I think that’s how we grow and learn, so I try to find those projects that force me to do something I’ve never done. I always try to do what I call “following the butterflies.” I want to take on the projects that give me butterflies because I think it means I’m excited and scared, to borrow a phrase from Little Red Riding Hood. Beyond this show, how do you challenge yourself as an artist? I’m generating something that is all mine and I like the opportunity to take ownership of this show. It’s called “Between the Moon and Me” because I have a feeling the moon may be the only person who has heard me sing some of these songs. I want to explore parts of my voice I don’t get to use on Broadway. Part of the reason I wanted to do this was to sing music I normally don’t get a chance to sing. It’s a unique challenge to entertain a room of people with only you and a piano.
I feel woefully unprepared, but I imagine I would feel that way if I’d been preparing for a year for this. Since I’ve never done it before, the most surprising parts will make themselves known to me on the night. Being your first solo show, what has been the most surprising aspect of the process of putting it together? You’re bringing your very first solo concert, “Between the Moon and Me,” to Birdland. Every night, I have to remind myself that I don’t have to match Bing but that I can put my own voice on it. Bing Crosby sang this originally, his “White Christmas” is iconic. I will say that singing this music is intimidating. He wants to leave show business and lead a simple life. He knows what he wants and he’s sincere about how he wants to go about getting it. They’ve been complicated and mysterious but Jim is pretty straight forward. He’s so sincere and I’ve played a number of characters who had had a level of complexity to them. How has this role challenged you as an actor? The music is so infectious and classic it really feels like a trip down memory lane for some and a history lesson for others.īryce Pinkham & the cast of Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical (Joan Marcus/Roundabout Theatre Company) Your Broadway credits are incredibly diverse. I don’t think we are revealing a greater truth about the human condition, but we are getting people to smile and laugh and take a holiday from their lives for a few hours. I think that’s the spirit we’re trying to bring to Studio 54, to generate some joy on stage to escape the madness around us these days. It was created to be a joy machine for a world that was somewhat joyless at the time.
#BRYCE PINKHAM CHARACTERS MOVIE#
Irving Berlin wrote this music in 1942 I believe and the movie was created as a means of escape. What is this show bringing to audiences every night? Now, you’re breathing new life into Holiday Inn. I didn’t know we were going to be around for that long until the night of the Tonys. For a new musical with no movie stars in it to stay around from the fall to the Tonys was the real miracle. The credit goes to our producers and the marketing team who got us an audience to sustain our run.
You never know going into rehearsal what lies in wait. I always knew the material was some of the best I’d seen in a while, but that doesn’t always translate to commercial success. It was the little show that could and it felt that way.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder was a surprise hit and then it knocked everyone’s socks off at the Tonys. Bryce Pinkham and the cast of A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder.
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