David Hyde Pierce is already thinking post-”Frasier”, even though the popular TV show, in which he plays the title character’s snobbish psychiatrist brother Niles, has just been renewed for another three seasons. After long and at times painful negotiations, Paramount, the studio that produces “Frasier”, reached an agreement with NBC earlier this month to keep the hit series on the network.
But the new contract is no reason for Pierce to stop exploring other artistic opportunities — in fact, since he had a “blast“ in a two-week run of the musical “The Boys from Syracuse” in LA a year and a half ago, he has decided to look seriously into musical theatre as his next potential career move.
“It is something I’ve never really done,” he says, “and I got so excited about it. It’s a whole new country. I’ve done movies and I keep thinking that’s what I should be doing, but I don’t enjoy movies. I like having an audience. So I’ve been taking regular voice lessons. I’m about to start rehearsals for a play in which I have a lot of dancing, so I’ll also have to take dancing lessons”…
