"After we laid down the tracks, they called Lucy and the director on a mobile phone in a trailer in New Zealand, and over the loudspeaker of the recording studio, they listened to it.

People Got To Be Free. But she had wanted to take a break from singing when she moved to Los Angeles, so her role on The Jamie Foxx Show as a UCLA student who's involved with Christopher Duncan's Braxton P. Hartnabrig came at a fortuitous time. Wood is a recurring character this year, but not yet a series regular.

", Wood was never given the character breakdown - "Just, they're looking for a blond woman" - so she laughs that basically she's been playing herself. THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME runs through November 12 at Circle Players Theatre! Watch highlights from the show in this video! Shakespeare has no appeal to me. Continuing to build on the enormous success of new play development at Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, announces casting for the Signature Staged Readings of Dark Radio by Colin McKenna to be presented today, July 11-13 on the Bratton Theater Mainstage. I got this scholarship to go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London - I was all set to go study the classics - and my mother was like, 'What are you thinking?

See photos of Tyler Evick as Quasimodo and Courtney Harkins as Esmerelda! I was completely gone for two weeks - I had had it. "I had a really good time on Xena," the actress recalls, though she adds that she wasn't certain whether her work was effective until the finished product, because Lawless and the crew were in New Zealand while she put down her tracks in a studio in Culver City, CA.

TV is like a breeze compared to that. I don't want to be in this business if I'm unhappy, but I think a lot of people are. I think it's always difficult to come into a show that's running, even on Broadway - to come in when you weren't there when they were first getting the show off its feet, not to know what the goals are with the show and that feeling of a family, I would always prefer to be in the original cast. It was amazing. When Xena's production people were looking for someone to sing for Gabrielle, they approached the director of Grease, who had worked with both Lawless and Wood. ", When Lawless performed in the musical, Wood was out cold - a year and a half of doing eight shows a week had taken its toll on her body. She can also be heard on the album. There's really not a lot of pressure here. You know how bad those things are just for conversation in the same country!" ", Though her career took off fairly quickly, it was a difficult time for Wood because she was separated from her husband Adrian Zmed, whom she met in a production of Godspell and who had been in Grease with her. 3:14. Broadway Rewind: AMAZING GRACE Sings Out on Broadway with Josh Young and More! If you have that as your base, you're going to make it.

She ended up leaving college "because I was bored with just the acting, I wanted to do the singing, and I was in the middle of New York City and wanted to do Broadway shows." While her television experience is not as extensive as her stage resume, "The thing with doing a sitcom is that you're kind of onstage because you perform for a live audience, so I look at it like I'm doing a play."

You start to go, 'Let me try THIS! Photo Flash: See The Cast of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME At Circle Players Theatre! It's Raining on Prom Night.

", As far as long-term goals, "my biggest goal is just to be happy, in whatever field - if I decide suddenly to become a teacher, if I'm happy doing that, then that's what's most important. The event takes place on Thursday, October 23rd at Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street in DUMBO Brooklyn, the first cultural venue in NYC to be certified 'green' by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), from 8pm - midnight and features live performances, film screenings and a fine art auction. Though Wood was familiar with the series and with O'Connor - "I knew her type, I had heard her voice" - she did not have any shots from the episode to study. Aaron Sorkin Says He's Stressed About The Election, Stars Gear Up for A VERY BRADY MUSICAL Benefit Reading, Harada, Leung, Iglehart & More Will Star in THE NICE LIST Musical, Watch the Full 2020 Olivier Awards Ceremony. He would take the stage over TV any day. "I always thought that I would want to just do Broadway theater, and then I lost my interest in singing. Though she is enjoying camera work at the moment and would like to break into films, Wood also would like to do a straight play without singing. Wood plays Cameron, who works as a Global Parcel Service delivery woman to pay for school so she can finish a masters' degree in speech pathology. It's a lot of fun, and the cast has been more than welcoming. "I'm a really nice girl next door, very Sandy-ish actually; Braxton is an intellectual as well, so we bond on that level. But people do theater because they love it.".
Based on the best selling book of the same title by Ilene Beckerman and written by sisters Nora Ephron ( Julie & Julia) and Delia Ephron ( You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle) the play is a perfect Girl's Night Out. she laughs. Though Wood never worked with Lawless onstage - her Rizzos included Brooke Shields, Rosie O'Donnell, and Deborah Gibson - the director thought the voices would be a good match, and that Wood would sound similar enough to O'Connor to make a convincing Gabrielle. Video: Angela Lansbury in Conversation With Her Niece, Gwen Hollander Releases Trump Parody of 'Defying Gravity', Jennifer Hudson Sings 'Tomorrow' From ANNIE, Trailer For Season Two of HIS DARK MATERIALS Starring LMM.
Plus, Calhoun conveys his infectious enthusiasm for his craft and discusses what drives him to create while also sharing his humbled appreciation for the recognition of both his new musicals this season by the Tony Award committee and reflecting on his vast multitude of experiences in the theatre so far in his career - everything from starring in SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS and MY ONE & ONLY on Broadway to choreographing THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES and BUSKER ALLEY with Tommy Tune and transitioning into directing/choreographing with the hit revivals of GREASE, BIG RIVER, PIPPIN, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (with Graciele Daniele), BELLS ARE RINGING, as well as GREY GARDENS and the rest. Check out photos from the show below! You're going to be miserable!' The Broadway star - a featured castmember of the WB Network's Jamie Foxx Show, who will be seen in CBS's upcoming Payne this January - can be heard on Xena as the singing voice of sidekick-and-bard Gabrielle. Ironically, Wood and Lawless have never met, though they have another connection - the Broadway revival of Grease, in which Wood played sweet lead character Sandy for a year and a half, while Lawless did a stint as tough chick Rizzo. As actors, you survive that and you know that that's part of the game, and you have to support each other and allow each other to grow and do things, but you certainly will find out if you have a good relationship or not. But this is wonderful in that they know what they're doing - when you do a new show, you're really stressed about whether the show's going to go, so there's a lot of pressure. on a scholarship to study acting ("as opposed to singing, because I already knew singing was my strength").

Susan Wood, Ricky Paull Goldin & New Broadway Cast of Grease.