He's played a Hellmouth school principal and the president of the United States, but this fall you can see D.B. Woodside like you've never seen him before. On Viva Laughlin, he may be called upon to sing at any moment where the show needs to reveal something about his character.
D.B. Woodside in Laughlin
"I guess we're just waiting to see what the writers come up for us," said Woodside. "Maybe I'm oversimplifying this, but the way that I see it is it's not a musical, because in a musical, the characters, the actors burst into song, and there's never any actor or character that bursts into song in this show. The songs are kind of the soundtrack of each character's lives, what maybe they're not saying, how they feel about a situation that they may be going to, how they feel about a situation that may just have left. So every time a character sings, it's going to be more revealing about just who that person is pertaining to the story."
Just to be clear, Viva Laughlin is not a musical. It's got singing in it but it's not a musical. "Once again, I think what we want to be careful about, and it's because we're trying to run away from it, but I believe it's we're really trying to let people know what this show that we're so excited about is, and that it's not a musical. So I keep hearing that word, and whenever I hear musical, I keep thinking of people coming out and exploding in song, and this is not that. When the music happens, it really is a soundtrack to these characters' lives. So I think that a lot of people watching this are going to pick that up very fast."
Okay, D.B., we got it. Heck, maybe we'll even participate. "Knowing that it's songs that they grew up with or songs that they love, they'll start singing along to the songs as the characters are singing along to the songs. I don't know, I have a funny feeling that people are going embrace this show."
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