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Justin Wirick
Wicked comes back to Chicago, meet Justin Wirick
“I just remember I freaking loved it”
Interviews and voices
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Theatre interviews from GoPride's conversations with artists, creators and community voices.
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Donna McKechnie
Musical theater icon Donna McKechnie talks about her career
“My inspirations were Carol Lawrence and Chita Rivera in West Side Story.”
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Javier Muñoz and Megan Masako Haley
Meet Devil Wears Prada Musical's Javier Muñoz (Nigel) and Megan Masako Haley (Emily)
“He has one song that makes me feel like I'm the little kid in my room dancing with nobody watching, and that kind of freedom.”
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Beth Leavel and Taylor Iman Jones
Meet Devil Wears Prada Musical's Beth Leavel (Miranda Priestly) and Taylor Iman Jones (Andy Sachs)
“that said, I have such easy access to my inner diva...”
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Paul Louis Lessard
Meet Jesus Christ Superstar's Paul Louis Lessard; currently on stage
“I'm outspoken and outlandish. I'm out there. I'm a proud queer individual, and I embrace all of those aspects in my frenetic three and half minute number”
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Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy brings Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man to the masses
“For me, it is important that an actor is a gay man.”
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Lesley Nicol
Downton Abbey star Lesley Nicol kicks off one-woman show in Chicago
“I am not pretending to be Bernadette Peters, but I can sing.”
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Hennessy Winkler
Oklahoma! returns to Chicago, meet trans stage star Hennessy Winkler
“"You know Annie used to be a dream role of mine. Then I transitioned so now I get to play her boyfriend!"”
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Em Hadick
Pretty Woman Musical returns to Chicago, meet Em Hadick
“My mom really loved movie musicals, they were always on and I would sing along and I would dance along”
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Evan Tomlinson Weintraub
Evan Tomlinson Weintraub jumps through hoops for the holidays
“It is hard work and all-consuming. ”
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Matthew-Lee Erlbach
Championing arts funding with Be An #ArtsHero's Matthew-Lee Erlbach
“Part of my work is making the invisible, visible. It is giving a voice to the voiceless. It's going to where the silence is.”
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Amadeo Fusca
Amadeo Fusca returns on stage with Mars/Venus; talks Martian/Martian and Venutian/Venutian audiences experiences
“I just want everybody to have so much fun and I go home thinking about these things and just working on their relationship”
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John Gardiner
John Gardiner shares the "Hot Stuff" from the Donna Summer musical
“it puts you in that perfect mindset for how this odd little period of time in the mid '70's of like where there were just no rules”
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Patrick O'Mahony
Patrick O'Mahony leaps into Riverdance's 25th anniversary
“...is the first underwear that I wore when I did my very first lead show, so I wear that constantly...”
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Michael Ivan Carrier
Once on this Island's Michael Ivan Carrier shares his story as 2018 Tony's best revival arrives in Chicago
“it is all leopard print and turquoise”
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Mariah Rose Faith
Mean Girls musical plays Chicago; Mariah Rose Faith steps into Regina George's heels
“there is a learning experience I want kids and even adults to have and how these words aren't ok and they matter”
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Rob Lindley
Rob Lindley manages the Opera House as Monsieur André; "Phantom" returns to Chicago
“what I was most struck with in seeing it - and maybe it is the filter we are all seeing art in in this time we are living in - I really find it a show about empathy and compassion”
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James Percy
Potted Potter opens in Chicago; hang out with actor/comedian and not-so-muggle James Percy
“How they thought putting a musician and a dancer was going to come out with a lawyer... I have no idea!”
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Elaine Dame
Elaine Dame Goes Retro
“70's music is rich melodically, harmonically and rhythmically, which lends itself well to a jazz interpretation.”
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Taylor Bloom
Taylor Bloom from Simon & Garfunkel Story talks S&G, stilettos and music
“My favorite thing that happens every night is that we get to share in this communion of music with people for whom it is very personal”
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Jamal Howard
Classic story of "belonging" takes to the stage; chat with Corduroy director Jamal Howard
“it is really about finding that space and coming up with creative solutions”
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Bobby Bowman
Chicago's Bobby Bowman in the remarkable story of Oslo, now playing
“Chicago's Bobby Bowman on the remarkable story of Oslo”