Who Is Rebecca Bunch On ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’?

In it, Bloom plays a woman who moves to the suburbs to follow an ex, breaking out in song from time to time along the way. If Webb can bring musical magic to Downtown LA, you know he’s gifted at adding melody to the mundane.

For two years while in college she was roommates with actress Renee Elise Goldsberry, who stars in “Hamilton” on Broadway and is a recurring player on CBS’s “The Good Wife” as Geneva Pine. But what I’ve seen, I’m insane for. She knows him! He’s Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III), a summer love from a magical season long ago, when she sang and danced in South Pacific at camp, when she experienced her “sexual awakening”.

Rebecca has gone on to college and law school and is now a high-powered corporate attorney in New York on the fast track for a junior partnership when she suddenly runs into Josh on the street. The show isn’t all musical, to be clear; the numbers here are interspersed with more traditional sitcomic fare.

But let’s not go, um, crazy. Before you posted it, did you have an inkling that there was a void in musical comedy that you might be able to fill?

Two songs, actually, in the pilot.

“My take on it would be, it’s fun, it’s positive, but it’s definitely got an edge so the humor lands”. A little eccentric, sure, but who isn’t? I know musicals are ridiculous. They’re leaner, they have less money to spend, and maybe even less to lose, all of which can make them scrappier.

Rotten Tomatoes: Your own songs, or Sondheim?

She’s truly brilliant. And our sensibilities are different. And just as we are preparing to cast our eyes back to Earth, having nothing to show for our curiosity but a crick in the neck and a DVR full of shows we will never watch, here it comes, streaking across the sky: something shiny, something unusual, something possibly wonderful, something … singing? “I don’t think we can earn the musical numbers if we’re not grounded in our scene work….” “We thought we could make it into a broadcast version”. There are ways to be dirty without using the language.

Rotten Tomatoes: Do you burst into song in real life?

And there’s a lot of darkness in this show. I lived with Ilana Glazer of Broad City. Or are we just supposed to assume the move to California has magically fixed all of Rebecca’s mental health problems?

I’d like to release the videos and songs every week; I think “Smash” did this, but make it into a cumulative album.

How do you strike a balance between making Rebecca ridiculous enough to be amusing but not so ridiculous that she’s a caricature?

Through it all, Bloom sparkles, alternately reasonable and clueless as she leads us to the show’s underlying universal truth: love can be destabilizing. It’s a tough balance to get right and it’s why most shows don’t try.

As cute bartender convinces Rebecca it’s time to leave the party, who should she see while walking out other than Paula?

But when she stops taking them she kind of unravels?

Absolutely. It didn’t even occur to me at first, the double-standard, because from the beginning, Aline and I were writing this from such a feminist perspective. That said, I’m sympathetic to anyone who considers the treatment of “crazy” in insane Ex-Girlfriend to be problematic. Love chemically makes you insane. “I want to earn them”, she says. And that’s just so not what the show is.

The show, “Crazy Ex Girlfriend”, is a musical about “the idea that love and infatuation take the power of your own mind away from you”, according to Vulture.

Bloom promises the show will tap many styles: the pilot also includes the R&B track “Sexy Getting Ready Song”, detailing the excruciating grooming habits women employ before dates. So it wasn’t just me walking into a room being like, “Here are my YouTube videos!” A few things we won’t tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING. But don’t forget to also hope for improvement, because insane Ex-Girlfriend is a mess, albeit a charming and admirable mess.