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hi
welcome to episode one of two groove for
school
my name is erica hennington i play katie
herron and we're in the august wilson
theater right now
and this is the start of an eight week
series where we're gonna take you
backstage
of mean girls on broadway so in this
episode you're going to meet every
single cast member because my favorite
thing about this show is our cast
so i want you to know all them i want
you to know their faces their names who
they play because you'll see them a lot
and some other exciting things you'll
see is us
freezing the show you'll find out what
that means later you'll find out about
two little segments we have coming up on
this series called little blue couch and
louderman lingo and yeah i can't wait
for you guys to come on this journey
with us
here's our beautiful home you'll get to
know it super well and
enjoy the show who are you grey henson
grahams and who do you play jamie and
hubbard
what's damien hubbard's favorite smell
frankincense
and what's gray henson's favorite smell
oh gosh
new sneakers yeah i'm cheech manahar and
i play kevin g
yes kevin g okay uh what's kevin g's
favorite rap song
baby got back and what's cheech
manhart's favorite rap song oh mo money
mo
problem hey hi i'm camille upshaw
and who do you play i play rachel
hamilton all right
camille what is rachel hamilton's
favorite clothing brand
um i'm gonna go with anything vintage
yes and what's camille abchol's favorite
clothing brand
let's see yeah uh it's a mix between
levi's uh-huh and i love zara
yes boom hi i'm stephanie bisonette and
who do you play i play dawn schweitzer
yes and what's don schweitzer's favorite
accessory that would have to be
her big gold hoop earrings and what's
stephen's favorite accessory
that would have to be a big pair of
white gold
hey different but basically the same
who's this oh hello there my name is
gianna yanelli yeah and who do you play
i play sonia aquino aka the danny devito
girl
yeah who is your favorite diva oh
wait who me or my character you gianni
there's so
many um barbra streisand and who is
sonia aquino danny devito's favorite
diva
i honestly think that she's like all
about atlanta s'mores
i'm colin sconley yes and who do you
play i play lucy thurman
and what is lizzie thurman's guilty
pleasure because he pleasure is a
special pop rowdy
hey and what is colin's confused
oh ice cream always ice cream which
flavor oh
no all of the flavor all of the places
my name is riza takahashi and marisa who
do you play
i play sophie kawachi what is sophie
kawachi's favorite movie trolls
and once we use the takahashi's favorite
movies
that is toy story yeah oh my gosh she's
representing on both fronts
very nice i am devin hadsell and devin
who do you play i play caitlyn carson
what is caitlyn costner's go-to
starbucks drink okay so her go-to
starbucks drink is a venti
soy white mocha with three pumps
peppermint
and um what's devin hassell's go to a
grande
soy chai with no water no foam five
pumps chai
yes girl hey i'm sorry in vienna eva i
play grace empanola and what's grace
acanola's dream job
oh her dream now she wants to be a
supermodel so bad
hey she has these little print jobs on
the weekend in chicago
and zurich besides being mean girls on
broadway what's your dream job
besides if i wasn't doing this i would
probably be in fashion too but like
behind the table you know like picking
things bttt behind the scenes
boom thank you
hi i'm jonalyn saxer and i play taylor
with doll
and who is taylor adele's favorite
female artist taylor swift
duh and who's trying on sex news
favorite dream
life imitating art people
all right that's the ladies dressing
room peace out y'all
okay super exciting stuff we're almost
done with our last rehearsal
which means we're about to freeze the
show stay tuned
awesome so we're moving into the next
stage
all good and i'll give a speech every
day
no it's great and you know what it ends
up sort of it's it's
the ending of one part of it which don't
look at me like that
yeah it made me want to cry that's this
is like the best part and i always love
it and it's always a little odd to
go into the next one but anyways oh
super excited so in honor of
freeze day tina and jeff and nell and
myself
have ice cream for you all day
tina you look really cold what's today
what happened today we froze the show
today
a big deal what's your name ashley park
who do you play
gretchen weiner what's gretchen weiner's
favorite drink that's more than two
questions
what's four questions lacroix what's
ashley park's favorite drink lacroix
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who are you hi i'm kate kate who do you
play
karen karen um kate what's your
what's your favorite accessory my
wedding ring
oh what's karen's favorite accessory
probably my little green purse
where's your little green purse
hey what's your name i'm taylor taylor
who do you play
regina there's her wig
what's regina george's favorite computer
game
i feel like gregino would play
maybe roller coaster tycoon no she
wouldn't play that
she would play the sims and kill
everybody
i play the sims and have generations and
generations and
aspirations and i could play for hours
on end
every week we're gonna have a little
special segment with you called
louderman lingo can you tell us what
we're gonna look forward to
yeah so i'm like i'm working on my
vocabulary because i wanna
i wanna be smarter so i bought this book
over here
um it's 500 words you should know and
we're just gonna do a word
one word a week and we're gonna have to
use it in a sentence every day
in a real life scenario yeah sure every
week
that's how you apply it um kevin solak
and who do you play shane olman and what
is she no one's favorite movie remember
the titans
and what's kevin's favorite movie um
it's on the same movie
left side i love strongly
hi i'm demarius and i play christian
wiggins and mean girls and
demarios which gossip girl character are
you
jenny and which gospel girl character is
christian wiggins
definitely jenny curtis holland
and who do you play curtis jason
williams and what's jason williams
favorite food
jalapeno poppers and what's great is
holland's favorite food
oxtails
and who do you play i play coach carr
and many others
but coach carr great what is
um miles's favorite singer madonna
madonna and who's coach carr's favorite
singer coach carr
is like definitely rocking the jimmy
buffet
it's a weekend warrior apparently yes
could not get more different it's just
what he is that's perfect cheeseburger
in paradise
i'm going to kill and who do you play i
play marijuana
and what's marwan's favorite dance move
the dab and what's nick kill's favorite
dance move the sebu stick
i am ben cook and who do you play play
tyler kimball
and what's taylor campbell's favorite tv
show tyler kimball's favorite tv show
would definitely have to be
rocket power and we'll eat cereal and
watch vodka
and what's been cook's favorite tv show
ben cook's favorite tv show is breaking
bad
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boom i'm ian young i'm one of the male
swings on the show
amazing and ian young what is your
favorite smell i don't know maybe
something crazy like roses i don't know
we had
a lot of fresh flowers in the dressing
room yeah that was great and what's your
north shore high school students
favorite smell
oh probably pizza
hungry high schooler i'm chris medlen
and what do you do i mean girls on
broadway i am one of the swings in the
show
amazing and which male track do you
identify the most with
uh oh probably not a male track oh so
which female
uh i feel like i'm a janice yes i feel
like i'm a janice
i'm a little hardened but i've still got
a good heart attaboy yeah you do
somewhere hi i'm brittany and i'm one of
the swings
amazing and brittany what was
one activity you excelled at in high
school um i actually did gymnastics
amazing yeah for years for years yeah
all four years for my high school yep
yes um i excelled at the floor because i
tumbled and then i could also put in the
really pretty like dance jumps
nice so yeah and what extracurricular
activity does your north shore student
get into
um eating hey yeah
hi i'm kyle selig and who do you play i
play aaron samuels
and what's aaron samuel's favorite dance
move oh
favorite dance move yeah oh he loves
like
the worm like classic like show us
show us
yeah and what's kyle selig's favorite
dance move you know also the worm
hey erica stole your camera for a second
yo
what now i don't even have my wig
on yet or my makeup this is exclusive
footage yeah
why aren't you getting ready at half
hour
okay bye i am ferret wilbert weed
and i play janice sarkeesian yes and
what is janice's favorite band um
or artist i think i think
she's like she loves like a tbt atlantis
more set moment yes
and barrett will read what's your
favorite band um
it's high between the shins and first
aid kit right now
nice i'm kerry butler and i play miss
heron
mean girl's the musical and miss heron
what's your favorite type of music
classical of course and carrie buller
who else do you play
um i also play missus storage and what's
this is george's favorite type of music
well she loves like old school debbie
gibson
yes and um okay billy you play one more
person
who's that yes i play miss norberry
miss norbert what's your favorite type
of music mr norbury
has a secret obsession with broadway
hey this is uh brendan stimson and
brendan stinson who do you play
i play mr heron uh and i'm also in the
ensemble
what's your north shore student's name
my north shore student is mike t
mike thurman throw up my tea yeah and
what's mr heron's favorite documentary
series
mr heron i mean i think he's always had
a thing for like uh for nature and for
things like that so i think planet earth
is like just like right up his alley
just kind of like binge watch all that
loves it what's my t's favorite jackie
series oh my teeth
i'm probably gonna answer just for like
brendan simpson but because mike t is
loosely
factually based on lexi other way around
i think it's definitely something like
i'm making making a murderer or
a jinx like one of those things that i
can just like zoom in
and just be in my name is ricky younger
and who do you play i play mr duvall
and what's mr duvall's guilty pleasure
kentucky fried chicken three-piece
original recipe with side order of green
beans
and what's rick younger's guilty
pleasure the same thing minus a piece of
i'd do two pieces mr duval does three
hi hi what's your name t voyage and t
what do you do at mean girls on broadway
i
am the standby for katie gretchen and
all the adult women what is your katie's
favorite guilty pleasure oh
katie's guilty pleasure is looking at
inter-species friendship videos on
youtube
for hours on end hi i'm becca peterson
and what do you do with me girls on
broadway i am a swing
so i cover all of the female ensemble
and then also understudy
katie harris yeah and regina george
where in your life do you feel like a
regina
um i would say i feel like a vegeta
when i am walking on the streets of new
york
with listening to great music right
after getting my hair done yes
you guys paul simon came to our show
tonight
what what is that
say hi broadway.com oh my gosh
can i get made up first
hey guys thanks for watching episode one
of two girl for school
next week um let's it's your dressing
room and you're going to see us
open girls on broadway how do you feel
about that carrie brothers
please for the math they'll be taller
stuff but
mainly we're going to open the show
let's go
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