Garth Kravits Talks Passion for Theatre: 'I just knew in my heart that's what I wanted'

When Garth Kravits approached his parents with the thought of leaving school and heading into the wedding-singing business, they were not exactly thrilled at first, though given the family's involvement with community theatre, they eventually accepted his decision.

Years later, and ready to open in a production of 'Crossing Delancey' at the Bickford Theatre, Kravits attributes his evolution as an artist to the years he spent as a wedding singer, "My high school drama teacher told me it doesn't matter if there's one person in the back row or 1,000 people, you should give it the same passion," he says in an interview with New Jersey Online, "It's the same for weddings - there are those where the crowd is energized and animated and thrilled to be there, and there are those weddings where the guests are picking at the salmon, glassy-eyed."

Kravits, whose own father worked in community theatre productions and involved him and his siblings from an early age, says that he always knew he would end up on stage, "You can say it romantically - deep within my soul, I just knew in my heart that's what I wanted."

To read the rest of the interview with New Jersey Online, please click here.

The Bickford Theatre run of Susan Sandler's Crossing Delancey, plays at the Morristown Equity house January 21 through February 14, 2010.

Performances are Thursdays at 8 p.m. (1st two weeks) and 2 p.m. (final two weeks), Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets range from $40 to $20. Lunch and dinner packages and group discounts are available.??Tickets may be purchased online 24/7 at www.bickfordtheatre.org, by phone at (973) 971-3706 or in person at the Bickford Box Office. The Bickford Theatre is conveniently located within the Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road in Morristown, NJ, and offers free parking and full accessibility. Box Office hours for phone sales are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Walk-up hours are Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Garth Kravits has been seen on Broadway and in LA in The Drowsy Chaperone and Off Broadway at the John Houseman in Toxic Audio, Loudmouth. Regional credits include Carmen Ghia in The Producers, Harpo Marx in A Night in the Ukraine, and Jumpy Malachi in Happy Days at the Goodspeed Opera House. Elyse Wolf returns to the Bickford Theatre where she starred in Jeffrey Sweet's With and Without. Other regional and stock credits include Sonia in They're Playing Our Song and Domina in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Surflight Theatre in NJ, Annie in Annie Get Your Gun, Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, Charity in Sweet Charity, Rizzo in Grease, and Sally Bowles in Cabaret.