Peter Filichia Interviews Steven About His New Plays….
“Many of those interested in theater have had their Tony acceptance speeches ready for years if not decades. Steven Carl McCasland can match his passion for Broadway with the best of them (“I saw Patti LuPone do GYPSY 13 times”), but he isn’t dreaming of winning and spinning a Tony on national TV.
“What I want to do,” he says, “is own a community theater and live over it. I wouldn’t care if I had to share space with the wardrobe department.”
Even the most modest of community theaters cost a pretty penny – millions of them, in fact -- so such a purchase will have to be in the 27-year-old’s future. In the meantime he’s been making a living by coaching performers on how to audition, playing piano at Marie’s Crisis and, through his Beautiful Soup Theater, staging musicals (from A DOLL’S LIFE to RAGS) and plays (LILIOM to MOOSE MURDERS)…”