6 Highlights of Playbill's Big Broadway Nerd Panel at New York Comic Con

Comic con6 Highlights of Playbill’s Big Broadway Nerd Panel at New York Comic Con

Fergie Phillipe, Mason Alexander Park, Jenna Leigh Green, and Justin Matthew Sargent Portion Broadway tone heights, casting stories and more.

Playbill kicked off its panels during the New York Comic Con with this year The Big Broadway Nerd Panel October 6. Bring broadway favorses together to discuss the nerdy influences that fill their lives on and off the stage, the panel of Fergie Auguste Phillipe interpreted (Hamilton), Justin Matthew Sargent (Spider-Man: Turn out the dark), Jenna Leigh Green (Evil), and Mason Alexander Park (Hedwig and the angry thumb).

Look at six of the highlights of the panel below to learn more about the love for everything from the Phillipe Jim HensonSargent’s Spider-man call back, Green’s thoughts on Elphaba, and Park’s long history with The sandman.

Fergie Phillipe thinks Holes Must be a Broadway Music
Panelists had a few minutes to develop a pitch for a Broadway show they would like to see, the stage. Phillipe won the crowd with his pitch for a stage musical adjustment of Holes.

“I think it’s fraud, it’s a legitimate pitch I work on,” he started. He then delivered his idea of ​​how to bring the fan favor to theater. ‘Dream throw would be Andrew Barth Feldman or Reeve Carney For Stanley Yelnats, and Stephanie J. Block are the Warden. We open, Single Spotlight Center Stage, Stanley Yelnats, sits there to receive his sentencing for stealing a pair of shoes. In the background we hear a drum. There comes a tall monologue from the judge who talks about ‘you know, we have to do all kinds of things to you, boy, to steal these shoes. You have to go to jail. But I will give you an option. ‘And as soon as he says we hear that [singing in the background] ‘Dig it, oh oh, dig it. ‘ [And then the judge continues,] “Ah, I could send you to jail, or,” [singing returns] ‘Dig it, oh oh yeah yeah. ‘ [the judge concludes] “Or I can send you to Camp Greenlake.” Full stage Open, he’s already at Camp Greenlake ready to show in his bunk bed. ”

While the audience cheered and his fellow panelists pretend to leave the stage in the defeat, Phillipe joked: “The investor meeting will be next door to everyone who wants to invest now, thank you!”

Justin Matthew Sargent had to fly for Spider-Man: Turn out the dark Call back
“Call for the role was that they just threw me in the rig and like” good luck, buddy. “And the whole purpose was,” Don’t look stupid while you do, otherwise you don’t get this job, “Sargent shared. “But it was very, very, very cool. Until the one time when my cut did not go on one side, and I picked up and spun on my side for a good 40 seconds. They were like ‘we will hold the stage a little to sit back there. “Other than that, it was really kind and to sing that music …[Bono and the Edge’s] Music is so iconic, so deliberate, and so theater, that there really is only one way to do it. You have to do it as they would, so it was a very pleasant challenge to find what the sound was going to be and attach it all in this world that everyone already knows. You try this new sound, this new lead, put on something that is so familiar to everyone, so it was very nice to work on. ‘

Jenna Leigh Green See Evil‘S Elphaba and TV’s against Witch Sabrina as ordinary girls
“It is clear that Elphaba has some magical powers, and so does Sabrina. But at the heart of them, they are both these real girls who are not necessarily popular, who are not necessarily the coolest, they do not fit in anywhere. I felt like I was growing up, I don’t know exactly where I fit … I think Sabrina and Elphaba are both, I see, I see, I see, I see, I see, I see, I don’t see, I don’t see, I didn’t feel it. That, ” Green says. ‘Sabrina and Elphaba have these wonderful qualities that any young person can just look at them and see themselves in it. So I think that both shows are really related to adolescents in general. ‘

Play The sandmanThe desire is especially special for Mason Alexander Park
‘There’s something very special about the world that Neil Gaiman In 1987, and then 1989, I started coming into the comics, and it is very kind to be part of something that has been a very long time part, “Park shared.” I think the way this show came to life and realized is very unique and simple. And I really like to play that character a lot. “

Fergie Phillipe is a great Jim Henson fan
“All his work is multi -generations, whether it is the texture of the fur and the colors of all his characters who immediately draw children, or then there are older, there is of course a nostalgia factor. But what really hit me Sesame street Or muppets, and it’s like, “Ah, it was like a nice childhood” – but there are actually so many more nuance and minutiae to everything they do. ‘

“There was such careful consideration when they were busy The muppet show In London … it was creators who truly cared about crafts, in the way that was not just about an image or an ideal or idea. It really was about ‘what are we doing here? What can we do with all this information? And how can we best show the best show? ” Phillipe further explained: ‘It comes from a place of’ How do I make it the best product it can be, using this incredible talent and skill I have inside me and around my team? ‘And that quality is something I feel like I’m chasing in my artistic life. “

A tweet has Mason Alexander Park the role of The sandmandesire
When the panel wrapped his questions and questions, Phillipe Park asked how they were thrown into Netflix’s as a desire The sandman. ‘The version of 30 seconds is that I filmed, or was about to start filming, Cowboy bebop In New Zealand and Neil Gaiman tweeted that they started filming Sandmanday one. And I remembered that I wanted to be in it. It was four in the morning, and I felt a little ballyI think is the term. So I sent him a tweet and asked if the desire was still cast, and whether they would be in the first season, and he returned to me – which was incredible. I just put my agents an audition and we did. ‘

Read the full -length version of the story here. As Phillipe told the audience, the lesson to learn here is: “If you want something, ask for it.”