Hey everybody. It's Halley Kilgore, and it is a beautiful Thursday morning. Welcome
to the One Small Girl vlog series. We're gonna be taking an 8 week trip
through the life of a Once on this Island. Today we are going to do a day in
the life video starting with home girl just laying in bed and embracing the
fact that her feet are up in the air and she's just relaxing because as soon as
we hit 50th Street, it's go time. So yeah let's do it. Okay so we're on our
way to rehearsals for that Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Let's go!
so we're here at Ripley Grier ready to do our Macy's rehearsal
So let's have some--oh there's cast members!
Here's the star. Hi, Isaac, how are you?
I'm good how are you? --Are you
tired?
--No, not today. -- You're not tired yet?
--No, not yet. --All right.
--Ask me later....Haley's busy right now so I
stole the camera and we're at rehearsal, bye!
So we just finished our rehearsal
for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. We've got Emerson behind me. How are you
feeling Emerson? --Good.
--All right did you have fun?
--Yeah. --Good. So we are heading back to the
theatre to continue our preview process. Emerson Davis, interview number one, tiny
T Moune time. Emerson how are you feeling about these previews?
--Tired. --Okay so so you're
feeling they're going fine. Are you uh
you're having a good time? -- Yeah.
--Do you like being carried around?
--Yeah. -- Okay as long as you like being carried around
that's all that matters. Right? --Yeah, basically.
--Where are you going right now? -- I don't really know.
--I thought you were going to tutoring
--Hello everybody! So today is Saturday
the 18th. I decided that today I am going to bring you along with me for a two show
day. We've got two previews lined up for today, one in the afternoon and one in
the evening, so yeah let's go walk around and see what we can find
before we start out this process.
Okay so let's let's see you know who's who's
next door? Is it? Could it be? -- Hi
--It's the Lea Salonga. How are you Lea? --I am well thank you. I'm
surviving.
--How our preview is going for you? -- Previews are going really well. I
think like with every day we get notes from our director and our choreographer
and from whomever we get to incorporate them and we get to deepen our
performances and portrayals of the roles that we get to play and we're having
such a good time, and our audiences have been fantastic, and they've all
just been so encouraging, and and enthusiatic about the show, so the best time,
and I'm living my best life. It seems to be a phrase that's just been going
around in the company. So it's I'm having a fantastic experience. Learning
the vocal orchestrations for this for this incarnation of Once on this Island
has been a challenge and has been a mental just a mental mountain to climb
because there are random there's random syllabication where you wouldn't expect
them to be but then when everything comes together and on that first day of
rehearsal when I got to sit with everybody, oh this one makes sense!
--Are you excited for our two show day? -- I'm excited when I know there are friends in the
audience and I have some friends coming tonight, which will help to kind of boost
my energy level knowing that there's gonna be so much love being pumped to
the stage from them so knowing that there will be you know faces and and
just people rooting for for all of us it's extremely helpful um so I mean
that's what gets me through a two show day. They're never fun.
And then plus we have the Macy's Day Parade this coming Thanksgiving Day
to look forward to and to rehearse for, so it's a it's a big week, but I take it
a show to time and and just just think of that moment and not try to look
forward to to the end of the week or it's getting a bit just the overwhelming.
--Yeah well there she is ladies and gentlemen! Lea Salonga.
--On Haley Kilgore's vlog
--Oh my god. It's Aurelia Williams --Oh, hey!
--Our super swing. --Super Swing!
--Say hello to Broadway.com Aurelia. -- Oh, hi, Broadway.com!
--You're beautiful. Don't even worry about it. --Oh I know.
--Tell our wonderful audience what what it is that you're doing right now.
--Right now I am enjoying some of the best chicken on Broadway.
--Chicken chat.
--It's from the Apple gourmet deli and the world needs to know how delicious it is,
or maybe not? --Apple gourmet on 49th and 8th
--On Broadway.
--I believe T Moune is me --Oh that's you.
Currently I'm trying to rest on my fro
down. --Down to these lovely braids.
--Down to these braids so that they can fit underneath
the wig without the way to rising up like yeast.
--Alright it's my half hour. -- Well
thank you for stopping by. --I'll see you out there.
--Have a fabulous
show. I'll be up in the booth today. --Thank you.
--Mwah! I love you. -- Alright let's make sure that
okay so I'm all signed in it's time to head to the dressing room and I'm gonna
start kind of getting into the zone to play Miss T Moune, so here we go.
--So we're here with Monique, who's my wonderful helper of putting on T Moune
Because she's amazing and she's my mama bear. She's being fixed up
but there she is. Ready
to go on my head.
-- I think because your energy like I said before was
everyone was doing this your interaction for each God has to be different with
her, that's what we're missing. You see what I'm saying? Like the way
how do you deal with her, how do you have you know whatever that is in that moment?
Because right now everyone just has the same thing, but if it's still like yeah
--Still like oh-la-la. --Yeah, exactly.
--We're letting you know what it is? The
music taking us. --I know, we have to get out of the music.
--Yeah so think about it.
--Yeah, you can put it up there. --Thank you Ricky.
--The other one I kind of keep for
something else.
--There we are. I think you're on perfectly. --Hooray!
--We are here on a fabulous two show day. We just did our first show, and I
was feeling a little hungry, and Canida who plays my mother also was feeling a
little hungry, so uh what did you get for dinner?
--Big ole fat burger! --The world's unhealthiest food.
Hey Freddie! Oh you're gonna come out today.
--Say what up Fred!
Freddie is our in-house therapist, we've discovered. Freddie just likes to come out and
talk to us and he's very smart and he's very social, but um I guess what I wanted
to talk about was a few discoveries that I've made along
the way. Because we're just starting this wonderful eight week long journey
together. Some of the discoveries that I've made some of them the growth that
I've made throughout this process before we get into this super crazy fun stuff:
Broadway is hard and sometimes it's easy to get discouraged and to get down on
yourself and I'm brand-new making my Broadway debut, so it can be stressful
and scary. We have one you have wonderful people like Canida and our company and
production team, but you also have to learn how to just be okay with not being
what's what your idea of perfect is. --Don't let her fool you!
She's brilliant. She knows what she's doing.
--I try. --Just my two cents!
--You know just being okay with not being perfect. I am, the first thing that
I started to do when we were in rehearsals and teching the show was, you
know, I would immediately say oh I have a note or I have a action or I have a
movement that I have to do perfectly and I started to focus and nitpick on how
perfect things were as opposed to my truth.
The joy that T Moune brings to this story, and so I have been really working on you
know correcting the moments that I hate our mistakes because sometimes I just
make mistakes, but but also really cherishing and indulging the new
discoveries that I make and the choices that are made on stage by my fellow
actors and and by the people up in the music booths because when you let things
when you just let go and you and you let things come to your heart, that's when
the most beautiful theatre is made, I think. So yeah that's that's my two cents
for you today. But
this next week it's gonna be a crazy week. We've got the Macy's Thanksgiving
Day Parade. You've got more previews. We've got
exciting guests lined up, so I'm very very excited to go on this journey with
all of you. Thanks for tuning in! See you next week.