Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hello America and the world, we're in some final tech rehearsal and we've been getting lots of amazing questions from Twitter, because our process is so strange and unique and so we would like to answer some of them, so let me go around and try to answer some of your questions with some of our cast. We have a question here from @Aviva, she says if you could play any other character on Broadway, who would it be? On Broadway? On the whole Broadway? yeah, it specifically says on Broadway, so no off Broadway, no Regional. Well okay. Oh! Easy, one of the kids in School of Rock I haven't seen it. Like [bleeping] badass. I can't cuss. Is ass a curse word? I don't know, that's a good question. you let us know in the comments. Hey Alex, Hey You're looking so smart in your little fall outfit today. Well I'm a really intelligent guy my clothes reflect that we have a question from at SARAHELYSE17 Slay Sara? We have a history She asks if you could play any other role in Spring Awakening what would you play? Adult Women hands down I have all my choices prepared especially for a Sunday night when I can really like blow out my voice, yes. Great, thank you. So Cath is interpreting once again, for Amelia and this is a question from @mulderscully_ for the deaf actors, is there a show that you would love to do an ASL version of with Deaf West? legally blonde perfect thank you, I just think she should do Violet my gosh we want her to do Violet I think she would be amazing. Deaf West Violet would be amazing. A Deaf West Violet because we were talking about this her scars and she always felt aashamed by them but lately, she felt great and I'm like, that's what Violet is about! I think they are very fierce. Is there any show you'd like see Josh. Into the woods that's my goal my baby if anyone takes it I will murder you. Children will listen one way or another, yes. Or maybe Rent. I like that hey Marlee we have a question from a fan. What show would you like to see an ASL version for Deaf West any other show? In ASL, I would like to see Cats. I love that idea thanks you guys, thanks for your input. This is really cool sometimes we rehearse just with signing and music with no singing to get the signing right and it's really really cool. So here's a treat. This is the question from @pupica325 for the deaf actors what sparked your interest in acting and who inspired you? My dad was very theatrical and I maybe looked up to him, and when I realized I really wanted to have a career not just to do it for fun. There is a person called Monique Holt She's incredible an professor, actress, writer, sign translator everything. She helped me and inspired me not thinking about money and living but thinking about what is your passion, what was your goal and at that point I said acting. So don't think about the money, don't think about whatever or what people want you to do, do what makes you happy. Do what your joy is what your love is and everything will follow Thanks guys, that was beautiful. Hi, Robert Ariza hello this is the question, A, which role are you most excited to do and then B, if you could cover any track that you don't cover who would you cover? I think I mean it's kind of typical but I think I'm most excited about going on for Melchior just because it's the most challenging thing I've ever had to learn. There lots of signs there, yes and I'm not a natural signer, I'd learned when I started rehearsal for this so that will be exciting, should that day come. In terms of female characters I think Ilsa, I'll say that too I wanna be Ilsa. question is what is it like being one half of a single character, what's that experience like as a voicing actor? It's hard because like you have your own ideas about what you think how a line should play but you are watching somebody to check their timing and like today I got a note, "Hey Josh is doing this thing. " But I had no any idea because I was standing behind him, so I didn't know so I have to go find him and ask him what is your invention on this line that's me too. Two words. So you really have to like confer them on really everything? Yeah it's, two become, two heads are better than one kind of thing. It's really hard. It's really, really hard, for all the reasons that he said are totally accurate, in my case, recently we were having a lot of trouble with jokes, I guess in the case with an actor like Daniel, who is profoundly deal there's like a sense of comedic timing that comes from hearing human speech, that we're all like used to and stuff like that, and in order to make like a certain line that's written to play a certain way and be a laugh every night, because the show has a few of those. You really need to figure that out, so it took us like many shows to get this one joke in particular down, which is the obsessed with, mesmerised by penis and vagina, well I am. So we had to play together with figuring out, like, Okay well, he started by doing something like this and we realized this sign kills the joke no matter how tight we are, and things like that. So working with Daniel to find like 30 different ways to land this joke until we finally found it and then it like erupts with laughter and then you have to wait every night to see what happens see what happens and Daniel will come on stage and be like, did they laugh? And I was like, Yes. They totally laughed tonight. But yes, stuff like that is a crazy challenge and then following someone's lead while also giving your own input and coming together to make one thing, it's crazy and I can't imagine I will ever do it again and unless, Deaf West wants me back for something else. There's no chance of that? No. No, all right. Thanks guys. Here's Katie Boeck the voice of Wendla We're at intermission of this show right now. It's going very well I think. And you room is looking so cute. Thank you. I went a little crazy Katie, the question is, for the voicing actors what is it like playing one person with another actress, like playing the same character together. What's the experience of that like? It's It's so awesome because at least for me I get to do what I love to do, which is sing, and play guitar, and talk and it's like there's not just that, there's this whole other element of ASL that comes into the mix, and I just think that it's like 8, 000, 000 times more the character that now that it's being shared. I left my dirty socks in the counter in the background I just think it's great, I think people walk away with a deeper understanding of what the character is about because it's being the whole story of the character is being told in such a deeper way. Yeah like internal life is playing out externally. Yeah I have the fun part I get to reveal a lot of what her subconscious is thinking and that's not something you always get to do if you were the only person that gets to express the feelings that character and all of that is sort of all in your mind and me being her mind and her spirit I get to kind of play around a little bit more and I really enjoying that part of it. Here we have Lauren Luiz washing brushes. Washing brushes our very own Melita being domestic during intermission here. Do you have any interesting rituals pre-show. Interesting? No. But what are your rituals pre-show? I like to listen to music, lately I've really been into Billie Holiday, just because I feel like she understands me, right now and then we play ninja on stage. We do I'm really terrible at it. Me too I still don't quite get it. No one is worse than me. Your question is if you could play any other role on Broadway, what role? How does that question keep happening? I just asked her the other day. Ohh! I don't know and Anything that's like sexy and fun A little mischief maybe. We call her Sexy Lexie She wrote that herself. I did not! Thanks ladies bye, bye I got a question, How is the experience different, being in Spring Awakening and versus Les Miserables]? The experience is completely different for a lot of reasons. It's a hell of a lot shorter which you think like, more show, more fun, but not all the time. Not when you're doing it eight times a week. Also I would say this music is way more in my wheel house way more the kind of music that comes out of me naturally, whereas in Les Miz I had to like really work and push to get that big operatic sort of I mean as operatic as I can get, that kind of sound does not come naturally to me, the biggest difference I think is that was a show that I auditioned for and was cast in after like many auditions and stressed about, and then was in a room with people that I didn't know, a team that I didn't know, trying to convey what they were trying to get out of me, their vision of Marius and mine and coming together and creating something we can both agree on. Whereas here this is a show that I helped conceive and put together with literally with my best friends and the love of my life and we we're all in the room together just trying to make the play better, so much less focused on myself and like how I'm doing and if they like me or not, I'm just sort of like trying to contribute what I can to the greater good. And we all started out doing this for free, like literally when we did the first workshop of this that I worked on before Les Miz we were in a stripper fitness studio, that smelled like cat pee rehearsing I swear to God, and we performed it in this little dance studio for like friends and family and the board of Deaf West to like to see if the idea would even work, everyone was working for free. We actually, Michael and I bought props and stuff and like paid for the keyboard, things like that we like put our own money just to get the idea on it's feet so we really, really believe in this, so the fact that we're here on Broadway is a totally, totally different experience than the standard route of auditioning for something and like being cast in something and like being taken care of in that way. This feels way more like homegrown and personal. So both experiences were really sweet, I'm really happy to be here now, I'm happy that you at home are joining us, segue, so thanks for tuning in, I'm gonna go eat some Buffalo Wild Wings cuz they're right across the street from our theater. Good night. Thank you.
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