As Gaten Matarazzo Sadie inspired to go back to Broadway

When asked why she is currently in Broadway in John Proctor is the villainSadie Sink answers with a cheeky: “Once a theater child, always a theater child.”

Sure, Sink may have spent most of the last decade as an actor Foreign thingsBut she actually started her career as a standby and then as a replacement red -haired orphan in Annie on Broadway (even a vlog for Playbill at that time). Then Sink tried to find out what she would do if the Netflix series was over. Then she noticed that her co-star Foreign thingsGat Matarazzo spent a lot of time in New York and did theater. “Gats is a musical theater child. And I saw every show he made. I saw Sweeney Todd, And he was so good at it, ”enthuses Sink.

After so many years that played the same role, Sink wanted a challenge. Sure, she had fought supernatural monsters and made indie films like The whale. But it was the stage that taught her that “the appearance was something that I really enjoyed and that I wanted to continue.” So then Foreign thingsSink knew that the theater could offer the kind of strict and growth that it had been looking for in the next phase of her career.

“It was a challenge that I could perform in front of people in front of people, and what I was ready – especially at this point in my life, to end a big chapter to be in a huge franchise television. I wanted how I completely opposed something,” she says.

Sink told her agent that she should send her theater scripts. After chance, her agent worked for the same agency, WME, which player Kimberly Belflower represented, his game John Proctor is the villain In 2022 in the studio Theater in Washington, DC, received a well -rated run. The script landed in the inbox of Sink and it devoured it in a session. Sinks manager then connected them to the producers Sue Wagner and John Johnson, and the journey of the show to Broadway started there. John Proctor is the villain Opened on April 14th in the Booth Theater to inspire reviews (Watch Sink and Dramberly Belflower discuss the new piece in the video above with Jeffrey Vizcaíno from Playbill).

Although the sink returns to Broadway in John Proctor is the villainThe show is the playwright Kimberly Belflowers Broadway debut. “This is such a proof for Sadie zum Sue and John, because in my experience, many theater are afraid of taking new writers risks,” says Belflower. “But Sadie said: ‘No, I don’t care that I don’t know who this writer is. I know what this piece has done to me and I want to be there.”

While the stars enjoy to make Shakespeare or modern classics on stage, it is rare for a celebrity to come to Broadway in a completely new piece – much less from an undestected playwright. But when Sink read it for the first time, she was immediately impressed how authentic Belelwerens showed Z-E-ER. John Proctor is the villain 2018 will take place at a rural Georgia High School, where a group of high schools (many of them teenagers) study girls) The melting pot in your English lessons. At the same time, a #metoo scandal breaks out in her city and leads these girls to ask questions about feminism in their traditional religious hometown – and to recognize that things that have been taught do not agree.

“Kimberly only captures my generation and our voices in such an authentic light, which very rarely in film, television, plays, what she can meet these days,” says Sink, adding that she was most touched, “how these girls are able to take this hope that they have the world around them, even if it is only for a second”.

So it is not all young people afraid; Sink quickly shows how funny the piece is – the girls talk about some difficult topics, but they also discuss their love for Taylor Swift and dusk. It is a different way how the young dialogue of Belflower is exactly right: “You cannot tell a story about students without mentioning Taylor Swift,” says Sink, who also worked with the pop star (she says that Swift is not aware of your mention in the play).

Although Sink plays an outcast, Shelby, what she loves about the character is her sense of humor. Shelby, like Max on Foreign thingsChances some traumatic events – but it also allowed moments of lightness.

“Max and Shelby are similar in the sense that there are definitely internal turbulence,” says Sink, who adds that Shelby has previously been as any other character -Sink -Sink player because “she is really funny and uncomfortable and somehow embarrassing.

The much discussed moment in John Proctor is the villain Was the last moments of the show (which we don’t spoil here). But it includes an interpretative dance by Shelby and her girlfriend Raelyn (played by an impressive Amalia Yoo). The backing track: Lordes “Green Light”. Why? You have to look at the game to find out. They would think that they had been nervous to dance in front of a Broadway audience, but she found it freely – it reminds her to perform in her living room for her parents.

“It’s fun,” she enthuses. “And it is such a form of expression and freedom and bravery that these girls have to do it in front of their entire class and thus have to make such a statement … I was so excited about it. Every evening it really feels cathartic. I have to fill up so many feelings through most of the games and then simply allow everything in such a physical way in the end.

John Proctor is the villain Has helped to release your own fears. Sink remembers Annie At the age of 10 and although it was fun, she also remembered that she was afraid to avoid it. But now in front of 750 people every night has helped her to let go of this luggage. “The idea of ​​leaving that I found everything out at this time was super good for me and my former theater child brain, where every time you do it, everything has to be perfect.” Sink then passionately adds: “I have exactly what I needed (this experience) … I also feel closer to myself as an actor.”

At the same time as the sink in John Proctor is the villainIn another new project there are posters from her all over New York City: The Movie Musical O’DessaWhere she is a guitar player to heal a post-apocalyptic world through song. Sink made her own singing in the film and has been showing her singing skopes for the first time since then Annie. Now that a sink played on Broadway, is a musical next?

Sinks answer with a very firm and fast no. “This singing technique and perseverance, I don’t think I can accept it,” she says. At the moment she likes to dance on stage without singing and adds with a giggle: “We have to teach the dance at some point. People can come with the dance that is prepared.”

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