(upbeat music)
- Guys hello, I'm Kathryn Gallagher,
and I'm your host of Jagged Little Thrill,
the ""Jagged Little Pill"".
I feel weird looking in the mirror, don't you agree?
Let's look at me in the camera.
- [Diane] Take the counter, we're here to take the counter.
- Welcome to the vlog. (laughs)
A behind-the-scenes of "Jagged Little Pill",
and all the things that it is.
And I'm so excited.
- [Diane] Can we have someone help us just move
that counter?
- Thank you Diane, and here we go.
So it's our first week in the theater,
and we're on a 10 minute break,
and I'm going to show you around a little bit.
This is my dressing room, which I'll show you like this.
Maybe that doesn't work, but this it's just done
some light decorations.
It's very fluffy in here, it's a very fluffy situation.
You see that's a fluffy rug I put in,
that's a fluffy chair.
That's a fluffy beanbag chair.
That's a fluffy girl.
It's time to find out if I have any friends.
Hey Derek?
- You dont, you don't have any.
Can you please, can you please get out of my room?
- I can't see it, oh okay, bye!
He's my closest friend and he's such a gem to work with.
A very, talented young guy.
This is Lauren, she's also a good friend of mine.
Lauren! - Yo?
- Can I come in? - Yeah.
- Gotcha, you're on Vlog.com. - What?
- You're on broadway.com vlog.com blog.
- Like currently? - Yeah.
- Is this live stream?
- No it's not live, someone will edit it out.
Probably a lot because, I'm in charge!
(singing) (giggling)
♪ In the light of day! ♪
Lauren's amazing.
♪ Let the storm rage on ♪
♪ The cold never bothered me anyway ♪
(cheering) (applause)
- No. (laughing)
Oh my God!
- Guys, this is, this is the fifth floor dressing room.
These are some of our ensemble, ladies.
- Oh this is Broadway.
- Yeah we're from Connecticut.
- Jane do you wanna introduce yourself, it's real.
- I'm Jane Bruce.
- You're Jane Bruce, and this is your station.
What do you have, what's your favorite thing here?
Choose.
- This is from my cabin.
It's a picture I took of my cabin in Idaho.
- That's so beautiful. - I love it.
It's not a bad picture.
- Heather, this is Heather. - Hi, I'm Heather Lang.
- And tell me about you.
- What about me?
I'm a mom, I got a new hip, bionic.
It's titanium. (laughter)
I'm an actor, dancer.
I made cookies today. - You did?
- Yeah, they're not here though.
I'm gonna bring 'em though.
I have to frost them still for everybody.
Sorry, they coming. - Oh yay!
Okay, who are you?
- Hi I'm Yana.
I'm a swing, but today apparently I'm a french boy.
And check it out, I have a crepe!
- Can I have it?
- I'm gonna finish this later.
(laughing)
- Who are you?
- Hi, I'm Annelise.
- You guys, to be clear I know everyone's name.
- Yeah, yeah, she knows me.
I haven't pimped out my station yet
but we're gonna get a cute little.
- What are you eating?
- I'm eating chickpeas, eggs, sweet potato, and kale.
- This keeps us energized on Broadway.
Fun fact about Derek Klena, is that he was in a show
here before and just stayed at the theater,
so they let him do "Jagged Little Pill"
because they kinda felt bad he didn't get.
- [Woman] If you could open up the down stage left slider.
- [Derek] I never left.
- I don't know which way the camera goes 'cause it's weird.
- I never left.
What's up guys, I just stole Kathryn's camera.
(laughs)
I just want to say hello.
This is my dressing room.
I'll show you guys more later once I figure out
what I'm gonna do in here.
But now that we have the camera, let's go surprise Kathryn.
What are we gonna catch her doing?
Probably something embarrassing, huh?
Here we go.
(yells)
Got you!
Got you so hard! - That was so scary!
- Where is it?
I can't, it's hard to do it.
- It's really hard because it's a mirror image
- You're on camera, you're on candid blog.
(laughing)
Yes!
- Guys, we have a very special guest it's Eva Price.
Eva what's your job on "Jagged Little Pill"?
- Oh, I'm the porter. - The porter.
(laughs)
Quite literally, Eva made this happen.
- I'm the fan girl.
- The fan girl, our lead producer.
- I'm one of the lead producers of "Jagged Little Pill".
- And also "Oklahoma."
- And also, "Oklahoma." - And Taking Over Broadway.
- I'm Broadway's Eva Price.
- She's Broadway's Eva Price.
Basically she's the reason we get to do this,
and she's the best.
- That's very nice. - She's the boss.
- I'm happy to be here.
- And we're just sitting here in my dressing room
after a day of tech and I don't even know,
oh you can see me, I see it in the mirror.
And yeah, it's a great day.
It's a great day to be alive.
- I mean, there's a fuzzy.
What are these called, ottomans?
- I guess, I guess so.
- This is a fuzzy couch.
- It's a fuzzy couch, with a fuzzy rug
and a fuzzy beanbag, and a fuzzy chair.
- I feel like, I feel like either one of two
things happened.
The Muppets threw up in your dressing room,
or Kathryn Gallagher moved in.
- Kathryn Gallagher moved in. (laughter)
So guys, right now we're doing our first 10 out of 12
which basically means that, we work from noon to noon
and we're working through.
We're starting at the top of the show,
and also doing a Wandelprobe.
So it's our first day with the orchestra,
and we're teching, and it's very exciting
and lots of things are happening.
And I am excited and highly caffeinated
and listening to my favorite music,
and putting my makeup on.
But really I'm just talking to you
because I don't know how to multi-task.
Even a little bit at all.
And how do we all feel about this lipstick shade?
For Bella, for Bella's first look.
I think we feel good.
Anyways, welcome!
This is, maybe I'll show you how I do my makeup later,
but right now just saying hi.
I'm gonna take you to show you as much as I can possibly
show you today without giving anything away.
Which is probably not a lot.
- I'm in Kathryn's dressing room.
I'm gonna see what fun makeup she has.
- [Woman] We're gonna move onto social media.
- Lip glass.
- [Woman] So you can all be in positions for the
beginning of social media.
- [Man] Thank you guys for this since we're just
really trying to sort of chase what we,
trying to set in the room.
- Ooh, a lip shimmer. - [Man] Really just.
- Very into that. - [Man] Do as the pacing was.
Oh it's not open, I can't open it.
Why do my eyebrows look crazy?
- [Woman] What cue you need.
- Hi, I'm Kathryn. - Hey, I'm Derek.
And you're watching the first episode of On the Puff,
where we have a special guest who we talk to on the puff.
- Yeah, I'm on the puff, I'm on the rag.
- She's on the puff, she's on the rag.
And so here we have Diablo Cody.
- Hello.
- Best known for her work in cameo appearance
in a 2009 reboot of 90210.
- Yeah, I would say that's my most important credit.
- I think so, I would say so.
Now question, how did that experience
inform your writing the Broadway musical
"Jagged Little Pill"?
- You know, acting opposite Tori Spelling
was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
And it really just gave me so much more respect
for the craft of acting.
And I really realized that I wanted to go back to the source
from which all, sort of, theatrical art springs.
Which is the theater itself.
- Yes.
- And so here I am, here I am in the Broadhurst
making it happen.
- Now, since being on Broadway as an actor
starring with Tori Spelling. - Mhm.
- Do you feel like you like it?
- Do I like being on Broadway?
- Wait, what?
That was a very confusing question.
- Do you like being on Broadway?
- You're making it sound like I'm in the show
and I feel like that's misleading for your viewers.
I'm not, I wrote the book for the "Jagged Little Pill"
the musical. - She wrote the whole musical.
- I didn't write the whole thing.
There are like 20 some songs by Alanis Morissette
that are beautiful, that I can take no credit for.
- Yeah, that's true.
- But yeah, I'm thrilled to be here, it's really fun.
- It's a fun show?
- It's super fun!
It's a fun show. - This is your first.
This is your first musical.
This is your first onstage thing that you've written.
- Ever! - Yeah, so it's cool.
Yeah it's, I would love to hear,
I'm not trying to like commandeer your show
but I would like to hear about some of your.
- No please we don't really have a format.
- I'd love to hear about some of your experiences.
- Yeah, the basis of this show is that it's on a puff.
- Okay, that's all you have?
- That's all we got, and we're kinda just rolling with it.
- So. - Appreciate that.
- Derek. - Yes.
- Tell me what role it was in your life
that made you realize that you really,
that you needed to do this?
- I really didn't know that I wanted to do this as a career
until like later in college.
I played baseball early in college, and then.
- Show us your baseball bat.
- No, that's a later episode Kathryn.
You'll have to wait for the softball bat.
- You didn't do softball.
- I know but then sophomore year I kinda decided
that I missed being on stage and it's what I wanted to do
and I started auditioning in southern California,
and my first job in New York was "Carrie"
in which I sent in an audition tape for
and I left college to come out here for "Carrie".
And that's, and then once I had that experience here
I kinda knew that this is where I was meant to be.
And I love New York, so I've been here now eight years.
Crazy. - Yeah.
Kathryn, how about you?
- Real life the musical, Oprah's channel honoring
my former acting teacher in a real life,
we did a musical.
Did you know that?
- No.
Yeah, real life musical.
I shouldn't be saying this.
You're probably going to find the tapes.
Yeah we did.
Our whole high school class did a full musical number
to honor our teacher in the school gymnasium,
to a pop version of Thank You for Being a Friend.
- I like that.
- Yeah, it was good, it was hot.
So that was the moment I knew personally.
No, what was that, I don't know.
I never, there was never another job
that seemed like an option.
- See, that's how I feel about writing.
- Yeah, it was just it.
- Yeah, I was just bad at everything else.
- Same.
- It was like I fell into this.
- Yeah, but you're very good at this.
- Thank you very much.
- Thanks for writing a whole musical.
- I like it.
- Yeah, you're very good at it.
- Yeah, please keep doing it.
- Yeah, I want to do it again for sure.
- Yeah, you should.
- We're on the 6th floor - Yes, hello.
- Who are you? - My name is Ken.
My pronouns are he, him, his.
I'm in the ensemble, and I'm happy to be here.
- Yeah, you are, yeah you are.
And now under, oh no, who's hiding?
Who's this?
- Hi, I'm Ezra. - Yeah?
- My pronouns are they and he. - Yeah they are.
- And I'm in the ensemble.
- Yeah, you are.
Yeah, what are you listening to?
- Nothing. (laughs)
- I love it.
Who are you?
- Hello, I'm John.
My pronouns are he, him.
And I'm also thrilled to be here.
I'm in the ensemble of the show.
- Yeah you are, you play Charlie.
- I do, it's my Broadway debut!
- It's your Broadway debut!
We love a Broadway debut.
- Who are you, Tons?
- Hi, I'm Antonio Cipriano and I play Phoenix in the show.
And this is my Broadway debut too, so excited.
I also shaved again, don't worry.
- Thank God, just kidding.
We're missing a lot of this dressing room here.
- Yeah, we're slackers over here.
- Because they're late, very late.
There's no tardiness in this house.
We found one, who are you?
- I'm Max Kumangai. - Yeah, you are.
- Like, come on guys.
- Yes, what do you do in the show?
What are you eating?
- I'm, well it's our dinner break.
We're in the middle of tech and I am in the ensemble.
- Yeah, you are, what a dream.
- I play Doctor Woodson at one point.
- Yeah you do, you're a ray of goddamn light.
- Yeah, pretending I'm a doctor.
- Hello, hello angels.
Guys, thank you so much for joining me for the past
like 36 hours.
I cannot wait to show you more about
what it's like behind the scenes.
Right now, it's tech madness.
So we just spent the past 12 hours
in this building, in this wonderful glorious building
where there's so much history to love.
And but it really is, I love it here.
And we have an audience exactly a week from tomorrow
which is really kind of still wild to think about.
And I cannot wait to show you more about
what it's like behind the scenes of "Jagged Little Pill".
Some Jagged Little Thrills, as they call it.
(giggles)
No one calls it that.
I call it that.
Sometimes we call it that.
Just trying to be cool.
It's never worked for me.
Not in the past, not now.
Be yourself kids.
Have some jagged little thrills.
Stay safe, happy Halloween.
I love you all, and I can't wait for more.
Oh tweet me, DM me.
All those things and let me know what you want
to see on this vlog.
I can't wait to show you everything that I can show you.
It's gonna be so fun.
I love you all!
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