Hi, I'm stage's Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Today you're gonna have
Broadway Slang with Lin-Manuel Miranda, that's me.
Let's do this.
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Thank you five.
Thank you five is five minutes to places.
Thank you five means like, all right, wrap it up,
like put your costume on.
Money note.
This is the note that you sound great singing.
See, Idina Menzel in any Idina Menzel song.
♪ Let the storm rage ♪
You know the one I'm talking about, money note.
Mugging, mugging refers to when someone is
making a lot of faces and they don't necessarily
feel real or from an authentic place.
Going up.
Going up is when you've got a line and it's not there
in your brain or in your muscle memory or in your lips.
An amazing example is gonna be,
and the world is gonna know your name,
what's your name man?
That's what going up looks like.
Cheating out.
This is how you would talk to each other in real life.
But if I'm talking in the theater
I'm gonna cheat out like this.
That's what cheating out is.
Ingenue, ingenue is
a young starting out musical theater actor,
you know, me.
Two dow shay.
That is a two show day.
We cope with two show days in different ways.
When I was doing Hamilton I actually made an arrangement
with the wonderful Paramount Hotel
across the street from the Richard Rodgers.
They would give me a hotel room key
and I would take a hot bath in between shows
and just soak.
It was like my mental and physical reset.
Off book, off book means you've memorized your lines.
I'm not always off book.
As a matter of fact when I mess up my lyrics,
particularly if it's a show I wrote and I'm also in,
I get amazing looks from my fellow cast members.
Showmance.
A showmance is a romance that happens
between cast members of your show.
My friend and future president, Christopher Jackson,
met his wife when she was playing Nina
and he was playing Benny in a workshop of In the Heights.
I'll never forget it because they had their kiss
and then I was sitting behind them,
we were sort of reading at music stands,
and I was sitting behind them
and she grabbed his upstage hand,
which was like not facing the audience,
so it was clearly for them,
and I was the only one who could see it,
and I was like ooohhhhh, what's happening?
And now they're married and have two beautiful kids.
Booked and blessed.
That's when you get that job.
That's when you get that good job,
hash tag blessed, hash tag actor life.
The Scottish Play is Macbeth.
The reason we have the name the Scottish Play
is because apparently it became sort of theater lore
that saying the name Macbeth would lead
to bad luck in the production.
It's all right to say the name of the character Macbeth
but if you call it Macbeth, aaahhh.
See then you just superimpose a chandelier
from Phantom coming in right there.
The OBC.
So much drama in the OBC,
it's kinda hard being Snoop D-O double me.
The OBC stands for the original Broadway cast.
These are your Angela Landsbury's in Sweeney,
these are your Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady.
I know, you're thinking Audrey Hepburn,
but Julie Andrews was the original Eliza Doolittle.
Park and bark.
Park and bark refers to when you've got an actor
and they're not gonna do the dance moves
everyone else is doing,
we're gonna stand 'em there
and they're gonna sing their solo or say their lines.
We don't trust this actor with too much blocking,
so just park and bark.
You'll notice, the ensemble of Hamilton
dances a lot more than Hamilton.
A lot of park and barking.
Corpse.
You know, I'm realizing how many ghoulish
and macabre theater terms there are,
and none is better than corpse,
which basically means to crack up on stage.
It's also part of what makes theater great.
It's what reminds you you're not at the movies.
Screlting, you're familiar with the term belting.
Screlting is
a sort of a notch up from that.
It's a cross between screeching and belting.
I don't wanna use any specific examples
because I don't want to get into trouble,
but we live for the good screlt.
We live for the good dramatic screlt.
And if you ever see me in person
I'll give you some of my favorite examples.
Thank you so much for watching.
Hopefully you can now sling some Broadway slang
with the rest of them and the best of them.
I'm stage's Lin-Manuel Miranda, thank you for watching.
