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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Was Rejected Six Times in One Day—Now Rachel Bloom Is Singing and Dancing All the Way to a Golden Globe Mary STEENBURGEN Stephanie COURTNEY WED

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Was Rejected Six Times in One Day—Now Rachel Bloom Is Singing and Dancing All the Way to a Golden Globe Mary STEENBURGEN Stephanie COURTNEY WED 01.28.16 • BACKSTAGE.COM Plus: Producer Mel Eslyn on why indie films rule; behind the scenes at behind-the-scenes farce “Noises Off”; an early peek at “Grease: Live”; and 16+ pages of casting notices Last Laugh “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” was rejected six times in one day—now Rachel Bloom is singing and dancing all the way to a Golden Globe Mary STEENBURGEN Stephanie COURTNEY WED. FEB. 4TH @ 6:30PM WWW.NEIGHBORHOODPLAYHOUSE.ORG Gabriel MANN Jeff GOLDBLUM Allison JANNEY Connie BRITTON Dylan McDERMOTT Robert DUVALL HOME OF THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE Mackenzie DAVIS Sherie Rene SCOTT Two Year Certificate Program Six Week Summer Intensive (Adults 18+) Three Week Summer Teen Studio (Grades 9-12) Gregory PECK Brian GERAGHTY CONTENTS vol.57,no.04|01.28.16 NEWS 6 CSAnames2016winnersat31stannual Artios Awards 7 Thisweek’sroundupofwho’scasting whatstarringwhom 8 Backstage’sstar-studdedrecapofthe first-everBroadwayCon! ADVICE 11 THE WORKINGACTOR Thedevilisthedetails 12 SECRET AGENTMAN Theblamegame 13 #IGOTCAST J.R. Yussuf FEATURES 4 BACKSTAGE5WITH... NorbertLeoButz 10 MEETTHEMAKER ThomasKail,“Grease:Live” 12 SPOTLIGHTON... AndreaNavedo 13 INSIDEJOB AnnetteStilwell,StilwellCasting 18 THEPRODUCER’SPRODUCER Why SpiritAwardwinnerMelEslynis anyfilm’s“aceinthehole” 19 SPIRITED AWAY Asthe2016IndieSpiritAwards approach,herearesomelikely contendersatthe2017ceremony, courtesyoftheSundanceFilmFestival 40 BACKSTAGELIFE “NoisesOff” CASTING 22 New YorkTristate COVER STORY 32 California page 14 35 National/Regional Rachel Bloom photographed by Matt Doyle in NYC EX-RATED on Jan. 14. Styling by Annabelle Harron. Hair by Brian Rachel Bloom’s musical comedy Magallones. Makeup by Gita Bass. Cover designed by Jessica Balaschak. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is crazy funny. So why aren’t you watching it? MATT DOYLE MATT BACKSTAGE.COM 01.28.16 backstage 1 Chief Executive Officer President & Chief Financial Officer Vice President of Vice President & Peter Rappaport Chief Operating Officer Michael Felman Engineering National Casting Editor Joshua Ellstein James G. 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Norbert Leo Butz By Jack Smart Two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz has dazzled audiences onstage in “Wicked,” “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” “Catch Me If You Can,” and countless other shows. Now he takes on “Mercy Street,” the new PBS series that follows nurses on both sides of the American Civil War, before returning to Netflix in Season 2 of “Bloodline” this spring. Tell us about “Mercy Street.” People are calling it a “historical medical drama,” but maybe that’s a little reductive. I play this antagonist doctor [Byron Hale] in the hospital, the foil to Josh Radnor’s character. He’s a really fun part to play, kind of a villain but kind of an idiot, too. How did you get your Equity card? I got my Actors’ Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in “Peter Pan” at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first show I did as a full-fledged, dues-paying member; I earned points in my MFA program, then went into the company after I graduated. I also doubled as a Native American, with red paint on my face, which is about as racist as you can get. This is Montgomery, Alabama. But yeah, I got my start as a racist dog. There was nowhere to go but up. On whom do you have an acting crush? All of my co-stars that I’m currently working with on “Bloodline.” I have an acting crush on Gene Hackman, I have an acting crush on Tommy Lee Jones. Gary Cooper. Jimmy Cagney. Michael Gambon. Simon Russell Beale. What’s your go-to audition song? The audition [for me] is now called a workshop or reading. That’s still the audition. In the right sense of the word “audition,” you speak it and you hear it and they get to hear it. It’s an auditory experience; it doesn’t necessarily have to mean a cattle show, not “please pick me” or “please don’t kill me.” Most of the music is sent to me and you learn it. I don’t have a lot of musical theater knowledge. I’ve always been a singer... I know a lot of songs, I can read music, play an instrument, so I learn it as best I can. When I was younger and I did get to pick a song to play, it would just always be that thing that really highlighted something in the role or the mood and style of the piece. You don’t have “I WISH I’D KNOWN to sing a traditional song from a musical to be cast in even a traditional musical. There are standards from every age EARLY ON THAT and generation. Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, they didn’t just write for musicals. I love it when people take contemporary SOMEONE ELSE’S songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it. VICTORY IS NOT YOUR In an alternate universe in which you aren’t FAILURE. THAT’S A an actor, what would you be doing? I think I’d be teaching, maybe, and writing. And making REALLY IMPORTANT music, if I could. 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