Haven't been on for awhile

Hey everyone,

Haven't updated the blog for awhile we've been busy. But here are some awesome things to keep you all excited.

So episode 9 is now up and running on YouTube, I try to get to Broadway for July 5!

We also sold the Lyceum Poster for $40.00 which was fantastic! And we are very thankful to the sponsor who gets the poster with all our autographs on it (including Ollie!)

Thanks to all those that had a bid as well, it's great to have your support! Don't forget to subscribe to the videos so you know exactly when we release a new episode. But for now here's episode 9!

Our friend Kris, who's a producer of [title of show] and currently working in Melbourne on WICKED had a pretty exciting day yesterday- finally WICKED opened in previews, as a present we made him this video- and everyone is going nuts for it. 'Not All Green People Are Wicked!' is the current catch phrase! Download the picture above and use it as your MSN icon, put it on your websites! Get the word out there, help Martin! NOT ALL GREEN PEOPLE ARE WICKED!!!!!

Here's the episode:

[title of show] on the fifth! Will I make it by kite to Broadway? Only time will tell!

Sean

I'm forever waiting...

Hey Sean here,

It's day three of my show 'A Long Walk Off A Short Play' and I'm sitting here at the Library on campus typing up a blog.

I have two shows today- a matinee and a night show. The matinee though is only half of the show, but I have a monologue and a duologue to perform in it. Tonight we do the whole show so on top of my fisherman monolgue I also play 'Nicolai' a teenager who really wants to sing- even though everyone thinks he's gay for wanting too. He gets some laughs which is good!

I'm also a lighting operator for the show, and I move some set around, so it becomes a busy night, I'm constantly doing something. I have fifteen minutes until I'm meant to be here and the theatre isn't open yet, so I'm just waiting. Like yesterday when we had to get here at 3.30pm for a 7.30pm show. *sigh* I got kicked out of the make up room twice, I wasn't supposed to warm up the lights til much later, I HAD NOTHING TO DO!!!!!!! AHHHH!

Yes it was stressful. But the show was really good last night which was awesome.

As I have another two shows tomorrow and work on Sunday I am unsure when the next episode will be made, but it will hopefully be soon.

Sean

'A Long Walk Off A Short Play'
David Williamson Theatre
St John Street, Prahran, VIC
Adults: $10 Concession: $8
5 Short plays and a bunch of monologues on a pier

TONY TONY TONY!

Hey everyone,

So yesterday we filmed a special Tony Awards episode. 646 Guy was quick to note 'What time did we get the Tonys' here's the deal.

We taped the TONY awards live at 10am because I'm currently in the middle of a show, and we watched them when I got home.

And by watched I mean we fast forwarded to bits and pieces that we could do sketches to.

My reaction to 'In The Heights' winning is real...that was the first time I'd found out who won and I'd been wondering all day through tech rehearsals, I'd been counting down the minutes.

Anyway enjoy our Tony Awards Special.

Oh and don't forget to make a bid for our poster!

Here's the ep, enjoy!

Sean

And the Bidding Begins!

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

Yesterday began the great bid off for our fan made 'Lyceum Poster'.

Why are people bidding for a fan made Lyceum Poster: Because it's going to help us get tot Broadway!

You see lots of people have been asking how they can help us out, that they would love to donate some money. Well now you can help, you can help US get to Broadway and get yourself a signed, autographed 'Sean The Aussie Fan Of [title of show]'s Show' Lyceum Marquee poster as seen in episodes 7 and 8 of the show.

So you're all like 'I want to help them!' Well help away, click here!

Episode 8: A Lot Of Spam premiered on YouTube yesterday which is very exciting!

We were going to announce confirmed details for New York, but unfortunately pretty much everything from the quote we had fell through...so we were stuck without episode material.

So we utilised the depressing feeling of not being confirmed as part of the episode!

And here it is:

Enjoy the Episode, Have a bid,

And you could help us get to Broadway and have an autographed prop all of your own!

TONY award special of the show coming soon!

Thanks for watching!

You Can Help Us Get To Broadway! YES YOU!

A big hello to all the fans of 'Sean The Aussie Fan Of [title of show]'s Show',

Now many of you have asked "How can we help you get to Broadway Sean? We live in [title of hometown] which is FAR away from you, so we can't exactly donate small change to you!"

Well now you can help us. And here's how!

Many of you would have seen Episode 7: The Understudy (at this stage about 94 people have seen it). At the very end of the episode is a very nice replica of the 'Lyceum Marquee' which Jarrod and I made before we made the episode.

Don't remember it...well have a look at the photo attached to the post!

So here's the plan:

We're going to put the sign up on eBay and you can bid for it to help us get to Broadway! Hey we'll even sign it for you, and if you're a New Yorker, or seeing [tos] maybe you could take it to the Stage Door and get the [tos] gang to sign it (now that would be HOT!)

So when we post it on eBay we'll let you know here and make a little video! So get behind our quest and get bidding to support us, and you may score yourself a one of a kind, autographed Lyceum [title of show] Marquee prop!

Until then happy bidding!

Sean

The Story So Far...

Episode 7 - "The Understudy"
Also known as "Jarrod, The Aussie Fan Of John Tartaglia's Show"

Monday, 2nd June. 6:58am. I'm fast asleep.
Not for much longer. *BEEP BEEP* goes my phone. I'm not happy. It's from Sean. What can't possibly wait until a reasonable time to tell me? John Tartaglia loved the show? He laughed his arse off? Okay, NOW I'm happy...

Sean had told me once he found out Johnny would be seeing the show, that I could have my own episode. I had made big plans for this episode. Including a song. One song to blow the world away. An ode to Johnny...
Sean and I talked, and decided that the episode would be made like I had abducted the show when he wasn't around.

Sean got the camera ready to film the episode, but the moron left it running. I came in once he left the room, and saw the camera recording... This was my chance... This was MY episode...
With a very well created parody of the opening credits, my episode was underway.

Sean has brilliant unlimited access to the internet, with an incredibly fast connection. So YouTube videos load up as quick as lightning, ready to be watched. Can you think of a better way to watch Johnny? I can't! It was here that I said the immortal line. The line that is going to sweep the world, be printed on mugs and t-shirts everywhere: "Who needs porn when they have you, Johnny?"

Time for a Johnny Fund update! Due to credit card payments, I had to spend $300 of the fund. This took it to $92. Though I completely forgot during the filming of this section that I had gained another $150 - which means my real Johnny Fund was (and, at time of writing, is) $242.65 - oops!

We then recorded the song, an ode to Johnny to the tune of Avenue Q's "I Wish I Could Go Back To College" I wrote this song weeks ago, and wasn't my first experience re-writing the song. Last year, Sean and I performed a song I wrote entitled "I Wish I Was Back In Year 7" for our final assembly at school (viewable on the Lazy Creations YouTube Channel). This time though, it was a solo song, all about my quest for Johnny, and the heterosexual love I have for him. We filmed me with my Johnny fund bag, and several things relating to Johnny, like one of those old fashion love song film clips...

I edited the video, excited that Sean hadn't caught me. Yet. He walked down the stairs, and caught me just as I was gloating about the fact he was a moron. As he chucked a wobbly, I realized there was something above his bed... A make shift marquee, one that looked exactly like the [title of show] one... He'd been having withdrawals because he couldn't see the real one.

Now, clearly Sean was present during the entire filming of this episode. I was just the star for once. And the editing process was just about as bumpy as it was in the show. See, as we were importing the footage from the camera to Sean's computer, it decided to have a spasm attack and freeze up on us. That was fine, we just re-imported the footage. It was at this stage I left Sean's house, and when I got home, I got the bad news - we hadn't saved "I Wish I Could Go And Meet Johnny" and it had been lost. Which meant my episode couldn't have the brilliant ode I had planned on... Thanks to some great editing by Sean, the episode was saved, minus the song. But soon that song will be made public!

So that was my episode.
The Johnny Fund: $242.65

And that is the story so far!

The Story So Far...

Episode 6 : 

The Four Reasons

After bouncing up and down and all around over the fact that John Tartaglia would be seeing these episodes, I completely retracted any doubts I had made about this show. What did I know?

Sean had mentioned a few times that our sexuality had been questioned by a couple of people, so we decided it was about time to set the record straight and proclaim our heterosexuality. But how would we do it? Sean had a great idea. He'd just outright tell the audience we were straight. Unfortunately I chose that exact time to burst into the room singing "I Love You Johnny" which made us seem so much gayer... We needed a new way to tell the world we were straight...

We began looking at hotels. Matt wanted a 5 star hotel, but Sean and I were both clearly against the idea. I don't have that kind of money. Damn that blind pension of his. After arguing a little, we decided we needed to set a date. Sean wanted the opening night of [title of show] There was no chance of that happening!

"We Love You" is a parody of the finale song "Who Loves You" from Jersey Boys. Sean had written it the evening before, and we needed to create the dance before we filmed. Thankfully, due to my boring little life, I had seen the dance to this song the cast had done at the Tony awards on YouTube many times and was able to remember the dance almost exactly...
Unfortunately I had to teach those boys the dance... That was a lot more difficult than it seemed. But we managed to get it down pat pretty well, after filming it around 5-6 times. A falsetto voice hurts after a while...

We decided on a date (though in real life these dates had been set for a while) December 14-22
Now, how do we show we aren't gay? Well, I was asleep at this stage, and the boys decided we needed a girl to come with us. But who? Cath? No... Katherine? No... Teale? No (though they're smartasses for mentioning her - Teale was a girl I used to have a little crush on, and Sean takes much joy in pointing it out where possible)... Steff... Yeah! Steff had been in our drama class at school for the last two years, and she was very excited about New York. She was doing a show on the day we filmed, so we headed out to the hall and waited for her to finish. After sitting in the car for a while, with complete strangers waving to us quite a few times, we finally made our move... I threw Steff over my shoulder, ran to my car, and chucked her inside. We told her about our plan... She was up for it.



Sean's [tos] Fund: $236.30
My Johnny Fund: $392. 65

The Story So Far...

Episode 5 Part 2

When New York Came To Australia

16th of May

2 New Email Messages:

Jeff From [title of show] he's seen the latest episode, he loves where it's going.

The second has been marked as Junk Mail. It says [tos] in the title, but it's from someone I've never heard of before. A random fan? Hey I'm on a mac, it's not like I'm about to get a virus, I'll check it out.

To that stage in my life it's possibly the greatest thing to have happened.

It's from a guy called Kris Stewart, he's a producer of [title of show], people may know him as the co-founder of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, he's an Aussie, a Melbourne Guy, he's out here working on WICKED.

We planned on doing a WICKED themed episode.

Emails darted back and forth a few times that night. I was bouncing off walls and couldn't stop grinning all night. Could this possibly be happening??????

I told Jarrod, Jarrod was excited, I told Cath, she was excited, damn  I even told my current bosses and they were excited!

Saturday was the next day, we were going to film in the city, I wondered if Kris would be free and if he wanted to do a cameo. He was up for it. It was going to be a fantastic day. We planned on introducing Matt to the show as well which was going to be good.

Then it started raining! Which was great (note sarcasm)- filming in Melbourne, on a FREEZING day, with cars splashing through puddles. All the theatres were pretty much closed, but we filmed outside anyway, and we couldn't make it in time to the Princess Theatre to see the one that would be open, it currently is home to 'Guys and Dolls'.

We visited the 'Three Weeks In New York' promotion and were slightly let down, but we did meet Elmo and Abby Cadabby from Sesame Street (see above photo). After all this we headed down to the Melbourne Arts Centre to meet Kris. He was great! We loved talking to him (Jarrod was super excited because Kris had met Tartaglia) and we even managed to film inside...even though there were some ushers looking like they were ready to pounce on us and the video camera, tearing all our hard work to shreds. Kris was at the time working on a WICKED rehearsal, three other shows were playing at the Arts Centre, it was the most alive that we'd seen the city all day.

A new star was born, Ollie my dog. Clear limelight hog, even Kris thought that he was the best part of the WHOLE episode. I think Matt and My rip off of the WICKED logo is pretty cool- this is but one of the cool things you can do with an Albino friend! And meeting Kris and having him cameo was absolutely awesome. I didn't think we could top that effort. This ep was cramazing!

235 views so far for part 2, only 3 comments, 4 five star ratings and 1 amazing day! Jeff summed it up nicely in an email to me 'this is a small-ass planet isn't it?'

Jarrod was about to get more excited, Jeff said he'd pass the eps onto John Tartaglia. He may have fainted, he may have exploded, he may have been bouncing off the walls. It was all so unbelievable.

The Story So Far...

Episode 5 Part 1:

When New York Came To Australia

The trade was on.

The mysterious Cath (my girlfriend actually) had arrived to make the trade. From the boot of her car came a mysterious box.

We made the trade.

A book 'Our [title of show] Tour To New York' and details about a shop promotion '3 Weeks In New York'

Jarrod arrived and we wondered what it would be like if [title of show] came to Australia through the song 'Two Nobodies From New York".

Background to the song:

I had written the lyrics to this song AGES ago and planned on filming it for [title of show]'s opening night, I'd told Jeff about it, and he was really excited to see it. So I thought this would be the PERFECT time to do it!

And sure enough it really worked...

We would go to New York in Melbourne on Saturday and film part 2 of the Episode there.

183 Views at time of Posting, 5 comments and I was about to receive some VERY exciting emails...

The Story So Far...

Episode 4:

Recognition

I remembered from some time ago a guy that traded a red paperclip for a house- well if he could do it so could I! So upon finding a paper clip I decided to up trade for a trip to New York, accommodation and tickets to [title of show]...or anything else that would progressively get me there.

Before I did that though I decided to whip out a musical ode to all the fans I'd found on Broadway World and all the other viewers. The song was a parody of 'Tradition' from Fiddler On The Roof renamed 'Recognition'. It was a surprise hit and my lyric changing skills were getting better.

I decided if I was rich I could easily see [title of show] no problem, oh dear...did I just say if I were a Rich Man?

Gambling proved to not get me any money as I lost out on $7 worth of Scratchies. Jeff gave me the good advice of steering clear of them in the future.

...winning $96,000 would be good though.

At the end of the episode I received a message on MSN, someone was up for a trade for my paperclip.

198 views at time of posting, 11 Comments, and the beginning of some elaborate fans plots to try and get me to NY.

[tos] fund= $283.45

What would I get for the trade?

I also started to note that this whole thing was just growing bigger than I ever imagined. [title of show] had commented that they were obsessed with the show, and people were talking about it on other websites, I was getting more hits from Broadway World than from the MySpace where I normally picked up all my views from. Plus the majority of views were coming in on the first day! It was NUTS!

The Story So Far...

Episode 3:

Shakespeare...did it before you...

It was revealed that the teleportation book was actually a Shakespeare for Dummies book instead and suddenly Sean was back in 'Shakespearian England', meeting the good ole Bard himself!

Sean realised something was really wrong and that he was far from Broadway where he planned to be. Shakespeare offered some good advice in relation to the 'Oroborock' which helped teleport Sean back to his normal world.

Sean is alphabatising his Musical Cast Recordings when Jarrod, Sean's Friend, arrives and ruins his afternoon. Sean tells Jarrod he is trying to get to Broadway to see [title of show] and Jarrod decides he will come to so that he can meet John Tartaglia.

We parody one of Avenue Q's early advertisements and feature our nameless puppet...if anyone has an idea for a name, please leave a comment!

Here's the episode:

At time of posting this episode had 288 views, and 7 comments from people all over the globe.

It was at this stage that I discovered YouTube insight which tells you where your views are being linked from. I found out I was getting hits from www.broadwayworld.com so I decided I had to go and take a look. Sure enough I found on the official [title of show] love thread links to all my episodes so far, and loads of people were wishing me the best in my efforts to get to Broadway.

I had to thank them. Epiosde 4 seemed to be there perfect tool for just that!

The Story So Far...

Episode 2:

Big Dreams

April 21:

Tickets go on sale for [title of show] on Broadway. 

April 22 in Australia- April 21 in New York.

No trip booked= not being able to buy tickets= Sean being quite upset.

The episode was actually filmed before the day as a tribute for the day the tickets went on sale. Episode 2 was never meant to happen so soon after episode 1. But the timing just worked so well. Some things had been quite successful in the first episode, the glide over my theatre collection and the costume change, a rip off of Jeff's change, which in turn is a rip off of Wonder Woman.

The costume change would stay, I'd try to add another transition, and I thought "Let's parody a show". Spring Awakening popped up and pretty soon after I'd worked out new lyrics for the song that would fit perfectly in the show. Another thing that worked was the '[tos] fund'. And people at my TAFE course were actually donating small change to the fund! It was crazy! So that would stay and continue in the hope I would be able to save up enough money.

The World Vision Rip Off just seemed perfect for the episode, and worked well as an 'advertisement' for the [tos] fund.

But I needed another way to get to Broadway, teleportation seemed perfect. Lucky I had the right book at my disposal, here's how it all went.

 

331 views at time of posting, 7 Comments, 1 from [title of show] (plus a very supportive email from them), plus an offer to help me get to B'Way! Things were suddenly very surprising.

Where would teleporting end up? The series continued on to Episode 3

The Story So Far...

Episode 1:

The Beginning

Quite some time ago I obtained a copy of the [title of show] cast album, ever since I fell in love with the show. I watched 'The [title of show] Show' religiously and with every episode I grew more and more in love with everything [title of show] stood for as a show. I decided to send Jeff an email, telling him how much I loved the show, not expecting a reply.

But I got one.

This blew me away, I didn't expect to receive an email back, and I decided at that point that if the show ever premiered on Broadway like they were talking about I would be there to see them.

Along came Episode 8 of 'The [title of show] Show', the big announcement. I had to get to Broadway.

I had previously planned to travel with Jarrod and Matt to New York the year before, but plans fell through because of the costs involved. This time I thought of an unconventional way of getting to New York.

My theory was this:

Lin Manuel Miranda got In The Heights to Broadway by filming parody clips

[title of show] got to Broadway by filming their own show

Maybe I could do it too!

So I sat down and filmed, this was the result:

I thought I'd send it to Jeff, to see what he thought. The episode was a bit silly, I didn't think much would happen.

"Amazing" was the word that resonated in Jeff's reply.

Jeff couldn't wait for episode 2...he passed this episode on to his cohorts.

I kind of thought I was on to something.

Jarrod thought it was ridiculous...nothing would come of it.

At the time of this post the episode has had 402 views, 5 comments from three Australians and 2 Americans!

AMERICANS!

Crazy!

Jarrod admitted he was wrong, and decided he was in...

The series continued.

Welcome To The World...

It is on this day, June 8 2008, that this blog and therefore website was brought into the world. The proud parents Sean, Jarrod, Matt and Steff were overjoyed by the arrival of their new site and look forward to its growth.

Please support it in its growth as well.

Thank you