{"id":6701,"date":"2014-03-02T08:37:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2014-03-02T08:37:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T12:37:32","slug":"andy-karl-talks-about-playing-rocky-balboa-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/02\/andy-karl-talks-about-playing-rocky-balboa-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Karl Talks About Playing Rocky Balboa on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2014\/feb\/022414rocky_broadway.png?resize=500%2C455\" width=\"500\" height=\"455\" \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On <strong>February 24, 2014<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/174661\/rocky-headliner-andy-karl-on-his-buff-boxer-body-getting-a-black-eye-in-the-ring-his-real-life-adrian\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Broadway.com ran an interview with Andy Karl conducted by Kathy Henderson<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0In the interview <strong>Karl<\/strong> talks about taking on the role of <strong>Rocky Balboa<\/strong>. \u00a0Here are some tidbits&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Would you get in the ring with Sylvester Stallone?<\/b><br \/>\nNot a chance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Speaking of riding a fine line, what\u2019s the secret to portraying Rocky without veering into a parody of Sylvester Stallone?\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nI\u2019m taking on some of the mannerisms Sylvester Stallone created, but I also have to let it be truthful to me. The music is character-driven and I am naturally a baritone, so the score fits right in my sweet spot. It\u2019s actually pretty simple\u2014for me, and for most of America, Rocky is a living, breathing person, and I\u2019m honoring the character enough that I don\u2019t have to rely on Stallone\u2019s take on everything. He picked me; he\u2019s trusting me with this, and that\u2019s a huge honor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 24, 2014, Broadway.com ran an interview with Andy Karl conducted by Kathy Henderson. \u00a0In the interview Karl talks about taking on the role of Rocky Balboa. \u00a0Here are some tidbits&#8230; Would you get in the ring with Sylvester Stallone? Not a chance. Speaking of riding a fine line, what\u2019s the secret to portraying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-127","category-rocky-musical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-1K5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6702,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions\/6702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}