I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn’t one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years. Erich Bergen Read Quote
My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the ’50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. He made me listen to Cousin Brucie – the guy who broke the Four Seasons on the radio. So I knew all of their songs, but I didn’t know they were all by the same group. Erich Bergen Read Quote
I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer, who wrote big hits for Barry Manilow. So two guys who inspired me to write lyrics are now teaching me to write. Erich Bergen Read Quote
Jersey Boys’ was a lot of running around and a lot of energy, but it was more stylized movement. Erich Bergen Read Quote
I’ve been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the ’80s and started putting on ‘shows’ in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me… but it was just a couch. Erich Bergen Read Quote
As an actor, when you are called upon to do a job, you are oftentimes convinced you can’t do it. You say to yourself ‘I don’t have the talent for this; they are going to figure out I’m a fraud.’ And then you watch how the others do it, and fake your confidence. Erich Bergen Read Quote
I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw ‘Big: The Musical’ and I remember going out to dinner with my mom afterward and reading the souvenir program like crazy! Erich Bergen Read Quote
A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in ‘Les Miz.’ I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd. Erich Bergen Read Quote
