Constantine Maroulis: I 'Opened the Door' for Future Idol Rockers

[Brian Damage]

American Idol alum Constantine Maroulis has been making his mark on Broadway since appearing on the hit FOX show's fourth season in 2005. He was recently nominated for a Tony for his role in the rock musical Rock of Ages and the actor-musician credits the reality competition for the chance it gave him.

"I was blessed – I was a finalist," he says. "I probably wouldn't be in this chair if I wouldn¹t have gone on the audition that day."

But, he says, there is something he'd do differently if he were able to appear on Idol again. "They had a hard time getting the support from artists and publishers to clear a lot of the material, so there were a lot of songs I wanted to do that I couldn't do," he says. "Stuff from U2, Aerosmith, anything Led Zeppelin, Bon Jovi. That was the stuff I was really good at. If I could have done the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' kind of thing week after week, it would have been interesting to see how it would have worked out."

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