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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.

Bebe Neuwirth

I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
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Life Performers Stage Tell
Artists need to express.
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Artist Express Needs
In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts
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Country Differences Roles Sexy
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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All Diva Myself See
People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Misguide People Snap Judgment
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He’s decapitated, but totally nude. And he’s really well-endowed.
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Butter Door Endowered Kick Photo
She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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Being Big Hearted Somehow Vulgar Wondered
Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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Audience Character Shows
Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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Creating Different Interesting
If I’m not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven’t been able to get to class for a while or I’ve been sick.
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Class Connection Sick
I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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Break Country Easter
Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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Anything Good Possibly Trying
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Children Concert Saws
One of the things that’s great about doing a show over and over again… is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time… to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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Firsts Spontaneous Way

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.

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