“I can’t even imagine it,” the 21-year-old Tung says of her rousing first present just a few days later. She is soft-spoken each by nature and for sensible causes: Now that she’s showing in eight reveals every week, preserving her voice is important. Ingesting orange juice, tea, and water—tons of water—has helped. One factor she rapidly seen about her Hadestown castmates was that they hydrated continually. “Everyone’s obtained a water bottle always that they’re carrying round with them in all places,” Tung says; now she does, too. And regardless of being younger, well-known, and residing in New York Metropolis, she additionally (largely) spends her nights in. “You actually simply should just remember to’re caring for your self—typically selecting to go dwelling and sleep as a substitute of going out and doing one thing with your mates,” she explains.

Tung grew up in New York throughout a interval when, for the primary time in a long time, Broadway and mainstream tradition had turn into one in the identical. She remembers seeing Hamilton within the eighth grade—she bought an “A.Ham” hat afterwards—and the unique forged of Expensive Evan Hansen inspiring the type of transient but intense obsession that solely a teenage woman can maintain. “That was a really, crucial present to me for some time,” she says, laughing. Compounding all that was her enrollment at LaGuardia, the performing arts highschool made well-known by Fame. Everybody was all the time speaking about Broadway as a result of all of them needed to be on it.

Tung did one musical there, Cinderella, wherein she performed a girl in ready; she then went on to Carnegie Mellon to check drama. However her life modified her freshman 12 months when she was forged because the lead character, “Stomach,” in The Summer time I Turned Fairly, an explosively well-liked Prime Video present primarily based on Jenny Han’s best-selling coming-of-age novel.

Eurydice—an exquisite however jaded younger nymph in ripped tights and darkish, smudged eyeliner—is actually a departure from the naive, love-torn Stomach.“Did you discover any overlap between these two characters?” I ask, earlier than backtracking: “Eh, there really could also be no overlap.” She laughs at my try to attach the demonic, soul-crushing Greek underworld of Hades to the teenage dreamland of Cousins Seaside, the place characters make out on golf programs and flirt at boardwalk amusement parks.