In the proscenium of my bedroom mirror I was always the leading lady, although I’d accept a featured role if the number was juicy enough. Let’s not kid each other: no one turns down the chance to sing “I’m Just A Girl Who Can’t Say No” even if it’s not the starring role!
Prejudice is art’s greatest enemy. If you walk into a gallery thinking you already know what a Picasso looks like, you will never really see a Picasso. How you look circumscribes what you see.
If plays are hard to produce, they are even harder to revive. There has to be a really great reason—an unexposed audience, a revolutionary new concept, or the attachment of a big star—to justify the amount of work and money required to remount a play.
