--Hi everyone! --[ALL] Welcome to episode 7
--Teale Dvornik, ladies and gentleman! --Hello
--Teale, I honestly had you sit here so that I could get a shot of this amazing hair
in the mirror that you have. You have the perfect toss toss hair. --Oh, thank you. It
really is good toss toss, even under hat. It's just like ahh
--That's right girl. What do
you love most about being a dresser here.
--Oh, wow! What a hard question. I mean, I
love this entire cast. It's just so fun to be backstage and get to cheer
everybody on and make sure they look so beautiful before they go and dance their
life.
--And like what would you be your tip, your advice for somebody who wants to
get into this, as a dresser. --Well I majored in theater and costume design
and I think that that's a pretty crucial thing. At least in my journey, just having
that like awesome college experience and you know anything crazy that you go
through in your career before you make it to Broadway just prepares you.
--What else do you go by? Is it perchance the backstage blonde?
--Sure is.
Got the B on my hat. --Oh,
that's cool! You have the merch
--Yes, starting a blog has been a
really fun little side hustle, and yeah. I just really love Broadway!
--Yeah, and well
Broadway loves you.
--Oh stop!
--We all know how much Tracey loves
the camera. Hey, Trace, is this what it's like between uh between shows on
Wednesday?
[laughs]
--Yes.
--But we're gonna bubble up. It's gonna be so fun.
--So fun.
--Alright everybody
welcome to the put-in rehearsal for Madame Morrible and Dr. Dillamond
Jamie Jackson and Nancy Opel. Okay, so um a lot of the guys decided to wear
onesies to this put-in today. Hey, Jer!
--Hey, I'm from Oz. --That's so cool!
--Oh my gosh we
have a little froggy!
Courtney Iventosch, everyone. --[ribbets]
--Hi, Jeffrey! --Hello!
--I like this little Christmassy kind of --It's Connecticut chic
--Connecticut chic, that's right.
--Peter Ermides and Lauren Sambataro. --No no no. Hi!
--Guys Peter Ermides knows all of the Elphaba lines.
Is that right?
--I actually do. --Go.
--I could take over. It just needs to be up a step.
All of her stuff is too low.
--Definitely too low.
--Here's all the boys ready
--We are here rehearsing with a Nancy Opel and Jamie Jackson, who
are coming in as our new Madame Morrible and Dr. Dillamond. They are incredible!
I'm currently on a 10-minute break, or a ten, and so I figured I would eat some
snacks and bring you questions with Amanda. This one is from Dylan. He says
what brought my idols did you look up to growing up? Oh! Okay the first one that
comes to mind is Bernadette Peters. My first Broadway show that I ever saw was
Cats, but I was very terrified because the cats would go into the audience and
I was very scared of them. I was eight years old.
The second Broadway show that I saw was Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette
Peters, and it was like such a turning point for me. Oh look who's visiting! Hi
Jess! Jess, will you tell us about your Broadway idols growing up? Who did you
love? It's the microphone.
--Rebecca Luker. --Oh, yes, Rebecca Luker!
--Rebecca Luker, --Uh huh
--Julie Andrews --Hmm
--Sch-Laura Benanti --Ugh...
--Love her. Betty Buckley
--Mmhmm --Bernadette Peters
--Mhmm --Bette Midler
-- Yes! --Here's a good question. What
inspired the BAE series? You know, I
think it was like June or July 2015 and I was in Los Angeles cuz I lived there.
Fun fact. I don't know if you know this, but I lived in LA for four years. The
BAE Series was just a wacky little idea that came to me— hey Jess —in my car
and I was like I'm just gonna do it! And I just shot it. I think the first episode
was while I was playing Kim in Bye-Bye Birdie at Sacramento Music Circus and I
was getting my wig changed if you scroll way back or you got over Youtube and
you see the first episode, I was like well it tickles me, and like maybe other
people will like it?
--I'd get tickled. You want my peanut gallery comments?
--Yeah, I love you peanut gallery
comments. Give us some more.
--Guys, we are back with Brian Perri. You
saw him last episode two episodes go with his Nerds. This is my thank-you
gifts because he is going to do what a lot of you requested and show us the
pit. I'm so glad you guys requested that. So cool -- Brian, how many musicians play
in the show every night? -- 24, including me. So, right now you're in the
string section. We have a beautiful string quartet that plays. On the other
side there's some soundproofing, we have our brass section.
--Okay this is a sound
okay --So, a nice big brass section.
We have two French horns back here, two
trombones and two trumpets. --Awesome
--And then over there we've got the reed
section, these humans play. --Woah!
--Three or four instruments each, five instruments
sometimes. All kinds of things. --Wow --And then they all see me do these video
monitors. --Mhmm
--Because I'm up there and there's like
fans that blow all the smoke away from me. --Oh right
--Which is important or that
actually gets to the point people can't see me. This is John our clarinet player.
--Hi John! --How you doing?
--Great. --I like your shoes.
--Good to see you again oh thank you ruby red slippers.
--Very nice. -- Responsible musician coming up
early to warm up. So we're walking to the
Brass section, so we have three keyboards. --Oh that's right mm-hmm
--They play all sorts of different sounds in the show. They're kind of the magic
sounds of the show. --Over there's our drum booth, the drum booth is soundproofed,
so sound can control it. --This is so cool. This is a teeny little staircase
Okay, so this is the monitor see guys this is a monitor like he's up there so this is
what all that means we should see while they play and us too on stage.
What? --Here's the podium. Here's my view every night
--Incredible. Here's my office, here's my
baton. --I mean so you can see the
conductor is liaison between
the stage and the orchestra that makes everything go together . You
can sort of see the house and everything. All 2000 seats. You see on this side, this is
where the rhythm section is are the drums and we have two guitars and a face.
And then in another room, on another floor, we have a harp and a
percussionist. --And are these fans on the
whole show or do they turn on? --No they come
on they're like cued like the lights. They come on during certain numbers like
No Good Deed, there's a you know obviously so much -- So much smoke
--So the fans go on. -- Yeah. Wow how epic is this
you guys? And then right above is the
dragon of course. I still can't get over what a huge responsibility
you have.
--Yeah you got to keep it running.
--It's amazing. And you guys use the
earpiece to to do certain parts right?
--Yeah. So, when the... sometimes there's a
like a voiceover in the show or something like that, so use the
headphones to hear that. And, you know, also I guess how I hear the keyboards and
the harp in the other room.
--Right
--And um and that's how I hear the vocals
because see this thing right here is called and Aviom.
And it's kind of like a personal mixer.
--Have a great two J Vo!
--I love you
-- I love you. Have a great Two, Kev! --What do pirates say on
their 80th birthday?
--What? --Ay Matey!
-- Ah ha! --That was good.
--Good one.
--Hey, Kyle Dean.
--Hey. --Oh it's so fun to
put you to play with you. --Oh thanks it's fun bein here!
--So, what's going on? How's
your life? --My life is great just back at Wix
--Back at the Wix --Back at the Wix for a hot moment.
--That's right. --Good to be here.
--Your mom is here tonight? --She's in the audience tonight.
--How wonderful. --Really?
--Oh my gosh! I wonder if they became friends!
--I bet you they did!
-- I bet they did too. --Mom club!
--This is Laurel Harris, our fabulous Elphaba stand by!
--Hey, y'all! --Oh my gosh so much fun
playing with you.
--Oh my gosh I love it so much.
What's your favorite scene to be in
and then what's your favorite scene to to that you're not in?
--Well, I love watching Popular even though I'm in it.
Amanda's so fabulous. She's so hilarious
and she's always changing it up. But seriously, it is so fun. I love I adore watching you .
--It takes two. --It takes two.
Hey. I really adore the scenes with Dr. Dillamond because
that's really get to see Elphaba's passion for animals and for animal
rights and human rights, and that. I relate to her a lot during that area.
--That's right.
--Equality and loving all creatures and all beings.
--That's right.
--Thanks so much for tuning in guys! Hop you'll tune in again next week. And
remember to leave a little sparkle wherever you go! Love you!
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