talent JONATHAN GROFF
photographer DEAN ISIDRO @deanisidro with DE FACTO @defactoinc
digital tech ALEX KALB @_kalby_
photographer’s assistant CASEY WEIS @caseynotkacey
stylist ERICA CLOUD @ecduzit with THE WALL GROUP @thewallgroup
stylist’s assistant MIA NAVARRO
glam AMY KOMOROWSKI @akgroomer with THE WALL GROUP @thewallgroup
digital producer DASHA BROOK @dasha_brook
Special thanks to the iconic West Village gay bars THE DUPLEX @theduplex_nyc JULIUS’ @juliusbarnyc & MONSTER @monsternyc featured in this photo shoot.
EVERYTHING THAT’S HAPPENED TO ME WITH THE SUCCESS OF FILM AND TELEVISION HAS BEEN A COMPLETE SURPRISE TO ME BECAUSE I THOUGHT…BY COMING OUT THAT THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE.
When the audience of Broadway’s Merrily We Roll Along first meets Frank Shepard (Jonathan Groff), the character has all the trappings of a beautiful life: He’s hosting a glamorous party at his Los Angeles home as a producer of hit commercial films.
Others might call this scene a certain kind of hell. At the fete, he flirts with a younger woman who is not his wife. It’s revealed that he missed his son’s graduation. One of his longtime best friends, the writer and theater critic Mary Flynn (Lindsay Mendez), effectively ends the gathering with a drunken dressing-down, in which she mourns Frank’s squandered artistry as a once-promising composer. At one point, Frank tells his wife, “I’ve made only one mistake in my life. But I made it over and over. That was saying ‘yes’ when I meant ‘no.’”
When Jonathon Groff first encountered Merrily, “that line went boom,” the actor recalls. “It went through my body. And I thought that I have to play this part, because this is a mistake that I have made often in my life.”
“I think everyone that was
