- Hi everyone, I'm Sage from The Disney Princess Club.
- And I'm Nathalia.
So, everyone, you might notice we're not
in the actual Disney Princess Clubhouse today.
Where are we, Sage?
- Well, as you know, there's a super special TV event
called The Wonderful World of Disney Presents
Little Mermaid Live airing on ABC on November 5th
and today, we'll get to be part of their world
with our very own personal tour with Graham Philips.
- [Nathalia] Who plays Prince Eric in the show.
Oh, I cannot wait any longer.
Let's go in.
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- Hey guys.
- Hi. - Hi, I'm Nathalia.
- Hi, Nathalia. - I'm Sage.
- I'm Graham, good to meet you Sage.
You guys excited?
- Yeah! - Yeah!
- Let's do this tour.
It's just this way.
All right, guys.
So this is it.
- [Sage] Wow.
- [Nathalia] Oh my gosh.
- So that's the bow of my ship.
That's why it has an E on it for Eric.
- Eric.
- Let me show you around this way.
- That's the biggest rock I've ever seen.
- [Sage] Yeah, me too.
- So my song, "Her Voice",
which wasn't in the original film
but the guy who wrote all the music for it, Alan Menken,
he wrote it for the Broadway show.
And they put it into this version.
And at the end of the song, I end up on that rock.
- [Sage] Wow.
- Oh my gosh, look at that!
Oh, it's King Triton.
Do you ever get like overwhelmed
of how big the whole stage is?
- At first yeah, but then,
you know, we have such amazing people in the chorus
and the ensemble and with the Ariel dancers and everything,
it fills it up really quickly.
- What's the difference between
acting with the real live audience and on camera?
- Hmm, that's a good question.
So when you're just acting for camera,
sometimes you feel like things are
a little bit more naturalistic
and they're not like projected out.
This is all gonna be filled with audience members,
like 400 or 500 adults and kids.
It changes, it changes the energy of the room
and it raises your energy.
So it feels different.
- [Nathalia] All the little details.
It's like broken and cracked.
All of it's awesome.
- Yeah, you guys wanna go up?
- Yeah! - Yeah!
- Oh my God!
- So do you have a preference between acting for camera
and on stage?
- I've always liked acting on stage.
I started doing opera in New York.
- Really?
- Yeah, really.
So it's really fun to come back
to this sort of production.
- Are you excited that you get to portray
your art of singing live?
- Oh, so much!
I mean, singing was like amazing
and so getting to do it again after taking a bit of a break,
it makes me really happy.
- Which scene or song are you most excited to perform?
- Hmmm.
I think that the scene that I like the most
would be "Fathoms Below".
There's the aerialists coming down on these ropes
and everybody's swinging around
and it's really exciting.
And that's kind of why it's the first number of the show.
It's supposed to just grip you and say,
"Hey, this is gonna be a bit of a crazy experience."
- Do you have a favorite character
in the Little Mermaid film?
- Grimsby always made me laugh.
Obviously, I mean, Ariel takes the cake.
- Yeah, she does, she's awesome.
I love how she thinks a fork is her hairbrush.
- What does she call it again?
- Dinglehopper, dinglehopper!
Dinglehopper. - Dinglehopper, that's
what it is. - Or thingamabob.
- Do you have a background that you like the most?
- So when the show is actually running,
the ocean moves and there's birds that are going across
and the clouds are moving.
So this even gets better.
Oh, I saw a glimpse of the background and the set
for "Poor Unfortunate Souls".
And it's really cool.
There's like smoke coming up
and it's just all purple and crazy.
It's awesome.
- I mean, just looking at that big rock.
I mean, look at that.
It's huge! - I know.
I haven't been up on it yet.
Let's see how this works.
Oh, it's actually not that.
- I love how the rock is the main part of this whole.
- I feel like her like when that scene
where the water just splashes on the rock and she's like.
Can you tell us a little bit about
what the audience can expect?
- So the audience, it's kind of interesting,
they're gonna be active members of the show.
They're gonna be in costume.
They'll have certain props.
And I actually think that they're gonna have
like little earwigs in their ear
so that way they can hear directions
where it's like, "Okay, hold up this prop."
Or, "hold up the cat tail"
when we're doing the 'Kiss the Girl' scene
through the marshes.
- That's awesome. - I love that scene.
- Auli'I and I get into a boat
that's held up and it's like on wheels
but it gets wheeled through the audience
so it looks like the audience is the water.
And so we're just floating right above 'em,
which is kinda neat.
- How's it like working with all your cast members,
especially Auli'I?
- Oh, I love working with Auli'I.
She's got such an amazing voice
and she's got such expressive eyes.
We have one song where we get to sing together
in a duet that hasn't really been heard before
that Alan wrote.
So that's probably my favorite part of the whole show.
And she's so great to work with.
- Well, I have to say the tour was awesome
and all the sets were amazing.
- I'm happy you guys are happy.
- [Nathalia] Make sure to check out
the Wonderful World of Disney presents
The Little Mermaid Live on November 5th on ABC.
- [In Unison] Bye!
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