Craig Robinson
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But I'd like you to do a scene with one of our guys from Guys and Dolls where you would sing Adelaide's Lament, which is a very funny solo that this character has.
And in it, in the song, she has a cold.
So she's sneezing and sniffling.
And I thought, I can do that because I don't have to sound pretty.
And I did it.
And
It was good.
And I won an award as the most outstanding newcomer in the theater arts department.
And I thought, I want to go to New York and be on Broadway in musical comedy.
I didn't look like Marilyn Monroe.
I didn't look like even Tony Curtis.
So you're like the movies now.
Broadway.
Broadway.
And again...
And so in the musical comedy department, our professor said, there were nine of us.
We're going to a party next Saturday night in San Diego.
And it's a black tie formal affair.
Why don't you kids come down and do your scenes as the entertainment for the party, and I'll grade you.
Okay, so all of us got in cars and went down.