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  • 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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