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Stephanie J. Block on Playing Cher on Broadway and Why She Has Crest Whitestrips to Thank
If Stephanie J. Block finds herself on the Tony Awards stage Sunday night accepting the best actress in a musical prize for playing the legendary Cher in The Cher Show, she might want to thank Crest Whitestrips in her speech.
The 46-year-old theater veteran tells PEOPLE she found Cher’s speaking voice while wearing the teeth-whitener product — a happy accident that unlocked a major stumbling block to playing the part.
“Her singing voice was much easier for me for me to find, because you can listen to all of her recordings and mimic all her sounds when she is singing.
Stephanie j block orange is the new blackBut to bring that sound into her speaking voice without sounding like a complete caricature was hard,” Block recalls.
“I happened to be reading lines last summer while I was wearing Crest Whitestrips on, and all of a sudden, I was beginning to sound more and more like Cher.
And I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s the Whitestrips!’ So I had to figure out how my mouth was projecting the sound and all the energy once I took th