Is the tour stage size different than Broadway?
Alan Ruck: Absolutely. The set here is wider and a little more opened up, and on the road it’s shorter from side to side and the walls are a little more turned in. I have a lot more real estate to cover here. PBOL: So in New York rehearsals there’s a period of adjustment. AR: I’d be doing the movement that I’ve been doing for a year and I still wouldn’t be off stage. I need to move faster. My wife likened it to going to England and learning to drive again. It’s still a car, it’s still a road, it’s just everything’s a little different. PBOL: I assume you played some unforgiving 5,000-seat spaces on the road. AR: I think the biggest we ever played was 4,300 or something like that. Lewis Stadlen, who is Max on the road, said something I agree with: There’s something very comfortable about that big black void. You can’t see their faces you can hear them laughing, and there’s something very reassuring about that. PBOL: I know you for non-singing roles in “Spin City,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day O
