It's a point where we kind of step out as actors again. You can hear the audience gasp because they have waited all night to hear those first chords of 'Imagine' and there is a space - and then it starts. It feels important.

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We had a great drama department and a great on site voice teacher actually. I started taking lessons with her and doing some community theatre. Then when I was seventeen, I did some professional theatre gigs locally and had already made up my mind that that's what I really wanted to do and my parents really never questioned it.

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I had a great time in college, and I did some really fantastic stuff. After that, I did Sweeny Todd and I played Tobias. Love that role! We also did the first off Broadway or outside of New York premiere of Side Show (after it had closed on Broadway) and I played Buddy.

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I don't know. I would love to do some TV, but what I'd really love is to see Memphis   on Broadway. It would be the crowning jewel in my career…if my career were ending in a few years (laughs) but it's one of those roles that you just love doing I can't wait for it to come here be seen. It is (not to sound dramatic or anything) but a triumph and return to the American Musical.

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They were filming this TV pilot called Adventures of St. Clair Island in Seattle . It was really kind of low budget. It wasn't like Hollywood ; they were filming in Seattle and trying to shop around. My brother was into summer stock Seattle 's children theatre and I was about seven, I think, and they were having auditions. Our elementary school had gotten the 'word' and my brother was going to go.

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