meet [sam]

and lastly in our crazy list of characters, playing the role of [jeff]...

[sam ludwig]

1) If you could go back in time and see any Broadway flop?

Merrily We Roll Along wins in a walk. To get to hear those original amazing Johnathan Tunick orchestrations, not to mention seeing a young Jason Alexander and Lonny Price. And of course, let's not forget that the score was written by God.

2) What would you use as an audition song for Starlight Express (it can’t be Andrew Lloyd Weber)?

Good question! Hmm, what's the song least likely to get me that job...I would sing some weird cut of "Daddy's Playboy Magazines" from Most Men Are, with a bad cockney british accent that I would only have while singing. Or I might just be the guy who ignores the "can't be Weber" thing, in which case I would do "And the Money Kept Rolling In (and out)" from Evita.

3) What is your favorite Molly Ringwald movie?

Ok so let's be honest, this question is which do I like more, The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles, right? I mean basically those are the two options. No one's gonna choose Pretty in Pink if asked this question,if only for fear of being percieved as lame. Don't even pretend that anyone anywhere likes ANY of those movies from her "dark side" or whatever, when she's like poor, or pregnant, or like pregnant and poor. The winner is Sixteen Candles for it's being the first to show frontal nudity in a PG-13 movie.

4) If you had the option of being a centaur or having webbed feet like a duck, which would you choose and why?

Well, I'm not sure what this question means but the obvious answer is centaur.

5) Your favorite made-up word?

I was listening to Hot 99.5 the other day and this girl said she wanted to hear "Enastacate the Dance Floor". The DJ (possibly Seacrest) corrected her. She claimed it was her favorite song. This exchange has been rolling around in my head for a few days so currently that's my favorite made up word.

6) If you could be in any reality TV show, what would it be and why?

I don't really like reality TV. I would host on a shock-reveal show of my own devising modeled after Joe Millionaire and based on the movie The Crying Game.

7) What’s the meaning of life?

FIIINALY a question I know something about. Quite simply I think the meaning of life is that you are not currently dead. Not to downplay it (seriously), but I think that at heart life is about self preservation-I really think that that is sort of a common element in every living organism's existence. That's just me though, I can't speak for the trees. No one can...(For real insight into the meaning of life see every show composed by Stephen Sondheim).

8) Tim Gunn walks into your bedroom? Quick.. what do you do?

Well you know I mean I keep a loaded .38 taped behind my bed...No but seriously, who is Tim Gunn? I don't watch reality T.V. Oh wait! He's Dawg the Bounty Hunter right?

9) Toilet Paper- over or under?

Honestly? I like, never actually put a roll of paper towels physically on the roll, I just plop 'em on top of the..thing..the toilet paper handle and I know when they're done when they fall through the space between the wall and the handle. Then I plop another one on top and repeat the whole process til I get a decent pile of rolls in this little corner of my bathroom. That usually makes me want to actually do right by the TP in which case I guess..over?

10) What washed-up 1980’s TV Star do you want to see on Broadway?

Bronson Pinchot. In some William Finn thing.