JOHN HILL
Heres a little something to help you all get to know John Hill. I hope
you enjoy it.
-What are you currently up to?
I am taking a break in LA to focus on my writing full time. I have done
some auditioning, but the trip has mainly been to focus on other talents
beside standing on a stage watching other people act. It's been an amazing
time. I wrote a script with Julie Halston which we are still working
on, as well as a script I co-wrote with Serge Kushnier. Also, my collaboration
with Kamilah Martin has continued out here and we have written a new
screenplay that we are tightening up to sell.
-Theres a lot of buzz around your website, particularly your blog. Tell us about your writing.
I started the website as a joke because I thought it was so lame that people in the choruses of broadway musicals thought they were famous enough to need a website. I thought it was so self-indulgent and dillusional. It was really so my friends and I could have a laugh at a community that thought of itself in way too serious terms. My writing is something separate from the blog. The blog is what happens when my friends and I are laughing late at night.
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-Why should people donate to you?
-Since Im so generously offering free publicity, tell me my future oh powerful psychic! Matt Morrison will propose to you at Jamba Juice, then you will be married on a Carnival Cruise. And you will have singing, website designing babies. -If you could improve one thing about yourself, what would it be and why? I wish I was more confident in social situations. |
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-If you could change one thing about the world, whether it be act of god [ex: always sunny] or act of law [ex: legalize pot], what would it be and why?
I don't know what I would change. We are who we are because of imperfection and dissonance, so I wouldn't change the obvious "problems" we face. If pot were legalized, interest would probably go down. Then not as many people would smoke it. Then music wouldn't be as good. Other than that, I wish I didn't like fast food and processed sugar as much. I really have a problem.
-What was your "plan" when you set out to begin your career? Would you advise the aspiring actors out there to do the same? If not, what advice would you give them?
What career? I wanted to be a movie star. I wanted to be Han Solo. Then musicals started paying the bills. I got sidetracked from any former plan I had to be in Hairspray. I think aspiring actors should absolutely go for it, as I am still one myself.
-Tell us one thought or story about:
Your first job (ever):
Singing country at Fiesta Texas in my hometown of San Antonio. I met Bowser from Sha-na-na once. Became a really good bowler. Learned how to shotgun a beer. One of the most fun summers I've ever had.
Miss Saigon:
To this day the most supportive people on the planet. Those asians sure have an amazing sense of family. I felt very secure and cared for. The first time I performed the role of "Chris" I forgot my gun. A stage manager had to run on and give it to me.
BARE:
Adam Fleming, Natalie Joy Johnson, Romelda Benjamin and myself are still paying for the damage we did to our chemical makeup during the off-times of that show.
HAIRSPRAY:
I held a wooden duck, a child that I birthed with Shoshana Bean in Seattle named SQUAT, during the Tony's on national television. it's on the tape. It encompasses the endless amounts of stories we all have from that experience.
BOY FROM OZ:
Not enough time has passed to even make sense of what was going on there.
Harvey Fierstein:
A true mother. A genius. The first thing he ever said to me was about pantyhose. You could say "he had me at 'hose'."
Hugh Jackman:
Sequins and Puma hats. I realized that being a star of that level is kind of like being five years old again. Every concern is taken care of for you. The minute you start to think you're hungry, someone has just finished putting a salmon steak on a bed of wild rice and new potatoes on a plate for you.
Micheal Arden:
Unstoppable. I will always remember the first day I met him. How innocent he seemed. That's the beauty of him. The complexity under a guise of simplicity.
-What role (professional or amateur) have you enjoyed the most and why? -Which did you relate to the most? Why?
I don't think I've played it yet. Ironically, I relate to Fender the most because I played him for so long. Not that I had any lines. But I relate to being an annoyingly bad dancer in a pair of badly fitting pants. That's kind of been my life thus far.
-Tell us one thing that is either embarrassing or little known about yourself!
I think everyone already knows everything. Or if they don't, they wouldn't care. I have a patch of white hair in my pubes?
-Rant. Heres your opportunity to complain about anything you like- from the weather to politics. Go for it!
Oh God, I don't know! People will always be backwards to me. Which I suppose means I'm the one who's backwards. I wish my people could see my friends the way I see them. I wish Jackie Hoffman was getting Nicole Kidman's roles. I wish Natalie Joy Johnson was on Broadway doing an Ethel Merman song cycle. I wish Tyler Maynard was in a show about Christ-oh wait. Ok, I don't know. I think musical theatre types who complain about "those darn reality shows" and how "They're taking jobs away from us, the real actors!" are the dumbest people in the world. I say those people wouldn't be getting cast in scripted stuff anyway and it's just an opportunity for them to whine. Most people who complain are jealous, that's a proven fact from fifth grade at recess.
Thank you for your time!
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