Full given name: |
Lewis Jefferson Mays |
Hometown: | Clinton, Connecticut |
Zodiac sign: | Gemini |
Audition song: | "Lizzie Borden" or "It Happened on the Beach at Bali Bali" |
Monologue you can recite from memory: | Most of I Am My Own Wife... if you have an hour or two. |
Special skills: | Dinosaur impersonations and Marlinspike seamanship. |
First Broadway show ever saw: | Brigadoon |
One CD you couldn't live without: | Dame Myra Hess |
Last book you read: | "The Edwardians" by Vita Sackville-West |
Must-see TV show: | "The League of Gentlemen" |
Last good movie you saw: | "The Fallen Idol" |
Favorite reality show: | Those forensic investigative ones with lots of luminol. |
Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Susan Lyons (my wife) |
Pop culture guilty pleasure: | German MTV |
First stage kiss: | I never kiss and tell |
Favorite post-show meal: | A pint of Guinness in the wings. |
Pre-show rituals: | NYT daily crossword |
Worst onstage mishap: | I once vomited onstage in a preview of Keith Reddin's Life During Wartime and the director asked me to keep it in. |
Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition? | They've never asked me, though I did once audition for a Latino Cher impersonator named "Jesus" for "SVU" — somehow it didn't work out. |
Cats or dogs? | Dogs: my wife and I ogle schnauzers that pass us in the street. |
Favorite pizza topping: | The works (hold the pineapple) |
Who would play you in the movie? | Conrad Veidt or Daniel Radcliffe |
Worst job you ever had: | Telemarketer: I lasted a day and became an actor because I couldn't handle rejection. |
What stage role have you been dying to play? | The next one. |