Musical Theatre Alum Comes Home With Book of Mormon
Everybody knows what it takes to make it in the musical theater business. You go to school, then spend untold years slogging your way through menial employment while you hope to be taken on by some out-of-the-way company in some obscure corner of the American cultural landscape. If you’re exceedingly lucky, you might earn enough to avoid being tossed out of your tiny apartment for nonpayment of rent.
Well, it appears that somebody forgot to tell all this to Josh Daniel. Fresh out of the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, with nary a professional credit to his name, the Metairie native was asked to join the inaugural national touring company of the mega-hit Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon.” He will be among the ensemble performers when the show takes over recently renovated and re-opened Saenger Theatre beginning Oct. 15.