Sam Fragoso
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There seems to be like another β And to his wife.
And to his wife.
You've said before that when it comes to Death of a Salesman, its meaning to you changes depending on where you're at in your life when you're in it.
So tell me, where has it landed with you in this stretch where you're performing, what is it, six nights a week?
Don't know how you're doing it.
Where does the play land with you in this moment?
The last time you played a salesman was over a decade ago in the Iceman Cometh.
And you've said that production of Iceman Cometh, quote, changed the way I approach everything.
What was that change?
But β Is this kind of like a Joe Pesci in Goodfellas?
Like why do you β what's funny about me situation?
You have referred to your childhood as bad Eugene O'Neill.
Is there a good Eugene O'Neill?
Which was worse?
You know, Nathan, when you're describing this man, this traveling truck driver, of course I think of Willie Loman.
But I also think you as a kid growing up in Jersey City in this Irish Catholic family, the youngest of three, did you see the theater and performing as some off-ramp to that, as some escape?
And you were the kind of kid who was reading Death of a Salesman while other kids were watching Gilligan's Island.
I want to know and this may go back to your Catholic school days or your time at St.
Peter's Prep.