The Unknown

The actors with whom Sam performs a play reading are all credited as themselves. Several of them are in real life well-known for their stage work. The episode closes with the play's ensemble (Sam excepted) all singing "On the Street Where You Live" from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's 1956 musical My Fair Lady. Norm Lewis, who sings the solo on the final verse, is one of the preeminent musical theater leading men of his generation; Lewis has appeared in shows such as Miss Saigon, Chicago, Porgy and Bess, and Once on this Island, and was the first Black person to perform the title role in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. After the episode aired, Pamela Adlon tweeted, "This was written specifically so I could hear [Norm Lewis] sing 'On The Street Where You Live' in a piano bar. I got my wish and then some. "

References 9JKL (2017)