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Pop Star: Poinsettia Pops Concert |
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Written by Dan England
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
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 Even though he may sound like he was, Randy St. Pierre really wasn’t born to sing.
He was born to run.
St. Pierre was a jock. He played sports in every season and ran track and swam in high school. He wasn’t a big kid, one reason he didn’t play football in high school, but sports was his thing.
Sports was still his thing even after a friend suggested they join “Camelot,” a high school production put on by the Agape Players over the summer. He had nothing going on during the summer and thought it sounded like fun, so he gave it a try.
That wasn’t the turning point, but it did spark his interest in musical theater, and that led to a career that started when he graduated in 1987 with a musical theater degree from the University of Northern Colorado.
The tenor perform as a featured artist during the biggest Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra concert of the year, the annual Poinsettia Pops holiday performance on Saturday, Dec. 1.
 At first, the plays were just a summer fling, a way to pass the time and hang out with some friends. He didn’t even sing all that much through high school. Sports were more important. But as he began taking lessons, then singing in the high school choir, the spark clicked.
He wound up auditioning at Colorado State University, and the school offered him a scholarship.
“I just found out it was something I was good at,” St. Pierre said. “So I eventually thought, ‘Why not give it a shot?’”
Sports, rather than singing, moved to the back of his mind in college, when he eventually moved to UNC. He began working at the Wayside Inn in Berthoud with his sweetheart and now wife, Susan, to pay tuition. They were actors, Susan choreographed, he sang, they managed it and even worked the lights and in the box office. It was the perfect internship for a career in musical theater.
So by the time he graduated from UNC, he knew what he wanted to do, and his decision was justified right away when he auditioned for a dinner theater in Boulder and got cast in “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.” That kind of immediate success is much like being a first-round draft pick into the NFL.
He found time to marry Susan right after school as well.
“We were actually on our honeymoon and the Boulder theater was trying to get ahold of me and we were back and forth,” he said. “I was like, ‘Just make up your mind.’”
The ultimate goal of most musical theater professionals is to move to New York and one day make Broadway, but that never really interested Pierre. He loved Colorado and he didn’t want to uproot his family. They had children, Tyler, now 16, and Connor, now 13, and Susan began teaching. St. Pierre also works for Rave Reviews out of Denver, where he lives now with his family, and also teaches voice. He cut down on his shows—he does a couple a year now—so he could see his kids grow up.
“We have a good lifestyle,” he said, “and I’ve never really been out of an acting job.”
Besides, if he lived in New York, the chances are he wouldn’t be on stage performing in front of his hometown. His parents, Bob and Enid of Greeley, can see him perform without driving an hour. He feels as if he’s coming home.
“I really haven’t done anything in Greeley since graduating from there,” he said. “It will be fun for them and for me.”
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