Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Laura Benanti
From Gypsy.
Broadway’s newest Gypsy Rose Lee, Laura Benanti, talks about playing the title role in Gypsy both last summer at City Center and again this year on Broadway, including her thoughts on formidable author and director Arthur Laurents, as well as a few facts about the real Gypsy and Rose that didn’t make it [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Laura Linney
From Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Actress Laura Linney talks about returning to Broadway as the Marquise de Merteuil in the Roundabout production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses and whether she thinks her character is truly evil. She also discusses her earliest theatrical experiences, including working on the stage crew at a summer theatre while still in [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Sherie Rene Scott
From The Little Mermaid.
The Little Mermaid’s Sherie Rene Scott talks about creating the role of Ursula in the stage version of the beloved animated film, including what she believes the character thinks of herself. She also talks about her earliest dreams of being on stage while still a child in Kansas, her [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Patrick Stewart
From Macbeth.
Shakespeare veteran Patrick Stewart talks about finally having the opportunity to play the title role in Macbeth, some 50 years after he first memorized the play’s great speeches, and chronicles the production’s swift journey from Chichester to London to Brooklyn to Broadway. He also talks about his decades-long association with the Royal [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Harold Prince
Tony Award-winning Producer & Director.
Legendary producer and director Harold Prince surveys his career from his start in 1948 working for another legendary theatrical figure, George Abbott, to his newest project, the musical Paradise Found, which was presented in a workshop in New York just last week. Over the course an hour, Prince talks [...]
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