Cristela Alonso
👤 Speaker
989
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
I've always said it's like without Mr. Honnell, I don't know what I would have done.
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
So I took it upon myself to just record movies that I could get off the TV on my VCR and
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
Then when I got to high school and started auditioning for college, they were like, oh, you can sing.
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
Well, you know, I wanted to do Broadway, and then a voice teacher when I was 18 years old told me that as a Latina, I could do West Side Story and Chorus Line, and then I was kind of done.
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
And it was weird because at that moment, I felt like somebody had said that my dream was limited and I had no chance to do it.
Fresh Air
Comic Cristela Alonzo
And I ended up doing some kind of theater, but I couldn't get auditions.