I'm neighbors with Michael, so he's always doing his yelpy, screamy thing he likes to do
you know, it's a slide through your range
I don't know if I necessarily do yelpies
I like to be a little nicer to my voice when I first start
especially since the first thing I do is my legit, my kind of mixy, middle stuff
I don't need to kind of hammer and belt, I have some time after to kind of do that on my own
I'm really glad I have short hair now, this takes a lot less time
That's when I always do the lip trill
There's a lot of moving parts on this show and a lot of violence
Things happen, and this actually wasn't even from a fight, it was from where Phebus throws the tambourine at me
he threw it a little too hard and it hit my face
Can you hear Patrick?
I also have this fancy little do-dad right here
because I have this blonde streak in my hair
and if I don't cover it, it looks like I have a weird white head underneath of my wig
gotta cover it up
Steam is so important
especially here, it's a little bit of a dry theatre
your voice gets so dry and we use it all the time, so it gets tired
so this really helps rejuvenate it
Now you get to see me beat my face
I was a tomboy growing up, so makeup was low on my list of things I wanted to do
generally I just do pretty natural stuff
we're in 1482, it's not a big makeup era
At the beginning, it's a little heavier
when I go in for "Rhythm of the Tambourine" and I have a bright red lip
I think the lip is kind of the most important thing
she's got to stand out to make money, you know, that's her thing
as the show goes on, I take away the lip, the makeup gets less because it gets smudged off and things like that
because she's fighting and she's running around the city, and she's trying to hide Phebus
and all this crazy stuff so she does not have time for makeup
I try to get all of this on first and then I've gotta go get my microphone
I've got two, so I've got one here or here and one in my head.
Just in case one goes out, they want to make sure I have two mics somewhere
So I do everything pretty dark, it makes me look crazy right now
and then I do the powder on top to cut down on that
I go out for the opening and I'm not Esmerelda
I'm a congregant, I'm one of everybody, we're all telling the story together
at that point, I still have light lips and things like that
once I leave the stage I come back and get into Esmerelda with the bright red lip and the red dress
and everything like that
Come in!
Hi, its Michael
Hi Michael!
We're a little cramped in here, what do you need
no, its OK!
Now I have to go get my microphone on and
Hi guys! There's like two seconds til the show
Come see it, we're almost sold out!
This is me as my congregant
and I'm about to be Esmerelda later