She is the love interest to Harry Connick Jr., she has at least two duets I can think of. The role seemed slightly underwritten when I saw the workshop, but she really did a lot with it.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
Alex Ellis is covering Muriel, played by Sarah Stiles. She's not covering Melinda, played by Jessie Mueller.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
I'm thoroughly confused. Is there still a Daisy in this new version? I thought the "patient" is now a guy, and only the "past" version of that patient (Melinda?) is a female. Or do I have that wrong?
Daisy Gamble is now David Gamble, played by David Turner. In a past life, he was a jazz singer named Melinda, played by Jessie Mueller.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
^ No, there isn't still a Daisy. Daisy has become two characters: David (David Turner) and Melinda (Jessie Mueller).
Melinda's race was changed after Anika Noni Rose had to suddenly drop out of the Vassar run and Alysha Umphress--who is white--took over. I believe they saw actresses of all races when they were auditioning for the full production.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body