BWW Blog: Josh Grisetti of PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

This is our playbill. Our bios are limited to 25 words because we're still in a recession (thanks, Obamacare). For a fun drinking game, try limiting YOUR bio to 25 words. It'll go down harsh.

This is the cast list posted at the theatre entrance. I don't know why my name is not listed first and/or above the title.

Spoiler Alert Fun Fact: "Black Stache" gets his right hand cut off in the show, but the prop appendage is a left hand.

Matt D'Amico ("Slank") and Rick Holmes ("Black Stache") rehearse their stage combat routine before each performance. Better safe than hospitalized.

The entire cast rehearses the fireman-catch before each performance so that Peter Pan doesn't accidentally die in front of a house full of children and theatre-lovers...

This is our Green Room. No part of the Green Room is missing from this photo. That's it.

Fun Fact: This life saver - apparently from the Titanic - was originally going to be attached to one of the early concept "mermaid" costumes, but the idea was scrapped. (Nerd Alert! The makeshift letters on the life saver are incorrect. It should say "RMS Titanic" not "HMS"... but I digress...)

Mermaids! Each headpiece deserves its own photo, the details on each are hysterical. The design riffs on the theme of "junk you might find at the bottom of the sea." My costume is covered in baby doll parts. Gross. And awesome.

This is disgusting, but totally worth photographing. Instead of throwing away my microphone tape like a normal person, I rip it off the back of my neck and stick it to the wall of the dressing room. It's like Pee Wee's giant foil ball, but less hygienic.

Miscellaneous gifts from the producers. We are all slightly spooked by the creepy mermaid dolls, but to be fair, the mermaids are creepy in the show, too. And in the original book, they're downright horrific (with giant fangs and razor-claws). So it's all thematic.

Nate Miller ("Tubby Ted") poses over a batch of sticky pudding that my wife made. Who knew that sticky pudding wasn't actually pudding?? Nate demanded this treat because he's a very serious method actor.

I have no idea how this WICKED chair ended up backstage at our theatre. I mean, the Gershwin is right across the street, but still...

This is the steamer I use to loosen the allergy-season-phlegm from my battered vocal cords. Delicious!

This is a sample of my over-the-counter/prescription drug addiction. #cryforhelp

Our stage managers are SO FUNNY!!

Water is essential to life as we know it. It has its very own special place backstage.

We shot a TV promo for the show this week, with an incredibly fancy camera crane. Books, Movies, Broadway... post-Broadway... TV?

I found this sign on a beach in the Bahamas the week before I started PETER rehearsals. It seemed apropos and worth sharing.