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--I don't think I've ever lied on my resume.
--Uhh, I'm gonna plead the fifth. --That I
can fold contour sheets. --That I could horse ride
--That I could rollerskate. --That
I can juggle. --Oh, the entire resume.
--I was seeing Juliet
Taylor, casting director, and she asked me where I had studied. And I had put on my
resume down below Sandy Meisner Neighborhood Playhouse. I thought it
would look good. Never been there in my life. And Julia said, How did you like studying
with Sandy? And I said she was great.
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--Mike Teevee and Charlie in the Chocolate
Factory. -- I was an ensemble member in a
production of High School Musical and I
think that was truly atrocious.
--I covered Angel in Rent, and I sucked!
---I kind
of sucked as Benny in Rent.
--Barnum when I was 15 years old, so
perfect casting. --Radames in Aida because
I was a shrimp.
--I played Van Helsing in Dracula in high school? And I'm really glad that it
wasn't filmed and put on the Internet.
--Probably all of them. --Oh, I would rather
not talk about it because I'll start crying.
--No, no. I can't answer that. I
worked hard at every role.
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--Ethel Merman, of course. --Frank Langella
--Kristin Chenoweth
--Robert Prescott --Debbie
Allen --Marvin Hamlisch
--Brian Stokes Mitchell
--Kelli O'Hara --Cher
-- Bernadette
Peters
Patti LuPone!
--Jerome Robbins
--Michael Cerveris
--Bob Fosse --Bette Midler
--Mandy Patinkin
--Carol Channing
--Stephen Sondheim --Does Judy
Garland count? I think I wanted to be Judy.
--Len Cariou -- Gene Kelly.
--I would say Bill Irwin or Richard Burton
--Rosemary Harris
--Ben Vereen
--Audra McDonald
all the way.
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--Mama Rose. Maybe not kill, but yes, Mama Rose.
--Martha and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
--The Emcee in Cabaret
--Billy Flynn -- Billy Bigelow
--Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,
Madea in Madea, the
Witch and Into the Woods. -- Nora in a Doll's House
--Madea --Mrs. Lovett
--Dolly Levi -- Mabel in
Mack and Mabel --Mama Rose
[snorts]
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--I don't win things. --A scratch-off lottery
ticket for like $17.
--I won a scholarship
to take me to high school, and that was invaluable.
--I won a puzzle contest in second grade. -- A trip to Paris!
--A model airplane --Best
thing I ever won is a giant, giant pixie stick.
When I was in fifth grade, I
won it and then I was so excited I pissed my pants.
I don't know why that story came up!
Okay?
--When I was in
second grade, I won an award for reading the most books.
--My parents approval.
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--Uh, nothing. Usually, it cost me.
--I was in a children's luncheon theater
called the Peanut Butter Players and I was paid $10 per performance.
--I don't know because I was ten and my parents
dealt with it. --Three hundred and twenty
pounds
--Ninety-nine dollars --I think it was a hundred bucks a week
--One hundred dollars for rehearsal and a four-week run.
--A hundred and eighty-five
dollars.
--Six hundred pounds before commission and
tax, which is probably two pounds.
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--Annaleigh Ashford?
--Mark-Paul Gosselaar --None of them.
--I don't know. My coasters are usually women.
Get it?
--Val Kilmer.
--Guys... This hard as a married
woman, but if you go through my resume, Boy from Oz, you might actually see,
Hugh Jackman, I don't have an answer for this one.
--Johnny B. Wright. --Who doesn't
want to hook up with Hugh Jackman?
--Rondi Reed [laughs]
Rondi Reed.
No, but we did hook up.
--Oh, I don't answer questions about hooking up with people.
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--Fan art. I love fan art. I love
to fill my dressing room with it.
--I really need some Nike shoes, size 10 and a half.
--Booze.
--Anything related to cats and sloths
--Cheese and onion crisps from Ireland because you can only get them in Ireland.
They're the best crisps in the whole world.
--A big old box of strawberry
Welch's gummy candy.
--Vinyl records. --A printer that doesn't jam.
--I mean, neckties
because I love neckties and I think you can never have enough.
--Encouragement
--Money... large denominations. Thanks.
--Oh, I wish they would take that gift and give
it to themselves. Really. It's lovely, but get an ice cream. Take yourself out.
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