♪ Day! ♪
♪ Me say Day-O! ♪
♪ Daylight come and me wan go home ♪
- Hey everybody.
So I'm here with Sophia who is a brilliant actress
and I figure because Sophia has done so much film
and television, that she would teach me how to be
a better film actor because I'm more of a theater actor.
She's gonna kinda just give me some tips.
What's a line from the show that I could just practice?
You can show me how to do?
- Do the strange and unusual line.
Give me your best reading now.
- Okay. (clears throat)
- This one's for movie, okay?
- For a movie?
- Yes, you're on screen, you know.
- Should I look at the camera
or should kind of look like?
- You should never look at the camera.
- Oh, so don't look right. - Ever.
- Okay, don't look, okay.
So I'm gonna look over here, okay.
- Unless you're doing comedy and then maybe.
- That's good, that's good.
- Well okay, we're not, this is not comedy.
- No this is not. - No.
- This is not comedy, okay.
- Ready?
- Got it. - Three, two, one, go.
I myself am strange and unusual.
Was that good?
- Uh, that's not the line.
It's-- - What's the--
- Perhaps that's because I myself am strange and unusual.
And you have to honor the punctuation.
- Oh okay, so right, honor the punc.
Because I myself am strange and unusual.
Was that better?
- Ummmmm, yeah.
- Like what did I do wrong?
- I think that you're being really loud
and you're not supposed to mumble on TV,
but you're just being really aggressive with your lips.
- Got it.
- Your eyebrows and your eyes are just a little,
a little not, yeah.
- So really a little more-- - Go ahead, go ahead.
- Because I myself am strange and unusual.
- Leslie, you look like you have a full face of Botox.
You need to look like--
- Oh, like more natural.
- Yeah, like you have Botox, but people can't tell.
- Because I myself am strange and unusual.
- Oh, Leslie.
- Is it? - You know what you did.
You know what you did.
- I did the-- - You know what you did wrong.
Yeah, you did the-- - I did the thing.
Is it the, okay.
- And don't (breathes in).
- You do it.
I wanna see you do it.
(Sophia sighs)
- Perhaps that's because I myself am strange and unusual.
- That's so good!
How can I compete with that?
I just, okay, because perhaps.
- Not the line.
- Because perhaps that's because I am strange (beep).
- It's hopeless.
- Okay. - Lost cause.
- Well, thanks, thanks for--
I guess I'll never do TV and film.
- Get out of my room.
- Okay, goodbye.
We're gonna scare Rob.
Here we go.
(saxophone plays)
(laughing)
- [Man] Let them move on!
- [Leslie] We meant to scare Rob,
but we actually scared you! (laughs)
- Hello, my name is Sloan Carmichael,
and I'm the art curator here at "Beetlejuice: The Musical".
The Broadway producers flew me over to curate
this fantastic art wall.
It's like nothing you've ever seen.
And I'm gonna bring you inside our world.
Here we go.
As we start the art wall,
I just wanna zoom in on a very particular piece of artwork.
It's called the Panda Head by Ito Azana.
As you can see, the bleeding neck
and the actual cartilage is really significant.
If you wanna zoom in there, look at the eyes.
The smile, but is it a smile?
You know, it's not really a smile.
He's actually dead.
The producers of "Beetlejuice" decided to cut this.
They thought it was just a little too much,
but you know it kind of represents the fans
bleeding in their hearts for "Beetlejuice"
and that's why it's on display.
I wanted it to be one of the first things that we see
as we come up the stairs.
You turn around and oh my god, a bloody panda!
Here we see Beetlejuice putting his, his what is that?
Elbow on another person.
Now this really isn't a character in "Beetlejuice".
It looks like a Jonas brother.
Maybe Keanu Reeves?
I'm not really sure.
A lot of times the artists love to draw
the characters with no eyes,
and I think that represents that fact that...
I don't know what it represents.
They just love no eyes.
Maybe that's a millennial thing.
Oh, she's holding the pot.
It looks like a dead puppy.
Once again, no eyes.
Absolutely no eyes.
Zero eyes in the zombie.
Barbara always looks like she's on some sort of medication.
It's always a state of chaos.
She's living with a ghost and there he is.
Always right there.
There's Delia, screaming she is still young
when clearly she's not, she's in her 40s.
Really abstract.
Delia looks like a contestant on "RuPaul's Drag Race".
Look at the contour.
You smell bad and I know that.
You know, it kind of reminds me of a date I went on once.
I was living in an ashram and the man said,
"You know, you kind of have an odor."
And I said, "You're an asshole."
To round out our tour,
I just really wanna focus in on this quite moving piece.
Adam is drawn here as an older man
and sort of like a serial killer.
Could've been anyone, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer.
The artist tried to really draw him like a mugshot to say,
"Hey, you don't know the real Adam.
"I'm a serial killer."
Which I thought is a very interesting take.
And with that,
I conclude our tour of the "Beetlejuice" fan art.
Join me next time when we go to "Frozen: The Musical"
where there's no artwork at all.
- Matthew Murphy is here at "Beetlejuice".
He got a wish.
Tell us how you got this.
- So my mom signed us up for this kids' wish network
and I've already seen the show once in July.
It was so good, and Leslie, you're absolutely amazing.
- Oh, thanks. - So it's like
"Oh my gosh, I want to meet Leslie and see the show again."
They granted it, oh my god.
- He put it on Instagram when he found out,
which is very cool in high school.
Were you embarrassed?
I would've been like, "Oh my god."
- Luckily, I was in music theory.
It was four other people. - I noticed you were in
chorus class.
- So I was like oh my god, thank god it's not a full class.
And they didn't even tell me
they were making the announcement,
so I was like oh my god.
- And what year in school are you?
- I'm a senior.
- You are?
So what is your dream?
What's next for you, what do you want?
- I want to go into stage management or directing.
- Really?
- Yeah, oh yeah.
- Really? That's so cool.
Do you want to meet our stage managers?
- Oh my god, of course.
- Okay, let's go meet some stage managers.
- Hi, great to meet you.
- Nice to meet you. - How are you?
- Good, how about you?
- And this is Emily. - Hi!
- [Leslie] David, Rachel.
This is out stage management room.
Do you have any, a question for them?
About what it's like to be a stage manager?
- How was your college whole process?
How was college for you?
Like classes and your experience.
- Mine was great.
Did everybody go to col-
I went to college for stage management.
- I didn't. - But you didn't, right.
- No. - Mine was great.
I went to Rutgers in New Jersey
and we studied everything.
We studied stage management, directing,
costume construction, acting, scenic building,
and I think it's so important to sort of
get all that experience
because we really deal with all of those things
every single day.
- [Leslie] And these are the best.
Some of the best in New York,
so you're in the presence of the best.
- I might cry a little.
- [Matt] Did you have fun at the show today?
- Oh, it was so good.
Oh my god, the second time is even better.
- Amazing. - So good.
- [Leslie] So now tell me just very quickly
kind of what you've been dealing with
and how did this come to be.
- Well, so I've had it all my life,
but it didn't start becoming a big problem
until last summer, last July,
after the production of "Legally Blonde" that I was in,
I started falling and my legs would give out on me
and I wouldn't be able to support myself
and it got so bad to the point where
I couldn't open a water bottle.
- [Leslie] So how do you deal with being positive
when this stuff happens?
How have dealt with that?
- I honestly don't really,
not that I don't care about it,
but I just don't really think about it too much.
I just keep doing what I'm doing
and obviously with all the medicines,
I used 45% muscle strength
and now I'm back to almost 100.
- So I used to-- - That's great!
- Yeah, so I used to dance and everything
and now I'm back to dancing.
And I never really stopped, I just kept going
and even if it was hard sometimes, I just kept on going.
- [Leslie] Okay, good.
Well, we're so glad that you came.
- Thank you.
- Stage management's next.
We're coming for you.
Hello.
(saxophone plays)
(Leslie laughs)
- [Woman] Oh my god.
(saxophone plays)
(laughing)
- Okay, everybody.
So this is Love Connection with Carlton.
- Hi. - The doorman.
Now Carlton takes care of us.
He watches to make sure no crazies come through this door.
But you know, look at him.
I mean, he's a good-looking guy.
Carlton has a life outside this desk
and I figure--
- Do I?
- Yes, you do. - Barely.
- Carlton knows a little bit a-somethin' about love
and relationships. - Oh lord.
- I wanna know.
Okay, how do you, what's your ideal date?
If you're gonna take a girl out, what's your ideal date?
- I wanna say it depends.
You know, some on what's going in.
A boat ride, something like that.
- A boat ride?
Boat ride where?
- Doesn't matter, who cares?
Even the ferry, anything like that.
It's not really a date.
- You take here on a boat ride.
- Yeah.
- And there are drinks or no drinks?
- Oh, of course there's drinks.
- Now if you were gonna take her to dinner,
where would you take her to eat?
- An Italian joint.
Something like that, something classy.
- Classy. - Candles.
Wine. - What would you wear,
what would you wear?
- You know, nice shirt, tie kinda thing.
- And what do you look for in a woman?
- Everything.
- But what's like a big thing?
- Brains.
- Brains. - Brains.
- Brains, so you like a smart girl.
- Yeah, that's about it. - What don't you like?
- A dumb girl.
- You don't want stupid girls.
- But that's fun sometimes. (laughs)
- What?!
Now what's your game at a bar?
If you were gonna hit on some girl at a bar?
You see a cute bar.
I'm gonna be the girl.
Right? - All right.
- And I'm like over here with my friends.
I'm like whatever.
What would you say if you wanted to walk up to me?
- I guess you'd do the corny thing
and send some drinks over.
Not just one drink just to you.
Send some drinks to you and your friends.
- All my friends?
Who are you? - Why not?
Hey man, it has to look right.
- And then we're like, "Oh, thanks."
I'm like, "Oh, hey, thanks."
And then what?
Then I don't come over.
Then I'm just hanging out.
- No, come on.
You send the drinks, then you gotta send yourself.
- Okay.
Then what would you say? - You gotta send them.
"Hi, how are you?"
You know, "What's going on, ladies?
"How is it?
"Are you having a good day?" - Going on, ladies.
What's going on, ladies?
Yes.
So what if I'm not nice and I'm like,
"Mm, thanks for the drink, but no."
- Enjoy it.
- That's it, and you walk away?
- Yeah, I'm not gonna do this.
(speaks mockingly)
Nah, you look like a sucker.
- If you were gonna give any relationship advice to people,
what would it be?
- Listen to each other.
- Really? - Yes.
- What does that mean?
- Listen!
I'm not gonna, you don't like this.
I'm not gonna go, "Hey, look, I got that thing
"you don't like."
You know? - Right.
Okay, this is a big one.
- All right.
What if someone at work hit on you?
Would you be with someone at work?
Or do you think that's a bad idea?
- It's in poor taste, but--
- How 'bout if she's really hot?
- Sometimes you gotta take one for the team. (laughs)
- But how 'bout if it goes bad?
- Then time for a transfer.
- Time for a transfer.
- There you go.
- I'm going to the Shubert.
- Yeah, pretty much.
- I'm going to the Barrymore. - Leslie's gonna do
"Mockingbird" or whatever it is.
(laughing)
- Why not?
You already had a situation over there?
- No, no, no, I didn't, no, no, no, no, no, no, not me.
No, no, no, no way.
- It wasn't me.
- It wasn't.
- All right, thanks. - It was Shaggy.
- Shaggy. - Yeah, I think his name was.
- Red-handed.
(Carlton laughs)
All right, thanks, Carlton.
- All right, who let the dogs out?
(laughing)
- We're gonna get Adam.
(saxophone plays)
- Oh my god.
(Adam snaps)
It's good.
- Hi, I'm back, Maj.
I'm so thrilled so many people have reached out
and said how much they like seeing me on Broadway.com.
Kinda feel weird being famous.
I have a Twitter account now.
Well, not really, it's my nephew's.
Anyway, I wanted to just talk to you a little bit about
how I get ready for my job today.
I'm always the first one here.
Well, except for Fran.
- Good arms.
She always trying to upstage me.
Sometimes what I like to do is run up
and down the stairs a few times.
Really, sometimes I like to do it sideways
and then I come back down and then I use, oh god.
Oh! Oh boy.
Don't worry, Fran. I got it.
- One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
- I can't, I'm good.
- You're great. (claps)
My gosh. - Be quiet.
(speaking gibberish)
Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather,
red leather, yellow leather, really helps me talk better,
especially if I get flustered.
I always like to review the fire code,
so if there's a fire, you have to stop, drop, and roll.
Like this, ready?
Stop what you're doing.
Drop.
And roll if you're on fire.
(Fran claps)
Fran, I don't need you to clap.
- Okay.
You're stealing my tips!
- We don't get tipped, Fran!
- Oh, we do, too.
You just aren't admitting to it.
- No, that's not true.
I'm not the one who's giving free drinks to everybody.
- Oh, wow. - Okay, I'm gonna say it.
- That's right.
- Have another one, Fran. - You're mean.
- Have another one.
- That's mean. - Vodka and tonic, lady.
- You're so mean. - Lush.
- You're so mean.
- You know what?
I'm gonna go to HR.
- Go!
I don't care! - You go.
- No, I'm not going.
You're the one that's threatening me.
- I'm not threatening you!
- Yeah, you are!
Yeah, you go ahead.
- This sucks. - Yeah.
- Sherry, it's been the longest week.
- You have no idea.
- Are you exhausted?
- Beyond.
- I'm so tired.
So glad it's Sunday.
- Yes.
- God, this ceiling is gorgeous.
I've never even looked at it before.
- Isn't it beautiful?
- Has it always looked like this?
- It has not always looked like that.
- Oh, what, I mean...
- Years ago when "Cats" was here.
- What, okay, yeah?
- That ceiling was open.
- During "Cats" it was open?
- Yeah, that's where Grizabella, at the end of the show,
went to the Heavyside Layer.
- Up there, and that's like cat heaven?
- Cat heaven.
- You mean when "Cats" closed, they sealed it off?
- They did.
- And no one's been up there since?
- Ever since.
- Why?
- You don't wanna go up there.
- Why don't I wanna go up there?
- There's stories.
- You mean it's haunted or somethin'?
- I've heard stories.
- All right. - Trust me, Maj.
- Oh, I mean no-- - You don't.
- I am curious, Sher.
- Yeah, no you're not.
- All right, I'm not. - Okay.
- No one's ever been up there since, huh?
Well, maybe we gotta change that.
(dramatic music)