[1] He received a scholar ship to attend University of California, Los Angeles to study musical theater.
[2] Staudenmayer made his Off-Broadway debut as a performer in the 1998 production of Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act.
[1] When he first saw the musical in junior high, Monsieur André was his favorite character, and Staudenmayer wanted to play him in the future.
[1] Two and a half years later, Staudenmayer took a short break from the tour but returned to play Monsieur André again.
[6] His run as Vlad, which began in 2018,[6] ended in March 2020, when all remaining performances of the first national tour were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.