My wife and I saw your closing performance of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST today and agreed thought you were amazing as The Beast. I'd seen you as Gaston back in December, I thought you were great then as well but you really I hadn't seen before into the Beast. Bon voyage and we hope to see you in something again soon. I read earlier on your site that you have a CD in the works? Please post more info about that soon!
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I have been in this room for many, many nights after many, many performances of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. This is the last night I'll spend in the room, before one show tomorrow, an 11 hour drive through the night into the early morning, a little sleep, putting stuff into storage, and a flight on Tuesday to join the already rehearsing Voyager cast in Florida.
Thank goodness for the five dark days we had in early February or I'd have not had any significant time off since... since... I don't know when. January 2004. I'm not complaining, someone just pointed that out to me.
Anyway, I want to express my gratitude and thanks to the cast and crew of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST for a long and successful run. You will be in my thoughts, and I will not forget you nor some of the strangeness we encountered together.
What kinds of strangeness, you may ask... well, think on this: In this run, including understudies who went on... I played Beast to 2 Belles, plus another in a rehearsal. I also played Beast to 2 Gastons. I played Gaston to 2 Beasts. I played Gaston to 3 different LeFous. 2 different D'Arques. I had about ...seriously, I think 9 silly girls in different combinations. We had ... how many different Madame Bouches? Four, maybe five? 3 Mrs. Potts. 3 Babettes. That's not to mention a myriad of ensemble switcheroos that were constantly in flux. Those are just numbers off of the top of my head.
And yet, we managed, we always managed. I'm knocking on wood like crazy because we DO still have one left.
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Close this window Jump to comment formMy wife and I saw your closing performance of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST today and agreed thought you were amazing as The Beast. I'd seen you as Gaston back in December, I thought you were great then as well but you really I hadn't seen before into the Beast. Bon voyage and we hope to see you in something again soon. I read earlier on your site that you have a CD in the works? Please post more info about that soon!
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