I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.
I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.
To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
In 1961 you had the American dream at its most fully realized. Tract homes, all of that culture was at its height. It was a peaceful time. Then you look at '62. ... It's the bubbling pot. By 1964 you had cities burning.
The audience here seems a lot more relaxed, a lot more in the mood just to have a great time.
When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.
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