News about cohabitating, making music together and whether marriage and kids are in their future. Although the pair bonded over their Idol connection, the romance sparked when they starred together in Hair on Broadway and got naked on stage for a couple of nude scenes two years ago. It was awesome. I mean, instantly, we were best friends and we had to go through something together that was already life-changing—doing a show with such depth to it.
True, Paulus has been blessed with one of the theater's greatest scores, by Galt McDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado, and it still sounds as fresh as a proverbial daisy. Her triumph, however, has been in transforming Rado and Ragni's book so it feels like much more than just a disconnected series of vignettes, while retaining some of the script's vaudevillian feel. Almost by magic, she effectively creates a dramatic through-line by keeping the primary focus on whether middle-class-kid-turned-hippie Claude Kyle Riabko will find a way to avoid being shipped to Vietnam. It's an action urged upon him by his best friends and sometime paramours, high-school dropout Berger Ace Young and college student and fervent activist Sheila Diana DeGarmo , with whom he spends his days and nights in a frenzy of free love, drugs, the occasional tourist-scaring, and one distinct display of full-frontal nudity.
The hunky Colorado native tells RumorFix that the two singers were co-stars in the Broadway production of Hair when the moment of truth happened. You're not looking are you? I had already looked up and down and I was sold from the moment I saw her. And, the Idols have been making beautiful music together since August. And, they are literally making music together too.