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  • 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.

  • Theo, Tina's Your Ball Way is definitely very different from doing his usual, too.

  • Sure, I go to school.

  • Five days.

  • Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

  • It's Showtime, definitely still get nervous being this role, it's literally a dream come true.

  • I've always wanted to be leaving many on Broadway.

  • It's time for the show.

  • Hey, guys, it's 7 30 I just woke up at seven and I'm headed to school in my first stop of the day Star.

  • I got my very, very hibiscus and I'm headed to school on Wednesday and usually go to that in the night or you want to call if I'm feeling this key.

  • But on other nights and we have earlier shows, I'll usually go to bed around 11 3 Most of my cast mates definitely get to sleep in, so I'm definitely dose of them.

  • I actually go to a performing arts school in the city, so I take singing classes.

  • They're acting classes.

  • Dancing lessons usually want to get ready for school.

  • I'm thinking about things that you do during the day.

  • I have.

  • So I have homework.

  • Or, if I have an assignment school on what time show is at that day, usually like the things that I think about the most.

  • I took the PS keys on Wednesday last week.

  • There's most 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, bold budget, Brandi answers left Wednesday.

  • We have two shows, so I 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 case is a really good about letting me make it up and be late with it, which is actually great.

  • She's really committed to being 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 my way.

  • I was 12 years old when I made my belly debut in 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 on.

  • I actually got a call back and then we were like, Oh, this is actually something that I could maybe start doing some for the way.

  • Ever since then, I've been doing this.

  • It's 1 18 I just finish school and now I'm headed like Brooklyn Way.

  • Defeat her together, and we always want to dance together Presley on 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.

  • It is 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 Thio Refresh and remember, these are virals.

  • When I was little, I used to watch the movie with my family, and any time that my brothers would say Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, I would get so scared Show used to terrify have nightmares about it.

  • Madison, I sang the Girl Scouts on I say Dead Mom and I auditioned for the lab originally, and then I ended up getting it for the D.

  • C out of town.

  • Try and then I came to probably.

  • It's definitely been a dream come true of mine to be a part of such a big dollar.

  • A show like this.

  • I was definitely really excited when I found out that I'd be playing with a full time Ah, home.

  • Weeks ago I was playing the jockey and I understudy Lydia Dew, but he has a strange and unusual teenager.

  • She moves to a new house, and she was Beetlejuice and about her story and find home and find a family.

  • Live people ignore the strange and unusual by myself, and strange and unusual.

  • People can relate to Lydia because, like she's a teenager, she's going through a rough time and chooses a very relatable character.

  • I really Lydia, because I'm teenager, of course.

  • So there's definitely things that I'm like, Oh, I want to do this or I get annoyed sometimes.

  • So while I was on the subway, a girl came up to me and she's like, Wait, were you Are you in Beetlejuice?

  • You play lady And I was like on She's coming to the show tonight, actually, So that's really cool.

  • It's so cool to meet all the fans happens pretty often.

  • It happens around once a day.

  • Sometimes it doesn't.

  • Sometimes it happens in weird places.

  • Three o'clock and I have to go.

  • Hi.

  • Welcome.

  • All right.

  • Today I feel 10 shows in a row.

  • Don't show tonight.

  • Yes, crazy.

  • A lot of neck tension, given things that come with singing roll like this.

  • They kind of like really like all the attention that I have been 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.

  • Just delete Thio more optimal performance, vocally and otherwise, her costumes air heavy, performing on the great stage and singing as much as she does eight times a week.

  • I'm a teenager, and a lot of our fans are active teenagers, so it's cool to like see somebody there AIDS doing like what they want to do eventually.

  • And I'm really grateful that, like I've inspired people, what's the big deal?

  • So my role models are definitely Leslie Kritzer.

  • She's amazing.

  • She's so talented and also carry ballers is amazing.

  • I mean, I loved up everybody's excitement.

  • Think that kid's d'oh indifferent flank turns that you say these days on?

  • She asked me about Tic Tac and I told him that I was like, Oh, we said like life, Alex Bregman and Janus Angles.

  • We made a tic tac backstage in the vocal booth, which is actually where I sing a lot off stage, and we actually had a lot of fun doing it.

  • Overtime, My Tic Tac's have definitely gained a following way.

  • It's really cool to see that, like we have so many fans, like from Tic Tac that don't even know like what?

  • Beetlejuice it?

  • Because I'll be on the street and I'll hear somebody like Oh my God, that's the tick talk show suddenly like a different kind of fan base that we're always ever experienced before because this isn't you think, but I think it's really exciting.

  • It's for 25 right now and we're headed uptown so I can go toe westerly and get some supplements and different things for my show.

  • Here's some of the things that water pineapple I told you that I have on how pleasing, better shot this Yogi tea.

  • It's comfort.

  • It's amazing.

  • I had it before every show.

  • What I usually eat before show depends on the day when I'm feeling in the mood for it's for 50.

  • I just got all my girl threes and I'm gonna go warm up in the next hour.

  • It's six o'clock.

  • I just picked up a suit and I'm ready to do it out.

  • The only kid in the show is definitely very different.

  • Pick up some fan.

  • This is a war.

  • This is my job.

  • I like to come in about an hour to 45 minutes for the shells.

  • When we 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 gruesome pictures.

  • Ridge, Um, we have some Jews, souvenirs and stuff like that I actually have this big bag of, like, fan are in different things and fan mail that I actually have to send back to people.

  • So hopefully I'll do that.

  • And you got 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.

  • Um, this is the video 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 pure miss.

  • I used 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 they're still different moments in the show where it like different nerve just come through my body.

  • And I'm like, Oh, fucking realize I'm nervous.

  • No, I am.

  • I actually put looking.

  • Penny's inside of my boots and I wear them throughout the entire show because my very superstitious person and I feel like it's a good look.

  • I want other teams to know that I'm just a regular team to.

  • They were definitely a lot of things that I want to do in the manicure.

  • I definitely want to be in a TV show or a movie, or I don't really know, because I'm yelling, So I haven't really made France Julie.

  • I'm still discovering who I am and what I want to do.

  • It's seven o'clock and it's time for the show.

  • David.

  • The film turned out to be the last performance of Beetlejuice for now on Hold Out My Family and I'm Doing online school, and I could face time with the cast on Saturday night Zoom calls, and it's all Fan's Miss Connecting with you all on.

I'm Presley Ryan.

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