As a teenager, Jonny used to take Greyhound buses from Rockland County to NYC in order to get student tickets to shows and movies, and one of his most eye-opening experiences was seeing Cabaret for the first time. "I had never seen a play like that in my life," he told Interview Magazine back in September 2015. "It was a beautiful hybrid of political mixed messages, holding a mirror to the times, and also amazingly entertaining. It was so gritty and crass and very lascivious. I had only seen Beauty and the Beast and Lion King; that was the first time I saw a musical theater piece that said a little something. It struck me. I saw it twice the closing week."
