constantine rocks long island

November 4. 2009

Constantine Rocks Long Island

by Christine Gerani

Tonight, the Boulton Center for the Performing Arts in Bay Shore welcomes Tony-nominated star Constantine Maroulis.  Constantine is the star of the smash Broadway hit, ROCK OF AGES and was also a finalist on American Idol, Season 4! A NIGHT AT THE ROCK SHOW will feature Constantine’s unique interpretations of some of the greatest rock songs of all time. He’ll be backed by an all-star band. I spoke with Constantine about tonight’s Sold-Out show!

Christine – Congratulations on your success with Rock of Ages and your Tony Award Nomination for Best Actor.  It’s huge. Do you pinch yourself every day?

Constantine – Definitely yea, it’s been an incredible year so I remind myself as often as I can how lucky I am to be in a great show and getting to do it every night. We had a lot of fun this year and all of the nominations for the show have been great for all of us.

Christine – Since Season 4 of American Idol you have been everywhere, you’ve been on Broadway and TV, do you ever have time to watch the current seasons of American Idol?

Constantine – When I was on the show we didn’t have TIVO or DVR and now we do! So yea I get to watch lots of different things that maybe I didn’t get to watch a couple of years ago.  I always catch up on Idol when it’s on, I guess its right around the corner again.  So yea I catch up and I watch it.  I’ve been doing a lot of contributing for Fox News Channel and different Fox outlets, Fox Reality and Fox 5 here in New York and stuff over the years so it’s been part of my job as well to sort of tune in and check it out.

Christine – There’s a lot of people who are a little upset that they let Paula walk. Do you think the show needed a change? What do you think about that?

Constantine – You know they know what they are doing over there.  Paula is a huge part of the show and has been a huge part of the shows success.  I guess they felt it was time for them to move on and move in different directions, both parties, and they know how to make good TV out of it.  I’m sure they’ll both be fine.

Christine – A Night at the Rock Show will be at the Boulton Center in Bay Shore Long Island Wednesday November 4^th can you tell us a little bit about your SOLD OUT show.

Constantine – The concept of the show is a night at the rock show, that’s exactly what’s it’s titled. Basically it’s some of my favorite songs from the history of rock and roll.  I personalized them all a bit and try to bring a unique interpretation to each song and they sort of tie together from a storytelling standpoint pretty well.  It’s something I’ve just been work-shopping.  I’ve done a bunch of shows in the city and now this will be our third show of the four show run and there’s a few changes this time around that we’re gonna see where it goes, flesh it out a bit.  There’s been a lot of interest in a television special, we’re working towards that and hopefully everyone has a good time.  It’s been built on the success of Rock of Ages – a big rock jukebox musical. I wanted to put something together that the fans can all relate to.

Christine – Can you give us an example of the songs that you will be performing Wednesday?

Constantine – We’re doing everything from Bob Seger to the Goo Goo Dolls.  Every song is tied together sort of like the journey that’s been my life over the last few years from growing up playing in bands to ending up in Hollywood California, doing sort of an Idol experience and all through to Broadway and TV experiences and stuff.  So the songs sort of relate to each other in that level.

Christine – You’ve had a hell of a career especially since Idol, in your career so far can you pinpoint your greatest moment?

Constantine – Ya know I think the opportunity to just continue what I love to do and get to do different kinds of work.  I grew up in the theatre and to have the opportunity to create new roles in New York and certainly on the Broadway stage has been a tremendous blessing.  The success of American Idol has been the platform that created it.  It was huge for me personally.  The amazing support of the community has been awesome too.  New Yorkers never forget, I think when you are on a big show like that, it’s you being on a team that they remember like a great Yankees team or a great Giants team, they always remember that you were the guy from New York on Idol and they voted for you.  They have an emotional investment in you which is pretty cool. 

Rock of Ages has been a great success here in New York so a lot of the New York and New Jersey crew that supported me on the show have the opportunity again to see me on this show.  Really I think over all that’s been and what it’s been about, the opportunity to continue what I love to do.  I know I’ll never change the world with my music or my acting, but I love being a part of it!

Christine – When you’re not touring, what do you do to relax?

Constantine – I’m a New York Yankees and New York Giants fan, I just love my sports.  I see my family a lot, I’m working on new music for a record and of course working on the Night at the Rock show stuff…just doing me.

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