Oct 21, 2021
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood because we are joined by Tony-winner Celia Keenan-Bolger. You Might Know Her From Diane and Broadway productions of To Kill a Mockingbird, The Glass Menagerie, Peter and the Starcatcher, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Celia opened up to us about the complicated feelings around rejoining the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird post-COVID lockdown and the murder of George Floyd. We also dug into her performance in one of our favorite movies of the last few years, Diane, how it feels to be an adult who continues to make a career playing younger folk, and whether she really originated the Toaster in the Brave Little Toaster musical. Celia was a total dreamboat.
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Real World LA getting reunion treatment a la Real World Homecoming:New York
Tami Roman got an abortion and got her jaw wired shut
Tami and Beth #1 are both lifetime reality stars
Beth #2 who replaced David wore this iconic lesbian shirt ”I’m not gay, but my girflriend is”
Dominic is an investment banker, Aaron works for Disney or some shit
Justin Bieber has a new music video “Ghost” starring Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton has a book of clown paintings called Clown Paintings
Starred opposite former YMKHF guest, Mary Kay Place (Ep 22) in the Kent Jones film, Diane
Diane had a bevy of women in it: Deirdre O’Connell, former YMKFH guest, Joyce Van Patten (Ep 36), Phyllis Somerville, Andrea Martin, and Estelle Parsons
Won a Tony for playing Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway opposite Jeff Daniels
We lost the great Phyllis Somerville in 2020
Death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor led to a reckoning with racism on Broadway: “We See You White American Theatre”
Aug 2019 there was a motorcycle backfire in TImes Square people thought was a mass shooting so they fled into the theater for safety
Celia has played a child multiple times: Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Glass Menagerie.
Leslye Headland’s play Bachelorette
Celia’s podcast, Sunday Pancakes has an intimate conversation with Kelli O’Hara. Celia originated the role of Clara in The Light in the Piazza, but the role was ultimately recast with O’Hara (who was originally in the ensemble) when it moved to Broadway.
Kelli O’Hara on Sunday Pancakes
Siblings are both in the biz and are openly queer (Maggie KB and Andrew KB)
Bachelorette the play was turned into a movie starring Kirsten Dunst and Lizzy Caplan
Adult audition song: “I Think I May Want to Remember Today” Richard Maltby and David Shire
Kid audition song: “When We Grow Up” Free to Be You and Me
OG Law and Order and SVU. She played sister of former guest, Samantha Mathis Ep 1, and acted opposite Ann Curry, who was excellent
Top 3 performances of all time: Helen McRory in Uncle Vanya at BAM; Fun Home (off or on Broadway), Circle Mirror Transformation (Tracee Chimo, Heidi Shreck, Reed Birney)
Played Eponine in 2005 Les Miserables
“On My Own” versions: 1) Lea Michelle 2) Samantha Barks 3) Katie Holmes
Lea Michelle did Ragtime with Celia’s brother Andrew
Deirde O’Connell is the woman we would all drop everything to see (in fact she’s in Dana H. on Broadway right now go see her!)
The Gilded Age stars tons of theatre folk: Christine Baranski, Carrie Coon, Audra McDonald, Cynthia Nixon, Kelli O’Hara, Donna Murphy, Katie Finneran
Celia was NOT in The Brave Little Toaster musical reading
Connecting this week’s guest to next week’s guest:
Celia Keenan-Bolger Was in Diane with Joyce Van Patten
Who was in the original Broadway production of Brighton Beach Memoirs with Mandy Ingber
Who was in Teen Witch with Zelda Rubinstein
Who was in Poltergeist with NEXT. WEEK'S. GUEST.
We all hate Jerry Van Dyke but we do like Craig T Nelson
Correction: Coach was on ABC not NBC
Bunnicula is IMPORTANT (sadly written by a married couple: Deborah and James Howe)
Rikki Tikki Tavi or Tikk Tikki Tembo
Serendipity: children’s book on the Loch Ness Monster
WTF is the Apple Cart Kids??
Anne recommends listening to EB WHite read you Charlotte’s Web