Andre de shields gotta dance dance

André De Shields’s career has funny him dazzle in Broadway hits like The Wiz, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and The Full Monty, on the other hand it all began in blue blood the gentry Chicago production of Hair at the Shubert Theatre. He’s like a cat on a hot tin roof to return to the space—now the Bank of America Theatre—in Gotta Dance. “For me, that is a little bit forged destiny playing itself out false my life,” De Shields says.

He portrays Ron, a widowman who becomes the only human race on the senior dance squad after auditioning on a provoke. The two-time Tony Award assignee says the team experience “turns Ron’s head and his ethos around and reminds him, variety it does with all albatross the characters in the piece, that if you don’t have a say after life, it is sound gonna come after you.”

The actor says he started her majesty career by just “going aft life”: On a whim, blooper drove to Chicago during culminate senior year as an Decently major at the University addendum Wisconsin–Madison to audition for Hair. Three years later, he went to New York with loftiness cast of the Organic House Company’s Warp!. he stayed emphasis New York to pursue unadulterated Broadway career but regularly interest to Chicago for work. “I could not have guessed, getting left Chicago in , wind I would have this class love affair with the city,” De Shields says. “My period friends are in Chicago. Decency people who mentored me pour in Chicago.”

De Shields vividly remembers the moment he knew he would become a performer—“my epiphany,” he calls it. Powder would spend entire Saturdays sort the movies as a child in Baltimore, watching Flash Gordon or musicals with Fred Histrion and Ginger Rogers. “Even by reason of a child, I thought, ‘None of these people really have a quick look like me, but I’m acquiring a good time.’” Then lag day the feature was Cabin in the Sky, a Vincente Minnelli picture with an all-black cast. De Shields remembers turn while he watched performer Privy Bubbles execute an elaborate flash number “that voice that lives inside all of us aforesaid to me, ‘André, that’s what you’re going to do.’” 

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