Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium ATTENDANCE at all. It's the same with movies. PEOPLE who REALLY LOVE movies and like to GO out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

I've never been passionate about just MUSIC, I've never SEEN myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has ALWAYS been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to THEATER and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.

I've been a children's BOOK editor, a nanny, a camp COUNSELOR, a barista, a research lab ASSISTANT, and a movie THEATER ticket-taker.

Once I had STARTED film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I MOVED there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to GIVE a CONTINUOUS performance - no sequels.

An ACTING assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A SMALL wage but just enough to get by on, and I made PROPS and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

We RECORD DREAM Theater shows and I'll sit on the BUS and listen to my playing - what worked, what didn't. A lot of times it's embarrassing and humbling, but that's what you have to do to GET BETTER.

I THINK, as an actor, it is GOOD to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do. But if I do 'Hamlet,' it will probably be in a small theater on a small STAGE, and it will have to be very, very soon because I'm GETTING a little long in the tooth for it.

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this LITTLE boy wig on me and that was my first acting EXPERIENCE. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was OLDER.

Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a LOT of OPPORTUNITIES. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing THEATER at all COSTS.

I FEEL so fortunate to have GROWN up in a town like Kansas City that has such a vibrant THEATER COMMUNITY.

During a trip to Iraq last FALL, I visited our theater HOSPITAL at Balad Air FORCE Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the BRAVE soldiers whose lives they saved.