THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with Your Favorite Broadway Stars- A BETTER PLACE's Edward Hyland

Welcome to THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with your favorite Broadway stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater? Their dream roles? Their Broadway crushes? Read on!

In this week's edition, we caught up with Edward Hyland, who stars as 'John Roberts' in A BETTER PLACE, playing at The Duke on 42nd Street.

What is the first Broadway or off-Broadway show you ever saw?

Company in 1972.

What is your most unique pre-show ritual?

Thanking the bygone ghost crews and stagehands who watch over us from dark backstage corners

What is your most memorable "the show must go on" moment?

Doing a production of Desire Under the Elms with a 102 degree fever.

What is the one role you want to play before you die?

It's a long list, in no particular order.

Who is your Broadway or off-Broadway crush?

Donna McKechnie.

I'm too far behind the times as yet - but will catch up at some point.