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Tom Lenk - "Christmas Evie" Video - Watch The Clip

Webmaster — 2009-10-10T12:16:15Z

Tom Lenk - "Rock of Ages" Play - He will his make Broadway debut

Webmaster — 2009-09-02T08:46:09Z

Tom Lenk, who starred as Andrew on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will make his Broadway debut as Franz in the Tony-nominated musical Rock of Ages on Sept. 14. Lenk originated the supporting role, the son of a German developer who wants to demolish the Sunset Strip (including LA's favorite rock club), in Los Angeles and Las Vegas productions. He phoned EW to give us the scoop and the often hilarious backstory.

• A UCLA theater grad with formal voice training, Lenk went to college with Rock of Ages‘ Tony-nominated director Kristin Hanggi. They've worked together before — on a production of Ann E. Wrecksick, an Annie spoof about bulimic orphans, in the basement of a Mexican restaurant in Silver Lake, Calif. the summer after his first season on Buffy. She knew he was also friends with Rock of Ages writer Chris D'Arienzo, and phoned Lenk to tell him that D'Arienzo had a role that might suit him. “In Ann E. Wrecksick, I had done a character of a German fashion designer. I'd also been doing this sketch for years about a German character who's obsessed with Star Trek and Melrose Place, based on my time having been invited to appear as a random Buffy person at a Star Trek convention in Germany and a friend's Hungarian husband who was obsessed with Melrose Place,” he says. “So they knew I did this German thing, and it happened to be perfect for the show.”

• Franz's big moment, the song “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” comes when he starts a relationship with Regina, who works in the Mayor's office and protests his and his father's plans. “I'm a little nervous. The way I performed it in LA and Vegas is not nearly as exhaustive as the version that's happening now on stage. I would stand and sing, and then do some dancing. But now it's dancing while I'm singing, so I have two weeks to become Beyoncé,” he says. (Thankfully, he'd already been taking dance classes at his gym and doing Silver Lake's Sweaty Sundays, “an all-level ironic jazz dance class.”) He also has additional motivation : At the beginning of the song, he rips away his costume to reveal “a bedazzled onesie, so to speak.” If memory serves him well, that was actually his idea back when the show was being workshopped. “I think offhandedly, I was like, ‘Guys, this song is just missing something. What do you think if I ripped off my clothes to reveal a sparkling unitard ?' And the director was like yes and yes.'” To prepare for that moment, he's hired a trainer, reinstating the “TWAT system” — “Tan it, Wax it, And Tone It ” — which he and the other Ann E. Wrecksick actors developed when they had to appear on stage in their underwear. “Here's the thing : When we did Rock of Ages in LA [in 2006], I ripped off my clothes and it was funny and everyone had a good laugh,” he says. “I went to see the show last month in New York, and the guy ripped his clothes off to reveal a totally rockin' bod. I was like, Ohmygod, you can be funny and arousing ? If I'm gonna take my clothes off every day on stage for six months on Broadway, I might as well get a date out of it. So I'm gonna try to get some biceps and pectoral muscles by Sept. 14.”

• He begins rehearsals today, but he won't actually get to perform with the actors he'll share the stage with until the afternoon before his evening debut. “Which makes me want to have a complete heart attack/throw up,” he admits. “I know I should be prepared for this. I do have a theater degree. I do theater all the time [at LA's Upright Cabaret]. I did a tour of Grease in Germany like 10 years ago, but I was an understudy for Doody and Eugene and I never went on. So I never got my big put-in rehearsal.” Clarification : He could have gone on once as Doody, but he'd booked a German Audi commercial that was coincidentally shooting in Austria on that same evening. During that commercial audition, Lenk, who speaks passable German and will use a thick accent in Rock of Ages, was asked if he skied. He lied and said yes. “I get to the set, and I'd missed something in the translation — it was ski-jumping. They let me freak out for awhile until they revealed that I had a stunt double,” he says. “I only booked the commercial because ski jumpers are like jockeys, they have to be tiny and lightweight. They already had the costume, and they needed somebody to fit it. I was too big even. It was crazy. I missed my big show, Grease das Musical, which is fine.”

• Lenk, who made his “Broadway-adjacent debut” last month with a sold-out-thanks-to-Twitter performance at Don't Tell Mama, plans to do more solo shows while he's in town. (Dates and venues to be announced.) His typical show features original, belted comedy songs (like “The Master Cleanse”), mash-ups (sample : “Gimme More”), as well as sketches and stand-up comedy. One of his favorite things to do is read the responses to an old online article about “Your Next Crush : Tom Lenk” : “It has the range of the most amazing to the most horrifying to the most sexually explicit comments that teenage girls wrote about me. I read them back-to-back, and I do all the voices of what I imagine them to be like. That makes me laugh, always.” He also sings original song lyrics he wrote in junior high and intended to send to bands like the B-52's. “They'd never seen the light of day, until I did them at the show Mortified.”

• We tried to seize the opportunity to get some details on The Cabin in the Woods, the Joss Whedon-Drew Goddard film in theaters Feb. 5, 2010, but all Lenk would say is that he has a small role, Ronald the Intern, and that the film is a combination of genres that he doesn't think anyone's seen before. Also, that he signed a confidentiality agreement.

• He's shot a role in the indie romantic comedy My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, starring Alyssa Milano and Christopher Gorham (who was a year ahead of Lenk at UCLA and whose wife, Anel Lopez Gorham, appeared in a midnight Scooby-Doo Live production with him in the theater department's sculpture garden). He plays Milano's brother/sidekick, “a guy who accidentally ends up in a gum commercial and becomes a local celebrity. He's famous, but he didn't get any of the good stuff, the money, that comes with the fame. Just the ‘Hey, aren't you that guy from the commercial ?' Not that I can relate : [Taco Bell] burrito commercial, Blockbuster Video commercial, iPhone commercial…”

Tom Lenk is Mortified on August 14-15, 2009 in San Francisco

Webmaster — 2009-08-13T12:00:27Z

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http://culturemob.com/blog/get-awkward-with-mortified-at-the-make-out-room

Tom Lenk - "Last Minute Show" - Buffyfest.blogspot.com Review

Webmaster — 2009-07-10T11:27:37Z

It was packed at Don't Tell Mama's last night and my ears were already ringing from all the excitement before the show even began. There were a lot of familiar faces around ; people we'd met at Can't Stop the Serenity, people from DWNY, and fans of a certain blog I like to call home. A few minutes after eight the lights dimmed, the crowd hushed and yes, my fellow Buffyfesters, Tom Lenk was in the house.

Neither Tara nor I had any idea what to expect. How surprised I was when Tom started singing ! I guess I should have figured that would happen, given that the joint was a piano bar and all but, well, it had been a "fire bad, tree pretty" kind of a day so the obvious may have been escaping me at the time. At the risk of sounding like someone's grandmother : quite a set of pipes on that boy ! I had no idea our young Mister Lenk was so multi-talented.

So he sang a little song about how he kind of threw this show together while on a five hour flight. He's in New York auditioning for the Broadway production of "Rock of Ages" (which would explain said golden singing voice). More on that in a bitsy bit.

Click on the link for more :

http://buffyfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/review-tom-lenks-last-minute-show.html#0

Tom Lenk - "Last Minute Show" on July 8, 2009

Webmaster — 2009-07-05T20:18:40Z

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http://www.donttellmamanyc.com/reservations.php

Happy Birthday To Tom Lenk, 33 Today !

Webmaster — 2009-06-17T13:17:34Z

Date of Birth : 16 June 1976

Location : Westlake Village, California, USA

Birth Name : Thomas Loren Lenk

Height : 5' 7½" (1.71 m)

Mini Biography

Thomas (Tom) Loren Lenk was born in Westlake Village, California, USA on June 16th, 1976. Tom attended Moorepark College until his junior year, then transferred into UCLA's theater program. It wasn't long before others began to notice Tom's talent, and in 1997 Tom won the Carol Burnett Award and Scholarship.

Tom graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Since graduating, Tom has had a wide variety of acting jobs, be they in film, on television, or on stage. Most notably, Tom toured with the European Cast of Grease playing the role of Doody. Acting and singing are not Tom's only talents, he is also a playwright, having written three plays to date. Playing geekster Andrew on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) with cohorts in crime Warren (Adam Busch) and Jonathan (Danny Strong) is where Tom is at now, and there's no telling what this talented actor might be up to in the future. IMDb Mini Biography By : Jayded

Trivia

He is the son of Fred Lenk, a computer programmer, and Pam Lenk, a teacher in the Pleasant Valley School District.

Named #9 of the Top Ten Sexiest Men of the Buffy / Angel universe in a fan poll by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanzine (2004).

Appeared in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) Real Me (#5.2) as one of Harmony Kendall's vampire minions. He later had a recurring role as Andrew Wells in the show's sixth and seventh seasons, and Andrew later appeared in two episodes of "Angel" (1999)'s final season (which, ironically, was the only season in which Harmony actress Mercedes McNab was credited as a series regular).

Was the drum major his senior year at Adolfo Camarillo High School, in Camarillo CA.

Appeared in the original Los Angeles run of the stage musical Rock Of Ages.

Personal Quotes

"There's no such thing as a part-time Buffy fan ; people watch it compulsively." [at a BtVS convention in Northern Ireland, 30 Sept. 2002]

"I approach every scene as if it's the last." [on knowing that "Buffy" creator and executive producer Joss Whedon could have killed his character, Andrew, at any time]

Tom Lenk - "The Cabin in the Woods" Movie - He joins the cast !

Webmaster — 2009-06-08T09:10:58Z

From his Twitter :

Since it's officially been in the trades...

I'm finally allowed to say I finished filming a role in Cabin in the Woods a few weeks ago :)

Tom Lenk joins Twitter.com

Webmaster — 2009-05-18T14:27:06Z

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http://twitter.com/tomlenk

Tom Lenk - "Pepsi Max : Octopus" Commercial - Watch The Video

Webmaster — 2009-03-07T12:10:56Z

Tom Lenk - "Pepsi Max : Job Interview" Commercial - Watch The Video

Webmaster — 2009-03-05T19:07:00Z