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Hey, everybody, it's Richard Ridge from Broadway World
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I am here with Alexa Mead at her incredible Wonderland Dreams on Fifth Avenue
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This place is amazing. Thank you. First of all, it's great to meet you. Can I give you a hug? Yes
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This is the best. You're about to be painted. Oh, so I'm about to be painted. She has painted so many incredible Broadway people, and now she's going to do me
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I'm going to be painted next, but this place is so fascinating. I mean, you opened last October
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Yeah, we've been open for nearly a year, and we've had 100,000 guests
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100,000 guests have walked through this incredible exhibit. How did you start doing all of this
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How did you come up with the idea to do this? The main work I'm known for is painting on people, and I decided for that I paint so
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many amazing costumes, backgrounds. Why not create an exhibit that's just of the painted backgrounds
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So anybody can come in. They don't have to be body painted, and they get to experience being inside the artwork
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On rare and special occasions, people like you might get to be the living paintings
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A living painting, let it become a Broadway living painting. You have so many incredible people on the wall already
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You've done Brian Stokes Mitchell, right? Who are some of the people you've done? Eva Price, Amber Gray, Eden Espinoza, Tom Kitt
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It's been great. I mean, it goes on and on. It's amazing
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Take me to this. What's in here? So in here, we have a larger than life house of playing cards
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This is an entire 52 card deck, so you can actually play cards in here
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We've had some epic games of Go Fish. Go Fish, I love that. Now, what are the portraits on the wall in here
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These are all humans that I've painted on to make them look like two dimensional paintings
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That's crazy. These were pieces I did before I came to this New York exhibit
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So this exhibit has been growing, and as more people have come in, and I've painted more people, more art's been added to the walls
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I love it. What goes on in this room in here? So this is the back alley
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In here, guests are given stickers, and they can graffiti on the walls
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Look at this. So let's do one. Let's do one. Broadway World, we're officially on the wall here at Wonderland Dreams
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We have left our mark. We left our mark. So now I have to get ready, because you're going to paint me now, right? Exactly
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We have a perfect painted costume for you. I cannot wait. We'll see you upstairs
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We'll see you in a bit
