Andrew Rannells’ memoir walks you through his young life starting out in the Omaha theater scene, up through his move to New York for college, his subsequent drop out and struggle with finding himself and his place in show business and all of the lessons he learned along the way. It stops just short of his rise as a Broadway star in his most known role of Elder Price in Book of Mormon.
Andrew Rannells is opening up about a particularly tough time in his life in his new memoir, Too Much Is Not Enough. The former Girls star has revealed — in an excerpt from the memoir first. Andrew Rannells is an actor, singer, and performer best known for originating the role of Elder Price in The Book of Mormon and playing Elijah Krantz in HBO's Girls.A Tony and Drama Desk nominee and Grammy winner, he has also played Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, King George III in Hamilton, Whizzer in Falsettos, and, most recently, Larry in The Boys in The Band. Andrew Rannells Too Much is Not Enough Autobiography Small flaw on the bottom of the pages that was originally there when I purchased it (photo 3).Will be shipped through media mail.
You go through a few heartbreaks, and then you realize that maybe it’s better to just expect less and be surprised if it actually goes your way. The problem with this method is that it numbs you. The losses and the wins start to bleed together in your mind. You stop feeling anything because everything seems so fragile. You seem so fragile.
Before he broke out on Broadway in The Book of Mormon and on TV in Girls, Andrew Rannells arrived in New York from Omaha, Nebraska, and spent years trying to make it as an actor. His memoir, Too.
As I continue to post reviews, you will find my life is full of rabbit holes. I throw myself into a topic and down I go, surfacing only when I have had my fill. And some of these rabbit holes have smaller tangential rabbit holes. That is how Andrew Rannells ended up on my radar, not once but twice. It was sort of a “Seven degrees of Kevin Bacon” situation, only it was “Seven degrees of Matt Bomer”. I believe I mention in a previous review that I was a fan of White Collar. That sparked my interest in the dashing Mr. Bomer, which led me to his guest spot on “The New Normal”, a brief but charming show about a gay couple trying to have a baby, where Andrew Rannells played the lead. Fast-forward a handful of years (maybe two handfuls) and The Boys in the Band opened on Broadway, featuring BOTH Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells and suddenly they are both back on my radar. I made my maiden voyage to the Big Apple, followed the entire cast on the social media, and found myself embroiled in the on and offstage romance of Andrew and cast mate Tuc Watkins (A St. Louis native, like me!) and THAT lead me to an interview where Andrew was discussing this book. Did you follow all that?
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Andrew Rannells Memoir
Now don’t get me wrong, I have a penchant for celebrity memoirs. Especially the ones where I can go “look, they struggle just like me!” However, this one was not my favorite. To be honest, in anything I’ve ever seen Andrew in, he always seemed arrogant and overly confident. I like to read these books to find the “human” side of celebrities and this just didn’t land for me. While I found a couple good quotes, I did not find his story relatable. It was interesting to see where he came from and the obstacles he overcame, but ultimately the book landed in my “average reads” pile.