Closed
Last night marked the sixth and final performance of WCT’s Over the River & Through the Woods. It was a show that I am proud to have been a part of, and I consider it a huge personal achievement in terms of my own acting “career”. If somebody had told me a year ago, when I was just beginning to rehearse for West Side Story, that I’d be performing as one of the leads in a non-musical, I would’ve been skeptical. I’ve always enjoyed musical theatre, and it was the love of singing that got me into theatre in the first place.
But it’s funny what a little peer pressure can do, especially when it’s a peer whose opinion holds a lot of weight in your decisions. So I tried out. And not 2 hours afterwards, I was offered the part of Nick, a young New Yorker who visits his Italian grandparents (all four of them!) every Sunday for dinner, until he gets offered a promotion… and it’s in Seattle. In a last-ditch effort to keep their grandson close, they secretly invite a special someone to dinner in hopes that he’ll fall head over heels and just won’t be able to leave.
As with any show, it’s the cast and crew that brought this script to life. Everyone fell so naturally into their characters - it was a real pleasure from the first read-through all the way to the final performance. And yet, this is drama and we were not without drama of our own. But that all melts away when you decide what to remember, and I’ll remember what turned out to be a wonderful experience and awesome people.
What’s next, now that this show has come to a close? Easy answer: we’ve already started rehearsals for Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It’s a sort of polar opposite to this show: huge cast, huge music, subjective subject matter, and at the Grand Theater. But it will be great fun, and I can’t wait.
Dino Corvino said:
Way to go Andy. Congrats.
July 19th, 2008 at 11:06 am #
Jill Knetter said:
Everything came beautiful, didn’t it Nicholas?
July 19th, 2008 at 12:34 pm #
Alex said:
Nice work.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:34 pm #
erik said:
Good to see you back on the CW, Andy. Have fun with Sweeny Todd!
July 20th, 2008 at 6:00 pm #
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