I really enjoyed doing the non-traditional casting version of Miss Saigon , where I actually played Miss Saigon, he jokes. Oscar opened the Chicago tryout as Franz, but assumed he would vacate the role when Orbach recovered. My parents came to Chicago with a picture of me at the age of three-ish in a pair of leiderhausen. Oscar was permanently promoted when the show came to New York. The actor spends most of his first big number being upstaged by mechanical pigeons.
People love people who care about animals.
I d be over the pigeons. But I ll share just the first act with the pigeons. Oscar is now part of the hottest show in town, a position which has it perks. I am Ticketmaster without the obscene service charge, he says referring to all the house seat requests he gets each day. So I am loving that.