“My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.”
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I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
I once sang 'Summer Nights, ' from 'Grease, ' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.
I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz, ' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.
