Hey Michael. Hey Andy.
We're about to open our Broadway show tomorrow.
We are. How do you feel about that?
Excited. It's pretty weird right? It's wild.
I can't believe you did that.
Yeah.
Me neither.
I'm here with Alex
Louise Boniello. What is the new girl's name every time?
We just finished the show I thought it was a really good one. It was a good one.
The audience seemed to really like it.
Hopefully that good show cheered you up after
a series of unfortunate events that plagued your New York life.
Yeah. Why don't you walk us through it?
Well I first wanna say that it's
I've been living here for awhile, like I'm not, I didn't
I'm not from LA and came here for just like this show. You're one of our only New York actors.
So yeah, somebody used my phone number some how
to spend $60 on the Sony PlayStation store
But they used my phone number and it billed my phone bill
So i don't know how this happened. so last night I was on the phone with them for like two hours.
after buying my opening night outfit
Concerned and worried that someone was stealing my identity
somebody was doing this and that
we still don't know why it happened so Broadway.com
viewers, if you have any expertise in this, please
Let me know why someone would have been able to use my
phone number to buy a PlayStation thing.
I have two questions. The first is what game did they buy?
I don't know they just added funds to their wallet.
My second question is are you sure you didn't just get a little drunk and
100%
like buy something?
I'm a thousand percent
Who's a gamer and has your phone number?
You have more money than me.
So today, I was on my way to rehearsal
Just waiting at my subway stop so I'm just sitting her checking the time
as the train's coming and
so some man an older man like 75 just comes up to me
and full on like this is me he goes
and slaps my phone out of my hand
directly down to the subway tracks
I turn and look at this man and I'm just like
He stares me in the eyes and walks out
He gave no reason
He didn't explain himself
He didn't even say like "I hate you, I don't like your face"
Nothing
So I asked the MTA guy if they had like a pooper scooper.
or something like a claw.You'd think by now
it's 2015 people drop their phones. yeah
So he was like, "Yeah, yeah we can get it for you."
Amazing. Let's do it. And he said "yeah that's gonna take an hour and a half."
Because apparently to do this they have to call in a special person to climb
down there. They have to stop the subway.
And they have to do all this garbage. So I didn't know what to do
So naturally I like cried a little bit
And then I came to rehearsal
I used a laptop computer to inform my next of kin.
That I was not to be reached
And then in between rehearsal I went back up and
they had got it and had left it there.
So I got it back
But then I gave it like a bath in hand sanitizer.
Cuz you know a rat used the bathroom on my phone
Yeah absolutely
Or like used ya know Yelp
You're going through it
Mercury is in retrograde. But hey. Guess what? You're opening a Broadway show this weekend.
Indeed
And a pretty good one at that so
maybe this is the last of your like karmic pay out
sort of like ya know it's like
your soul taking a dump before it eats a big meal of joy
now i really wanted to show this off
we got this really amazing thing art from a fan
by this name I don't wanna try to pronounce it and ruin it
And it's really incredible it's all
of the cast
i mean everybody. And our writers.
And there's Michael right there
And Spencer. And Everybody
Just like little sort of
Look at Daniel Durant.
OH that's Alex Wyse.
Alex looks like a little South Park character
There's me.
Looking pretty close to life
And there's Alex being a Jellicle Cat
I have here a rare exclusive with Spencer Liff our choreographer. What are we doing here, Spencer?
At Shake Shack in the middle of the night?
Well I have a tradition that I have to eat In-n-Out burger actually
before every important work event
usually i eat it before every episode of So You Think You Can Dance
before any show
And in LA, the night before we opened I invited the cast to come and eat In-n-Out
And everyone came so it became a thing
And since we're in New York and my equivalent to In-N-Out is Shake Shack in New York
we all decided the night before opening to come and get
burgers and well I'm having a beer.
Here we have Sandra
Our Wendla and Ren And Elizabeth our ASL master slash adult women standby
the world famous Miles Barbee
What did you have? What did you eat?
Hot dog
and french fries
cheese
look the gang's all here
i'm here with Kathryn Gallagher on opening day
the flowers are showing up
there are like presents galore
cards and presents galore and it's not even really opening yet
opening is tonight. we have a matinee
It's a two show opening day
It's the classic two show opening day
first i feel like the matinee is going to be good. it's going to be really good.
it's going to be just so joyful. like it's just not going to be sad.
I wonder who's coming? Are people going to be here? yeah.
a bunch of kids at the flea market were telling me they were coming. look at what I got
For everyone
They're matches!
That say I love your light
That's so clever. It took me a really long time to think about it.
We were just talking about your fashions for tonight which your Dad
was like. My dad told me I forgot a shirt.
And you're going to have to- I didn't forget.
There is no shirt.
As both of my Dads said, tape, tape, tape
the other Dad being Mr. Michael Arden said we're going to need lots of tape for this one.
and I've got it
Did I get it? I forgot it
No I didn't forget it
The first thing I'm going to invite
and this is gonna be big
for all of you making your Broadway debuts
if this is your first Broadway show
come to the center of the stage
And I'd like to introduce Betsy Struxness
who received the robe at the last show for Hamilton
The gypsy robe began in 1950
when Bill Bradley, a chorus dance in Gentleman Prefer Blondes
asked Florence Baum, a chorus girl, for her dressing gown.
Bill then sent it over to Arthur Partington a chorus dancer at the Imperial Theatre
where Call Me Madam was opening that night with a note proclaiming
the robe had been worn by all the Ziegfield beauties and would bless their show.
A cabbage rose from one of Ethel Merman's gowns was attached at the robe by Arthur
and it was sent on to the opening of the next chorus musical, Guys and Dolls.
the gypsy robe is awarded to a member of the chorus
who has the most Broadway musical chorus credits
the honored gypsy puts on the robe
circles the stage three times counterclockwise
and everyone touches the robe
the gypsy still wearing the robe then visits all the dressing rooms and the show is blessed
it is my great pleasure to present the gyopst robe for Spring Awakening to
Van Hughes
Hi Josh. Hi
Happy debut official
What are you feeling? How was the gypsy robe all of it?
I think right now I'm just in this moment where I feel like
I'm so happy I'm debuting with this cast
with this family, with these people who know sign
and care about us not just riding the deaf train if that makes sense
I thought maybe we would learn some more signs today. yes
maybe some opening night themed signs so how do we say
Opening night
opening
your palms make like a v shape
open
and then take your right hand and go
night
how do you say champagne?
champagne
pop off the cork
I'm gonna teach you my favorite sign
Josh taught me this on one of the first days of rehearsal. YAAAAAAAS
YAAAAAAAAAS
A y up into an s. It's very sassy. Very sassy. Thanks Josh
Isn't that you're really excited but you can't contain it? YASYASYASYAS
Because one thing I didn't really know this is stupid to admit
But I'm just gonna go ahead and say it
I didn't understand before working with this deaf cast
that English and ASL are not analagous
like they are not like a one for one
it's not like ASL is how to speak English with your hands
It's its own language so there are a lot of signs that don't have an English equivalent
maybe teach us like a sign or two that doesn't have an English equivalent.
that's like it's own ASL ya know ism
So I'm going to teach two
the first one is true biz
true biz
or true biz
and what does-explain true biz
it's almost like...actually
literally
just those concepts so if I was using it in a sentence I would say
True biz, I'm debuting on Broadway today
and the other one is Pah!
Pah is not to be used lightly
if you are working on something so hard
and then you Pah! you get it
it's like FINALLY
but like bigger than finally
Well that's great for opening night. right that's what I was thinking
Pah. Pah
Pah and True biz
Thanks, Josh
So Alex is doing periscope right now
and I'm vlogging and it's weird Inception moment
down the rabbit hole of the internet
it's opening night and things are coming in now
I'm not I would like to pretend that I'm this loved
a ghost just made that happen
that was a ghost i was no where near that thing
i wish i could act like I'm this cool and I'm getting all these flowers but
I'm getting Michael's flowers too so these are mine and Michael's but
I'm getting lovely flowers and I got this amazing
picture of Hanschen
from my managers
I really like it
i don't know if you can see it on the camera but i love how
like the texture. yeah there's texture
it looks like a charcoal pencil
really amazing
I've just gotten all sorts of things
now if you follow the trail of flowers
you will find
our queens here through the diamond curtain
we can't help it. we are just. people are throwing
love at us. Look at all of these incredible flowers
it looks like the goddamn Rose Bowl in here
Thank you to our friends and our family for all this love and support
we are so excited. It's our Broadway debut!
Break a leg
So I'm here we just opened last night had our first show back after opening it was really exciting
and I'm here with my friend who's laughing at me because I'm not in my lane right now, I'm in his lane
What a vlogger!
If you're watching this you all need to see the show
it was so good I was in the audience screaming it was amazing
and Tyler just revealed to me that he saw me in the first national tour
wait! don't tell people that
which means he's a thousand years old. NO
I was, we're like the same age firstly
But i was like on stage cuz you brought people up on stage for that
but it was in Michigan and I didn't even know this boy yet
and I was like "who is that boy?"
Now I know this punk. just a couple of blondes. i know
fake blonde
you'd be a really great Hanschen. Thank you
I'll replace you some day
I know I can get you in
I can get you an audition. God bless
That's all I need. Alright well thanks Tyler. Byeee
OK so I had every
I had every intention of filming
things like opening night last night but
but I didn't
that didn't happen cuz I
had some festive drinks and
but we had a great amazing opening and a great time
and now
fortunately we have a show the next day
and here we are! All together!
Cheers
I love you guys
Bye thanks for watching