How much were Avenue Q creators Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez involved with this touring company?
I’ve done a lot of tours and been on Broadway several times, but this is the first time that I had done a show where the creative staff wasn’t as present as they normally are. Usually when you do a first national tour, you have the opportunity to work with the same creative team that put it up on Broadway. By the time the national tour of Avenue Q rolled around, the director and Jeff and Robert Lopez were caught up in the new project they were working on, so they couldn’t be around a whole lot. They did give us some notes, and were very supportive, but we didn’t see them a great deal. I’m a big fan of the group Queen, and I noticed you were in We Will Rock You. What was that experience like? Oh man, that was great because growing up in St. Louis, they played Queen on the radio all the time. I auditioned for Robert DeNiro, so it was pretty wild. He produced the show in London and Las Vegas. Really? I had no idea he was involved with that show. I know; it’s funny, right? He’s a big music
