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PHOTOS FROM MY DRESSING ROOM

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The sofa in my dressing room I sleep on at dinner break with the Gees Bend quilt on it. My dressing table A very 60s beaded necklace that Catherine Keener gave me when we did “Peace, Love and Mi...

Carnegie Hall

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I am sitting in my dressing room about to go on stage at Carnegie Hall, narrating the concert opera of “Grapes of Wrath.” I am so excited bevause it’s such a powerful show with so mu...

NEIL SIMON, TIM ROBBINS, ANNA DEAVERE SMITH

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Nothing like a little pressure!!! These people are all here tonight. And, I stayed out too late after last night’s show–a kind of goodbye party before the real goodbye party–Susan Ke...

SADNESS

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I have been packing up my books and files and then came to the dressroom and packed up what I won’t be needing between now and Thursday. Tulea knows something’s up and is worried. I can te...

TULEA’S RETURN ENGAGEMENT

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What a night!! The show was about to begin. Michael was trying to put bows back into Tulea’s ears when she jumped out of his arms and ran on stage looking for me. There was applause. “What...

BACKSTAGE

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Stage left is where the stage manager sits on a high stool, wearing earphones, the script in a loose binder with lots of notes and cues written on it. Above the “desk” are 3 monitors. Two ...

CONTINUING THE BLOG

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I have been thinking a lot about whether or not to continue blogging. I began this whole endeavor because I wanted to take people through the day-to-day process of doing a Broadway play—after 46...

BACKSTAGE ROUTINE AND THEN THE 9 TO 5 RED CARPET

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I sent Susan Kellermann an email at 1am this morning and she immediately wrote me back asking, “What are you doing up at this hour?” I should have asked her the same. I was up cause I had ...

LESS TIME THAN I THOUGHT

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I thought I would have time to blog about my daily routine at the theatre but there’s been no time. This is, after all, a two-show day and between shows there was a large group from Atlanta incl...

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