Marsha Mason
From I Never Sang For My Father.
During rehearsals for Keen Company’s revival of I Never Sang For My Father, Marsha Mason talks about the differences between playing in a Broadway house and a small Theatre Row venue. She also talks about her Broadway debut in Cactus Flower after countless auditions; her unique experience of appearing in the only plays written by two famed novelists, Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut; appearing on a one-act double bill — where the other play featured Al Pacino and John Cazale; how she found herself in San Francisco appearing at the American Conservatory Theatre in Private Lives — directed by Francis Ford Coppola; her long-standing partnership with director Jack O’Brien, spanning from ACT’s 1972 You Can’t Take It With You to 2009′s Impressionism on Broadway; how she met and married her husband, playwright Neil Simon, in only three weeks and why he only wrote movies, not plays, for her, even when Chapter Two was based on their life together; what prompted her to buy a farm in New Mexico 17 years ago; her extensive work with L.A. Theatre Works doing plays for radio in front of live audiences; and her efforts to duplicate elements of the British actor training tradition here in the U.S.
Original airdate – March 31, 2010.
Running time – 1:01:57.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to Downstage Center’s Marsha Mason program page.
You can also download directly the Marsha Mason program (mp3).
Posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at 7:50 am
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