For the latest installment of a series about the various wacky students that make up the Varsity Show cast and crew, Christin Zurbach sat down with Sean Walsh, the VShow principal who rose to fame as "Ke$ho."
Christin Zurbach: When and how did you get into theater?
Sean Walsh: Originally in high school I ran cross-country. I did pretty well for myself but found that it wasn’t anything I was really passionate about and, even though I was doing okay at it, it wasn’t something that really inspired me. One of my friends talked me into the spring musical and it was Kiss Me Kate. I auditioned and got the part of Donkey/Driver/Haberdasher. I think I had two lines in total but I was still so excited, and after that, I just never did cross-country again.
CZ: Why did you decide to do the Varsity Show again?
SW: I wasn’t going to do it this year. I was hell-bent on not doing it again. I said “I will only do it literally if Alex Hare [CC’13] directs, Hillary [Kritt, BC’12] and Ben [Harris, CC’14] produce, Solomon [Hoffman, CC’14] and Tareq [Abuissa, CC’14] compose, and Adrianna [Aguilar, BC’13] choreographs. If one of those things hadn’t gone right I wouldn’t have done it. Then I learned that Stephen, who is an architecture major and I’m an architecture major, was art directing and he’s unbelievable, and John [Goodwin, CC’12] and Jeff [Stern, CC ‘12] writing too. I didn’t want anyone else to write. When I saw the creative team go up, I was like “Damn it. I guess I’m doing it.”
