Jan 30, 2020
Are you a Beth or a Marmee? Fresh off playing Hannah in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, Anne and Damian dig into the March women with theatre stalwart, Jayne Houdyshell. You Might Know Her From: Little Women, Maid in Manhattan, The Bounty Hunter, Garden State, and the Broadway productions of The Humans, Well, King Lear, and A Doll’s House Part 2. Jayne's film career is taking off, but we cover her thirty years in regional theatre before winning a Tony Award at 62! Plus, the joys of Louisa May Alcott, recreating her role in the movie version of The Humans (hi, Amy Schumer and Beanie Feldstein!), the sexual energy of John Stamos and Gina Gershon in Bye Bye Birdie, and why strangers would chase her around Manhattan saying, "Fuck you, Nora." Shit, we loved this Kansan so much. Git into it.
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Discussed this week:
Anne was trying to think of the nasty nickname for motorcycles but couldn’t get there. Isn’t “ambulance ____” but ER docs apparently call them “donor cycles”
Child’s Play 3 with Christine Elise aka Emily Valentine in 90210, BH90210christ
Anne was thinking of Elise Neal in Scream 2
Damian and Anne in a sidecar
Mr. Lee’s rugelach = Lee Lee’s Rugelach By A Brother
Jayne’s journey from regional->Broadway
Jayne in Music Man with Sutton Foster & Hugh Jackman
Jake Gyllenhaal mildly mispronouncing Jayne’s last name on Tony night
Jayne is Hannah in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019)
Other Little Women adaptations: Jayne loves the Katherine Hepburn version (1933); June Allyson (1949); Winona Ryder (1994); PBS’s version with Maya Hawke (2018)
NYC’s Zipper Factory (2001-2009)
Lisa Kron’s Well directed by Leigh Silverman
The Humans (Stephen Karam) on Broadway; The Humans is a movie with Beanie Feldstein, Amy Schumer, and Jayne!
actor/director/friend Joe Mantello
Jayne replaced Linda Lavin in the 2011 Follies Broadway revival (suggested by Bernadette Peters) and got to sing “Broadway Baby”
Maid in Manhattan from fancy trailer to honeywagon
Gloucester opposite Glenda Jackson’s King Lear
Jayne loved her in Marat/Sade
Bye Bye Birdie revival on Broadway in 2009
Katrina Lenk in Company revival (Indecent, The Band’s Visi)
Katrina performing “Omar Sharif’ from The Band’s Visit
Famous Kansans: Lois Smith, Annette Bening, Jack Willis, Shirley Knight,
On growing up in Kansas: “My whole concept of god was the horizon.”
Craft services better on Little Women than on Garden State
Lucky Stiff musical