I am on the Delta flight to New York with Tulea. It was weird leaving my Atlanta loft for 5 months. This is a first. A Hollywood feature film takes, on average, 3 months. An Indy film takes maybe 5-7 weeks, But 5 months! Yikes.
The last time I did a Broadway play I lived in New York. In fact I lived in NY for a decade from age 13 (early 50's) to my early twenties around 1963. I did four Broadway plays during that time.
Cast Equity Forms
Colin Hanks
Don Amendolia
he dramaturge Mark Bly talking to Susan. Zach Grenier who plays beethoven is next and next to him is Erik Steele who plays Anton Schindler, Beethoven’s secretary
The curtain call–from left to right–Samantha, Mathis, me, Moises, Zach Grenier and Colin Hanks.
Jane Fonda and Eve Ensler attend the after party for opening night of "33 Variations" at Buddakan on March 9, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic)
Karen Nussbaum and her husband, Ira Arlook
With Bill Rollnick and Nancy Ellison (photo by Michael Rudd)
Rue McClanahan (photo by Michael Rudd)
About thirty friends from Atlanta and other parts of Georgia came to the show this afternoon. Many of them board members and supporters of The Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention that I founded in 1995. It was such fun having them come up onto the stage after the rest of the audience had left, giving them a sense of what it feels like to be up there. Next to me in this group picture is Michele Ozumba, the President and CEO of G-CAPP. The good looking guy with gray hair is Rick Myers, another board member from Dalton, Georgia. The woman in the red suit with thick-rimmed glasses is Dr Betty Siegel, former president of Kennesaw College-also a board member.
Robert Redford (Photo by Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic)
Tom and Colin Hanks (Photo by Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic)
With Eve Ensler
With Rosie
With Troy
Hibaaq Osman, Me and Jessica Neuwith
With Troy, Shirlee, Nathalie
With Troy and my step mother, Shirlee Fonda
Liv Ullman (photo by Michael Rudd)
Scott Peacock (photo by Michael Rudd)
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene (photo: Michael Rudd)
Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller and daughter Amy (photo: Melissa Spengler)
Carol King (photo: Michael Rudd)
Fellow cast member Colin Hanks, in addition to Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and their two children Chet and Truman. (photo: Michael Rudd)
Ted’s daughter Laura Turner Seydel, her husband Rutherford and their three kids (photo: Michael Rudd)
Tina Packer, and Dennis Krausnick of the Shakespeare Theater Co. (photo: Michael Rudd)
Carol Gilligan (photo: Michael Rudd)
My daughter Lulu (photo: Micheal Rudd)
Lisa Birnbach (photo: Michael Rudd)
Sharon Maxwell Ferguson her husband Howell Ferguson (photo: Michael Rudd)
Joan Harris (photo: Michael Rudd)
Bill Bartholomay (photo: Michael Rudd)
Itzhak Perlman and Zach Grenier (photo: Michael Rudd)
Richard Thomas (photo: Michael Rudd)
Mary Catherine Bateson (photo: Michael Rudd)
Pam Smart and Pam Yarborough (photo: Michael Rudd)
With Gene Saks (photo: Michael Rudd)
Heather Wright, my hair person on the show (photo: Michael Rudd)
Kathy Griffen
With Tovah Feldshuh and Mary Catherine Bateson (photo: Bruce Glikas)
Carol Kurtz (photo: Michael Rudd)
With co-award presenter, Susan Sarandon (photo: Bruce Glikas)
Me, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin (photo: Bruce Glikas)
Academy Award-winning author of On Golden Pond, Ernest Thompson
I was so happy to have the wonderful, soulful actor Marian Seldes come back stage. We did a reading together a few years ago of Eve Ensler’s play, “Necessary Targets.” Marion said as soon as she got to my dressing room, “I had an epiphany right at the end of the play. It’s a love story–between you and Beethoven.” That touched me a lot because it’s how I feel, too, but I’ve never said it. It’s why the scene he and I have together near the end is so joy-filled.
Maria Cooper Janis (photo: Melissa Spengler)
Friends from Atlanta (photo: Melissa Spengler)
Geoffrey Rush
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