Hi everyone! 'a whole new world' with six-pack abs, and three love handles, one there, two there
I'm here with Aladdin, hi Adam!
How are you doing Seth?
Who looks more Persian? Neither, both Jewish.
half!
it's all good
so you may not know Adam did the national tour, but he did
he was the star of Les Mis for how long
I did it for a year and a half on the road
and then a year on Broadway
he also did it on Broadway, totally forgot that part
the point is he was Marius
now Adam please tell there are many future thespians watching this, tell the
future Maris's what is a difficult part about playing Marius
well, besides climbing over the gate and not slamming your crotch into the gate
when you're trying to get into Rue Plumet, that kind of rough
the table's moving and you're trying to climb over it and sometimes
your foot slips and then you could, that's not good
so you gotta watch out for that, like a steel dance belt you kind of have to
and then you know, going on and off the turntable
we don't use the turntable anymore it's all projections
so you're fine, you know you don't have to worry about that anymore
but let's see vocally you know you have to sing empty chairs and it gets pretty low, right
I will concur I used to play editions for that and
everybody's to wipeout at auditions you be like
your voice actually gets higher when you're nervous so I always be playing Marius
auditions and I was like where is B Arthur because no one could hit those notes
so that's actually difficulty to hit the low note
yeah, and you had to hit the high ones too
in 'A Heart Full of Love' and the other songs so
it's rangey, that's what I'm trying to say
onsome days when when the voice is maybe not as as there for you, you have to sort
of improvise and not necessarily rewrite the music
but you can act it you know my friends are dead and gone
so here's one way, so first we're not joking, it's a really low show
its also the 'but the tigers come at night'
everything has crazy low notes
okay so let us first show you the actual low note
here we go, this is at the actual low note
'here they talked of revolution here it was they lit the flame here they sang
about tomorrow and tomorrow never came'
very very impressive
so what we were saying is for your future Maris's you know on matinee days sometimes people are like
I'm gonna opt out of the high notes? It's actually the reverse my mandate is you
have to opt into the high note, opt out of the low note so we're saying that
future Les Mis Marius's perhaps give this a try
if we're talking non-equity, here we go
get into the mood, you're depressed, everyone's dead
'here they talked of revolution
here it was they lit the flame here they sang about tomorrow and tomorrow never came'
you know, you make a point there he started a revolution, French revolution, try that
so the other, there's a camera you watching, the other difficult part you
were telling me was 'Bring Him Home' which I didn't think it's crazy because Marius
doesn't have to sing 'Bring Him Home' what is difficult about bring him home when
you're not actually even singing?
right, well you're actually laying at Valjean's feet
while he's singing this song he's sitting on you know a crate or
whatnot and you're lying there and depending on the the Valjean there are
different levels of spit and you know comes from the most enunciation and you
know the British actors tend to really enunciate, the dentures British teeth
you know, so and depending on which Valjean you have on any particular night you may
or may not get a little wet or drenched
again so for funsies we thought you
future Marius's because here's the deal you're laying and obviously your eyes are
closed so for your future Marius's we're gonna show you the amount of spit
you might get during and 'Bring Him Home' so you will know who your Valjean is
so you take Marius's position and then we'll call out who the Valjean is
and you'll help these future Marius's okay so I have some accoutrements to help the spit
'bring him home'
that's Randall Keith
'bring him home'
Ivan Rutherford
'bring him home'
Alexander Gemignani
perfect!
nailed it