I believe over the last six years now, I've been learning in between actual acting moments on the show.
I don't want people at my shows to come out and say, 'I just saw a cool show.' I want them to say, 'I had fun at the show.' I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.
If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't gonna hurt much more.
After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.
I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.
I like all kinds of shows. The small shows are a totally different vibe. I don't care how many people are there as long as they're into it.
Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
You have to give them something where they walk away and say, 'I want more of that.' To create something like that, you have to take them on a journey. So the live show is very important to us; we've been working on that a lot.
My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
Having lots of human interaction online and during shows is very important to me.
They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.
It's really strange, this thing where people are like, 'I'm not into musicals' but so many people who have said that to me, I've taken to shows and watched their faces radiate.
Whenever I perform I try to connect with the crowd and give off energy so when they walk away from the show its remarkable and its something they talk about it, like 'damn I cant wait to come back to my show.'
If I had not gotten along so well with some of the people on the show, it would have been a different story. But in this case, it was great. But sure, it will be fun to look around.
I'm actually interested and enthusiastic. Even when I walk into a show not knowing much about my guest, I always come away as more of a fan or enthusiast.
Our live shows are a visual as well as a musical experience.
The majority of celebrities that come to the show actually don't come backstage. Because they don't know that they can.
I feel the best part of my job is meeting my fans at my shows and seeing their faces when I'm singing to them on stage.
Glenn Close is my favourite actress and she came to see the show in London once which was giddying.
I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.
I will be driving on the road after a show at night, and it will hit me that I am a WWE superstar, and this is what I dreamed about, and I get to live it.
To be yourself and to learn from your mistakes. If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help. When we were on the show, there was no paparazzi, none of that. I was really lucky that I got to avoid all that.
If someone decides to be in the front row anytime I'm doing a show, they know what they're getting into.
You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.
It's been very humbling and very cool to see [that at] each show I tend to see more and more kids lock onto the new lyrics and every night they start to sing louder and louder and it's just been very exciting.
