What's up, guys? Leslie Robbins here. Young Hollywood is back in New York City. I gotta tell you, the energy in this town is unbelievable. The energy is even hotter inside this theater where we are hanging with the cast of STOMP. Okay, I am hanging with the cast of STOMP at the Orpheum Theater, and I have to say, I think I fit in quite nicely. I am dressed to play. Yeah, definitely. Especially the boots right there. Maybe a little, a little, a little too much bling. Coming from LA, I actually wore these on the plane just for you guys, 'cause I knew how to STOMP. Wore those on the plane? A 4-hour, was it a 4 or 5-hour plane ride? Like 5-hour plane ride. Do not take those off. So I've seen the show, just amazed at what you can do with the most random things, a broom, lighters, garbage cans. It's kind of crazy. Do you hate taking out the garbage now? Do you hate sweeping?

I'm a, I'm a professional sweeper. I look, I look pretty good at home. It's not, I'm not gonna lie.

Yeah. So tell me about the audition for a role like this. What do you need on your resume to land a gig like this?

Well, the beauty of the job is that it really takes all different backgrounds to be here. So, all of us have completely different resumes. Speaking from my audition experience, it was just eye-opening, it was like a workshop. It's such a unique skillset and nobody can come off the street or with any kind of professional background and and nail this. I personally come from a a dance background, a tap dance background, so I had to learn how to drum. And, uh, you know, there are drummers and percussionists in the show who have to learn how to move. And, uh, yeah. It's a really unique audition process compared to most shows. Most shows, you come in with something prepared and show them this is what I have. STOMP really doesn't care what you've done before, because you probably haven't done anything like STOMP.

Were you really comfortable the first time you did it?

Oh no, not at all. I think all of us look pretty awkward when we first started. I mean, um, just yeah, dancing with a basketball. And a lot of dancers, you know, dance to other people's music, and drummers are sitting down at a drum set. We're, we're dancing to our own music, which is, it's hard. So I think a lot of us, um, a lot of us been doing it for over, over, you know, over a year. Nice. But the thing about it that's exciting is that every night it's different. The, the general numbers that we use, it's 75% written and 25% improv. And so, we get to mix it up on stage and then the audience brings different energy every night. So, it's uh, it's a, it's a brand new show almost every single night, and it's a lot of fun. And there's a bit of comedy too. It's funny. Second guest: Yeah. This guy right here, all yeah. That was my challenge, is really the the acting aspect. Uh, I come from a music back, back background and uh, when I had to develop the character, that was the hardest part for me. Like, when when they were giving me notes about how to interact with the other cast members and the audience, I, I really didn't understand it until about like a year in, I was like, oh, okay. If the audience is like this, I can kind of conform the show to that.

I end up being the favorite all the time. Secretly. Second guest: Secretly. The funny guy's, the funny guy's the star of the show. I mean, really he's, he's the star.

Thank you, Dustin. Funny-looking too.

Well, this show has been in New York for 18 years. I saw it in New York. For such a famous show that obviously is playing around the world now, who has come to the show, famous faces-wise?

Um, Stevie Wonder, uh, he came, um, and loved it. Richard Gere just came. Um, Tommy Lee's a big fan of the show, the drummer. Anthony Bourdain. He travel, he does the travel thing.

What's the oddest, weirdest thing you play on the stage?

Plungers. Bathroom plungers.

But you guys don't actually go out and find this stuff. There's a crew in the background that does all that work, right?

All of our props, um, we break stuff. I mean it's, so we have to replace it. And and we have our all of our bins, our trash cans, our lids, most of those come actually from, from the UK, 'cause they actually sound better.

The, the UK trash cans sound better than the ones you make in the United States. Really?

Yeah.

Why is that?

They're resonant, their tones. The ones here just sound like you're hitting cardboard.

Well, I'm gonna hang with you guys. You guys are gonna show me some stuff. Yeah. So what are you gonna show me? Okay. So, I have a pole in my hand. You guys have poles in your hand. Show me what we're gonna do.

This is the uh, the end of that number, poles, it's called Pole Combat. So, we're gonna do a little bit of it and then I'm gonna, I'm gonna teach you, we're gonna, we're gonna fight it out.

I love it. Okay. I feel like I'm herding sheep. Okay. So, what we're gonna do, we're just gonna do it in a, in a count of three, okay? So it's always gonna be top first. So, if you're in top, bottom, and then top, bottom. So it's over, one, two. So, one, two, three. One, two, three. Right, two. Now we're gonna add the foot in on three. Right? Right foot first. Here we go. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. Yeah. Oh my God, it gets so fast. Ready to be on the fence? What fence? That thick guy right there. The fence fury. Let's do it. Okay, for this next number, I'm a bit scared because you are wearing a harness, and I see one on the floor right now.

Yeah, you're getting in it. That's gonna save your life. We're about to get up on that fence. We're gonna be swinging back and forth. We're gonna be drumming on it. This is the uh, the ultimate, uh, dream for the drummers of the show, because we just get to, we don't have to look at the audience, we don't have to try to dance. We just hack on the fence. Fence Fury.

But I'm not a drummer.

Okay, I'm gonna make you sound good. That's my job. You gonna get in? All right.

Do I need help?

No, no, no, you got this, you got this. You're gonna do one leg at a time, just like putting on your pants. There you go.

I'm here to make a fool of myself.

There you got it. You wanna stay at your waist. You don't. These are not overalls. That may or may not work. So, it's gonna, you might take you a couple tries to get it, but what you're gonna do is grab on wherever you can, where it feels good. You're gonna put one foot up here, and you pull up, you're gonna hold on and then you're gonna take this, right, like that, and then click in. And then just come back on. Like that. And, are you ready? So, I'm gonna give you our call. Which our call is, it sounds like this. So you just come right in with the, you're gonna do the exact same thing. You just come right in. All right, are you ready?

I have conquered STOMP. Conquered. I agree. Yeah. All right, I'm down from up there. I got the harness on, but these guys are the real pros.

We're the cast of STOMP, and you're watching Young Hollywood.