--What's up Broadway.com. Welcome to week two of
Too Grool for School. It's opening week .
[screams]
We're
about to open the show. I'm very excited. Really really excited. We've been working
on it. We're ready. We're ready to open this puppy up. And yeah I think it's gonna be
really awesome. I'm just trying to stay calm through the madness. I have my mug
My Corgi
mug. I don't have a dog of my own but I have this mug, so that's close.
Anyway, on this
episode, you're gonna see opening night, or what I can capture of it, some
backstage stuff, our dressing room. But most importantly you'll see us open Mean
Girls on Broadway at the August Wilson and that's gonna be pretty freakin
awesome! So just trying to stay calm. Corgi on. Love y'all. Thanks for watching.
--What's up Broadway.com? Thought I would show you my yeah they're my these are my
stimulation glasses. [laughs]
That's what they're called!
It's to help you deal with lightS
--Ow! --[laughs]
--They help relax my eyes
because we have so many lights. She's out
C2 c2 c2. So they're they calm you and
see how there's little holes in them they help you like settle your eyes, so
when you go back out on stage with all the stimulus, you don't get super tense.
--Who bought you this? -- My voice teacher Andrew Byrne. Plug!
How do you feel in those? --I can't see.
--That's the point. It's like how horses wear those things over their faces.
--I'm not a horse!
--We gotta go!
--I'll never be ready!
--I'll never be ready. And I won't be rushed.
--Are you here?
Oh she's here.
The best thing that's ever
happened. The best thing that ever could happen is happening at the August Wilson
now. Lily!
Oh my god!
--Kisses.
She's like a little piggy mixed with a little bat.
A little potato.
I love you so much.
--Some people have asked to see mine and Taylor Louderman's
dressing room so I'm gonna show around a little bit. Our home away from
home. Um, let's start with the costumes. All right, so
that's Regina right there. See all that pink that's a lot of pink? And then
here's Katie. All the flannel. I have four different flannels, pink, flannels, my
mathletes varsity letter jacket!
Um it's my favorite I never had one of
these in high school, even though I tried every sport possible. I never got one
but I got one now for math, which is also laughable because I was not very good at
math either. But my favorite thing about it is our wonderful costume team Gregg
Barnes, let us choose our numbers, so I got my lucky number 13.
Let me give you the full view. Our friends Steph came, design and designed it
She did it cool like Cady meets Regina because we have pink but then also some
tribal prints going on. So it's like you know if Cady and Regina were to
coexist peacefully, which we do, what would that place look like?
And it's our dressing room. This is where people leave little messages to us
to Taylor and I. Nice things like zebra poop stuff like that. Gray Henson
wrote that. He's really nice, but then Mary Mitchell Campbell, who is the best
music director in the world, leaves sweet notes like this. We love you Mary
Mitchell. This is my elephante, Taylor Louderman gave me this. I keep it on my
dressing room table because I make my first entrance behind an elephant butt in
Mean Girls on Broadway, and I like to have this little guy just to remind me
that things are getting kind of crazy and overwhelmingly awesome, but sometimes
you still make your Broadway leading lady entrance behind an elephant butt, so
keeps me grounded. We have lots of goodies over here ooh maize and blue because
Taylor and I went to the same College, we both went to University of Michigan, what what
This is
one of my favorite sayings: Be the Buffalo, and it basically is the idea
that Buffalo, when there's a storm coming, they run into the storm instead of away
from it, and so things that are scary to me, like sometimes doing this show can be
kind of scary, I just try to be the Buffalo and remember that you know if I
just face it head-on, I'll come out the other side and it will
be awesome.
That's my dressing room. You'll be in here a lot with me and
Taylor Taylor and I sorry grammar.
--Ladies and gents, welcome to segment one of
little blue couch featuring...
-Hello --Hello.
--Welcome to the little blue couch. --What
are we gonna talk about today guys? --Feelings.
--Shall we get into position? --Come on ladies,
let's get in formation. I
--I just, I don't know Gray.
--What don't you know?
--What's it all about? -- The musical?
--What did I I got gifts. Oh, they're from Kyle.
--I just give these gifts and I just feel
like there's nothing.
--That was such a genuine moment. I didn't see those.
--Do I have to wait for opening to open them -- This is
not going well --Oh, sorry. So what's wrong?
You gives
gifts and you feel like no one's gonna give you gifts? It's two days before
opening Kyle like you gotta wait til opening.
--So I just should be patient? --Why are you so sweaty?
[laughs] --This is entry one of
Louderman lingo. --Okay hi welcome to Louderman Lingo.
I got this book because I want to
up my game in vocabulary. So this are 500 words you should know and today's first
word for the week is derisory. An adjective applied to a very small amount,
often, but not necessarily of money. It's connected with derision and is therefore
such a small amount that it deserves to be laughed at.
--Can you use it in a
real-life situation please? --Yeah that's the only way
you can you know to apply it. --I'll follow you
around until we find something.
--Hey guys, --Hey!
--Ashley what's going on?
--Did you get one of the candles from downstairs?
--Yeah I got I got one of those candles. How much
do you think they cost? --I don't know they're a gift yeah.
--Yeah, probably such a derisory amount
--Episode 1!
--Take your fur and get ready for the show.
You know who you look like?
Cruella DeVille
Or you look like um mhm
Meryl Streep in Devil Wears Prada
[laughs]
--What's up Broadway.com?
We have a brigade of people right now parading to go meet my dog Theo Theo
Henningsen, who's making an appearance we hope right now at the August Wilson.
--There he is!
Theo!
--Theo!
What did you think of the theater?
What did you think of your sister on Broadway?
No, not interested. Alright
--Quickly guys! One word from all of
you, one sound about how you feel about opening!
--Ah! --Joy.
--Truth.
--Finally!
--Woo!
--Ah!
--Yeah!
--Yas!
--Ahh!
--Y'all
its opening. There are flowers, there are gifts. There's some alcohol that I
definitely need to consume later, but most importantly, it's opening night! And
we are ready. We have the gypsy robe ceremony coming up. You'll get a little
sneak peek at that. And then we're gonna go to the party! I'm just so excited to party! I
love you all!
--First of all, we want to invite all those actors who are making their Broadway debut
tonight!
[cheers]
--The Gypsy still wearing the robe then visits all the dressing rooms and the
show is blessed! --Yay!
[applause]
--On behalf of Jeremy Davis, it is my great pleasure to present the Gypsy robe for
mean girls to Brendon Stimson!
[cheers]
--Yeah! --Yeah! Yeah!
--That was episode two of Too Grool for School. We opened the show. I just woke up
and took a shower. It's it's been a day. Um I have no idea what's gonna happen
next week. Oh, we're recording the cast album. We're recording the cast album
that's gonna be pretty freaking cool. So tune in for that. This has been the most
amazing week ever with the greatest group of people. I'm so happy I was able
to take you behind the scenes and I'll see you next week!
Mwah! Bye!