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4 FRONT MAGAZINE
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by
John
Price
John Price: Like
where it leads us and what we learn.
Beeper:
Exactly.
John
Price: (To Chad)
Now on your character Eric. Here's a troubled a person, dealing
with abuse, relationships, his own homosexuality. What's exciting
to you as an actor? What attracted you to this character?
Chad
Allen: When I
first read the script I so clearly identified with Eric. He's
obviously hung up on an extremely troubled past - a lot of
emotional and sexual abuse and stuff. He left all that behind
to find something that would fulfill something inside of him.
What he found was a gay community where he could become the
leader of the pack, through partying and drugs and everything
else. It didn't matter where he came from or what had happened
to him. They accepted him for who he was and he was able to
become their leader. He created a family around him to substitute
for a family that he lost. The simple fact is, all of those
issues are still there, as they always are with all of us,
as we carry on throughout our lives. He had so much anger
inside of him that in his lifetime it killed him in this play,
the neat thing about it is, he gets to find resolution. It's
a lesson that we all have to learn take care of what we have
and take care of it here while we have a chance. Take care
of those we love,who we have in our families in both senses
of the word "family" - while we still have a chance.
John
Price: And
that's what you want people to take home from this show?
Chad
Allen:
Absolutely. And I have to tell you,
I set up a theater company in LA with the goal of providing
a place for young talented artists like Brian-Paul Mendoza,
like the actors on stage tonight, to have a forum for that
kind of expression. My greatest dream was to provide a place
for a writer to put up a work that's never been produced before.
We're able to do that.
John
Price:
Indeed you have. It's a great production.
Now, to get a little Chad overview. I know you've been acting
since you were a fetus, but what was your first big role?
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Chad
Allen: The first big thing was
probably the series St Elsewhere.
John
Price: That's right, it was all your dream
wasn’t it, all your character's dream?
Chad
Allen: Right. I was eight years
old when I started. I played the autistic character, Ed Flander's
autistic son for four years on that show, I now know to be
one of the best written television shows... ever.
John
Price: Ed Flander's autistic son. I just like
saying it.
Chad Allen: Tommy
Westfall, exactly.
Beeper:
We were sitting there talking once,
and I just went, oh my God, that was you! You're the kid with
the snow globe. Oh my God! You changed my life. Now here we
are! It's just so weird, to come full circle.
John
Price: How long were you on St Elsewhere?
Chad
Allen: Four years. It ran for
six years.
John
Price:
And then Our, House?
Chad
Allen: Yeah, I did a
I stint for a couple years on Webster and then I did Our House
for three years I think. My Two Dads for two years. I took
a break from acting all together and went back to school.
I didn't think I'd ever, act again and I fell in love with
theater. Then I did, the pilot for Dr. Quinn my senior year
in high school and that went for six Years. We just finished.
John
Price:
I know you could talk forever about that show, but in the
Reader’s Digest condensed version what did you get out of
Dr. Quinn? I mean, I saw you buried in a mine riding a horse,
the sheriff of the town What did you get out of that? |
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