Etcetera. What?
I'm here with Ashley Park, star of the King I,
Hey Ash! So first of all,
Ashley was in a very serious musical before
she was in King and I. What was the musical you were in? Go.
Mamma Mia! and Cinderella.
Okay, so two not as serious musicals
No.
Ok, so I was first asking her before we filmed
I was like, any mishaps during Mamma Mia?
And she had to leave the stage six times not because,
you know she got sick, like because she got dizzy, she had a cold
Why don't you tell them why you had to leave the stage.
Um, I would split my pants open
when I would do my little improv dancing, so
I had the quilted pants, you know so
not much give.
I have a few things I want to say.
Well, the dance is improv so once
you ripped it once, now let me see the step you were doing that ripped it.
Let me see the step you were doing that ripped it.
Well, you know I'm wearing a short skirt.
but it involved the drop to the ground.
So once you had been, once
you had dropped to the ground why did you go, five more times I'm gonna try it there.
There are different variations of it, you know.
So they had to replace your costume six times?
Um, yeah but you know it's quilt so...
You wonder why the show's closing.
Okay, ran out of money.
Okay, second of all,
talk to me about King and I and the mishaps during that
show because that shows so serious I can't imagine anything wrong with that.
It's such high stakes, so I mean one
of them recently Ken Watanabe, in the last scene Tuptim gets...
The King.
The King. Dragged around, whipped around, so
She plays Tuptim, so he's dragging her... keep going
He goes, where's this man, and he takes my
head he goes, and he ripped off my whole wig,
glue and all and I go oh.
But what's underneath wig?
This long beautiful flowing hair?
oh no no no no
Just a black wig cap, so just bald Tuptim and
by the grace of two bobby pins
the wig is hanging off the back and so everyone's like oh
and so we do the rest
of the serious scene in Kelly's like oh
What did he do?
Wait did he at least start with you with the wig
so it kind of makes sense?
Whip my hair back and forth
Now you told me you stopped the show, why?
Oh we didn't stop the show we almost
had to because in the in the first duet scene there's
me and Conrad are on stage alone it's this huge stage
and just these beautiful hanging vines,
you remember them, and I had my Cathy's Zuber
blue robe on with these beautiful like tassles,
little tassels, and I'm running down to meet him and I go oh oh
and my tassel is completely tangled in the vine and so
I'm just pulling on the set piece, and Conrad,
he's at the front of the stage and he he supposed to
turn around and look at me and act and talk to me, and he goes...
where is Mrs. Anna?
He just leaves me to try to weed it out.
Wait, did he cut all his lines?
No, he kept going with the scene but pretended like
he couldn't see me, just I was like.
Why didn't he help?
Cuz it was like Little Shop of Horrors and you kind of
just like either we had to do the whole scene up there or
he was like you know what? I'm gonna turn around
and trust that when I turn back around it will be all okay.
Oprah's secret. And did it work?
Um, I think we spent like half the scene I was just like...
The show's already three hours long!
You can't add anything to it.
I know I know we sang the song really fast.
Okay, and on that note speaking of a
song, now if you watch some of my Obsessed videos,
you know that I'm very irritated with notes that aren't
incredibly high at the end of a song, it infuriates me.
So Tuptim has a beautiful song by Rodgers and Hammerstein
where they opt out of a super high note.
Now I know I'm gonna get a lot of letters
:it's more beautiful this way." Cut. Delete. Trash.
The point is it's mmm I'm
obsessed with high notes, so I'm going to play
the end of the song and then you're gonna hear what the ending is.
Basically, my version of what I feel the ending is
Though the man may be
My Lord and Master,
Though he may study me
As hard as he can,
The smile beneath my smile
He'll never see
He'll never know I love another man
He'll never know,
I love another man
Thank you, thank you.
Tony Award, finally.
I'm out.