STAGE TUBE: Jonathan Groff Visits Conestoga Middle School

Recently, GLEE and Broadway actor Jonathan Groff visited Conestoga Middle School, where he first fell in love with acting. He spoke to a full middle school assembly and to the cast of the high school production of "The Sound of Music." To watch video footage of Groff's visit, click below.

"It's such an interesting thing when what you wish to come true comes true, and the dreams you set out to achieve you actually are lucky enough to experience firsthand," Groff said, according to Lancaster Online.

He talked about "the importance of keeping engaged with that hunger I felt back in eighth grade," when his teacher Sue Fisher told him he could be an actor, "and that hunger that I felt when I moved to New York to become an actor is still important."

Groff, is in the new Jeff Lipsky film "Twelve Thirty and in the spring, Groff will have a role in the new Robert Redford film "The Conspirator." Groff was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in SPRING AWAKENING and stared in the film "Taking Woodstock."

Groff told "The Sound of Music" cast to use any chance "you have to be in front of a live audience. That's the best teacher, taking advantage of any opportunity that you have.

"When you do that, life will take you where it's supposed to take you," Groff said.

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