An actor’s natural physique obviously informs their performances. 

While it may be uncouth to point out nowadays, certain body types can elevate material to a level that mere artifice might have a hard time matching. 

Kevin McHale makes his character’s signature number his own in the current revival of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, but his  “Magic Foot” can’t scale the bedlam of Dan Fogler’s original rendition, tasked with the impossible dream of compensating for the sight of a fatty-boom-batty (takes one to label one) busting out the sweatiest dance moves, under those sweltering lights, eight times per week, for month after month after month.

Theater is a physical medium, and sometimes, there’s no substitute for arduous endurance.

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Jasmine Amy Rogers may be the rare musical chameleon; her voice is more recognizable than her corporeality.