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THE WEDDING SINGER: Q&A with Christian Charisiou


The Wedding Singer at the State Theatre Sydney commences this January 5th.

Christian Charisiou is excited to be bringing this show to his home! It's going to be his first major musical in Sydney, so it's a special one. I caught up with Christian first time round (before those covid show delays)...

G'day Christian,

I've seen you described as Actor, Singer, Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker (on your management website). Take us through your bio. What is the favourite thing you've done so far in your career?

That was just my fun way to say I try to do everything! I graduated from NIDA in 2013 from the Acting Degree where I was the trial year for the Musical Theatre version of the course. Since then I've been doing it all - Plays, Film and TV, Voice Over and Musical Theatre. Cry Baby at the Hayes in 2018 was my first lead in a musical (which is coming back to the Opera House from July-August this year), and then things started to really change; I did The Last Five Years at the Ensemble Theatre, The Dismissal with Squabbalogic and was lucky enough to play lead roles in an animated series and an animated film!

The favourite part of my career to date, would have to be a tie between playing Robbie Hart in The Wedding Singer and voicing my character 'Sol' in the animated series Space Nova. Both with incredible teams attached and unbelievably fun experiences.

You're about to step into some big shoes on stage - do you take the same shoe size (or bigger) than Adam Sandler?

It's a huge honour to be gifted this role and Adam Sandler has some pretty big shoes to fill, but, I'm confident that what myself and the team have created will fill those shoes well. The musical version of the film dials everything up to the most energetic level it can be, and the way Robbie is written has really allowed me to take what Adam Sandler did and really run with it. I'm having a lot of fun playing this role every night.

How many times have you watched the movie of The Wedding Singer?

I grew up with the film, so in my life I've watched it at least a dozen times and I think between auditions and rehearsals I watched it another 5 times, so, that's nearly 17 times...it's such a good film, I think I'll watch it again actually!

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Excerpt from my interview with Christian Charisiou on SydneyScoop.com

Read full original Sydney Scoop interview >> here

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