James Mason V is a musical theatre lover from Melbourne, Australia. He works nights in the call centre of Australian Pay TV network Foxtel. He also volunteers one day a week at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image at Melbourne's Federation Square. So basically he's not making much use of his Bachelor of Commerce obtained at Monash University.
26 year old James hopes to break into screenwriting, but this is unlikely as it would necessitate actually sitting down and writing something other than graphically unimpressive tribute web-sites.
James was introduced to musical theatre by a friend who had taken a liking to the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Despite that James developed a preference for Stephen Sondheim, largely through the performance of "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" in Hey, Mr Producer, which he saw on television. When he got a DVD player it wasn't long before he had Into the Woods on DVD, though he expected it to be a rather simplistic fairy tale rip off. He was hugely mistaken.
James now spends much of his time wondering who he can drag along to the latest musical, and how he turn back time to see Bernadette Peters play the witch on Broadway. He likes to sing along, but nobody else likes him to sing along. Though he can do all five parts in Your Fault, it probably sounds crap.
Some of the performers who seem permanately in James's good books include Lea Salonga, Julie Andrews and Bernadette Peters who he has seen/heard in recordings, and Christina Tan, Anthony Warlow, Philip Gould and Tamsin Carroll, all of whom he has had the pleasure of seeing live.