Ethan Miller

Ethan Miller is Guy and Kate's nephew, sixteen, and the group's heartbeat. He is cynical, brilliant, and useful whenever the room needs a clarinet, a beat, or a refusal, and he supplies all three with equal conviction.

He thinks Broadway is dead and says so often. A percussionist who finds rhythm in everything, he pioneered what the others call the rebel clarinet: an ordinary instrument run through a distortion pedal until it argues back.

Because his uncle owns the Jewish Snack, the cafe stage is open to the students in a way it is open to no one else, which makes Ethan, almost by accident, the reason the class has a home at all.

He is also the only one in the room brave enough to treat Bunny Montgomery like a normal human being, which she pretends to dislike.