Show People with Paul Wontorek: Ali Stroker of OKLAHOMA!
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Get Tickets to OKLAHOMA!: www.broadway.com/shows/oklahoma/
OKLAHOMA! Tony nominee Ali Stroker discusses her positivity, adding her own flair to a classic character, which celebs she'd love to see the show and more.
Here are some of the must-read highlights:
ON HER TAKE ON ADO ANNIE
“I consider Oklahoma! one of the standard classics. I always imagined that some of those characters had to fit into a certain box. Throughout my career, my strategy has always been ‘Be outside of the box!’ Here we are, and I’m arriving in this moment in my career where I’m doing a role I just never imagined that I would get to play. It’s so cool because I get to do my version of it. Maybe outside of the box is what people want. It’s very easy to play Ado Annie as a bit of a caricature, as if she’s not that smart. I think she’s really smart. She’s always asking questions. I think it comes down to the fact that she is really excited about exploration. She’s exploring these relationships with these two very different guys. She says yes to opportunities. That, to me, is exciting.”
ON HER INCREDIBLE MOTTO
“I live by this motto: ‘Turn your limitations into your opportunities.’ So, how can an actor who’s in a chair enhance Ado Annie? After I got cast, I met with Daniel and John Heginbotham, our choreographer. I talked to them about how I move and about what the vocabulary is on wheels. What is so fun about Ado Annie is she has these relationships with two different guys in the show. The intimacy is so specific. What I am so excited about is that all of a sudden in a show like Oklahoma! where certain themes are just a part of the story, now we are addressing disability and sexuality and intimacy and relationships. We don’t need to talk about it. We just see it. We get the opportunity to observe it. That is how we progress.”
ON HER OKLAHOMA! AUDITION
“I met Daniel Fish at my first audition. It was a really fun experience. I did all of the material, and he was like, ‘Let’s do ‘I Cain’t Say No.’ Just do your version of it a cappella.’ That’s where I bloom. When someone says, ‘Do what you want to do.’ I’m like, ‘Yes!’ I did my sort of country popstar version of it. Two weeks later, I was called back. I was in Cleveland doing SPELLING BEE. The day of the callback, I was supposed to fly back to New York. The flight ended up getting canceled. I ended up going back to my apartment, and my boyfriend was like, ‘Let’s make a tape.’ I was really emotional. I really, really wanted this part. We did two takes. The second take, we were like, ‘That’s it.’ Three days later, I found out that I got it. As an actor, you make so many self-tapes, and you’re just like, ‘No one is going to see this’ or ‘This isn’t going to work out.’ Sometimes it works!”
ON FINDING HER VOICE
“I learned to sing by imitation. To me, singing was never a technical thing. It wasn’t until a little bit later that I started taking voice lessons and created this technique. My breath control is not as strong as it would be if I had the use of my core and my diaphragm. Singing has always felt for me like the place where it’s safe to express myself. Growing up, I did at times feel pressure to make everyone else feel comfortable in the room. It was a way that I could ease everyone’s fear or anxiety about whether I was OK. Singing as a character gave me permission to feels those feelings of anger or sadness or joy, all of those things that maybe felt too scary to express in real life. When I was in a voice lesson or a rehearsal or working on a show, I wasn’t left behind."
ON THE CELEB SHE'D LOVE TO SEE IN THE CHILI LINE
“I want to meet Dolly Parton. She’s amazing. That’s who I really would love to meet. I didn’t grow up singing country, but I listen to her and her vibrato and her riffs and the way that she sings certain vowels. I’ve definitely allowed her to inspire my singing.” 
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"Thank you, Michael Arden" Paul and Ali know what's up
PLEASE have Ali as a broadway.com vlogger! As an aspiring actress in a wheelchair, it would mean a lot to me!
yes please!! she was great on the dw spring awakening vlog!
Yes please I’m a aspiring musical theatre actor in a chair it would be awesome to watch how she does it and learn from her through vlogs
Beautiful inside and out. And her performance as Ado Annie is perfection.
She takes charge of her own narrative with such grace, authenticity, and confidence. THE definition of a badass babe who is completely OWNING IT!
What an amazing woman! I love her hair, too!
Wake up Broadway!! You have to do a revival of 9to5 with Ali as Doralee!! 🤩
OH MY GOD YES
This is the most inspiring interview I've seen on Show People. What a beautiful woman she is!
Her way of thinking is such an inspiration to us all. To take such a challenge and see opportunity I hope one day I can look at the world that way. What an amazing talent.
She should play Glenda in Wicked.
wow. what a light. what an inspiring woman.
She seems like a really rad lady.
She is amazing. Love her energy!
Beautiful, beautiful interview. She is extraordinary
i gasped when you posted this!! i've loved her sm for years and i am so excited about how well her career is going right now and where it's going to go in the years to come!!!
So inspiring and just so happy for her success.
She’s so inspiring and interesting. Also, she resembles Uma Thurman.
yes! I've been waiting for this!
What an incredible person, inside and out. She is truly and inspiration!
as someone who saw the tour in San Francisco recently, Here's a tip in case *THIS* version tours again, Orchestra row *O* is as close as you'll want to sit, any closer and all you'll see in the 2nd act is fog and feel like your losing your hearing from an electric guitar..
Love her!
OH MY GOD ITS ABOUT GLEE??? AND BROADWAY?? YES PLEASE!!!!
Ali was in CLEVELAND?!?!? Damn it I missed it!! 😭😭😭
She also did "Annie" out in LA last year. Michael Arden was behind that production as well. :)
She’s so fricking adorable like u don’t even know
We did Oklahoma at my school and our Jud broke his leg so we had him in a wheelchair
he was so shook by dolly parton
First!