To celebrate the release of his album, Sing to Me Instead, Ben Platt stopped by the BuzzFeed office to tell us about some of his First Times.
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But since this is BEN FREAKIN' PLATT we're talking about, obviously the interview was full of so much musical goodness from Dear Evan Hansen and Pitch Perfect to stories that'll make any theater kid say, "HARD SAME!"
Here are some of those finest moments:
1. He knew absolutely nothing about Dear Evan Hansen when he went in for his first reading, and was "deeply terrified" about it.
2. When he got to the Pitch Perfect set, Ben was super-excited to learn he'd be working with Skylar Astin — he had known him through the theater world and always wanted to get closer to him.
3. Ben bonded with his now BFF, Beanie Feldstein, when they talked about theater for hours at a bat mitzvah together.
4. Ben knew he needed to be in the theater world after seeing his first Broadway show, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and getting completely starstruck by Gavin Creel.
My alarm has been Gavin Creel singing the opening of “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” for a year straight and I don’t remember life without it