What Inspires You?

Jason Robert Brown
Donald O'Connor
William Finn
Brent Carver
Carolee Carmello
There are so many... those are some of the main ones though.
Anytime I see a good performance I'm inspired.

Updated On: 1/19/04 at 10:00 PM

Donald Holder
Ken Posner
Natashia Katz

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Good for you BroadwayNYC!

Idina Menzel is pretty inspiring right now because i am listening to still i can't be still and she's so versatile and good. Also: Sondheim, Bernadette Peters, Michelle Federer, Jack Johnson, Stephen Schwartz, Sutton Foster ... to name a few

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Marissa Jaret Winokur
Jerry Mitchell
Michele Lynch
The NYTimes dance critic
The Tony voters
Marc Shaiman
Scott Wittman

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A good story: Shadow Box Rent etc.

STEVOS

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NAMO, you mentioned Michele Lynch...........You must be an insider.

I forgot to mention my biggest inspiration....NEW YORK CITY!!
as if it wasn't implied... :)

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When I first came to the city to begin my creative journey I had to a find a job asap, the big fish from a small pond needed money and fast! On day two I became a busboy,I worked with a man named Hector(what a head of hair the man had, a hairline like Eddie Munster) who spoke no english and who said I was "gringo loco" and that I did everything wrong, after a few weeks with my new "partner", I began to see how hard he worked and seemed to love his job(which I HATED).I tried so hard to make him happy and be as fast on the floor as he was,slowly I moved up to waiter, found a new "family" of actors, all new to the city, all scared at what lay ahead. We dreamed our dreams, went to our classes and auditions, fell in and out of love, I really fell OUT, to friends and family! Left that job, got a tour, came back and left a few more jobs and had some of my dreams both come true and kind of end. One day I was walking down W 47th St. and bumped into Hector,I was still "gringo loco" (but said with love) and he was still working away, happily at a new restaurant and still with his amazing hairline in tact! He asked if I was "famous actor now", I said not that I heard, we chatted and he went about his business and as I watched him vanish into the crowd in Times Square I remembered how much he inspired me, what the city was like when it was new and how the lights of Broadway and those who are drawn to it NEVER let me down and never stop giving me inspiration to keep trying my best for them and...Hector.

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Sheek - you should really write a journal.

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Sheek, do you like cobb salads?

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Well, sheekala (pronounced SHEIK-ala...not she-KALA, as I had once thought!), I couldn't begin to top that. Hell, I'm even inspired by Hector!

What also inspires me are great words written by a great author. Such as Christopher Durang...which leads me to:

COME SEE ME IN A SHOW!

I'm in BETTY'S SUMMER VACATION, playing at the Native Aliens theatre on W. 23rd Street, Feb. 11-21!

I'm saying some of the most brilliant lines I've ever been allowed to say and I tell you I'm INSPIRED!!!

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