Joey Fatone Talks About ‘Rent’

Broadway.com chatted with *NSYNC’s Joey Fatone about his latest role on Broadway in ‘Rent’. Asked about how the opening felt, Joey said, “My official opening. It was a lot of fun. Some friends of mine came, my family came. It was interesting because it was ‘opening night’–meanwhile I’ve been doing it for three weeks! I think of opening as August 5.” As for the non-stop singing in the role, Joey admits, “At first it was overload. I was like, oh my god, I’m going to do this? But every night after rehearsal I was watching the show, so I’d have a sense of where Mark stands, how he does this, how that’s supposed to work. And you mess up once or twice or three times. But by the second week–” it had totally sunk in.