What Opening Night is Like for a Broadway Replacement // My 1st show as Gretchen Wieners on Bway!
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- This is what happens and what it feels like on your first night as a Replacement in a Broadway Show! Specifically what MY first night as Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls on Broadway was like!
This story is sort of in sequence so if you haven't seen my first three yet, stop this video and go back to the beginning to take the journey of being a Broadway Replacement from the very start!!
First Mean Girls Memories video, My Audition Process
• An In Depth Explanatio...
Second Mean Girls Memories video, Replacing in a Broadway Show! Contracts, Fittings, Rehearsals, and Trailing!
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Third Mean Girls Memories video, Rehearsals leading up to Opening Night! Spacing, Costumes, and the Put-In Rehearsal!
• Broadway Rehearsals Ex...
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I've always said, you know Regina really does like Gretchen because she never makes a joke about her last name being Wieners
lol so true!
Would love a video of the biggest mishaps, tech fails, line drops, costume slips, stage falls etc that you’ve encountered in professional theatre. As a stage actress myself with a handful of stories i always love to hear others and know it happens a ton since it’s all live!
Anyone else feel like these feel like just chatting with a friend about their experience? I absolutely love it.
I would love a video on how you balance your marriage, your career, and your physical and mental health while working in professional theatre.
I got to see you in Mean Girls 2 years ago. My parents took me to NY to celebrate my 30th birthday and it was absolutely incredible! Love this series 💕
Love living vicariously through your excitement and passion. Seeing how grateful you are is the best. Broadway theatre needs more people like you!!!☺️
Story of closing!!!!
Or maybe what it’s like to have someone else come into the show
wow that was so intense, I was basically crying being excited with you throughout the whole video 😅 ☺ as a musical theatre enthusiast I felt with you so so much!!😍
If she (and you are of course) is up for it I’d still be very interested in hearing Danie’s experiences of coming into the show at the same time as you but as a standby replacement, especially since she, as far as I know, debuted all her tracks a day or two after her put in rehearsals with a two show day each time. Plus Mean Girls was her Broadway debut and hearing how crazy your opening night was her thoughts and feelings were probably even more all over the place.
Besides that I’ll also happily watch anything you can tell us about Broadway and Mean Girls as I find the whole business fascinating and all the backstage insight you’re offering is amazing so thank you for these videos!
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I saw you in Mean Girls! It was my first Broadway show ever (i'm Italian and i was in New York visiting a friend). It was third row and i remember your Gretchen so well! You have great comedic timing.
This is so interesting thank you so much for sharing, in such depth detail! I love it! Can you maybe talk about how to stay financially stable while in the business, as it is not always a guaranteed employed job ever. Thank you! Love these videos!!!
SO EXCITING! I would like to know if you felt prepared for your first night: I know you didn't have that much rehearsal or run-through time, and you sort of touched on it. But did you almost forget a line or where you needed to be next that night? Or actually drop a line or forget where you needed to be, or mess up your blocking or run into someone or forget your choreo? I'm sure you got better the next night and by the end of the week you had it down, and now you could do it in your sleep. I was an understudy (not on Broadway!) a few times and took over the role each time, but never got rehearsal and I still (no joke) have nightmares I'm on stage and don't know my lines or where to go next. So just wondering!
I like how unique your interpretation of Gretchen was, saw you 2 days before shut down you were great. Very clear and powerful voice 😊👏🏽
krystinaaa! I would love to watch a video of you talking about how did care about of you mental health, or your health during the show. The things you do/did to have energy for 8 performances in one week. love you
your whole look this video is giving me major gretchen vibes and i’m loving it
Please could you do a video on any fight choreography/calls you've had ? Assuming you've had a fair few in your career but apologies if not. Would love to hear what happens
Love all your videos and hearing about your opening night! What was it like doing The Devil Wears Prada workshop? I'd love to hear about how you got involved with workshops and how does casting work and decide who goes on to do the show from those workshops?
I would love a video about photo shoots and video shoots! Great and engaging video by the way! I remember you gave me great advice at an intensive, and this content is amazing too!
I love this so much!! I’m a singer myself and would love to be on Broadway someday so videos like these are so fun to watch :) I actually saw you in the show April 2019 and you did a stellar job!
This have made quarantine so much better thank you !
Stumbled upon your channel and love the positive vibes! Stay awesome!
I love your content so much!! It’s so fun and interesting to watch! I am currently in the process of being cast in a Broadway show (the process is slow because of Covid and working out other contracts)! 🥰
I got to see you during your second night on, and it was amazing!!!
This must be your most FETCH episode so far
aww I love this so much! i've been binging your recent videos lately hah especially about mean girls and broadway, it is so informative and yet fun at the same time! thank you for making the time to provide us this
I would love to hear about the notes you receive and how you apply them for the next day, how you found your Gretchen, auditioning during shows, how to keep yourself healthy and in shape vocally and physically while performing every day but also not wearing yourself out, etc.
These are awesome thank you so much! You explain everything so great. You made my day so much better. You’re so positive and happy.
OMG I saw this and I clicked so fast! Love you Krystina!
Same!!!
These videos always bring a smile to my face! the clip at the start made me smile bigger than I ever have, and your energy radiates through my whole body! keep up all of your happiness and yt content! also, when you said "fans and aspiring actors" i literally raised my hand and said "both of those are me!" XD
Love these videos! In the future I’d be curious to hear about your experience on American Psycho. It looks like tons of fun, but also like it could have taken a HUGE toll psychologically
Omg i just came back from school your videos always make my day!
You are so awesome to listen to! :)
When you're about to get locked down AGAIN but you wake up and there's a new video THANK YOU KRYSTINA hugs from south america
I love these videos so much! Could you maybe do a video of your best memories whilst doing the show, funniest moments, etc.? Also, could you talk about how you try and keep the show fresh as you are having to perform it so many times in a year? You are amazing and I look forward to watching these videos xxx
I've been waiting for this!!
This video makes me so happy
I was anxious for you throughout the whole video!!!😄
You are such a great storyteller! Please keep making more videos, if you can!
This made me soooo nervous just watching it
I love this series so much!
Yess pleasee, talk about the photoss and interviewss and like funny/moving stories that happened, things like that❤❤❤
Yes to all the things, please! I'd love to hear about the PR, readings and auditions mid-show x
I am LOVING this series! Would love to hear about your experiences with American Psycho sometime as well!
Would love a video about some of the minor characters that make a big impact. Some minor characters' actors can feel they aren't as important but every role is necessary to make the show. Some ideas are Mary in Great Comet, Marcy in Dogfight, and the Girl Scout in Beetlejuice.
Obsessed! 💖
hearing you is like hearing my emotions when i perform
Can you talk about all the other commitments outside of shows that you need to participate in while a principal within a broadway show? As Gretchen, were you expected to do X amount of events/press stuff a week, a month etc and how does that affect your job as an actor. Also, how do you establish work life balance while being a principal in a show?
I loved this so much!!! Thanks so much for posting :)))
yessss i always look forward to these!! i'd love to hear about getting your equity card, booking the spring awakening tour, how tour life is, stuff like that!! ADORE u
I'd love to know about what NYC auditions are like and about the ways actors can get their equity card.
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCHHH
Im so excited for this yay thank you so much krystina!!!
please talk about auditioning, the songs you used how you got the auditions, etc.
I’d love to hear about the reality of what it takes to do 8 shows a week! How to stay healthy, new lifestyle choices you needed to make, etc.
You should do a video(s) from when u were in mad ones!!
Ahhhhhh. I love this so so so much!!!
Hi I’m new to this channel! I started to musical theater last year in January, and I was in Matilda! This year I have an audition for Mary Poppins. Any advice for an audition? 🤍💕
i love your energy omg
thank you Gretchen
So great!!! You are amazing.
Love the video!!!! Could you talk about maintaining your voice and all your vocal health techniques whilst doing 8 shows a week?
Great video!
Could you make a video recounting Taylor's final show or Sabrina's debut? really I love you
This was so great!! I'd love to see what a warm-up routine looks like for you before a show! Do you have any rituals?? These videos have been getting me through quarantine, so thank you!
Wait you’re allowed to get your nails done on Bway?? I thought they’d always have to be the same or something
it depends on the show!
Yay omg loved you! Just followed :)
Could you have your nails whatever color you wanted? Or were a few options? Love these videos!!
Where is your tank from? Love it!
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These videos are evvvvvery!
please talk about everything you mentioned at the end of the video 😂
i loved this series and i could absolutely feel the excitement just from you telling the story!! i’m curious, how many years of classes/training did you take?? as someone who wants to be on broadway when i’m an adult, i’ve always wondered how long i should practice before i start auditioning. this might sound confusing but for example (these are hypothetical numbers) did you say “alright, i have 5 years of singing training and 3 years of dance classes, i think i’m ready to start now.” i know there are different dance styles to learn as well so i wonder if that is also a factor.
Will you do a day by day thing of how you settled in to mean girls??
The videos are so fetch
@ROWEN stope trying to make fetch happen it’s not gonna happen!! (JK they really are fetch!)
i’ve always wondered what would happen if you spilled something on your costume / a piece broke or fabric ripped? how would you get it fixed or washed for the next show the following day? 🤣💕
Would love to know what happens after you've done the show for a long time and how do you keep it fresh every time
4:38 okay this might be a dumb question but it's something I've always wondered, what exactly is the nail polish policy on broadway? Is it charecter based, are you required to have a certain color or have it blank, like how does that work in the professional world?
you could talk about funny things that have happen on stage
I have a question! When was the cast informed about the show closing/ was it hard to keep it secret before the public announcement?