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Harriet Harris
Tony-winner Harriet Harris talks about being "the adult" in a company of kids in the Broadway musical Cry-Baby and reveals which of the musical numbers in the show convinced her that she needed to be in the production. She also talks about being sent to theatre school as a child in Texas to cure her shyness; her Juilliard auditions for formidable directors John Houseman and Michael Kahn; her touring years with The Acting Company; how she transitioned from classical to comic roles under the tutelage of Christopher Ashley and Paul Rudnick, who wrote her multiple characters in Jeffrey; her belated Broadway debut in 2000 opposite Nathan Lane in The Man Who Came to Dinner; branching into musicals with Broadway's Thoroughly Modern Millie and the Kennedy Center's Mame; and finding the humor in the character of Amanda in The Glass Menagerie at The Guthrie, as role she'd wanted to play since she was 13.
Original air date - June 6, 2008
Running Time - 57:11
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