Andy Mientus鈥攕een on Broadway in Spring Awakening and Les 惭颈蝉茅谤补产濒别蝉鈥�was Skivvies star Nick Cearley's special guest at his February 9 solo show at 54 Below, titled I Didn't Recognize You With Your Clothes On.
Mientus co-starred with Cearley in the recent Chicago premiere of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, and the two shared a Paul Williams song, "Rainbow Connection," in homage of that production. Watch their duet in the video above.
Joined by a full band, led by pianist Lance Horne, the evening marked Cearley's first solo show in over a decade.
"Before The Skivvies," Cearley previously told 半岛体育, "I
loved doing cabaret shows and concerts and doing very similar 'out
there' musical arrangements, involving mash-ups and medleys that have a
specific comedic angle to make you think of a song in a different way
than you have heard them before. So, that will happen again. My dad was a
DJ, and so I have grown up playing the 'this song sounds exactly like
that song' game as long as I can remember. It is in my blood. And I
think because The Skivvies are so nontraditional in the cabaret setting,
I am trying to think out of the box to be, in fact, more traditional but still keep my edge that makes me 'me.'鈥�
Cearley has been seen seen on Broadway in All Shook Up, while his Off-Broadway credits include A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream, Pageant, Sex Tips鈥�, and Cupid & Psyche. Regionally, he has performed in Little Shop of Horrors, An Act of God, Next to Normal, and The Rocky Horror Show. He also co-conceived and starred in the actor-musician version of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which premiered at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
