“The motto I’ve come to live by is, you have to free yourself to see yourself. You have to give yourself the permission that you seek from others to live out loud,' J Harrison Ghee told The Daily Beast.
, which opened at the Shubert Theatre in December, Daphne, played by J Harrison Ghee, undergoes a profound transformation. As in the 1959 Billy Wilder film on which the new musical is based, two jazz musicians—Jerry and Joe —go on the run from the mob after witnessing some backstage murders. And wouldn’t you know it? There’s an all-ladies band about to hit the road, and the pair have just the disguises to join them.
If Ghee slips into first person when describing Daphne’s experience, that’s because it’s remarkably similar to their own. Indeed, in originating the character onstage, Ghee, who identifies as nonbinary , has helped shape Daphne into a reflection that feels true to him. The motto I’ve come to live by is, you have to free yourself to see yourself. You have to give yourself the permission that you seek from others to live out loud.
He had grown up singing in the choir, both in school and at church, where his father was a Baptist minister. He played the Tin Man in a high school production of, in which he pretended to tap dance wearing wooden-soled dress shoes. But AMDA was where Ghee learned that musical theater combined his talents, and that drag was definitely one of them.
“Drag was a doorway for me to be able to step into a fuller version of myself, and I'm truly grateful for it,” Ghee said.Ghee talks about their journey with identity as one that looks backward in order to move forward. “There's a moment as a child when you know who you are and what you want out of life. And society and your family and other people's opinions get in the way of that, and then you start operating according to others’ feelings or perceptions of you,” Ghee said.
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