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Transcript
of Jason's Hollywood Spotlight
chat on the
website RealHollywood.com (no longer in
existence). This chat was
broadcast live with RealAudio, which is
why the transcript sometimes
includes "actions" like laughter.
Unfortunately the audio file is
longer online.
The
following is the transcript of the
Hollywood Spotlight chat with:
Jason
Raize
HSHost
says "Welcome to Hollywood
Spotlight on Real
Hollywood.com, my name is Celeste and I will
be your host this evening.
Joining me here at the iXL Live studios are
the producers of the show,
Peter & Mike and our incredible typist,
Michelle. Now, if you would
like to ask our guest a question this
evening, it's very simple. Just
type in /ask a space and then your question.
However, if you're using
"Excite's VP chat" you need only click the
"something to say" icon at
the bottom right corner of your screen. We
are all very excited about
our special guest this evening actor, JASON
RAIZE, who plays "Simba" in
"The Lion King" on Broadway. Welcome to the
show, Jason!"
JasonRaize
says
"Hello, how are you doing?"
HSHost says
"Great!
How is NY treating you?"
JasonRaize
says
"Not bad, a little rain today, some fog. I'm
from NY State, grew up in
the Catskills."
HSHost
{action}
chuckles"
HSHost says
"Very
Woody Allen of you!"
JasonRaize
{action}
chuckles"
BillyMilikin
asks
"why do kamikazie pilots wear helmets?"
JasonRaize
says "I
think I'm forced to pass on that because I
have absolutely no idea!
Interesting question, though."
meesterbill
asks
"/ask who are some of your heroes?"
JasonRaize
says
"Oh, definitely the teachers I've come in
contact with. Who have
inspired me to take more out of life than
what you might, at first,
see. Those people would range from grade
school on up. Especially my
choreographer and first play director. I
didn't ever take dance until I
came to Amda after High School and that
experience I won't talk about!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"Getting involved in acting happened in the
summer Shakespearean
workshops that Nancy Garrett would teach.
She'd vacation in my home
town and teach those classes during the
summer. A small group, about 12
kids ..."
HSHost says
"Sure
.. you, Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Gray.!"
HSHost
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"Yes, working with Shakespeare at such a
young age, you really get into
taking the script apart which comes in handy
with other things later.
Then I did the wonderful high school plays!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"And, the Orpheus Theatre in Oneonta. That's
an Indian name. That's in
upstate NY."
HSHost says
"I
think I remember Neil Simon doing some
beginning work there. It's in
his book, "Rewrites" ... a great book!"
JasonRaize
says
"I'll read it now."
BillyMilikin
asks
"Did you know Mike Tyson in the Catskills
when you lived there?"
JasonRaize
says "
No! I knew no one! I lived on top of a
mountain in the middle of
nowhere, forest, a sheltered childhood."
HSHost says
"Except
for the visitors ..."
JasonRaize
says
"Yes, that was horribly exciting!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says "I
did a summer stock season right out of ...
went to the American Musical
and Dramatic Academy in NYC after high
school. My parents were
supportive even though they knew nothing
about performing arts. We
didn't go to theatre growing up. My first
experience was performing,
but even though they didn't know much about
it, when you see that light
turn on in your kid's head. They sort of
sparkle when they come home
from schoool ... it never happened to me
with school work, I didn't do
very well with it."
JasonRaize
says " I
passed, but didn't get excited about
anything until I started
performing. My parents saw that and said,
"Great!" I know a lot of
people don't have that experience, their
parents guide them with a
heavier hand, you can't blame them, but the
best success for life is to
do what you love. And, I'm sure there will
end up being a lot of
unhappy doctors and lawyers out there ...
but a lot of happy ones, too!
My father being one of them! I'm thrilled
now."
BillyMilikin
asks
"What would you change about yourself if you
could?"
JasonRaize
says
"Wow! That's a great question .. hard one to
answer when you're
broadcast around the world."
JasonRaize
{action}
thinks about it."
JasonRaize
{action}
sighs"
JasonRaize
says "I
guess interaction with people ... I'd just
like to be able to
communicate with all types. I think part of
growing up is beginning to
learn about different people and sometimes
it's difficult to
communicate with some of them. I'd like to
be one of those people who
walks into a room and can communicate on any
level with any person.
Sort of a funky answer but ..."
meesterbill
asks
"Do you get along well with the cast of The
Lion King?"
JasonRaize
says
"Absolutely! A lot of people when they get
up for speeches and awards,
they'll thank the cast .. but, when you
perform a show like this, you
come together ...... this show brought so
many different types of
people in one place. Threw you in a studio
in NYC in 87 degree weather
.. baptism by fire, 5 weeks of rehearsals,
and then we went to
Minneapolis and everyone was uprooted. The
area of the country we were
unfamiliar with but we were always together.
We became a family and had
an amazing summer! Like summer camp,
actually."
JasonRaize
{action}
chuckles"
HSHost says
"Yeah,
exactly!"
HSHost
{action}
chuckles"
Dan_K asks
"How
long will you be playing simba and do you
know what you will do
afterwards?"
JasonRaize
says
"Well, right now, I'm recording an album
with Universal Records ... a
great stroke of luck."
HSHost says
"This
happens to be a Universal Pictures chat
show! Wow!"
JasonRaize
says
"Oh, really? That's great! Desmond Child has
a company called Destin
Records. He wrote "Kiss The Rain" for Billie
Myers. He's executive
producing my album and we're working on that
... All summer and
targeting for a release when my current
contract is up in October. I'll
be with the show through then and there's
possibility for extension
..."
HSHost says
"No
breaks?"
JasonRaize
says
"Every six months you get a week's
vacation."
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs"
JasonRaize
says
"Not a lot. But, after that, I'll decide
what needs to happen. If I go
on a promotional tour, I'll take a leave of
absence. But, I'm filming a
movie in November called "Street Dreams"
that's shooting here in New
York and NJ. I can stick around here for a
while."
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs1"
HSHost says
"Everything comes to you!"
JasonRaize
says
"Yeah, I toured for 3 years before this, so
I had no home. I couldn't
buy furniture or anything. So, now I get a
chance to sit down and buy a
life."
BillyMilikin
asks
"has winnning best play made things easier
or harder?"
JasonRaize
says
"With our show, it's made it ... sort of
reinvigorated the process for
us. We opened in November ... and we had
been performing on Broadway
since October and already did the show in
Minneapolis for two months
... so it's well over a year including
rehearsals."
JasonRaize
says
"After a year, it probably becomes a job for
you. But, going to the
Tony Awards and winning best musical and
being honored by our peers was
so amazing that it revitalized the workplace
for us. The first
performance, the audience went CRAZY!! After
we won. At the end of
"Circle Of Life". It's wonderful, gets your
blood boiling again.The
audience is overwhelming, the participation
is unparalleled! I've never
been in a show that's received such great
reactions from the audience!
So, if you're tired, you get energized in
two minutes!"
HSHost says
"That
must be great! Congratulations!"
Dan_K asks
"Isnt it
hard to do the same thing every day &
twice on sundays do you get
bored?"
JasonRaize
says
"You do get bored at first when you walk in
to the theatre, you may
think you're bored. But, it goes along with
what I said about once you
get on stage ... myself, I spend a long time
in makeup and that process
is like getting your alter ego revved up.
It's something you know
intimately ... a lot of actors speak about
long runs "making them" as
an actor. I did a year's tour of Jesus
Christ Superstar, playing
Pontius Pilate. We did a tour with Ted Neely
and Carl Anderson."
HSHost says
"Our
typist saw it and said it was great!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"Really. We toured everywhere with that
show. The good and the bad.
It's just like life, like a job, but more
exciting for people who like
the performance world cause it's live. Your
heart pounds when you miss
a step, or someone goes up on a line, people
ask if each show is
different. And, it is. We give a different
performance every time.
Cause every audience has a different energy
and the actors might be in
a different mood before they start."
HSHost says
"So,
you're saying you don't get bored."
JasonRaize
says
"You might think you do get bored, but you
don't. In this career, you
leave. You quit and do another show."
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
ExciteUser
asks
"wu-tangklick: what is your favorite movie"
JasonRaize
says
"Are you kidding? Movies are my life! I
absolutely love movies. I don't
have a fav cause it changes everytime I go.
I spend so much time at
Sony Theatres in NYC it's kind of sad. 68th
Street and Broadway is my
second home!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"All the time. No favorite. People are
telling me "The Truman Show" is
my favorite, but I haven't seen it yet. Have
you seen it?"
HSHost says
"No
comment on that one. I saw it Friday and I
thought it was an amazing
film, but I'm an independent film fan and I
heard the script was much
darker before Hollywood got a hold of it."
JasonRaize
says
"That'd make me feel funny cause it's such
an amazing concept. I'd like
to see all sides of it."
HSHost says
"Yeah,
it's different, new, and Jim Carrey is
great."
Dan_K asks
"does it
piss you off when a cell phone rings during
a show?"
JasonRaize
says
"That's only happened once, thank goodness!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs1"
JasonRaize
says
"People talk about horror stories, Epinine
singing her heart out and
the phone rings! The only interruptions that
seize me are ... "Endless
Night" was a song added to the show oni
Broadway, I sing it in the 2nd
act, it's really quiet ... pindrop silence.
it's an intense emotional
song, Simba singing to his father. Who died
during the first act. In
matinees, we get a lot of kids. They are
enamored of the production,
but don't observe the same rules as adults.
In the beginning there's a
small violin holding out a single note and a
kid will say "Oh, Mom,
look at Simba!" And, the theatre has
acoustics so everyone hears it, it
makes the audience laugh which isn't great
at that moment."
BillyMilikin
asks
"What other plays have you been in?"
JasonRaize
says
"Wow! Not many plays. I toured with Jesus
Christ Superstar, Miss
Saigon, The King And I, Gypsy, West Side
Story, The Fantasticks, and As
You Like It, Twelfth Night, Little Shop Of
Horrors which was so much
fun! I thank the director so much Nina
Cochran, went against type and
cast me. They have a tradition there, they
did the Rocky Horror Picture
Show for a month, and then give midnight
performances, so you do a
night show and then come back at 11:30pm and
do a midnight show. You
get crazy audiences, young and they go
everywhere. They get every
imaginable fruit and vegetable and throw it
at you! I had to paint
myself gold, my entire body and wear a
g-string. Don't tell the young
people out there!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs1"
guest15658
asks
"have you ever gotten the shows mixed up
like singing Jesus Christ
Superstar instead of Circle of Life?"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs! No! I hope this question doesn't
start it out for me. I had a
few times in JCS where I blanked ... Pilot
has a song at the
crucifixion that's really fast, and two
shows in the same week, I went
up on lines during the song. It's so quick
your mind can't catch up ...
that was horrible, but knock on wood, that's
been my only experience."
ExciteUser
asks
"cass2: have you ever hurt yourself
prfoming????"
JasonRaize
says "I
got acute tendinitis in my ankle in Lion
King but that's been the most
severe ... gone now. I must have twinged it
on stage ..."
HSHost says
"Too
much jumping around."
SRT5 asks
"WHAT WAS
THE BEST MOMENT IN YOUR CAREER"
JasonRaize
says
"Finding out that I got Simba .. definitely.
You work so hard in this
business ... in many businesses and I had
been working for a very long
time. My dream was to originate a role on
Broadway, anywhere in a new
musical production. So taking a property
like Lion King, a classic
coming of age tale, and after hearing Julie
give me the pitch for the
musical and giving me her sketches, it was
amazing! She thought of a
new way to bring this story to people. I
felt like I was working on
something big and that I had a lot to
contribute to it. Each actor did
that, they were given so much room to bring
the personalities to the
role they were playing. Very rare
opportunity."
guest15658
asks
"How did you get the role of Simba?"
JasonRaize
{action}
whew!!!"
JasonRaize
says
"Lots of auditioning. Interesting story, I
had been cast in the King
And I by the same casting directors and it
was in weeks of each other
that the Lion King breakdowns came out after
I was cast in The King and
I and we got turned down cause of the
conflict of interest. I went to
an open call in the morning for the role of
Simba. And anyone can be
seen. I went and they couldn't refuse to see
me, I at least got to
sing. They were fantastic after that!"
HSHost says
"You
mean they were in love with you."
JasonRaize
{action}
Laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"No, they just saw enough of what they were
looking for that they could
take me out of the other show."
meesterbill
asks
"What drew you to work on The Lion King?"
JasonRaize
says
"I'd seen the movie and it made me cry. I
absolutely loved it. My
mother passed away when I was 3 and that
sense of loss is very profound
for me ... it was a lot of growth at a very
young age and I've carried
that around with me. From talking to people
all the time, I knew that
most people didn't talk about it, but so
many wanted to. It's a subject
that you know you're going to face one day.
So, to have a chance to
work on something with an amazing storyline
along those lines, I knew I
could put my heart into it. And it has been
that way."
guest15658
asks
"what did you sing to bowl them over?"
JasonRaize
says
"Lionel Richie's "Hello"."
JasonRaize
{action}
sings the song!"
JasonRaize
says "I
had to do an audition where I had to sing a
standard Broadway song and
I freaked out cause I didn't have any! You
have to have a really good
pop/rock repertoir. Ballads and uptempos. In
order to do the audition
circuit in NY these days. They don't want to
hear the standard Broadway
fare like they used to. After Rent and
Tommy, there have been a lot
more musicals centering their musical style
around rock operas like
JCS."
HSHost says
"Do you
see other musicals?"
JasonRaize
says "I
haven't cause it's been so crazy with
appointments and stuff for the
show. When you open a show like this, your
time is really really short.
YOu're doing press, or meeting people, or
all kinds of things that are
so much fun. We're settling down in more of
a routine now though, so
I'll have a chance to get out ..."
HSHost says
"Did
you see "Bring in da noise, bring in da
funk"?"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"No, I didn't! So many have been on me about
that."
BillyMilikin
asks
"do you miss your mountain and do you ever
go back to it?"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs hysterically!"
JasonRaize
says "If
you only heard this story."
JasonRaize
says
"That mountain was really, really dear to
me. I grew up there and
because of the kind of ... and this is not a
torch song, I'm okay with
my childhood but it was very solitary and I
spent a lot of time outside
in the woods and grew to really like that
place. It was beautiful and
meant a lot but at the same time, I needed
to move on and I did, my
parents were divorced when I was 10. So, I
moved with my dad into the
city of Oneonta ... they sold the place
there and we sold it to
Buddhist monks who are in exile from their
native land ..."
HSHost says
"Right,
Tibet."
JasonRaize
says
"Yeah, and they have since made it an
amazing retreat. I do go back
once in a while ... I take the 20 minute
drive and go out there ...
completely amazing. Peaceful. When they came
and saw the property, the
monks came up and ... of course had no
concern about the house at all,
they just wanted to take a walk on the land.
Really historical
property, stone walls, stage coach trails
... a real feeling of
antiquity and peacefulness. We always
thought so, but they said they
were convinced that the land was magical and
they were prepared to
purchase it at any cost. My parents didn't
rip them off!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"But, it's a wonderful place. My brother
died when I was young and his
ashes are scattered there, too."
HSHost says
"So,
you can reach back there for your emotional
scenes."
JasonRaize
says "Oh
yeah."
HSHost says
"Is the
musical you're doing dramatic or comedy?"
JasonRaize
says
"Romantic comedy .. myself and this girl
Angela, I'm Latino, she's
Italian, the families don't want them
together ... they live in the
tenements of NJ and he wants to get to NYC.
The irony is that they live
so close, yet they are so far away. He wants
to become a pro
singer,actor, model and she works in her
father's tailor shop and at
night designs clothing. My character infuses
Angela with the desire to
follow her dreams and it's about the desire
to get to New York. It's a
film."
Joanee asks
"Are
you a buddhist?"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"No. No, I'm not."
Joanee asks
"How do
you see Broadway changing in the next ten
years?"
JasonRaize
says
"Wow, that's a really great question. I
won't say I know, cause these
things take turns other than what I thought.
But, I don't know how the
current trend of big flashy musicals is
going to continue. An
investment as great as the ones that are put
up today need an amazing
amount of success to return the investment.
Victor/Victoria was playing
so long to sell out crowds and closed and
still didn't recoup! Paul
Simon's musical was much worse! Closed after
months and they put so
much money into it. It's great to be in the
show and have the most
successful show in musical history, but what
are the odds?"
JasonRaize
says
"The kind of public acceptance that the Lion
King has received.
Hopefully, we'll become a culture that will
accept more artistic
projects with less glitz and glamour and
really concentrate on the core
of the work, the art, the storyline ... does
it make you nervous about
doing broadway again?"
JasonRaize
says "I
don't know. It'd odd. I don't have that
feeling ... that I need to top
it. Absolutely not. This is an experience
like no other and I will be
able to hold it forever. What I would want
to do now is choose my work
on the basis of the merit of the project.
Julie Taymor, her follow up
project is a film of Titus Andronicus. She's
shooting it in Rome and
it's not classical, commerical fare."
HSHost says
"She's
into challenging herself."
JasonRaize
says "Oh
yes!"
JasonRaize
{action}
chuckles!"
JasonRaize
says
"Definitely."
Joanee asks
"How
have you remained so grounded and good
natured after having had two
people so close to you pass away most people
become bitter and
withdrawn after one or ever without?"
JasonRaize
says
"Wow. Great question."
JasonRaize
says "Uh
... I suspect I probably had those
experiences when I was younger and
that contributed to the fact that I wasn't
very social in grade school.
In tenth grade it was an awakening, but the
peace of where I grew up
infused me with a sense of
intercommunication .. rather than
communicating with people. So, a really
solid sense of
intercommunication ... sounds cheesy but
that's what it was about. When
I started having a life and communicating,
it was so much fun, there
wasn't time to be bitter to people or to
myself. Not much room for
that."
HSHost says
"That .
That's nice. Does that have anything to do
with your stage presence?"
JasonRaize
says
"Interesting ... can't comment on that
directly cause I don't see
myself on stage, which I like."
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"But, I love the fact that you go on stage
and do a piece of work and
open a window to your soul. The people in
the seats just watch. The
only number in the show, "Endless Nights" is
where Simba is alone on
stage and all that's surrounding him is this
midnight blue color and an
empty stage ... very pure and simple. You go
to a place and you're done
and I don't know what people see, I just
hope they can get something
from it that they like and that at least
communicates something to
them."
HSHost says
"Right."
guest15650
asks
"Who is the biggest inspiration in your life
and your career?"
JasonRaize
says
"Nancy Garrett. Um ..."
JasonRaize
{action}
sighs"
JasonRaize
says
"That was a wicked time in my life."
HSHost says
"How
old were you?"
JasonRaize
{action}
thinks about it ..."
JasonRaize
says
"I'm really bad with times. I think in ....
7th and 8th grade I believe
I did the summer workshops."
HSHost says
"geez!
A long time ago."
JasonRaize
says
"Very very long ... I didn't have the best
familial relationships, so
the experience I had with Nancy, she
encouraged me in a way that I
hadn't experienced before in school, home
everywhere. The experience of
a child to rise to a challenge ... I can
still remember the feeling ...
having someone challenge you, rising to it!
Using the tools within
yourself to accomplish something and to be
so rewarded within yourself.
Doesn't matter what others say. You just had
so much fun. I thank her
every single day for that."
HSHost says
"Are
you still in touch with her?"
JasonRaize
says
"Yes, and no."
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"She's called my parents for my number but
it keeps changing. I'm
getting her tix to the show now."
Joanee asks
"What's
the insider scoop on scoring tickets to a
broadway show?"
JasonRaize
says
"The Lion King, really wretched!! If you
know Michael Eisner, you have
a good chance."
JasonRaize
{action}
chuckles!"
JasonRaize
says
"It's horrible cause there are so many
people we want to come see it
but you have to space it out soooooo far in
advance. The best deal for
anyone who wants to see it is to come to the
theatre right before a
performance and get cancellations. My
friends have done it and they get
house seats that are very private and
exclusive that are held until the
last second."
JasonRaize
says
"When they don't get used, they get
released. You go to the box office,
there's a standing room only waiting line
that forms a few hours before
the show and people have had amazing luck
getting in."
HSHost says
"Geez!
Couple of hours!"
JasonRaize
says
"Better than waiting a few months!"
guest15650
asks "If
you could have dinner with anyone in history
who would it be?"
JasonRaize
says
"Wasn't that a question on The View? I think
so."
HSHost says
"It
was?"
HSHost
{action}
laughs"
JasonRaize
says
"Starr Jones, good friend of mine."
HSHost says
"Make
it breakfast, then."
HSHost
{action}
chuckles!"
JasonRaize
{action}
chuckles!"
JasonRaize
says
"Someone on The View, said they'd like to
have dinner with Jesus."
HSHost says
"Not
the LAST one!"
HSHost
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs1"
JasonRaize
says "To
get the lowdown on some things really. I
don't really know! I'd pick
one and then say, "Can it be a banquet so I
can invite others?""
JasonRaize
{action}
chuckles"
HSHost
{action}
laughs"
JasonRaize
says
"Probably some of the first people that
started the entertainment
business. There's an amazing book called
"The Agency" that is about the
history of show business and the William
Morris Agency. The horrors
they went through to start burlesque theatre
and to take that to TV,
yadda yadda yadda ... They were at
incredible odds, 15-16 hour days, no
money, I'd love to talk to them about their
experiences. I wouldn't
want to sit down with a world leader. I'd
feel funny. Too real. I'm
into the world of fantasy."
Joanee asks
"Does
The Lion King have a Central Park softball
team?"
JasonRaize
says
"Yes! I'm not on it cause I"m really bad.
But, we have one and I root
for them and they've done very well and we
ordered Lion King jerseys."
HSHost says
"Who do
they play against?"
JasonRaize
says
"All the shows put together teams and they
play."
HSHost says
"So,
did you guys play agains the Paul Simon
show?"
HSHost
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs1"
JasonRaize
says
"What a mean question. No. And, not Ragtime
either."
guest15658
asks
"Next time you go to lincoln cinemas you
should try some dinner at
Gabriellas afterwards its on 96 &
Amsterdam - best mexican in NYC?"
JasonRaize
says
"Okay. Oh, cool! Yeah"
HSHost says
"You
got it? Have you been to the west coast?"
guest15650
asks "Do
you perfer the east coast or the west
coast?"
JasonRaize
says
"Yes, lived there for 6 months. I prefer the
energy in NYC and the
lifestyle in LA. So bicoastal is the word of
the day for me."
HSHost says
"A
penthouse apartment in Manhattan, beach
house in Malibu ..."
HSHost
{action}
laughs"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs"
guest15648
asks
"What's the strangest thing that a fan has
ever said to you?"
JasonRaize
says
"Yeha, people do. Especially now when we've
had press junkets when
we've been out of costume. More people see
an episode of Rosie
O'Donnell than would see me in the show if I
was in it for 5 years. So,
I sang "Endless Night" ..."
HSHost says
"You
know there's a website for when you were on
Rosie O'Donnell."
JasonRaize
says
"Really? Wow. Give me the address. I love
the internet .... now."
JasonRaize
{action}
chuckles."
JasonRaize
says
"The fan mail from Rosie was unbelievable...
people talking about
experiences ..."
HSHost says
"Do you
have a girlfriend .. stuff like that?"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
JasonRaize
says
"Just stuff like it made them cry and they'd
never lost a parent and
they understood now what it would be like. I
gotta thank Rosie
O'Donnel! She single handedly made my
career! We went on a few weeks
ago before the Tony's and did a medley of
"He Lives In You"."
HSHost says
"Wow,
she must be great. I suppose she gets
tickets."
guest15650
asks
"What a typical day like for you?"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs hysterically!"
JasonRaize
says
"Well, trips to the gym are regular ... CNN
is regular."
HSHost says
"Start
.. you get up ..."
JasonRaize
says
"About 10-10:30, breakfast, get out of the
house, exercise at the gym
or walk around, come back and do business
for a while, after that,
probably some form of entertainment, HBO,
movie rental or matinee. I
have to be there 7:30 for evening shows.
And, for 2:00 shows, I have to
be there for 1:30. When I get there, I don't
do anything for 1 1/2
hours and then I get into costume and don't
go on for 2 hours or so ...
I come on at the end of the first act."
HSHost says
"So,
you can hang out and have dinner."
guest15648
asks "If
you could work with anyone who would it be?"
JasonRaize
{action}
chuckles"
JasonRaize
says
"Yeah. I'm jealous of Julie now working with
Anthony Hopkins in Titus
Andronicus. I'm proud of her and jealous at
the same time!"
HSHost says
"Are
you interested in directing?"
JasonRaize
says
"Yes, but I need to learn more before I do.
About 6 years to learn
before I try my hand at it. I'd love to work
with Julie again. I'd want
to produce ...."
HSHost says
"Would
that be your ultimate project?"
JasonRaize
says
"Definitely. Producing is to bring talented
individuals together and
provide the glue and glue them all together
and from there it's their
genius. I love working with people like
Julie who have these intense
visions and help them achieve what they want
to achieve. It's exciting
to me. I'm putting together a production
company."
HSHost says
"What
kinds of things do you want to produce?"
JasonRaize
says
"Definitely ... probably .... film and
music. I do want to work in
theatre, but it's not the first thing I want
to do."
HSHost says
"Maybe
after your album comes out ..."
JasonRaize
says
"Yeah, definitely the process of being in
the studio and working on it
is great experience and also working on the
film will be great
experience for getting ideas of what I want
to do. I get inspired by
individual projects, so if something came
across my table today and I
got excited about it, even though I didn't
know what I was doing, I'd
get excited."
guest15650
asks "Do
you surf the net? What do you think about
computers?"
JasonRaize
says "Oh
yeah! I have a website -
www.wwwebstage.com/jasonraize. This
wonderful
guy, D.B. Stevens is creating the site."
HSHost says
"What
can we find there?'"
JasonRaize
says
"Pictures, my resume, a link for email which
I actually DO read."
HSHost says
"Yeah!
Woo! All you guys out there! Do you return
it? Oh, absolutely."
JasonRaize
says
"Often people have great ideas and it's
great to get reaction from what
you're doing."
HSHost says
"Did
you return mail from the Rosie Show."
JasonRaize
says
"Yeah. They can send mail to 219 W. 41st
St., NY, NY 10036. That's the
stage door of the New Amsterdam Theatre.
They can send it attention to
me. It actually gets to me."
HSHost says
"You
have to find something to do for that 2
hours when you're sitting in
that costume!"
HSHost
{action}
laughs!"
HSHost says
"The
show is almost over, one more question ..."
meesterbill
asks
"/ask what were your goals as a child?"
JasonRaize
says "To
get out of there, even though you don't know
it, you want to do
something with your own ... take your life
in your own hands. To this
day, I have really bad reactions to anything
I view as stifling or
controlling. I really like to have adventure
... take the world by it's
ears and shake it a bit."
HSHost says
"I
think you. You're doing that now, you big
Lion!"
JasonRaize
{action}
laughs!"
HSHost says
"Thank
you Jason!"
JasonRaize
says
"Thank you so much, you're really great!"
HSHost says
"And,
thanks to all you viewers out there for
chatting with us at REAL
HOLLYWOOD.COM. Please join us tomorrow night
at 7:00pm when our guest
will be JOAN SEVERENCE from "Love Boat: The
Next Generation".
Goodnight, everyone!"
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