By Matthew Blank
02 Oct 2012

Favorite or most memorable onstage role as a child/teenager:	Pippin at Summit High School. I felt like THE MAN!
Moment you knew you wanted to perform for a living:	When I played the lead in a 4th grade production of Hubbub on the Bookshelf.
How you got your Equity card:	Frida, 1992
Favorite pre-/post- show meal:	A great steak house, a bottle of red, and my wife.
Favorite liquid refreshment:	Knob Creek, easy ice.
Pre-show rituals or warm-ups:	A grande Starbucks redeye, and singing "RUTGERS!" like an idiot.
Most vocally challenging role you have ever played:	Jean Valjean. It's the hardest role any man will sing in music theatre.
Favorite Les Miz "side character":	Bamatabois. He's a sociopath that wears pink lipgloss. How awesome is that?
Worst flubbed line/missed cue/onstage mishap:	MISHAP: I kissed Sutton Foster in the Broadway production of Little Women and she is VERY allergic to cats. I must have been holding my cat earlier in the day... because Sutton got hives from kissing me! After that, I always washed my face and beard before that scene. Twice.
Worst costume ever:	Any costume that takes more time to put on than the time I actually wear it onstage.
Worst job you ever had:	I was 22 and had a director whose first note to me was, "Andrew, what I'm getting from you is prepared bullshit." I wonder what line of work he's in now...
Who would play you in the movie?	Javier Bardem
Leading man role you've been dying to play:	SWEENEY!
Leading lady role you wish you could play:	Effie in Dreamgirls (cuz I am telling you...)
Something about you that surprises people:	I helped deliver a calf. Before a matinee.
Something you are incredibly proud of:	Soy Cubano!
Something you're embarrassed to admit:	I'm terrified of zombies. See above.
Career you would want if not a performer:	Naval Officer
Three things you can't live without:	Thai food, single barrel bourbon, my iPhone.
"I'll never understand why…"	… actors argue with directors during notes. Just take the damn note!
Words of advice for aspiring performers:	Just take the damn note!!