I really enjoy the constant change in TV. It's fun to play a character that is, hopefully, growing and developing over a long period of time.
I'm from St. Louis and grew up going to The Muny.
My grandmother had always played show tunes from classic musicals at the piano when we were growing up, so that helped me fall in love with Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, etc.
When I'm doing TV, I miss theatre, and when I'm doing theatre, I miss being in front of the camera.
We all have friends and family who see one path for us, and we go a different path, and it's not necessarily what they would have wanted.
In the past, I've done some covering. My first show in New York, I covered three guys in 'Jersey Boys.' I think it was always something that was helpful for keeping my head on straight.
For a while, I was all sports all the time. Then, as I started to get into theater, they dropped away, but I hung on tight with a highly competitive Ultimate Frisbee team. It was probably less intense than I remember, but it was fun.
I just never thought I'd have, like... fans, I guess?
You can't beat New York for food.
'Miss Saigon' was my first professional show. It was one of the first regional productions of 'Miss Saigon.'
I've always been a huge John Guare fan. But Edward Albee - he just can't be beat.
I may have gotten my first job from 'Backstage.' I remember going to the Equity offices, and I signed up for an audition. I left. I was grabbing a coffee somewhere and looking at 'Backstage' and saw that there was an audition for another project going on at the same time. It was called 'Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver.'
I don't know if I would ever truly want somebody's life in my hands. I think what these people, what doctors and nurses and public service employees do on a day-to-day basis, is unreal, and it takes a special type of person to do that - and I don't think I'm that type of person. I'm happy to play one on TV.
