"Finding Your Own Voice"

I often have mail waiting for me in my dressing room when I get to the SoHo Playhouse each night. Last night there was a letter from "Theatre and Media Arts" at Brigham Young University. BYU is the church-owned University where I earned my BFA in musical theatre. I was intrigued and surprised to still be on their mailing list. Not only am I an excommunicated Mormon, but I'm not the proper example of what a BYU Theatre Alumnus should be--an openly gay Mormon doing a show about it all Off-Broadway. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, I was kinda excited to open the letter and see what was inside. Inside there was a colorful flyer about an upcoming lecture by a famous documentary filmaker and author with the title: "Finding Your Voice: Where Stories Come From." The irony that as I am finding my voice it has absolutely no place at Brigham Young University where the entrance to the campus has a statement: "The World Is Our Campus." I am hoping that someday I might get to do my show at BYU (as I was asked to do at the University of Connecticut where I was a student also)! Just pointing out a few paradoxes in the life of an Oxy-Mormon. Again, I am very impressed with how many active and "jack" Mormons come to see my show even in New York City.

Again, a wonderful audience last night. Hoping some of the boys in town for the Black Party will take some time out to see the play.

For the record, my hair is by Alfieri Salon here in NYC. www.alfieri.com