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

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" 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. "

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

" I loved working on 'Dogfight,' but when I first read it and wrapped my head around the story, I was a little horrified. "

" I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so obnoxious about it, but I said to her, 'Momma, I'm going to enjoy every moment of this because tomorrow, something bad is going to happen.' "

" I've never been a bridesmaid. "

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

" 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 have a group of fans who pitched in and named a star after me... So. Cool. "

" With 'Wicked,' I was stepping into a role that I didn't make so that felt like I had more boundaries then I did with 'Carousel.' "

" I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often. "

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

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

" 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'm good friends with Matt Morrison. "

" I've always been afraid to do a solo show. When I go to see the great solo shows of Liz Callaway or Christine Ebersole, they have so many incredible stories to talk about, and their material and lives are so rich. I've always worried that my life was not rich enough. "

" 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. "

" Even though acting is my job, I do this because I love it, and when the love is gone, I'm not going to do it anymore. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it. "

" Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world. "

" I think I'm the person who keeps friends from hitting 'send.' I've definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I'm a good proofreader. "

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

" I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too. "

" 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 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. "

" I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't. "

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

" When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and it was very critically hailed by my school paper! "