VIDEO: Back Stage Visitors Featured on '30 Rock' Season Premiere

Last Season, Back Stage visitors Bob Leonard was featured inside our weekly "Who Got the Part?" column after he was cast included in the Timeless Torches, a dance team for your WNBA's NY Liberty. So imagine our excitement once we saw him as well as the relaxation in the Timeless Torches inside the season six premiere episode of "30 Rock," which broadcast The month of the month of january 12 on NBC.Inside the episode, titled "Dance Like No a person's Watching," Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) discovers why Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) is out of the blue such good spirits: She's grew to become part of the Timeless Torches, the over-40 volunteer dance team that actually works at Liberty home games. The ballroom ballroom dancers were seen with the episode, in no time with Fey too as with direct addresses for the camera inside the show's final minutes."Ms. Fey was warm, friendly, and gracious, together with a normal trooper if the found acquiring the dance routine," Leonard states in the experience. "The '30 Rock' crew was totally professional and helpful in every single imaginable way."Leonard can be a outdated middle-school math teacher who began his acting career only a few in the past, because he started reading through through Back Stage and attended Back Stage's annual Actorfest NY event in 2008. He saw a casting notice for your Timeless Torches with the spine Stage, and made a decision to drag out his dance moves to audition. Now Leonard can be a Screen Stars Guild member, due to the team's unforeseen appearance on prime time network television."After we rode round the subway going home," Leonard recalls, "it absolutely was as being a brunch of college kids who just did a great play and everyone loved their performance. Everybody was delighted with every area of the understanding.InchFollowing studying with acting coach Tom Todoroff and producing his SAG card, Leonard is becoming proud to convey, "I am an actress.Inch He's furthermore been hired becoming an extra inside an approaching feature film, directed by James Gray ("We Own the Evening," "Two Fanatics"). Leonard was fitted for just two background roles, one just like a "hero" in the tavern scene as well as the other just like a "churchgoer," inside the 20's-era film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, and Marion Cotillard.This can be Leonard's third season just like a Timeless Torch dancer. The Timeless Torches are scheduled to complete within the approaching Knicks home games on February 6 and February 29 at Madison Square Garden in New you are able to city.Discover more about how precisely Bob Leonard increased to become dancer for your Timeless Torches on BackStage.com. Watch Tina Fey's message for the Timeless Torches and search for behind-the-moments footage within the episode in this particular video: