New York Escorts: NJ Stage: Complex emotions play a big part in ‘Jitney’
… In fact, when I moved to New York and tried getting started, I worked at Macy’s during Christmas season, but was fired because I wouldn’t stop singing along with the carols,” he says.
Driving cabs is a common occupation of would-be actors, but Cooper never did that. “I might have been luckier if I had,” he says. “Instead, I was a bicycle messenger, which, believe me, is no fun during the winter months.”
At that time, he might not have guessed that his future would include singing on Broadway, where directors, audiences and casts would appreciate his voice. Seven of the 10 Broadway shows he’s done have been musicals.
One was “The Life,” for which he won a 1997 Tony. There he was also the boss of a business, but a less savory one: a prostitution ring.