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NYT: Singing a Song of Sondheim, Again
Dec. 6th, 2008 10:32 pmDecember 7, 2008
Singing a Song of Sondheim, Again
By CELIA McGEE
SHOULD Stephen Sondheim ever decide to set a musical in a Mail Boxes Etc. store (a barbershop he’s done already), Alexander Gemignani could bring some firsthand experience to the production.
Mr. Gemignani, who stars in “Road Show,” the Sondheim offering that opened at the Public Theater on Nov. 18, worked for nine years at a branch of that very company near his childhood home in Tenafly, N.J. But the job, which Mr. Gemignani, 29, pursued — very happily, he would add — during high school vacations, college breaks and his early years struggling to make it as an actor and singer, did nothing to prepare him for his role in “Road Show.”
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Singing a Song of Sondheim, Again
By CELIA McGEE
SHOULD Stephen Sondheim ever decide to set a musical in a Mail Boxes Etc. store (a barbershop he’s done already), Alexander Gemignani could bring some firsthand experience to the production.
Mr. Gemignani, who stars in “Road Show,” the Sondheim offering that opened at the Public Theater on Nov. 18, worked for nine years at a branch of that very company near his childhood home in Tenafly, N.J. But the job, which Mr. Gemignani, 29, pursued — very happily, he would add — during high school vacations, college breaks and his early years struggling to make it as an actor and singer, did nothing to prepare him for his role in “Road Show.”
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