["Two Player Game" from Be More Chill]
--Hi Broadway.com. I'm George Salazar, and you're watching Pac-Man
Tattoo. And we just finished our opening night performance of Be More Chill!
I am
drenched and sweaty and tired, and I'm going to get dressed and get ready to go
to our party because this is a group of really hard-working good people and it's
time to celebrate. Come on with us!
--Well, Broadway.com, it only took me 20 minutes,
but I'm dressed and I'm ready to go. Our party is at Gotham Hall, and I have a
special guest in my room right now. This is Amanda Flynn. She is a dear friend, the
wife of Robert Rockiki, who wrote The Lightning Thief, a dear friend and Iconis
collaborator and official vocal coach of Be More Chill. This woman saves my
life on the actually quite literally a daily basis. So, we are dressed. She
looks beautiful, and we're ready to go. Come on!
Let's go!
--All right. I'm at Gotham Hall. Check it out.
Joe Iconis!
--This is for, this is --Hello!
--Broadway.com inception. Very meta.
--Look you guys! This is the Broadway.com portrait studio.
--It's the best selfie light you'll ever have.
--That's my dad!
Here's my mom.
--Hi!
--Tony Mata, he was my musical theater teacher at University of Florida.
--Hi. --Hi.
--Hello.
--So, I realized in the car ride home from the party that I had two
minutes of footage pretty much from the whole night. That's the drain because...
This is Lily. Lily Legravenese is a dear wonderful friend, one of the most
reliable human beings in the world and just like a complete gem. And she was
along with my parents and my two sisters, Janice and Sabrina, was one of my guests
at opening night tonight. And then Koby Getsig to my right is my
roommate and one of the loves of my life, and one of my favorite actors in New
York and just solid human being.
--Thanks George. --And he was also an opening. And so
anyway, that's who they are. Just a heads up. I'm sorry there was two
there's two minutes of footage from the party, maybe even less because this is
basically how an opening night for a Broadway show goes down right? You arrive
at the venue and then you do press, and press took probably about like an hour.
So, we get there and we do pictures and then we do interviews, and then we do
more pictures and some more pictures and a couple more interviews. And then you go
into like the madhouse of the party, which is a big open room and my number
one priority was to get to my table to see my family and my friends and it gets
a little tricky cuz, you know, everyone is there to celebrate and it's
just it's an overwhelming night know by that point I think all day I had five
dumplings. I ate five dumplings at places, like
right before. --Wow.
--We've got to feed you.
--And I was able to eat a little bit
--Right before your entrance?
--Right before, truly .
--Like? --Do you have a dumpling before every
--Literally my fingers smelled like soy sauce.
--When do your fingers not smell like soy sauce?
--This is very true. Fun fact: My mom dad sisters and these two were
sandwiched in a row, so you guys were like center? --We were center
--Okay, and then on
the ends of them were --We had Billy Porter on one end and Lin-Manuel Miranda
on the other end.
I was it was like the craziest row.
--It was wild. --Between those two
and your mom. --Tell us about my mom.
--So, your mom like came in
really, right before it started, like she must have been doing socializing on
the way down. She's like she was like the queen of --She said your dad was still at
the hotel and it was like 6:35.
I was like that's not great!
But then he was right behind her.
--Anyway --At the hotel room across the street from the
theater I hope they're really enjoying it.
--Oh so even if he was hotel that was...
--I mean, your sisters were like very just like put together and like chill and
no pun intended, and your dad was like very like he'll he's like a mob
boss but your mom was just like, Where's my phone? Where's this? Where's
that? --SHe also clocked all the other and all the other aunts
and life of the center of the party right over there.
--Number one fan I love
my mother. --Every time you came out she
like would look at us, or like after you finished
something, she wasn't that great? But the best moment of the whole thing was
during Michael the Bathroom, so the the bathroom comes out like the whole
and the music starts and she just like immediately grabs my
hand and like it's holding so tight. And it was so sweet but I didn't know if she
wanted to hold my hand the whole song or just for a few seconds.
--You have to commit in that moment.
--And like her hand was kind of like like pulsing,
so I was like a little I just like didn't
know if I was holding too tight. I was concerned. I was concerned. You loosened your
grip a little gave her option but she still held on.
--She held on yeah --She
felt safe with you. I feel safe with you.
--But then the song ended and she was --She was like, Get
off me!
--Ugh!
--Yeah, it was a really fun night. It was pretty electric.
--Yeah --Pretty damn electric.
--What are you gonna always remember about tonight?
--At the end of act 1, I make like
a quick cameo pop-up appearance, and I was standing at in the right spot
waiting for my cue light to enter and I looked down the ground and I was staring
at a seam in the floor. And all of a sudden I saw
this like a little moving platform move into my line of sight and I realized
that I completely missed my entrance.
[LAUGHS]
--I'm sitting here being like, What quick entrance did he have at the end of Act 1?
Oh, yo! Because we didn't see it.
--Were you supposed to come back out on the --Supposed to come out
and then go, Jeremy... And then it takes me out. It's very
quick. --You did go out.
Oh, there's another one.
--There's a little bitty bitty one.
And I freaked out, and at intermission
Stephen Brackett came backstage to go
downstairs. And I was like I'm so sorry. And he was like that's okay, You're
fired. I went over to apologize to Will Roland
before the end of Act One. And he was like, Get out of here! I hate you! leave me
alone! F-- you man! Leave me alone. I hate you. He
was obviously joking. And then I walked up to Jason Tam and I was like Jason so sorry.
I'm explaining to them like I was in the side. Not like like you know like sitting in
my dressing room eating --Eating dumplings.
--Eating donuts.
--Eating one of the dumplings.
-- I was like
literally wait waiting to go on.
I was where I was supposed to be! I just just
I was just entranced by this line on the ground. And that's never happened
to me in this show. I just was like so hungry and like just like completely
about to pass out. Anyway, that's one thing I'll remember.
--And another great memory is doing
the Pants Song with Jason Sweettooth Williams and the hearing Lin-Manuel.
You know there's certain people like they their laughs like you're like you
know that. --Yeah
--Like Koby has a very distinctive laugh.
--Yeah, I laugh like a --Little girl
-- 15 year old in --High schooler --Swedish
schoolgirl. --Yeah.
--Anyway.
I heard him laughing in the house
and it made my heart warm --He loved that song. He
--He loved that song! --I kept like clocking his reactions to stuff.
He was loving all of it, but
that song --The punchline of that song every time
--He was laughing --Couldn't get enough of it!
--Yeah I heard
of it, and that made me really happy cuz Pants Song its like one of my favorite
moments. It's like it's I love saying you're with Jason. I love when he opens
his robe, and I close it back up again. I love looking into his eyes and doing
that scene with him. It's like a really nice like it feels like a breath in the
show.
I also want to take this moment to thank
every one of you watching
because the show would not have opened on Broadway tonight if it wasn't for all
of you. So, thank you so much and thanks for loving the show and being so vocal
about your love for the show. And I want to thank Coach for dressing me for
tonight. --Wait give them a
--Made me look like a million bucks. Okay so this is the jacket that they gave me.
It's got little little Coach c's all over it. And then they gave me this pair
of pants that has tuxedo stripes. And this chain.
--This... --There's like there's
just amazing cool details on this. Fierce pair of shoes. So, thank you Coach for
dressing me and for making me feel like a million bucks.
Thank you guys for
tuning in. I hope this was an enjoyable episode. I'm sorry that there wasn't
more from the party. It just was never gonna happen, but this we got this great
nightcap mome --Didn't burp
--Two of my favorite people.
--I did not burp.
--Lily dirty feet and Coby stinky burp
[laughs]
--That's what my mom calls me.
--And I'm George poopy pants
saying thank you guys so much for tuning in.
And we will see you next week on Pac Man Tattoo!
["Two Player Game" from Be More Chill]