I'm not a regular mom I'm a cool mom.
# We see you there. We see you #
I'm Adrienne and I'm the Experimentalist.
Today we are at Broadway Boot Camp,
and we are learning the final number of Mean Girls on Broadway.
"Welcome to North Shore High!"
Okay so if you sign up for a Broadway Boot Camp, what is gonna happen?
You're gonna come to a place like this like ballet Chicago
It's like a, you know, a rehearsal space.
and then next thing you know three cast members from the show are gonna come in
and you're like whoa starstruck, right?
and then they're gonna start teaching you songs and dances and a scene from the show
# I see stars #
# So many stars tonight #
# You could make diamonds dull #
# You are so beautiful #
and then you get to go to the show with all your new theater friends
and then the next day you have a whole performance where all your friends and
family can come and see you be your own Mean Girl star.
One, two.
# I see stars #
# So many stars tonight #
So this is like basically like an immersion program.
They don't coddle you that much is what I would say.
It seemed as if people here knew how to read music and lyrics
There were people who knew.
I'm just gonna mouth and I stand next to you the whole time.
He's like a really good singer.
I just sat by great guy Omar who had a great voice.
So I just tried to kind of lip-sync a little bit next to Omar
because the only feedback I've ever gotten about my singing is
do not sing.
Then they do a casting which is like
I feel not nearly as scary as in real life because it was all very friendly.
Based on just like comfortability and experience
we're doing the casting as it is right now
Okay, do I have to sing?
(Laughs)
I got cast as Gretchen Wieners which I thought was incredibly fetch.
I was very excited to be a Plastic.
That's so fetch!
# You're real, and you're rare #
I mean it felt like being sort of like back in high school or like in choir
I can tell that people like theater it's very communal.
It's like everybody was super nice and like it is actually pretty fun to sing with a group of people
inspirational song like even If you're just lip-synching it.
And now, put the music down
and let's learn "We're all stars."
5, 6,
# I see Stars #
so for now we really kind of like broke it down and gave us like an easier version
which I think was still maybe too hard for me.
But other people did okay.
I mean everybody else did a great job.
# I see stars #
# We shine as bright as day #
# I will look out for you #
# We'll light each other's day #
I think the coolest thing about this performance is that people had their
families here like their parents came or sisters you know.
We had like a whole audience and people were like really excited and fun.
And we did the performance and I'll tell you what it just went by in a blur.
I was like, it's happening now!
Here we are!
I had to bring myself back to my body
# We'd say what we are #
# Stars! #
# Say what we are! #
# I see stars #
# So many stars tonight #
Did you see in the performance
how I messed up like the whole dance at the beginning
I knew it was gonna happen!
In rehearsal I got it right but there's something about like
you're gonna move this and this and the opposites like
I just, I don't know my brain just doesn't work that way.
So I was a terrible dancer.
The other people who are here I mean like
were great actors and like really excited to be here and do this
and I feel like when people bring that kind of energy it like lifts the whole group up
I mean the actors were really committed to their lines
even if they had like one line and there are no small parts as they say.
# We are so real #
# We are so rare #
# We see you there, we see you #
# We're all stars! #
At the end I got like a premier spot
where I get to be the person that takes the selfie of the group
and I don't know if they just like threw me that bone
because I'm not very good at anything else.
# Stars! #
If you need a creative outlet this is a great thing to do for a weekend
and it also seems like a great thing to do with like your friends like
Maybe I'll bring my kid you know make him do some like dancing we could bond.
But yeah it's a super fun experience.
I feel very free and open for my communing with my new friends in song.