00:00Hi, I'm Adrian Blake Insko. I'm a little brother in Broadway's Swept Away. I'm at the Longacre
00:05Theatre right now, and you're watching Life Minute TV.
00:08I'm going to take you guys up into the theatre to the quote-unquote cheap seats, but they're
00:19actually like some of my favorite seats in the house. This is the mezzanine view for
00:23the show. It's one of my favorite places to have people sit because you're actually kind
00:27of right at eye level with the ship. You can see the whole picture, including all the people
00:32going up and down the ropes. There's stuff that happens on the poop deck. When it's just
00:36a lifeboat, you actually can kind of see into the lifeboat and see what's happening.
00:40Can I show you my dressing room? All right, come on, let's go. This is our stage door
00:43entrance. This is Lisa. Lisa, give a wave.
00:48Come see Swept Away.
00:50Oh my God. This is our hair and makeup room. This is where people come and get tattooed
00:54every day because we have salty sailors here. This is Leslie, who does hair and makeup,
00:58and Sharina also does hair and makeup. Come see Swept Away, and you'll get to see the
01:02braids that Leslie puts in my hair every night.
01:04So this is part of our music department. This is the music dressing room. This is our music
01:08director, Will Van Dyke, and conductor. And this is Maddie Deichman.
01:12We love you. Come see Swept Away.
01:13Yeah, it did up. Come see Swept Away.
01:16So we're in the dressing room tower at the Longacre Theatre. It's a very old theatre.
01:20It's 120 years old, I think. All sorts of ghosts and stories and history. I heard that
01:26Times Square actually used to be called Longacre Square, which is where the theatre got its
01:30name. So this is our principal dressing rooms. I am one of the principals. There are four
01:36of us. In every other production of the show, we've all been in one room, but because we're
01:42in a very old theatre with tiny dressing rooms, we've settled for being all on one hallway.
01:48So come on in. This is my dressing room. I have this dressing room painted pink because
01:53that color gives me life. Like half of the clutter in here is cast gifts from opening.
01:59I don't know. You might be able to hear some of our castmates warming up. What we're supposed
02:04to do before we go on stage is I change, I put in my microphone. We have basically our
02:10only makeup for the show is this dirt that we put on because we've got to be dirty country
02:17kids and then dirty sailors. I have to put it on my feet and then my hands and my face
02:23and neck. And then Leslie comes in and puts braids in my hair and we put the microphone
02:28through the braids. The microphone's right here. So I'm going to get into costume. I'll
02:34see you in like five minutes. Ta-da! This is what I'm wearing for most of pre-show.
02:41It's part of my costume, not the whole thing. I've got my fuzzy slippers on. I don't have
02:46a mic yet. At least not putting my hair. But yeah, we're all here.
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