Eight years ago, Jackie Burns sat in the second row of the Gershwin Theatre and watched Idina Menzel play Elphaba in Wicked, and now she’s living her dream playing the green girl herself. “She’s helped me be strong in my own convictions,” Burns said of her iron-willed character. “She’s been an outcast her whole life and she ...

When Paul Nolan is making his powerful transition into the title character in Jesus Christ Superstar eight times as week, it’s as much an emotional transformation as a physical one. “Some nights I come in to play Jesus and I feel deeply sad,” he says, “And sometimes I’m way too happy to play Jesus Christ. But I use ...

Some might say that recovering alcoholic and meddling aunt Silda Grauman is the most tragic figure in Jon Robin Baitz’s acclaimed drama Other Desert Cities, but as embodied by Emmy Award winner Judith Light, she is also perhaps the most fascinating. The actress says she is “the most blessed girl on Broadway” to have the opportunity to embody Silda ...

It takes more than just thigh-high boots and false eyelashes for Sister Act star Patina Miller to reinvent herself as the truly fabulous Deloris Van Cartier. As Miller layers on the glittery eyeshadow, she digs deep to bring to life a character who is herself a reinvention. Miller says Deloris changed her name from Doris Carter in her quest to ...

Most stars on Broadway are living out a childhood dream every night, but Rock of Ages' Jeremy Woodard is living out two: he gets to be a stage star and and rock legend. Woodard, who plays over-the-top frontman Stacee Jaxx in the musical, goes through quite a transformation from 21st century actor to 1980s rock legend.  Leopard print, tattoos and ...

When Priscilla Queen of the Desert Tony nominee Tony Sheldon sits down at his dressing room table at Broadway's Palace Theatre, he's a self-proclaimed "gray-haired middle-aged man." By the time he's ready to take the stage, Sheldon has bloomed into glamorous nightclub singer Bernadette. To get himself in the proper spirit, Sheldon covers his walls with posters ...

Ever want to hear the inner thoughts of your favorite stars as they’re transforming to make magic on the stage? Welcome to the new Broadway.com video series, Character Study, which will bring you Broadway’s biggest talents talking intimately about their onstage alter egos as our cameras watch them transform. First up is Broadway golden girl Sutton Foster ...