'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.
Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.
I don't really talk about 'Next to Normal' that much anymore.
It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.
I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.
I take musical theater seriously.
My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.
I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.
George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.
The selections on 'Daily Practice' are all what I consider standard rock songs that have been absolutely essential to keeping me alive.
I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.
Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.
I love every minute of my work.
You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.
I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
I didn't see any Broadway till I was in my late twenties.
Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.
I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.
I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.
I've always been drawn to raw material.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.
I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.
