What's up, guys?
Jason Norman here, and you're behind the scenes on our very first
Henry Danger musical.
This is one of our biggest episodes ever
and I think you guys are gonna love it.
I was very excited to hear that we were going to do a musical.
You know we've done a lot of episodes but we've never done anything like this.
I was a little skeptical at first, but then once I heard the music
and once I saw the choreography, it was pretty, pretty spectacular.
So I'm excited.
It's BTS!
So I guess basically everyone in the cast
has surprised me with their singing and dancing skills.
I mean, the only one I really knew who could sing was Ella.
I guess I'd never heard anyone else sing, so Frankie is incredible.
Everyone's incredible, everyone's just doing really amazing.
And Cooper has a background in it, just everyone's doing really great.
Well, well, Kid Danger.
♪ So nice of you to show! ♪
♪ Sorry but Frankini it is time to go ♪
So, musical boot camp,
a lot of it was just like us, just rehearsing, learning choreography,
which was a little bit interesting for me because,
you know, I don't know how to dance.
It was at a separate place, not onstage, so that was cool.
That's right, yeah.
The process of doing this has been a lot of fun.
I mean, I enjoy working here and our regular process,
but this kind of harkens back to my years in theater school.
- One, two... - Oh!
Oh, that's great!
Everybody just gets together in a rehearsal space,
there's mirrors everywhere, there's a choreographer going
"and one and two and come on people, big eyes, big smiles!"
Actually, it's nothing like that.
You immediately go into a run, run, snap!
And then open up and into the punch, cross, boom, boom.
Three hops one, two, three, to here.
The idea of doing this musical, it's hysterically funny.
We've done like big production numbers in an episode,
but not the entire episode is a big production,
musical theater type of atmosphere,
and it's been truly awesome to be part of it.
[music playing]
Yeah, I actually first heard the songs from Sam and I was blown away.
Sam's already a writer for the show, so she already knew our characters.
And so, you know, she's really, really talented.
And we got, we just got A-list talent basically making this whole thing.
Hi, I'm Samantha Martin, I'm a writer on Henry Danger,
and I wrote Henry Danger The Musical.
I think Henry Danger is the perfect show
to have a musical episode.
♪ You stated your case And I'll swear to your face ♪
♪ Yes, I'm singing at eight on the dot ♪
Not.
Then you'll be fought!
[gasps]
You would totally believe in the world of Henry Danger
that a villain like Frankini would put a musical curse over the town.
It's not just sort of OK randomly, this episode's a musical.
Yeah, there's just nothing random about it.
This could happen in this world, and it does.
♪ We hate it, We hate this stupid curse! ♪
♪ We're sick of all the singing And think you're the worst! ♪
That's not what he wanted to hear.
The one difficulty that we had to address
was that everyone seemed to be sick.
You know, I came in and just felt real tired and could not sleep,
and I was very sick Uh, we all got sick.
So I had to take two days off from boot camp to recover.
♪ So nice of you to show! ♪
♪ Sorry but Frankini it is time to go ♪
♪ The heroes tell the villain That it's time to go ♪
[laughing]
So when I miss a day, I have a wonderful stand-in named Dre,
who knows all my lines, all my choreography,
basically performs my role for me while I'm away.
The theme of the musical is something called the musical curse.
And the actual musical curse is that everyone is getting sick.
You pick a cast member, they've gotten sick,
so they will use me as a stand-in to play that role
while the cast member is out getting better.
Which means I need to know their lines,
I need to know their blocking, and for this episode,
I need to know their choreography!
Fight song, fight song, fight song!
Come on you pansies, pick it up!
Pick it up people!
So guys, quick little two minute break.
Oh, that's it?
Done, it's done!
Yes! Good job. Good job, it's over!
It's done, we don't even have to shoot it, that was it, you got it, right?
Everyone wrap it up, thank you so much, thank you.
I love Frankie so much,
and I feel like there would literally be no one else
that would be able to play this role.
Don't try this at home, kids.
He literally will put everything that he has into
whatever he's doing on this show,
yeah, I'm obsessed with him, we're besties.
- There you go. - Click.
I think what makes this episode so fun
is it's one of the first times that Captain Man and Kid Danger
can't punch and kick their way out of a problem,
because they're trapped in a musical, it's dance fighting.
For example, Captain Man tries to throw a punch at Frankini
and his hand turns into a jazz hand.
♪ His arm is drawing back Here comes the punch attack ♪
♪ One two three ♪
[laughing]
I say...
Does this happen often?
I think you know it doesn't!
Captain Mann in particular is faced with sort of this crisis.
I can't fight, I can't use my fist to get out of this.
So Kid Danger then has to kind of step up
and come up with a more clever way to fight this villain
than just punching, kicking, you know, the usual.
[music playing]
Okay guys, this is like, the big park scene,
it happens right in the beginning, it's super exciting.
This is when Frankini comes back to see everything that he has done,
His musical curse, in his mind, is going super duper well.
Let's see whether or not that actually is true for everyone else.
So we see it now. Oh, perfect timing, my parasol.
Oh, it's perfect.
It's very Sunday in the Park With George,
that's a musical, by Sondheim.
[music playing]
OK, we're doing a little choreography here
with Chris Judd, Brian Anthony, they're great.
This is gonna be a lot harder to do in a spandex suit,
thing doesn't really breathe.
But we're gonna do our best and it's gonna be awesome.
It was pretty hard to come back
and have all this choreography just thrown at me.
Usually this stuff takes a month or something to flesh out.
But I had about two days, so that's pretty cool.
But, you know, been doing this a while, I know what I'm doing.
So it's gonna be good.
Come and catch me!
♪ It's the villain ♪
Yeah, but he's over there.
Oh!
[laughing]
Great.
One of the big challenges for Jace
was instead of having all the rehearsal that I had had,
he had to learn it in a fraction of the time.
And the guy's a total pro, I mean, he did it, obviously,
and blew us all out of the water.
But it must have been a real challenge for that poor guy.
There's a little hop in there which shows that it's a dance move,
as opposed to a martial arts thing.
Boom, hey, boom.
So it's like--
- Yeah, that's it. - Boom, hey, boom.
Yeah, perfect.
I can do that.
[laughing]
I'll try.
- Boot camp, schmoot camp. - Just gimme the script, let's shoot it.
[laughing]
A fight scene is different than a dancing scene for sure.
Dancing is much harder.
Dancing is harder, especially for me.
You can kind of like fake fighting a little bit, you know like,
if you punch like this or you punch like that,
as long as you hit the mark,
but you can't do that with dancing, it's gotta be very specific,
or it just looks like you're bad at dancing.
Right.
♪ Ice cream, ice cream ♪
♪ Fresh corn on the cob Corn on the cob ♪
♪ Listen to them sing I'm bursting at the seams ♪
♪ They're having so much fun ♪
♪ Do you know what this means? ♪
- They're hungry? - No, they love me!
Oh, I'm hungry.
♪ Here go get some beans! ♪
♪ Stop singing, just go ♪
Yeah, it's been interesting.
I mean, everyone character-wise,
ability-wise, is so different.
Frankie is so multi-talented, you know?
I'm in heels, don't tell anyone.
So I'm taller.
Working with him, it's been super easy,
in that kind of professional dancer choreographer's world.
Then you have some of the other actors
that don't have that same background,
but they bring a whole different sense of humor and life
to the movement that they need to execute.
That does it!
[music playing]
Listen I could do this little song and dance all day,
but I could use an intermission just like on Broadway.
Goober! Catch me!
- Really good. - Nice.
Anyhoo, Jace and I are both sick today,
- but we're gonna power through. - Because that's just who we are.
'Cause we're just professionals.
Henry?
[laughing]
- Name one other show... - That could shoot...
- in the history of TV... - that could shoot 150 episodes...
[moaning]
[laughing]
I hate that so much, stop it.
And then do a freakin' musical while they're sick.
Dancing plies?
This is the one part that gives so many problems.
Aw, get it off, get it off!
- All that stuff... - Two days of rehearsal!
Harry!
[laughing]
Remember me?
I was healthy for the boot camp, I kept my sickness for the shoot.
Yeah, which is good, even better.
[laughing]
Harry!
Try to find the shots where it looks like Jace and I are gonna pass out.
- That's how you know it's the real deal. - The real deal.
[groaning]
Doodely doo!
It's gotta be recording the first time I do it, so I don't think about it.
Yeah, it's always like when I'm just not trying.
This music is different from a regular episode in that
typically everything we're doing on a traditional composing thing
would be in post-production.
And this requires a lot of work ahead of time
to record all the cast members, fill in all their choreography.
♪ Hey Frankini, not a fan ♪
♪ So Kid Danger and Captain Man ♪
♪ Will find a way To make this curse kerplot ♪
♪ Hey, dude, you got to stop ♪
So good.
Get all the tracks together musically for everything.
So it's a lot of work on the front end, which is unusual
compared to how the composing part of the gig typically goes.
♪ Thanks for filling me in Thanks for filling me in ♪
- I think we'll be okay. - I think so too, I promise you.
Alright, alright. If you got some--
You got some in there? I trust you guys.
It's so hard to explain how to make anything funny,
but in a musical, you have so many more tools at your disposal
to add more humor to something because you can add
a style of a song that's funny,
even have a high note that brings out the silliness of something.
♪ Now I'm singing again ♪
- Good job. - Cool.
- You're a fast learner. - I was really, really impressed.
I thought it was fantastic, it's incredibly creative
and it also demonstrates a real understanding of all the characters
and all the themes of the show
that have been developed over the last few years.
I think it's gonna be great.
♪ Sorry that I gotta roll ♪
Really good, kinda rocker quality.
Ooh!
Because we've done over 100 episodes,
you really know the voices of these characters.
So writing their lyrics was as challenging or difficult
as writing their dialogue
because you've got to do their normal character voices,
but just, you know, make them rhyme.
Hey, what's up, guys?
We are hanging out on set of the Henry Danger Musical.
- Yeah baby. - Shooting it.
It's going pretty well, lots of singing and dancing.
Lots of sick people on set, but we're powering through.
Sick in both ways.
Ahh!
I'm feeling pretty good this week, my sickness is 98 percent gone.
You know what I mean? So, yeah, I'm feeling pretty good.
Hey, we're getting a call.
And it's coming from...
[gasping]
Harry yo-da-le-he-hoo?
- Frankini's calling us? - Let's hide.
A lot of the choreo we're adding, at this point
just little nuances and things last minute,
so that's been a little bit difficult to pick up on.
But once you get it, you got it, and it's pretty fun.
Hey Char, bet you're pretty close to tracking down Frankini, huh?
My little genius.
♪ Oh, well, I did a scan of whole town ♪
♪ The night that Everything went down ♪
♪ Soon another source And after that of course ♪
♪ Can show you on a map with a star ♪
♪ Man you are amazing Really trailblazing ♪
♪ I really like your brain, dude Truly is insane, dude ♪
♪ And not being sarcastic, Your hair looks fantastic ♪
Aww.
♪ That's why you have a Char ♪
♪ Doodely doo ♪
I have an earwig right here,
which is basically a little thing that you put into your ear
and it kind of like plays the music as we're singing out here
so we can hear it and sing along with it,
and so that they can get all of the other audio right.
And then we can also still sing with it in our ears.
This place was different.
♪ The best cheese that I ever ever had ♪
♪ Used to go there with My dear Mom and Dad ♪
Not the right cut again, huh?
I have a lot of favorite songs, to be honest.
I really like the Bro Song and the Lunch/What I Want song.
Those two are kind of I guess are my favorites.
My favorite song would probably be the Bro Song
because it's just such a Bob like, love that,
can't get that on my head.
My favorite song and scene is probably the Bro Song,
me and Cooper in the car.
Everyone's ready to poke their own eyeballs out after this take.
'Cause nothing else we'll see after this will be worth it.
Woo!
This take brought to you by antibiotics!
Me and Cooper driving, and I'm trying to hype him up
and trying to convince him, you know, remind him who he is through song.
And it's a pretty funny moment
because we're just kind of sitting in the car together.
♪ Remember when you Took the Toddler bro, bro ♪
- You put that baby to bed. - Please don't do this.
♪ The Time Jerker, Drex, and Minyak bro ♪
♪ Get out of your head! ♪
♪ It's just that this one Cuts me to the core ♪
♪ I know ♪
♪ Now's the time to meow ♪
♪ It's the time to roar ♪
♪ You are Captain Man, You are the best ♪
♪ Give it up, give it up Henry ♪
♪ You're Captain Man ♪
♪ And I will not rest 'till I see you try to win baby ♪
♪ Captain Man ♪
Stop stop stop!
Who knew the entire cast had voices of angels?
They've been holding out on us, they sound incredible.
So between the choreography
and the amazing songs written by Sam Martin,
not only are they clever, they're funny,
and sometimes heartwarming.
She hit every level. Great job, Sam.
It's crazy to me that we started rehearsing this three weeks ago
in musical boot camp and now we're here.
It's mind blowing.
I think it's gonna turn out really, really well.
I think it's one of the best scenes in the entire musical for sure.
I think everyone kind of pulled together
and everyone kind of understood that we were gonna get it done
and everyone was so open to it, so...
And I have to throw praise, the covers, the stand-ins,
because without their bodies and without their energy,
I think it would have been harder to see it for us creatively.
It actually sort of has a lot of similar story beats to a normal musical.
The villain sets his stakes,
the hero has a crisis of character
and runs away from his problems, only to conquer them, maybe.
I'm really excited for fans to see this musical episode
because everyone has put a lot of work into it
and hopefully you guys will enjoy this fun, little different thing
that we've all put together.
♪ It takes more than One voice to make harmony ♪
♪ Now we all have A choice for our destiny ♪
♪ So if everyone here Would just sing with me ♪
♪ We'd all be free ♪
♪ In harmony ♪
Oh my God, that was even more meaningless than I expected.
It was perfect.
Yeah, I feel good about singing
and the songs are amazing, they're hilarious.
They crack us up and we have fun actually doing it.
Yeah, I really think fans are going to like this episode
because it's just very full out and the songs are super good.
So I think that you guys will really enjoy it.
Everyone at home, sing along!
♪ It takes more than One voice to make harmony ♪
♪ Now we all have A choice for our destiny ♪
♪ So if everyone here Would just sing with me ♪
♪ We'd all be free ♪
♪ In harmony ♪
Hope you guys enjoyed that look into the world of musicals,
see how it all comes together
in Henry Danger, the Musical on Nickelodeon.
- Henry Danger. - Henry Danger the Musical.
This is it, it's all been building to this.
- Live? - Live.
Shoot, we are not ready for this!