--Hello, Broadway.com! It's me
Caitlin Kinnune and you are watching my vlog Dance with Me.
Welcome. Today we're gonna do a backstage tour. Whoo! All right, here we go.
We are here at our stage door. So, this is where we first come in when we show up
for work. We have mail. This is where we get our packages. We have our doorman. We
have our sign in, so everyone when we get here, we have to sign in. It's the first
show of the week so I'm signed in. And then we have our call board, has a bunch
of new information. We send out happy opening cards to shows that are
opening, and then there's our weekly schedule.
Yeah. And then we head into the depths. So, that's downstairs. We'll go there in a
minute. Yeah, so we're gonna head upstairs
first. This is a lovely quick-change booth, and here is where we do a lot of
our quick changes. I get into my blue sparkly dress in this room. And there's a
little drawer that usually holds all my makeup and stuff. Right now just my lip
gloss and hair clips are in there. But yeah, so a lot of fast changes happen
back here. You can see some costumes and wigs, hats, crazy things. Hold all of our
water bottles. This one's mine. It has a cat on it. Shocking, I know.
This is where we check and make sure we look good before we head out onstage.
But, up we go! All right, we've made it to the first floor. This is the lovely Beth Leavel and
Angie Schworer's room, number two. Their dresser Lyle has decorated it beautiful.
And we head down this hallway to my room. On the way, we pass our stage
management office. They're busy working in here,
and then we go down to number four. This is my room. You've seen some of it. I have
my pink fluffy couch, some of my fan art. You guys draw the most incredible—
that's a hanger— you guys draw the most incredible things and send them to me,
and I am always grateful. And this is my station. You know, it's got a lot of
different things on it, but they all make me happy. I have pictures with my sister,
pictures with my friends, this is a card my sister sent me. Awkward is my
superpower. And just like all of these fun little things. My sister sent me this
years ago and I carry it with me to every show I do. I have a squishy unicorn.
And yeah, so that's my station. And then I sit next to Izzy, and then there's
Courtney or Courtenay.
But, yeah. We share a bathroom with
stage management. We've really, by we I mean I, really decked it out with
horrible photos of all of us.
Look at these crazy photos of Izzy in high
school. Look at that. Look at that a really unflattering photo of me. This
is weird that I'm giving you a tour of the bathroom, but like it's just all of
these pictures are here. Look at that, just while we pee, get to look at our
beautiful faces. And that's my room. Okay, so let's go to the next floor. Next
floor up, we have Brooks Ashmanskas and
Christopher Sieber, as well as the female ensemble. We have these lovely ladies in their
room. They have beautiful plants and Christmas lights. It's wonderful. And then
we have these lovely ladies.
--Hello.
--Look who's here. Surprise guests
on our tour. --What's up?
--Hi guys! --How are you?
--Is there anything fun in your dressing room that you want to show my
Broadway.com vlog?
--Oh!
--What you got?
-- I got this little guy. --He's kind of like mine.
I just showed them my Squishy unicorn, but yours doesn't squish.
--No. --Soft
--And then I've got these
little like emotion stickers to like...I don't know why I want to show
that.
--She also has this beautiful like wooden makeup holder
--This is the best purchase I ever made. It like.
--I gotta get me one of those.
--It really was wonderful. Amazon.
--And then you playing
your ukulele. --My uke and my cube
--Oh! --Do you work on that during the show?
--Um
sometimes. I do it during Barry's Going to Prom and trying to finish it
before going for my wig call.
--Have you ever finished it?
--Yeah! Every day. --What?
--Me and Britney go back and forth.
--She's really good at them.
--You learn new things about your cast members every day!
--Me and Britney are obsessed. --And they have these
cute little shelves. I don't have shelves
in mine. I want shelves. And a dream catcher!
See everyone's everyone's
dressing rooms are like little representations of themselves.
I always think of it as like like you get to see like a little bit of the
person's like bedroom at home that it's just like a mini bedroom, you know? I
don't know. --Mhmm
--We're working on it. We're gonna get new lights. Actually, I think
Britney just got new lights. So we're gonna put twinkle lights
so that we don't have to turn on these harsh lights anymore. Because I think
--It's gonna be beautiful. -- I know. I'm excited.
--Just like
--All right. Third and final
floor of dressing rooms is most of the men. In here, we have Josh Lamon and
Michael Potts. You have more quick changes waiting to be made. We have some
of the dudes in their room.
--Oh my gosh! It's Joomin! --Hey!
--So many people are here so
early! Say hi Joomin! --Hi, how are you?
--What you got on your station? -- I have this
playbill with notes that my Korean friends gave to me. --Yes!
--Was like right second preview. --Second preview!
--And my wife gave this from ...she
messaged to my friends in Korea. So, they can write about my Broadway debut!
--Aww! Are
they so happy and excited for you? --Yeah like this is so sweet.
--Oh... --Look at this I want to show you.
--Show us. -- Look at this.
--Look how sweet this is. --My wife made it for me.
--His wife Megumi is the absolute best human being. She's so sweet. We love her.
--She's so lovely.
--All right. More... This is Joomin wears this in the show, this lovely little floaty
suit. Then we have Josh Franklin, Sheldon, and David Josephsburg in here.
Bathroom, and then we got these guys in this room. And a Drew sleeping in a hammock!
--Hey! --Everyone is at the theater so early
today. I'm like even earlier than I
normally am.
--Hi Drew! --Hi guys!
--How's your little hammock? --It's good.
-- So you have a hammock in
your dressing room. --I do.
--Do you love it?
--It's one of my favorite things. --What else?
Tell us something fun about your station. This is Drew's station.
--So, the notes, the
the notes actually are not — they say love mom but they're
actually from Josh Lamon. He would hide them in like my
peanut butter and my protein and my coffee mug. And so every once in a while, I
find a little note.
--Aww --Which is fun.
--That's how much our cast loves each other. It's like so
cheesy, but it's true. -- We really do.
--I guess we're friends. --Just a little bit.
--Okay now it's time to go
downstairs to the basement!
All right down to the basement we go.
Here it is. This is where we keep some spare costumes.
Back here is where some of our band lives. These beautiful rooms. This is where
drummer Jared lives. Look at all those drums. And more bathrooms you know. And then
back here, we have our wardrobe room. No one's here right now. But this is where
they make repairs. And that's all of our show laundry! Oh! So much laundry.
So they make all of our costumes look beautiful here, and then all of our wigs
are with out hair people. And we keep going. This is our orchestra pit up
here. That's where our conductor sits right there. This secret surprise is my favorite part
of the basement. There's this like beautiful plant that is just like
spiraling through this lovely hallway. And it lives in that bucket. It's
my favorite part. This is where our crew hangs out, Rick's Cafe. To backstage
left! And then we go up these stairs. And then once we go up these stairs, we're
backstage. And this is where we all have to be really quiet and a lot of
quick changes actually happen right there. I change into You Happened right
there. Then, more water bottle holders. We're backstage. Yay! This is where a stage
manager calls the show from. We have monitors so we can see what's going on.
Props hang out there, and we're on stage.
Most of our sets, we have a really small backstage space, so most of
our sets get flown up into the rafters. But, yeah, just like that, we're on our
stage looking at our theater. It's a beautiful place to be. That's where our
conductor sits and then just like that you come this way and we're back where
we started. Isn't that a fun little trip? Just that's
our cross under, and where all of our people live. Our theater has a million
floors, so going up to the top in the elevator. It's the slowest elevator, but it works.
Okay. We have made it to the top of the house. We are here. We're in the lobby. This is
actually where we had a lot of our costume fittings while we were in tech
and stuff, this whole area was just full of costumes. So we would come up
here all the way to the top to try things on.
So, now we head down. There's so many stairs in this building. This is my favorite
part. So, we also have PT up there every week. And you come down, and you see this. You
just see this little sliver of our stage. And it's the most beautiful. So, yeah, if
you sit in the balcony when you come see our show, this is our view. Beautiful chandeliers. All
these seats are full of people every night and it's amazing. So, yeah. This is our
beautiful house. We were just all the way up there. Now we're down here.
And those ill monitors, those we see our conductor in. So, when we're on stage, we
can see them giving us cut-offs and playing with us. Yeah. That's it. That's
our theater. Yeah. Okay bye! And just like that. We are back
in my dressing room, and it is time for me to get ready for the play.
Thanks for tuning in this week again. I've only got a couple left you guys. Sad
day. Yeah. Thanks for watching. I hope you
enjoyed it, and I'll see you again next week. Bye!
["Dance with You" from The Prom]