Hi gang. Welcome to my first venture into the blogosphere! Now – I’ve done quite a bit of video blogging for other projects I’ve been a part of (like RENT and GODSPELL, which I’m currently performing in 8-times-a-week at the Circle in the Square Theater on Broadway) – but an actual written BLOG?! That’s new territory. Immediately, I was nervous. “Do I have anything to say? Who will read my random musings? Does anyone care? What if I sounds stupid?” But, I’m putting myself on “the line” (like Paul, Cassie, and Sheila did in A CHORUS LINE) and taking a stab at something NEW. I’m actually quite inspired to try a LOT of new things recently, because of working on GODSPELL. Our director for GODSPELL, the amazing Daniel Goldstein, had a famous motto in rehearsals for the show back at Paper Mill in 2006 (who knew that little Paper Mill production would end up on Broadway 5 years later?!). His motto was: STRONG & WRONG. In fact, for opening night, he printed t-shirts for everyone in the cast with that same saying. It means – you gotta commit to your choices fully, go “strong”, and not be afraid of failure – because it is in the FAILURE, and the process of getting up, dusting off your knees and TRYING AGAIN AND AGAIN, that we learn and grow — as people, as artists, as… well, bloggers. So here goes: STRONG AND WRONG. Thanks, Danny Goldstein. 

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