Introducing Broadway CAST LIST and REDEMPTION!

Sure, we all thought we were stars in high school and now, when those videos surface, you can’t help but cringe a little (or a lot!!!) on the inside.  But baby, "if they could see me now!"

The Broadway CAST LIST and REDEMPTION Blog and Concert Series presents clips of Broadway and national touring musical theater artists that have been so secretly archived that not even Lincoln Center has access to them.  This blog will feature these gems online and culminate in a live NYC performance, to benefit Broadway Impact for Marriage Equality, where some of the featured Broadway’s finest will strive for redemption from their teenage years singing the same song (same choreography optional!).

It would be unfair to subject anyone to be the guinea pig except for myself so check out my post below.  I promise that it is as embarrassing as you would hope.  

If you would like to participate, please email BroadwayCastList@gmail.com !

Stay tuned for when another Cast List goes up!!!

-Kelvin

Cast List: Kelvin Moon Loh as The Leading Player (AMERICAN IDIOT Tour)

Who:  Kelvin Moon Loh
What:  Senior High Musical.  The Leading Player in "Pippin"      
Where:  H. Frank Carey High School.  Franklin Sqaure, NY.
When:  March 9, 2002

Kelvin: "I am mortified by this photo. I remember this is from the re-takes photo session because I thought the first round was dreadful.  If this was the lesser of two evils..... yikes."


"I started this crazy rumor that they were doing the King & I for my senior year.  Mind you, I was one of maybe 6 Asian students in my entire town."  














5 Things You Need To Know About this Video

1.  The song is "On The Right Track" from Pippin.  I watched the original version with Ben Vereen once a day for an entire year.  I wanted nothing more than to be the Asian Ben Vereen.  I actually still do.

2. The guy playing Pippin is Gary Ferrar and he remains one of my best friends today!  We went away for a weekend to the Poconos, while in rehearsal for this show, and we choreographed this number and ran it ad nauseam.

3.  I was tasked to buy jazz pants for the entire male cast members with my father at the instruction of our director.  After a trip to the local dance store, I came back with several pairs of jazz pants and one very special pair for myself...... on my own accord, I decided that it was within the costume design for me to wear the only pair of black skin tight velour jazz pants.  They were a necessity.

4.  I would estimate that I was at the height of my weight gain in this production.  Somewhere around 278lbs.  My pre-show diet consisted of 2 pizza slices, fresh baked cookies from our fundraisers, and a blue Powerade.  Some things never change.

5.  If you watch only ten seconds of this video it has be the last 10 (@ 3:40).  It's just hilarious.  The most graceless flip into a falsetto followed by the largest prep for THE slowest single pirouette and then!!!...... A 278 pound cooter slam.  Yes, you heard right.

Kelvin Moon Loh is currently in the ensemble of the 1st National Tour of American Idiot.  "Cooter Slamming" is no longer a part of his special skills.