ALEX HAVEN IS ALSO AN ACTOR
Alex Haven played the starring role in the off-broadway production of Woody Allen’s Murder Mystery Blues, a stage adaptation of Allen’s earliest short stories originally published by the New Yorker.
Alex landed the roll after showing up for an open casting call in Manhattan. Backstage magazine interviewed him afterwards.
"I went in character," he says. "I bought a trench coat and put on a double-breasted suit and a shirt, and I had the hat.... I got off the elevator and went to the audition, and I stayed [in character] until basically the director was asking me, 'Please, I want to hear what your real voice is like?”
Luckily, director Janey Clarke, who originally directed the show in London, had the desired response. "He reminded me of the character," Clarke says. "It was a chord that struck within me. It's not easy to find exactly the correct actor when they also have to play an instrument to a professional standard and have great jazz instincts."
The production opened on Nov. 21, 2006, at 59E59 Theaters and received positive reviews from The New Yorker and the Associated Press, and proved to be a wildly successful debut for Haven.
