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If you’ve seen the first season of Hazbin Hotel, you’ll know that there is no small amount of tension between Alastor and Vox. The two characters are eager to get at each other’s throats at the slightest provocation, something that showed up in a totally unintentional way when the actors performed on Broadway just before Hazbin Hotel season two made its way to Prime Video.

“It was a giddy whirlwind,” Christian Borle said, describing the Broadway performance of Hazbin Hotel during the cast reunion panel at MCM London 2025. “We had very little time to rehearse, so it was very… the whole thing came off very well, and the only person… everyone was so poised and prepared and relaxed. And the only person who blew their lyrics was me. I got out there for Stayed Gone and had been drilling the, ‘Top of the hour and we’re discussing a certain has-been who has been spotted cavorting around town after a seven-year absence.’”

It should be noted that Borle delivered that quickfire line flawlessly during the panel, to the cheers of fans, but on the night, he wasn’t quite so smooth.

“I got it now, but when we recorded that, we did it measure by measure, so I never had to rehearse it and I never had to do it in one fell swoop… I had a feeling I was going to blow it, but I was feeling really good. I got the first couple of lines out, and I was like ‘I got this’ and then I looked into the audience and I saw some sweet cosplayers who were mouthing it along with me and better than me and I totally went into the white room and I think I yelled ‘Fuck!’”

Of course, Alastor shows up in Stayed Gone to turn the song into something of an unwilling duet, which made the moment in the Broadway show extra fun since Amir Talai, Alastor’s voice actor, leaned into their rivalry after Borle’s lyrical slip-up.

“So I already blew it,” Borle recounted. “Amir has yet to make his entrance up in the box. And, of course, I don’t know if you know, but Vox and Alastor have a bit of a rivalry? We do not as people. But I shit the bed and Amir showed up and just had this fantastic look of like triumph on his face. And it was not a personal rivalry at all. It was just Alastor in all his glory and all of his words right, and then he cackled at the end, and it was so… It was my favorite moment of the show. It was so beautiful.”

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