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Roomful Of Talent

There were 21 of us gathered in photographer Mark Seliger’s studio complex, a fixed up warehouse way down at the bottom of Manhattan. Just to mention the people I knew there: John Glover, Matthew Brod...

Old Friends

I took some meds last night that kept me awake till 7am today!!! Still, the matinee went well and was 17 minutes shorter than the first public preview we did 2 ½ weeks ago. Lolly Espy and her husband ...

Flummoxed

Oh wow, my sinuses are killing me. Oddly, when I am on stage I don’t feel it although I just screwed up a line and I think the audience knows I’m sick., Tovah Feldshuh is out there tonight. So are Eva...

Slumdog Slam

Hooray!! I am so happy for the brilliant Danny Boyle and his team’s HUGE success!!! As I said in an earlier blog, my son, Troy, did Danny’s last movie with him, “Sunshine” and ...

The Show Must Go On

Ok ok. I wasn’t going to blog. I woke up this morning sooo sick but “mamma hen Heidi” (Heidi Neven, our Production Manager) came to my rescue: Had a doc phone in antibiotics, some ve...

The Congo

Please read this article by Bob Herbert in the New York Times. It’s so important that people know what is happening to women and girls in the eastern Congo. Eve Ensler and her non profit organization ...

Discombobulated

Last night my friend, Elizabeth Sackler, the founder of the Feminist Art Museum in Brooklyn, saw the show and when she came backstage she found that I was getting sick. Today she brought chicken soup ...

Hard

It was hard today. We put in a lot of new lines andd other changes. I like the challenge but I started to feel flu-ish mid first act. I am rushing home now to have some soup and go to sleep. Tomorrow ...

Full Heart

Manny Millar came to the show this afternoon and came back afterwards. We both burst into tears when we saw each other. Manny was my hairstylist on “Monster-In-Law” and “Georgia Rule.” We connected in...

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