
André De Shields On Living With His Shadow
Death, Sex & Money
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The Top of One Mountain Is the Bottom of the Other
i was offered the first show to nominate me for a tony and i was called play on. My character gets to say to orpheus in the play when he is stuck, he's created, he's writing a song. That's the metaphor for his life. He's at this point of a blank page. And that's how i understand that that moment of so many discouraging events in my life, one of those events was coming to terms with his h i v positive status. The top of one mountain is the bottom of the next.
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