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--You guys, Magic to Do! We're starting out
Where are we? Is that Hogwarts? Wait is
that The Band's Visit? Is that Frozen?
No, it's the offices of Broadway.com. I just
finished Live at Five guys, and I have to say what a good time.
All right? So, Magic to Do, we're just kicking it off here at the Broadway.
com offices.
So I will see you guys as you continue to watch.
--It's Harry Potter's
birthday today, right?
Yeah, and I'm gonna buy Harry's wand right now. Do you have
Harry's wand out by any chance? --I do have Harry's wand out.
--She does. Oh, now do we remember what kind of
wood this is everyone? --That is...
--Holly. --Holly.
--That's right, with a Phoenix core, 11 and 3/4 inches?
-- I believe --I think I believe also. So,
as a birthday present to me, on behalf of Harry
Potter's birthday, I'm gonna buy myself my own wand— even though I have one that
I have with me every day. So, here we are...
Happy birthday to Harry
Potter, and
yay to me!
--Wand chooses the wizard.
--[all sing] Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday
to you.
Happy birthday, dear Harry.
Happy birthday
to you!
[ cheers]
--Yay! Where am I going? Woo!
--And JK Rowling. --And JK Rowling, of course!
--Crouching Potter, hidden dad joke.
Stage management version. Take it,
Madison.
--
--How many tickles does it take to make an
octopus laugh?
--Tentacles.
--Dad joke!
--So, behind me are the ushers also. So like
before the show, before where you guys are standing in, while you guys are
standing in line, like the ushers are putting in, like if there's an understudy,
they're putting them into the playbills. They're talking about like security
stuff. You know, what may have happened in the first show. This is before the second
show now. I mean, it's it's crazy the Machine. And then everyone like— now
everyone's dispersing. It's a big the amount of people in this building that
are here to make the magic happen it's not just the cast. It's not just the crew.
It is every single person that you meet from security from the beginning, all the
way in here, to the cloakroom, to the Patronus room, to the swag room. It's
amazing, and it's like everyone's well trained and knows what they're doing and
is super nice. I just want to say...
I don't know if this is something that people
show on vlogs, but be nice to everybody because everyone is working really
hard to make sure that you're having a great time. Okay? So, I'm just impressed
because I never see this. I'm lucky.
--I was here on ...Wednesday I was
here buying a wand. But wait, what else do we have guys?
Magical people? --So much stuff!
--So much
magical stuff from Hogwarts. Oh, that's Hufflepuff, so it doesn't really...--
--Hey! --Oh no!
--Aww!
--The staff doesn't like me anymore. I love hufflepuffs I'm not worried they
won't stay mad at me cuz they're Hufflepuffs. The shirts, the scarves...
Of course here the other wants. If you'd like you know we got Ron, Albus,
Scorpius, and then of course just if you want the Hogwarts merch. That's right.
There the Hogwarts and they you know you name it. It's here. It's waiting for you.
Why does this feel like a commercial? I just wanted to show people the cool
stuff we sell. All right, I'm gonna go put my scar on. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
to a segment I like to call Between Two Shows. That's right because we are...
--Between two shows. --Yeah
--Jack's the smart one. Zell is pretty smart too.
I'm here with Jack Pravda right and
Zell Steel Morrow. That's right both of the Harry Potter's, the young Harry's, I
should say. And this week is a very Potter ish kind of Harry Potter-ish
kind of week because...?
--Harry Potter's birthday! --Yay! Did you guys do
do anything special for Harry Potter's birthday?
--Well, I mean we had a
celebration with cake. --Mmmhm
--Oh my god. The cake was so good.
--Wait, which oh that sheet cake that we had? You guys I think...
What was your audition process like for this show?
--We only had one audition
actually. We had no callbacks --Yeah.
--No callbacks?
--Yeah. --They were just like you guys were
so good, they were great. Done. --It was really quick, like
we got the call on Tuesday.
The audition was on Sunday. --Oh my gosh. Wow.
--Well, I got the call. --And and which which scene was it? So wait
never mind. Are we allowed to talk about this?
--No. --Are you guys even allowed to be in here?
--We can talk about the audition.
--Yeah you guys are okay yeah I sometimes worry about what I can and can't share.
So, we won't talk about what the audition was,
--It's difficult --So what did you guys do when you
found out you booked Harry Potter?
--Oh, this is a good story.
--Okay, yes. It was so much fun because my sister
actually works works here in the merchandise
um department. And anyway, she she brought me to her work place one time. Basically
I was just like there I was like looking around and in
one of the display cases, she put my acceptance letter to Hogwarts. And so I
was like... And I was so because I didn't even like know it was
there.
--Yeah yeah yeah. -- I was literally
looking right at it, and I didn't even
see it and didn't even like come across like in my mind.
--So cool --And then she was like
Well then, there's also this. And then she finally pointed out to me, I'm like [gasps]
--It's a little more boring. My mom just got the
call in the kitchen from my agents. And
I think I was trying not to freak out because I wanted to be able to sleep
but --Right? I couldn't sleep.
I found out when I found out I was in a car actually, and
all my agents called me. --Really?
--Yeah, so I freaked out. And then my sister who loves Harry Potter, my
wife's little sister who's 10 years younger than us, who loves Harry Potter
more than anything. Mizele is her name. She happened to be in our house. I
came running into the house and I was like I booked it!
And then I was like, And you can't tell
anybody! --Don't tell anybody
--I swore them to ... right?
--It was so hard going to school.
--Oh my gosh, right? --Can't tell anyone.
--I had to leave early so many
times for rehearsals, and they were like why are you leaving early. And I'm like
I'm not allowed to say.
--What's it like to play Harry Potter? Had you guys read their books before?
I know this is like the --I had.
--Yes. Yeah --I wasn't a crazy fan.
You were a big fan. --I'm a crazy fan.
--It's crazy like you know representing such an iconic character of everybody
childhood.
--Yeah. --It's really crazy.
--Like I grew up reading the books and like I would never
have imagined to like be able to play Harry Potter himself. So,
like, What? So when I
found out it was coming to Broadway I was like, Oh my god. I was like so excited.
--Yeah, yeah. What's funny is I kind of felt the exact same way. We had a very
silly like, Wait a minute, I'm Harry Potter like what?
--Kind of hard to take in.
--Yeah right? Yeah, and
let's see, you guys have the scars, too. They have the same scars on their heads,
and the hair. --Yes.
--Now, has no did you either you work with the other cast? You
were in February. --I did.
--You came in in February. So, so, you essentially had Jaime Parker
first. When it shifted over— when I took over the role, did you have to change
your performance in any way?
--Um, no you and Jamie actually do it like really
simmilar. --Oh! Look at that.
I didn't, I saw it in October so it was, yeah.
I wanted to see it really
early on so I could forget what he did and kind of do my own thing you know I
mean? --Yeah.
--Had you guys seen the show before?
--Yeah. --I hadn't until they
until they sent me to see it. I had been planning on going, and then I got...
--Nice, and now you guys are also just you actors and in school. What's it like
being at school and then also coming here, right? Cuz you're you're in school
too?
--Yeah. It's tiring cuz I mean now it's the
summer and it's great because this is all I have to do. But it's really
tiring. --What grades are you guys going into?
--I'm going into 8th. --I'm also going into 8th.
--Okay, great. What what do you guys like that, if you
couldn't be an actor, even though you are actors, um like what what else would you
do, do you think?
What do you just love to do? Like what are your some of your other
hobbies?
--Oh, I like to write.
--Oh, nice!
--Oh yeah you write short stories.
--Yeah write like little short stories,
and then yeah ... --How about you?
--Before I was doing this I was really into like gymnastics.
--That's cool --Probably unrealistic, but that would be really cool.
--Yeah, it would be super cool. Oh!
First though, I want to see these shoes show em these shoes. Zell got these
shoes. Okay you ready for the kicks?
--It's the... --Golden Snitch shoe.
--Golden Snitch shoe, everything
--Okay. --And then I have a Hufflepuff shoe.
--Oh yeah, and Jack, what's your what's your house?
--I'm Slytherin, but I have the dementor kind of
--I'm balancing on the --Thank you. I love it.
--I have the Dementor shoes.
--Yeah? No way.
Okay, and what what... you're a Hufflepuff?
--Yeah, I'm a Hufflepuff.
--And then what are your Patronuses?
--Oh, I'm an otter. --Oh, no way! You got an otter also?
--Yeah. --Like I'm not an otter, but I'm just saying
Hermione Granger has an otter. That's cool that's a really cool one.
--I am a dolphin. --All right. I have a
black swan.
--Nice -That's a cool one.
--That is a pretty cool one.
It's always nice. I'm glad I didn't get like a
field mouse— no offense to anyone who had as a field mouse okay? Anyway, so from
from a Gryffindor a Slytherin and a Hufflepuff, I feel like there's a joke in
there, like you know a Gryffindor, Slytherin and Hufflepuff walk into a bar, yeah?
Although you young men you stay out
of the bars until you've aged. All right? --All right.
--And you guys, stick around for more
what's this called? --Magic to Do?
--Thank you very much Jack! It's Sunday. I'm
a bit tired and I feel like my accent my mouth is like not where my tongue is not
working. Jenny Jules, how do I fix that?
--Whether the weather be fine.
--Whether the weather be fine. You can
guys can join us too. Whether the weather be fine...
--Or whether the weather be not. --Or
whether the weather be not. --Whether the
weather be cold --Whether the weather be
cold --Or whether the weather be hot
--Or whether the weather be hot
--We'll be together whatever the weather.
--We'll be together whatever the weather
--Whether we like it or not
--Whether we like it or not...
I like it.
We'll be together --We'll be together
whatever the weather, whether we like it
or not. --We'll be together whatever the weather,
whether we like it or not.
--Oh yeah. Your lips and your tongue. [trills lips]
--All right. Let's do a show. --Mediocre moments in
magic Harry's birthday edition.
--Do-do-do-do-do da da Dada Dada da Dada da da da da...
--Mmm
--Welcome to
long form shower thoughts with Draco and Harry. So,
--You wanted my shower thoughts? --I
do. [laughs] --You didn't?
--I did! --Oh, I thought you said you didn't!
--I... --I was going to tell you anyway
quite fun.
--Anyway, so he came in and just blew my mind. And I said I actually I
need this for the vlog.
--Well, I was thinking that you know sound in
space no one can hear you scream because sound cannot
travel in a vacuum.
--Isn't that on the poster for Alien or something?
--I think it is, yeah. --Yeah.
--But also I'm sure in Alien, they have things explode in space that you can
still hear. Like the ship explodes and you hear... but you if you can't hear people scream.
You also can't hear ships explode. --Yeah.
--Like the Death Star. You can't hear
lasers go pew pew pew
because they're not making any sound, like
doesn't it doesn't make sense.
--But it would be so much more more boring. --It would just be
like... and every now and then, Someone going Oh, look out!
Wah!
A ship exploded. How do
you know? I saw it!
I didn't hear it. But what I was thinking was even more
amazing.
--Okay. -- Other things do travel
through space like electromagnetic waves,
radiation waves, light waves. If sound waves could travel in space, imagine how
loud the Sun would be.
Life on earth would be very very different.
--Why is the sun so noisy? --Just
because it would be like this bshhhh --Probably would not have species that would
hear anything.
--We wouldn't hear anything. Just constant thunder.
Oh, the
sunder as it rises.
--Johno Roberts, everyone.
--Oh, hi guys. I guess that's it for
today's the addition of Magic to Do. I'm James Snider here uh for Broadway.com.
We'll see you guys next week as I do other things that are magical...
I don't
have anything magical to do, so you guys could just go.
See you next week.
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