eponinethen
03-12-2007, 02:27 PM
This is a short article called "The straight man", from Time Out New York. Talks about how his role in "Prelude to a Kiss" etc..
For a performer who built his career on playing broad comedic characters, Alan Tudyk seems like an odd choice for the role of Peter, the lovesick loner at the center of Prelude to a Kiss, currently being revived by the Roundabout Theatre Company. Known for his eccentric turns both onscreen (a flamboyant German disco-dancing druggie in 28 Days, a sports-loving pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) and onstage (a very gay Sir Lancelot in Spamalot, the more neurotic half of the world’s first queer couple in The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told), Tudyk rarely gets to play it straight, in either sense of the word. Even though the 35-year-old character actor admits that he dropped out of the Juilliard acting program because “they just didn’t do comedy,” the funnyman is happy to show that he does indeed have a serious side.[...]
Read whole story (http://www.timeoutny.com/newyork/Details.do?page=1&xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/596/theater_broadway/the_straight_man.xml)
For a performer who built his career on playing broad comedic characters, Alan Tudyk seems like an odd choice for the role of Peter, the lovesick loner at the center of Prelude to a Kiss, currently being revived by the Roundabout Theatre Company. Known for his eccentric turns both onscreen (a flamboyant German disco-dancing druggie in 28 Days, a sports-loving pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) and onstage (a very gay Sir Lancelot in Spamalot, the more neurotic half of the world’s first queer couple in The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told), Tudyk rarely gets to play it straight, in either sense of the word. Even though the 35-year-old character actor admits that he dropped out of the Juilliard acting program because “they just didn’t do comedy,” the funnyman is happy to show that he does indeed have a serious side.[...]
Read whole story (http://www.timeoutny.com/newyork/Details.do?page=1&xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/596/theater_broadway/the_straight_man.xml)