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" SO WHAT WAS IT LIKE PREPARING FOR YOUR BROADWAY DEBUT? It was completely tiring and exhausting. I&amp;#039;d come home every night and I&amp;#039;d lay on the hardwood floor because it was cool and it&amp;#039;d be something to kind of relax to \u2014 probably one of the hardest things that I&amp;#039;ve ever done in my life was just trying to learn the show. HOW IS IT DIFFERENT PERFORMING ON BROADWAY THAN ON STAGE FOR YOUR OWN CONCERTS? Broadway is harder because I don&amp;#039;t dance. And all that I did when I was preparing for the role was learn dances and the choreography and the staging. When I&amp;#039;m preparing for my own show, I&amp;#039;m learning a song and then when I&amp;#039;m singing a song I can sit down while I&amp;#039;m doing that. But this, you&amp;#039;re constantly moving and jumping and bouncing \u2014 it was far more exhausting than learning my own concert! HOW WOULD YOU SURVIVE IN THE TIME OF LORDS AND KNIGHTS, LIKE IN SPAMALOT? I would probably be exactly like my character, Sir Robin, because he&amp;#039;s afraid of everything. Yet he doesn&amp;#039;t want anyone to know that he&amp;#039;s afraid of everything. I&amp;#039;m always trying to not let on that I&amp;#039;m scared when I definitely am. WHEN WAS A TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU REALLY NEEDED THAT COURAGE? Probably when I was on American Idol and being critiqued on national TV by people who are less than nice. But I think everyone needs a little bit of nervousness. If you&amp;#039;re not afraid of anything, I don&amp;#039;t think you do as well. I think some nervousness is good for you. WOULD YOU RATHER WIN A GRAMMY OR A TONY? I don&amp;#039;t have any desires to get either one, to be completely honest. If you think about it, there are plenty of people who are considered the best actors or performers of our time who never won an Academy Award, never won a Grammy, never won a Tony. So I don&amp;#039;t think awards are necessarily something that I aspire to so much as just doing what I enjoy doing. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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