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Katie Finneran
Promises, Promises scene stealer Katie Finneran talks about creating the character of Marge McDougall for only two scenes and why she had to be "the anti-Kristin," what it's like having so much free time during the course of a performance and what's beyond the secret door in her dressing room's bathroom. She also talks about why she left Carnegie Mellon's theatre program after a short stay; how she came to New York intent on studying with Uta Hagen and managed to do so, on and off, for some 15 years; why we've only seen her in three musicals over the course of almost two decades of Broadway gigs; how instrumental Lincoln Center Theater has been in her career, providing her with parts in such shows as Two Shakespearean Actors, The Heiress and My Favorite Year; what it has been like working with Neil Simon on the Promises revival and, earlier, on his new play Proposals; how she handled performing in the lengthy The Iceman Cometh -- and why she compares that experience to Love, Loss and What I Wore; and the often dangerous experience of appearing in the 2001 revival of Noises Off.
Original air date - July 7, 2010
Running Time - 1:00:26
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