{"id":521,"date":"2009-05-31T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/05\/quote-of-the-day-amy-morton-edition.html"},"modified":"2009-05-31T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:32:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-amy-morton-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Amy Morton Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/SiMUIiZyJlI\/AAAAAAAAAMg\/VXH9p7w3rx4\/s1600-h\/amy+phylicia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/SiMUIiZyJlI\/AAAAAAAAAMg\/VXH9p7w3rx4\/s400\/amy+phylicia.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342135719897998930\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Morton is back on Broadway as the definitive Barbara Fordham in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">August: Osage County, <\/span><span>the role she originated at Steppenwolf, in NY and in London<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">. <\/span>She was interviewed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/29\/amy-morton-is-yelling-again-in-august-osage-county\/?src=twt&amp;twt=nytimesTheater\">NY Times<\/a> this past week. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Amy on the three Violets:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deanna was much more of a Texas flower, very feminine, very needy on stage, in that way that Violet is. Estelle wasn\u2019t as much. She was a little tougher and a little more blunt. But what\u2019s great is it still really worked. Phylicia and I are still kind of working it out. I got to tell you, when she gets mean, it\u2019s scary. I mean, she lays us low at that dinner table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On different reactions between NY and London audiences:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The end of the second act when I scream at my mother, it was a much quieter reaction. At first we thought, did we shock them? But there was much more of a collective holding of breath and not letting it out. In New York sometimes the end of the second act feels like a hockey game.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morton is back on Broadway as the definitive Barbara Fordham in August: Osage County, the role she originated at Steppenwolf, in NY and in London. She was interviewed by the NY Times this past week. Here are some highlights: Amy on the three Violets: &#8220;Deanna was much more of a Texas flower, very feminine, very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quote of the Day: Amy Morton Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1824,1593],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-amy-morton","tag-august-osage-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}