After closing in Six Degrees of Separation this past weekend, Tony-winning actor John Benjamin Hickey (The Normal Heart) appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about his limited run on the Main Stem.
Even though the show opened with a closing date set (originally July 16), Hickey admits he got emotional in the last performances. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e trying not to be too sentimental about it all,鈥� he told Colbert. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e also slightly thrilled because it鈥檚 the greatest honor in the world to be in a Broadway show as an actor. It鈥檚 like the epicenter of the acting universe, but it鈥檚 also like being in your very own existential Groundhog Day because you鈥檙e doing the same thing over and over.
鈥淎nd the last few shows you鈥檙e trying not to cry and鈥擨鈥檓 a little bit of a control freak so you also want everything to be perfect in the last few shows,鈥� he explained. 鈥淎nd in the last moment of the play that I have with Allison Janney鈥攁 beautiful moment and we were feeling it, we were full of emotion鈥攁 cell phone went off in the audience and it was so loud and it was an old-school ring and the play takes place in 1989. So people in the audience thought it was part of the play.鈥�
Hickey was, needless to say upset, and added to the ongoing discussion about cellphones in theatres saying, 鈥淭here should be a fine.鈥�
