["Day O" from Beetlejuice the Musical]
--Day
O!
Seize the Day-O with Leslie Kritzer.
Good morning everyone. It is Wednesday, two show
day. What time is it? 7:50 in the morning. Why are you up? It's
gonna be a long
day today. I have to put an audition on tape for a show, a new a
new television show and yeah so I had I got these like seven pages last night to
go in to play a district attorney. So, I have a matinee today at 2 o'clock. So now
we get dressed, we put on makeup, we go into the city early, and we make the tape.
This is what actors do before a two show day.
I want to shoot myself. Ellie! And I
have a dog and a parrot to take care of before I go to work. This is the day
O! This is my life.
--So, Olli and I just put myself on tape.
--She did a great job.
--So, Olli has been he's an amazing actor but he also helps us try to be better actors.
--I try my best. --And we were in front of this wall
filming, so I did my sides, and I'm ready
to do my matinee, one of two shows today.
Thanks Olli. --You're welcome, Leslie.
--Sometimes when you're on
Broadway, you get to work with your spouse.
So, our own resident stage manager
has a boyfriend. And that boyfriend is
--Me.
--Please introduce yourself Joey! --I'm Joey.
--Look at this! -- I know.
--How did you guys meet?
--Oh God. --Short story.
--It's not a
a short story though. --We met a long time ago.
--And how long have you been together? --Five years
--Five and a half years. --And you have a dog.
--We have a dog named Max.
--But it's a Broadway romance!
--Yes! --And this is five years.
--Five and a
half! --Five and a half years.
--This is what it's like right before the show. I'm
standing on the conductor's thing.
I'm not supposed to be doing this right now, but look at that.
This is Chris' view, so he can really see
all of us.
--Wow! What the...
[laughs]
What is that? Who is that?
I'm in so much trouble. I'm not supposed to be doing this. But anything for Broadway
.com!
--Okay Chris, so what is what is your favorite part of the show, conducting the
show? -- I really like the moments where I
connect on the stage with Leslie Kritzer. [laughs]
--Okay, so I'm gonna be sitting in the pit tonight.
--Okay.
--Watching you conduct the orchestra, which is my personal favorite.
--Yep. --So, I'll stay out of
the way already probably. I already think I offended some some
people out there, so... All right. Here we go. Let's do it.
--Say hi Adam!
--Hey. --Wave everybody!
That's our orchestra.
--Hi Broadway.com! --Hi Broadway.com!
--What's your favorite part about like playing the
show, like what's your favorite?
[LAUGHS]
--Obviously, these are not actors!
Here we go. Okay, when do we
start?
--Well, first,
I get...
--Okay, so --From the stage manager.
--Stage management?
--Yes, so we're waiting for them. And then they call me, and once they call,
then we tune.
--How do you know when they're calling? --There's a big light here.
--Oh, there's a big light. It doesn't actually ring
so we're waiting for this.
Waiting for the flashing light. This is terrifying.
Okay, we're waiting. We're waiting. Come on...
There we go! It's time to start to show.
--Stand by top of Act One.
--Standing by...
Here we go.
Oh, it's about to go down!
Here we go!
--Did you have a good morning without me?
Look what I have! Some water.
♪ And rain will make the flowers grow. ♪
--Hi Kerry. --Oh, hi!
[laughs] --Kerry, what are you doing?
--Oh, just talking to my plants. Look at how much they've grown!
I've had three salads already from this this garden.
You actually grow plants in
here.
--I grow my dinner in between shows.
--Is this all you eat? [laughs]
--No! I wish!
--Oh God.
So, okay so tell
me what you have here?
--Okay, so
I have lettuce, arugula, basil and tomatoes. These, look at these little buds.
I'm going to have tomatoes soon. --Oh my god. Okay
now what is this this machine here? --So, this is a
click and grow garden. So, it's, is it on? So it's lights and it's
hydroponic gardening.
-- So what does that mean?
--It's all water and the plants grow
so much faster because they they don't, there's no dirt involved.
--And look at this beautiful artwork that Keri does. I mean, the most gorgeous.
And look, I mean
what is happier than that? Can I show them? Look at this oh my god that
gorgeous. Everything in here is happy. Yeah. Like there's I don't think Kerry
Butler has a bad bone in her body.
--She's questionable. --Look at this.
--Thank you for letting us come into your room.
--Sure. --Have a good show.
--Thank you!
--Guys,
why couldn't you have grown faster? That was embarrassing!
Those tiny little buds on there, like you couldn't just blossom? Now no one's
gonna think that singing to your plants works.
--Kerry, it's half hour! --Okay,
sorry what... wait what? --I think it's time to go.
Oh, I thought they called places. Sorry.
--Look who came to visit me!
I'd like to put on a bully persona when I
walk these halls.
--What do you got? A camera, nerd? And then I sip iced tea.
This is my new character. New character is the bully
that sips nice, cold iced tea, unsweetened.
What is this, a nerd's room?
That's a new
character I'm working on. Hey, Rob!
--I like it.
--Yeah you would, you nerd.
--Woah! --I don't come in here
enough.
--Oh, you got to come and hang out with us.
--I will. It's it's it's weird to
have a camera just pointed on you at all times. Well, you look really good.
--Thank you. --Even dressed as Beetlejuice.
Have a
good two show --Hello, Broadway.com!
[coughs] Uh-oh gotta warm up!
--Rob, do yours. Wait. Rob, do
your warmup, Rob. --What?
--Do your warmup! --Do your warmup, Rob.
--It's going. [screams] What happened?
--That hurt me to hear that.
--Barbara!
--That thing down.
[laughs]
--Do it.
--Barbara, [screams]
--That's it. --Eee, oh!
--No, you
turn the camera around when I finally got it.
--Okay, do it. --They'll be able to hear it though.
--Hey guys. Something very special has happened this week on Seize the Day O.
Last night our very own Presley Ryan got to go on for the first time as Lydia.
We were so excited for her to make her debut last night. Check it out.
[cheers]
--[chanting] Presley, Presley, Presley!
--All right, Preseley, here you go, boo!
--Ready?
--Yes. --Okay, you're gonna be great.
--You are gonna be so good.
--Austin, I'm nervous for Presley. --Why are you?
--Oh, God! We're starting. --She's fine.
--Oh God. We're doing it!
--Oh my God! You did it!
You did it! How do you feel?
--Relieved. --You feel relieved?
--Presley Ryan!
--Presley!
You are a pro!
--We're so proud of you. --Pro!
-- Great job. --The two of you killed it tonight.
--Pro alert!
--Hi, Broadway.com, my name is Madge. I'm one of the head ushers
here at Beetlejuice.
Thank you so much for letting me be a part of your blog. Its a matinee on a Sunday
and we're getting ready to get the guests ready. And I thought I'd show you
around. Here we go!
--All right. So here we are in the theatre. I just want to show you
my outfit. This is this is uh what I look like. This is my uniform. Oh, Fran,
how you doing? Oh my god, my favorite. Here we go. Here we go.
Fran has been here forever. We are, I mean we're like a twosome.
--We are a twosome! --We work aisle one together.
--Exactly. And we have a fun time. --And we've never
fought in like 15 years! We never fought. I mean,
it's a miracle. -- It's the best
pals in the world. --We are. Remember that
time when the patron tried to, he tried
to bring you down. We tag-teamed him..
We did.
--Absolutely. --We brought him down, just
the two of us.
Okay, so this is my aisle. This is aisle two. This is my domain.
Fran is in aisle one, all right? When the guests come in, follow me, I hand them
the playbills right? But I I don't turn my back to them because they're guests. I
want to welcome them in you know? They're good to me. I'm good to them. You
know what I'm saying? You got me? All right, so anyway, this is the Winter
Garden. That's kind of what I do. Also, I have a side job. I'm a dog walker, and I
also sometimes do some volunteer work, only on the on the off season. But yeah
this is my domain, and you know what no one sits up there! The only, the last time
someone set up there was Mick Jagger. He sat up there was Mick Jagger in his
girlfriend and someone else. That was the only time. That was during School of Rock, which
was a whole other thing. Anyway, that's all I got to give you Broadway.com.
Thank you so much for letting me you know be a part of your world. And here we
go. Matinee.
--
--Well, that is all, folks. Wow, it's been a long week. Very exciting.
I hoped you like this week's episode of Seize the Day O. I'd sing it but I'm too
tired. Gonna have to keep watching because uh there might be some very
exciting changes that I might be able to show, but we will see. You'll just have to
keep watching. I hope you enjoyed this week. Bye!
["Day O" from Beetlejuice the musical]