LIGHTS UP ON: Stark Sands
Actor Stark Sands performs as Clyde in La Jolla Playhouse's world-premiere musical BONNIE & CLYDE, playing in the Mandell Weiss Theatre November 10 through December 20.
Hometown: Dallas, Tx
First Broadway show you saw: Starlight Express when I was 9 years old– what a spectacle.
Preparation before a show: Arrive way early so I don’t have to rush. I do enough rushing during the show.
Dream role: Romeo
Worst costume: I was going to say naked but I’m actually starting to get used to it.
Worst job: Haven’t had a bad one yet.
Favorite audition piece: My freshman year of high school, I had to audition to get into the TAG Theatre Arts class. I’d never really acted before, so I didn’t know any plays or anything. For my audition I read the back of a cereal box. With dramatic flair, of course. I got in.
Favorite part of the production process: I love the rehearsal process– watching the play come together, and, in the case of a new musical like this one, change and develop every day.
Guilty pleasure T.V. Show: So You Think You Can Dance
First stage kiss: As Nathan Detroit in my High School production of Guys & Dolls– with Amy Tibbals as Adelaide.
If you could see anyone perform: Sir Laurence Olivier
Worst onstage mishap: 2nd preview of B&C– tripped onstage and almost broke my ankle.
How you have been described: Earnest, innocent, all-American
How you’d like to be described: Dashing, Eloquent, Well-Read.
What book have you read multiple times? The Gunslinger by Stephen King
If you could live during any other time period, what would it be? I would have loved being a knight. Like old school King Arthur style knight, not Jedi Knight. Although that would be pretty cool too, now that I mention it.
How would you spend a million dollars? I’d give it all to my mom.
Favorite thing about San Diego: That as night descends, the city (or at least La Jolla) is enveloped by a thick layer of dense, awesome, zombie-movie quality fog. Spooky!
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