Ben Goddard accompanied himself on guitar and flute—among other instruments—as Joe Gillis in a pared-down West End revival of Sunset Boulevard and spent the better part of a year sleuthing his way through The Mousetrap, the longest-running show in theater history. The 37-year-old actor has now shifted gears yet again, and will spend 2011 rocking out at the Noel Coward Theatre in Million Dollar Quartet as Jerry Lee Lewis, the part that won Broadway's Levi Kreis a Tony in a show chronicling the historic 1956 jam session of Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. Broadway.com caught up with the affable Goddard during the first week of previews for the musical’s UK premiere, directed, as in New York, by Eric Schaeffer.
How are you surviving previews of Million Dollar Quartet?
I’m a little tired. [In addition to performances] we’ve been in every day rehearsing, which is always a bit of a killer. What’s been great is that Eric [the director] and the others know how to make this show work, but they’ve also let us discover it for ourselves. At no point have any of us felt as if we ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
London's Million Dollar Man Ben Goddard on Channeling Jerry Lee Lewis
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