-- Hi everyone. I'm Bailey Ford. I'm the one who found the key to George's
dressing room, so we're gonna go in a second. But first, I wanted to introduce
myself I'm the intern on the show. I also have been unofficially running George's
life for the past year. I'm a student at Baldwin Wallace University and I'm here
for this semester to help run this show. And I'm also the one behind the camera
for Pac-Man Tattoo.
--I said please knock! Hi everyone. I'm George Salazar and
I woke up and looked like garbage today.
Welcome to episode 2 of Pac-Man Tattoo. Bailey took the camera out of here so
I'm not sure what she did or said. But she got me into my dressing room it took
a week, but here we are. I'll give you a quick tour. This is a
wall, this is a counter space.
That's Shy over at the stage door telling someone
they have a package at the stage door. There's a bathroom over there and a sink.
That's all I've got to report. Eventually this is going to feel like more of a
home, but but for now it's a room that I can sit at and look into the mirror
and cry. Okay, on today's episode of Pac-Man Tattoo, I'm also excited to
introduce you to our cast members of Be More Chill who will be making their
Broadway debuts with Be More Chelsea. You're gonna see this episode on Tuesday
February 12th which happens to be Abraham Lincoln's birthday but it also
happens to be my sister Sabrina's birthday. Happy birthday Sabrina. Um
you're gonna see this on the 12th. That's the day before our first preview,
Wednesday February 13th. So I'm excited to go around and introduce
or Broadway debuts and ask them and how they feel about making their Broadway debuts
with Be More Chill. I remember back in 2011 I made my Broadway debut
with Godspell and Telly Leung was our Broadway comm vlogger and some of the
fans have unearthed embarrassing footage of me walking into the Circle in the
Square Theatre for the first time being asked what if what it feels like to be
making my Broadway debut. So, I'm excited to be the Telly Leung of Be More
Chill. I'm excited to be the tall classically handsome, chiseled face
washboard abs, physically perfect tenor with a fierce belt of Be More Chill.
--Hey
everyone so we're here with...
--Jason Sweettooth Williams. Hi --Jason Sweettooth
Williams you are making your Broadway debut with
Be more chill -- Yeah sure I am.
--How do you feel? -- I feel crazy. I feel I feel lucky
I feel emotional... I feel...
hashtag blessed. I really can't even describe it. To be here with you guys on
Broadway is a dream come true.
--Tell me about how long you have known
Joe Iconis and how long you've been a collab I'm going to cry asking that
question. --I know I'm gonna cry responding to that question. No, I've
known Joe and collaborated with him for almost 15 years, and you know, I'm almost
40 years old. And...
--Aww --I've dreamed about this one whole life and doing it
with my best friends. --Yeah it's awesome.
--It's awesome. --It's really great yes
---Katlyn Carlson. You are making if I'm not mistaken your Broadway debut in Be
more chill . --You are not mistaken
--Tell me tell me all the feels share.
--Um oh my gosh it's really surreal
it also feels really like right somehow? I've been thinking about my
school self a lot lately and I think it's because you were playing high
schoolers, but also because like my high school drama teacher is like losing her
mind over all of this. And um she's literally retiring after this. She's like I'm done.
I'm one of my kids made it to Broadway I'm done. And like I I just think about
my my little self making like my high school debut in my first musical and
like having those Broadway dreams that like we're always pretty we're always
kind of there but I over the years I kind of wouldn't let myself really dream
them because I felt I'm very pragmatic. So, it's sort of like
I am just like you know keep be practical about expectations and all
this stuff. And but it was always there and it's happening now. And it feels like
the right thing with this show. And like a nod to my high school self like it was
okay during those dreams.
--Yes. Lauren Marcus, you are making your Broadway
debut with Be More Chill. Tell me how you feel about that? --Um I feel today I
have to tell you I feel really f**king great. Tech is
tech is hard for me that always has been. And today I don't know if I had a
lot of coffee or I just got my head on straight, but I was walking to the
theater, it's a beautiful cold day outside. I am
gonna cry already. And I was just like, What is f**king better than
walking to your Broadway debut theater
with a group of people you love, doing this show you love. And then I had
my first time somebody go Lauren Marcus!
on the street. It's like... --This is perfect
--Congratulations --Thank you.
--What a way to make a Broadway debut? --Yeah
--How do you feel?
--I actually talked about this with Joe when we walked in the theater. I was
like have you cried yet? And he was like not yet. And I was crying actually cried
in an Uber home maybe like three days ago. Like I was on the bridge and I was looking at
the city, and I was like. I called my mom and I was just crying to my mom
cause like it doesn't hit you when you think it is. Like you think it's gonna
have like when you right when you walk in or right when you hear a song. But it's like
the culmination of like all the stuff you sacrifice.
--Yeah -- And then when it's
not about you anymore it's about you know all the other kids that look like
me they get to see me play so many people. like I get to play people I've
never gotten to play before. And like yeah it's great to be strong, but like
I'm also quirky like a little weird and pretty awkward. I get to embrace that
side of me, and not like hide it and it was other people see me and embrace that too. So,
you keep going, not for you but for other people.
--How does it feel to be making
your Broadway debut with Be More Chill. --It's something that has always been you
know on your dream bucket list, so there are days when you can't believe that
it's real and other days where you can.
I don't know --That's totally that's
completely valid.
--Yeah. Thank you. No, it's been super duper fun and I think that this is
a really special way of of making your Broadway debut is with it like a it's
being part of an original Broadway cast, and also being part of a show that feels
different than any other show. I mean obviously, every show is different than
every other show. But this show the the journey of this show has been very
different, very special because it already has such a such a love from its
fan base. And that's kind of the reason that it's here. So, it feels feels a lot
more special.
--How do you feel about making your Broadway debut?
--Umm... um, I I don't
it's really
it's really incredible. I am it's just I've been dreaming about it for my whole
life, and to do it with the show that is a special and unique
and as this one is —I'm sorry I don't have words. It's it's a gift of a
lifetime and to do it with so many incredible
people, a family of people people who I now consider my family, it's a dream come
true. --A little birdie told me that this is your Broadway debut!
--Yeah! --Yeah! --You guys
congratulations. --THank you.
--Thank you. --And how do you feel making your debuts with Be More Chill?
--It is completely surreal working with such amazing people and just having fun being
worth 24/7. It's great .
--Yeah, it's really exciting. I've never met a group of people
that gets along the way that this group does. --Likewise and I'm sorry that I'm
such a nightmare to to deal with.
--Yeah. --I'm working on it.
--You're the worst. --I love you both
madly and dearly, and I'm so so excited to watch the two of you make your debuts
with this show.
--Thank you. --Thank you now get back to work!
--Sorry. --Hey
--Yo! --Um, how was dinner ?
--Really filling!
--Hey tell us you tell us who you are.
--I'm Jeff. --What do you do Jeff?
--I'm the associate music director --And this is...
--My Broadway debut!
--Congratulations! --Yeah!
--How does it feel to be making your
debut with Be More Chill? --Really happy!
I love this group. I love the show. I love
the people.
--You came up you came on board for the off-broadway production.
--I sure did last summer.
--Has this been like an amazing whirlwind ride for you?
--Yes. All of the above. I don't think I knew anyone on this show
before I hopped in then everyone's been so inviting and exciting, and here we are.
--And everyone's been cool with you just like taking naps on the ground wherever you want?
--Sleeping all day.
--Who's your favorite actor in the cast? --Should I say George? I'm gonna say
George!
--Great answer now get back to work! --Thanks man!
--What do you do on Be More
Chill? --Well I'm hashtag theremin guy.
I also play the trumpet and the soprano
recorder and the flugobone --Lots of instruments, and this is your Broadway
debut.
--This is my Broadway debut. --And you are OG Two River Be More Chill
--3.0
--So, how does it feel to be making your Broadway debut with this
show?
--It's incredible to be making with the debut with friends, all people I love
to work with and people that I'm share a passion for this show. Yeah.
--I love that so much. Congrats dude!
--All right love you man. --Let's
do it.
--And have an amazing Broadway debut, diva.
--Thank you.
--And this is your...
--Broadway debut! --Congratulations!
--Thank you! Oh my gosh.
--How do you feel? -- Oh my gosh. What do I not
feel right now?
--That's a great answer. --Oh my gosh excited scared nervous
excited! I think excited is the big one that I'm really feeling right now.
--Yeah I have a feeling it's all gonna work out. -- Oh, I can't wait for it.
--Congratulations and have an amazing debut.
--Thank you, you too --Now get back to work! --Okay.
--Joe Tracz you are making your Broadway debut with Be More Chill.
--I am making my Broadway debut with Be More Chill.
--You and I met back in
2014. We did Be More Chill at Two River together in 2015. --We did
--And then, we did The
Lightning Thief with Stephen Brackett and with Robert Rikiki in 2017. And now
we're here in 2019 at the Lyceum Theatre bringing your show to Broadway. How does
it feel? --It feels amazing. I don't believe that it's really happening.
--I think it's very well-deserved. You're one of the most beautiful people
in the world. --You are.
--And such a great artist and such a great person. And I
feel like it's so right, and I'm so happy that this is the show that's going to
put your name in lights.
--Joe. --Yes.
--You are one of the many incredible people in
this company who are making their Broadway debuts. --Yep.
--Personally, if I can say,
I think it's long overdue, but I couldn't be happier to be a part of this your
Broadway debut with you and with all of our friends. How are you
feeling about it? -- I'm feeling really good about it.
It feels truly surreal. You know it's always been a dream of mine, or my dream
not even like one of my dreams, my dream has always been have a show on Broadway
that I care about, and to do it with people who I love and respect. And that's
happening. Like my dream has literally come true here in this building in the
Lyceum. And so it all feels really wild to me. It's something I've been like I've been
aiming toward for I mean you know 13 years that I've been sort of like working
professionally, but really like my whole life, like as as as soon as I was old
enough to realize there were people who wrote shows, that's what I said I wanted
to do from the time I was a little kid. So, it's just unbelievable. It's amazing.
--Wasn't that an emotional episode of pac-man tattoo? That's all the time we
have today. We ran out of time because we're super busy in tech. There's a lot
of people who are making their debuts and who I didn't get a chance to chat
with. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. Walking through Times Square, heading
into work now. But here's a little little extra for you:
Moving forward, for episodes three through eight, I want to hear from you!
So, get onto Twitter after this video finishes, and start sending me your fan
questions. I'll try my best to answer as many as I possibly can, but use the
hashtag pacmantattoo, and I will be sure to get to your question at some
point. Make them good. Make them
Times Square! Make them unique. And thank you guys again for
tuning in. We make our Broadway debut as a company this coming Wednesday, and I'm
really stoked because people will be coming here!
Wow. I'm really proud of
myself.
I timed this walk perfectly. Thank you guys so much. Until next week,
have an amazing week, you guys.
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