“I put in all the things I’d always wanted to see onstage: propulsive freestyle rap scenes outside of bodegas, salsa numbers that also revealed character and story. I tried to write the kind of show I’d want to be in.”
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
*(describing In the Heights in his Broadway.com First Person (1/9/07))
Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett
‘Usually I’m frustrated when I look at my films and I don’t believe that I’ve made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it’s me, that I didn’t create a unique character.’
-Helena Bonham Carter
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Helena Bonham Carter starred with Johnny Depp in the movie version of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, now available on DVD, for more information visit www.sweeneytoddmovie.com
photo credit: broadway.com
“My heritage is a long line of Southern Baptist and Methodist preachers—who were all just frustrated actors”
-Deanna Dunagan
You can catch Deanna Dunagan’s amazing performance as Violet Weston in August: Osage County at The Music Box Theatre. For more information visit www.augustosagecounty.com
‘Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise. ‘
-Harvey Fierstein.
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You can catch Harvey Fierstein at the Walter Kerr Theatre ( 219 West 48th Street) in A Catered Affair | (212) 239-6200.
photo credit: Leslie Hassler
‘At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.’
Laura Linney.
* You can catch Laura Linney in Roundabout Theatre Company’s new production of Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses at The American Airlines Theatre, for more information visit www.dangerousonbroadway.com
‘When I meet talented directors I get really giggly to the point of it being really ridiculous so that’s how I knew I respected them.’
-Gina Gershon
*Gina Gershon is currently starring as Gabriella in Broadway’s comedy BOEING BOEING. For ticket information visit: www.telecharge.com
“I’d rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in America.”
-Kate Winslet
photo credit: Eamonn McCabe
‘What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.‘
-Edward Albee
“Rodgers and Hammerstein didn’t mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.”
-Art Garfunkel
(photo credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
“In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!”
-Bernadette Peters
