What In The Heights and West Side Story ‘21 Mean To Me
In 2007, I was on Broadway.com when I came across an opening night video for a new musical called In The Heights. What struck me immediately was that this was a musical about the Latino community in Washington Heights. And I was especially won over by the comments from original cast member Priscilla Lopez when…
War Stories: The One With Three Tams
In 2007, I booked my first mainstage gig fresh out of high school. It was a production of Miss Saigon, one of my favorite shows of all time. Unlike Aspects, this was a (mostly) positive experience. In addition to this being my first gig that wasn’t a school show or a youth production, it brought…
The One That Got Away, Part 2
So Aspects of Love’s mercifully short run ended and we were all free to go about our lives and finally get haircuts. Seriously, our costume designer was such a perfectionist that you couldn’t alter your appearance from day 1 of rehearsal until closing and that meant no haircuts. Also you couldn’t even wear your own…
The One That Got Away, Part 1
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a big fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Oh yes, that big. Ok, maybe not that big. So imagine my excitement when I found out that in the second semester of my sophomore year of college, the theater department would be producing his ‘89 musical, Aspects of Love,…
War Stories: The One With The Sportsball
So these posts are specifically a way to break up the seriousness of my other posts, which will get pretty serious at points as well as an excuse to share some of my nuttier experiences. So I’ll start us all off easy with 2007’s The Scarlet Letter. Or was it Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet…
Coping With COVID
On March 8th 2020, the production of Beauty and the Beast that I had been rehearsing since September 3rd of 2019 (long story) played its final performance. It had been a helluva ride but through all the obstacles thrown in our way (and there were several), we put on one of if not the best…
Ok, Here We Go
Hello all! You’ve probably gleaned two things from the title of this blog, that the author (yours truly) is two things, an actor and an Aspie. You’re also probably wondering what the sam hill an Aspie is. It means I have Asperger’s Syndrome. Yes, the official term is now “on the autistic spectrum” but screw…
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