ANDY MIENTUSHis SMASH Awakening


by bill biss


here will always be new legions of talent putting on their best face for auditions, offering their most current headshot, presenting what they have to offer. Whether the response is “Next!” or “Where can we reach you?” The routine of securing a paying job on Broadway is a feat in itself. You never know where the next audition is going to


take you.““I’m just a Broadway Baby, walking off my tired feet, pounding 42nd Street to be in a show.” 26-year-old Andy Mientus knows this and has already been


singled out for starring and supporting roles, presenting his talents as “Hanschen” in the national tour of Spring Awakening and in his off-Broadway debut as “Stokes” in the theatre pro- duction ofCarrie. What happened next is truly a textbook case of “life imitat-


ing art.” He was back to being a struggling artist and working on a book for a new musical calledHit List and like they say, “you just never know where the next audition is going to take you.” Mientus is now plying his wares in front of the camera on the


second season of NBC’s musical within a Broadway musical, the hit television series calledSMASH.


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RAGE monthly | MARCH 2013


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