Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra's Epic Wedding and More! What We Learned on #LiveAtFive This Week

Broadway.com #LiveatFive is a daily Facebook Live show in which Broadway.com editors discuss what's going on in the theater community and chat with stage stars. Here's the most surprising, funny and heartwarming lessons we learned from this week's guests.

1. Michael Park on Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra's Wedding
Michael Park has been starring in Dear Evan Hansen as Larry Murphy since the Tony-winning hit opened in 2016 and recently took a few days off to celebrate the wedding of his former How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying co-star Nick Jonas. Jonas married actress Priyanka Chopra in December 2018 and Park was in attendance. "It was five days of extremes," Park said. "Staying up in four o’clock, five o’clock in the morning and getting up at 10:30 and doing it all over again. I was surprised my wife [and I] could keep up. I fell in love all over again in India." When asked what it was about to be at the wedding event of the year, Park said he was simply living in the moment. "I had no contact with the outside world," Park said. "Phones were kind of forbidden and it was great to be untethered."

2. Joshua Boone Still Hasn't Seen the Network Film.
Joshua Boone may be appearing in Network on Broadway alongside Bryan Cranston, but he has never seen Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 film. When Boone appeared on the January 23 #LiveAtFive episode, he revealed exactly why he still hasn't seen the movie on which the play is based. "I have not seen the movie yet," Boone said. It's not based on a true story, so I didn’t do that kind of research. If I was playing a real-life character I would have wanted to hear the voice and study everything. Robert Duvall to have played the role in the film, I didn’t want his voice in my head as I was developing the character. I won’t watch it until after we finish.” We can't wait to hear what he thinks of the acclaimed film!

3. STOMP Creator Luke Cresswell Was Chased by a Fire-Eater.
STOMP is celebrating 25 years in New York City and creator Luke Cresswell stopped by #LiveAtFive to talk all about the hit show. While reminiscing about his early days as a street performer in the U.K., Cresswell shared a rather hot story. "Street performers are usually quite eccentric people so you get great stories and have great fun," Cresswell said. "We were playing in Paris and a fire-eater tried to burn our instruments because we were taking too long. He chased us with flames coming out of his mouth. It was good fun.”

4. Nassim Soleimanpour Wasn't Allowed in the United States Because of the Travel Ban.
Nassim playwright Nassim Soleimanpour is visiting the United States for the first time, something he previously wasn't allowed to do. The Iranian-born scribe fell victim to the travel ban, which meant that he couldn't cheer on his first play, White Rabbit Red Rabbit. "This is my first time physically in the states. I’m honestly still jet-lagged," Soleimanpour said. "November was crazy because we did eight countries in November in five languages including Chinese and Japanese. When they [the government] finally said, 'OK, we’re going to grant him a visa, come to the consulate in Berlin.' I was like 'sorry guys, I’m in China'." The current off-Broadway run of Nassim marks the play's American premiere and hosts a variety of stars who read the script for the first time live in front of the audience. Don't miss out on this one-of-a-kind show.

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