The Official Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, part two — Page 81

Thank you, Sarah.

I've just been reflecting on how much I really adore Raul tonight, but it didn't seem quite enough to warrant bumping the thread. I listened to his Downstage Center interview again today. I am continually amazed at how completely he throws himself into everything he does, and it totally comes through in his performances. I'm glad that Company is trasnferring to New York because more people should see him as Bobby... he is just everything that that character should be, and then some. And I'm so happy to have gotten to meet him, if only for a minute, to let him know how much I enjoyed getting to see him play that part.

His voice is one of the only things that's been able to calm me down lately. I had See Her Smile on yesterday, and it just chilled me out completely.

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When I was going through a really rough time I listend to TTB for 3 months straight. That's why I had him sign that, and not Taboo or the Company playbill, or Rocky.

I began by having him sign stuff that was really meaningful to me, but then I just started whipping out anything I could find, because asking for an autograph is like.... my default icebreaker. It hasn't been lately so much with him, which is why I didn't get an autograph at Company -- aside from the fact that we were just sort of thrown into conversation with him because everything was so loud and chaotic.

The first thing I asked him to sign was the Playbill at The Normal Heart, and then the B'way Under the Stars pamphlet because it was all I had on me and I needed something, but after that, the ttB poster.

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Updated On: 4/11/06 at 12:36 AM