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Jesse Eisenberg Has No Plans to Star in a Musical, but He’s Hoping to Produce One

MARCH 19, 2013 4:18 PM // BY BENNETT MARCUS



Jesse Eisenberg was once in a musical. “When I was 15 years old, I did a workshop of a musical called Dream Trueat the Vineyard Theatre,” theSocial Network star told the crowd at the Vineyard’s 30th-anniversary gala on Monday. “The rehearsals were held in the room adjacent to the theater big enough to rehearse the play, but not big enough for anyone to actually watch it. I assumed that this is where we would be doing the show, because this was my second show in New York, and I still didn’t really know how things worked.”

So are we going to see this actor-playwright huffing it onstage now that he’s all grown up? “No,” Eisenberg told VF Daily when we caught up with him later at the gala, held at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan. “But I write music; I wrote a musical. I started out doing musicals, so that’s why I’m here.”

His own musical hasn’t yet been produced, but there’s still hope. “Now that I’ve had two plays on, it’s easier to get the other ones that are sitting there on,” Eisenberg, whose play The Revisionist is currently staged Off Broadway, said. Meanwhile, he writes every day and will continue to do so.

The best part about getting one of his shows produced, the Oscar nominee says, is the finish line. “Until it’s over, it’s an incredibly intense effort, so when it’s over, I can enjoy that I did it. But until then, it’s, you know, a terrifying experience.”

The gala also celebrated the 10th anniversary of Avenue Q, the Tony-winning show that began at the Vineyard before moving to Broadway. The evening’s performances included a reunion of the original cast doing “Everybody’s a Little Bit Racist” and “If You Were Gay” from the score.

Others in attendance included House of Cards’ Corey Stoll, Charles Grodin, Adam Rapp, Ann Harada, currently appearing on Broadway in Cinderella, John Cullum, Judy Kuhn, and Billy Crudup, who also appeared in a Vineyard production early in his career.

“My first production in New York City was with the Vineyard Theatre, a play called America Dreaming, directed by Michael Mayer. I appeared fully nude on the sand,” Crudup told us, laughing.

VF Daily’s tablemates included Rachel Dratch, Kathryn Erbe, Scottsboro Boys stars Sharon Washington and Colman Domingo, who hosted, and Linus Roache. Throughout the evening, theater types kept stopping by our table to schmooze, and more than once the conversation turned to the correct pronunciation of Roache’s surname. Each time, the Law & Order star piped up immediately. “It’s ‘Roach.’ Just plain ‘Roach,’” the British actor explained. “No embellishments, like ‘Roch-ay’ or ‘Ro-aahhche,’” he added with a shrug. Turns out, people bring this up all the time . . .


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