3 years ago we spent all our money putting our stuff in storage to move back to NYC to do Sweeney Todd without a place to live. We had a two year old, a dog and my wife and I were expecting baby #2. I did the only thing I knew how to do. I worked. I worked harder than I ever have. No sleep. Little food. Little hope. It wasn’t to be recognized. It wasn’t for applause. It was to make it to the next paycheck. I had been working 2 or 3 jobs at once during most of the time and 7 months ago we were still 2 months behind on our rent. We had to borrow money just to make it through rehearsals of CHESS.
I wouldn’t have made it if it wasn’t for my rock @jennlockechris. But you do what you have to do for the people you love.
Today I’m standing outside of a Broadway theatre with my face on it and my name next to “Tony Nominated Best Actor”. A kind man at the stage door had all the playbills of shows I was in over these last 3 years. I was overcome with every emotion. Looking at my wife and my brother, everything we’ve lived through flashed before my eyes and Smokie Norful’s DEAR GOD rang in my ears. FOR MY LIFE LORD I THANK YOU!
Shout out to the ones that hold us down and lift us up! Mama we made it!
Despite so much practice, television still manages to get a few things wrong, specifically the process, the product and the people. (It occasionally manages to nail the excitement.) As seen on TV, plays are assembled in days, not years. Productions are unmitigated fiascos unless they’re star-making masterpieces. Actors are ridiculous, pathetic, needy and occasionally homicidal.
The Labour life peer and author of the landmark review of ACE acknowledged the difficulty of the issue, but nonetheless argued that censoring creative works for ideological reasons was unfair.
"Some of it is cancelling for political reasons, cancelling artists and cancelling performances, and that’s not right," she told the Communications and Digital Committee on 14th April.
Hodge was answering questions about her review of ACE, which deemed the funding body vital, but called for a radical overhaul of its processes.
I don't think I've clocked this one before, but on both sides of me I had families crunching their way through popcorn. Is this an ATG thing or coming elsewhere too?
With last night's reviews, I feel like we've got a chance of the production extending again, do you think we might wind up with any exciting replacements?
