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Reasons I Love Theatre → Michael Arden

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Michael Arden and Andy Mientus at the 2018 Tony Awards Red Carpet

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#proud husband

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Director Michael Arden and husband Andy Mientus attend the 'Once On This Island' Broadway Opening Night at Circle in the Square Theatre on December 3, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

“There will be lots of talk about Why We Tell the Story tonight, but I wish you could see How. @michaelarden has been battling to direct this show since we first started dating and after years of Nos and then Yeses, hours and hours of research and planning, months of exhaustive searching to get just the right cast, sleepless nights agonizing over details that would seem negligible to most but are vital to him, tonight, he finally opens this thing on Broadway. He wouldn’t want you to know any of this. He just wants you to sit back and see in this story what he sees. He makes it look so easy. But those of us close to him know all that went in to this and are exceedingly proud. Happy Opening, My Love My Love.” - Andy Mientus

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via andy mientus’ instagram stories - december 16th, 2017

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Michael talking about Andy during his BroadwayWorld Live Q&A

Who, what, where do you find your biggest inspiration for projects such as Spring Awakening and Once on This Island? […] Where? I would say, anywhere from like, at the theater to hiking a mountain to like, in Andy’s arms.

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Stars Ask the Stars at the Opening Night of Once on This Island

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I'm so excited for the audience to feel like they are a part of this island and this world. Love can conquer all of all odds and all the other forces in the world. (Once on This Island: The Workshop)