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As an adult, you want to connect with people, and you want to feel accepted.
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Accepted
People Feel Want
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My insane mascara layering is my private homage to Winona Ryder's amazing peepers.
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Homage
Insane
Mascara
Private
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One of the things I love about stage makeup is I get to play up my eyes even more than usual.
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Usual
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My senior year, I got to play Maureen in 'Rent,' and I had more fun than I'd ever had in my life.
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Fun
Senior
Senior Year
Life My Life More
Had
Life Fun My Life
Year
Ever
Got
Maureen
My Life
Rent
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All you can really do is try to be a good person and try to make good decisions and try to survive.
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Good Person
Decisions
Good Good Person Person
Try
Survive
To Survive
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The point of songs in theater is that you're supposed to end up in a different place than where you started.
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Different Place
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I think, when you're an actor, it kind of enables you to fully inhabit all of the youngest parts of yourself.
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Enables
Inhabit
Youngest
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High school is something that we have to deal with. It's not a glorified fluffy, fun, prince-and-princess kind of time.
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Fluffy
Glorified
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I wind up playing these characters a lot: They have self-esteem issues, or they're going through a lot as a young adult.
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Self Esteem
Wind
Young Adult
Adult
Characters
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Whenever I'm teaching teenagers, I always try to treat them, like, a little bit more gently but the same that I treat adults.
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Gently
Teenagers
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One of the things that I love so much about the character of Sally Bowles is that she is such a huge character - she is so roomy.
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Sally
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I'm not able to change the tools that I bring to the table. I've tried to fade into the background many times, and I just can't do it.
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Tools
Fade
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There are good musicals that came from movies, like 'Shrek' and 'Legally Blonde!' But, um... they should never mess with 'The Hunger Games.'
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Blonde
Hunger
Mess
Hunger Games
Legally
Musicals
Shrek
Um
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I remember, when I saw the movie of 'Cabaret,' I was amazed by Liza Minnelli: like, 'Wow, that kind of looks like someone I could be similar to.'
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Amazed
Cabaret
Remember When
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When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect of theater and just the literal act of performing.
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Aspect
Literal
Love School High School
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Tina Fey is a genius - I've seen it with my own eyes now. She's a very observant person, and I've never seen somebody write such a high volume or as quickly as she does.
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Fey
Observant
Volume
Quickly
Tina
Tina Fey
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When 'Mean Girls' came out, I was 15. So I saw that movie and was like, 'That is so funny.' But it still has that fluffy, happy ending, and that doesn't happen in high school.
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Fluffy
Ending
Happy Ending
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It's important to be really verbal about what you believe, to try to claim America as your own, as we're trying to figure out the identity of this country and what we're going to be.
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Believe Your Important
Claim
Verbal
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A lot of the times, what girls go through when they're growing up gets minimized. 'Mean Girls' marked the first time I saw teenage female aggression articulated well and with importance.
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Aggression
Teenage
Time First Time Through
Articulated
Marked
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When I heard that they were making 'Mean Girls' into a musical, I immediately said, 'That's my part. I want to play Janis so badly.' And I wanted to hang out with Tina Fey! What's cooler than that?
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Fey
Badly
Cooler
Tina
Tina Fey
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I think it's really important for young audiences to see that you don't have to apologize for being angry when you're angry, and you don't have to apologize for standing up for yourself when people are pushing you around.
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Angry
Pushing
Standing
Yourself Important People
Apologize
Audiences
Standing Up
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You have to learn how to dress yourself and how to walk into a room and talk to people. Once you're in rehearsal, you have to know how to rehearse and how to communicate with your creatives, even if you don't communicate the same way.
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Communicate
Rehearsal
Rehearse
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I started performing with the Boston Children's Opera when I was 5, and I stayed working with that group until I was about 12 or 13, so that was a huge part of my life. It was, weirdly, an extremely professional environment geared towards kids.
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Boston
Opera
Life My Life Children
Geared
Life Children My Life
Huge Part
Stayed
Weirdly
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For me, in my auditioning career and my professional life, since I am kind of a big person and since I have a big personality, I often find myself trying to squeeze myself into boxes that are really too small for me, and it ends up not working out.
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Boxes
Professional Life
Auditioning
Squeeze
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My high school was the closest thing to hell on earth that exists. I was around a lot of ultra-preppy, very mean-spirited girls, and they were very cruel to me. I ended up switching schools and going to this performing arts school near Boston called Walnut Hill.
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Boston
Closest
Performing Arts
Switching
Closest Thing
Cruel
Exists
Near
Walnut
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When you become a professional, there is all this other stuff you have to do. That part is the job, capital J-O-B. They're very different things, but they're all part of the same career. Once you get onstage and you get to perform, that's your reward for doing your job.
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Different
Different Things
Stuff
Job
Perform
Doing
Same
Capital
Career
Part
Onstage
Reward
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The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.
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Beloved
Choreography
Time Done Character
Time Character Done
Expand
Real Time
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I teach voice, and I teach pretty much just, like, whatever people need. So if they want me to work on a monologue with them, or if they want me to do some work with them, I do that. And then I do master classes, like at high schools - which is my most favorite thing to do.
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Teach
Voice
Work Me People
Pretty
Work Me Voice
Favorite
Classes
High
Master
Whatever
Favorite Thing
High Schools
Monologue
Schools
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I think it's important to be friends with the person you have to kiss onstage in front of a hundred people. You might not be friends in real life - especially if you're in high school - but you need to at least be 'secret friends' for it to work. Try to be comfortable with each other.
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Life Work People
Onstage
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I would love to do stuff on camera. That's what I want to do. It took me a really long time to feel confident as an actor. I think, also, because there's a weird stigma about musical theater where we treat the men who do musical theater differently than we treat the women in musical theater.
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Musical Theater
Stigma
Love Time Women
Really Long Time
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I wound up going to the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, which was a really life-changing experience that's still the most intense working environment I've ever been part of. Even now, as a professional actor, I've never once been held to the standards I was held to at my high school.
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Intense
Life Changing
Standards
Even Now
Held
Hill
Walnut
Wound
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We have to train our kids better and really enforce in them that no matter what mainstream media and pop culture and all of the terrible things around us say - that it's OK to tear people down, that somehow it will make you feel better, and it's OK to gossip about people - it won't make you feel better.
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Gossip
Mainstream Media
Pop Culture
Culture Better People
Better Culture People
Enforce
Tear
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I got serious about performing, and I got serious about acting. It's very funny; singing has always been a very separate thing for me - until I went to college. I just studied musical theater because I was like, 'That means I can study voice and acting in the same major, and I won't have to double major.' Now I do musicals for a living.
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Musical Theater
Funny Always Me
Double
Musicals
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My father passed away when I was pretty young. I was 7 years old, and I think when that happens, there are a variety of ways that a young person can react to that loss. I think, for me, it kind of put me in a perpetual state of feeling like something is wrong with me and like I didn't belong, or everybody else had things that I didn't have.
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Happens
Loss
Perpetual
Variety
Years
Young
Me Father Person
Pretty
Away
Belong
Old
Wrong
Else
Everybody Else
Feeling
Father Me Person
Put
Passed
React
Ways
Young Person
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