tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044204796690533395.post4160145138395926691..comments2022-06-29T20:20:26.639-05:00Comments on A History of New Line Theatre: Anyone Can Whistle (2001)Scott Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03040182526474379719noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044204796690533395.post-69387216992867836152019-01-12T07:39:11.255-06:002019-01-12T07:39:11.255-06:00Wow--amazing words, Greg! Everything you say about...Wow--amazing words, Greg! Everything you say about Anyone Can Whistle rings true with me . I am stoked at finally doing ACW in 2020!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17745638039849921944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3044204796690533395.post-81054367024852740502013-08-30T11:52:40.238-05:002013-08-30T11:52:40.238-05:00I love reading the recollections from my fellow ca...I love reading the recollections from my fellow cast mates. I was so excited to work with New Line. I was at a point in my life where I was slowly, but surely, coming out of the closet as a gay man and accepting what it meant for me to be so. Being involved with Anyone Can Whistle was a chance for me to really express who I was in a controversial setting. <br /><br />I had believed, into my early 20's, that being gay was a mental malformity that could be challenged, psychologized, and even cured. Anyone Can Whistle was a testimony to the "craziness" of not accepting ones self, buying into a majorities views, and reaching past that struggle to find empathy and compassion for all mankind set in a zany world where no one knows who's "sane" or "insane". <br /><br />I loved my time in rehearsals. The cast was an extraordinary group of people and I learned so much about myself during the process. I would drive almost an HOUR, ONE WAY, just to goto rehearsals. I was so dedicated to the process because the process was changing the very fabric of who I was. And I LOVED it! <br /><br />The show meant a lot to me. It was the mark of a new life for me. A life of leaving behind the old dogmas, that I had learned in my VERY religious upbringing, and move forward to discover what I REALLY believed. What better place to do that then with a Sondheim show that struck MAJOR controversy when it was first played on a stage? <br /><br />Thank you to Scott Miller for casting me. Thank you to the cast for being an extraordinary, and diverse, group of people who, literally, changed my life. And...thanks to ME...for having the courage to step out of my comfort zone and be involved in such a production. I say we do a revival of the show? Who's in? <br /><br />Greg Coleman<br />Cora's BodygaurdAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01062063256519740807noreply@blogger.com