--Hi! I'm Ali Ewoldt. -- And I'm Sierra Boggess.
--[both] And welcome to --Daae Days
--Dear Daae. --Daae Days.
--Dear
--Daae --Day
--Christine Daae!
--Welcome. We are Christine Daae.
--And we're
here for Phantom's 30th anniversary!
[screams]
--Hope you enjoy this episode!
--Dear Daae, today we
are ringing the NASDAQ bell.
The crew is assembled and it's not even 9:00 a.m. yet.
[cheers]
--I'm Peter Joback from the Broadway company of the
Phantom of the Opera. I'd like to thank NASDAQ for
inviting us here today in honor of our 30th anniversary.
Phantom is the longest running show in Broadway history and the 30 years is an
unprecedented milestone. In those 30 years, Phantom has become an iconic part of the
New York City experience, playing over 12,000 performances to 18 million people.
Thanks to their great brilliant vision over 30 years ago and their continued dedication,
we can all look forward to the musical that I'm playing here on Broadway for
decades to come. Thank you.
--First, welcome our neighbors into the Nasdaq market site this morning, but to
celebrate the 30th anniversary by joining us and ringing today's opening bell.
To commemorate all that, I would like to present you with the opening bell.
Congratulations, guys! [Cheers]
[cheers]
--[all]Five, four, three two, one!
[cheers]
--Oh my god good!
--Good morning! It is 9:40 a.m. We're here at the Majestic getting ready
for our first event of anniversary celebration Wednesday.
I have coffee.
Thank you, Starbucks.
Okay I've got my face mostly on. Got my
hair mostly on. We're saying it's very strange to do this without microphones
right Leo?
--Yes. I'm like going hmmm.
--All right, folks!
--All right. --Good morning, Rodney!
--Here we go!
--Who's excited to get on the Empire State Building? Yeah.
--Squad goals.
--Yes we've got really great fashion right now.
Hey Sarah! --Yes.
--How heavy do you think--ooh, I'm sorry!
do you think the blue dress is? --It feels like 50 pounds
right now, but I think it's only about 20
--Sing for me!
[laughs]
--You scared me!
--My angel of music!
[laughs]
Sing for me! My angel!
Sing!
I hearby proclaim January 26, 2018, in the City of New York, as The Phantom of the Opera Day.
[applause]
--Congratulations.
--Thank you, and thank you so much and thank you to the mayor's office. On
behalf of the Empire State Building, we too would like to present a gift,
a token of our appreciation, and a small reminder of the day that you lit the Empire
State Building to the entire Broadway company, a statue of our iconic
building in remembrance.
[applause]
--Sing for me!
--Ahhh
[laughs]
--This is so cool. Here are some amazing, original company
members, mixing with our actual company members
We're gonna all perform together tonight.
--Hi guys!
--What is your favorite masquerade costume other than your own?
--Ooh.
--Mine's actually on a mannequin. It's the dragon. It's like a
green costume piece very far down stage on the stairs mannequin.
--Hi Jess! --Hi.
--What's your favorite line in show?
--Oh my gosh. I love
Phantom's line in the final lair when he says this face that earned a mother's fear and loathing.
That like, ugh, just gets me every time. I feel like it's when he becomes vulnerable.
--Hi Janina! --Hi!
--Do you consider yourself
more of an Andre or a Firrmin?
--Hmm, Firmin because he is most concerned with the music and the elements that
have to do with, actually no,
he has to do with the business side. So I'm I'm Andre. I have to do with the
music and how the production looks, and how it sounds, and how the
artistic quality is going.
--Question to the crowd: Who in the cast is the most like his
character? [gasps]
--What?
--That would be me.
--Ta-da!
--Dear Daae, We are about to begin our 30th anniversary performance. Now, today's
Wednesday, just in case anybody's confused. Our
actual Phantom anniversary is on Friday and we're doing two shows, but we're
having our big celebratory performance tonight. Hal Prince is here, Cameron
Mackintosh is here, Andrew Lloyd Webber is here. There's also a very special
guest, who hopefully you will see later. Um, it's really exciting. I'm not gonna
lie, I'm a little bit nervou, but I got my power bracelets on. We're gonna rock this out.
You guys, this audience is amazing.
if any of you out there watching this
are in the crowd right now on Wednesday night, thank you! We love you!
Oh glad to get those nerves out.
Here we go.
--Hi guys! We're getting ready for the
party. This is my amazing friend Abbi, who's working her magic.
We finished the show. It went really well. Now we get to enjoy ourselves.
--Perfect.
Thank you.
[cheers]
["The Phantom of the Opera" plays]
--This is... amazing.
["Masquerade" plays]
[cheers]
--Did you get my stuff?
---Throw them in the middle..
--We're at the party.
--This is wild. --How ya feeling Rodney?
--Good! Wow. How about that show, though?
--Oh, my gosh, that show was amazing. --Dude, that was next level.
--Hi! --Hi!
--Okay, so we are here at the 30th Anniversary and Ali just became a superstar.
--She played Christine like I've never seen before.
--We don't know who he is.
He just wants to
just wants to be in the shot.
--I'm gonna interview Ali now.
--How do you feel?
--Crazy!
--Crazy good?
--Yes.
--How did you feel tonight?
--So, listen, wait. --How did you feel tonight?
--I felt great because watching Ali Ewoldt on that stage light up the world.
--That's right.
--And Cameron, Hal, and what's the other guy's name?
--Norm Lewis!
--Norm Lewis.
Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The guy who wrote this.
--He wrote it.
--She sand the booop out of those songs
--Stopped the show at one point.
--And she's so beautiful! Yeah. That's it. --That's it.
--Dear Daae, here we are at the Today Show.
--Oh, hey.
--It's early.
[Peter Joback singing "Music of the Night"]
--Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world,
leave all thoughts of the world you knew before...
--Dear Daae. It is Friday, January 26th, which is
the 30th anniversary of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway at the Majestic. It is
a two-show day here for us, which is a lot because quite frankly I'm really tired, but I
think we're gonna have some really really really amazing audiences. Um I
just wanted to say a little bit about Wednesday night because I didn't really
get to check in much, so the special guests that I mentioned, I sadly did not
get to meet. That would be the one and only Sarah Brightman, the original
Christine, the inspiration for this musical, the muse of all muses. Um, but I
think she's amazing, so Sarah, if you're out there, I just want to thank you on
behalf of myself, all Christine's that have come in between us, that will come
in the future, and people who love love love this musical because you made it
happen. And I'm super grateful. Um also the party was really fun, except that I
had to leave early cuz we had to get up early the next morning.
Which is the life of a fancy Broadway star. Not
really, but it's been a really, it's been really wonderful week. I'm
gonna attempt to do a show cuz I love the show and even when I'm tired, I still love
the show. Okay, bye. \
Signing off at the BroadwayCon. Thank you for watching!
See you next week!