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I've portrayed a wide variety of
characters in my theatrical career, and while I have never been one of those actors who "lives"
a part, I have found that some characters have become a part of me.
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My passion for Bollywood movies has lead to me dressing "Bollywood" for Halloween several times since there are not a lot of other social opportunities for me to wear my sari. I hope to add more Bollywood to my wardrobe in future, but all those beautiful beaded saris are expensive!
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I had been doing impressions of Glinda the Good Witch since I was a kid, so I finally wrote myself an opportunity to play her when I directed Broadway Our Way. Audiences howled with laughter when I entered in full Glinda regalia singing an operatic parody song.
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Photographer Mark
Oristano created a photo exhibit at the Trinity River
Arts Center using well-known local performers to recreate famous
actors and scenes from posters, films, and TV. It seemed logical for me to be Lucille Ball, since I'm known for comic skills.
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As Queen Evianna of Aquatania
in 20,000 Babes Beneath the Sea,
I was dubbed the queen of campy tragedy and described as "channeling
Carol Burnett". All I can say is it's good to be the queen.
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Bettina Barnes in Psycho
Beach Party. Bettina was a B-movie actress, the perfect dim-bulb
bimbo starlet. The animal print pants and shoes somehow found their way into
my closet at home (What a surprise!) |
Doña Carla de Lagrimas in
Tearjerker! I found myself channeling Joan Crawford with a Spanish accent as the embittered
wife of Don Donny and chewed plenty of scenery.
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See if you can follow this
character subtext for the play-within-the-play: Andi as English
music hall male impersonator Alice Nutting dressed as Edwin Drood performing
a dramatization of Charles Dickens' Mystery of Edwin Drood in the musical
Drood! Not only did I get to throw an actor's tantrum onstage every
night, I got to return from the dead! What more could an actor ask
for?
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Many Halloweens ago, fellow
cybergrrrl Cynthia and I dressed as Patsy and Edina. And we were
"Absolutely Fabulous," sweetie-darling! Cynthia
is wearing a dress that she's had since junior high school.
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At my first Xena Warrior Princess/Hercules
Convention, I actually won the costume contest as Callisto, Xena's arch-enemy.
I met up with Deb, an even more notorious faux heroine,
who habitually dresses as Xena. |