Max vonEssen Evita Backstage Tour with a special Tony guest

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 7:27am

I found this charming video of Max showing the backstage workings of "Evita", along with a special appearance by a recent Tony winner. from Broadway.com... RC in Austin, Texas

Tony, Evita, Steve

[Wynbish]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 9:05am

I would never kick Steve Kazee out of my room

[ajh]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 9:16am

Max von Essen is adorable; I sure wouldn't mind getting him instead of Ricky, so to speak! On a really ungallant note, is the air con turned off backstage to protect the voices as, lovely as she is, Elena is sporting some most unfortunate sweat patches.....

[Rainbowhigh23]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 9:40am

^ As you said, the air conditioning is terrible for a singer's voice so maybe she intentionally doesn't have it on as the video was taken before a show; or maybe she was doing her pre-show stretching. Didn't Aretha Franklin not want air conditioning on in any building in which she was performing in order to not irritate her voice?

Wonder why Max didn't get a video of Ricky's pre-show warm up... oh wait, CarlosAlberto wouldn't allow it.



Updated On: 6/16/12 at 09:40 AM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 10:11am

He's adorable, but he DID say "ROGERS" outside her dressing room.

[Rainbowhigh23]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 10:16am

I would love to see Steve Kazee as Che. Maybe they could plan a performance where the Broadway shows swap actors, do it for charity maybe.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 10:20am

he DID say "ROGERS" outside her dressing room.

I believe he said "Elena Roger'S room." So while there was an S, it was a possessive S.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 12:22pm

LOL @ Rainbowhigh23, you got that right!

[Esswei]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 1:42pm

That video was really adorable. I love Elena's "Whaaaaaaat?" I got my tickets for Evita when Ricky Martin's out, hopefully Max von Essen'll be Che when I see it.

[TracyLord]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 5:39pm

That video is all kinds of cute. Max Von Essen is really charming, and Elena is adorable, even sweaty.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 6:13pm

This show looks terrifying.

Updated On: 6/16/12 at 06:13 PM

[ArtMan]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 6:13pm

Rainbowhigh23, years ago, Aretha was scheduled to do a concert at our Florida Theatre, (old theatre turned concert venue) during the middle of summer. Part of her demands stated that the air conditioning would be turned off to protect her voice. Even though it was the middle of summer, many of the audience were dressed in long sleeve, wraps and formal wear. After numerous complaints by the audience about the heat, management finally turned on the air conditioner. Aretha came on stage, did one song, then walked off, due to the air conditioner. She refused to come back on stage even if the air was turned off. Management had to give back all the money and Aretha was never allowed to perform at the theatre. (As of this writing).

[phan24]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 6:48pm

MAX VON ESSEN IS 38 YEARS OLD! WHAT THE F*CK, HE DOESN'T LOOK AT DAY OVER 25!

[willep]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 6:49pm

Re: Aretha

I went to the taping of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon back in December, the episode she sang on. She had pre-taped her performance, as she was a guest a week or so earlier, but Jimmy said to us "Be THANKFUL she is not here, we were not allowed to have the air conditioning on while she was here and so the studio got to be over 100 degrees, and we were all dying."

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 6/17/12 at 12:38am

Max is da Max, I'd love to see his Hedvig.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 6/17/12 at 3:18am

Seriously? 38? He certainly *could* pass for much younger. Must be helpful to have such a wide age range as an actor.

And Steve Kazee + MVE in the same dressing room? Oh my. No objections here.