Just Trish - Beetlejuice on Broadway Stars React to Trisha's Casting & Share Theatre Advice

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 There was one really drunk woman in Orlando that I had to yell at in the balcony. Do you remember that? I do remember that. So as Beetlejuice, you have to say something? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I told her . That's very Beetleju's. When I started three years ago on the tour, that was my first job, like my first professional gig. And it changed my life.
Starting point is 00:00:19 It's the reason that I, like, moved to New York, and I'm doing all of these awesome things. Her name is Trish. She's got the fish and all it got some filthy, rich, pretty, and pink. Hot topic queen and says what everybody thinks she's just Trish. Yay! Welcome to the Jess Trish podcast. Today, we are in New York City. It's the night of my Broadway debut, and I am joined by the stars of the best musical on Broadway,
Starting point is 00:00:57 Beatlejuice the musical, Justin Colette, and Isabel. Isabella Esler. Welcome. Happy debut. Happy debut. Thank you. I'm so excited, so nervous. I love you guys so much.
Starting point is 00:01:12 I'm a genuine fan because I've seen you guys already perform this here at the Palace Theater and on tour. Love you guys so much. This is the happiest day of my life. This is the happy save my life. Are you kidding me? Let's, well, we've been talking, but I want to talk more about Beatlejuice, the musical, back on Broadway, third time.
Starting point is 00:01:32 Were you guys fans of the show of the original Broadway show? Did you guys see it? Did you love it? Yeah. I was in School of Rock on Broadway, and I also had replaced Alex Brightman in that show, and he came by the theater quite a bit and told me that he was working on Beetlejuice, and I was so jealous. And he told me about all the jokes they were putting in the show and how funny it was.
Starting point is 00:01:54 And I was excited to see it. So a friend of mine, I took the weekend off of doing the show. And I went to D.C. and I saw the out-of-town there. And I thought it was so funny and so dark and so crazy. And I just fell in love with it there. I didn't think that I would do it. I just was like, this is a really good thing. And I'm glad this exists.
Starting point is 00:02:13 You knew from the beginning. Yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, the way the audience was reacting to it and the comedy of it. Also, like, the script, it's so rare, I think, to find something on Broadway with the script. It sounds like people talk. Like, the dialogue is so natural, you know what? I mean, so people were really connecting with it, and I thought it was a really exciting project.
Starting point is 00:02:32 Yeah, and I feel like it's cool, too, because it's still, like, different from the movie while still, like, being faithful to the movie in a way. Like, it's hard to explain. Like, it wasn't, like, a direct copy, and I loved that. It's like, it's like. It's like, you're able to, like, see, like, a beloved movie from, like, a different perspective, which I, that's what I really liked about it. Yeah, I was a fan of the show.
Starting point is 00:02:58 when it opened on Broadway in like 2019, 2020. Like, I was on TikTok at that point, and I would watch all of the videos. Like, that's how I found out about the show was when, like, all of the sounds were trending and all of the trends, all of that stuff. Like, I was a part of it. Like, I was a fan. And I really wanted to be in the show at some point. Wow.
Starting point is 00:03:18 Yeah, like, I loved Lydia. Like, I learned Dead Mom, like, that her main song, like, when I was 16. Like, that was my, I loved that song. That is, wow. That's, like, one of, like, the best songs in the whole show. Like, I love that when that comes on. It's my favorite, yeah. Everyone just, like, crying, applauding, all of it, your voice.
Starting point is 00:03:37 That was, like, the first song I heard. It was that, it was dead mom and I think beautiful sound was the other one I heard. And I was like, that's so fun. It is so cool. Like, you were saying, like, the movie, like, huge fan of the movie. But it is so different in the sense that there's, like, more depth to it with, like, the characters. Like, even the netherworld has, like, such a bigger part. The emotion.
Starting point is 00:03:58 triumph that happens in another world. It makes you cry, whereas the movie we love classic, but it's not like bringing tears, like the show is. No, no, definitely not. The movies were like an art project, I think. It's like introducing Tim Burton's like aesthetic to the world. I think it was the first movie he did that had that like Bertney style that we all really know now.
Starting point is 00:04:17 But like there's not really a story. It's like don't let him out, right? It's like the whole movie is like waiting for you to let Beetlejuice out of his Netherworld cage. And I find it interesting. too like they didn't really talk about Lydia's like mom in the movie as much and I and I find that really interesting that they were able to like find one line in the movie where she like barely mentions her mom to like become such a big like flop point in the show it makes it like the heart
Starting point is 00:04:46 of it and Beetlejuice too what is he in the film for like what they said like 18 minutes yeah and he doesn't show up for like an hour and 15 minutes into the movie like his first scene isn't and so forever into it which Beetlejuice and this one is like never off stage the whole time, the entire time. The entire time. I don't know how you do it. It's either me or you. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:05 The whole time, you know, that it's on stage for sure. That is true, right? There's not really a scene without either of you. Yeah. Not a lot of them. Like really, really quick bits. And I think that's what makes the show fun is that like Bella goes out there and makes everybody feel all emotional and sad and crying.
Starting point is 00:05:19 And then I go out like a lunatic and get to like break all the tension that she builds. It's a really fun job. So when did you guys, you both started the tour when it began, Was it three years ago, two and a half years ago? Three years ago? Two years ago. Yeah, yeah. It's around now we were in Paducah, Kentucky doing tech in 2022.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Wow, Paducah has the audience there. They was insane. They were two lined up outside because it was the first production of Beetlejuice in North America done outside of the Broadway version. So like all the fans came and it was, people were like packed in standing in that theater. Also was the first, I'd done rock of ages in the middle of COVID, but it was the first, I hadn't been on stage in like a year. year and a half at that point so I was like shaking I was so the root the whole room was like
Starting point is 00:06:05 vibrating with energy it was insane and it was a beautiful theater it was a really nice theater it's kind of a kind of a great place yeah I liked it great food is great I love that so three years as these characters do you find yourselves resonating with Lydia do you find yourself resonating with beetle juice or Lydia or Lydia or which character do you resonate with the most maybe like can you relate to your characters and if not Thank you so much. I feel like you're a bit of a beetle juice. Thank you. I try. I don't know. How angst you are you feeling? You're happy.
Starting point is 00:06:37 Really? You seem happy. Yeah, yeah. You're very bubbly. Like, you're bubbly, yeah. Thanks. No, I do feel very close to Lydia, especially, like, since I, like, heard about the show, like, as a teenager. I felt very, like, connected to her. I don't know. I don't see a lot of, like, strong, young female leads in shows a lot. and I think that's why like I gravitated towards her um yeah you know like I don't know I felt like that same like teenage angst that that time being like yeah no one listens to me you know yeah she's relatable I'm 37 and I feel like related to Lydia I was just like I also feel
Starting point is 00:07:19 that sometimes you know what I mean yeah she's the character like everyone wants to be every girl every boy every non-binary yeah yeah totally like not It's such a relatable story of, like, feeling, like, small. I'm the opposite where, like, I feel like Beetlejuces calm me down. Like, I feel- Oh, really? Yeah, I feel like, just like I had all this energy somewhere in my body, my whole life, waiting for it to be let out in, like, this way. And after three years of doing it, I'm like, I feel much more chill.
Starting point is 00:07:46 Like, I don't know what I'm going to do. Yeah. I don't know what to do next. Yeah, when it's done. I feel like it was, like, scream therapy. Just, like, let this, like, something out of my body that it's, like, not there anymore. Like a demon, but a fun demon. A fun demon that's, like, on his way out of my soul, I think.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Yeah, well, yeah, so you guys go until January, right? So it's a couple more months. What do you do after? Are you going to keep doing Beetle-Doose? Because you're not on TikTok. You're on TikTok, which is where Beetle-Duce, do you still going to continue the Beatle-Duce fandom, or you're just like, okay, time to move on to something else? I don't know, honestly.
Starting point is 00:08:20 I mean, sure. I'll probably still be in the fandom. I love, like, watching all the videos and stuff, especially since, like, Beal-Eus is going to the West End. like in London now. Yeah. Also, I think it's still touring. I think it's still going.
Starting point is 00:08:32 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think the show is like going to continue to go. Yeah, we're just not going to meet it, but,
Starting point is 00:08:37 no, we're like, I don't know, we're like, I'm just, we're like carrying it for now. That's what the show is, right?
Starting point is 00:08:42 Yeah, yeah. So I feel like it's a fun part about it. For sure. Yeah. I can't wait to see another Beetlejuice do this. It's like, it's so, I mean,
Starting point is 00:08:49 Andy Carl's doing it right now and like, Abu Dhabi. and I met with Andy Carl we had coffee he came to opening night and he had so many we talked about Beetlejuice for like an hour and a half of this coffee shop and like the stuff
Starting point is 00:09:02 that he's come up with that he's going to do and like this is going to be insane and completely different from anything that I've seen before and like especially with that character it's just so fun to have an actor go in and just unhinged themselves and act like the craziest version of themselves I was going to say do you have meetings of the Beetlejuice
Starting point is 00:09:20 like Alex Brightman was here on Thursday Day and you know obviously Eddie over in Australia you're doing Beetleju like do you guys like have meetings and you're like okay this is our take on it this is what we think Beetlejuice or has it work for you? No we don't have like Beetlejuice meetings. Alex and Eddie and I don't sit in we don't have like a conference where we talk about like the weirdest stuff we can do. I will say though that like Alex and I have I think such a similar sense of humor that
Starting point is 00:09:45 even when he came in and we did like some TikToks like everything that we did when he got there we didn't talk about any of it and we both. just sort of doing the same thing. Like we have such a very similar sense of humor, I think. And so it's just so fun whenever I get a chance to get together. Then we're both really busy in a different places all the time. Yeah. But I think that guy is so funny.
Starting point is 00:10:08 And this is the second role that I've done that he originated. And he's been essentially like my writing partner for the last five years where like every character I have, I take, I steal from him what I like and then I make up my own stuff on top of it. And it's, it's so fun. Yeah, your beetle juice is very, like, different. Like, obviously there's, like, the similar, like, beats and stuff. But you're, I think your beetle juice is, like, a completely different beetle juice.
Starting point is 00:10:30 Yeah. Yeah. Alex is so good at, like, he's just played this, like, scary, like, gremlin, like, beetle juice. So I love so much. And I was, like, what if I play him, like, a little sweetheart sometimes? What if he's just, like, a soft little ball that is, like, so affected by Lydia? Oh, God. You just so hurt.
Starting point is 00:10:47 He's so lonely. I thought it was, like, fun to make him, like, a little punching band. who, like, just has these big attacks and these big feelings. The big feelings. But, like, I, again, I took so many things that Alex did. And I think that everything that he did was brilliant. I just don't believe in copying somebody else's performance. So I had, like, I had to find a different way to do it because, like, didn't want to do the same way.
Starting point is 00:11:10 Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if they ever do a musical movie on Beetlejuice, it's like you were Alex or Jack Black, because you guys do a lot of his roles too. Let's just swing all three of us out. We'll do that like Mr. Parnassus. What was that movie? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:11:24 It's not Mr. Parnassus. I don't know what I'm talking about. Heath Ledger, and then they all five guys took his role. This exists. This is real. Johnny Depp and Edward Norton. What? Johnny Depp and Edomarton.
Starting point is 00:11:37 There was this movie that Terry Gilliam did that Heath Ledger died, and then they really, these five actors took over his role and then donated all the money to his daughter. Oh, that's everything. It was really, really sweet. I think it was a Terry Gilliam movie. I can't remember Our editor can pop it in He's so good at finding out.
Starting point is 00:11:52 This is real. Or I've dreamed it. I do love your take on Beetle juice to us so that he like has romance with like everybody. Like besides Lydia, of course. But like everyone else is a thing. He finds a little romance with everyone. He's just been alive for so long.
Starting point is 00:12:08 Who cares? Yeah. It's like a body's a body. You know what I mean? He's just into it. A body is a body. That's his philosophy. That's his philosophy.
Starting point is 00:12:18 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, who has hangups? You know, when people get old and they're like, you know, like somebody who's in, like, in their 80s and they're just like, they walk out with like no clothes on and just like, they're like, they don't care anymore. They're like backing out of the driveway.
Starting point is 00:12:30 They don't care who's behind them. Like, imagine being 12,000. Like, he just like. Is that his age? Is it confirmed that 12,000? In the breakdown, yes, he's a 12,000 years. They do. Wow.
Starting point is 00:12:39 I know it was like thousands, but I mean, I don't know that it's in canon, but I remember in the audition sheet. He's like he's a 12,000 year old demon who's over it. Yeah, that makes sense. Give him grace for 12,000. That's probably why he's so unhinged, too, because he's been alive for so long. Yeah. What is your favorite part of the show when you perform as, Lydia?
Starting point is 00:12:57 Like, what do you look forward to the most? It changes all the time for me, but I love say my name when we're on the roof. Yeah, that's really fun. That's always, like, I always have so much fun in that scene. Because also, that was one of the, like, songs that got me into the show, too. Like, it was, I think, like, there was a part that was, like, trending. It was, like, a trending sound on TikTok. TikTok and like I loved watching the videos so yeah it's so fun to like play with you and like
Starting point is 00:13:25 go back and forth like because we're both so different and it's so fun to just like have this like sad emo girl and then this like yeah a little um freaky demon I love doing I love doing beautiful sound with you because it's the one moment in the show that we're both happy for a minute I know I know it goes down to and we get to like really like we both have our dreams come true for like six minutes and there's a bunch of dancing beetle juices around us it's like that number every night to me is like is so fun to do with you and with the ensemble who are like all the clones are so fun they play them like these like just like they all have their own names too like they have their own names oh I love they have backstories
Starting point is 00:14:07 they build back stories for their clones oh my gosh yeah and even seeing it I get to see it backstage so I get to see some of like the excitement like they're rushing the ensemble is playing so many characters and so when they have to do the clones, they're doing their own makeup, their own hair. It's, like, insane to see backstage. It's wild. And they do it so fast. It's so hard. Like the goblins and A Whole Being Dead, too, right? Like, the cheerleader
Starting point is 00:14:29 goblins. They put these, like, fake ears on. They put makeup on that. They take those off to you. And, like, the choir. Like, it's, like, I think they have, like, five or six, like, total changes in the show. But they do themselves, largely. It's crazy. It's really amazing how they can do it. And then Mateo's, like, doing backflips. I know. You guys. And you're doing backflips.
Starting point is 00:14:48 You make it look so effortless on stage. Watching backstage is insane because it's like so chaotic. There's so much happening. But then on stage you guys make it look so easy. I was like, oh my gosh, this is so hard. I'm in one scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't feel easy.
Starting point is 00:15:04 The first two months of tour though, I don't know if you did this, but like I remember coming offstage because we're in a new theater every week and not being able to find the door. Yeah, because you're a new theater, right? So the backstage is different. So I'd like run like a wall looking for a door I thought was there. I just was absolutely out of my mind. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:21 Where's my room? That part I didn't even think about when you go on the tour because here it's crazy at the Palis Theater. There's like so many, like I am very lost. But on tour like having something different each time. Yeah, yeah. What was the coolest? Because I know they brought the pig back for Broadway.
Starting point is 00:15:35 Is there any other big changes that you guys like love for the Broadway show? The sandworm and the opening number and the whole being dead. The really big sandworm. I love it. It's so fun. I really miss not happening. We have two sandworms in the show.
Starting point is 00:15:47 That's right. One Sandy, who's the other one? Sally? Sally? There's two. Right, so there's two. Any preference on sharing the stage with one or the other? I love them both equally.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Yeah. They're both my children. Yeah, it's like picking your child for sure. Yeah, I could never. One's into science, one's really in the arts, you know. It's a balance. On tour, they had like a bio for Sandy. Really?
Starting point is 00:16:12 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it in the playbill? It was in the playbill. Katie Davis wrote it for the first show in San Francisco, joining the cast, and shorted bio for the sandworm. It was so fun. We were talking earlier. We got to bring our kids like trick-or-treating
Starting point is 00:16:23 and like see the sandworm and they had the candy in the mouth of the sandworm, which is that's what's cool about this company of Beetlejuice is like just the camaraderie. You guys all have backstage and how nice when I did my put-in on Sunday. It was like, which I didn't know this term, by the way. If you don't know Broadway, I put it in like I get to be in full costume, full everything.
Starting point is 00:16:41 And the cast who's doing this show eight shows a week, been on tour for three years. They come in before the show and like run it with the person. and being put in, which was so nice. Yeah. And y'all were like so nice, so supportive. Like, I am not clearly trained in Broadway at all. And everyone was just so supportive and so nice,
Starting point is 00:16:56 which is like such a fun thing to see backstage, especially with huge stars like yourselves who have been doing this for so long. I mean, I think, like, the, like, Broadway thrives on community. Like, you're all working together. Like, it's impossible to do the show without, like, supporting each other like that. It's a really hard job.
Starting point is 00:17:13 It's, yeah. And everybody who's here is doing it because they really, really love it. I mean, I don't think anybody gets into theater for, like, the money. Like, you know, or that you think it's going to work out. You know what I mean? There's, I don't know how many theaters are on Broadway. I really should, but like, I don't know how many people get to be on Broadway. Like, it's a really, really small number. And so I think everybody, everybody who's on it knows how lucky they are to be there. Yeah. That's like for sure. Totally. Yeah. And I love the community aspect of it all. Every show or workshop or just like any
Starting point is 00:17:46 small thing I do like I meet so many amazing people that are like as passionate as I am about the arts community and it's really it's really fulfilling for me I know your interviewer but like what are you looking forward to tonight like you know what I mean like you ask you ask your favorite scenes and stuff like you're such a fan of the show you've seen the show so much you're like like is this like what are you looking forward to tonight going on oh my gosh well I guess it's not really a spoiler since not for a while but I get to be in the day I was seen which is like the dinner scene and it's my absolute favorite is it? Oh, it's so iconic. It's so iconic. Our dining room has been
Starting point is 00:18:20 Beetleju's theme for the past like seven years. We have the exact replica. We have the statue. It was like that all the time. Oh my God. I've seen pictures. I've lived Beatlejuice since I saw and I will say since I saw the musical because I liked the movie of course, but the musical is like what changed me. I saw it again at 31 at 2019 and it's like the whole theme of like feeling invisible right and like changed my life. Even at 31 I was kind of like I was in a really dark place in 2019 and now I'm in this like really great place. But it like sounds dramatic like gave me will to live i was like you know what totally this is kind of inspiring this is making me feel happy some sort of joy for a moment and it was like it changed my life
Starting point is 00:18:56 like at like 31 so now to get to be here at like 37 and like it to be in it because you get to immerse yourself in like this other world for like well you guys are doing it like eight shows a week but it is our whole world yeah yeah yeah this is the other world which is right to be out in the real world once you come out of the show it's like wait what like like And I like to be in another world for a little bit. I like to be in the Beetleju's world because it's just fun and there's a happy ending for everyone at the end. Yeah. You know, it's a very, like, relatable, like, theme.
Starting point is 00:19:29 I feel like everyone of all ages backgrounds can relate to any of the characters in the show. And it was nice being on tour, like, meeting, like, these amazing fans that had, like, the same story as you. Like, they felt like they were able to, like, get out of, like, a dark place from, like, seeing the show. And it's nice to know that, like, we've been able to be a part of that in some way. Yeah. Yeah. Like, that's what I mean about wanting to pass on to somebody else is, like, I think other people need to, like, hold this space for people for a bit. Because, like, we've been hearing, we both felt this and have, like, been hearing these kinds of stories now for years, like, across the country.
Starting point is 00:20:06 In places, like, I was telling you, we went to, like, smaller towns that, like, people who maybe can't afford to come to New York City and, like, see a show on Broadway. like the types of people we got to do this show for are like people like people like I knew growing up like I grew I was born in like a trailer park in like Canada on the East Coast like there was I don't I never saw a musical ever there's no theater around where I where I lived and so being able to do that for people has been like so emotionally overwhelming and so hard to like process that now that it's wrapping up for me I'm like feeling it more and more yeah it's nice to be like excessive. for people like on tour like I grew up in California and like I couldn't go to New York all the time it was really expensive like I couldn't afford it and I would watch tours all the time of these like of these Broadway productions and it made me so it made me feel like part of the the Broadway community even though I couldn't go to New York yeah also which is why that like I'm I'm not on TikTok but I'm so grateful that it is on TikTok and that it gave people access to this show that way like It's a really, it's an amazing thing that I was able to do.
Starting point is 00:21:14 I just, once I start, I like, I've turned into a zombie and I cannot stop being on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, literally. It's like, it's asking me why I don't do heroin. It's like, I know, I know it's amazing. I've heard great things, but no one will ever see me ever again. I've heard great things. I will be in a basement with maps.
Starting point is 00:21:34 I'll be on the darkest corners of conspiracy theory, TikTok, trying to like find like bodies buried somewhere or whatever. treasure hunt things that's what i would get obsessed with i think on tic-tok yeah like shipwrecks and stuff like that oh that is a part of tic-tac yeah i know i know i know people miss you on there for sure all right i'll go on for a bit i'll just have a little bit just until the run you know what i mean just a taste yeah just a taste a little bit oh my god it's gonna be like 50 hours oh my god it's so fun because it is just fun to see because you have instagram now so it's fun to like a little bit of like you know in your band you have like a rock band and you're like Oh, Beatlejuice does rock music too, you know?
Starting point is 00:22:13 I did get to record a rock album while I was on tour, which was so fun because we got to go to all these legendary recording studios. We went to like the studio called Fame, which is in Alabama, which is where like Aretha Franklin cut her first record and Leonard Skinner, like recorded Freebird and John Lennon recorded there. That was a really fun. That's amazing. While on tour.
Starting point is 00:22:30 That is, wow, that's wild. So that's why, yeah. The Beatles Juice band. Wait, what do you mean? Like the band that's in Beetlejuice. They're on tour with this, the orchestra. So I got the orchestra to come in and record. chord these songs with me.
Starting point is 00:22:43 Oh my gosh. So the drummer is the same drummer, bass player, the guitar players. Oh my gosh. Oh, that's really cool. I think you found time to do that while you do eight shows a week. Like how you guys are here now with your voices, which you both do like voices in the show. Like you have like obviously like belting voices but then you have like character voices too. How are you saving? Because me I have literally one line in the show and like my voice. I can't. I can't get out. I can't get out. I'm not kidding. I'm like I need tea. Not a latte. Like I'm very bad. So how are you guys doing it? This is for you like how do you do with that I I'm baffled like ever since we ever since we started like I was always like baffled how you don't die every time my body's become a science experiment I literally don't know like because I have to I know how it feels but like especially again being on tour sometimes you're in Denver which is on top of a mountain and there's like no oxygen so like in Denver I didn't know this but when we got there like there's oxygen tanks in the winks oh we had our own personal oxygen cans because it's so because it's so high
Starting point is 00:23:41 You can't breathe. You can't breathe. Like, people have, like, passed out, like, during shows. Did anyone do that on Beetle Juice? Not in Beetle Juice, but I got close. Yeah, but I've heard stories, like, from, like, hot shows. Yeah. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:23:51 Yeah. Did you have to use them? Yeah. Oh, I was literally. He did a can every show. Every show. A whole can. A can of oxygen?
Starting point is 00:23:58 Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of the Netherworld people would be walking out in the first week. I was sitting there, like, I was in a nursing home. It was, like, in full of Beetlejuice costume, like, heaving on this industrial tank of oxygen. Like, yeah, yeah, it's like. Because I realized when I got there that I hold my breath to do the voice. I didn't know that I go like, hey, what's up? Like, I hold my breath while I'm doing it.
Starting point is 00:24:15 I didn't realize it until there was no oxygen anymore. But you have to keep your voice like perfect. Mine can be gravely and I can be tired and it still kind of works and I can push through. Mine can take like a lot of punishment, but the punishment like sounds good. You have to be like clear tone up in space forever while like weeping. It's hard. It's really hard. Yeah. And especially because like.
Starting point is 00:24:37 Beetlejuice was my first, like, job ever. So, like, it was an adjustment trying to figure out how to even deal with, like, doing eight shows a week and doing the whole, like, Broadway schedule. So it was definitely, um, trial and error, like an adjustment trying to figure out how to not, like, kill myself every week with doing, like, almost three-hour show eight times and going to different climates. I feel like I've gotten the routine down, though, especially now that we're, like, sitting down in one place and not traveling all the time it helps a lot yeah do you have any pre-show rituals
Starting point is 00:25:12 like superstitions anything that you do before show i actually don't which is weird yeah i kind of just like sit and go on my phone you do some tic-ttox i see your tic-ttox in the dressing room yeah like i like to get there early so i don't feel like i have to like stress like doing my makeup and doing my hair because like we don't have to be there until half hour um before we start this wild isn't that crazy I know. Doesn't it feel like they should be there like at three hours before like it's a space launch? I know. That's what it feels like too.
Starting point is 00:25:42 But like people get there all the time. I'm there an hour before. Yeah. I'm there an hour. So you have to get into the hair and make up. Yeah. And I usually get there an hour too. Just so I can at least get like 15 minutes to just like scroll on my phone.
Starting point is 00:25:53 That's so funny. To like relax and not like be in the show yet. And then after that I have to like be in it. But yeah, what are you? Do you have all that? I listen to that same clash. So Matthew Murphy came and did our photos. when we were in Paduca
Starting point is 00:26:08 and he asked what song I wanted to hear while doing the photo shoot and I said I fought the law by the clash. I have no idea why I'm not a huge I wasn't a massive clash fan and then we played that and I like so all the Beetlejuice promo photos are like me dancing to the clash
Starting point is 00:26:22 oh and so every before every single show I listen to that song all the way through wow does it get you like in character like I'm trying to think it's rebellious I guess I fought the law and law won it's rebellious but also you lose
Starting point is 00:26:34 which is Beetlejuice's story very much that Yes. Lydia's the law. That is so interesting. Yeah, to see, because I always like saw, I know when we go on, my, my scene partners, Travis, he plays Maxie Dean, and he does a little, like, ring of the doorbell, even though it does nothing, but there's, like, a little doorbell sound, and he, like, crushes it before.
Starting point is 00:26:53 And I'm like, they're weirdly calm or they posted, I think it was on the Beetleju socials. They posted them, like, throwing, like, hats onto the doorknob as, like, a game before they go on. And it's, like, right? And everyone's just back there so casual. Like, let's just see if we can, like, throw this hat in the doorknob. I'm like, this is so interesting. Yeah, I just think after doing it for so long, you have to like, you're able to just, like, turn it off and then turn it on in, like, one second. I mean, yeah, I saw it with the kids in School of Rock, like, the first week you have, like, these, like, 10, 11-year-olds being like, I'm on Broadway, it's so scary and, like, crying.
Starting point is 00:27:23 They're so nervous. Then week two, they're like, I'm on Broadway. I'm king of the world. Like, week three, they're like, can I go home? Yeah. Can I, like, and they're, like, passing notes, like, for real in the classroom scenes and stuff. And they're, like, talking to each other. And, like, yeah, it's like, it's weird.
Starting point is 00:27:36 how quickly you get used to it but then when you get close to it ending like I was just telling you earlier that like like now that we're ending in January I'm already like starting to feel very sad yeah and feeling like what this is well you're in the middle of like the run of it all it's just so much work it's bizarrely normal people even like mess around on stage like we like do like no okay no not like mess up sorry no we do but like sometimes we do like little games Or, like, when I'd be on stage, like, I would have, like, friends off stage and I could see them. And they're, like, making faces at me.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Like, just. There's a game. There's a game for a long time that Mila and I did, the Girl Scout, where on her way out the door, she would yell, like, a character at me, like a charade. And then when I jump off the table, she'd be in the wing and have to, like, try to physically do that. Whatever it was. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. She'd be standing there waiting with our physical therapist.
Starting point is 00:28:31 And it'd be like, ping pong. She'd be like, crabs. Oh, my God. So I'd jump off the table. doing like these weird little things. Wow, yeah. So that's just how much you know the show. You're just like, this is like clockwork now.
Starting point is 00:28:40 So you don't even think about it when you're out there. You're just like, we can play games. Well, there have definitely been performances where I swear to God I like black out. Like I don't remember. You just go through it. Yeah, I just do it. And then I'm like, oh, it's been three hours. Like, wow.
Starting point is 00:28:52 You can tell you have fun on stage. Like, that's the cool thing about this show is I'm a huge Broadway fan. So I see all the shows. I love all the shows. But when you see Beetlejuice, especially again with this cast as like, you can just tell it's like fun. You know what I mean? It is. It's a fun show and it's nice because it's like different every performance too.
Starting point is 00:29:07 Well, I'm radically present. I'm never on autopilot because the audience is yelling at me. Yeah, yeah. You have to. Like you're talking to the audience and they're different every time. And also, yeah, this feels unique too because like I feel like it's not often where like people in the audience are just like screaming at you, like trying to talk to you like all the time. They're like a character in the show.
Starting point is 00:29:27 Yeah. Yeah. I don't hate it. Yeah, it's funny. It's funny. It's funny. Like most of the time it's really, really fun. Like, they'll just be, like, some...
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Starting point is 00:30:11 We don't love hecklers here. I don't know if the cow's like hecklers. There's one really drunk woman in Orlando that I had to yell at in the balcony. Do you remember that? I do remember that way. So as Beetlejuice, you have to say something? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:25 I told her to fuck off. That's very Beetlejuice. I love seeing that when people are like filming and like when a beetle juice will be like, stop, you know. Don't film the show, only the current calls. It's so nice because he's Beetlejuice, so you just get away with Ben. He's like, oh, ha.
Starting point is 00:30:40 Yeah. You don't know. You get so much goodwill. Yeah. I love when there are, like, kids at the show, though. That's kind of my favorite. There's a pretty good video that somebody posted of, like, a young child laughing at me when I said that it's on, it's on, like, YouTube, I think, that I'm sad. And a kid just goes like, ha ha ha ha!
Starting point is 00:30:56 Just laughing. Like, ridicules me. There's one show, too. I remember where I got, where I, uh, spoiler. there's, whatever. I get, I get, I get, I get murdered. Yeah. And then, uh, this like, this little girl in the crowd went,
Starting point is 00:31:10 no! It's darned. She thought that I died. Oh, no. And so I just said, I'm okay. And then I went back down. Oh, I love that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:18 That's so funny. Oh, I love that. You always ask if it's good for all ages. I have some nephews and nieces coming that are like, you know, seven, eight. And they're like, is it okay. I'm like, I'm like, I think so. I think all this is over the head. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:29 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. My daughter's three. So I don't know. I'm trying to find a way for her to come in somewhere, like curtain call maybe. I don't know something. I have seen infants.
Starting point is 00:31:37 What would you tell people who have never seen a Broadway show? Why Beetlejuice? Why should they pick Beetlejuice to come see this holiday season? I feel like it's very engaging. I feel like it's a good first musical to see, especially, like, even if you're not into musicals, like, it's very engaging. And you also, like, feel like you're part of the show. That's what I love about it, is that, like, you feel included.
Starting point is 00:32:00 It's a good gateway drug for musical theater, for sure. It's like easy to understand what's going on and the songs are fun. They're catchy. It's not sung through, which for some musicals, if you go to like a sung through one for the first time, I feel like that's pretty jarring if you're used to like movies. In plays, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you'll kind of, you know this character.
Starting point is 00:32:22 It'll be like familiar but also different. I feel like it is a really good. Also, there's like so many different genres of musical theater music in it, right? Like, Beal music and stuff is like a rapy, like almost like Hamilton. and like the way that it's like stream of consciousness and then Lydia's got like pop punk dead bomb stuff and then the Maitlands are like golden age musical
Starting point is 00:32:40 theater. Yeah. Yes. I agree. Yeah, I feel like it's a good intro to to what Broadway could be for all of you in the future. I agree. I think like seeing this one, a lot of people that I know that are not into Broadway because it's not it's the full story. It's the full package. It's the costumes. It's like everything. It's not like the music man. It's not on Broadway right now but you know. Like yeah yeah yeah yeah remember the past
Starting point is 00:33:04 When someone comes into a town Why don't you present all you disbelief There's also great dancing in our show too Like the clones and beautiful sound and stuff So it really does have like it does have everything And it's like relevant too You know it's very modern and like I feel like people can understand the message
Starting point is 00:33:20 And what's going on Yes But we were just we talked with this earlier That like I loved horror as a kid I don't know if you did that you said you saw scary movies Yeah I remember seeing like Like I saw Psycho when I was
Starting point is 00:33:31 a kid which was like I couldn't shower forever without facing the door and I read Stephen King and like goosebumps and stuff like that oh my god I loved horror when I was a kid I got like I was obsessed with it do you think it impacted you anyway where you just like are you scared of everything or are you not scared because you see not scared of anything it's like weirdly desensitized me oh that's kind of everything yeah so no jump scares for you no you're not scared of like numb I'm weirdly scared of like everything like even really even the scene that I'm in I'm like, this is kind of scary.
Starting point is 00:34:02 Like, I'm kind of scared. Like, you know what I mean? Because I get to be next to the big beetle juice head. Well, it's extremely overstimulating. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's like, low-key kind of scary. I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm like scared of like, and you're scared. You said of like, well, like, I'm scared of everything.
Starting point is 00:34:16 Yeah. So it's not, you don't have you not have to act. Well, because I guess Lydia's not really scared of much, but you. No, yeah. I, I, I, I am scared of everything. Yeah, but I have to act because I really feel like Lydia is not scared of anything. Like I always have like a weird stupid irrational fear Like during the middle of a show
Starting point is 00:34:36 There'll be like a big spider or something And I'm terrified of spiders But in my brain I'm like Liddy wouldn't be scared of spiders So I have to pretend She'd embrace it Yeah yeah Yeah and I always would get so scared If there's like a weird bug on there
Starting point is 00:34:49 And I would just like ruin the show And there's like bugs all behind you The little Beatles are all behind you all pink I know Were you a theater kid growing up? Yeah Okay so you were in like your community plays Yeah I've been doing like
Starting point is 00:35:00 community theater and like theater at my school since I was like six is my big yeah it was my whole thing what's your first role at six years old oh god do you remember I did the tree number five was that yours I did the valveteen rabbit that was the show I did at six and I was an aunt and my first like featured role I did the sound of music and I was brigita I was like the middle child oh my god that's a good one to be in yeah that's a great show yeah yeah um And your Broadway debut is Beetlejuice. Yeah. Which is like so crazy because I saw you did like, you did life after up in Canada.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Yeah. So you've been doing and you've been doing the tour, which in my head, not knowing I think the tour is because you get the playbills. I'm like, oh, that's Broadway. I guess Broadway theater is like makes your Broadway debut. So this is your first Broadway show. Yeah. And I'm so happy like this is the show to make my Broadway debut. It feels very full circle because like when I started three years ago on the tour, that was my first job.
Starting point is 00:35:59 like my first professional gig um and it changed my life like it's the reason that i like moved to new york and i'm doing all of these awesome things so it's to be able to like come back in the show and have another like really amazing milestone with the same show it means a lot to me it feels like comfortable were you 18 when you joined the tour yeah yeah oh my gosh and are you just going out by yourself i mean obviously you have the cast but are you just like by yourself or did you like your mom come or are you just like yeah i just moved by myself wow and on tour it's It was like my first time being alone. Like, it was right after high school.
Starting point is 00:36:33 So I guess that was kind of my college. Yeah. In a way. What a great. Yeah. No, that wasn't a college. Yeah, no, no. But it was my first time, like, being on my own.
Starting point is 00:36:45 Wow. And it was an adjustment for sure. Having to, like, figure out, like, my food. Yeah, you guys were saying that. And, like, doing my own, like, responsibilities as an adult. Yeah. When I went to college, my dining hall. was attached to my dorm room.
Starting point is 00:37:01 So, like, I really had, it was, yeah, it was a very easy transition. It was probably a step up, actually, for me. Yeah. Simplicity. Yeah, yeah. Wow, that is, yeah, well, there's a lot of young cast members. When I went to the tour, I leave, who was in the ensemble at the time. Yeah, he was the best day of my life.
Starting point is 00:37:17 He emailed me. He's like, I'm on Beatle juice on tour. Like, when you come to the show? I was like, are you kidding me? He's like, do you want to come backstage? I was like, yes, I was like, I got to meet you there, which was really fun. And I got to meet a lot of the young cast. And it is, like, so impressive.
Starting point is 00:37:30 Everyone just so young being in this show. It's, like, such a hard show. And it's, like, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it requires that level of, like, energy to be able to, like, do it. You know what I mean? And professionalism. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, finding that balance is really, really hard.
Starting point is 00:37:46 To do eight shows a week is, like, such commitment and to do that at, like, 18. Like, that's the most wild thing. Like, that's insane to do. Your Broadway debut was School of Rocker. Yeah. Oh, really? School of Rock. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 2017.
Starting point is 00:37:58 Same as you. I showed up for rehearsals and I was like what are all these numbers on the stage? Like I had never done a musical really before then at all. No, wait really? I was my first like professional musical.
Starting point is 00:38:07 Oh, what a flex. That's crazy. That being your first show. Yeah, what a Broadway show. Yeah. Like how, how did you get? I was in improv and sketch comedy. I did like Second City in Chicago
Starting point is 00:38:17 and I was doing improv and sketch in Toronto and I'd done like some community musical like dinner theatery stuff and like some local stuff that was written but I had never had a single. lesson and I'd never done like a professional actually the only Broadway show ever was in was in Bat Boy
Starting point is 00:38:33 wait what? What I was in college a week before it opened they didn't have enough boys to be in the ensemble and so they asked me if I go in and be in like a few scenes and flesh out the singing and so my friend Eric and I went and we sung in the ensemble numbers and then we would do the ensemble numbers then crawl out of the fire escaping the theater and go drink at the bar across the street and then crawl back up the fire escape into the theater and go do the show that was the only one at
Starting point is 00:38:58 done and so then I got to I got to New York and everybody was so nice and I was terrified because I was getting ready to be Dewey which was every other line of dialogue at the winter garden theater and like Andrew Lloyd Weber hired me and I had to sing for him and I'm like I don't know how to doy is like a hard role yes it's insane great with kids too and so you're like on stage with kids that are always changing out because of their schedule and yeah yeah I look I remember sitting, I remember getting the script and going home after I moved here and they gave me the job. I had like a four month trial.
Starting point is 00:39:32 They were just going to see whether I was going to crash and burn. And I remember sitting down and looking at the script and like thinking to myself sincerely, I can't do this. Yeah. Wow. Really? I can't do this. There's no way I'm going to be able to do this.
Starting point is 00:39:44 So what do you think it was the push that you were able to do it and? I just had to go and like I had to do things that a person who could do it would try to do. Yeah. I like went to, I went to the show and I watched Eric Peterson perform it who was in it. And I like, I went, I'm like, you have to give me a ticket to go every night. And so I watched him do it over and over again. And I just read the script over and over again. And I just like, I worked my off and, like, figured it out.
Starting point is 00:40:10 That's awesome. Yeah. But it was genuinely terrifying. It's so terrifying. Yeah. I feel like it seems like impossible at first, like seeing all the things you have to do. But it's kind of, it's like a mental block. Like you can do it.
Starting point is 00:40:25 I mean, I always. always think about like people who are swings who like cover like there are people swings in our show they dance all seven different numbers like multiple tracks and in my brain I'm like that's impossible that's crazy but so many actors do it because they figure it out they go like they work hard and they do it so it's not impossible but it is really impressive so Mark was the swing when I did my put-in he was the swing for Maximum Beetle juice because you had to get your makeup done and he was saying it was easier for him to do the swing.
Starting point is 00:40:58 He's like, I need to know the whole show because it's just like easier for me to do all the part. Which is like, what? Because he was like doing every part. So he was doing Maxie and then the next time I did the put in, he's Beetlejuice. And I'm like, how are you doing that? And they're not doing the show every night like you guys, you know. I mean, they're in there in the ensemble where they're watching. But it's, they're like the unsung heroes of Broadway and the swings for sure.
Starting point is 00:41:17 Understudies and Swings save Broadway. And it's like because also like there had been times. and I had to call out mid-performance because I've gotten sick, like. And they just jump in. And people jump in, like, so quickly because that's just what you do, you know? And it's so impressive and amazing.
Starting point is 00:41:38 It's, I don't think people could, like, fully grasp it. You know what I mean? Because, again, it makes it so effortlessly. I remember even when Alex Brightman did Beetle-Jers, I remember he would, like, there was like a half-show call-out and, like, another Beatlegy jumped in. And you're just like, it's insane.
Starting point is 00:41:51 I called out mid-show once in School of Rock, and I was so embarrassed. and it was so hard and I was like I was whatever but then I remember coming off stage and uh because they're like you can get through one more scene I like I lost my voice on stage I don't know what happened and I'm like yeah I can I can do this one scene or this classroom scene and then I was walking off and Dewey's never off stage it was literally just for like a set piece to come on and then I walk off and my interstudy was standing in the wings fully dressed he had like four minutes notice and then then announcement came over and it was like for the remainder of the performance Dewee we played by
Starting point is 00:42:20 Jonathan Wagner and then the show just kept going like he literally walked on stage and there was no there was nothing it's amazing it's amazing even getting his microphone ready to go to do that you know what i mean like sound like there's so much costume has to get involved wardrobe us to get involved hair and also they're so calm too yeah i have seen it i witnessed it like backstage when they like when the swings like get the notice that they're on like mid show and they're like okay putting their like now i'm going yeah like they're so like calm about it because they know the show but I'm like I'm really panicking hard you are calm too I saw you backstage briefly when I was trailing the show and you're like oh are you having fun is it good I'm like
Starting point is 00:43:05 you're literally in the middle of the show you're like running backstage to go do another scene and you're like are you having a time is this fun I guess I'm like it was so wild I was like you're the star of the show right now also I think it's weird having a normal conversation to be dressed like that too as a fan too I wish every fan could have the experience I'm having tonight because it is so surreal because I am such a fan so to see Lydia and Beetleju's backstage. I'm just like, wow, if we're talking to me, it feels very celebrity, you know, it's very cool. I get that way when I talk to Shrunky. I still, I love that puppet so much. Every night that I see Shrunky, I still, I laugh my stuff. It's so funny. That's one of my faith. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:43:41 he's one of my favorite. I guess I didn't realize how weird it is, like how we're all dressed up like crazy backstage and we're just like, hey, how's your morning? There's one show in Tampa where there was a fire alarm they pulled. Oh my God. All leave mid show. We had all leave mid show. We had to be in costume. And so there's pictures of this online where all of us, and everybody's in their Netherworld costumes too. So it's like us in like Beetlejuice, Lydia Garb, everybody in like the axe and the head garb and stuff.
Starting point is 00:44:03 And we're in this parking lot in Tampa surrounded by the audience. We have like our crew. It was so freaking wild. It was like a thousand people around us, people leaving on buses and then just us in a parker. Yeah, it made me really hyper aware that I'm in a costume right now because I never think about it backstage because everyone's in a costume. And there are these teens like pushing through and they got to
Starting point is 00:44:25 Bill and they're like, how do we get to be in the show? Oh my God. That's the possible, but leaving. Yeah, it's so funny. It's hilarious. Probably a street for those people, though. Or they were scared. Sure.
Starting point is 00:44:38 Yeah. We had like random people like there was like a hotel room across from us and people like left the hotel room being like, who are you? Like, why are you green? Especially outside of New York. I feel like people are probably just like if they don't know. But it was Florida, so I was like, come on. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:44:53 Florida. This is the craziest thing is happening. You would expect that. You would expect that. You'd be somebody riding a crocodile in this neighborhood. Yeah, I think that's like the fun part about it too. It's like just you see the characters and then you guys are also just like humble humans in real life, which is like fun too. Any advice since you both already made your Broadway debut for me tonight doing the show for the first time, Broadway debut, the jitters, the nerves.
Starting point is 00:45:15 Like how do I, any advice? Embrace the nerves because like that means you're excited. I mean, I'm sure you're so. excited um and like embrace the feeling you know you only get your broadwood debut once and i was real like when i did our when we did our first show i was really trying to like take it all in because sometimes like i feel like you get so nervous that you're like just thinking about your part but like yeah enjoy every second of it it's gonna be really fun yeah i feel like you do so much i don't feel like you do so much and you have so much going on in your life that i bet you're always like
Starting point is 00:45:46 thinking about other things but like tonight i would think about nothing else yeah I would just try your hardest to be present because of it is one of the only, this is a thing in life that like you're going to want to be there for the whole time. Yeah. And also like the audience is there to support you. Like they're so excited. Yeah. I hope so. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:06 I hope I'm good. No, like they're, they also paid a lot of money for the ticket. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's pressure. No, no, no, but I'm saying that like they want you to be good. They're on your side.
Starting point is 00:46:14 Yeah. Yeah. Like no one's, like, pays $200 for a ticket. They're like, I can't wait to criticize. Yeah. They're excited. They're there to support you So that should like uplift you, you know
Starting point is 00:46:23 Because they're there for you Yeah, yeah I was like oh my god Oh no yeah And I love the show so much I really want to make sure it's good I can already feel that excitement From you now and as long as you're like that
Starting point is 00:46:37 Tonight people are gonna love that Like that's such a good positive vibe to have Yeah and once you do the first show you're like Okay I got it over with like I can actually do it You know like it's it's just like the anticipation is so scary. But you have like a big entrance too. Like it's gonna be fun.
Starting point is 00:46:52 Yeah. You get like a huge applause. Like it's gonna feel magical. And I get to be with all the characters which is really fun. That's what I was like really excited about it. Yeah. And we're all gonna be supporting you too.
Starting point is 00:47:01 That's just a real scene to be in. It is literally like Delia and her like golden dress. Yeah. You dressed up like a like a doll. Yeah. Yeah. That's one of my favorite lady outfits. It is a really beautiful dress.
Starting point is 00:47:13 I do love it. Yeah. That's not the underrated cosplay. People don't do enough. People do it. But I think they're underrated joke in the show is Bella's little kick she does after she spends. We all love that.
Starting point is 00:47:22 Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you see me do it? No, it's you do it in a rehearsal. Am I allowed to talk about that? Yeah, yeah. No, because it's a magic trick. I'm not supposed to say it.
Starting point is 00:47:32 Oh, there's something I didn't know. Then why didn't you just say it? I know. Yeah, I just said it now. I said it because it's something I didn't know either. And when they told me I was, I was gag. I was like, wait, what do you mean? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:41 It's the worst. Spoiler, I guess. You're under the table the whole time. Well, there's a promo shoot of me standing on a table. It's one of the most famous photo. from him. So, like, how does you get on the table? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:51 I didn't know. Yeah. Can you see at all? Can you see anything? I mean, I don't, I don't go blind. I can see, but there's not much to look at. It's at the inside of a table. You guys are athletes.
Starting point is 00:48:01 You're acrobats, really, on that stage. Thank you. You really are. Both of you are just. We are acrobats. Yeah, we are. You're, like, jumping on tables. You're catching her.
Starting point is 00:48:09 She's falling off. Like, it's actually a lot. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're athletes in other ways. We're not dancing nearly as much as, like, the ensemble members. That's wild to see. Yeah, the dancing is crazy Is crazy
Starting point is 00:48:22 But you guys dance a lot And it's great And I'm so excited For everyone to come see Beetlejuice And oh one final question Wicked for Good is coming out They did a huge movie musical If you guys haven't heard
Starting point is 00:48:31 I've heard of this musical Really? We all went to see it Did you guys all see it together? We did we went to the theater on Thanksgiving We went to see it I was out in El Paso
Starting point is 00:48:41 We were in El Paso We had this beautiful Like yeah we had Dinner together This gorgeous hotel And our company manager Renton us or into the theater
Starting point is 00:48:49 and we all went and washed it together That's so fun It was really fun I'm excited for the new one What musical on Broadway Besides Beetlejuice the musical Would you want to see Turn into a movie
Starting point is 00:48:58 Um Hades Town I think Hades Town Would be a really interesting movie Musical That would be good Bat Boy Yeah
Starting point is 00:49:08 You're a big fan of Bat Boy I think Bat Boy is like one of the underrated musicals of the last 25 years It's like it has this sensibility But it did it 25 years ago Yeah And I think it's like a heightened version of this.
Starting point is 00:49:20 I think it's so funny. I think the music is so good and it's so crazy. Yeah. And you think it could translate good to a movie. I think it would be a great like evil dead style. Like it would be a cult hit for sure. Yeah. I think it's really fun movie.
Starting point is 00:49:33 You're convincing me to see it now because you talked about it off camera on camera like, hey, you really like it. It's so good. It's so good. And Taylor Trench is amazing. Everybody's amazing in it. Everybody's amazing. The casting is perfect. It's so great.
Starting point is 00:49:44 It's brilliant. It's our creative team. Same dress. Yeah. Alex Timbers is... Connor Gallagher did the choreography to it. Oh, you're right. So it's giving similar vibes.
Starting point is 00:49:53 Yeah, it's also really like bizarrely heartfelt like our show. Yeah. Go see Backboy! Yeah. I see our show first. Do a double feature. No, yeah. One day.
Starting point is 00:50:05 I would love to see Beetlejuice the musical turn into a movie. They did it with Mean Girls and it was great. I think it really deserves. I think it would be cool. I know. Especially since it's very different. Like perspective-wise, like it really focuses more on Lydia and Beetle juice.
Starting point is 00:50:18 I think it would translate well. Beetlejuice fans like are so excited for any sort of adaptation, whether it's the sequel or like the musical. I think people are like craving more Beetlejuice. So maybe we'll manifest it. Maybe you guys, maybe you guys will be on the screen. Maybe you guys will be the lead. And I'll be so excited like, they were movie stars on my couch right here.
Starting point is 00:50:37 Well, actually at the tempo couch. Shout out to the tempo by the way. Yeah. And the Beatleju's room. This room is real. First time seeing it. His first time seeing it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:45 I know. It's so cool. It's wild because the stripes are everywhere. You guys can rent out this room for the remainder of the show until January, which is cool. You can stay in this room, which be trippy and scary a lot. But that's the point. You should be terrified when you're in here.
Starting point is 00:50:59 And tripping out. Yeah, and tripping out. It's a fun vibe, right? They have, like, little snacks. Like, this is a cool vibe when you come in here. This little, like, cookie, there's little statues, everything. It's very fun. So if you come stay at the temple, you can see Beatles music right next door at the palace theater.
Starting point is 00:51:12 It's connected. I should have stayed there. Honestly, that should have been the hotel I'm at. We all should live. this hotel so he can just be right next to work. Oh, I thought we were going to say like the entire cast in the suite. That would be a little crowded, I think. I think it's all right.
Starting point is 00:51:26 I don't think we have to do that. No, that's fun. It's like a Mr. Beast challenge. Like who can stay in the Beatles' room? Oh, my God. If we all were, if everybody in the cast was staying in one room, who do you think would be the last person to tap up?
Starting point is 00:51:39 Who would stay the longest? You would take it. Kenway? No, Kenway would love. First out, yeah. I think you. I'd be the last one? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:51 Yeah, I think so. You think I'd last the longest? Yeah. Thank you. You embrace Beetlejus. You are Beetlejuice. Yeah, I might leave first. I think you, yeah, you're out first for sure.
Starting point is 00:52:00 Like, I love this place. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You walk in, you like bring some snacks. You walk right back out. Like, I'll have visiting hours. Like, I'll like, oh, you know, come in when needed. He does never want to leave. That's going to be me after my three week one.
Starting point is 00:52:12 I'm never going to want to leave. I'll be like, well, I'll come back. I'll watch. I'll come back for sure in Christmas time. That's our usual animal Beetlejuice trip. We saw it at Winter Garden Marquis, and now this will probably come back for Christmas time, even when I'm out.
Starting point is 00:52:23 But if you guys want to see me, I'm there until November 23rd, and if you want to see them, they're until January. Come see her. Third. Yeah. Come see us.
Starting point is 00:52:29 Yeah. Justin Colette, Isabella, Ezler, Beetlejuice, and Lydia. Now playing Beatlejuice and Music at the Palace Theater. See you guys there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you guys for being here.
Starting point is 00:52:38 Of course!

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