Local High Schooler Aims for Broadway

by Sydney Hostetler, October 24, 2007

Eric Mossman is riding the wave. At the age of 17, he has set a course for the lights of Broadway and is breaths away from achieving his goal.

Mossman, a student at Denver School of the Arts, is one of five young men in line for a lead role in the Broadway production of “Spring Awakening.” This musical won numerous Tony Awards including Best Musical for 2007.

Responding to an open casting call held in Chicago just two weeks ago, Mossman waited for hours in the rain with the other 2000 or so hopefuls and made it through all three nail-biting rounds. He received the exhilarating invitation to fly to New York for the final audition from Michael Mayer, the director of the Broadway cast. Mossman is now waiting for the all important final call.

Mossman is a brave local talent who has an impressive list of stage appearances including two DCPA productions of A Christmas Carol. He is a recipient of the Gail Hodgkin Memorial Scholarship and has studied voice at the Academy of the Arts, under the direction of Dr. L. Scott Martin, since he was in middle school. Mossman sites his father, a musician by night and geo physicist by day, as having a great influence on him. Mossman commented, “I checked the website for the casting call every day and begged my parents to let me go. We’ll see!”

Mossman recently appeared in “Parade” at the Denver School of the Arts.