New American Theatre Wing's Downstage Center Interview with Angela Lansbury
New American Theatre Wing's Downstage Center Interview with Angela Lansbury
#1New American Theatre Wing's Downstage Center Interview with Angela Lansbury
Posted: 6/29/11 at 2:30pm
Returning to Downstage Center five years after a 2006 conversation, the legendary Angela Lansbury talks about her most recent Broadway roles, in Terrence McNally's Deuce, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. She also discusses her experiences with artists with whom she's frequently worked - Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Arthur Laurents and Edward Albee; her foray into Shakespeare, playing Gertrude opposite Albert Finney's Hamlet in London; why her career began on film rather than on the stage, her first love; and her opinions about the necessity of training and young people entering the acting profession to become celebrities, rather than excellent actors.
Original air date - June 29, 2011
Running Time - 58:15
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#2New American Theatre Wing's Downstage Center Interview with Angela Lansbury
Posted: 6/29/11 at 10:06pm
Will, thanks so much! Is Angela Lansbury ever anything less than wise and thoroughly entralling? Lovely interview. Highly recommended listening. Think I'll listen to the OBCRs of Anyone Can Whistle and Dear World now...
Updated On: 6/29/11 at 10:06 PM
#2New American Theatre Wing's Downstage Center Interview with Angela Lansbury
Posted: 6/30/11 at 2:30pm
You are very welcome! Ms. Lansbury has to be one of them most down to earth, classiest, and intelligent persons in the industry. Not to mention one of the greatest actresses Broadway and Hollywood has ever know.
I did know that she was offered the lead in the original Follies production, but had no idea she was the first choice to play Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music.
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