How Tony Nominees Survive 8 Shows Per Week!

I try to get as much sleep as I can usually most of my roles are vocally demanding so I am on Mondays it's very rare that I'm out like you know whooping it up I'm pretty quiet at home I actually see a lair in follow gist at least twice a year who goes in there and make sure that the little cores are healthy and happy lots of steaming lots of tea I mean it's the same old thing and my sprays which probably are placebos but it's called entertainment entertainer secret and singer saving grace one is like this slow sweet delicious glycerin and one taste like fire and nothing you want to taste but when you spray it you feel like oh there's pain it must be working it's so crazy so crazy I won't do a show without it on to show day in the dressing room I had this great chair you go back like this and you go if it's only 15 minutes you don't need to sleep you just go and you're whole all this goes it's great I only plan like one extra thing a day if it's a performance day I can take one appointment a day I try to load up too much activity on a performance day then I get too scattered and my energies get dispersed and I arrive at the theater you know really distracted rather than ready to go it's like you take care of yourself the best you can but I'm exhausted all the time and that is sort of the yin and yang to this amazing process it demands a lot of me it's athletic if we really are athletes out there and so you have to start treating your body that way I eat different things I try to eat healthfully for me the most the secret weapon is that I nap between shows and for me you know I I tend to to pray you know I have a little prayer before every show just to say to myself and just to ask for the strength and the power and the foresight to make it through and to be in the moment and to not like you know it's not just a another performance it's a new audience never seen the play you know Lord can you allow me to experience this play for the first time again and then the other thing is 12 long and deep breaths before I go onstage it will just make you present is what it does the ritual makes you present it makes you right in that moment and you're breathing not that you're coming on say but your breath is activated and you you can't help but be in the moment sleep exercise coffee so much humidifying that everywhere I go should be like a rain forest I get super dry really easily lots and recall up for whatever reason sugar-free or colas are like crack cocaine to me during the show I mean I'll go through like five or six in the course of one show which is super unhealthy probably well my voice sounds great okay [Music]

Channel: Backstage

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Keywords: actor, actress, castings, auditions, backstage, back stage, Stephanie J. Block, Mary Beth Peil, Jayne Houdyshell, Denee Benton, David Hyde Pierce, John Douglas Thompson, Brandon Uranowitz, Tony Awards, Tony Awards 2017, Falsettos, Anastasia, A Doll's House Part 2, Natasha Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Hello Dolly!, August Wilson's Jitney

Id: fXS9WwkxhEQ

Length: 3min 22sec (202 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 05 2017