When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about ‘Backstage,’ and so I got my school in Pennsylvania to subscribe. And there was an audition for a tour of ‘The Sound of Music,’ and I got the job. Deferred my admission to college just to go on tour. Jonathan Groff Read Quote
In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars. Jonathan Groff Read Quote
I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I’d seen ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ six times. Jonathan Groff Read Quote
I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then ‘Spring Awakening’ happened, and it took that rock n’ roll and pop music to change gears for me. Jonathan Groff Read Quote
After ‘Spring Awakening,’ I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow. Jonathan Groff Read Quote
I’d always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience. Jonathan Groff Read Quote
