Kevin Cahoon’s career has come full circle with the new musical, “Shucked.” “I started by telling jokes to the rodeo announcer when I was 5 years old,” he says. Now, he’s a one-man joke factory in a show about a small town. Even better? He was nominated...
“I started by telling jokes to the rodeo announcer when I was 5 years old,” Cahoon says. Now, he’s the one-man joke factory in a show about a small town.
“If you add a word or delete a word, you’re up a creek,” he says. “It’s like math. Every single word is there for a reason. It’s music. If you don’t hit a consonant hard enough, it’s not going to land the way it should.” The former, in fact, taught him how important storytelling was. “Human beings cannot exist without storytelling,” he says. Watching director Julie Taymor craft “The Lion King” was “one of the most exciting, thrilling things I’ve ever been a part of.”
Still playing on Broadway, the show is a reminder just how important theater can be. When Cahoon walks by the theater, he realizes how fortunate he has been to be a part of something that’s still running more than 25 years later.
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