Ben Platt and Molly Gordon got here able to sing theater classics and trendy favorites for Elle‘s Tune Affiliation shared Saturday (July 15).
The journal’s Tune Affiliation recreation provides its friends a phrase, and are then tasked with singing a tune that incorporates the given phrase in 10 seconds or much less. Platt, nevertheless, was greater than ready and didn’t break a sweat in the course of the recreation.
“I believe I’m gonna do extremely properly, I’m not gonna lie. My household performs a recreation referred to as Sing Down in our automotive journeys. That’s mainly precisely this recreation,” he stated, to which Gordon added, “That is your worst nightmare, Elle.”
The sport kicked off with the phrase “boy,” and the pair, naturally, discovered a theater basic throughout the allotted 10 seconds. “Boy, boy, loopy boy/ Get cool, boy/ Bought a rocket/ In your pocket/ Keep cool boy,” the pair sang from their choice “Cool” from West Facet Story.
Platt and Gordon introduced it again to the 2020s when the phrase “break” rolled round. Their alternative? “You gained’t break my soul/ You gained’t break my soul,” as in Beyoncé’s Renaissance hit “Break My Soul.” Gordon hilariously remarked the previous Future’s Little one singer was her mom, whereas Platt remarked that he misses the pop icon.
ABBA additionally made an look within the recreation when the phrase “tremendous” was assigned to the duo. “Tremendous trouper, lights are gonna discover you/ However I gained’t really feel blue,” Platt and Gordon sang from the group’s 1980 basic “Tremendous Trouper.” Elsewhere within the recreation, the pair carried out tracks from Imply Women the musical, Camp Rock, Alice by Coronary heart, Rihanna and Platt’s personal catalog. Platt and Gordon completed the sport with a stable 13 out of 15.
Platt and Gordon star as Amos Klobuchar and Rebecca-Diane within the movie Theater Camp, launched on July 14. The plot sees the duo, together with a band of different quirky theater camp counselors, teaching budding performers at AdirondACTS, an upstate New York theater camp. The founding father of the camp, Joan Rubinsky (Amy Sedaris) falls ailing, leaving her son, Troy (Jimmy Tatro), to workforce up with Klobuchar and Rebecca-Diane to maintain the establishment afloat.
Watch Platt and Gordon play Tune Affiliation within the video above.