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'Spring Awakening' was a discovery for all involved. None of us will ever have that specific sense of revelation in the same way - that is probably the thing I miss the most.
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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
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While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so.
Jonathan Groff -
I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before.
Jonathan Groff -
I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.
Jonathan Groff -
I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life.
Jonathan Groff -
As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist.
Jonathan Groff -
Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.
Jonathan Groff
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I wish that I could take credit for the success of 'Frozen' and 'Hamilton.' But I just feel lucky to be in 'em.
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I'm not on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram.
Jonathan Groff -
I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.
Jonathan Groff -
I bought the VHS of 'Into the Woods' at the Suncoast in the Park City Mall and watched it in the basement when I got home. And when it was over, I rewound it and immediately watched it again.
Jonathan Groff -
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 -
I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.
Jonathan Groff
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I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.
Jonathan Groff -
Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.'
Jonathan Groff -
I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
Jonathan Groff -
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 -
I just don't know artistically - because I don't write my own music - I don't know artistically what an album would mean for me. I don't know what I would want to say with an album that would be unique to me - something that hasn't been done before. I'm just not sure what that is. But I'm absolutely open to it.
Jonathan Groff -
People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.
Jonathan Groff
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When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think.
Jonathan Groff -
Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.
Jonathan Groff -
Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.
Jonathan Groff -
I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.
Jonathan Groff