Wonderful piece and photo shoot! I hope these actors looking for their next great roles will look outside New York. As much as I do love New York, lots of great writing and theater are happening in other parts of the country, too. But what a legendary cohort this New York generation of theater produced. I would like to see a follow-up piece about the theater artists who were lost to AIDS in the 1980s.
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My first trip to NYC was in 1980. I was 11. I was too young to really understand and appreciate all that was going on but I definitely felt the electricity of the city and the creativity all around me. I saw Ms. Parker in "Annie" - it was my first Broadway show. There was so much to see and do and it was a bit scary (but thrilling at the same time). There really is something about living in perilous times that makes for amazing art. These actors all seem so grounded despite their huge success which, I think, is a testament to their working in the theater from an early age. As someone who used to be a theater actor, there is nothing like that special sense of community. Great piece. Now someone please make a documentary of that amazing time in NYC that is, sadly, no more.
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Wonderful piece! Brings back so many great memories.
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What a great place NYC was in that bankrupt period. Artistic creation flourished and we only feared for our physical safety, never the death of the culture. I can remember so vividly visiting a friend at the rehearsals for Barnum which were being held in the basement of the Martinique, a welfare hotel, and watching Glen Close whose Charity Barnum would catapult her to stardom. Actors were neighbors and waiters working to support their art. So much theater, so many creative voices. An impossible time to replicate.
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lovely piece, but surprised Little Shop of Horrors, which began it's run off off broadway in 1982 and went on to become one of the longest running off-broadway shows of all times, was ignored.
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Yes, agreed, and you were wonderful in it and so much more, sir!
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