NR: Oh, how wonderful. Did you have enough time to tell your parents?

DS: Oh, yeah. All of my friends from college and high school, everybody that I knew, all of my mom's piano students, all of my family were there the first time I ever went on as Enjolras. We were kind of joking the night before. None of my buddies were into theater at all. They were just thinking, "Storm's in some play." They asked, "Can we all scream STORM when you come up for your bow?" Well, when I came up for my bow afterwards, they had made signs on poster boards with each letter of my last name and they held them up. The last two guys forgot to hold up the R and the M so it came out STO. Everybody in the cast was saying, "What's STO? Is that some kind of weird nickname?" It was like a football game.

NR: What was the difference between doing the tour and the Broadway version of Les Miz?

DS: None.

NR: You just didn't have to stay in a hotel?

DS: Yeah. I got to go home at night. That was an amazing experience. Every day was such a blessing and I never knew when there was going to be some kid up in the balcony that was seeing this thing for the first time and was going to have his life changed like I did. It was so amazing to see grown men in the third row just weeping, and you could tell they had been dragged there by their wives. There they were just so incredibly moved.

NR: I always wondered about the part of Enjolras. You've got to hang upside down for a long time.

DS: Oh, yeah.

NR: How awful is that?

DS: Oh, it's great. It's one of the best deaths in the show. Everybody dies in that show and everybody has a grand, beautiful death. I don't know which is better - Javert jumping off the bridge or Fantine bathing in that white light or Enjolras doing the "knee hang."

NR: So, then you got to Pimpernel. First of all, you came in in a kind of freshman class last October. You didn't come in one at a time. Was that a bit strange in the beginning?

DS: No, because I knew everybody in the show already. I had done the readings of Terry's Romeo and Juliet. Eric Bennyhoff (Timothy Eric Hart) and I had been out on the road together. Ron Sharpe and I had been out on the road together. I knew Clem (Dave Clemmons). I knew all these guys. Plus, I'd done the reading for The Civil War. I knew (Tim) Shew. Even though most of them were leaving as I was coming in, I felt a part of that "Wildhorn family." It wasn't really weird at all. The weirdest thing was coming in and all of my friends were gone. (laughs)

NR: If you could play any other Bounder, who would it be?

DS: If I could play any other Bounder...I don't know, each Bounder is so much fun. They're so individualized. I don't even think I could play another Bounder. Swinging is such a hard role. Drew (Geraci), and Jimmy (Van Treuren) and Stephen (Hope) have all the Bounders down pat. I don't know, you just see all of the individual things that Russell (Garrett) does or that (Tom) Zemon does and it just seems to me that even though Stephen and the swings all do a great job, I don't think that I could do the same job that these guys do.

NR: Oh OK, so you just like your character? There's not another one you would like to play?

DS: I like mine. I like Leggett. I'm happy with Leggett.

NR: And you get to wear that "green lizard" costume in "The Creation of Man." (laughs)

DS: (laughs) Yeah, I like Leggett.

NR: Which part of the show do you like doing the most?

DS: I love the little bit of sword fighting that I get to do in "Into the Fire." But, "Creation of Man" is just out of control.

NR: Yes it is. And you especially are out of control.

DS: Yeah, that's my favorite. "Creation of Man" is my favorite because it's just so way over the top. And I'm not exactly the most reserved person in the world. (laughs)

NR: (sarcastically) You look so shy up there, Doug.

Is there any part that you're just not crazy about doing?

DS: Not really, I love it all.

Interview conducted and photographs by Nancy Rosati.