Part 2.
Kurt thanks for sitting down with Prompt magazine.
No problem, I love your magazine.
Wow that's great! Good to know. So how is Broadway treating you?
Broadway and I are best friends at the moment. I am loving it and it loves me. Link is an amazing character to play. I always thought that because I am different I would find it hard to get work. I did find it hard, but to have a chance to play Link is an honour.
What's your take on the Tony buzz around your performance?
Just that, that it's buzz. Don't get me wrong I am flattered but it's just talk – although I wouldn't say not to a Tony. But then, who would?
I don't know many people who would refuse a Tony award.
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A couple of weeks back Blaine [Anderson] said in an interview that he has written songs for you. What do you think about that?
I was shocked when I first read it, I found out when everyone else did. He's since played a few of them for me and they are spectacular. I'd love to do a concert with Blaine.
People would love that. What are the chances of that happening?
There's always a chance and I love singing with him. So who knows? I will but it on my Christmas wish list. Maybe start a petition? I think I want it to happen more than fans do. [laughs]
Do you find it strange that you are seen as a sex symbol?
[laughs] You have no idea how foreign that concept is to me. I still have blinkers on when it comes to people (other than Blaine) finding me attractive in that way. I think I always will.
Is it strange that so many people you went to school with are doing so well?
I don't think so, we're like the Mouseketeers. I just went to school with really talented people and our Glee teacher Mr Schue helped us embrace our differences. I am so proud of them all, especially Finn, Blaine, Rachel and Mercedes. They are four of the most important people in my life.
So what's happening after Hairspray?
Long term I would love to start up a theatre company and work with people who I know and respect. For my own selfish reasons I would love to see Blaine act again – he is phenomenal, so he'd definitely be a part of it. Who knows though? That would be amazing. Maybe I would bring Mr Schue in as Creative Director.
You heard it here first folks.
You sure did.
So You and Blaine and been together since high school?
We have. I tried and failed to spy on the glee club he was in. We became best friends and thanks to the death of my pet Warbler we started dating and have been together ever since. It's a love story to rival the ages.
What's the secret?
Oh, I don't really know. Well we talk about everything. Sure we have fights but in the end we both know that the other person wants to be this relationship. So we fight for it, every day we fight for our relationship. We always have and we always will.
Thanks for your time Kurt. Check out Kurt in Hairspray through to May 18th at The Swan Theatre
Just some random info May 18th was chosen because it is my birthday and The Swan was a theatre in Elizabethan England. Thanks for reading
