Fresh Face: Andrew Burnap of THE INHERITANCE

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- My name is Andrew Burnap

and I play Toby Darling
in "The Inheritance."

I would go to The Big
Apply Circus as a kid

and one day I got pulled into the show

to direct the band as like sort of a bit.

I remember feeling so
terrified and thrilled

at the same time and so I
started chasing that feeling,

but I remember thinking in that moment,

I wanna be able to make people feel

the way that I feel right now.

I don't think I could
articulate it at the time

but it was a sort of
this spark of being like,

I wanna be able to
create things like that.

To do that to people.

Musical theater was my
first deep, deep love.

I would watch "Oliver" over
and over and over again

and also "The Wizard of Oz."

I mean, Burt Lahr, I would
be running around the house

doing Burt Lahr impressions.

Anything that Stephen Sondheim
wrote is one of the most

profound gifts to an actor
who loves musical theater.

I can't remember for the life of me

what the first class was,
but I do remember thinking

I had full-on imposter syndrome.

Like, oh these people are all real.

They really deserve to be
here and I tricked everybody

and then through my journey
there it was about owning

the fact that no one is actually like me,

just like no one is actually like them.

To put it into three words maybe,

it was amazing, horrifying, overwhelming.

I love organizing.

Organizing is the most fun
I think I've had in my like,

trying to be an adult.

I look at pictures of
closets on Instagram,

it gives me so much joy and
I like like folding clothes

and stuff cause it feels

like I'm organizing my mind in a way.

In this rehearsal process specifically,

everything is seems to
be so crazy sometimes,

it just makes me feel
like I have some sort

of control over my life.

Toby Darling, how do I describe him?

When I first really met Toby

was when I got to play him
in the week-long workshop

when I was fully face-to-face with him

and sort of found out things about him

that I didn't realize were
there just from reading it.

He's sort of this beautiful lost boy.

Toby loves to party, he loves to,

his love of language, we share definitely.

I think in the way that we
both seize the day if you will,

we're similar and then
we start to branch off

as the story progresses.

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