Playbill's "Diva Talk" interviews Diana

Diana took time out of her busy schedule with The Toxic Avenger to chat with Andrew Gans, author of Playbill's "Diva Talk" feature that highlights "the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage."

In the lengthy Q&A, which was published yesterday on Playbill.com, Diana touches on many topics including how she has been adjusting to starring in an Off-Broadway show and what she thinks of the experience thus far. Diana said the following about her debut in Toxic Avenger:

Question: How did your first performance go?

DeGarmo: Great! It was so wonderful. The put-in [rehearsal] was earlier that [same] day, and I thought my head was going to explode, to be honest, because of the rehearsal process. [Laughs.] . . . It was just mainly Nicholas Rodriguez and I, and Keith [Coughlin], our assistant choreographer, and Kelly [Hance], our [production] stage manager. They're trying to play seven different people, and run around, and you can't really get the full feel of everything. And in the first put-in, it was [the addition of] hair, make-up, costume, sound, people! In my head, I literally thought, "Oh my gosh. I'm not going to make it." But I went home, took a nap, didn't stress about it, and just trusted myself, and went back to the theatre a couple hours later, and had a wonderful show. It was a great weekend, and I'm excited to restart this next week, all fresh faced and bushy-tailed! [Laughs.]

Diana also compared her life now to what it was back when she was 17 years-old, and addressed the question of whether she still keeps in touch with her American Idol peers from Season 3, to which she said:

Not really [from] my season anymore. It's just like doing a show. You bond with these people, you become connected, but after a while you just slowly float apart. It stinks, and people change numbers, but life goes on. But thanks to the show, all of us from other seasons automatically have something very unique in common, we've all bonded in different ways. Like Anthony Fedorov and I became buddies. Kimberley Locke and I are really close, from season three. Ironically, I live in Nashville most of the time, and it's become my home base now, and [also living there are] Melinda Doolittle, and Bo Bice, Bucky Covington, Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler. It's just a whole long list of Idols that live there, and we keep running into one another. It's fun, and it's a good common thread for us.

She also said Idol will "not be the same" without Paula Abdul as a judge and she spoke of her disappointment over the cancellation of the Broadway revival of Godspell last year.