Gordon Goodman was once so confident a performer that he could fall asleep while waiting to sing. In fact, he did. Sitting in a chair onstage with the Phoenix Symphony, with a full house of 5,000 in front of him and nearly 200 musicians and singers behind him, he was so relaxed that he nodded off, waking only when his chin hit his chest.Goodman missed his first line, but no matter. "No one knew, because it was an original piece," he recalled recently. "So I just stood up very calmly and started." Afterward, he added, he got a standing ovation.Things changed when his larynx was damaged in an onstage collision during a performance of "Oklahoma!" Goodman recovered his voice but struggled to regain his swagger. He suffered from stage fright. In one particularly bad audition, he said, his performance resembled "the cartoon where the opera singer opens his mouth and.
- 9/21/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Andrew Salomon)
- backstage.com
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