THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with Your Favorite Broadway Stars- THE HUMANS' Arian Moayed

Want to know what hooked your favorite Broadway stars to a career in the theater? Dying to know more about their dream roles? Their Broadway crushes? Every Friday afternoon, BroadwayWorld is bringing you THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with the best of Broadway and beyond.

In this week's edition, we caught up with Arian Moayed, who stars as 'Richard Saad' in The Humans, playing at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.

What is the first Broadway show you ever saw?

In Chicago... there were a few tours of shows that came through and I believe the first Broadway tour I ever saw was Phantom of the Opera. Second on tour was Rent.

In the summer of 2001, I flew to NY twice to check out the city, before I would officially move here in Fall of 2002. That summer of 2001, I saw three Broadway shows that week: Stones in his Pockets, Proof, The Lion King,

Every show is definitely different but usually involves me laying down and chatting with my fellow actors. Either that or trying to sleep before going on.

In The Humans, I sit in Reed's dressing room usually making fun of his pre-show ritual which includes talking about our Homebody/Kabul days, Trump, his treehouse, Waterwell or how many chocolates is too many chocolates before our show.

Side note: we first met in 2003 doing Homebody at Steppenwolf with Amy Morton, Tracy Letts, Aasif Mandvi, Omar Metwally, Ali Farahnakian, Firdous Bamji, Jeremy Beiler and Krissy Shields... who I ended up marrying and having two kids with.

Waterwell was remounting our 2007 production of The King Operetta with the City Parks Foundation, performing the musical throughout NYC outdoor parks. It was a thrilling experience to perform the speeches of Martin Luther King to new audiences in all of the different boroughs.

Our last performance was at the East River Park Ampitheater, one of the original homes of Shakespeare in the Park. It was a windy night and the generator blew, leaving the entire production powerless and dark. The show had to be canceled. We decided the only thing that could be salvaged is if we sang the last song of our show which was a rendition of Precious Lord, sung originally by Mahalia Jackson at Martin's funeral. We came off the stage and into the stands and huddled close as the remaining audience members scattered down to hear us sing this quiet gospel song.

We finished and started to leave until we heard the voice of one young African American kid, no older that seventeen, shout from the back of the audience, "Dr. King! Dr. King! Please, do the "Mountaintop" speech! PLEASE!" Without missing a beat, Rodney Gardiner, who playEd Martin so faithfully and honestly, stood up on a cement bench in front of him and recited the Reverend's most famous speech to the tears and awe of everyone around him.

There are two: Lear and Konstantin from The Seagull.

Everyone in my cast at The Humans is my crush. Them and Laurie Metcalf.

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