André De Shields On Living With His Shadow

Death, Sex & Money

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4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

André De Shields shares his wisdom from 50 years on the stage, and 76 years on this earth.

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0:00.0	I'm the slowest moving living entity on the stage, which mesmerizes people.
0:07.4	They want to know why is this person moving so monstrously slowly?
0:14.1	He must know something.
0:19.6	This is Death, Sex, and Money.
0:22.2	Death, Sex, and Money.
0:23.5	Come on.
0:24.5	What else is there?
0:25.5	From WNYC about the things we think about a lot, I need to talk about more.
0:31.5	I'm Anna Sael.
0:40.0	Andre DeShields calls himself a professional charmer.
0:44.1	For more than 50 years, he's been performing on stage, including now in Hades Town on Broadway.
0:49.9	He's 76 years old and performs eight shows each week.
0:53.9	Everybody hungry, everybody talk, everybody slays for the sled of his ground.
0:59.1	The wave is nothing in the wind is hot, it's a great God.
1:02.9	And it is time to play the...
1:05.3	Andre plays the role of Hermes.
1:07.6	He guides the main character through the story.
1:10.4	He's often cast in roles like this.
1:13.0	He also played the all-powerful title character in The Wiz.
1:17.6	And in real life, Andre has a lot of these same characteristics.
1:21.5	He commands the room and is oozing with wisdom.
1:24.7	A lot of it gained through experience, as he told me, from a surprising sexual coming
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