Tag: Andy Mientus

mientus-andrew:

Director Michael Arden and husband Andy Mientus attend the ‘Once On This Island’ Broadway Opening Night at Circle in the Square Theatre on December 3, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

“There will be lots of talk about Why We Tell the Story tonight, but I wish you could see How. @michaelarden has been battling to direct this show since we first started dating and after years of Nos and then Yeses, hours and hours of research and planning, months of exhaustive searching to get just the right cast, sleepless nights agonizing over details that would seem negligible to most but are vital to him, tonight, he finally opens this thing on Broadway. He wouldn’t want you to know any of this. He just wants you to sit back and see in this story what he sees. He makes it look so easy. But those of us close to him know all that went in to this and are exceedingly proud. Happy Opening, My Love My Love.” – Andy Mientus

michael-arden:

“When we got engaged we both tried to propose on the same day. We were in England in Baths. It was a beautiful day and I had been planning a scavenger hunt that would end with Andy entering a chapel on the hotel property and I would propose to him. So I had developed this whole idea and the staff at the hotel knew. We had spent the afternoon together and then I went to the front desk to get the key to the chapel, so I could begin the whole thing, but when I got back that was the moment Andy proposed to me. He beat me! I said, ‘Of course. Yes, I’ll marry you. But I can’t believe you beat me!’ It’s very telling about how we were both ready for that moment.” +