I'm Presley Ryan I'm 16 years old I play
Lydia and Beetlejuice the musical and
this is what a day in my life looked
like before Broadway closed down due to
the corona virus pandemic Beauty named
Rob's always is definitely very
different from doing an adult for sure I
go to school five days I'm actually only
paid in this dough definitely don't get
nervous
being this role it's literally a dream
come true I've always wanted to be
leading lady on Broadway time free show
hey guys it's 7:30 I just woke up at
7:00 and I'm headed to school on my
first stop of the day is Starbucks I got
my very very hibiscus and I'm headed to
school on Wednesday usually go to that
night
or one o'clock if I'm feeling risky but
on other nights and we have earlier
shows I'll usually go to bed around
11:30 most of my cast mates definitely
get to sleep in so I'm definitely
jealous of them I actually go to a
performing arts school in the city so I
take singing classes there acting
classes dancing lessons usually when I
get ready for school I'm thinking about
all the things that I need to do during
the day and what I have so if I have
homework or if I haven't assigned them
in school and what time the show is at
that day usually those like the things
that I think about the most I took the
pSATS on Wednesday last week you're
supposed to take it cold so you don't
really prepare it's kind of just like to
see where you're at with everything so I
took the test and then I had to leave
early for my matinee so he bowled a
bunch of random answers and left
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Wednesday we have two shows though I'd
go to school in the morning
and then I'll leave early I usually
don't have that much time to do my
homework but my teachers are really good
about letting me make it up and be late
with it which is actually great she's
really committed to being a good student
so her personality and will to do well
always translates I try to do it during
the show usually during intermission and
sometimes when I get home after the show
I'll do it then this is my first class
today three minis I'll see you guys
later
I was 12 years old when I made my
Broadway debut and fun home since I was
little I've always really enjoyed
theater and performing on stage when I
was little I took an acting class at my
mom's friends acting studio one day she
told me that I should audition for a
Broadway show so I did and I actually
got a callback and then we were like oh
this is actually something that I can
maybe start doing ever since then I've
been doing this
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it's 1:18 I just finished school and now
I'm headed to camp
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my friend Brooklyn we defeat her
together and you always walk to dance
class together
I've told Presley and a lot of the kids
that the days are long and I don't find
any difference professionally than what
they're dealing with so I think it's
even though they're very young and it's
kind of good practice for what they're
gonna have to juggle professionally if
this is the field you're choosing you do
have to kind of do a lot of things at
once before I auditioned for this I
actually watched the movie to refresh
and remember it these are my rules
come to think of it I'll have a rule
when I was little I used to watch the
movie with my family and anytime that my
brothers would say Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice I would get so
scared
did Showtime
used to terrify me I had nightmares
about it for a magazine I sang the Girl
Scout song I sang dead mom and later
consumers
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oh you're my addition for the blab
originally and then I ended up getting
it for the DC out of town try and then I
came to Broadway it's definitely been a
dream come true of mine to be a part of
such a big always feel like this I was
definitely really excited when I found
out that I'd be playing layup full-time
a couple weeks ago I was playing the job
T and I understood Lydia Brittany has a
strange and unusual teenager she moves
to a new house and she was beetlejuice
and about her story and signing home and
find a family live people ignore the
strange and unusual I myself found
strangely unusual people can relate to
Lydia because like she's a teenager
she's going through a rough time and
she's just a very relatable character I
really to Lydia because I'm teenager of
course
so there's definitely things that I'm
like oh I don't want to do this or I get
annoyed sometimes so I was on the subway
a girl came up to me and she's like wait
were you and are you in beetlejuice you
play Lydia I was like
and she's coming to the show tonight
actually so that's really cool
it's so cool to meet all the fans it
happens pretty often it happens around
once a day sometimes it doesn't
sometimes it happens in weird places
three o'clock and I had this ability now
high ten shows in a row don't show
tonight yes crazy
a lot of neck tension different things
that come with singing a roll like this
they kind of like relieve like all of
the tension that I have from singing and
they like open everything up it's
amazing for Presley we basically work
out any restrictions that she has in her
neck or her upper body um just to lead
to a more optimal performance vocally
and otherwise her costumes are heavy
performing on a raked stage and singing
as much as she does eight times a week
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I'm a teenager and a lot of our fans are
actually teenagers so it's cool to like
see somebody their age doing like what
they want to do eventually and I'm
really grateful that like I've inspired
people watch the video
come on role models are definitely
leslie Kritzer she's amazing she's so
talented and also Harry Butler she's
amazing I mean I look up to everybody
Alex Brightman to Plato
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Thank You say my name things that kids
do and different slang terms but you say
these days and she asked me about tick
dog and I told him and I was like oh we
should make one
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Alex Brightman and gayness tine gold we
made a tick-tock backstage in the vocal
booth which is actually where I sing a
lot offstage and we actually had a lot
of fun doing it over time my tic TOCs
has definitely gained a following at one
Dunn wig off it's really cool to see
that like we have so many fans like from
Tik Tok that don't even know like what
Beetlejuice is because I'll be on the
street and I'll fear somebody like oh my
god that's the tip-top show definitely
like a different kind of fan base that
Broadway's ever experienced before
because this is a new thing but I think
it's really exciting it's for 25 right
now and we're headed uptown so I can go
to westerly and get some supplements and
different things from my show
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here are some of the things they can
opinion coconut water
pineapple gets rid of all the mucus that
I have and helps me think better so
again in a new shot in bed take this
yogi tea its throat comfort it's amazing
I had it before every show shape tree
what I usually eat before a show
typically depends on the day and when
I'm feeling in the mood for it's 4:50 I
just got all my groceries and I'm gonna
go warm up in the next hour
see ya
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at six o'clock I just picked up some
soup and I'm ready to do a job
I'm only kidding the show is definitely
very different pick up some family I
like to come in about an hour to 45
minutes before the show when I'm he
started the show I was under 16 years
old I was 15 so I actually have to have
a Wrangler backstage who would kind of
come with me everywhere I went because I
wasn't allowed to be back here without
an adult here's some pictures my fridge
we have some beautiful juice souvenirs
and stuff like that I actually have this
big bag of like fan art and different
things and fan mail that I actually have
to send back to people so hopefully I'll
do that soon and he's got some candy now
that I'm 16 I can be back here on my own
but everybody treats me like I'm gonna
go which is nice
these are some of my costumes that I
wear this is the Lydia funeral dress
that I wore in the beginning of the show
and this is the iconic Lydia dress that
I wear throughout the remainder of the
show this is my pyramus I use it before
every show it's really good for your
voice I definitely still get nervous not
as nervous as I used to be in the
beginning but there are still different
moments in the show we're at like
different nerves just come through my
body I'm like oh how do you realize I'm
nervous you know I am I actually put
lucky pennies inside of my boots and I
wear them throughout the entire show
because my very superstitious person and
I feel like it's good luck I wonder if I
came to know that I'm just a regular
teen to you they were definitely a lot
of things that I want to do in the
future I definitely want to be in a TV
show or a movie or I don't really know
because I'm young so I have it really
like maybe plans really I'm still
discovering who I am and what I want to
do it's 7 o'clock and it's time for your
show bye thanks for watching
so the day that we film turned out to be
the last performance of Beetlejuice for
now I'm at home doubt with my family and
I'm doing online school and I can
FaceTime with the cast on Saturday night
to do calls and I miss all the fans that
I miss connecting with you all and I
hope that everybody's staying safe and
healthy during this time
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