"There was a very real moment early on when I didn't know if I could do this show," Brill recalled on "Salon Talks.” "I'm divorced, I'm sober, and these are the primary issues that Reg wrestles with." Fortunately, with an assist from his therapist, Brill got to a place "sane enough, happy enough, brave enough" to take the role all the way to a Tony Award win.
With the show’s run now extended, the Broadway veteran is grappling with some of the same tests of endurance the play’s fictional band is. “The whole cast has been having these really intense meetings with each other,” Brill said, “And we have never felt more like a band.”
