PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Bobby Steggert
By Ernio Hernandez
03 Nov 2009
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| Bobby Steggert |
Bobby Steggert, who plays Younger Brother in Broadway's current musical Ragtime, fills out Playbill.com's off-beat pop culture questionnaire.
| Full given name: | Robert Dietrich Steggert |
| Hometown: | Frederick, Maryland |
| Zodiac sign: | Pisces |
| Audition song: | First ever, and sort of appropriate now - Ahrens and Flaherty's "Larger Than Life" from My Favorite Year |
| Special skills: | A healthy obsession with solving the NY Times Crossword |
| First Broadway show ever saw: | Damn Yankees |
| If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? | The original A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Favorite showtune: | Is the opening number of Ragtime cheating? |
| MAC or PC? | MAC |
| Web obsession: | Currently, buying things on Amazon that I don't have time to actually shop for. |
| Must-see TV show: | "Mad Men," of course. To Matthew Weiner - I will give you free tickets to Ragtime if I can be on your show....that's a fair trade right. |
| Last good movie you saw: | Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" |
| Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Audra McDonald (and not just because I love her) and Denis O'Hare |
| Pop culture guilty pleasure: | This is so embarrassing... "Toddlers and Tiaras" on TLC |
| Favorite pre-/post- show meal: | Asian street food sandwiches at Xie Xie on 9th and 45th. Go. Seriously. |
| How you got your Equity card: | Madison Square Garden's A Christmas Carol when I was 14. |
| Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition? | None yet...I should get going on that one... |
| Favorite junkfood: | McDonald's McGriddles |
| Who would play you in the movie? | Ryan Gosling would be pretty awesome |
| Leading man role you've been dying to play: | J. Pierpont Finch in How to Succeed and Edmund in Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Epic novel that should also be turned into a musical: | John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" |
