VIDEO: PRINCE OF BROADWAY's Emily Skinner Posts Pre-Performance Preps

Some of Broadway's biggest talents are on loan to Japan these days, as PRINCE OF BROADWAY premieres in Tokyo.

The new musical celebrating the extraordinary six-decade Broadway career of producer-director Harold Prince, began performances October 23rd and plays through November 22, 2015 at Tokyu Theatre Orb in Tokyo, Japan and November 28-December 10, 2015 at Umeda Arts Theatre, Main Hall, in Osaka, Japan.

In this fun video, cast member Emily Skinner (Billy Elliot, Tony Award nominee for Side Show) records some of the last minute warmups and preparations before a performance as the overture plays in the background. You can hear melodies from THE PAJAMA GAME, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, SWEENEY TODD and WEST SIDE STORY.

The star-studded cast also includes Josh Grisetti (It Shoulda Been You), Shuler Hensley (Tony Award winner for Oklahoma!), Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of the Opera, Tony Award nominee for Les Miserables), Nancy Opel (Honeymoon in Vegas, Tony Award nominee for Urinetown), Bryonha Marie Parham (After Midnight, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), Mariand Torres (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Wicked), Kaley Ann Voorhees (Phantom of the Opera), Tony Yazbeck (Tony Award nominee for On the Town),Reon Yuzuki (former Top Star of the Takarazuka Revue Company's Star Troupe), Eric Van Tielen and Erin Clemons.

PRINCE OF BROADWAY, which features words and music from many of the shows that have earned Hal Prince a record 21 Tony Awards, has a book by two-time Tony Award nominee David Thompson (The Scottsboro Boys, Steel Pier), co-direction and choreography by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (The Producers, Contact, Crazy for You) and direction by Mr. Prince.