PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson

[Unknown User]

PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#1

Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:12am

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/127617.html

Special skills: Works well with gays


What's with that!!!

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#2

Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:15am

It's on his web page also. Whatever it means, he can work with me any day.

BroadwayEd

[Calvin]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#2

Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:21am

He gives a little marriage shout-out in his Hair bio, too.

[KingKong]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#3

Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:23am

I think all the outrage over at ATC is HILARIOUS. The things people choose to get offended at. We have bigger battles.

[LizzieCurry]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#4

Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:47am

And for those who haven't seen it... http://talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1703870

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[adamgreer]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#5

Posted: 3/24/09 at 12:00pm

The ATC-ers have really gotten their panties in a bunch over this one. I thought it was hilarious, and added a bit of humor to these mundane questionnaires.

[Justin D]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#6

Posted: 3/24/09 at 12:18pm

I too thought it was Hilarious, lets just hope Rosie doesnt read it otherwise she will organise a boycot of the show

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre

[bjh2114]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#7

Posted: 3/24/09 at 12:44pm

Personally I don't find it offensive, but I do find it stupid. It just makes him look like he thinks he's the funniest person in the world. Not so.

[being.jeremiah]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#8

Posted: 3/24/09 at 12:51pm

Boo Playbill questionnaires. Boo.

[uncageg]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#9

Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:17pm

So I am assuming he is straight. Was the marriage shout out about him being married?

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Calvin]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#10

Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:19pm

No no, something about "he thinks anyone should have have the right to marry the person they love" or something like that.

[sgv123]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#11

Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:23pm

From the playbill:

" Will thinks anyone should be able to get married if they want to."

[Dolly_Levi]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#12

Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:47pm

I agree with the poster above ... while not offensive, his answers are foolish - and UNfunny. Yikes.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. Carol Channing

Updated On: 3/24/09 at 01:47 PM

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#13

Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:13pm

Sigh. And he likes Radiohead. He's wonderful.

[CSonBroadway]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#14

Posted: 3/24/09 at 3:48pm

He looks like Tarzan.

I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&. "Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."

[singtopher]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#15

Posted: 3/24/09 at 9:26pm

I, for one, enjoyed his answers.

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#16

Posted: 3/24/09 at 9:36pm

I found them funny. I like his casualness.

I especially loved this line.

"Worst onstage mishap: During previews for Lestat (yes, Lestat)...

And for the record yes he is straight, I actually heard some inside "scoop" while at the stage door. The person I was sitting next to during the show is friends with someone in the show so after the show they were next to me talking to me/her friend/some other people and said something about his relationship. I'm not saying anything more. But the woman next to me with her two daughters (the kinds that love stupid gossip) of course had to to tell everyone in the cast when they came out of the stage door they were aware of his little secret. I wanted to slap them across the face.

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#17

Posted: 3/24/09 at 9:54pm

As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing wrong with looking like Tarzan. WOOF!!!!!

BroadwayEd

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#18

Posted: 3/25/09 at 7:37am

As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing wrong with looking like Tarzan. WOOF!!!!!

SECONDED.

[broadwayfan7]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#19

Posted: 3/25/09 at 9:34am

I thought it was a great Q and A.

"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."

[SNAFU]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#20

Posted: 3/25/09 at 1:05pm

My, my, my, it takes very little to make people's panties to go Tarzan Style on them! Geesh he was being flippant and trying to be entertaining. I found nothing wrong with the Q & A
Grow a thicker skin people fight those battles which need be fought stop wasting time on trivial perceived slights!

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

[rwlevin]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#21

Posted: 3/25/09 at 3:22pm

I never knew there were any rumours about his sexuality. A few months ago, I found the strangest video on youtube insinuating that Will was an aetheist, okay, it wasn't insinuating, it was saying he was an aetheist. Anyway, Will actually commented on this video saying that he didn't understand the video and addressed rumours saying that he'd recently gotten divorced.

I highly doubt he's still a practicing mormon. I have a mormon friend who refuses to see Hair with me due to more than just the nude scene.

I enjoyed his Cue and A. Based on the article, I think he'd be a pretty cool guy to hang with.

Waiting for tickets to Hair August 2008

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#22

Posted: 3/25/09 at 3:48pm

Rwlevin, I totally agree with your comment about WS being a cool person to hang out with -- not that I'll ever have the opportunity but, if nothing else, I don't think I'd be bored.

BroadwayEd

[Unknown User]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#23

Posted: 3/25/09 at 5:49pm

At this stage in the game, I don't think it's any big secret that Will and another well-known actress are a couple. The two of them have appeared in public (PDAs and all) many times.

And that concludes the Page Six "Blind Item" portion of BWW for the day....

[PiraguaGuy2]

re: PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Will Swenson#24

Posted: 3/25/09 at 5:51pm

Oh wah wah. If it was "Scientologists" or "evangelicals" ATC'd be laughing their asses off.

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