Today I Wanna Be Like Bradley Dean! Bradley Dean is a Broadway veteran crossing a dozen shows with the show he’s currently starring in, Chess alongside Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher! He also was a part of the original cast of the final musical written by the late Stephen Sondheim, Here We Are! This wasn’t the only Sondheim piece he starred in professionally, having done Company (2006, covering Raul Esparza) and A Little Night Music (2014, alongside Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters, Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury) on Broadway! On top of this, he is also a vocal teacher with over 20 years of professional experience! We get to talking about his entire career including the one time he wrote, directed and starred in his own original musical, Sextet! Go see him as Molokov in Chess on Broadway at the Imperial Theater in previews now!
I WANNA BE LIKE BRADLEY DEAN CHAPTERS
1. 00:00 Chess Intro
2. 04:20 Bradley’s I Wanna Be Like You as a Kid
3. 09:32 Stephen Sondheim
4. 11:45 College Audition Experience
5. 13:15 Theater Beginnings
6. 22:08 Broadway Debut: Jane Eyre
7. 25:00 Swinging & Understudying
8. 27:15 Man of La Mancha
9. 32:27 John Doyle’s Company
10. 38:10 A Little Night Music with Elaine Stritch, Angela Lansbury
11. 42:40 Evita
12. 50:25 The Last Ship with Sting
13. 1:02:30 The Voice Follows
14. 1:05:30 Writing, Directing, Performing
15. 1:09:30 A New Brain & Little Miss Sunshine
16. 1:14:42 Dear Evan Hansen
17. 1:16:12 Hal Prince & Phantom of The Opera
18. 1:20:55 The Fantasticks
19. 1:22:47 Here We Are!
20. 1:32:00 CHESS ON BROADWAY!
21. 1:42:20 Name That Song!
22. 1:46:00 Dream Guest Manifestation
23. 1:46:58 Bradley’s I Wanna Be Like You NOW!