#christyaltomaredit

“Derek and I had worked together previously in Carrie so we had already played love interests in that show and had this bond as friends. There’s something about doing a show like that when you’re young and first starting out; it really connected us. Having him along for the ride has been the cherry on the top, and on top of that, having someone like John Bolton, there’s just this serendipitous connection. We all get along so well, which is very rare. It’s fun to come to work. we just love each other.” - Christy Altomare

“He [Derek] came came in and I said ‘Derek, we're going to go in together! We're going to sing the duet’, because we all had to learn the duet for the callback and he was like, ‘How do you know this?’ ‘He told me this morning!’ And so we went in and the creative team said there was just a really great chemistry which we had always we had always had this like great camaraderie and it's really wonderful. It's like the an added perk of getting to do the show is we get to work together and go through this journey together as friends.” - Christy Altomare

“John Bolton who play who plays our Vlad was sitting there kind of in a corner and I had just seen him in A Christmas Story so I run up to him and I'm like, ‘are you the dad from A Christmas Story?’ He's like, ‘I am!’ And we like had a moment together. He's like, ‘I think you're gonna get this. I'm like, ‘what?’ And he was like ‘I just feel it right, it's in the air.’ So, this is what he says to me right before I go in, Derek and I sing the song. I find out the next day and then John Bolton finds me on Facebook and messages me, he's like, ‘did you get it?’ ‘I got it!’ And of all three of us were so excited! The best thing was Derek calling me like a day later. He was like, ‘Anya?’ And that’s all he said.” - Christy Altomare

“Derek Klena, he’s like, he’s so great. He’s my new best friend.” - John Bolton

“Love them all, proud to call them my friends.” - John Bolton

“He’s [John Bolton] the best guy ever, but lately you know, we have enough inside jokes now that if something does happen on stage. We really have to keep it together because we’re like, ‘John, it’s really great that we’re such good friends, but this is a problem.’ Like, if one of us starts breaking, the other one knows it, and then it just slowly starts to spiral. So, there are moments when we definitely have to keep it together.” - Derek Klena

Anya’s dress transformation in the 2017 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade