Never take the stars away from me

Before he was a leading man on Broadway, Damon assisted patrons to their seats. “I don’t think they do this anymore, but I used to volunteer to be an usher,” he said. “I would rock up to Studio 54 for Cabaret and pick up little badge. I would stuff programs, hand them out and then get to sit on the steps and watch the show. I did that like 35 times. It was a deeply profound thing, and I eventually went to make my Broadway debut in that same theater for Brief Encounter. Life-changing stuff.” Tony Nominee Damon Daunno on Falling into Laps in Oklahoma!, Being a Broadway Usher & More Photos © Caitlin McNaney

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me: The song “Pierre” (one of the first songs in the musical Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812) changes back and forth from a major and minor key, to represent Pierre’s conflicting mental state. During the lines “I used to be better, I used to be better, I used to be better”, the chords under it move down by half steps, to represent his downward spiral into depression. The song ultimately ends in minor. “The Great Comet of 1812”, the very last song in the musical, utilizes the same chords as “Pierre”, but in major, signifying the end of Pierre’s long-lasting depression, and the start of his new life. In this essay I wi

The Tony Awards | 2019

Men are to be accepted as they are, women are to change or to settle.

“With any amount of self-assuredness or arrogance it’s definitely the yin and the yang; there’s definitely major insecurity and major vulnerability. I’m not a very muscular man and I’m not one for fightin’, so the vulnerability and the sentimentality at the core speaks to me more than the arrogance. I think he’s incredibly vulnerable with how he feels about Laurey and feels incredibly threatened by Jud, but has to maintain his machismo.” - Damon Daunno

my brain, upon receiving one single hit of Döpamine™: we shall listen to only this song until we have wrung every last neurotransmitter out of it

Do yourselves a favor and watch Damon’s performance at the Obie awards!

Jessie Shelton (Broadway 2019)

“Dear Doctors, Please don’t kill black women because you think they’re faking it, cause that’s what you’re doing when you don’t take their concerns seriously. Sincerely, A Disabled Black Woman”

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Damon Daunno at The Met Gala 2019

Patrick Vaill and Damon Daunno at the Met Gala 2019