THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with Your Favorite Broadway Stars- SPRING AWAKENING's Alex Boniello

Welcome to THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with your favorite Broadway stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater? Their dream roles? Their Broadway crushes? Read on!

In this week's edition, we caught up with Alex Boniello, who stars as 'Voice of Moritz/Guitar' in Spring Awakening, currently playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

What is the first Broadway show you ever saw?

This answer is probably very common, but my first show was PHANTOM.

What is your most unique pre-show ritual?

Nothing crazy for this show. Just a vocal warm up. Although I am pretty insistent on a pre-show nap. My dressing roommates make fun of me because I am usually passed out on a coat in the dressing room when they arrive.

What is your most memorable "the show must go on" moment?

Bear with me, because this is a long story. But it's awesome. This is from our LA production at the Wallis in Beverly Hills. During "And Then There Were None," I am center stage singing and playing guitar, with my Moritz counterpart, Daniel, and the boys on stage right, and the adult woman stage left. In the old blocking, I used to perform the song at a microphone stand in the middle. One night, my mic wasn't preset where it needed to be offstage, and we didn't have time to fix the situation. So I had to go out on stage without my mic or the stand. I was terrified and had no idea what was going to happen.

I started playing the song, and just before I started singing my first verse, Andy Mientus appeared next to me and held my microphone in front of my face so I could sing. And let me just say, he was fully committed to rocking out whilst saving my life.

But this is a Deaf West show! And the hearing actors need to give VERY intricate and specific cues to the deaf actors for the show to work. And Andy wasn't there to give his cue. So I was terrified (again) that the show would fall apart. Literally two seconds before Andy had to cue one of our deaf actors he passed the mic and Alex Wyse appeared with it.

This round robin of microphone passing continued for the ENTIRE SONG. All of the boys were able to pull this off without ONCE talking to each other about the plan, and not a SINGLE cue was missed. It was truly amazing. Every actor on the stage knew what needed to be done, worked together silently, and made it happen. It was that day that I knew I was truly working with the most connected and talented ensemble of actors I have ever worked with.

What is the one role you want to play before you die?

Well. It WAS Moritz. So now honestly I just want to play Michele Pawk's son in some outrageously dramatic play.

Who is your Broadway crush?

I had to ask my girlfriend, April, for the answer to this question. Her response was "Are you kidding me? Lin. Lin is your Broadway crush."

She's not wrong. Hi Lin.

Where can people follow you?

I'm at @AlexBoniello on Twitter and Instagram, and I have a Facebook fan page as well at www.Facebook.com/alexboniello1.