I love Anthony Rapp. I'm still sad that I missed him on the LSOH tour last year because he was filming RENT. *sigh*
Speaking of Jonathan Larson, it's interesting that Matthew Scott and Michael Ingersoll (the tour Nick Massi) have experience playing Jon in tick tick Boom, b/c that show, like JB, is (auto)biographical and uses narration. I love ttB.
I just revisited this interview with JLY with ActorsLife. It might actually be my favorite. Either orally or in print, he's such an articulate guy. If you're an actor, like Carole Ann, his insights might especially resonate with you. But even in general, I love reading what he has to say about success. It's not so much about finding it, per se, but creating your own opportunities by persistence, and having the confidence to follow through with them.
I'm starting to discover that building a career and finding success has much more to do with your own stubborn persistent effort to nudge the happenings of your life into the most compelling STORY you can fashion, instead of just blindly allowing yourself to just fall into anyone's lap who's willing to offer you a paycheck. I turned down lucrative chorus contracts at regional theatres in my very earliest years in New York and instead did avant-garde plays downtown for nothing more than a travel stipend. I certainly couldn't AFFORD to do that, but something in my soul told me it was the right thing to do. ActorsLife Interview with John Lloyd Young
Updated On: 9/23/06 at 02:01 PM