PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Raúl Esparza
By Ernio Hernandez
31 Jan 2007
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| Raúl Esparza |
Raúl Esparza — star of the Broadway revival Company — fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits.
| Full given name: | Raúl Eduardo Esparza |
| Hometown: | Miami, FL |
| Zodiac sign: | Scorpio |
| Audition song: | "Shameless" by Billy Joel |
| Monologue you can recite from memory: | T.S. Eliot's speech to Charles from Tom and Viv by Michael Hastings |
| First Broadway show ever saw: | Into the Woods at the Martin Beck |
| If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? | The Glass Menagerie to see Laurette Taylor as Amanda |
| Current show you have been recommending to friends: | Spring Awakening |
| Favorite showtune: | "On The Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady |
| MAC or PC? | MacBook |
| Most played song on your iPod: | "Turn Out the Stars" performed by Bill Evans |
| Last book you read: | "Freddy and Fredericka" by Mark Helprin, "The Greatest Story Ever Sold" by Frank Rich... I read two or three books at a time. |
| Must-see TV show: | "24" |
| Last good movie you saw: | "Pan's Labyrinth" |
| Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Bono |
| First stage kiss: | Danny kissing Lizzie in Baby when I was 16 |
| Favorite post-show meal: | Balthazar for steak frites |
| Pre-show rituals: | yoga, steam, warm-up, a private prayer |
| Worst onstage mishap: | Setting fire to the corpse as Che during "Oh What a Circus" in Evita (don't put lit cigars next to fake hair while singing Andrew Lloyd Weber ) |
| Special skills: | I can kayak in whitewater, I can read another player's hand in Texas Hold 'Em, I'm a good cook and I really know how to dance salsa and bolero. |
| Favorite pizza topping: | Mushrooms and pepperoni |
| Who would play you in the movie? | Frank Sinatra |
| Worst job you ever had: | Driving a van delivering baskets to hospitals as a teenager. I kept hitting things. |
