I went to the class for three or four years , until one time in class I felt that the teacher wasn ’ t giving me as much advice as before . I said to her , “ You ’ re not giving me as much help as you used to .” She said , “ Treat , you have the tools . Go out and use them .” The name of the woman who ran the class was Sandra Seacat . She was a wonderful teacher .
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Treat backstage in his dressing room during GREASE
Sherman : A lot of people don ’ t necessarily know about all of the hard work and discipline that goes into performing a Broadway show . How did you manage to keep things fresh and stay motivated during that time ?
Williams : I had grown up learning all of the songs from West Side Story , so I was aware of what a big deal “ Broadway ” was . When I got my first little dressing room at the Royale Theatre up on the sixth floor looking down on 45th Street , I thought , “ I ’ ve arrived . I ’ m here . This is fantastic !” I never lost the thrill that I would get from arriving at the theatre and getting ready for a show . It was a physically demanding show , and we all put a lot of effort into warming up . I already had the part under my belt . I really owned it . I spent the first four or five months finding where my humor was and what my Danny Zuko was like . The thing that people don ’ t realize is that there are Sunday matinees where you think , “ I don ’ t know how to get through this . I ’ m just not in the mood to go to that high-energy place ” Still , every time you ’ d hear that audience out there , and hear the kids that were coming in to see Grease on Broadway for the first time from New Jersey or from California or from the Midwest , you could feel how excited they were to be in a Broadway theater . Every time that curtain came up , I always knew that it was a brand-new group of people . That was the best part of Broadway . Every day and every time you performed was a
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