Videos
Aug. 18, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 13 w/ guests John Krause and Molly McCook
About John Krause and Molly McCook: John Krause is currently the understudy for Orpheus in Hadestown. He's toured nationally with Wicked as a member of the ensemble and understudy for the role of Fiyero. Other professional credits include Davy in Newsies (Sacramento Music Circus), understudying Roy and others in Fun Home (Broadway), Drew in Rock of Ages (NCL and Las Vegas), and ensemble member and understudy for Johnny, Will, and Tunny in Green Day’s American Idiot: The Musical (International Tour). He also played Sebastian Valmont (and more) in Cruel Intentions Musical LA. Molly McCook is currently playing Mandy Baxter in Fox's Last Man Standing. She has also appeared as a recurring guest star on the Freeform series “Good Trouble.” She recently starred in the cable movie “The Landlord.” She also can be seen in a recurring guest star role on the streaming comedy series “The Ranch.” Her other television credits include “Modern Family,” “Murder In the First,” “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I…
Aug. 16, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 12 w/ Wicked's Lindsay Pearce
Book a meet & greet or lesson with Lindsay HERE: https://broadwayplus.com/artist/lindsaypearce/ About Lindsay Pearce: Lindsay Heather Pearce is an American actress and singer. Pearce is best known for being one of the runners-up on The Glee Project, which gave her a guest starring role on the TV show Glee. She has starred as Wendla Bergman, the female lead in the musical Spring Awakening, which was presented in Los Angeles by Over the Moon Productions. The show opened on March 16, 2012, and ended its run on April 22, 2012. Pearce then starred in the Los Angeles return of the Damon Intrabartolo-Jon Hartmere pop opera Bare. Beginning on September 5, Pearce took on the lead role of Ivy for a limited three week engagement. For this role she won BroadwayWorld LA's "Best Leading Actress in a Musical" award. She's done more LA theatre such as Cruel Intentions Musical, For The Record Live, Jennifer's Body Musical, and more since. In February 2020, Lindsay took over the role of Elphaba i…
Aug. 15, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 11 w/ Cruel Intentions Musical's Jordan Ross
About Jordan Ross: Jordan is a writer/producer from the suburbs of Philadelphia. He is the co-creator of the successful musical Cruel Intentions Musical. He has previously written for shows such as E!'s The Royals. After graduating from Temple University in 2010, he relocated to Los Angeles upon optioning his first screenplay, Rock Way, to Dolphin Entertainment. He spent three years as executive assistant to Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, the creative minds behind El Rey's Matador, MTV's Scream, and ABC's The Crossing. He co-executive produced/co-wrote NBC's Cruel Intentions television pilot and debuted an indie/alternative jukebox musical based on Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel/film, A Walk To Remember, which he directed. Most recently he's adapted more movies such as Jennifer's Body, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Never Been Kissed for the stage.
Aug. 12, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 10 w/ Anastasia's Lila Coogan
Book a class with Lila HERE: https://www.artistsandbeyond.com/lilacoogan About Lila Coogan: Originally from Ossining, New York, At the young age of 8, Lila was convinced by a friend to audition for a local youth theatres production of Annie for the role of Molly. Though she didn’t get cast, the head of the youth theatre saw potential in her and asked that she participate in their next production that year – Hansel and Gretel – Since then Lila has been pursing acting. In 2006 she made her professional acting début in the American Girl Review in alternating between the roles of Hallie and Laura. In 2007, Lila had the honor of making her Broadway début as Jane Banks in Mary Poppins. In 2008 Lila had the amazing opportunity of performing in the Actors Equity Fights Aids Benefit concert of Pamela’s First Musical in the title role of Pamela along side the brilliant Donna Murphy and Directed by Graciela Daniele at Town Hall in NYC. The show featured a Score by David Zippel & Cy Coleman a…
Aug. 7, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 9 w/ Wicked's Olivia Valli
Check out Olivia Valli and her friend Fiona McIntyre's Podcast "What's Your Backup Plan" here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-your-backup-plan/id1506506418 About Olivia Valli: Olivia Valli is a born and raised Jersey girl. She is a Montclair State alum and received her BFA in musical theatre. Shortly after college was cast in Wicked and completed her run on the 2nd National Tour of Wicked as an ensemble member and an understudy for Elphaba after almost three years in January 2019. On May 20th 2019 she made her Off-Broadway debut in Jersey Boys as her grandmother Mary Delgado at New World Stages where she holds the honor of being the first person to play her relative in a Broadway or Off-Broadway show. Olivia has also completed three solo shows at Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York City. Other credits include The Threepenny Opera (Jenny), Wendy’s Shadow (Young Wendy) and Foolerie (Kate).
Aug. 4, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 8 w/ For The Record's Michael Thomas Grant
About Michael Thomas Grant: Michael Thomas Grant is an actor known for his current role as Leif in the new NBC series, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist. Stage credits include Sandy Frink in the world premiere musical Romy & Michele's High School Reunion, The Geek in For The Record Brat Pack, Clueless Unauthorized, Scream Unauthorized, UMPO Mean Gurlz, UMPO Jurassic Park, and more!
Aug. 1, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 7 w/ guest Matthew Scott Montgomery
About Matthew Scott Montgomery: THEATRE: Stage Kiss (Geffen Playhouse), LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Performance by an Actor, Backstage West Garland Award for Best Actor, and Ovation Nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Kendall Parker in YELLOW (LA Weekly Awards’ Best Ensemble, Backstage Garland Awards’ Best Production/Ensemble) written and directed by Del Shores (Coast Playhouse), The Young Playwrights Festival (The Blank Theatre, 2014 & 2015), Spring Awakening (The Production Company), Revolver (Celebration Theatre), Friends Like These (Theatre Unleashed), Dead Boys (writer and actor), I Know What You Did Last Summer Musical, A Walk To Remember Musical, and The Best Chrismukkah Ever Musical. FILM/TV: Jane the Virgin (CW), Del Shores’ Southern Baptist Sissies opposite Dale Dickey and Leslie Jordan, Sonny With a Chance, So Random, Austin & Ally, and Shake It Up! (Disney Channel), Night of the Living Fred (Nickelodeon), and Expecting a Miracle (Hallmark …
July 31, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 6 w/ Pitch Perfect's Shelley Regner
About Shelley Regner: A true triple threat, Shelley Regner is most notably known as fan-favorite, Ashley, the Bella member who has "literally been there the whole time" in the musical hit-franchise Pitch Perfect. She was seen reprising her role in Pitch Perfect 3 at the end of 2017 in theatres everywhere. Born and raised a Southern Belle from Louisiana, Shelley was discovered as a local talent by the producers of Pitch Perfect and went on to perform in all three films. Now pursuing her dream in Los Angeles, Shelley has found success as an award-nominated member in the L.A. theatre community appearing in numerous shows at Rockwell Table & Stage (Cruel Intentions Musical: original cast; UMPO: A League of Their Own & Scream!), Glory/Struck Productions (Bare L.A.: A Rock Musical, American Idiot L.A., Almost Famous in Concert), Third Street Theatre (Bronies!) and Cabrillo Music Theatre (Company), as well as a Guest Artist at Carnegie Hall (Deke Sharon's Total Vocal) in New York. She tour…
July 30, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 5 w/ Frozen at the Hyperion's Janaya Jones
About Janaya Jones: Janaya has appeared at Entertainment/Theme Parks: “Dime” in Five and Dime, “Elsa” in Frozen: Live at the Hyperion, and "DJ DeeJay" in The Disney Junior Dance Party (Disney’s California Adventure). "Treasure the Pirate Queen" in Pirates Dinner Adventure in Buena Park Regional Theatre: “Female Swing” in RMP: Never Been Kissed. Previous Roles: "Stan Uris/Henry Bowers & Mike Hanlon Understudy" in RMP: Stephen King's IT. (Rockwell Table and Stage) .“Kala” in Tarzan (Performance Riverside), “Trixie Who”/”Grandma Who Understudy" in Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe Theatre), “Esmeralda” in Hunchback of Notre Dame (Moonlight Stage), “Lisa” in Mamma Mia (Moonlight Stage), Original Musicals: “Dee” in Pump Up the Volume: A 90’s Palooza! (San Diego Musical Theatre), "Mel" in Mixtape (Lambs Players Theatre) “Doris Walker” in Miracle on 34th Street (San Diego Musical Theatre)
July 26, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 4 w/ A Christmas Carol's Alex Nee
About Alex Nee: You may have seen him on the road as Andrej in the First National Tour of ONCE or as the lead in AMERICAN IDIOT, performing in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the US, and Canada. Alex Nee made his Broadway debut as Ferdy/Nicholas in A Christmas Carol (NY Times Critics’ Pick, Winner of Drama Desk Award’s Best Adaptation) from director Matthew Warchus (Matilda) and writer Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child). This comes on the heels of an acclaimed run at the Celebration Theatre as his dream role, the Emcee in Cabaret (LADCC, Robby, and Scenie award winner, Ovation Recommended, LA Times Critics’ Choice). Over the last few years, he has played Romeo in the brand new, developing, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo musical version of Romeo and Juliet, with book by Bradley Bredeweg Link to Amanda Leigh Jerry's single: https://open.spotify.com/album/3S4C4zPaO57mLVWperurZd?highlight=spotify%3Atrack%3A4Pm2B30hLm3uqgCLJ8Nijd
July 25, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 3 w/ For The Record's Parissa Koo
About Parissa Koo: Born in Los Gatos, CA, she was a member of a Jazz Choir which sang at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She moved to LA to pursue a career in television, film, and theater, and has co-starred on The Disney Channel, USA Network, Funny or Die, and the YouTube Web series, Gal Pals. She has performed in numerous musicals in LA as well as the Norwegian Cruise Line Escape. Parissa was last seen starring in For the Record Live's: The Brat Pack at Los Angeles's popular 80's speakeasy bar, Breakroom 86. Look out for her on the final season of Gal Pals on Youtube this year.
July 23, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 2 w/ guest Amanda Kruger
About Amanda Kruger: Born in Vermont, Amanda ultimately grew up all over New England. They worked as a professional Wrangler at the HF Bar Ranch in Saddlestring, Wyoming, continuing their work with horses in Los Angeles training and rehabilitating rescue horses. Amanda has booked television roles in the CW's 90210 and Nick Jr.'s The Fresh Beat Band. They continued to perform regularly in theatre at Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Feliz, Ovation nominated Le Ronde de Lunch at The Skylight Theatre, and the world tour of new musical, Land of Smiles.
July 22, 2020
Backstage With Becca B. Ep. 1 w/ guest Pablo Rossil
About Swingin' With The Mouse: Swingin' With The Mouse takes a deep dive into the Disney songbook, reimagining various songs to pay homage to the writers, composers, and musicians responsible for some of its greatest musical moments, including Randy Newman, Richard and Robert Sherman, Elton John, Stephen Schwartz, Alan Menken, Alan Silvestri, and many more. The project covers various aspects of the company, including, but not limited to, music from its animated films, Broadway shows, theme park attractions, and live-action films. Check out Swingin' With The Mouse (Vol.1): https://open.spotify.com/album/0aLix0RrYCWa8FsJMPJoan?si=twuTxRSMQYGO9xfLHI3WHw
March 1, 2020
The Secret Garden Opening Night at @CTGLA's Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles)
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