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" I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too. "

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" When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge. "

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