Jun 27, 2019
We are back after a few weeks of r&r with Tony winner Joanna Gleason. The brilliant actor and singer invited Anne and Damian to the Connecticut farm she shares with her Oscar nominated hubby, Chris Sarandon where we noshed on panzanella salad and on Joanna’s meaty oeuvre. You Might Know Her From Into The Woods, I Love My Wife, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Wedding Planner, Boogie Nights, Friends, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bette, Nick & Nora, The West Wing, and her cabaret show Out of the Eclipse. Joanna opens up about working with Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, loathing LA and finding her own path on the East Coast, and her foray into directing. Happy Pride, chicken tikkas!
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Discussed this week
SATC “Hot Child in the City” (Nick Gilder) is used on Season 3 ep 15, not the Fleet Week ep as Anne erroneously stated. WHOOPS!
NYC Dyke March
Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson getting monuments in NYC
Julius’ Bar
Cara Delevingne & Ashley Benson carrying their sex bench
Nancy Meyers’ kitchens
Chip Zien & Joanna as the Baker & Baker’s Wife
Filmed broadway production of Into the Woods
Joanna’s upcoming 54 below show Out of the Eclipse (July 2, 5, 6)
I Love My Wife (Jim Naughton, Lenny Baker)
Into the Woods (dir: Rob Marshall)
Joanna wins a Tony
Love and War (1992-95) Diane English
Temporarily Yours (1997) w/ Debi Mazar, Seth Green, Michael Patrick King
Oh, Baby (1998-2000) w/ Cynthia Stevenson, Jessica Walter
Bette (2000) w/ Lindsay Lohan, Kevin Dunn
“Metabolically didn’t like California”
The Normal Heart (The Public)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Broadway)
The Royal Family (Ahmanson)
Nick and Nora the famous flop
Arthur Laurents (librettist: West Side Story, Gypsy; screenwriter: Rope, The Way We Were, Turning Point)
Boogie Nights (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) & Crimes & Misdemeanors (1989)
Last Vegas, Poms, Book Club, First Wives Club
Joanna’s posse: Judith Light, Tina Fey, Jessica Walter, Candice Bergen, Stockard Channing, Bette Midler
Joanna’s father, Monty Hall hosted Let’s Make a Deal
Joanna in Password
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg with Stockard Channing