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breaks from Indiana
-Vuvt.,.
University, he
took the stage at the Barn Theatre in
Augusta. A tour of Cats (as Rum Tum
Tugger) placed him before audiences
in Flint and Kalamazoo and
Annie
(as
a
tour of
Rooster) introduced him to
the Fisher.
Once, with script by Irish
playwright
and screenwriter Enda Walsh, has gen
erated critical energy with eight Tony
Awards, including
Musical, and the
2014 Grammy Award for Best Musical
Northlight Theatre and the now-shut
tered Apple Tree Theatre. Summer stock
at various theaters became his profes
sional outlet in college.
While there is no religious content in
Once, Meisner recalls mixing Judaism
and music: "I spent a lot of time in
junior high and high school teaching
Torah and haftorah to bar mitzvah stu
dents:'
But he finds it all
Best
Theater Album.
"I
was
involved with instrumental
music before I discovered
theater;'
comes
together on
stage. "There's a certain energy I have
that I don't get to use any other place
but the
stage;' he says.
"It's all very ther
apeutic and spiritual for me:' D
says Meisner, who also composes and
records, and was involved with sports
when he
was younger.
"I had lots of non-theatrical friends,
and it took a lot for me to take the step
into theater because it wasn't 'cool'
socially. It wasn't until I met a bunch of
really cool people who were in theater
that I felt comfortable enough to do that
in high school"
Before high-school graduation,
Meisner found professional work at
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now
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Brooks, 67. Also opening on Friday
are Mr. Turner and Project Almanac.
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Turner
and the world around him. There is
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so
often before."
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their lives in danger. Co-stars include
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