anavillafaneofficial: August 20, 2017: Moment before our last show.
Thank you for choosing me to do this.
Thank you for trusting me with your life.
ANYTHING FOR YOU🖤🎶 #quesiga
What is your favorite line that you get to say?
At the end of "Tradición": "…so that the love for our country lives now and forever."
Every show experiences technical difficulties. What was the worst technical difficulty experienced during your show and how was it handled?
We did an entire show once with no automation in Act 1. It was like the high school production of On Your Feet! But there's a moment where I speak to my father in a bed. It's a beautifully written monologue where she's confessing to her father that she's in love for the first time, but since he has multiple sclerosis, he can't respond. There was no automation so there was no bed, so I just focused on an exit sign and said the monologue on a bare stage — just me and the audience. It actually ended up being kind of beautiful.
You've had the chance to take a lot of fun field trips with the cast of On Your Feet! Which has been the most memorable?
The White House was huge. It was in November of 2015, we had just opened, and Michelle Obama was doing this big Broadway at the White House program for Thanksgiving. Being at the White House during that presidency and being a part of such an incredible year on Broadway— because that was the year of The Color Purple and Hamilton— we were all the diversity shows. To perform in the White House with the core group of the original cast — and of course Emilio and Gloria were there too — it was so incredibly special. I remember when I was singing "Coming Out of the Dark," I was looking straight at Michelle Obama, and I was like, "Is this real life right now? I just made my Broadway debut, this was my first Broadway audition, and now I'm singing at the White House." It was a really special time period. I think within the week we did the White House and opened the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade — in a show that is all Latin kids standing onstage and saying, "This is what an American looks like." That was huge.
Final Bow: Ana Villafañe Takes Her Last "Glori"ous Steps With On Your Feet!
ezequieldelarosa: You always have to have the right glam team when you're working with the fabulous #anavillafañe love how the @csirianodress looks on her.
anavillafaneofficial: (This country was founded by immigrants. This country was built by immigrants. So yeah- I stand with immigrants.) #iamanimmigrant