“As the week progressed,” he continued, “I came back and I was like, ‘Can I bring my clarinet?’ I played the clarinet in school. And on the Friday, they said, ‘Look, you can come.’”
But Jonathan was met with something much greater than sitting in on the magic.
“I just wanted to play one—even if it was one slightly sharp note—would’ve been my dream come true,” he expressed. “And I ended up playing the theme of Dr. Henry Loomis, the character I play, on the clarinet, which is in the score.”
As for where the Wicked star’s clarinet journey began? Well, the hobby fell into his lap when he was a young child.
“I got given a plastic clarinet by my granddad, who I think won it in a pub,” he told host Jimmy Fallon with a laugh. “And I started playing then.”
