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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
I loved this book. I’m normally not a fan of nonfiction but maybe because I’m at the age where his book starts I could relate more. Nonetheless it was a nice glimpse into getting on Broadway.
I have always loved watching Andrew Rannells perform (Book of Mormon, Girls, and other generally amazing performances) and it was nice to learn more. Listening to Rannells read his memoir made it feel like he was just sharing his life conversationally. This memoir was heartfelt, and I laughed and cried with Rannells. Overall a really good memoir
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emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
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Hilariously funny, heart warming, and entertaining. Andrew Rannells's story will make you laugh out loud so many times.
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funny
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reflective
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4.5 stars!!
This was a wonderful dive into Andrew Rannells’s life pre-“making it big”. Delightfully funny and brutally honest short essays about his life in Omaha, his desire to preform, and his journey through NYC in the 90s and early 2000s. (This is a short review because I listened to the audiobook and just loved listening to his own voice tell his story so much!)
I love Andrew Rannells with my whole heart and this made me love him even more. I seriously hope he writes a follow-up! Would love to hear more of that Midwestern honesty and humour about his days on Broadway in the late 2000s to today.
This was a wonderful dive into Andrew Rannells’s life pre-“making it big”. Delightfully funny and brutally honest short essays about his life in Omaha, his desire to preform, and his journey through NYC in the 90s and early 2000s. (This is a short review because I listened to the audiobook and just loved listening to his own voice tell his story so much!)
I love Andrew Rannells with my whole heart and this made me love him even more. I seriously hope he writes a follow-up! Would love to hear more of that Midwestern honesty and humour about his days on Broadway in the late 2000s to today.
This book easily read as fiction. It wasn't, it was just so dramatic. I am going to delve into each chapter and talk about things I liked and also add quotes because the lines in this book are utterly iconic. (P.S this book is a bit...smutty...so the quotes might be as well).
My Entrance: A very interesting chapter in this book, since Andrew dove nose first into already being in New York. Since the book is about his journey, it makes sense, but the chapter was still interesting and exciting even if all he was doing was moving into college and having mental breakdowns. "I cried like I had never cried in my life."
Be Loud: I know that in the actual pages of the book, Andrew says that the advice he got from his friend to just drop headshots of himself at theatres and wait to get auditions doesn't work. However, I still want to try. I mean, he got a rent audition! But he only got the audition because the director thought he was Asian. He's white. The opposite of Angel. " 'So you're not Asain?' 'No. Not Asian.'"
A new me for new york: Okay, hurting your moms feeling makes you feel terrible, and I get apologizing to her publicly in your book, but stop calling her Charlotte. Please. It gets confusing. Another point, I got why you were angry, you were a total theatre kid since you were born, but you just wanted to be the best, even if you were just in some weird Catholic ritual. "I'm sorry, Charlotte. I'm sorry for acting like such an ungrateful little dick."
The 40-year-old and the virgin: Around 16, when this story took place, was also when Andrew's life started reading like fiction. Something like this reads like fiction because it's so dramatic and horrible and, I wish, unrealistic. From the name of the title, it's easy to assume what happens in this chapter. There was intense manipulation and complete pain that I felt through Andrew. "Rather than being concerned that his forty-year-old boyfriend was having sex with a sixteen-year-old, his boyfriend was mad at me."
*Okay from now on I am just going to recap some of the chapters because there are a lot of chapters and most of them are just him trying to get on Broadway and then making out with someone*
It's Never the priest you want to kiss: I had heard about this story because it was in an interview, which actually told me about Andrew having a book. However, I did not know that the priest, who sexually assaulted Andrew twice, was doing it because Andrew was in a hard time with the forty-year-old (by the way, the fourty-year-old is never named). Andrew was in a tough place and went ot the priest for help. HE TRUSTED YOU. ANDREW TRUSTED YOU AND YOU DID THAT? " I walked away stunned. How could he do that? Right in the open. In a daze I walked through the quad. No one had seen it. How was that possible?"
Josephine: It hurt to read this chapter. It really did. Maybe all of the screenings of the notebook made me more sad about people dying from Alzheimer's, but reading about Andrew being hurt, it made me hurt. If you ignore the calls from your family because you're on a date and then it turns out your grandmother is dying, I would think that you were in a romantic drama. " 'Grandma,' I said, 'it's me.' She looked up at me and started to cry."
Imaginary Omaha Andy: I understood everything that Andrew was talking about. What if I didn't try to follow my dreams? What if I settled down? Who would that person be? Imaginary Omaha Andy is not someone I want to think about. He's a waste of talent, and I would miss Andrew Rannells, the New Yorker. "I wanted to be friends with Patti LuPone."
I don't want to catch 'em all: It's time for that wig that, happened, since Andrew now stars in Pokemon LIVE! Yes. The pokemon musical. This has become something of a meme in the Andy Ranny fan club of me and Cori. The overly gay sounding original character (which was the main reason Andrew didn't really want to do it) the WIG, the ice, everything really. "I was really struggling to get through this episode and not have some kind of aneurysm."
Our Good-Bye to Ron: In the 8-year span that this book takes place, both Andrews grandmother and father died. "NATALIE: Hey, Dad. It's Natalie. I got my period today."
The tallest man I ever loved: okay. OKAY. A LOT TO UNPACK. First, Andrew, you can't always look for someone taller than you you're six one! Calm down! Did someone that Andrew was interested in re-appear into his life? Yes. Was that man straight? Yes. Keyword: was. He did have a wife, but also apparently he had an awakening. Todd was this man. Todd, with Andrew thinking he was straight, took him to dinner to catch up. And he came out. Afterward, was Andrew confused? Very. Did they date for years after that? Yes. Was Todd 12 years older than him? Yes. This shocked me a lot while I was reading it, after the mock algebra regent. Cori noticed. "Somewhere in my spiral I came to the conclusion that maybe we had been on a date."
Hairspray, Wow!: To shorten a long chapter, Todd and Andrew auditioned for the same BROADWAY ensemble role in hairspray. Andrew got it. Todd, being kinda terrible, left him because he couldn't handle it. In the middle of the night. Just left Andrew with a voicemail and a cold bed. Todd came to Andrew's Broadway debut but didn't stay. He left right after the show. Todd said nothing to Andrew. "I had become one of the people on the street who knew where he was going."
That quote was also the last line of the book, since little Omaha Andy Ranny made it to Broadway.
My Entrance: A very interesting chapter in this book, since Andrew dove nose first into already being in New York. Since the book is about his journey, it makes sense, but the chapter was still interesting and exciting even if all he was doing was moving into college and having mental breakdowns. "I cried like I had never cried in my life."
Be Loud: I know that in the actual pages of the book, Andrew says that the advice he got from his friend to just drop headshots of himself at theatres and wait to get auditions doesn't work. However, I still want to try. I mean, he got a rent audition! But he only got the audition because the director thought he was Asian. He's white. The opposite of Angel. " 'So you're not Asain?' 'No. Not Asian.'"
A new me for new york: Okay, hurting your moms feeling makes you feel terrible, and I get apologizing to her publicly in your book, but stop calling her Charlotte. Please. It gets confusing. Another point, I got why you were angry, you were a total theatre kid since you were born, but you just wanted to be the best, even if you were just in some weird Catholic ritual. "I'm sorry, Charlotte. I'm sorry for acting like such an ungrateful little dick."
The 40-year-old and the virgin: Around 16, when this story took place, was also when Andrew's life started reading like fiction. Something like this reads like fiction because it's so dramatic and horrible and, I wish, unrealistic. From the name of the title, it's easy to assume what happens in this chapter. There was intense manipulation and complete pain that I felt through Andrew. "Rather than being concerned that his forty-year-old boyfriend was having sex with a sixteen-year-old, his boyfriend was mad at me."
*Okay from now on I am just going to recap some of the chapters because there are a lot of chapters and most of them are just him trying to get on Broadway and then making out with someone*
It's Never the priest you want to kiss: I had heard about this story because it was in an interview, which actually told me about Andrew having a book. However, I did not know that the priest, who sexually assaulted Andrew twice, was doing it because Andrew was in a hard time with the forty-year-old (by the way, the fourty-year-old is never named). Andrew was in a tough place and went ot the priest for help. HE TRUSTED YOU. ANDREW TRUSTED YOU AND YOU DID THAT? " I walked away stunned. How could he do that? Right in the open. In a daze I walked through the quad. No one had seen it. How was that possible?"
Josephine: It hurt to read this chapter. It really did. Maybe all of the screenings of the notebook made me more sad about people dying from Alzheimer's, but reading about Andrew being hurt, it made me hurt. If you ignore the calls from your family because you're on a date and then it turns out your grandmother is dying, I would think that you were in a romantic drama. " 'Grandma,' I said, 'it's me.' She looked up at me and started to cry."
Imaginary Omaha Andy: I understood everything that Andrew was talking about. What if I didn't try to follow my dreams? What if I settled down? Who would that person be? Imaginary Omaha Andy is not someone I want to think about. He's a waste of talent, and I would miss Andrew Rannells, the New Yorker. "I wanted to be friends with Patti LuPone."
I don't want to catch 'em all: It's time for that wig that, happened, since Andrew now stars in Pokemon LIVE! Yes. The pokemon musical. This has become something of a meme in the Andy Ranny fan club of me and Cori. The overly gay sounding original character (which was the main reason Andrew didn't really want to do it) the WIG, the ice, everything really. "I was really struggling to get through this episode and not have some kind of aneurysm."
Our Good-Bye to Ron: In the 8-year span that this book takes place, both Andrews grandmother and father died. "NATALIE: Hey, Dad. It's Natalie. I got my period today."
The tallest man I ever loved: okay. OKAY. A LOT TO UNPACK. First, Andrew, you can't always look for someone taller than you you're six one! Calm down! Did someone that Andrew was interested in re-appear into his life? Yes. Was that man straight? Yes. Keyword: was. He did have a wife, but also apparently he had an awakening. Todd was this man. Todd, with Andrew thinking he was straight, took him to dinner to catch up. And he came out. Afterward, was Andrew confused? Very. Did they date for years after that? Yes. Was Todd 12 years older than him? Yes. This shocked me a lot while I was reading it, after the mock algebra regent. Cori noticed. "Somewhere in my spiral I came to the conclusion that maybe we had been on a date."
Hairspray, Wow!: To shorten a long chapter, Todd and Andrew auditioned for the same BROADWAY ensemble role in hairspray. Andrew got it. Todd, being kinda terrible, left him because he couldn't handle it. In the middle of the night. Just left Andrew with a voicemail and a cold bed. Todd came to Andrew's Broadway debut but didn't stay. He left right after the show. Todd said nothing to Andrew. "I had become one of the people on the street who knew where he was going."
That quote was also the last line of the book, since little Omaha Andy Ranny made it to Broadway.
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Too Much Is Not Enough is a great title, because I feel like this book is not enough! Mr. Rannells takes you through his journey to Broadway, but then stops as soon as he gets there. I feel like there’s so much more to know and learn and discover past where the book takes us. I quite enjoyed what he did write, but I feel like there’s another half missing after it ends. Hopefully he’ll continue writing and let us know all the ins and outs of what happens once your dreams start to come true.