The reason for back-to-back shows-besides theater being "more alive for me now as it...ever has been"-is that "within days of agreeing to one, another came," and, "I felt very strongly that I wanted to do both." Parsons plays the stage manager in Our Town, guiding the audience through "one of the better-known plays in the entire canon of theater, and with a cast of 28." "I said it to Kenny [Leon], the director, in rehearsal the other day, 'This is the first time in a long time that I've worked on something and I thought I could see not really getting tired of." Parsons knows many will always see Big Bang Theory's Sheldon in his performances, and he's fine with that, because the sitcom "undoubtedly offered me more opportunities as an actor and as a human than without it, there's just no doubt about it."Does doing such a well-known play add pressure?Yes, in the way that parts of me undeniably are aware of that. The rewarding part, with all due respect to every writer I've worked with, I don't know that I've ever worked with richer, more deeply thoughtout and therefore bordering-on-profound words in my life.This type of character does feel new for you.I think... [it's] because I'm addressing the public directly through Thornton Wilder's dialog. Wilder had thoughts and feelings and ideas about our lives and what it is to live and to die and what happens to the spirit or the soul. It's so worth...getting those words communicated.Do you think Sheldon impacts how people view you in other roles?I only got that role because I brought myself [to it] at some level. There is something recognizable as Sheldon that isn't Sheldon at all, it's me, and that can be very useful. I don't mean monetarily, but as a storyteller.Do you get annoyed being asked about a Big Bang Theory reboot?I don't.... I'm very much never say never about anything. When I think of rebooting at the age of 70, that does make me shake a little bit. But no, my instinct is that's never going to happen. We had lightning in a bottle....and I wouldn't want to touch it again. I mean, you could never go back to it, I don't think.

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