Monday, July 28th, 2008
Randy Graff
From Damn Yankees.
Tony Award winning actress Randy Graff talks about her role as Meg Boyd in the current Encores! revival of Damn Yankees, including what she learned from reading the novel on which the show is based and what she thinks of the enhanced intimacy between her character and the youthful Joe Hardy. [...]
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Boyd Gaines
From Gypsy.
On the eve of his fourth Tony Award win, actor Boyd Gaines talks about his busy year, including Journey’s End, Pygmalion and both the Encores and Broadway runs of Gypsy. He also describes his early training and extensive work in regional theatre, both before and after his years on the sitcom One [...]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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The international panel of performers — Scottish actor Iain Glen (The Blue Room), Australian actress Nicole Kidman (The Blue Room), Irish actress Anna Manahan (The Beauty Queen of Leenane), and Filipino actress Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon) — discuss their training, the rehearsal process, taking a whole approach to both film and stage work, overcoming stage [...]
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Priscilla Lopez
From In The Heights.
Tony-winner Priscilla Lopez talks about what drew her to the new musical In The Heights and talks about her patience and faith that by the time it reached Broadway, she’d have her own song in the show. She also talks about her early training, including additional details about her high [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Performance
Actors Blythe Danner and Edward Herrmann both from The Deep Blue Sea, Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime), Alfred Molina (Art), Natasha Richardson (Cabaret), and John Vickery (The Lion King) discuss how their training and first professional jobs, obtaining and preparing for their current role, what has been their biggest break in theatre, the difference between theatre [...]
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