There’s a lot of dialogue, a lot of drama, and it’s all very fast-paced. Take A Bow, Noah Mitchell is primarily set in the rehearsal room of an amateur production of Chicago, which, as someone who performed in the show in Ballarat when I was 17, was so much fun to write! And aside from the content, I think my books feel theatrical. My background in theatre has a huge influence on my writing. To what extent does your musical theatre background influence your new novel? Let’s Get Loud is one of our favourite songs, and we knew it would set the right tone for our wedding reception – a big gay party, basically!

Both of us being professional dancers made the whole thing pretty fun and easy! The dance was actually our entrance to the reception venue, not our first dance (which was more like a slow dance at a high school prom). We choreographed the dance in our kitchen a few days before the wedding. How long did you and your husband rehearse the choreography? How did you both decide on the song? But… as Taylor Swift would say, “haters gonna hate”. Turns out a lot of people enjoyed seeing two grooms dancing to Let’s Get Loud – 8 million people, to be precise! The response on TikTok was mind-blowing, but to then have Queen J-Lo share it on her personal Instagram was truly the icing on the cake! The video recently made an appearance on the People Magazine Instagram, which brought a lot of homophobes out of the woodwork. Tobias: It was a very weird couple of days, to say the least! All our friends have seen the video countless times (we tied the knot in 2019) but it was brand new to the world of TikTok.

What is it like going viral and having Jennifer Lopez share your video on Instagram? Hendri Yulius Wijaya talks with Tobias for DNA.ĭNA: Your wedding dance video went viral. His latest novel, Take A Bow, Noah Mitchell (2022), brings together online gaming, musical theatre, and growing-up gay into a swoon-worthy romance. His debut novel, Anything But Fine (2021), was shortlisted for Book Of The Year For Older Children in 2022. Tobias Madden is a dancer, musical theatre performer and Young Adult (YA) novelist and editor.

Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden