I left home at 14 to attend prep school. I went to the Kent School in Connecticut. After that, I never lived at home again, except to visit there during the summer, but I had a wonderful childhood. My dad and my mom were really wonderful, funny, charming people.
Sherman : How did you first become involved in the performing arts? Williams : I got my start in acting in seventh grade. My mother made a big pile of tuna sandwiches as props for the play, and I also had a Coca-Cola with me. I was nervous, and I poured the Coca-Cola partially into the glass, and I slammed the coke bottle down on the table. It got this huge laugh. I remember loving the feeling of that laughter coming from the audience.
I was also very interested in music at the time. I was learning to play guitar and singing a lot. I remember staring at the grandmother character with our profiles faced towards the audience.
I sort of unconsciously knew that this was something I was going to do. I made some very strong friendships there, including my friendship with Wayne Cilento, who would later star in A Chorus Line and choreograph Tommy and Wicked. Another friend of mine who I met there, Tony Spinelli, went on to become a very famous model for a while. By that time, the bug had hit me. When I got to college at Franklin and Marshall after playing football for my first season , I realized that I was going to be an actor.
I told the football coach that I was no longer going to be playing football. At that point, I started to get serious about learning as much as possible about the craft of acting in my freshman year at college. Sherman : Were there any early mentors who helped to shape the trajectory of your career after you got serious about your acting ambitions? Williams : The house that I grew up in was owned by a woman named Judy Abbott, who was the daughter of George Abbott, who was the most successful director of Broadway musicals for the first part of the 20th century.
Down the street from our house, there was a guy named Bobby. Their friends would all come up in the summer to visit. Stephen Sondheim would come - and they would all play charades and drink together. It was a great little summer retreat. At the time, I was doing three college shows: a comedy, a Shakespeare and a musical. There was another person who really influenced the direction my career took, and her name was Phyllis Grandy. She was a musical accompanist. I think that you should go over there and sing for them.
Louis St. Louis was the musical director. Would you sing it a third higher for me? Within two weeks, I was on Broadway performing. It was a baptism by fire, but it was great. Sherman : How did you end up becoming the lead in Grease? We performed with the Andrews Sisters, and we did the show for six months.
It was a wonderful experience. It was the first big Broadway musical that I starred in. At the end of the performance run, we did a final two weeks down at the Municipal Opera House in St. Louis, Missouri. After that, I was an out-of-work actor again. I did a play, I did a bunch of commercials, and then something happened.
I got a call, and got invited to go on as Danny Zuko in Grease on Broadway. Tommy Smith who was the stage manager who directed all of the touring productions asked me if I wanted to take over the last two weeks of a summer tour of Grease. I accepted the offer, and then we had two weeks of rehearsals. Everyone was new to the show. We were all young, and we all wanted to be good. It was just a fun, crazy, wild production of Grease with great young energy. After several weeks of performances, two producers came down and saw it, then came backstage and told me that my performance was great.
Three days later, I got a call asking if I wanted to take over the role of Danny Zuko as the lead in Grease on Broadway. That ended up being my job for the next three years. I also did my first few film roles during that time, and I started going to acting classes to further improve my skills.
Sherman : What were your biggest takeaways from the acting classes that you attended during the Grease era? Williams : I wanted to make sure that I was well-rounded as an actor. I read Death of a Salesman when I was 16, and that had an incredible impact on my development as an actor. In college, I studied everything from Shakespeare to Albee and Chekhov. I think you might like it. You should go. Go out and use them. She was a wonderful teacher. Safe Harbor. The Hideout. A Little Bit of Heaven.
The Devil's Own. What Happens in Vegas. Mask Maker. Beyond the Blackboard. Oba: The Last Samurai. Chasing a Dream. In the Blood. Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader. Boston's Finest. Age of Dinosaurs. Reaching for the Moon. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.
Operation Rogue. The Wedding Guest. Eve of Destruction: Part Two. Drunk Parents. The Congressman. Rocky Mountain Christmas. Second Act. The Etruscan Smile. The Great Alaskan Race. The Christmas House. Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square. Smooth Talk. Heart of Dixie. Prince of the City. Deep Rising. The Substitute 2: School's Out. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead. Where the Rivers Flow North. How much of Treat Williams's work have you seen? Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy.
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