“And that audience! Omigod! You know what’s great? The audience is a palpable part of the evening \u2014 which is what you’re always hoping for. As an actor in the theatre, you want the audience to be vitally, dynamically involved \u2014 and they are with this. It’s not realistic. It’s not naturalistic. It’s just pure theatre\u2026. The very first night I thought, ‘Wow! This is like a wall of security \u2014 this audience energy. It’s fabulous.’ Every performance is different. That’s why it might be possible to play it forever, whereas with ordinary plays four months is about as long as I can take it without sorta doubling back on ‘What am I doing here?’ I’m hoping they’ll invite me to do the tour, because I love to tour. That’s the plan in my head. It’s starting in August 2009 in San Francisco. I just would really love to tour with it to see how it is in other cities. I love exploring.”<\/p>\n
“Deanna said to me, ‘Y’know, I’m only leaving because they won’t let me do six a week.’ So I immediately called the producers and my agent and said, ‘What am I, some kind of lamb being led to the slaughter here that I’m expected to do eight when the woman who has been doing it says she can only do six?’ But she’s a very different person than me and probably not quite as strong. I have a 50 percent strain of Swedish peasant blood, not to mention that the other half is Old New England.”<\/p>\n
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