[music]
To perform in a musical theater, in the musical theatre you're performing
without a net, you're performing- >It's tightrope.
> -everything in a row.
You know the curtain goes up and you're off to the races and then it all happens
and you know the audience is looking at you and you're in it-
Sorry, I've had a long day! [laughter]
It's hard is what I'm saying and we work very hard for
long many years to be able to sing and act and dance and make it a performance
that's interesting so that the audience has you know becomes part of the
performance that you're engaged in.
The musical you have to you have to
be able to talk, and you have to be able to sing, and some people have to be able
to dance, and some of us have to do all three and it's not easy to find
people who can do all three at a certain level. That you know that those are hard.
Tt's hard to do those things.
My experience is that if you're funny even
if you happen to be funny, and some people might say sexy too, you are not
going to be taken seriously as a romantic interest.
I have never, I don't think I've, times have been very rare that I have been
cast in a role as a serious romantic interest. Sexy, yes, and funny, sometimes
dramatic, but never I think there's a thing- and I think this is the society, in
our culture is that funny women are not romantic women, and that's so you know...
I have felt that their limitation has been placed on me
because I have been funny.
The archetypal musical has the leading lady is a
romantic ingenue and she's got a best friend who's funny and sexy, tough as nails,
heart of gold, dances great, belts.
[laughter]
She's a lot of fun until I see things that I wish weren't happening on stage
and then I just don't look. Because there's nothing I can do about it.
But that doesn't end honestly honestly
that doesn't happen that often, I mean that that shows in very very good shape
and there's wonderful people in it.
No, I feel very satisfied with- you know
I did it a lot. I did it for two years and then I kept going back.
[performing] You have to imagine this with two people.
It's swell with two people.
First I'd...
Badumdumdumdum, drums.
Then she'd...
Wahwahwahwahwah, saxophone.
Then we'd...
Badumdumdum, wahwahwahwah, together.
but I can't do it alone. Then she'd...
[narrating] that was really interesting - you know - a year later come back and
play it for another couple of months and remine the material, hear different
things, feel different things.
That's a remarkable thing about the theater.
It is our tribal fire, we all gather around it to tell stories and to be a community
and sometimes it has a really remarkable impact on us