I’m delighted you have my book, which is basically my very public diary. I feel like I should first tell you who I am, not only to give you some context for what you’re reading, but also to fill my constantly anxiety-producing word count. My name is Seth Rudetsky and I grew up loving Broadway: listening to records every day, going to TKTS with my parents for tickets, performing in my school shows and taking scores out of the library and playing them on the piano. Even though I knew Broadway would be my career, I wound up getting a classical piano degree (!) from the Oberlin Conservatory and hoped to parlay that into playing in Broadway orchestras. Thankfully, it worked. I moved to New York and played for lots of shows like Les Miz, Phantom and Ragtime. I also did lots of sketch comedy and stand-up on the side. In 1997, I became a comedy writer on the The Rosie O’Donnell Show and got to write two opening numbers for her when she hosted the Tony Awards. I really wanted to get back to performing onstage and wound up writing and starring in a one-person-show in 2003 called Rhapsody in Seth, which got me my first agent.
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