 | Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $1.81 Rashomon: This is the story version, Amazon doesn't carry the play. I was The Wigmaker. Written as a man, but I played her as a cynical old woman. Think old, cranky, female Alan Alda. :-}
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 | An Inspector Calls (Heinemann Plays) by J.B. Priestley
Buy new: $14.32 / Used from: $0.64 An Inspector Calls: I was Sybil Birling. For research, I read a fascinating travelogue by the author, a train trip across England in the 30s. Marvelous, rich writing, a great snapshot of the time.
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 | The Odd Couple (Female Version) by Neil Simon
Buy used from: $11.21 The Odd Couple, Female Version: I played Mickey the Cop. My first acting role after working at the Seattle PD. Typecasting, what?.
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 | Alcott in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates (Writers in Their Own Time)
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $1.50 Little Women: I was Marmee in an unpublished Seattle adaptation. This is a book I read for research on the real Alcott family. Civil war Massachusetts, 4 kids, disease... my real life is great, man!
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 | Grace & Glorie: A play in two acts by Tom Ziegler
Buy used from: $8.49 Grace & Glorie: I played Glorie, the younger of the two, the fish-out-of-water corporate executive who struggles to help an elderly acquaintance and allows the opposite to happen.
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 | The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin Mcdonagh
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $3.71 The Cripple of Inishmaan: As Aunty Eileen, I explored Irish humour and the scraping of a life out of a rock in the eastern atlantic cean.
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 | Carousel Edition: Vocal Selections
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $2.00 Carousel: I was lucky to play Mrs. Mullin with a director who leveraged her for all she was worth - Mae West and Bette Midler rolled into a force of nature and voice against Billy's violence.
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| Angry housewives by Chad Henry
Buy used from: $2.24 Angry Housewives: I was Wendi, who talks 3 middle-aged women friends into forming a punk band. I grew up as a girl drummer, when that wasn't cool thing to be. Things have changed!
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| Little women: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy : a two-act play based on the writings of Louisa May Alcott by Sandy Asher
Buy used from: $39.99 Little Women - the Play : This seems to be one of many adaptations available, but the only one I can find for purchase on Amazon.
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 | Jesus Christ Superstar: A Rock Opera
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $5.94 Jesus Christ Superstar: I just sang mezzo in the chorus/crowd, but it's a phenomenal physical experience. If you can ever be in this show, _do_. The music _makes_ you move. Play it to the fullest.
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 | The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro): Vocal Score by Ruth and Thomas Martin
Buy new: $31.46 / Used from: $24.00 Le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart : I sang the scene in the garden as the Countess "Porgi Amor" Still do, often. :} This book has both Italian and English words, but the latter seems to be reference only.
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| I Never Saw Another Butterfly (One Act) by Celeste Raspanti
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $3.99 I Never Saw Another Butterfly: There are no words for the glimpse into concentration camp life that this gave me. Tough translation. Worth every moment. Rest in peace, Irena.
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 | I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova
Buy new: $12.58 / Used from: $4.95 Actual drawings and poems of children in the Terezin Concentration Camp. 15,000 kids passed through the camp. Less than 100 survived.
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 | Deathtrap: A Thriller in Two Acts by Ira Levin
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $2.26 Deathtrap: I played Myra - one of my few timid, regular-lady characters. Jumpy and increasingly suspicious, she's dead by the second act. Do this play, you can die & watch Act 2 from the booth!
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 | The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $4.15 The Three Sisters: Again luck brought me a great director who leveraged Anfisa, the only happy person at the end of the story, as a timepiece and comic relief. And I was mistaken for 80, for real.
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 | Dark of the Moon (Tab Paperback) by Howard Richardson
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.75 Dark of the Moon: I was the guitar player and a few merged characters, my first show at William & Mary. In Virginia. Where people know what a revival scene should be- chaotic, cacophenous, musical...
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| Painting Churches by Tina Howe
Buy used from: $1.11 Painting Churches: I was Mags, with Henry Hart and Peggy Hunt as my parents. Oh. My. Goodness. Serious amounts of work, worth every moment.
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| English Journey by J.B. Priestley
English Journey - wonderful book by J.B. Priestly that I mention above re: An Inspector Calls
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 | The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
Buy new: $39.10 / Used from: $24.05 The Sorceror and Trial by Jury: I used this book to research the time and setting for these G&S shows. Didn't help with the modern movie references thrown in, though. ::chuckle::
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| Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe
Buy used from: $28.59 Butterflies Are Free: I was Mrs. Baker, Donny Dark's mom, in a university project when I was young. It ripped my heart out, even then.
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 | Israel Horovitz, Vol. I: 16 Short Plays (Contemporary Playwrights) by Israel Horovitz
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $2.24 Morning, by Israel Horovitz: Part of a trilogy "Morning, Noon and Night" written with other authors, I was Gertrude in "Morning". I woke up really pale one morning and discovered it changed nothing.
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 | 'night, Mother: A Play (Mermaid Dramabook) by Marsha Norman
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.01 'Night Mother: I played the resolved to check out daughter in a full production of part of this play for a Meisner-type class project. Need I say more? :-}
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 | Top Girls: Methuen Student Edition (Open University Set Book) by Caryl Churchill
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $4.97 Top Girls - another partial production for a studio class. I was Joyce, I saw a few things from my siblings' perspective for awhile...
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 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
Buy new: $9.31 / Used from: $1.00 Caucasian Chalk Circle: being the narrator for this was so memorable, I actually forgot that I did it until I unearthed my script a few months ago. It's a freaky show, just not so much for narrator..
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