When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
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I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.
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I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
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An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
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Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.
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The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.
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Do Not Just Sit There
we are here in this theater of life
choose your mask if you want one
take it if you need it
be in whatever form you like
ugly? you look ugly? cover it and then look
just fine
beautiful? are you beautiful? show it
in this theater of life
we are called upon to be ourselves
in whatever shape we take
cool? you want to be cool? then be cool.
shy? you want to be shy? then be shy.
now, let us take the dance floor
do not refuse my last offer
let us dance because the music is playing and
the band had taken a week for the rehearsing
hold my hand, follow my steps and do not look down
look at me and follow me
use the instinct of life
we shall now dance the last dance of life
the best dance ever
the sweetest ever
now that i have you and you are beside me
let me guide you
to the zest of life to the best of what life has to offer
this is the last dance
please do not be shy
please do not die.
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I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.
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Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
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When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
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When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
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A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
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My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!
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