Musical Theatre Actor Trevor Dion Nicholas - Aladdin, crying, musical snobbery and the expectation to be 'strong'
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Sofie and West End Performer Trevor Dion Nicholas talk about moving to London and opening a brand new production of Aladdin, crying over chicken, the expectation to be 'strong', finding your niche, the hungry ego, performing other people's work vs. creating your own, musical snobbery and calling bullshit in the entertainment industry.
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| 0:00.0 | It's that overflow of emotion and so like you get to a point ideally ideally in the perfect the perfect musical |
| 0:06.3 | The only time someone sings is when their emotions are so overwhelming the only way for them to express it is to sing it |
| 0:11.7 | words by themselves aren't going to cut it. |
| 0:14.4 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:20.4 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:26.4 | Thank you for listening to the Made of Human |
| 0:28.4 | Podcast. My name is Sophie Hagen. |
| 0:30.2 | I am your host. |
| 0:31.3 | I'm from Denmark that should explain the accent I am in Melbourne which |
| 0:36.2 | should explain the kind of jet-lagged undertones of my voice I just assume because that's how I feel. This episode I'm excited about this |
| 0:48.8 | episode so much because I saw Trevor in Aladdin the musical in the West End and I mean just fell in love with him |
| 1:00.5 | he's so extraordinary so talented so I want to say magnetic because that's |
| 1:06.7 | what I feel like I want to use but I'm not 100% sure it's not a negative word I |
| 1:11.3 | mean it in a positive way |
| 1:12.6 | uh... he was just incredible and i'm so happy and so uh... |
| 1:18.8 | uh... honored that he wanted to do this podcast |
| 1:21.3 | now before you listen to it, this is so shameful. So like |
| 1:26.9 | Trevor is a musical theater actor and a really good one and I'm, super into musicals. Yet, at one point during the episode, we talk, we reference |
| 1:41.2 | Lame Miss, and both of us cannot remember the name of a character in Les Miss. |
| 1:48.1 | And Travis Pierre was in the room and then she shouted out the name and during the recording I it felt like |
| 1:57.8 | I wasn't sure that was the right name but we just both accepted it and said yeah |
| 2:01.0 | yeah that's the one it wasn. I've looked it up later. So that's very embarrassing. And so I want to say this ahead of the episode because I don't want you to sit and be furious that we're getting it wrong. |
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