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Full given name:
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Anthony David Yazbeck
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Hometown:
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Orlando, FL
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Zodiac sign:
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Pisces
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Audition song:
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"Someone to Watch Over Me"
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Special skills:
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Tap Dancing, Skydiving, Skiing, yo-yo
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First Broadway show ever saw:
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Gypsy w/Tyne Daly
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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 original Sunday in the Park with George (even though the revival was pretty amazing!)
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Current show you have been recommending to friends:
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Hair (and I just saw In the Heights which was simply brilliant).
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Favorite showtune:
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There are so many..."Marry Me A Little"..."My Heart is So Full of You"..."Some Other Time"..."At the Ballet"..."Lonely Town"..."This Nearly Was Mine"..."Move On"...and just about anything from Gypsy and West Side Story.
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Last book you read:
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"Wild at Heart" by John Eldredge
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Must-see TV show:
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"The Office"
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Last good movie you saw:
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"Adam"
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Favorite board game:
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Chess
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Performer you would drop everything to go see:
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Martin Sexton...Tony Bennett...Third Day...Alison Krauss...U2...my fiancée Jessica Lee Goldyn
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Pop culture guilty pleasure:
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My iPod touch
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First stage kiss:
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Actually my first stage kiss was really my first kiss...Funny story...I was 12...When I played a newsboy in the Tyne Daly Gypsy during the overture, the Baby June (Susan Cremin) and I kissed behind the curtain leg stage left. I will never forget that. She and I still have a good laugh about it to this day.
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Favorite pre-/post-show meal:
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Two places I love are Room Service (Spicy Basil Noodles with Chicken) before a show and Becco (just about anything there is amazing) for an Italian meal after a show.
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How you got your Equity card:
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Gypsy with Tyne Daly. I was 11 years old. I auditioned on the St. James stage and was immediately brought down to the basement and told I had the job and that I would be starting in 3 days!!
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Worst flubbed line/missed cue/onstage mishap:
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This summer, Jessica and I did a production of Crazy For You together at Maine State Music Theatre and during a scene in the second act when I reveal who I am to her after reading this letter, the lights went out randomly and then came back on and I just commented "Well that was interesting...Its a magic letter," which got a great laugh and then soon after I made a face at Jessica for some reason and she broke and then the actor playing Zangler and I broke and it seemed at that moment the audience and the actors were playing together and we had live theatre at its finest!!
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Worst costume ever:
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Ok, I was a Disney Kids of the Kingdom dancer when I was 19. I wore this silver unitard and big silver cone on my head in the Galaxy Search show in Tomorrowland at Magic Kingdom. I have a teacher who still has a video recording of it and he better not show it to anyone!
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Pet's name:
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Madeline is our cat
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Favorite junk food:
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French fries and ketchup
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Worst job you ever had:
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In high school I worked on a farm from 6 in the morning till the sun went down and learned what hard labor was about...of course I learned a lot, so it wasn't too bad looking back.
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TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed:
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For the PBS South Pacific Concert, I will never forget watching Brian Stokes Mitchell sing "This Nearly Was Mine" from the Carnegie Hall stage. I felt so blessed to be up there witnessing that!
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Leading man role you've been dying to play:
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I want to originate something Gene Kelly-esque that hasn't been written yet that I can pour my soul into.
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