Lin-Manuel Miranda Teaches You Broadway Slang | Vanity Fair

hi I'm stages lin-manuel Miranda today you're gonna have Broadway slang with lin-manuel Miranda that's me let's do this thank you five thank you five is five minutes two places thank you five means like alright 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 you know the one I'm talking about money no mugging mugging that refers to when someone is making a lotta faces and they don't necessarily feel real or from an authentic please 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 would 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 at this on Junoon aunjanue is a young starting out musical theater actor you know me Trudeau che that is a two shows a week oke for 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 Rogers 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 them also in I get amazing looks from my fellow cast members showmance showmance is a romance 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 benni 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 it at music stands and I was looking 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 and I was like and now they're married have two beautiful kids booked and blessed that's when you get that job it's when you get that good job hashtag blast hashtag actor life the Scottish play is a Macbeth the reason we have the name of the Scottish play is because apparently it became sort of theatre 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 ah see then you just just superimpose like a chandelier from phantom coming in right there the OBC so much drama in the OBC is kind of hard being snoop d-o-double me the OBC stands for the original Broadway cast these are your Angela Lansbury's and Sweeney these are your Julie Andrews and my fair lady I know you're thinking Audrey Hepburn but Julie Andrews with original eyes into little park and bark park and bark refers to when when you've got an actor and they're not gonna do the dance moves everyone else is doing we're gonna stand them there and they're gonna sing their solo or save 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 parking barking corpse you know how many ghoulish and McCobb theater terms there are and none is better than corpse which basically means to crack up onstage it's also part of what makes theater great it's what reminds you you're not at the he's scroll ting you're familiar with the term building scroll ting is is sort of a notch up from that it's it's a cross between screeching and belting I don't want to use any specific examples because I don't want to get into trouble but we live for the good scrout we live for the good dramatic skrelp 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 stages lin-manuel Miranda thank you for watching

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Length: 4min 44sec (284 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 27 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/sanmateomary]

Okay class, your assignment: next time any of us meets LMM the FIRST thing you ask is "name some examples of screlting," and share it here.

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Then you can dissolve in nervous happy tears or whatever you think would happen if you met him. But first, screlting.

[u/[deleted]]

I've actually never heard of "corpse" having that meaning, I've only ever heard of people "breaking." I learned a thing!

[u/GooGooGajoob67]

Isn't "thank you 5" the response to "5 minutes to places"? I only have a small amount of theatre experience but that's how we used it.

[u/_therisingstar]

"WE LIVE FOR THE GOOD SCRELT"

[u/The_Original_Gronkie]

That was funny and I learned a few things.

[u/dasher11]

I bet you anything one of his favorite screlts is Leslie Odom Jr. on "...he started working, CLERKING for his late mother's landlord..." because the cast laughs at it a lot.

[u/sanmateomary]

Based on his description of screlting I’m going to nominate Keala Settle, who can hit those high notes but it starts to lose a little musicality when she gets up there.

[u/Santafemyoldfriend]

Too gorgeous to look at

[u/djingrain]

Looooove it