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Gracie Lawrence never got the typical college experience. The musician-slash-actress spent much of her freshman year out on the road with her band, dropping out after just two semesters to focus on music. This fall, though, she finally feels like a real coed—now that she's among the new students on the Essex College campus in
I think the thing I appreciate the most about my family is those early performances when I was 4 or 5-years-old singing a song—they were treated as seriously as I felt they were.Growing up in New York, obviously, you're surrounded by music, theater, all of it. Even when you take the subway anywhere, there's usually a musician performing, and I remember when I was a kid, my parents stopping and watching that.
Shout out to my mom who would take me to all the auditions. I have the least stage-parent parents. They didn't push me into it in any way. I was begging to do it. My mom would come to these auditions with me and I ended up getting a few things. I was in a Broadway show when I was 12 and little TV roles and movie roles here and there for my whole childhood and adolescence.
Lawrence describes her character as being"a little reticent to open herself up to new things, but once she gets there, she wants to be a part of them so badly."MC: After being on tour with Lawrence where you’re the only girl in the band, did you feel a different, feminine energy onIt's true: I'm in a band with seven guys, and then I stepped into a show that's so female-centric. It was a nice change of pace.
It also fit with the character new to the theater world—where they wouldn't choose a musical theater song. They would choose a pop song that they grew up loving and that felt like what they were going through in that moment.
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