Hey, guys!
-This is their first Broadway show. -[gasps]
That makes me so happy. I still remember my first Broadway show.
[woman] I was introduced to Broadway at, I think, six years old.
And so, I love knowing that so many people
are gonna experience this as their first show.
Children, many adults, this is the first Broadway show that they've ever seen.
And I like knowing that I had a small part in what will hopefully be
their ongoing relationship with Disney on Broadway.
My name is Patti Murin, and I play Anna in the Broadway production of Frozen.
Many people think that being in a Broadway show is just doing your show
and going home, but that is definitely not the case. [chuckles]
It is an extremely full-time job. More than full-time.
'Cause right now it is 5:33 for a 7:00 show.
And this is kind of when I sit down and start to do my makeup
'cause it would normally take me, like, I don't know, nine minutes to do,
but I get very distracted by all the people coming in and out.
So, it takes me a little bit longer. [chuckles]
The girls who play Young Anna and Young Elsa,
there's four of them total,
they'll come in, and they'll stop in for what we call Patti talk.
Hey, little peanuts!
-♪ Patti, Patti, Patti ♪ -♪ Patti, Patti, Patti ♪
-♪ Talk ♪ -♪ Talk ♪
Nice! That was maybe the best one you've ever done!
-Thanks. -How's it going, little ones?
-Guys, guess what my mom sent me. -[girl #1] What?
-[girl #2] What? -[girl #3] What?
-This? -Prom photos.
-[girl #3] Yay! -[girl #2] Yes, yes, yes!
[Patti] Check my, no-- My hair's ridiculous.
It's just, yeah, see there's the full length. Just, you know.
-[girl #3] You look amazing! -[girl #4] You look so pretty!
[laughing]
-[girl #1] Yes! -My dream is to be Patti!
[Patti laughs]
I'm always kind of nervous before the show,
but once I get through act one, I'm like, "I'm not nervous anymore." And yeah.
-I used to, but not anymore. -The first show I got really nervous.
After the first performance, it's just all excitement.
And I love when I'm taking off my wig cap,
and I find a piece of snow in my hair.
Aw. That's really cute.
Sometimes I'll find a piece of glitter in my shoe.
Or, like, inside my sock. I don't even know how it gets there.
I know! How does it get underneath my wig cap and through my wig?
-I have no idea. -[Mimi] Disney magic.
Disney magic is the best magic.
-[Patti] Yep. -[Winter] Yeah.
-[Charlie] Thank you! -[Winter, Mimi] Bye.
[Patti] Thanks, friends.
[Patti] Then I get my wig put on by our wig supervisor, Ty.
So, throughout the show, we change her into varying degrees of freezing.
It takes a total of ten pieces,
eight full wigs and two trick pieces.
[Patti] Definitely the most wigs I've ever had in any show.
And then right at places I go upstairs to see Caissie Levy who plays Elsa.
-Hi! -[chuckles]
[Patti] Usually I stretch with Caissie a little bit too,
so that's when I get more physical warm-up in.
-There it is. How was your afternoon? -[Patti] It was okay.
-It is easy, you know. -[Caissie] Good.
[singing vocal warm-ups]
[singing vocal warm-ups together]
-We still don't know these words. -Yeah, we still don't know these lyrics.
[Patti] It's kind of surreal to be a part of the Disney family.
Especially Disney on Broadway
because growing up a Broadway superfan and a Disney superfan,
it's literally, like, there couldn't be
a better possible combination for me, personally.
I never outgrew Disney, you know? I just kept loving it more.
Bye-bye! [chuckles]
[singing "Love is an Open Door"]
[Patti] Becoming Anna every day is, like, truly amazing
because she has so much energy and so much hope
for someone who has been essentially alone her entire life.
So, to be able to inhabit her
and go through her literal journey, physically, emotionally,
I feel like I still-- I'm still finding new things
every single-- every single time I do it.
[cheers, applause]
I always say it's a minor miracle, um, every time we get through a show
because it involves so many people and so much coordination.
And even though it's like, you know, a pretty well-oiled machine at this point,
it's still, it's such a big show.
[cheers, applause]
And even though it goes fast,
you sit down at the end and you're like, "How did I do that?"
[chuckles]
I like knowing that, you know, it's truly a team effort.
Signing autographs is-- is pretty great,
because you, then you really get to see the entire spectrum of the people
who have come to see a show from, of course, the little kids and stuff,
but you can see, right now, a lot of groups who've just graduated from college
or, you know, we've had a lot of 50th birthday parties
where women will come with their friends,
and they'll come see Frozen as part of their weekend,
and everyone will come to see the show.
I really like doing it because it is a chance to, sort of, like,
look at the people that you just told this story to
and to just say, "Thank you for coming, and thank you for supporting it."
There's still nights where you just, you know, you have that moment of,
"I'm playing Anna in Frozen on Broadway."
And then you're like, "That's really cool." [chuckles]