38. Why Investing In Yourself Changes Everything

So, LaGuardia, it's so funny that you were just mentioning that you started as an actor, but then you were like musical theater.

I know we can, this has happened to me in my acting career as well.

Like, I think there are times where like, okay, people say the serious thing is to be an actor.

Musical theater is maybe not so serious or I don't know.

What was your reasoning for just going, like aiming for acting first versus musical theater?

I think it was.

It was more about exposure.

I was introduced to theater before musical theater, which saying that out loud, I don't know if that's fully, I don't know if that's actually true because I watched a lot of movie musicals growing up, like The Producers was one of them and Chicago.

But I don't know, there was, I think maybe a disconnect in my brain of being like, this isn't what I want to do.

I just want to act and be serious.

When in reality, I was always cast in, you know, the comedic roles and, um, yeah, maybe I just didn't have like the opportunity to do musical theater until someone gave me that chance.

And then I

realized, oh, I actually do have a voice.

I didn't take any vocal lessons until my senior year of high school where that's when I did Hairspray.

And that opened up my world.

And so now, you know, mezzo-soprano, you know, I love singing in the opera style, but never.

I have such a low voice when I speak naturally that I would never think that i would you know sing soprano by the end of my senior year of college

oh that's so

cool and i love

it

honestly like musical theater is serious i mean you're doing so much i mean literally i did

my whole college thesis on this like the impact and importance and it's so funny that like we don't value comedy as much like when you look at the oscars it's always like drama is like comes before or they don't You know, just the way they classify musicals and comedy and the same thing when they can be so transformative and it takes a lot of chops to be able to do musical theater, like to be an actor and a singer and a dancer.

It's so interesting how we...

I don't know who does that in our society, but we need to stop doing that.

We do.