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" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
Go
Friends
Good
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" I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald. "
Lindsay Mendez
Up
Ella
Growing
" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
Create
Theatre
Possible
" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
Opportunity
Character
Help
" Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon. "
Lindsay Mendez
Get
Think
Soon
" 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! "
Lindsay Mendez
Paper
Very
School
" I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired. "
Lindsay Mendez
Fear
Best
Feel
" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
City
New York
New
" I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school. "
Lindsay Mendez
Girl
School
Queen
" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
Women
People
Yourself
" I've always had a big voice, but I'm very aware of when you need to belt or go all out like that - when it's necessary and plot driven - as opposed to just screaming to scream, which I hate. "
Lindsay Mendez
Driven
Hate
Need
" I don't look like a chorus girl. "
Lindsay Mendez
Look
Like
Girl
" I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there. "
Lindsay Mendez
Loving
Thinking
Myself
" I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often. "
Lindsay Mendez
Love
Get
Theatre
" I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't. "
Lindsay Mendez
Stick
Who
People
" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
Never
Say
Up
" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
Think
Without
You
" I've worked with incredible people that have set amazing examples for me. "
Lindsay Mendez
Set
Amazing
Me
" 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.' "
Lindsay Mendez
Mother
Storm
Enjoy
" I think, going into a room for an audition, the best thing you can do is represent who you are specifically as an individual and what you can bring to a creative process in a room - as opposed to being worried about 'where you fit' - because that's really their job to decide where you fit. Your job is to just present the best 'you' you can. "
Lindsay Mendez
You
Job
Think
" 'Dogfight' holds a special place in my heart, and I try to sing the songs whenever I can. "
Lindsay Mendez
Try
Heart
I Can
" I learned by watching Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. "
Lindsay Mendez
Learned
Watching
Judy
" Gay men are still men. "
Lindsay Mendez
Gay
Still
Men
" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
World
Change
Day
" I'm a big Broadway fan and a big MGM fan. "
Lindsay Mendez
MGM
Fan
Broadway
" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
Rich
Talk
My Life
" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
Cool
Thought
Picture
" At 'Wicked,' they are really great about letting you make your own choices with the roles. "
Lindsay Mendez
Your
Choices
Great
" 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. "
Lindsay Mendez
People
Shy
Sometimes
" I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend. "
Lindsay Mendez
Gay
Friend
Best Friend
" I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too. "
Lindsay Mendez
Wizard Of Oz
Fan
Loved