Grey Henson explores the gay ‘90s in ‘tick, tick … BOOM!’
‘tick, tick…BOOM!’Through Feb. 4Kennedy Center $59.00 – $349.00Kennedy-center.org Out actor Grey Henson, 33, leads a charmed career.
While still a student at Carnegie Mellon University, the genuine triple threat with impeccable comic timing was plucked from oblivion to play closeted missionary Elder McKinley, a part he’s been described as born to play, in “The Book of Mormon” (two years touring, and two years on Broadway).
Next, he created the musical iteration of confidently queer high schooler Damian Hubbard in Broadway’s “Mean Girls,” scoring a 2018 Tony nod for Best Actor for a Featured Role in a Musical; and until very recently he starred as gay Storyteller 2 in the exuberant hit Broadway musical comedy “Shucked.” “That’s what acting is.
Timing, luck, being prepared, and being good,” the punctual and polite New York-based actor recently shared via phone. And now, just weeks later, he’s changing gears with Jonathan Larson’s “tick, tick… Boom!” at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater.
