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.… Click for more

Jessica, Ann, Ben, Rita and Richard are all in the audience tonight. I think all of us actors are doing well, but we are looking at each other and asking: “what’s up with the audience?” Don says, “They just haven’t arrived yet.… Click for more

The Skit

The Award Win For Best Bonnet and Win For Best Presentation

The Award Win for Best Fundraising

• We-the cast of “33 Variations”, won the Broadway Cares award for Best Bonnet, Best Skit and …drum roll… #theatre #actor #
• We raised the most money–more than any other show, dramatic or musical on Broadway!

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That’s what they call a triple winner and that is what “33 Variations” did today at the big Broadway Cares finale held at the huge Minskoff Theatre.… Click for more

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Jane Fonda and Liza Minnelli at the Easter Bonnet Competition (photo: Aubrey Reuben)

The 23rd annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition raised $3,402,147 in six weeks of nightly curtain-call appeals.… Click for more

This blog will have to be in 3 separate parts because today is totally schizophrenic. We’ll start with the morning and Planned Parenthood.… Click for more

Well, today hasn’t gone at all as I expected. I thought I’d have all this time because the show wasn’t until 3pm.… Click for more

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 including Kim Nolte, the Vice President of G-CAPP in charge of Programs and Training who brought many friends who also work in the field of adolescent sexuality and pregnancy prevention.… Click for more

• #followfriday Simple one this week @gpower2009–come join now. My non-prof. GCAPP has something exciting going on in social media. RT to all #

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Alan Alda and his wife Arlene (photo: Michael Rudd)

Alan Alda is in the audience tonight with his wife Arlene. I will be very happy to see them after the show.… Click for more

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Itzhak Perlman, the great violinist, has come to the show. I will go out into the house after the rest of the audience leaves to greet him.… Click for more

• A former boyfriend just sent me this joke….ready? #
• Did you hear that the economy is so bad that wives are having sex with their husbands because they can’t afford to buy new batteries?

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I didn’t always have a lot of friends. Being my father’s daughter meant that I inherited the American myth of rugged individualism.… Click for more

I had such a good show this afternoon. Felt infused with energy. During the costume change after the first scene, I said to Lori, my dresser, I feel like there are a lot of girls out there.… Click for more

Moises came to the show sunday night and today he sent me his notes. Great!! Just what I needed to rein me in and remind me of the importance of rigor.… Click for more

Tonight the whole cast including Diane Walsh, our brilliant classical pianist, is going out together for a party night in China Town.… Click for more

• Here is the correct link for the Huffpost piece #
• http://bit.ly/6tIqv Huffpost #

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Carol and her husband, Jack Nichol, and their two sons, the age of my daughter and son, lived with my husband, Tom Hayden and me in a modest two-story clapboard house during the Vietnam War in Ocean Park, California.… Click for more

Just want to say for those who might want to contribute to Broadway Cares, the cut off date for checks arriving is April 25th.… Click for more

Rosario Dawson is coming tonight. She and I both sit on the board of V-Day: Until the Violence Stops, the global effort started by Eve Ensler to end violence against women.… Click for more

The response to my directions for the proper cutting of rose stems got such a lot of positive, interested response that I am giving more of an explanation here today thanks to my cast-mate, Don Amendolia, who actually studied these things in Japan!!!… Click for more

One commenter on yesterday’s blog asked, “Are you saying that stimulation in your throat is just as satisfying as vaginal sex?” No, I wasn’t saying that (thought that was the male-POV wishful thinking in the porn film “Deep Throat.”) Looking back, rereading the blog in the sober light of today, with the cortisone calming down a smidge, I was just tripping out about how the photos of the throat look insanely like a vagina and, it turns out, the cells are the same.… Click for more

Any of you ever been to an Otolaryngologist? Well I did this morning. Last night my cold affected my vocal chords and I was worried about losing my voice so the production sent me to this woman doctor and she was amazing.… Click for more

• Hey All, if you haven’t seen this yet, check it out. I find it so touching.

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• Kathy Griffin is coming tonight.

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What a combo in my dressing room tonight–Kathy Griffin (who was hysterical) and Carol Gilligan who wrote the iconic book “In a Different Voice” that changed my life in 2000.… Click for more

Caught a cold yesterday (it wasn’t the pig’s knuckles, I swear.) Staying in bed till show time. Highly unusual for me.… Click for more

• Happy Sunday. Happy Easter. blogging now….. #
• Today’s blog on Easter http://is.gd/s4B4 #

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It’s a glorious, brisk Easter day and I feel bouyant and blessed. Everyone seems so happy in the sunshine. Lori, my elfish dresser, brought me roses and I taught her the proper way to cut rose stems: under water at a slant.… Click for more

Today’s matinee audience was to die for. I wanted to hug them all. Standing and cheering at the end. There was even applause at the end of the first scene.… Click for more

To say I had fun at dinner last night after the show would be an understatement! Jeff Daniels, Dianne Wiest, Paul Martino, Tommy Tune, Philipp Meyer, author of the new novel “American Rust,” Edie Vonnegut, Kurt’s daughter, Esther Newberg, who had a dog just like Tulea.… Click for more

• Going to dinner with Jeff Daniels, Dianne Wiest, Tommy Tune among others. I’ll be too excited to eat. #theatre #

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Today marks the second month we’ve been performing before an audience. Some people who saw it a month or so ago tell us the play is even better now.… Click for more

Thank heaven I am over the cold. As usual, the homeopathic remedy called Oscillococcinum by Boiron did the trick. But you have to take it at the very start of something, when it’s just a whisper.… Click for more

I wrote Vanessa yesterday saying how proud I am of how she has raised her kids to eat healthily. I felt so bad when I ordered them Shirley Temples and she had to send them back.… Click for more

Grand children left yesterday after a visit to the Museum of Natural History. How lucky we are to have such a magnificent place for people to learn about the natural world and other indigenous cultures.… Click for more

• Last week’s interview with Leonard Lopate at NPR—enjoy! http://tinyurl.com/c7jw29 #

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My dear pal, Larry King, is out there today and so is my daughter and grandchildren. Frankly, I’m more nervous about them than about Larry-and I don’t usually get nervous about anybody.… Click for more

• Carole King came to the show and came back after. She was clearly blown away by the play #
• moises kaufman our writer/director was there tonight she was able to express her admiration for what he has created.

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Having the grandkids here is tiring but fun. Today I showed them all around the set, explained the story (which they will see at tomorrow’s 3pm show) the props, showed them my dressing room.… Click for more

• Sally Field stopped by. So exciting. Read more here http://is.gd/qydy #theatre #actors #nyc #
• Colin Hanks heard someone say as they were leaving our theatre last night, “Well, I know Jane Fonda.

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Had a fun time with Sally Field and my Atlanta friends, Helen and Laura. I enjoy the lasting ties I have made with people from Atlanta, which has been my home for only 18 years.… Click for more

Okay, so James didn’t come last night, but Sally is out there. We’re having dinner afterwards. I can’t wait to get her response to the play.… Click for more

• Last night was great backstage, please read my post http://is.gd/q6RD #theatre #actors #
• Many asking for my appearance on The View?

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I should have thought up an April Fools joke to play on somebody but I forgot to bring my calendar home last night and so I was sound asleep when I was awakened by a frantic call at 10:30 reminding me that I was to go on the air at 11am on the Joan Hamburg show done live from Sardi’s.… Click for more