the fun of it.' In 2022, he also scored 'The Last Movie Stars,' the Ethan Hawke-directed documentary series about the Hollywood power couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. In Leithauser, Hawke saw someone who could create a soundtrack that would be at once familiar and surprising — crucial for a show that spanned the 1950s to early aughts. 'I didn't want it to be trapped in some kind of '50s sound or '60s sound or '70s sound,' Hawke said in a phone interview. 'And I felt he could hold the whole thing together because there's something outside of time about him.' Count Hawke among the dozens of friends and fans who plan on paying the $200-plus dinner-and-show fee to watch Leithauser perform once again at the Carlyle. According to Marlene Poynder, the hotel's managing director, Leithauser's shows attract a younger and decidedly hipper horde than is typical for the 95-year-old hotel. Also, one more prone to imbibing: Whereas audience members on most nights will indulge in one martini, 'the Brooklyn crowd is cocktail-forward,' Poynder said. Not that Leithauser seems to mind. 'You get the occasional really drunk friend screaming,' he said, 'but they're always supportive.' Maybe the best perk of the whole affair: He and his family all stay in the hotel for free during his residency. 'We did get a noise complaint last year during the show,' he said with a laugh. The culprits? His daughters and nieces. 'They were up there eating candy and going absolutely berserk.'