APT's Danny Martinez shatters glass, croaks lines and gets laughs

By Aaron Conklin, Madison Magazine Arts & Culture

June 28, 2017

It's kinda fun to be the dim Adonis, a fact American Players Theatre’s Danny Martinez is discovering as he plays Christian, the dashing soldier who borrows Cyrano De Bergerac’s silver tongue to win the heart of Roxane. This is Martinez’s third season in Spring Green. In addition to “Cyrano de Bergerac,” he’s currently playing Philostrate in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In August, he’ll play Tony in “A View From A Bridge.”

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Martinez’s “oh yeah” moment actually started out as a near catastrophe. As part of the cast of Jackalope Theater’s 2012 production of “Long Way Go Down” in Chicago, Martinez’s character was supposed to electrify the play’s climactic scene by shattering a glass snow globe against a wall.

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