“I’m having so many pinch-me moments,” the actor says. “I am living the dream, and I didn’t have the dream because I hadn’t read the script yet. I didn’t know it existed.

” Pidgeon co-stars as rising singer-songwriter Diana in “Stereophonic,” playwright David Adjmi's story of a Fleetwood Mac-like band in the mid-'70s recording music over a life-changing year, with personal rifts opening and closing and then reopening. Diana's boyfriend is the band's perfectionist guitarist and de facto leader, and cracks soon appear in their relationship as business and personal needs clash. “I’m breaking up with my boyfriend every night, and I’m fighting for independence and agency as an artist and as a person,” says Pidgeon.

“I’m not alone. I think every character in the show is under an insane amount of stress and anguish.” In one memorable moment, Diana struggles to hit a high B.

She has to sing the same line over and over until she can hit that note. “Her voice is literally cracking as her relationship is also cracking,” the actor says. “Stereophonic,” the most-nominated play in Tony Awards history, has become a hit as a hypernaturalistic meditation on the thrill and danger of collaborating on art — the compromises, the egos and the joys.

“Although these people are rock stars and playing Madison Square Garden, they’re still very much human,” Pidgeon says. “While in the frame of being world renowned musicians, they still struggle with the.