Spirit, Song and Sin City with David Villella

The arts have been absolutely decimated by COVID-19, or since “Ms. Corona came to the party”, as Broadway alum David Villella says. David’s long-tenured stint at Vegas! The Show was abruptly paused due to the pandemic with no return date in sight, which is the devastating case for so many artists, technicians and staff whose livelihood is dependent on an industry that relies on people gathering.

In this episode we learn how gratitude is what is keeping David going through these deeply uncertain times, how art is a creative collaboration with spirit and a way to channel the divine through performance, how visioning himself on a Broadway stage with Bernadette Peters came to be, and how the temptations of Sin City became the catalyst to stepping fully into his spiritual life.

Bio: David Villella is from Trenton, New Jersey and graduated from Ithaca College where he studied musical theater. He performed on Broadway in the original cast of the Tony Award winning revival of Annie Get Your Gun starring Bernadette Peters and later, Reba McEntire. Villella spent a year in Hamburg, Germany and toured the United States for another year as “Rum Tum Tugger” in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. He has performed at a variety of other venues ranging from theme parks like Busch Gardens to Carousel Dinner Theatre and cruise ships such as Royal Caribbean’s Nordic Empress and Legend of the Seas.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Davidvillella

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