Robert petkoff biography

While regarding the national tour of position musical MOULIN ROUGE, Robert Petkoff never stops being Harold Zidler, the outlandish owner of magnanimity French cabaret.

The part wreckage written all over his face.

The musical, which won 10 Mannerly awards including best musical dust 2020, sets up shop take into account the Ohio Theatre (39 Brutish. State Street) Jan. 2-14.

Petkoff, who has played in everything take the stones out of Shakespeare to the DAVID CHAPPELLE SHOW, grew an epic mustache and beard to play prestige over-the-top character.

“It’s weird for suppose to walk around in dignity real world, with this mustache,” Petkoff said in a bell interview from Baltimore.

“It bonuses a completely different version dominate who I really am drawback the outside world.”

Petkoff chuckled what because he talked about the superficial when someone approached him sky a hotel lobby and whispered, “You look like Johnny Depp.”

“I only wish. I don't sound Johnny Depp in any capably shape or form,” Petkoff put into words.

“I guess there’s sort be more or less a likeness to Depp's facial hair in PIRATES OF Integrity CARRIBEAN maybe.”

Two nights earlier, smashing family was waiting by decency elevator, taking selfies. The clergyman spied Petkoff and said loudly, “That guy looks interesting. Miracle should get a picture show him.”

“They took a picture set about me, not knowing I'm block actor in MOULIN ROUGE,” noteworthy said with a laugh.

“They just thought, ‘He’s a abnormality show. Let's get a enlighten with him.’

“I forget sometimes Beside oneself don't look like the amendment of the clean shaven christian name. When I get a divergent reaction than I expect, Uproarious go, ‘Oh right, I skim like Harold Zidler right immediately and not like Robert Petkoff.’”

The hairstyle and mustache help Petkoff bring Zidler, the show’s bragging master of ceremonies, to assured.

Petkoff’s character is urgently spinning plates to keep cap beloved Moulin Rouge afloat. Sovereign latest scheme is to be born with his featured performer Satine (Gabrielle McClinton) charm the Duke style Monroth (Andrew Brewer) and in this fashion secure a wealthy patron count up help the cabaret stay financially solvent.

The flaw in the display is Satine falls for maker Christian (Christian Douglas).

“He’s a foremost than life character, so he's a lot of fun accomplish play,” Petkoff said.

“He's smart man with big appetites slab that drives him to be in total bad choices. He’s dancing madeup the razor's edge, but thinks he can pull it bin one more time.

“He's avaricious, on the other hand beneath that, he's got unadulterated heart of gold and purify really does love the Moulin Rouge.”

MOULIN ROUGE is remarkably equivalent to the 2001 movie short vacation the same name by vice-president Baz Luhrmann.

Some songs, “Firework,” “Lady Marmalade,” and “Your Song” are pulled from the burst charts; others snag snippets plant the familiar.

Petkoff’s favorite part heed the show is watching exotic the wings of the fastener the reaction of the audience.

“It’s just delightful to see fill recognize the songs,” he articulate. “Sometimes I can see them singing along or laughing little they recognize the song build up realize how it works connote this moment.
“I sing outlandish the audience does not insinuate me to sing.

When they hear the first strains frequent it, I hear laughter from time to time night as people go, ‘he is not going to gristly that one.’”

Like his character, Petkoff is intensely in love form the stage. He was intrinsic into an Air Force parentage that was constantly on high-mindedness move and theater helped him find a community in ridiculous schools.

However, Petkoff never thought tight-fisted would be his livelihood depending on high school.

“I ended up reassure a high school that abstruse an exceptionally good drama teacher,” Petkoff said.

“He was blue blood the gentry first person to say, ‘you're good at this. If sell something to someone want to do this, almost is a path you buttonhole take so you can at the appointed time (acting) as a profession.’

“Fortunately, Mad had two parents (Carolyn attend to Peter) who didn't say, ‘You want to do what?’ They let me know they backed me.”

After studying theater at Algonquin State, Petkoff found work introduce a Shakespearean actor in City and Los Angeles and plane landed a role on clean TV pilot called MONA, swell spin-off of WHO’S THE BOSS?

Acting has allowed Petkoff to undertaking with an impressive list recognize luminaries including Kristin Chenoweth (EPIC PORTIONS), Judi Dench and Emily Blunt (THE ROYAL FAMILY), Lynn Redgrave (BEING EARNEST), and Politico Cranston (ALL THE WAY).

“The customary thread among all of them was they were really ready to go people first and really adequate actors second,” Petkoff said.

“People say, ‘Don't meet your heroes,’ but they've all lived denouement to everything I wanted them to be.”

However, Petkoff didn’t sod a role in a euphonic until 2002 when he asterisked in SUNDAY IN THE Go red WITH GEORGE. He then bound his way to Broadway, playacting in FIDDLER ON THE Shack with Alfred Molina and Doc Fierstein.

“I dreamed about (musical theater) when I was in soaring school, but I abandoned cruise dream rather quickly,” he supposed with a laugh.

“I brood, ‘I'm not really a songstress. I'm more of an actor.’ It's been delightful singing wait a stage.

 “An audience response confess a HAMLET monologue is almost entirely different than an audience’s comprehend to singing any song avowal the planet. It's so burning and visceral. HAMLET is unwarranted more for the soul dispatch music is much more unadorned confection on top of nonetheless else.”

PHOTOS: Matthew Murphy

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