Most Emotionally Hard Show You've Had To Do...

Sometimes shows can be really tough on your not only physically and emotionally. Yeah, doing Crazy For You isn't going to send you to a therapist but there are some shows out there with such strong subjects that it can be hard to separate yourself from them.

For me, it would have to be A Man of No Importance. Such a strong show to be a part of but emotionally it took such a lot out of me and the rest of the cast. Totally rewarding, though.

It would definitely have to be "The Little Foxes." I was cast as Horace Giddens and it was my first dramatic lead. If you haven't seen it, it's some very heavy drama. I had to perfect the Southern accent and be extremely ill. I had to learn to walk with a limp and be helped to walk by other cast members. Then I had to learn how to use that old wheelchair and make my way around the stage with it. And, of course, the death scene. One thing that was of major importance to me was that it not be cheesy. I have to collapse while climbing up stairs because I'm having an attack. I did not want it to be a stupid cheesy immature death scene. It was gutwrenching and I wanted to portray it as so. I practiced it so many times and in so many ways...but I got it. Not to mention there are so many heavy fight scenes between Regina and Horace...especially Horace's big monologue which ends Act 2. That show took so much out of my emotionally...but it was, without a doubt, one of the most rewarding theatrical experiences of my life.

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Tobias in "Sweeney Todd" and Piggy in "Lord of the Flies" are at the top of my list. Seymour in "Little Shop" can be pretty difficult sometimes.

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Probably 'Night Mother or The Children's Hour. I've had to do shows that have had harder individual scenes, but those shows were the hardest to do overall.

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BST is using that as a hypothetical, since we know she's just a cold-hearted emotionless bitch in reality.



The most emotionally difficult I've had to do is Tituba in The Crucible in high school. That was rough. I was having so much difficulty nailing it in rehearsals but on opening night, everything just clicked, and I could see my fellow actors look at me in surprise on stage. It was really gratifying. (Yes, I was playing a Barbados slave. Yuh-shut up.)

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well for The Wiz and Wizard of Oz, I had scenes where I had to cry..... at first it was totally hard I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I didn't know how to cry on cue or anything like that. We spent a good many rehearsals trying to make me cry. in the end I cried.

oh and when I was doing Peter Pan, we had this wacked out director at first who told everyone to lose weight "You're children not monsters!" and told the guy playing Peter to lift weights..... which he already does but who the hell tells a 14 year old boy he has to get more abs? and who tells girls they have to go on diets for a school play? that was i guess emotionally draining....in the end that director got fired, and got replaced with a new one.



I guess the most though was The Miracle Worker. For the audition, they tied a bandana around my eyes so I didnt know what I was doing, couldnt see. That was TOUGH! So for the call backs, they asked me to act without the bandana. even harder. It got even harder as the rehearsals started, but everyone there was really really helpful

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Updated On: 3/18/05 at 07:36 AM

A Clockwork Orange (the musical).

Tom in The Glass Menagerie...so depressing & draining, but SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO rewarding...I loved every second of playing that role.

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