Sunday, January 15, 2012

"I love that moment just before the curtain goes up"


"I love that moment just before the curtain goes up," Joel Grey says, "whether I'm sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It's full of expectation. It's a thrill that's unequaled anywhere."

Grey, 79, has felt that excitement for 70 years. He is best known for his legendary, Tony- and Oscar-winning role as the provocative Emcee in the 1966 Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret. He was Amos, Roxie Hart's duped husband, in the long-running revival of Chicago and the original Wizard in Wicked. Now he's comic gangster Moonface Martin in the hit musical Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre

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