![]() Just being able to grow up with the show, and it grows with you - for the rest of my life, I'll be peeling back layers of the show and discovering new parts of it. Then I got to revisit it again right after high school when I was a little bit older and understand more of the deeper meanings and larger themes and how the stakes were a lot higher, and then and then a few years later getting to revisit it again at 22. I fell in love with it when I was 10 years old for the first time because of those fairy tales and the magic and characters that I know and love. ![]() It's been really cool to grow up with the story. How did your past times doing Into the Woods inform your approach to Little Red this time around?Įvery time I hear it or see it or think about it, I'm discovering new parts of the show that I never knew before. Then, at the press day, I met so many people that I've looked up to for years, and they just were so complimentary and so congratulatory. And then I heard from everybody in the High School Musical cast and our showrunner, Tim Federle. It was just so cool to be with my favorite people in the world, my biggest support system. I live on the West Coast, and I just happened to have a trip planned to be in New York the nominations. I was with my family when I found out about the nomination, so that was really, really special. Have you received any particularly meaningful responses to your nomination? Even you saying a sentence like, "How does it feel to be nominated for your Broadway debut?" is such a dream scenario to me that it doesn't feel real. How does it feel to get a Tony nomination for your Broadway debut? What's been going through your mind?Ī lot is going through my mind, but also at the same time, nothing at all because I'm just completely stunned and shocked and honored and grateful. Lester discussed her nomination, the importance of Into the Woods in her childhood, and the things she knows now (many valuable things) about Little Red that she never knew before. "The characters range from a child to older, so I feel like I can still continue to do the show for the rest of my life." "I can still continue to grow with ," she said. Her Broadway performance is a milestone in a journey she hopes isn't over yet. She'd performed in the musical twice before: as the cow Milky White in elementary school and as Little Red at 18, both in Los Angeles. Lester's Into the Woods success, it seems, was destined from a young age. ![]() (Her latest stage gig was a revival of The Secret Garden in Los Angeles, which Lester said she'd "absolutely" return to if its rumored Broadway ambitions are realized.) But like Red does with plentiful baked goods, she'd taken her bite out of Broadway and left an imprint. She then departed the production - even as it extended an additional five months - to film High School Musical. The production went on to an eight-week Broadway transfer that earned Lester critical acclaim (New York Theatre Guide's critic called her "invaluable") amid a star-studded cast including Sara Bareilles, Brian d'Arcy James (both nominated), Gavin Creel, Patina Miller, and more. Lester's performance as Little Red Ridinghood in Stephen Sondheim's fairytale mashup musical began as a two-week Off-Broadway gig at New York City Center. But soon enough, the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star was receiving cheers as she joined the nominees for Best Featured Actress in a Musical - alongside Broadway veterans Ruthie Ann Miles, Bonnie Milligan, NaTasha Yvette Williams, and Betsy Wolfe. "We just happened to be watching because we're big theatre fans, and we love to cheer everybody on," Lester said. But she wasn't necessarily listening out for her name. On May 2, she and her family joined thousands of others watching the Tony nominations as they were announced live from New York. Julia Lester made her Broadway debut in Into the Woods last summer, making her eligible for a Tony Award for the first time.
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