

There any parts of your role or the musical that seem particularly Putting on my make-up, and getting into costume and wig in a non-rushed, centered way. I haveĪ cup of tea, check in, have a chat with my dresser Kathleen, who isįantastic, and settle in to enjoy the quiet absorption involved in It, and get to the theatre at a couple of hours before showtime. I run the mundaneĮrrands needed to keep my life and home running, get a nap in if I need Not overloading myself with a lot of appointments. Jayne Houdyshell in The Music Man Julieta CervantesĪ performance day I try to keep my personal schedule on the light side, A recipient of two Drama Desk Awards, two Obies, and the Lily Award, her screen credits also feature Little Women, The Chaperone, Everybody’s Fine, Changing Lanes, Garden State, The Good Fight, Evil, Law & Order: SVU, Elementary, and Blue Bloods.Ĭhecking In With… A Strange Loop Star James Jackson, Jr. Houdyshell's other Broadway credits include King Lear, Fish in the Dark, Dead Accounts, Romeo and Juliet, The Importance of Being Earnest, Bye Bye Birdie, and Wicked, while audiences Off-Broadway have enjoyed her work in The New Century, The Pain and the Itch, Well, The Language Archive, Relevance, The Receptionist, and Much Ado About Nothing. The Kansas native was also Tony-nominated for her performances in the aforementioned Follies A Doll's House, Part 2 and Well, which marked her Broadway debut and also earned her a Theatre World Award.
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Whether she's making TV watchers laugh in the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building, thrillingly belting out "Broadway Baby" in the 2011 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, or sharing the stage with co-stars Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in the current revival of Music Man, Houdyshell is never more than, and never less than, completely human, a fitting description of an actor who won her Tony Award for her performance as Deirdre in Stephen Karam's The Humans, a role she would subsequently preserve on screen.


This week Playbill catches up with Tony winner Jane Houdyshell, currently playing Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn in the hit revival of Meredith Willson's Tony-winning The Music Man, which continues at the Winter Garden Theatre through January 1, 2023.
