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Hangin' with the Three Women of THREE TALL WOMEN on Opening Night!
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Nov 3, 2022
Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. Three Tall Women starring two-time Academy Award-winner Glenda Jackson, Tony Award winner, three-time Emmy Award winner, and 2018 Academy Award nominee Laurie Metcalf, and Tony Award nominee Alison Pill opened just last night on Broadway!
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Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World
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Two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson has returned to Broadway opposite Lori Metcalf and Allison Pill in director Joe Mantello's new production of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Three Tall Women
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And we caught up with the company just minutes after the opening night curtain rang down
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Welcome back to Broadway. How does it feel this time? Well, I was just saying, I mean, I've been amazed actually and really grateful at the way people have said to me
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welcome back and it's nice to see you again because I didn't think anybody
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remember but you know it's really nice How did this play come about
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for you and did you know the play? Well it came about because Scott Rudin sent it
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to me and said that I want to do it and you know do like to do it and I didn't, I'm ashamed to say no
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this play at all and I read it and the first reading I thought
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God you know this is an incredibly static play but then you read it again you think
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it's anything but static but Where all the action is is actually in your brain and in your heart
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And that's what makes it so interesting. And also a very rare experience as an actress is working with other actresses
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Usually, you know, there's only one woman's part in it. And if you've got it, there aren't any other actresses
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So to be able to work with actresses of this caliber in a play like this, I mean, you'd be a fool to turn it down
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Was it challenging for you to unlock? Like, talk about the rehearsal room with all of you
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No, the rehearsal room was, it was tough. It was a tough four-week rehearsal
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I didn't expect it to be, but on the page, it's not apparent at all to me. I don't think to any of us
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And so with Joe's help, we had to crack it bit by bit and find out just how realistic the play could be and how unrealistic it could
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Yeah it a rush to be up on that stage I love that stage anyway because of Doll House Part 2 So that got a it a favorite of mine But and it such an intimate space And again they taken out a couple of rows
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and were pushed into the house even more. So it feels really connected to the audience
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And I just, it's, it's, it's a wonderful feeling when you're out there and you can hear a pin drop, you know
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and there are a lot of moments in this play like that. Working with the two other women
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What is that like? It's incredibly exciting, and both of them are very funny
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I mean, I think that's as intimidating and as, you know, serious as they might appear
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They're also very funny, and there's a lot of first lines of songs from musicals going on
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Is there? Yes. Being in the room with Glenda Jackson, like that first day in the rehearsal room with a table read, what were you thinking
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I mean, I was just thinking, you know, listening to this woman and thinking what joy she takes in the language, you know, and how exciting that was
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And just being off a book already, being such a pro, all of it
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It was a lot to take in, but it was exciting. Is it a challenging play to direct
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Oh, absolutely. I mean, I think it's a challenging play to direct
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It's a challenging play to act. It's a challenging play to design
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I mean, but challenging in the very, very, very best way. To unlock this play, everybody has to be at the very, very top of their game
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because that's the challenge that he throws down to you. Let's talk about your cast
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I mean, three incredible women. Yes, absolutely, yeah. And all incredibly different, but formidable presences
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Presences? Yeah
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