Age and Hometown: 23. Coral Springs, Florida.
Current role: Making his Broadway dubut as the lovelorn Boq in Broadway’s Wicked.
Movie Buff Fom Birth: Unlike many young Broadway stars, Etai (pronounced e-TYE) BenShlomo's acting ambitions didn’t begin on the stage. “My parents introduced me to great movies at a young age, even if they weren’t kid-appropriate!” he says. “I saw things like The Godfather and A Clockwork Orange, and I’ve been a film fanatic ever since.” It wasn’t until the eighth grade that some friends dragged BenShlomo to a theater audition. “My middle school was doing a musical,” he recalls, “but I was going to be like Brando or Pacino—they don’t sing, so musicals were beneath me.” In the end, perhaps it was the show's movie origin that appealed. “We did The Wizard of Oz,” he says, “and I played the Tin Man. I decided musicals were OK.”
To the Stagedoor Manor Born: Musicals turned out to be more than OK: BenShlomo spent his high school summers at the famous theater camp Stagedoor Manor before entering the University of Michigan's musical theater program and another kind of camp entirely. “After ...
Friday, January 14, 2011
Wicked?s Etai BenShlomo on How Brando Led Him to Broadway
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