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On this episode I talked with Jason about the moment he fell in love with theatre and performing, the most valuable lesson he learned in college that has helped him as a professional in the theatre industry, his audition for Les Miserables, making his Broadway debut in Les Miserables in 2014 after touring with the show, how he made the iconic character Enjolras his own, joining Phantom Of The Opera on Broadway as a vacation swing, what the job of a Broadway vacation swing entails, opening Into The Woods as the Baker at the famous New York City Center and later being a standby for four male tracks in the recent Broadway revival of Into The Woods, his process for learning four tracks in a show, what keeps shows like Phantom and Into The Woods new for him even after being part of the show(s) for a while, why people should buy tickets to come see him on the Into The Woods tour, and MUCH MORE!
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Jason Forbach is an American actor and singer. He has played Rapunzel's Prince and the Baker in Into the Woods, Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera, and Enjolras and Feuilly in Les Misérables.
Forbach joined the Las Vegas cast of The Phantom of the Opera understudying the roles of Raoul and Monsieur Reyer in 2006. In 2009, Forbach played the dual role of Rapunzel's Prince and The Wolf in Into the Woods at the Wells Fargo Pavilion.
In 2012, Forbach joined the 25th Anniversary national tour cast of Les Misérables as Feuilly and an understudy for Enjolras. He later took over the role of Enjolras playing opposite his partner Joseph Spieldenner as Grantaire. In March 2014, Forbach returned to Les Misérables in the Broadway revival. Once again playing Feuilly and understudying Enjolras. He briefly took over the role of Enjolras again in October 2014 and left the production in November of that same year. In June 2015, he returned to the production playing Feuilly and the Factory Foreman.
In 2022, Forbach joined the New York City Center Encores! production of Into the Woods as the male swing where he ended up going on for Rapunzel's Prince for a majority of the run. He moved with the production to the St. James Theatre for the 2022 Broadway revival understudying the roles of the Baker, the Wolf/Cinderella's Prince, Rapunzel's Prince, and the Narrator/Mysterious Man. He opened the production as the Baker when Brian d'Arcy James was sick, and also went on for the Princes and Wolf many times during the producti… Read More
