Bouncing fromMindhuntertoLittle Shop of Horrors,Jonathan Groff is finally having fun.
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I learn quickly that he is always offering you things, and those offers are always serious.
Michael Mayer, the director, says with satisfaction, Its a belch!
Staging thisrevival ofLittle Shopis illegal fun, as Groff puts it.
I cant imagine anyone who is consistently involved in or adjacent to homicide having a better time.
When I listened to it, it shot through my heart.
Or developing an obsession withI Love Lucy,which he still watches before going to bed.
Or dancing along to theDonna Reeds Dinner Partyalbum when his parents werent home.
If theres a murderous kinship betweenLittle ShopandMindhunter,it extends to the shows shared skepticism about that white-picket-fence-style normalcy.
Being out and gay and being myself, it allowed me to find people that werent closed-minded.
At 23, Id rather just have a real romantic relationship than pretend to have one with a girl.
Recently, Groff has developed an ability to end up near the center of cultural sensations.
This time around, hes putting his Broadway training to use with a full-length solo.
Then they fucking wrote that other song, he says, characteristically effusive.
I was like,Wow, and the animation of the song is so brilliant.
I think I gave that up when I came out of the closet, he says.
When I moved to New York, what I wanted was to be on Broadway.
I like when something makes me cry or I cant stop listening to it.
Okay, I want to dothat.
Little Shop of Horrorsis in previews and opens October 17 at Westside Theatre Upstairs.
