Claire DeJean appeared as a contestant on the fifteenth season of The Voice and now she’s touring the U.S. with the Broadway play Stereophonic!
The singer-actress, who beforehand appeared within the film A Full Unknown reverse Timothee Chalamet, is opening up about her preliminary goals of a music profession, which led to a musical theatre profession.
“I grew up with extra of a music background and spent a variety of time writing music in highschool. I used to be on The Voice for a short interval. I’ve an odd trajectory. I didn’t actually know the place I used to be going to go subsequent, and theater faculty taught me a lot about being an actor and broadening my horizons,” Claire advised BroadwayWorld.com.
Claire was on Kelly Clarkson‘s workforce in the course of the Fall 2018 season, making all of it the way in which to the Knockouts spherical. She was solely 17 on the time!
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She added, “I had a musical-theater love since I used to be fairly younger, then I fell into performing and writing and pop singing. I additionally auditioned for straight performing faculties. I used to be like, ‘Wherever the wind blows me is the precise place.’ Since graduating, I hadn’t been working a lot in musical theater—I used to be doing a variety of TV and movie work. So this looks like a homecoming.”
Claire is now targeted on performing.
“Truthfully, I actually get pleasure from performing proper now,” she advised BWW. “I’ll all the time love writing music and wish to come again to it, however I’m interested in doing an performing mission after this present. I might additionally clearly like to do one other Broadway present, however I’m type of interested in doing one thing virtually utterly completely different than this. Which may simply be a theme in my life—it’s good to simply type of comply with what alternatives come.”
In Stereophonic, Claire is taking part in the position of Diana, the lead singer of the band featured within the play. She opened up about how she pertains to the character.
“She has this expertise and this very unfastened confidence. She loves to jot down and specific herself via music. Taking a look at girls on this time, I don’t suppose she’s in a position to specific her emotions loudly in actual life, so writing is an outlet for her. I relate so much to that. And she or he continuously wonders: Am I sufficient? Am I adequate to be right here? I like doing this—why is it sticking? It’s scary however thrilling,” she stated.
You may catch Claire in Stereophonic on the Hollywood Pantages Theatre via January 2. Get tickets now and see if the tour is coming to a metropolis close to you quickly!
