Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Alex Nee was a junior and a leading man in college, playing Roger in a Northwestern University production of "Rent." Senior year now is on hold while the 21-year-old is the star of the national tour of "American Idiot," the musical based on Green Day's megahit album.
Casting director Jim Carnahan was in the Chicago area in search of players for "Anything Goes" on Broadway and dropped in to see "Rent." "He came because he had nothing to do, and that's what was playing," Mr. Nee said. The next thing Mr. Nee knew, he had an invitation to audition for another show Mr. Carnahan was casting, the U.K. and U.S. tours of "American Idiot."
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The first thing I noticed is the nice magenta lighting in the photo at the beginning of the article. But that may just be me distracted by the shiny.
As for the show I find it really interesting that It is so successful because all of the fame really just comes from the success of the album and audience curiosity. I have not seen it myself but I remember when it first came out it got terrible reviews. I also have a lot of friends who saw it and they said that the tech was beautiful, but the show sucked. Apparently there was no real plot and it was difficult to follow. Also the performers really did not do Greenday's music justice.
I think this is a wonder example of a case of how becoming super successful in this industry does have and element of luck too it. yes, we work extremely hard to do what we do and some have more talent at certain things than others, but blasting off can sometimes just mean have the right people look at the right time. This does reduce it to an element of randomness. It means somebody could always be watching or could not. All in all I think we should keep pushing ourselves hard and give 110% so if somebody is watching they can see our best.
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