Describe your connection to theater
I started acting and dancing at a very young age, and when you grow up with those interests musical theatre is a customary thing to do. I definitely started taking actual theatre classes at Applause NY when I was around 6 months old. I guess my teachers there made a CD of Broadway hits, because my dad used to play it in the car and at my country house. I have vivid memories of being around 5 or 6 and running around the room, on top of all the furniture, dancing to the title song from Fame. It’s funny, because I ended up playing Carmen, the character who sings that song in the musical version of Fame, at Applause 8 years later. I’ve done theatre at Applause until this year, because of well, Junior Year. I also have spent a month and a half each summer since I was 11 at Stagedoor Manor in Loch Sheldrake, NY. It’s a theatre camp, obviously, where fourteen different productions get put up in three weeks. I go for two sessions every summer, so I do two full shows plus some smaller performances. I have been in everything, from the most obscure shows ever written, like Conference of the Birds or Men on Boats, to well known hits like Sister Act, Titanic, or Godspell. This summer I got to perform with a troupe called Players Ensemble. Players is comprised of 16 actors and get to put on an hour long show of small scenes and transitions. It was really a fantastic honor and experience for me, because I love working on my straight acting skills. While at Nightingale I do a lot of plays and musicals, at camp I tend to only do straight plays. Want to see Sadie Goldstein in action? Catch her light up the Nightingale-Bamford stage this April (2019) in Chicago as Velma Kelly |
What is your favorite production of all time?
That’s a really tough question, especially when you’ve been in upwards of 50 shows in your life. I’d say what really makes a production enjoyable to not only you, but to the audience, is loving the people your performing with and just loving performing as an art itself. I’ve been it quite a few shows that were bucket list shows for me, but I wouldn’t even say those make the top for my favorites. I was in a production of Cabaret, which I’d say was one of my favorite shows I’ve ever been in. Although it is also an all time favorite for me as a show, what really made it so enjoyable was the experience itself. I was working with a bunch of incredibly smart and supportive people who all had the same goal in mind. We would come into rehearsals some weeks and just analyze the script and talk about how we understand this highly complicated and heavy show. Any show you’re in will be stressful (I promise, everything will go wrong) but having a supportive and loving cast makes all the difference. Also, that production brought about some fantastic shows, if I say so myself. Do you have a dream role? If so, what is it?
I definitely have dream shows, shows that I absolutely adore and would die to be in like Chicago, A Chorus Line, Almost Maine, Assassins, but I wouldn’t say that there is any character that I feel destined to play. I know a lot of people who relate so deeply to one character that it’s inevitable they’ll play them many times in their career. I’m not like that. However, if you give me any musical or play in the book, I can tell you what role I’d dream to play. |