| Full given name: | Brooks Ashmanskas |
| Hometown: | Beaverton, Oregon |
| Audition song: | Ask any casting director...they've heard me "sing" "Orange Colored Sky" over and over again for nearly 20 years! |
| Special skills: | Walking right past any gym and heading straight to a cheese shop. |
| First Broadway show ever saw: | A Chorus Line.....life-altering. |
| If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? | I actually saw it, but I would sit through the first 5 minutes of the original production of Dreamgirls daily if I could. |
| MAC or PC? | PC....because I'm old and fear being popular. |
| Most played song on your iPod: | I just got an iPod for Christmas (again: I'm old) and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" has been getting a lot of play....mostly because I can't get it to stop! (I'm a loser). |
| Last book you read: | I just reread Roth's "American Pastoral" and am in the middle of Paul Rudnick's "I Shudder." I'd recommend both. |
| Must-see TV show: | "Antiques Roadshow" |
| Last good movie you saw: | I liked "Up in the Air" and "Every Little Step." |
| Favorite card game: | Poker |
| Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Jessica Molaskey |
| Pop culture guilty pleasure: | Is "Project Runway" still pop culture? |
| First stage kiss: | I can't remember, but I think it was with this girl Kathy in high school. She was Charity Barnum to my P.T. Barnum. I was 15. Can you imagine the performance? |
| Favorite pre-show meal: | It varies. Green Symphony's chicken salad and a pineapple and ice blended drink is good for pre-show. |
| How you got your Equity card: | Understudying Off-Broadway in The Holy Terror, a short-lived Simon Gray play at the Promenade Theatre. |
| Worst flubbed line: | It would take forever to set up, but it was in The Ritz a couple years ago. My line was supposed to be, "It's me, Bunny, BRICK!" and I said (with the whole cast onstage and in front of a full house at Studio 54) "It's me, Bunny, BROOKS!" (I should just get out of the business.) |
| Worst costume ever: | My friend (and director) Nicholas Martin came to see me in the Cinderella tour years ago in Boston and we met at a restaurant after. When I joined him there, the first thing he said was: "Well, I think you have a lawsuit on your hands for that costume." |
| Pets' names: | My dog's name is Henry. He's the only one in New York who truly gets me.....telling, isn't it? |
| Favorite junk food: | Yes |
| Worst job you ever had: | I sold women's shoes in the 80's for almost a whole day before walking out. |
| What presently makes you laugh? | If the mirror in my bathroom is at just the right angle, I can catch sight of my naked profile as I dry my calves: Not since "Orca!" |
