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During his training at DeSales University to become an actor, Brian Kalinowski had a class in hand-to-hand combat.
“That was part of our training,” said Kalinowski. “It was more of a voice and movement class. We did sword fighting and we did hand-to-hand combat. It was a way to get us ready to be on stage.”
Kalinowski, a Wilmington native, won’t need to use that acquired skill as on of the stars of the Broadway touring version of the musical “Mrs. Doubtfire.”
The show hits his hometown Sept. 26-28 at The Playhouse on Rodney Square. Tickets are available at http://broadwayinwilmington.org.
“I loved the movie growing up,” Kalinowski said. “Like everybody, I was a big fan of Robin Williams (the star in the movie version).”
The Broadway version follows the same basic storyline.
Out-of-work actor Daniel Hillard will do anything for his kids. After losing custody in a messy divorce, he creates the kindly alter ego of Scottish nanny Euphegenia Doubtfire in a desperate attempt to stay in their lives.
As his new character takes on a life of its own, Mrs. Doubtfire teaches Daniel more than he bargained for about how to be a father.
Kalinowski, who will no doubt have friends and family laughing along in the audience plays Frank Hillard, brother to the star of the show. In the movie, the role was played by the famous Harvey Fierstein.
Kalinowski uses that version as an inspiration to his performance.
“I get to do all the fun, farcical stuff,” Kalinowski said. “There’s a great scene in the show that’s between Mrs. Doubtfire and my character and my character’s husband. It’s so hilarious. I think I like that better sometimes than the singing and the dancing part. It’s just the comedy is just so great to hear the audience, you know, roaring all the time.
“When the audience is laughing along, it makes everything just a little better.”
Kalinowski has always been drawn to the theater.
“I did Christmas pageants and everything in school,” Kalinowski said. “I started doing the Wilmington Drama League when I was in grade school, and that kind of really catapulted me into wanting to do theater for a living.
“In this theater, I saw all the great shows coming through. I saw Nell Carter and Annie, and I saw ‘Jesus Christ Superstar,’ all these great shows coming through Wilmington. When I was that young, I didn’t realize you could do this for a living. Now it’s great to be doing that and bringing it to Wilmington. I’ve never played on the Playhouse stage before.”
Kalinowski and the rest will be on the road performing “Mrs. Doubtfire” over the next year.
“I am enjoying the travel,” said Kalinowski, who previously went on the road as part of “Chicago.” “I like staying in hotels. We have a pretty good schedule. There aren’t a lot of long bus rides and we have some down time.”