Video: The Company of BAD CINDERELLA Celebrates Opening Night

Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World

Angel Lloyd Weber's Bad Cinderella has come to Broadway, and we're here on opening night to celebrate with the company

Welcome home to Broadway. How does it be on? It feels amazing

It's been a like, you know, it's like for everyone. We've had a sort of period of nothing happening

and then suddenly we're back and it's so good to be back doing something so joyous and fun

and with such an incredible cast. I feel crazy, emotional, overwhelmed, grateful

It's just, I can't believe this night is finally here. To be playing Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella

like when you first found out, like, was it a big pinch me moment? Could you tell everybody

I mean, he asked me in the room and I said yes, I was hysterical and I was told I couldn't tell anyone

So that was really hard, just my immediate family. I was just overwhelmed

I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe what was happening. And sometimes I still can't even

You're also an inspiration to so many little girls who are in that audience like, oh my God, I look just like her

It's a huge responsibility in the honor of my life because I didn't have that growing up

And so to be that, hopefully for even one person means everything to be

It is opening night. First of all, welcome home to Broadway. How does it feel

I mean, it's the honor of a lifetime to be able to, first of all, do this for a living

and to do 16 Broadway shows and to have this one be an original Andrew Lloyd-Weber musical

I mean, you know, a girl can't ask for more than that

I feel amazing It so cool to be back at the Imperial a place that I already know and love and I feel so comfortable in It amazing to be back here and celebrating another beautiful piece

You just crossed Schubert Alley to be here, right? Yes, just one block away to be here, so it's so exciting

It is opening night. How do you feel tonight? I just feel like full of love. I feel like everyone is just excited to be here

and it's just like coming off of everyone, so I'm pumped. I'm so excited. I'm excited to be back

at the Imperial and I made my debut here 26 years ago with Le Miz so I'm back

here making my OBC debut so it's really exciting I think the energy of the cast

and the crew truly everyone is such a positive energy every day and it makes

coming into work this is my Broadway debut so as nerve-wracking our Broadway

debut we got 15 of them yeah we're two of them so that is really really special

and to do it with this group with this show I'm so grateful I'm

The thing that's really special for me is I was at Andrew's house and they called

lockdown and I locked down with him for three months and we created what became the

original album and you know with you know with him and then Andrew's son Nick produced

that album with Andrew and the three of us were locked down at his house together and

We did it in a very, very unusual way because of very extraordinary circumstances

And, you know, it's going to be with me forever. And tonight, you know, I feel this is for Nick and Andrew

because you know we put our hearts and soul into making the start of what has become this massive Broadway production Do you remember when you first fell in love with the Angeloid River World like the first musical of his you saw I saw Evita when I was still in college and it blew me away

I mean, it's still one of my favorite shows of all time

And to watch a woman on stage with that kind of power and that kind of, you know

those songs, it just, it made me think, like, what if I could

could do that. I mean, at that point I had no dreams of being on Broadway at all. But that sort of

stirred something in me that blossomed a couple of years later. I saw Phantom of the Opera when I was

14, the touring production in Orange County, and it blew my mind. I went in not knowing anything

and I'd never seen a musical like that before. That's chandelier. What are you going to do? It's

outrageous. My parents actually met on an Angeloid Weber musical on Starlight Express. Neither of them. My mom was

a paralegal, my dad's an attorney. They have nothing to do with the business. So I like to say I'm literally the product of Angela Weber

musical, and so that was my first exposure. Everything about Phantom. I watched the 25th anniversary version of Phantom every day in 10th grade

That was my introduction to Angela Weber. And I think it's a beautiful show

The music is sweeping. It's gorgeous. Rameen and Sierra, greatest cast of all time

Katz, was the reason I'm here today, truly. My mom took me to see cats when I was a small boy

I saw it 11 times before I was 12 years old, ran the VHS into the ground

It is truly why I started dancing and why I'm here today. Patty Lepone singing a New Argentina, the Tony Awards thing

when she was like, well, you'll do, nah, da, da. I lived for that

When I was in middle school I was like this is what I want to do for the rest of my life And it actually wild that I now in an angelo river show yes it was cats I was seven years old I saw it in London and I remember one of the

cats came up the aisle as they do and like nudged my arm a little bit and left a little bit of makeup

on my shirt and I wouldn't let my mom wash it and I loved it and it happened to be my Broadway

debut a bunch of years ago and so now I'm come full circle Broadway debut OBC of a new

Andrew Lloyd Weber musical and I'm just ecstatic audiences are falling in love with this, especially young kids, what that means to you

Yes, it's so exciting because they're the next generation of theater makers. So to perform for so many kids who are excited and you can see it in their eyes because that was us

Like my first Broadway show, my eyes lit up and I was like, I think I got to do this

And it's happening every day here at Bat Cinderella, so it's fun

Sometimes it's like a party in there. I mean, people are going nuts

Listen, I think that's what makes me so happy about that is that, you know, it's just

It's just good to go and go back to theatre for what we actually want. We want to be entertained and we want to feel joy and we want to feel moved and we want to cry

And the show provides all of that. So I think it's a joyous piece to be part of and it's so colourful

It's a joy. Well, mostly we just want people to have a really good time

And I think there's certainly a time for a campy, fun, laugh out loud, romantic show

This is the time. So I hope people feel that way