Has anything surprised you about the physical or mental stamina that theater requires?<\/p>\n
Laura:\u00a0I’m definitely still finding it out. Last week, we had 11 shows in a row, and honestly, I wasn’t sure I could do it. That’s a lot for anyone. It was funny because everyone was saying, “We haven’t even done 11 shows in a row,” and for me and Fernell [Hogan], it was our very first week on the show. Being able to say I did that felt incredible.<\/p>\n
One thing I’ve learned over the years \u2014 whether it was on Disney Channel or later when I went on my first tour \u2014 is that you have to treat your voice differently every single day. Sometimes your voice lets you push a little more, and other days you have to be gentler with it.<\/p>\n
It’s a muscle, and that really clicked for me when I went on my first tour. I’ve carried that mindset into this experience, and everyone has been so helpful. Our music director, Liz [Doran], has been wonderful.<\/p>\n
There are definitely physical and mental demands, and I’m trying to balance both. I’m approaching it the same way an athlete approaches their sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Has anything surprised you about the physical or mental stamina that theater requires? Laura:\u00a0I’m definitely still finding it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[114435,8126,114436,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-301808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bfdc-interviews","tag-evergreen","tag-geekyfb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}