Welcome to Broadway Sandwich! We're hanging out with your favorite Broadway
performers to find out what they do on their few short hours sandwiched between
their matinee and evening performances. Join me as we find out what makes up the
meat in this broadway sandwich! Today we're at the New Amsterdam Theater home of
Disney's smash-hit ALADDIN.
Our guest is none other than Princess Jasmine herself
Arielle Jacobs. The matinee is about to end and she'll be out here any second
How's your show? It was awesome! You wanna get started?
This is the palace, aka Jasmine's dressing room.
So cute! It's like the inside of a clay pot -- a magical clay pot.
This is my tiara. It like, transforms me into Jasmine.
The earrings are very heavy. Yeah. and so
whenever I'm running backstage I actually hold on to them, otherwise they hit me in the face.
Waaa!
There are so many beads.
So many beads. Any mishaps out there and then you're getting caught in a track or caught in
the doorframe. Not in a doorframe, but they constantly fall off into my shoes
Into your shoes?Yes. While I'm on stage I'm feeling little beads between
my toes. They're gorgeous and, you know, it has the long slit.
Okay did you ever dress up as a Disney Princess as a child?
Okay, so, I actually dressed up as Aladdin.
You did?You dressed up as Aladdin? Forget Jasmine.
I did. In, like, fourth grade I sing A WHOLE NEW WORLD with my friend Lindsay. She
was Jasmine and I was Aladdin. I've got some really amazing fan art. Beautiful
yeah you and your brother of course, Adam
Jacobs who played Aladdin. Yeah in the show he's the original Alliance on
Broadway . While Adam was performing live on Broadway I was performing Jasmine in
Australia.
incredible
okay so I see the poster over here I also see the physical
copy of your album yes you have to show us
I listen to this whole thing. It was astounding!
Every single wig is made with human hair so it takes a very long time. So this is the real human hair stuff
they kind of create a head wrap yeah made with like plastic and cellophane yeah
and packing tape so that it's exactly the shape of your head when they create
the wig they're beautiful aren't they
here we are backstage. It's so big. It is really so big and airy. So many Broadway
theatres are squished.
Come this way! We actually still have to send the set pieces up
into the sky and the wings, because there's a huge set and there's not enough space
offstage for the set. Yeah I mean this is a big old musical
This has got big pieces, big costumes lots of costumes. Yeah magic. This is a
This is a Jafar staff. Oh wow. ne of them there's two of them. Look into
my eyes!
This theater has so so much history. I'm looking up at the Ziegfeld
Follies ladies. The OGs. Right here on the floor this is a piece of the original
Lion King floor that they saved. So hanging up there is actually a piece of
the set from Mary Poppins on Broadway it's a big giant green header that was
the top of either the bank or the house
This is called the bunker. This is where they do their quick changes
so here's a sample of what one of the
ladies wears in the wedding scene and I wanted you to hold it so you can get
an idea of how heavy these costumes are. Okay oh my god oh you are kidding no they're
very heavy. This alone probably has is 50 layers of fabric and
water crystals and the beads, All the costumes are covered in Swarovski
crystal
Over here we have our PT room. More costumes.
so you can see right now this is where the musicians play the score. This is a
big Orchestra one of many people in here. A lot
This theater is supposedly haunted by a ghost. I think it was Zuko Follies girl
Her name is olive and people have seen Olive around and someone took a
picture into an empty space and got that image. This is olive.
This is taken out of like this dark area. Wow, Olive. So, she lives here. She's a friendly ghost.
Hi Olive! We come in peace.
So, this is lot 41. This is one of the new rehearsal spaces in the New Amsterdam theater.
JJ is my fiancee and he trains me. Thank you for meeting us today
absolutely so we want to find out what you guys get into between shows and how
this works yeah there's really the two big strength
days that's a lot of gymnastics and calisthenics rings rope climb and that's
mainly about your arms your chest in your back there's a raised day where we
do gymnastics rings chin-ups and rows and rope climbing. I feel like like Laura
Croft Tomb Raider. Yeah well Jasmine has a lot of that too, right? strong girls and
in the movie she pole vaults across a rooftop.
Today's our day that's a little bit more
yoga ish alright let's do it let's do it. Okay training with your fiancee
most people go do that elsewhere so they can get yelled at by somebody else he
doesn't yell at me I believe it so this is like a ballet
first position with your and and then a little side to side action yeah fish put
your hands up run to and squeeze
they say that you are only
as young as your spine so it's very important to keep the spine flexible
that was amazing let's go grab some grub dinner yeah go get
I usually get some sort of smoothie or sometimes a fresh juice
you're playing one of the most iconic princesses of all time
now did you always know that you end up on Broadway? I was like oh I'm gonna be
on Broadway I can be on Broadway I felt so confident
then you get to the real world and you see a hard it is. I think you have to
really believe that you can get there and that you're good enough and I feel
really really blessed. We gotta get you back to the theater
I know! Show's coming up. Can't be late show must go on.
Thank you so much for spending time with me today! Thanks for tagging along it was so
cool getting to know what you do between shows!
Yeah I have to go ride a magic carpet
Have a great one! See you, bye!