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A career in musical theatre is hard, no matter how wonderful your training is or how developed your skills are, because of the vulnerability it requires, the rejection you have to continually face, plus all the fierce competition at every audition, and the head-games and negative self-talk we get into with ourselves. The Mental Game of Musical Theatre is all about helping you persevere through the mental challenges that inevitably come up along the way, while you’re pursuing, building, and maintaining your musical theatre career. Host David Eggers and his esteemed guests - working musical theatre artists at every level and at every point in the journey - share the most intimate details of their experiences while building their musical theatre careers... - the self-doubt - the audition nerves (and ways to handle theme) - the ”almost but not quite” jobs - the dream jobs - the Tony awards - the breaks that seemed like pure luck - the healthy practices - the best advice ever received - things they know now that they wish they knew then ... and so much more in every episode! SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode! Upcoming guests include: Gavin Creel, Raymond J. Lee, Kelli O’Hara, JoAnn M. Hunter, Francis Jue, T. Oliver Reid, Darren Lee, David Hyde Pierce, Deb Monk, André Ward, Bonnie Milligan, Sutton Foster, Robyn Hurder, Telly Lueng... and many, many more! LEAVE A TOP NOTCH REVIEW if you like an episode, at all! Please. That will help make this podcast visible to more more people. And the more people we reach, the more musical theatre folks we’ll be able to help to persevere in their efforts toward achieving their musical theatre dreams! Your positive review really does make a huge difference! Thank you for being here! Now go download the some episodes! David Eggers Sign up for info about the upcoming book, The Mental Game of Musical Theatre (Routledge Publishing) here: https://profeggers.com Follow: @profeggers on IG and TT Contact: david@profeggers.com
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Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
André Ward (part 1) - This week, join me and my old friend, André Ward. As one of his teachers once said, “André’s a delight… but he talks a lot in class.” And believe me, his stories are not only wonderful and full of wisdom and joy, but filled with a LOT of laughs!
How did this powerhouse performer, and grounded balanced soul get to where he is today? How does a whole childhood of pretending he was on Oprah and Donahue, and scripting his own soap operas and making his friends perform them on the playground, translate to a huge Broadway, TV, and film career, and lead to playing Toulouse-Lautrec in the mega-hit Broadway show Moulin Rouge! ?
Learn about his “sometimes crippling insecurity.” And did he really make an entrance swinging in over the audience on a rope? And learn the sage advice, imparted by a beloved broadway “Mama,” that André carries with him to this day!
I hope you enjoy this conversation and laugh along with us. And come back for part 2! - ProfEggers
Instagram: @theandrelward
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