Guiding Light's Joshua Lewis / Robert Newman
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As a 30 year fan of the Guiding Light, its cancellation hit hard. It is unbelievable that a 72 year old TV institution is gone. Nearly 15,000 Facebook GL fans have vocalized their feelings through emotional status updates. (We) love Guiding Light and can't get enough of it!
Enter
, CEG.
Through their efforts, GL fans coast to coast can meet the cast in an event called So Long Springfield. Ten Guiding Light stars will light up your day/evening in an extravaganza including music & singing, hugs & autographs. You may even have an opportunity to recite story lines with some of the stars!
Want more Guiding Light?
How about a Caribbean Cruise with Josh, Reva and Shayne Lewis!
The
sails on January 28, 2010.
Joshua Lewis/ Robert Newman speaks about life during and after the Guiding Light:
fashionado:
I texted my sisters, both avid GL fans, to tell them I would be interviewing you and I asked them if there was anything specific I should ask. One them replied right away, "ask if he'll go out with me." (My sisters are married, by the way!) So, Robert, what's it like to be a heartthrob!
Robert:
It's a strange thing to hear. I think its Josh who's the heartthrob. He takes care of the people who he loves and he's a good dad. He really believes in true love and I think that draws women to him.
fashionado:
How do you stay looking so good and so young? Have you discovered the fountain of youth!
Robert: (modestly laughs and replies) Strong Norwegian genes. I eat and sleep well, I'm not fanatical about it, but I take care of myself. I also just started
Beth Chamberlin's
(Beth Spaulding) work out and fitness regiment, the
. It really works.
fashionado:
Would you like to say anything to your fans?
Robert:
Some people are really struggling with
Guiding Light
gone. Fans have approached me, openly weeping. They've always expected GL to be there and now it's not. It's a pretty big deal. I want to say to all our fans, Thank you. Without your support there wouldn't have been a show.
fashionado:
I'm excited to hear about your play
Sessions
.
Robert:
Doing theater fills my soul. My dream was to do theater in New York which is why I moved there in the first place. I am playing the lead role in
Sessions
, Dr. Peter Peterson, a therapist on the brink of a mid-life crisis whose patients help him through this journey. It makes you question the value of therapy.
Sessions
is a terrific new piece, a musical. I was doing it in the last two and a half months of the GL which was a true challenge.
On stage, I feel completely and utterly at home.
*
Sessions
is playing through the end of the year at the
Algonquin Theater
, NY.
(and you get to see/hear Robert sing!)
fashionado
