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Josh dela cruz cameo11/10/2023 Now, for this movie, I've seen people make comparisons to Spider-Man: No Way Home, and that's actually a pretty good comparison! We've got Steve and Donovan reprising their parts and they've written and directed episodes of Blue's Clues & You. A nice thing about the show is that it celebrates its history, both in front of and behind the camera. And it was just, like, "Cool, now we have another seven hours to fine-tune it."Ī big part of the movie is bringing together three generations of this show. We're doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, and we did a rehearsal to prepare for that, and he learned everything in an hour. Obviously, he's been on Broadway before, with Aladdin. But Josh went in there, he learns really fast, he did the research. We don't know exactly what the music is going to be, but it's going to be something like this." So we were using a lot of temporary music. Ya know, we knew that, like, "this dance sequence is going to be on the steps over by Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. Matt Stawski: We had such a tight deadline, we had to create the choreography while the songs were still being worked on. Right when we landed in New York City, we were doing choreography rehearsals on a stage in Chelsea, probably before the locations were locked in. So to go out in daylight in the middle of a city, jumping on cars and having people around you doing flips off of New York statues, it was very exciting for him. Actors always want to challenge themselves, and Josh is used to being in the bubble of the green screen world, shooting on a stage. Matt Stawski: On the first Zoom meeting we had together, he was such a kind and smiley personality. We've seen Josh sing and dance on the show, but this is a whole other level. We're going to have a little bit of a wink and a nod to those old times with some of Josh's mannerisms and performance moves. So I think a lot of people who are on the older side, who grew up with those classic MGM musicals, are going to appreciate it. Making sure they have all these little moves and interactions with the props and the environment, like tossing the cane and catching the hat and spinning on the pole, you know, all that stuff that Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly used to do. In musicals, you see in a lot of contemporary musicals, the dance numbers are really impressive, but what I really like is the idea of challenging the leading actor. It will be a room of 12 old men and women watching it, and I'm excited for them! From the start, we were thinking about. Matt Stawski: We were talking about that a lot, too! My grandma is 94, and she's going to have a little premiere at her assisted living place with all of her friends. One of my best friends in the world is a 90-year-old woman who's never heard of Blue's Blues, but I'm gonna show her this movie because I know she'll get a kick out of the musical sequences and Josh's fantastic performance. All these different elements combined, and hopefully, fingers crossed, we made a movie that the adults who grew up with Steve can watch with the kids who grew up with Josh. I wanted it to come from a totally different place. She turned them into contemporary Broadway hits! Even the music itself, I wanted it to come from a place that wasn't your traditional go-to pre-school songwriters. We had Stef Fink, our wonderful producer, she wrote Happiness is Magic and produced all the music. And they wrote with guitar and vocals, but then we produced them. We got these indie artists to write the songs. Matt Stawski: We had Anthony Green from Circa Survive and Saosin, and Keith Goodwin from Good Old War, and we had Alex Ebert from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. We reached out to a lot of indie artists, a lot of folk artists. And also just making sure that the music, too. That was definitely a big influence on the film, the way the Muppet movies did it. The original ones and the new ones, how they had relevant cameos that adults would be into, jokes that land for everyone no matter your age, but still have all the colorful, fun, kid-friendly stuff. Matt Stawski: When Nick first approached me, it was the reason I wanted to do the movie! I told them, listen, I love the property and it's incredibly important to so many people, but I wanted to follow the steps of what the Muppet movies did.
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