This is so me. It’s like looking into a mirror.
He can’t hold still. He’s got this great charismatic smile.
Everybody wants to be his friend. He’s just like me.
Jon: That’s really funny.
Steve: Get out of here!
A Millions Dreams - Behind The Scenes
Paul: Here we are at Tuacachn. We’re performing tonight.
We’re also filming a music video today and after the show tonight.
We’re going to get starting on filming.
This is Jon’s arrangement from The Greatest Showman, A Million Dreams.
So, the kid we have found, his name is Milo.
Apparently, he’s a big fan of Jon's.
In fact, he’s been known as, “Little Schmidt".
Hi. My name is Milo Allman.
My teacher’s the brother of Al van der Beek.
They contacted him asking if he had a young version of Jon Schmidt
and my name came to his mind.
So, they contacted me.
Steve: Is that your real hair color?
No. This is dyed red, right. The eyebrows are my real hair color.
Al: “Hi Milo.” What’s up buddy? Come on. Give me a hug.
Look at that red hair. You’re looking good.
Steve: How are you doing? How does it feel to be a red head?
We’re so excited for you to do this.
Milo: Thank you. I’m excited too. It’s a dream come true.
Your back story is more about you being a struggling youth.
You’re not struggling as much as Jon did mentally, but you know.
Economically speaking.
Everything about you is, you’re working a job.
You’re pushing a broom on stage, but you know you’re going to play on that stage one day.
Then you just look around and you’re like,
“Why do I have to wait? It’s mine today."
You see the piano. You put the broom down. You sit down at the piano.
And you just slam the broom down…
At the end, when it morphs to Jon, he bows to the audience,
and as he pulls up, it’s you again.
And now, are you ready for the twist. Yes!
Okay. You go back.
You enjoy the moment you had in your head. Now It’s back to work.
You get back at the broom. You start sweeping.
As you’re sweeping some feet walk by you. Right.
Maybe bump you a little bit. You look up...
And it’s a younger version of Steve with a cello,
and you guys, lock eyes. Then it ends.
This actually is, as far as I can remember.
This is the first place Jon and I performed together, Tuacahn stage.
Really? Oh wow!
This is the unveiling of Jon Schmidt to probably one of his biggest, most ardent groupies ever.
Okay, ready?
Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Jon Schmidt!
Oh my!
Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too.
I’ve been waiting. Nice hair!
Steve: Wouldn’t it be nice to have hair?
Steve: What is it like meeting a younger version of yourself?
What would you ask. What question would you ask?
Jon: It’s so nice to remember how good looking I was.
How long is that going to last?
Milo: We’ll probably dye it back.
And this is a kid that didn’t mess his hair up for crazy hair days, so.
Milo’s Mom: This is a big deal. He would only do this for you Jon.
Al: How much time have you put into this song? Honestly, how many hours?
Al: More than 40? Milo: We were thinking around 40 hours, yeah.
Steve: The thing is, it’s only been in the last week and a half, right?
Al: So, for the wardrobe for this, we had to go back to the 80’s.
The 80’s was very interesting because it was a very denim.
T-Shirts with a lot of bright colors.
Pink. Neon greens and stuff.
We took queues from “Saved by the Bell”. Everyone’s favorite show from the 80's.
I went on to Amazon.
Typed in 80’s T-shirts and found an array of T-shirts.
Oh, we got some Chuck Taylors, some Converse. These white leather ones.
It was sad, because last night I had to rub them in dirt. I was rubbing them up against rocks.
I was cutting them with a knife and everything.
That’s how we got the look, that he’s rocking.
Steve: This is mini-Jon we’ve been working with.
Now we’re going to go meet mini-Steve right over here.
Hi James!
Okay. Let’s do a high five. High five.
Oh, even a Cello-Five. That’s even better. This is my mini-me right here.
Do we look alike? He’s a lot more handsome though, right? James: Yeah!
Yeah. He’s got my sense of humor. That’s for sure!
Steve: James, this is Milo. Milo, this is James. Milo: Hi James.
James: Hi.
Paul: He is way too cute for you Steve! Steve: I know really.
There they are.
What are you thoughts on pretending to be Steven Sharp Nelson.
James: Hmm, I really don’t have any. Steve: Don’t have any what?
Al: That’s profound.
James: I don’t have any …
Steve: That was the best description of what I have.
What we’re going to do is have you just brush by him like this. Okay, so I’m going to be him,
and you’re going to walk this way.
Start right there. Face me.
Then just walk by me and kind of brush up against me.
James: Is that good? Steve: That was literal.
Al: That’s the good smile. That’s Steve right there.
There’s some great faces there.
James: I just walked right into the camera.
Steve: We just finished shooting A Million Dreams with our Mini-Mes.
Anything you’d like to say boys? We’re over here.
James: It was fun.
Steve: Was that a squirrel you saw over there? Was there a squirrel?
Just for me, go SQUIRREL. SQUIRREL. It works! It works!
Jon: Oh my gosh! This kid is amazing!
I am seriously so impressed with this kid’s skills.
Milo: Thank you very much. Jon: This guy’s headed for greatness.
Paul: Alright. Here we are on the Tuacahn stage after a show we just performed.
We filmed Milo earlier today before the show.
We even got a shot during the show of Jon in front of the audience.
It’s been a pretty crazy day.
Now it’s after the show and we are going to try and get as many good shots as we can.
Shaye: Thanks. We’re all done. That’s a wrap.
Steve: What do you feel? Paul: Well, we got some shots.
Steve: It’s 2:00 in the morning.
We’re in the middle of tour. We’re doing a video after a concert.
Al: We just dropped an album.
We just dropped an album today. We did a live Facebook thing.
We’ve got to film another video next week.
Paul: I don’t know if we’ve done enough stuff, yet.
I think we should. We got to think of some other thing.
Al: Let’s go play pickleball.
Let’s go play paddleball. Paddleboard.