When I got to The Lion King, I realized that doing eight shows a week in a show as physical as The Lion King on an open ended run was a mix of positives and negatives. On one hand, here I am doing this amazing role, in this amazing show, telling this amazing story for 1,700 people each show. On the other hand, my knees hurt so bad I could barely take the stairs to enter and exit the subway, my voice was doing crazy things, I was newly married in a new city and I never had time to hang out with anyone or make new friends because I was exhausted.

As much as I loved performing in the Lion King, for the first time in my career I started to feel burned out, overwhelmed, tired, unfulfilled and stressed out. Isn’t that just crazy? To finally book the job of your dreams and to realize that it isn’t fulfilling you in the way you expected.

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