By Ernio Hernandez
03 Nov 2009

Bobby Steggert

Bobby Steggert, who plays Younger Brother in Broadway's current musical Ragtime, fills out Playbill.com's off-beat pop culture questionnaire.

Full given name:	Robert Dietrich Steggert
Hometown:	Frederick, Maryland
Zodiac sign:	Pisces
Audition song:	First ever, and sort of appropriate now - Ahrens and Flaherty's "Larger Than Life" from My Favorite Year
Special skills:	A healthy obsession with solving the NY Times Crossword
First Broadway show ever saw:	Damn Yankees
If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be?	The original A Streetcar Named Desire
Favorite showtune:	Is the opening number of Ragtime cheating?
MAC or PC?	MAC
Web obsession:	Currently, buying things on Amazon that I don't have time to actually shop for.
Must-see TV show:	"Mad Men," of course. To Matthew Weiner - I will give you free tickets to Ragtime if I can be on your show....that's a fair trade right.
Last good movie you saw:	Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story"
Performer you would drop everything to go see:	Audra McDonald (and not just because I love her) and Denis O'Hare
Pop culture guilty pleasure:	This is so embarrassing... "Toddlers and Tiaras" on TLC
Favorite pre-/post- show meal:	Asian street food sandwiches at Xie Xie on 9th and 45th. Go. Seriously.
How you got your Equity card:	Madison Square Garden's A Christmas Carol when I was 14.
Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition?	None yet...I should get going on that one...
Favorite junkfood:	McDonald's McGriddles
Who would play you in the movie?	Ryan Gosling would be pretty awesome
Leading man role you've been dying to play:	J. Pierpont Finch in How to Succeed and Edmund in Long Day's Journey Into Night
Epic novel that should also be turned into a musical:	John Steinbeck's "East of Eden"

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