--What's up Broadway.com.
Erika here
I left the theater without the camera on Sunday and I had to come back and get it
so I'm the only prison here right now,
and I wanted to show you our ghost light. This is the August Wilson ghost light.
It scares away all the ghosts of the theater
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I'm probably not even supposed to be in right now
but I wanted to tell you what you're gonna see on the vlog this week. The
truth is, I don't actually know because the plastics took the camera. So they
dealt with a lot of the filming this week, but I'm sure it's awesome. And it's
enjoy it. It's a bunch of backstage shenanigans a
louderman lingo and little blue couch and a new thing called the Real Talk,
maybe you'll like it. I don't know. Enjoy it. I love you. I have to go now before
that ghosts come spooky spooky scary
--We're backstage. We're getting ready to file in and all the actors
before the show starts, so I wanted you to see what happens just before uh-huh
uh-huh. Guys I'm helping Erika out. Get some material before the show. How's
everybody feeling on this two show day
[shouts] --Love ya!
--Hi my name is Grey, and I've got a little baby arms. They call me the t-rex
of Broadway, but that's okay.
--Have a good show you guys!
--Here we go. We're gonna follow her to her her places. Erika
you're not in your places. They called places a long time ago.
--I thought this was
your outfit for the day and I was like you're dressed like Regina George right
now.
--I'm halfway yeah halfway but not the top
--Um this is where we have. THat's Tina Fey. --Is this
your places? Is this are you a place?
--Kind of. I have to make sure I have my tag when I shoo
Ben the Lion. --Yes.
And then I'll show you my
--Where'd she go?
Where'd she go?
This is my mom.
This is my gun.
A little uncomfortable putting this on every day.
--About to start act two
That's Oh Kate what you got there?
--Nothing. --Didn't they say places?
Are those snacks?
Give me that. --You want some?
--I'm gonna leave this here and they can play with it if they want to.
What? Hey!
I was cheated by you, and I think you know when! Was that your Broadway debut?
--My de butt? Yeah
--Okay you have to go onstage. You literally have
to on stage right now --Gonna hack into the stuff.
--Hi we like to change Holly's screensaver
--Oh let's change it
Here I'm gonna leave this here and you can change it when
--I have to go onstage with you!
--You too yeah yeah but I'm gonna hang this camera here for you for
later okay?
--Okay
--Hey hey guys it's Ashley um Erika asked me to get some Act two footage so
I thought I'd bring you along on Broadway scares.
Okay so I like to keep
Taylor on her toes. It's just like an exercise I like to do. I like to be there
for my cast mates in that way.
--Tayloy, hi!
--
[laughs]
--Okay so now I'm gonna pick out some Sour Patch
I got some sweedish fish in here for me and Erica for later because we like to
eat it during world burn. She only likes the blue one so I'm gonna pick them out
and I like the red ones.
--So Cady took a tumble this afternoon as
I went up to accept my Spring Fling crown, I usually take the stairs two at a
time. I did try to do that today and I fell face forward. And I think the
audience I think they were worried. I'm totally fine nobody was hurt
--Hey guys!
welcome to Louderman lingo. First of all these are not
my real boobs
--Look at that contraption
Broadway magic y'all --This is fake.
Okay first are the word for this week it's called
pugnacious --Was that your drum roll? Brilliant.
--Pugnacious means ready for a fight inclined to be affronted and throw the
first punch. Word comes from the Latin word for fight and is therefore
strictly speaking less violent than belligerent which comes from the word
for what okay okay pugnacious or pugnacity. All right?
Let's go use it
--Either or.
--Also, I think you guys will be happy
to know, even when this vlog series is done, Taylor has promised to do Louderman
lingo --I did
--On a weekly basis on her Instagram story you can find her up to
it was Taylizlou
Here she does. --Hey, you guys! What's going on in here
--Hi
-- We're cool. You guys,
is it places time? --I'm not calling places this time
--It is places time do you want to do it? --
--No.
I'm just like I'm really in this like weird mood..
--Do you need something? --No
--I'm sorry. --Yeah, I just like I'm belligerent
you know I was like I'm pugnacious.
--Oh word of the day
--Yeah! This has been Louderman lingo
--This is the one moment in the show I get to go upstairs. Kerry Butler!
--Hi! --And I get to
eat the snacks that Kate and Ashley have in their room. It's when Regina is messing
everything up at Northshore high. So this is when I
come in and steal their snacks right guys?
--Barrett, how did we get this special guest
for this week's episode? -- I know some people.
--I said Barrett do you want coffee? She goes no
but I'll take a seltzer
--And by some people you mean Adam Kaplan.
--So what how are we
feeling today? I want a scale of 1 to 10 you're
emotionally where are you at?
Like a 10 being like I can't function
--I feel like I'm actually well I just hung with these to so I feel
like I'm at an eight right now. --That's a good place.
--Do you guys have 5 show weekends?
--We don't -- What do you do when you're not at an 8 or a 9 or 10
what do you do to get to try and get there cuz you know what there are days.
--Give up!
You have to give up that's the only way you get it back.
--What do you mean give up? -- You just give up
--Can you give us a physical demonstration? --Give up kids!
--I think what
Barrett's saying sometimes too much is too much. You do need breaks.
--Are you gonna mansplain for me?
--I'm more of a woman than you will evr be Barrett
--What we really want to know is how do you do your hair? --Can I touch it?
--It's frozen --This is the meeting the hair
--Do you have your mic in that? --Oh, we are
we are we're full --Britney Spears
--Britney Spears Madonna.
We've got like my mic goes out to here
--Also, I found with this girl in
in the audience the other day came out - she's like I love like oh you're New
York accent you talk out of the side of your mouth. And I was like I'm
--Reaching for my mic
--Reaching for my mic.
--I didn't I know I did that
--I have to go to fight call --Oh wait
just do it now with Kyle show us really fast. Kyle just get going
get ready Kyle's.
Someone do the --Oh!
--Woah! --THat was good.
--That looked very good.
This is why we can't have nice things Adam Kaplan
--So sorry.
--Wink to the lens. Everybody say goodbye to Adam!
--Hey Broadway.com so we have little blue couch and we have Louderman lingo and now
you're gonna get a third segment and this is called Real Talk. I couldn't come
up with a better title because it's Sunday morning at the end of an 8 show
week so that's what this is I love doing these vlogs because it is something that
I know I'm gonna look back on and a couple years and be like man that was
the time of our lives that was a wild crazy incredible roller coaster and Mean
Girls on Broadway Broadway in general is the most fun in the world.
It truly is, nothing brings me and I think my castmates greater joy, but I've
been getting a lot of questions about um you know how do we stay healthy, how do
we stay calm, and I think what people are asking is is it as much is it as amazing
as it looks? And I wanted to take a second for Real Talk, every week, where we
kind of talk about the responsibilities and the difficulties that come with this
amazing thing that we get to do. So we'll be interviewing a couple people every
week if I can grab them. I'm gonna start this week with just a couple of things
that I do. I am a huge advocate of a couple of things a combination of
me-time, therapy, whatever that means to you, and physical therapy care. So for me
me time means reading a book I'm reading an awesome book right now plug it's
called homo deus a brief history of tomorrow
check it out if you're into fiction don't check it out because it is not!
Except it is about how we might like evolve into robots, so if you're into
Westworld, definitely give it a read. For my therapy time is it can be anything
sometimes it is talk therapy with a licensed professional, sometimes it is
going to meet my friend for coffee, meeting my sister for a breakfast. It is
a time where I get to be with somebody who is outside of this amazing show,
outside of the field, who knows me for who I am, and does not really expect
anything. And then the other thing that I try and make a habit is sort of the
physical therapy. And that is I love being outside so as soon as it gets warm
outside I'd like to run outside that is acupuncture that's going to a
chiropractor that is stretching as much as you can before the show I am sure I'm
going to get a lot of our ensemble members on here and they will tell you
all the things they do to take care of their bodies but the main thing is that
we have to listen to our bodies so on the days where you need a little more
actual warmup time don't just walk out on stage give yourself a ton get to the
theater early because what Broadway performers are asked to do is pretty
insane eight times a week you're doing a two and a half two sometimes three hour
marathon where you were putting yourself out there physically emotionally and
mentally and the care that it takes to do that is something I'm still learning
how to deal with and it requires sort of around-the-clock appreciation for your
your health and your voice and treating it like it is an instrument like you are
an athlete so that's sort of my real talk for the week I hope you took away
from this that it is so much fun it brings so much joy to all of us and it
brings us the most when we are in 100% peak condition of our mental and
physical capabilities and the only way we can do that is if we spend our time
nurturing those things with whatever feeds our souls. I'm gonna go another
plug for a couple things I really like in life apple cider vinegar, dogs,
reading, succulent plants. That's all. You'll hear more of my favorite things.
--I've decided to take you into the armpit of America --Time Square!
--Whoo!
--Show them Times Square. Show them the poster too.
--We just had an amazing event for
--For the the New Dramatists --New playwrights
but we're going to tell you what you'll see on next week's episode. So our cast album comes out
--On Thursday! --Wait
--Yeah yeah yeah. --Thursday at midnight!
--So we're going to you
BTS that's code for a behind the scenes, of our cast album listing party at
Atlantic Records. You're very close to my face.
--We're gonna cross quickly that's a semi truck!
-- Whoo! Cheech what else or Cheech is
going to do a little rapping for us next week
--I am. I'm going to do a little bit of rapping for you
to announce this new series that's
gonna pop up on our Instagram called Math lit, which is going to be a
series of raps done by myself and Ben Cooke and Nicolas Abu.
--So, look forward
to that, get a full shot of my dres brought to you by Ashley Park Lady
and thanks for watching Broadway.com!
Peace out, bye!