These Broadway actors have been married for 15 years. For the past six months, they've also played a married couple in the nationally touring 'Into the Woods.' They talked to The Times' cashleelee about what it's like to take your marriage on the road:
The Broadway revival of ‘Into the Woods’ and the new off-Broadway revival of ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ bring new life to challenging Stephen Sondheim musicals.You know, about a year ago, I asked myself, “What do I want?” The prayer was, “I want to be creatively inspired and do something special where I don’t have to leave my family.” It might not be how we envisioned it, but that prayer was answered.It really was. And 17 years after “Wicked,” this tour is a very different experience.
. Then we’ll probably watch “Newsies” and talk about what a strike is, and how it’s still a very effective way of making change and getting fair wages and rights for workers.We’re also engaging with these cities in a way that we might not without her. I remember when I toured with “Wicked,” there were plenty of nights where I just watched two or three cycles of ESPN. She affords us that responsibility and joy.
Exactly. You may come in thinking you’re seeing a fairy-tale musical, and it is. You’re gonna laugh, you’re gonna have fun. But if you’re truly listening and paying attention to the underbelly of “Into the Woods,” the themes are very strong, and they’ll hit you in ways where you recognize it in yourself, your neighbor or a loved one.That’s why so many performers from the Broadway company came out on tour. We weren’t done telling this story, we knew it was lightning in a bottle.
On this tour, you’re onstage together for three hours a day, and then you travel together, live together and raise your child together…Lovingly, I refused. Our processes are just so different. I have to get to the theater early and do a certain stretch, a certain vocal warm-up, and I love checking in with the cast, but once half-hour hits, I’m in work mode.
It was a very bold and romantic promise we made to each other, but because of this tour, we get to say we actually lived it. Whatever the setting — no matter if it’s a Holiday Inn, the Ritz Carlton or an Airbnb — this family has found that if we are together, we will make it work.: 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays. Ends July 30.
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