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