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Stars of Broadway's 'One Man, Two Guvnors' Have as Much Fun Off Stage as On

Stars of Broadway's 'One Man, Two Guvnors' Have as Much Fun Off Stage as On

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We are backstage at the Music Box Theatre in New York City for an exclusive tour behind the scenes of the hit comedy, 'One Man, Two Guvnors' care of one of its featured players, Martyn Ellis (AKA Tina)! Tina takes us all around the set, where we get to see his "world-famous" ukelele, sneak into the boys dressing room, chat with stars like Tony winner James Corden, Oliver Chris, and Tom Edden, and catch up with the oddly ever-present Natalie Smith! Let the slapstick hilarity ensue! Hosted by Lesley Robins.

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Guest

Excuse me, excuse me. Tina's getting a little bit upset here. You're spending more time with him than you're spending with me. Come on, let's go.

Young Hollywood

Well, he's really cute and funny.

Guest

I know he's cute. Yeah, he's cute, but he's not for you, darling. Let me just tell you, he's not for you.

Young Hollywood

What's up, guys? Leslie Robbins here. Young Hollywood is outside the Music Box Theater about to take you on a one-of-a-kind backstage tour of the Broadway hit One Man, Two Guvnors starring James Corden. And all I got to say is just be prepared to laugh. You're an actor. Does it show? It's the way you stand at an angle as if there's an audience over there. Young Hollywood, New York City, Broadway in front of One Man, Two Guvnors with one of the hilarious stars of the show, Martin.

Guest

No, no, call me Tina, please, please. I'm Tina and you're going to come on a Tina tour of one of the hottest shows in town, One Man, Two Guvnors. And we're going to go and meet some of the cast backstage. Would you like to do that?

Young Hollywood

I would love to do that. younghollywood. com.

Guest

So, come on, let's go. Okay, come on in.

Young Hollywood

Thank you. So, Leslie, you're backstage at the theater. What do you think?

Guest

I think this is epic. I saw the show. It blew my mind. I was laughing. Did you enjoy it? Black, black. She doesn't get out much, you know, she doesn't get out much. But you did enjoy it. Oh, there's somebody behind us. Hello. Who are you? Come here. Come here, naughty boy. Come here, naughty boy. This is Ollie Chris. Ollie Chris is one of the stars of the show, please. Stanley Stubbers. And Ollie, what have you got to say for us today? Are you having a nice time on Broadway?

Ollie Chris

Yeah, Broadway's great. It's it's pretty hot.

Guest

It is very hot. It is very hot. And show us, show us this instrument that you play in the show, Ollie. And just give us a little.

Ollie Chris

These are my, uh, these are my car horns. This is my car horns, my car horn solo. It's, um, it's it's a pretty highbrow and intense, uh, intense training that it takes to, uh, be able to master.

Guest

Can you show us? Can you show us some of the

Ollie Chris

It's pretty noisy.

Guest

Just do a bit. Just a little bit.

Ollie Chris

Okay, so horn lesson 101. Yes. You ready? So, you put one hand there. Got it. One hand there. Oh, I got it wrong. I can't remember what it is. I don't I've done 400 performances. I can't remember the horn.

Guest

Oh, now, here we are. Oh, we've just bumped into somebody, Natalie Smith, who's in the show, wonderful actress, great friend of mine. Natalie, now you're a classical actress, am I right?

Natalie Smith

Yes.

Guest

And you did three years training in England as an actor.

Natalie Smith

In London, yes.

Guest

Even though she's a native New Yorker. And Natalie, um, you believe in the craft and you wouldn't just throw all the all that classical training away just to be in like a television, silly television show, would you?

Natalie Smith

Oh, no.

Guest

How wonderful, great integrity. Thank you, Natalie.

Natalie Smith

It's not worth it.

Guest

Have a great show.

Natalie Smith

Thank you.

Guest

She's wonderful. Bye-bye, darling. Bye-bye. See you later. Come on, come on.

Young Hollywood

Okay, Tina, is this where you act?

Guest

This is it. This is our this is our theater. Look at there's and soon, in about an hour, this whole place is going to be full of people. But what I want to show you really is I want to show you the ukulele backstage that I play, the most famous ukulele on Broadway. Come with me. So, it's been signed by lots of famous people, by Sting, by Frankie Valli, we've had it signed by, uh, Nathan Lane, Bernadette Peters, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Jane.

Young Hollywood

So, you've basically, you've had small-time actors come and see the show.

Guest

There's nobody seen. I mean, only, look, Gene Wilder, look at that. Gene Wilder. I mean, yeah, he's small time. Small time. Small time. But we all love him. Love. We've gone upstairs. We're by the dressing rooms. The star of the show, James Corden. Can we knock? You can knock. The joker, come on. I'm sure.

Young Hollywood

So, you brought this show over from the UK. How is the audience different here than over there?

James Corden

It's not really. It's kind of exactly the same. It's, you know, the world's a smaller place now. So, uh, yeah, there's been no real difference. I think I think it's better here, actually. I prefer doing it here. There's a there's a a greater, I don't know. I don't I don't prefer, actually. I think I just I'm enjoying living in New York.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. The best part of living here?

James Corden

Oh, man, everything. It's, uh, it's terrific. The food, I think, yeah. It's amazing.

Guest

Hello. It's Carmel and Kevin, our wigs, wig and hair department. Come in. Carmel does my wig. Say hello.

Carmel

Hello.

Guest

Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Gorgeous friend. Kevin over here, does the other wigs. Hello, Kev. My gorgeous friend. So, this is the wig room. I'll swing 'round. Swing 'round with the camera, a quick look. And you can see all the lovely wigs. Oh, hi, N- Oh, hi, Natalie. How are you, Natalie? Natalie's here again. Remember, we met Natalie earlier on. How are you?

Natalie Smith

Fine, how are you?

Guest

Okay, great. Thanks for just doing the a little thing about the wigs now. If it's okay.

Natalie Smith

Oh, yeah, I was just I was here to say something about that.

Guest

Okay, you can do that. So, where is your wig? Because you have a lot more hair in the show.

Natalie Smith

My wig is here. There we are. There's my wig. There it is. You didn't even recognize it though. That's my wig.

Guest

Marty. Marty. So, I play Harry Dangle, who's a lawyer and he's he's lots of greasy hair and he's a greasy liar. So, don't trust him. Don't trust him. But he's really funny. He's funny, isn't he? So, he's cute. Yeah. He's cute, but he's but don't trust him. Right, come on, let's go somewhere else. Come on.

Young Hollywood

Okay, so we just climbed about five flights of stairs. Where are we now?

Guest

We are outside the boys' dressing room, the boys' ensemble in the show and the musicians as well are in the show. And I'm just going to knock the door because they're all probably in there getting ready, maybe going through some sort of preparation, like a warm-up preparation for the show. They're all absolutely ready, like coiled springs for the show this afternoon. So, I'm going to knock. Hold on. See, they're all concentrating. So, let's go in and have a look in. We don't disturb them because. Okay. Come on, let's go in. They're all actually, they're all asleep, actually. Oh. Hi, Natalie. How are you? I keep I keep bumping into you today. It's so funny. It's like we're on the same schedule or something. It's wonderful. What are you doing in here?

Natalie Smith

Um, I was just, you know, making sure that the boys, um, got some rest. You know, they have a big show today. So.

Guest

Yeah, okay. Lovely. Okay, we'll have a Yeah, okay, we'll have a nice time. Have a nice Yeah, have a nice time. Okay.

Young Hollywood

Is this how they warm up and get their comedy on?

Guest

Kind of. Yeah, kind of. Kind of. Yeah, they warm up like that. That's the way we warm up in England. They've been taught. Let's go. Come on, let's go. Thanks, boys. Thanks, Natalie.

Young Hollywood

So, I actually see we're outside of Tom's dressing room right now. I loved his performance. You think he'll let me in?

Guest

Well, I have a go. Knock the door. Knock the door. Hi. Hi, Tom. Hello.

Young Hollywood

Tom, this role, which was hysterical, earned you a Tony nomination.

Tom

Yeah. Huge. It did. Yeah, massive. Yeah, yeah. That was completely unexpected, you know. Um, uh, I didn't expect that at all. No.

Young Hollywood

Does it make you walk down the street a bit taller? Or what does it do for you?

Tom

Um, it's not Yeah, I suppose, um, when it's all all the dust has settled and the award season finishes, it's the fact that it's still there, that that recognition, um, happened. Yeah, it does. It gives you, you know, an insecure profession, it gives you a little feeling of it's a nice feeling, yeah.

Guest

Oh, Excuse me, excuse me. Tina's getting a little bit upset here. You're spending more time with him than you're spending with me. Come on, let's go.

Young Hollywood

Well, he's really cute and funny.

Guest

I know he's cute. Yeah, he's cute, but he's not for you, darling. Let me just tell you, he's not for you.

Tom

I don't want to talk about the nomination.

Guest

I know, don't talk about don't talk about the nomination for goodness sake. We already did. Yeah. Oh, did you? Yeah, probably did. Come on. This is the rest of the cast. Oh, hi, Natalie. How are you? And that's Charlie, that's Charlie RMD, that's Sarah, Jason, Jacob, and Natalie's here, Natalie's here again. Hi. How are you? All right? Do you all have a nice warm up? Do you have a nice warm up? Is that okay? Yeah, you're looking good. And, uh, so we're just going to go I'm going to show you out now because we've got to do a show, Leslie. We got

Young Hollywood

Oh, that little thing. That little thing. Okay. The show. Tina, you gave me the full Tina tour. Bless you. Amazing. Thank you. I hope everyone sees the show because you will be laughing walking out of the theater.

Guest

Thank you very much. And it's been lovely, it's been lovely to talk to you, younghollywood. com and, uh, to show you around our lovely little theater. Thank you. Gives a kiss. Oh. Love you, Lez. Love you. Come on then, let's go. Okay.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Lesley Robins

    Host of the backstage tour

  • Martyn Ellis

    Featured player, known as Tina, gives the tour

  • Tina

    Martyn Ellis's character/nickname

  • James Corden

    Star of 'One Man, Two Guvnors' and Tony winner

  • Oliver Chris

    Star of 'One Man, Two Guvnors', plays Stanley Stubbers

  • Natalie Smith

    Actress in 'One Man, Two Guvnors', encountered multiple times

  • Sting

    Signed Martyn Ellis's ukulele

  • Frankie Valli

    Signed Martyn Ellis's ukulele

  • Nathan Lane

    Signed Martyn Ellis's ukulele

  • Bernadette Peters

    Signed Martyn Ellis's ukulele

  • Michael Douglas

    Signed Martyn Ellis's ukulele

  • Kathleen Turner

    Signed Martyn Ellis's ukulele

FAQ

What show is featured in the video?+
The video features a backstage tour of the Broadway hit comedy 'One Man, Two Guvnors' at the Music Box Theatre.
Who gives the backstage tour?+
The backstage tour is given by Martyn Ellis, who is one of the featured players in the show, known by his character's nickname 'Tina'.
Which famous actors signed Martyn Ellis's ukulele?+
Martyn Ellis's ukulele was signed by Sting, Frankie Valli, Nathan Lane, Bernadette Peters, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Gene Wilder.
Who are some of the stars interviewed in the video?+
The video includes interviews and encounters with stars like James Corden, Oliver Chris, and Tom Edden, who are part of the 'One Man, Two Guvnors' cast.
What role does Tom Edden play?+
Tom Edden's role in 'One Man, Two Guvnors' earned him a Tony nomination, and he describes his character Harry Dangle as a lawyer with greasy hair.

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