![]() ![]() I’ve heard the score for 20 years, and things that used to perk my ear, now it’s something different that makes my eyes well up and my chin quiver, and it’s because I have a child of my own. I’ve played mothers in the past, but I can tell you that having a little person of your own, you hear every line differently. ![]() I think that has greatly helped my process with Trina. When I was first approached, it was February of 2015 and I had just given birth the month before, so I wasn’t quite sure if my spirit, my physical person, my mental person, would be ready to jump back into work, but now it being 2016 it timed up perfectly. It’s been about a year and a half of me marinating in this idea of playing Trina. The nail polish gods know I’m supposed to be a part of this.” Then Jordan Roth came on board, then all of a sudden we were postponed a little bit, and then Lincoln Center came on board. And I thought, “I know this is ridiculous but this is a sign from the universe. I swear, it had a little label on it, on the outside of the bag that I had never seen before, and this is a bag I’ve had for at least ten years. It sounds so silly, but when I was on the phone I was painting my nails, which I do to just veg out, and the little nail polish bag that I had was called Trina. When this project was being bounced around and they were threatening to bring it back, threatening I say lovingly, of course, I was totally interested because of the role and because of the creative team. I loved working with James and Bill on Little Miss Sunshine. I was called by James Lapine about a year and a half ago with the idea that they really wanted to bring back Falsettos. The script, meaning the score, because I think there are only about half a dozen or ten different lines that are spoken, the whole show is sung through. Let’s start with the show and your process for the character. Shortly before the start of previews, we talked with her in her dressing room (much better than a bathroom) at the Walter Kerr Theatre about her rehearsal process, parts for women in theatre, why there seems to be more interest in the off-stage lives of women, and much more. And now she’s back on Broadway as Trina in Falsettos, casting that the theatre world was, once again, excited by. She made her Broadway debut in The Boy From Oz playing Liza Minnelli did the original readings and workshops of Wicked as Elphaba (and later played the role on tour and Broadway) starred in The Pirate Queen, 9 to 5, and Little Miss Sunshine (among others), and received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Stephanie is one of those actresses who people are excited to see on stage and off. Block, who seemed like someone I did want to talk to. Or, more aptly: I was hiding from people I didn’t want to talk to in a bathroom and proceeded to ambush Stephanie J. Many years ago, at some event or another, I ran into Stephanie J. ![]()
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