ACTOR APPEARANCE: ROBERT NEWMAN (JOSH; GUIDING LIGHT)

Those who'll miss ``Guiding Light's'' Joshua Lewis during the character's brief stint abroad have Augusta's Barn Theatre to blame....

Newman said the soap writers tinkered with his plot line, sending his character ``searching for his missing son who's somewhere in Bosnia or something like that,'' so he could take most of a month off for the musical.

He did, however, have to jet off for one day of ``Light'' rehearsals in New York amid the brief rehearsal run for ``Shenandoah.''

``Flying like that was fun when I was 25,'' he said. ``It's not so much fun anymore.''

Read the entire interview, here.