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" I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school. "

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" I've never been a thin girl. I grew up being - I don't want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl of curves and substance. "

" When you are preparing for a role, you have a script to comb through and the writer's help in telling you about the character, and then you can fill in the gaps. When you are doing a cabaret show, it's very personal. You have the opportunity to share parts of yourself with an audience and figure out how you want to connect. "

" As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment. "

" I'm a big Broadway fan and a big MGM fan. "

" It's been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It's been in the most truthful way possible. It's my favorite thing to do. "

" I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18. "

" I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend. "

" Gay men are still men. "

" I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical. "

" The first time I didn't get called back at an audition, I cried. My mom told me, 'We're doing this for fun, and if it's not fun anymore, we're not going to do it. So if you ever cry again, we're going to stop.' I never cried from then on, and I kept that lesson for the rest of my life. "

" 'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors. "

" People learn from their mistakes and move forward. "

" When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice. "

" I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired. "

" 'Dogfight' holds a special place in my heart, and I try to sing the songs whenever I can. "

" I started taking voice when I was six and dance classes every day - I just couldn't get enough. "

" Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche. "

" I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald. "

" I've worked with incredible people that have set amazing examples for me. "

" I think it's important to play real people. "

" I think people feel completely stunted without an agent, but there's a lot of auditions to be had without one and a lot to be learned before you take an agent on. "

" I have a big persona onstage sometimes, but offstage, I'm super shy. Like, I don't want to perform for people - I'd rather die than sing in a room for someone. "

" I've never been a bridesmaid. "

" There was so much emotional response to 'Dogfight.' You just heard the audience: They were so horrified. They were sobbing. They were joyful at times. "

" I don't look like a chorus girl. "

" It's nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It's very different. "

" I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire. "