'They don't pay the best, but they are the best jobs,' said the actor of working on Broadway, where he's currently starring opposite Laurie Metcalf in 'The Grey House.'
At the Lyceum Theater, Paul Sparks is the picture of calm. In two hours, the curtains will rise for the final performances of, the haunting, Joe Mantello-directed thriller in which Sparks stars as Henry, one-half of a married couple who wreck their car in a snowstorm and take shelter in a house whereThey’re unassuming,” the actor says of he andcharacters. “And then, suddenly, they’re just put through the ringer.
NEVINS: I got to see the show a few weeks ago. Performing eight shows a week over the last few months, have you made choices on stage that surprised you? Or, at some point, do you find the optimal approach to the material and stick with it?is really a technical show. Levi [Holloway] wrote it in a really technical way. It’s really spelled out and, though at times it feels like people are speaking over one another or sort of stuttering to get their lines out, all of that is.
NEVINS: You mentioned elsewhere that not a lot of shows like this make it to Broadway, which got me wondering about your relationship to the genre of horror.when it was downtown at the Barrel Street, this Tracy Letts play. Are you familiar with that play?SPARKS: So I had seen it with him and I mean, it was crazy. Now because I did it, I know that there was no smell, but I feel like I could smell the gasoline at the end when they poured it on top of themselves and the place went up in flames.
NEVINS: What’s it like working with Tatiani Maslany and Laurie Metcalf. Laurie is one of my favorite actors in human history.
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