In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Anton Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
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I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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You’d look out and there’d be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
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When I grew up in the ’60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
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I’ve been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I’m not dead!
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I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.
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Animals speak with pure affection. It’s important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there’s great truth in the songs, and that’s what was so wonderful to find.
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I don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
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