Scott Wichmann Interview

Scott Wichmann Interview

Scott Wichmann as Northrup (Courtesy of Scott Wichmann)
Scott Wichmann as Northrup (Courtesy of Scott Wichmann)

Actor Scott Wichmann appeared as Northrup 2,212 times, so you know he has some tales!

Before working for Busch, Scott fell in love with the show as a teenager.  In 1989:

I remember being soaking wet from the Roman Rapids, imploring my buddy Mike Conuel to forget the girls he was trying to chat up, dragging him and running as fast as I could to catch the last ‘LAB’ performance of the day. My light-up necklace had broken and the neon green colors spackled my soaked-through Danny Ainge character T-shirt. My lips were purple because of the air conditioning in the theatre, but once again I sat, spellbound and shivering as the truly incredible spectacle I had grown to love so much unfolded once again.

 

Flash forward to 1996. I’m a struggling actor working as a toy demonstrator at FAO Schwartz in Midtown Manhattan. My friend Heather tells me there are Busch Gardens auditions a few blocks away. So I go and do a Shakespeare monologue for Emile Trimble, the venerable director, and administrator. She asks me to take a look at a script.

 

Boom. She hands me “The Enchanted Laboratory.”

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