This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.LORNA COURTNEY:
This week has been challenging in the best ways and also tiring in the best ways. Today I got up at 4:30 and performed onIs it just the crazed schedule that’s challenging or are there other things weighing on you?Because this is my first lead role I didn’t know what to expect. I knew what it took to be a leader, but I didn’t know all of the expectations and all of the press things.
. What a ride this must have been. How do you think coming so far so quickly impacts your performance as a leader?I think that because of all this great press and publicity that there are certain expectations of excellence, right? Well, this is live theater. Anything can happen, particularly with my character.
I could try and sound like Britney Spears if we were doing that type of, like, impersonation, you know, that type of musical, but we’re not, and there’s so much freedom in that. Not once did Max say to me, ‘You need to soundway.
COURTNEY: The reason I love my character so much – and she’s a lot like me – is that she learns there is no such thing as perfection and it’s in the imperfections that we find grace and that we learn and that we grow as human beings MORE: