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february 26, 2018
Ziegfeld Ballroom
New York City
32018 gala
a Legendary Night
h o n o r i n g T o n y, O s c a r a n d E m m y Awa r d W i n n e r
jessica la n G e
S p e c i a l C o n c e r t P e r f o r m a n c e b y T o n y a n d E m m y Awa r d W i n n e r
K risti n C he n o weth
Congratulations to everyone artistic director/ceo
Todd Haimes
Lisa and Gregg Rechler
Janet and Marvin Rosen
director
Scott Ellis
executive producer
Sydney Beers
at Roundabout! Gala Chairs
Karen McKeel Calby
Diane and Tom Tuft
Auction Chair
Choreographer
Warren Carlyle
Roundabout thanks all of the
artists and technicians who have
Marcia Dunn MD Sylvia Golden musical director generously donated their time to
and Jonathan Sobel Mary-Mitchell Campbell tonight’s event and helped make
AJA Charitable Fund Stephanie and Ron Kramer
Auction Committee
Wendy Barker Scenic Design
this evening possible. We wish
Johannes (Johs) Worsoe, to express our gratitude to the
Carmen Grossman David Rockwell
Mitsubishi Ufj Financial Group Performer’s Unions: Actors’ Equity
Randi Leeds Lighting Design Association, American Guild of
Vice Chairs
Donald Holder Musical Artists, American Guild
Bank of America of Variety Artists, and SAG-
Sound Design
Bloomberg Philanthropies Education Paddle Raise AFTRA through Theatre Authority,
Shannon Slaton
Roxanne and Scott Bok Sponsor Inc. for their cooperation in
Production
Michael T. Cohen, permitting the artists to appear
Management & Design
Colliers International LLC on this program.
Private Artist Reception for Ms. Chenoweth
Susan and Ed Forst Sponsor Matt Berman Gala proceeds benefit
Sylvia Golden Roundabout Theatre Company’s
Kristin Chenoweth’s P r o d u c t i o n S ta g e
Kiendl and John Gordon many initiatives including our
Manager
performance is made Education Programs.
Jeanne and Tom Hagerty Jeffrey Rodriguez
possible in part by:
Maureen A. Hayes Taylor W. Lawrence Technical director
Tom and Kitty Patterson Rob Mansmann
Kempner
4 1G
ood evening and welcome to Awards. To put it simply, Jessica Lange is
Roundabout’s 2018 Gala at the nothing less than an acting legend and I
new Ziegfeld Ballroom. Tonight, am thrilled to honor her this evening.
we celebrate the extraordinary
Additionally, I want to thank my friend
career of Jessica Lange.
Kristin Chenoweth who made time in her
To say I have been a longtime fan of very busy schedule to be with us tonight.
Jessica would be a huge understatement. I know she has a spectacular concert
I’ve admired her work for decades across lined up for all of us to enjoy.
Karen McKeel Calby Marcia Dunn & Jonathan Sobel Stephanie & Ron Kramer Johannes Worsoe
all mediums. From her film debut in King
There are also many other people I wish
Kong to her stunning turns in films like
to thank tonight including our Board of
Tootsie, The Music Box, Sweet Dreams,
Directors, Leadership Council, donors,
Frances and Blue Sky, she never fails from a variety of backstage career paths ranging from makeup
subscribers, friends and theatre-goers
to captivate her audience. It’s not just f r o m the gala chairs to carpentry to electrics. The most exciting part of this new
whose support allows us to do our
films either. She is equally magnificent program is that upon completion, the fellows will emerge with
work. In particular, I want to thank our
W
on the small screen, giving masterful elcome to Roundabout’s 2018 Gala, A marketable skills in a sector where job growth is estimated to
incredible Gala Co-Chairs: Karen Calby,
performances in Grey Gardens, American Legendary Night, at the new Ziegfeld increase by 4-24% over the next two years, earning salaries
Marcia Dunn and Jon Sobel, Stephanie
Horror Story and, most recently, Feud. Ballroom. We couldn’t be more excited ranging from $25-$55+/hour. Proceeds from tonight’s event
and Ron Kramer, and Johs Worsoe for
Across her illustrious career she has to serve as Co-Chairs as we honor the will directly support future TWDP fellows and all the students
their efforts in making this evening a
garnered two Academy Awards, five incomparable Jessica Lange. Jessica was and teachers impacted by Education at Roundabout’s work in
tremendous success. Their leadership
Golden Globes, three SAG Awards and brilliant in our production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, New York City and beyond.
has been invaluable in allowing us to
three Emmy Awards. And as impressive but we’re sure you already know that. In fact, we hope you
reach our ambitious fundraising goal There are many other members of the Roundabout family that
as those statistics are, I am most dazzled f r o m the ce o / are very aware of all the great work we do on our five stages
for this event to benefit the work we do we want to thank for their incredible generosity in making
by her work on the stage. She was in New York City. What you might not be as familiar with is
A rtistic D irect o r on our stages and our programs in the tonight a success. Gala Vice Chairs – Bank of America,
magnificent on Broadway in both of our work off the stages in the community. For over 20 years,
community. Additionally, I must thank Bloomberg Philanthropies, Roxanne and Scott Bok, Michael
Tennessee Williams’s masterpieces A T o dd H aimes Education at Roundabout has been creating industry-leading
American Airlines for sponsoring our T. Cohen, Colliers International NY LLC, Susan and Ed Forst,
Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass initiatives in arts education, enhancing teacher practice and
Private Artist Reception before tonight’s Sylvia Golden, Kiendl and John Gordon, Jeanne and Tom
Menagerie. So, you can imagine how deepening students’ engagement and critical thinking skills.
Gala as well as Capital One for their Hagerty, Maureen Hayes, Tom and Kitty Patterson Kempner,
thrilled I was when she agreed to play Tonight, we want to draw your attention to our newest success,
generous matching gift towards our Lisa and Gregg Rechler, Janet and Marvin Rosen and Diane
Mary Tyrone in our 50th Anniversary the Theatrical Workforce Development Program.
education programs. Finally, I want to and Tom Tuft – have made all the difference. We also want
season production of Long Day’s
thank the entire Roundabout family of Last year, we announced a partnership with the International to thank our Auction Committee, Chair Sylvia Golden along
Journey Into Night. Critics described
artists, directors, writers, and designers Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) to create a with Wendy Barker, Carmen Grossman, and Randi Leeds.
her performance as both transfixing
who work with us each season. Together, game-changing program for young adults aged 18-24. Additionally, we must thank Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence for helping
and haunting, and she was absolutely
we all thank you for allowing us to Roundabout, through our Theatrical Workforce Development to make possible what we know will be an amazing concert
deserving of the accolades she received
continue our important leadership role in Program (TWDP), provides unprecedented hands-on skills by Kristin Chenoweth. Finally, on behalf of the Board of
for her performance, including the Tony,
New York’s theatrical landscape. training and job placement resources to young people for Directors, we want to thank all of you for your generosity to
Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk
whom college is not an option. Program participants chose Roundabout both this evening and throughout the year.
2 3B O ARD OF DIRE C T O R S AND L EADER S HI P C O U N C I L t h a n k you to o u r
UNDERWRITER TIC K ETS
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CONTRIBUTIONS
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As of February 8, 2018 Ed Bonfield
4 5the jason robards 2018 2009
J essica L ange Bank of America
Awa r d f o r 2017
Frank Langella
Douglas Durst, The Durst
Organization
e xc e ll e n c e Dr. Leonard Tow 2007
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
i n t h e at r e
2016
2 0 1 8 gala Audra McDonald Speaker Christine C. Quinn,
Council of the
A r t i s t co m m i t t e e Tom Tuft
2015
City of New York
2005
As of February 8, 2018 Helen Mirren
Stephen Sondheim
2014
Sebastian Arcelus Jim Dale Jessica Hecht Laura Linney Denis O’Hare Sam Mendes 2004
John Kander
Daniel Aukin Blythe Danner Greg Hildreth John Lithgow Laura Osnes 2012
Rob Marshall Fred Ebb
Becky Ann Baker John DeLuca Jackie Hoffman Alex Lubischer Jim Parsons
2002
2011
Dylan Baker Colin Donnell Jayne Houdyshell Rebecca Luker Sarah Paulson Christopher Plummer
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin Scott Ellis Oscar Isaac Beth Malone Lily Rabe
Kathy Bates Edie Falco Byron Jennings Patrick Marber Phylicia Rashad
Laura Benanti Lindsey Ferrentino Cherry Jones Kathleen Marshall Theresa Rebeck
Wilson Bethel Katie Finneran Tommy Lee Jones Rob Marshall Chita Rivera
T
he Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre Director Todd Haimes’ idea to create a second, Off-
Reed Birney Santino Fontana Stephen Karam Andrea Martin Amy Ryan
is given to individuals and organizations who have Broadway stage that would be a home to new plays by
Corbin Bleu Sutton Foster Anne Kauffman Carolyn McCormick Tony Shalhoub
made an indelible impact on the theatre world. It is today’s greatest writers. He became our distinguished
Stephanie J. Block Boyd Gaines Andy Karl Audra McDonald Michael Shannon
named to honor his lifelong commitment to theatre Artist-in-Residence during the inaugural 1995-96 season
Jamie Brewer Peter Gallagher Jonathan Kent Elizabeth McGovern John Slattery
and his incredible support of Roundabout both on stage at the Laura Pels Theatre with performances in Pinter’s
Matthew Broderick Victor Garber Richard Kind Derek McLane Tom Stoppard
and off. Moonlight and Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney and served as
Rachel Brosnahan Gideon Glick Jane Krakowski Idina Menzel Rebecca Taichman
In 1994, Jason Robards made his Roundabout debut a member of Roundabout’s Board until his death in 2000.
Danny Burstein Whoopi Goldberg Scott Landis Ingrid Michaelson Jennifer Tilly
in the first New York revival of Harold Pinter’s No The award was designed by sculptor Arthur Carter,
Michael Cerveris John Goodman Diane Lane Sienna Miller Alex Timbers
Man’s Land with his dear friend, Christopher Plummer. whose bronze and steel sculptures have been exhibited in
Stockard Channing Carla Gugino Nathan Lane Alfred Molina Kate Walsh
Soon after, he and Chris joined Roundabout’s Board New York, Paris and around the globe.
Will Chase Adam Gwon Frank Langella Debra Monk John Weidman
of Directors and worked tirelessly to support Artistic
Kristin Chenoweth Jake Gyllenhaal Kenny Leon Patti Murin Vanessa Williams
Chuck Cooper Maggie Gyllenhaal Steven Levenson Liam Neeson Michael Wilson
Gavin Creel Joshua Harmon Judith Light Cynthia Nixon Betsy Wolfe
Alan Cumming Neil Patrick Harris Kelli O’Hara Michael Zegen
6 77FROM relentless pursuit of truth. It is that which makes her, in my
eyes, one of the finest actresses of her, or for that matter, any
generation.
iron will. Roar though he might, Kong didn’t stand a chance.
Nor did the rest of us. There’s a point in the film when Jessica
fixes Jeff Bridges with a piercing stare, then turns away and
Forty-two years ago Jessica Lange sat shivering inside the
hand of a giant monkey, gazing into his eyes and wistfully
whispering: ‘Why don’t you forget about me?’ Not possible.
THEN TO Actors are like ice cream. We come in all flavors. What
might taste delicious to some can be unpalatable to others.
And mass appeal often carries with it the burden of being
sinuously saunters down a long mountainous path in a pair of
tight blue shorts and striped red top that would awaken the
mighty ape in any mortal man and the envy of any woman.
On she goes, doing exemplary work on stage, screen and
television, living her life, loving her men, protecting her
children and pursuing her truth.
NOW somewhat too vanilla and easy to digest. But whatever your
flavor of choice, ultimately it’s going to melt. Not so with Ms.
Lange.
Fortunately she turns back to us time and again to share
her fierce and singular talent with a power that transcends
gender, a range that defies bone structure. A woman, utterly
God made a beautiful woman. But so what. He has
made many. The respect and honor for which she has so
passionately fought and profoundly deserves are hers and
By Her work has been, like it or not, a testament to what should herself, who never cries victim, blames or complains. A hers alone. The Mighty Kong was just the first to fall. Then
and now, Jessica gets the last roar.
be an actor’s principle intention; baring the soul, making you woman who does not allow herself to be pushed around by
F r a n k L a n g e ll a care, forcing you to see yourself in them. Work that demands any man, unless of course she wants him to. And age has
conferred upon her that continued sense of rightful purpose. Jessica Lange and Frank Langella. Photo by Mike Coppola.
unstinting bravery.
A Tribute to This Year’s Honoree Just watch her latest triumph as Joan Crawford in Feud.
And she has had, as well, the bravery to resist every actor’s
from Last Year’s Recipient Watch her give exquisite dimension to that tired old cliché of
worst enemy; the desire to be popular, to burn a hole in
the red carpet, hand on hip, peering vacuously over one the bitch goddess clawing her way to the top and inevitably
shoulder, franchising your brand. Being made in Minnesota fading to black. It is a meticulously drawn portrait packed
I
most likely has something to do with her perseverance along to overflowing with nuance, intelligence, naked fear and
t is indefinable and it’s unmistakable. An elusive quality that
the rocky road that is every actor’s flavor. mature sensuality. Performed with a courage there inside
commands your attention and prevents your turning away. A
her since the first day she stepped in front of the camera,
magical something that simultaneously attracts and unnerves In her less than auspicious film debut, King Kong, she
breathtaking, young and nubile. Maybe there’s something
the viewer, burning with a force only Mother Nature could gamely fought off the advances of that big bully, sexual
special in the waters of Minnesota because Jessica makes
have engendered. And Mother gifted Jessica Lange with that harassment at its most peculiar, and overcame the burden
you want to drown in them.
force. Out of the midwest she came, an irresistible twister, of instant stardom. Avoiding the assembly line of pretty
unstoppable and inescapable. faces displaying more body and less soul as the years pass, Actor lists are long ones, and the attrition rate can be
she self-retired for three years, deciding best to hone the overwhelming. We live precarious lives. Our careers endure
But for me, that is not the reason I cannot turn away from
skills required for a great actress. And that is what she has by the grace and favor of you, our audience. But personal
watching this peerless actress at work. It is not only the
become. That is the task she nobly and honorably pursues. endurance requires an inner fortitude, a strength of purpose
intelligence or the emotional availability or the physical
and an integrity of soul that is both hard won and painfully
beauty that compels me so much as her profound and But let me assure you my head is not in the clouds. I am fully
earned.
aware of her internal strength, powerful determination and
8 9I think I remember where I was when I first saw Jessica Lange Wingfield in the 2005 revival of Tennessee Williams’ The
perform. It was at a movie theatre in Manhattan or Brooklyn Glass Menagerie rocked me to my core because before all—
in 1979—I lived in Brooklyn—and the film was Bob Fosse’s before all the defeat and jonquils—you got how Amanda’s
brilliant All That Jazz. In it, the then 30-year-old Lange played charm was a weapon she had used to defend her kids—
Angelique, a wise and flirtatious angel of death who enjoys and to defend herself from life’s ability to cheat you of joy,
her ongoing conversation with Joe Gideon, a choreographer if you let it. The brilliance of her recent turn as Mary Tyrone
and director who’s as drawn to death—to Angelique—as he in the 2016 Roundabout revival of Eugene O’Neill’s 1941
is to life. You could see masterpiece, Long Day’s
why. Lange’s Angelique Journey Into Night,
was such a charmer,
and as wise and crafty
the characters she plays changed everything
because Lange didn’t
as her quarry; unlike on screen, on s tage, are make Mary’s loneliness
any other young actress theatrical—that is, she
who would have used not survivors front and avoided what lesser
the part as an excuse performers have done,
By to garner attention, center but survivalis ts which is to play Mary’s
Lange’s focus turned it all pathos as an attention-
H i lt o n Als around—she wanted to getting trick. Instead,
pay attention to you, to learn your darkest secrets, it seems, Lange let us feel Mary’s bones underneath her costuming,
and secret them away in her considerable soul. All That Jazz the marks on her junkie body, by not playing to the audience
was only her second film. Her first, King Kong, had been and literally turning her back on us so we could embrace
a media event, but that didn’t stop Pauline Kael and other her unawares as Mary looked out, out at a horizon no drug
critics from praising the Minnesota-native for her freshness of and no amount of love would ever be able to bring closer,
approach, her determination. I think that’s what one sees in or further away. Mary couldn’t stand our love—she would
her eyes in movies like 1981’s The Postman Always Rings disintegrate if she felt it. So, Lange’s brilliant choreography—to
Twice. Unlike the great femme fatales of the past who played be seen and not seen, all at once—made Mary so alive that
the role, Lange’s Cora doesn’t think with her eyelashes; her she brought our own loneliness to the fore. Even as she kills
brains are mixed in with her body and heart: loneliness has herself, slowly, Mary survives in order to tell the tale of pain
made her rely on herself, on the cunning necessary to survive and isolation and a once perfect love that laps at her soul,
in a world that could care less about your survival. And I just like those baby waves swimming towards the horizon.
think that is what I find so heartbreaking in Lange’s work in Lange’s gift to us is to make words and feelings and thoughts
general: the characters she plays on screen, on stage, are not visible that would otherwise be lost to us, and then she fills that
Jessica Lange in Roundabout
Theatre Company’s Long Day’s survivors front and center but survivalists—women who struggle darkness and light with that which only a great, full hearted
Journey Into Night in 2016. with the notion, let alone reality, of being. Her Amanda performer can give, which is to say love.
Photo by Joan Marcus.
10 11flamenco gypsies and J L : No. But through these guys, I met this modern dancer J L : Not even that representative. He would break down
followed them around who danced with [Merce] Cunningham’s company, Ellen movement into a triple design. So if you turn, the body
the fair circuit. Klein. I wasn’t a dancer, but she had this underground doesn’t just turn, but turns on three planes. After working on
theatre company, and did these weird performances—this that over and over again, then he would create some story
HA : What were you
was 1970, you could do anything. She introduced us to about it. Like how a woman would to turn to look at her
living on?
some mimes, and I really liked that. So I found that that great lover. It was all very French!
Above: Jessica Lange in Feud in 2017. J L : Nothing. Except old mime, Étienne Decroux, was still teaching in Paris. So I
Right: Jessica Lange in The Glass Menagerie in 2005.
one of the guys, the moved to Paris.
HA : How long were you studying with him?
Photo by Paul Kolnick.
main filmmaker, had
HA : By yourself? J L : Two or three years, and then I had to come home for
an inheritance that he personal reasons. But I ended up going back to Paris about
graciously let us all live J L : Yeah. a year later. That was the beginning: in a little showcase
on. It wasn’t huge, more theatre, I did my very first play.
HA : What was it about mime that really drew you in?
like a trust, but we didn’t need much in those days. We
H i lt o n Als : You went to school in Minnesota. J L : Well, it wasn’t what we think of when somebody says HA : What was the play?
weren’t flying first class, we were driving an old Land Rover
J e ss i c a L a n g e : I went for one quarter to the from the south of Spain up to Paris and Amsterdam. That’s “mime,” this kind of representative thing. Decroux’s work J L : The White Whore and the Bit Player.
University of Minnesota, where I was an art major. I wanted when I first went through Paris, in May of ‘68. was very abstract, what he called “mime concrete.” It was Do you remember it?
to be a painter. I got through one entire quarter. When I was movement.
about to start my second, the class that I needed to fulfill my
HA : Oh my god. HA : Who wrote that? It’s a great title.
HA : This is related to what we both dislike, which is “Acting”: J L : Tom Eyen. Candy Darling did the original production!
requirements was full. The only other thing that was available J L : This was Paris during the student uprisings. It was showing off as a spectacle, as opposed to simply being. I
was a photography class. So I signed up for that and there thrilling. I’d go out at night and they were burning I worked on it and then I left. I don’t know if we ever
remember in Feud when you go to Bette’s dressing room and
was this wild man who was my teacher. He actually brought barricades and the cobblestones had been torn up. The riot performed it. But I thought, “Well, this is interesting. Acting.”
you’re looking around and your hand just touches the dirt,
some of his friends over to meet me in the class. police and the students were on the streets—and I thought, HA : Because it has words.
and there’s a sad little flower. You just start playing with it.
“Well, this is where I’m going to live.”
HA : Because he loved your work. Knowing Decroux’s work, he taught you to be present to what J L : It has words and this whole other element that I
J L : Well no, because I think he liked me. HA : Where you wanted to put down roots. objects were, no? understood. And as much as I loved it, what was I ever
HA : Oh! Yes, yes. J L : Yeah. But first I tried to go back to Minnesota. It didn’t J L : I think so. He would break down a physical movement, going to do as a mime?
work. I went back again for one quarter, and then the boys then create an emotional story about it. He was so HA : How else were you supporting yourself?
J L : I didn’t have any work at that point. And I wasn’t really all came back from Europe and moved to New York. So I specific—absolutely rigid in his teaching. You would work
all that interested in photography but I sure did love going moved out to New York, too. for maybe a week on a particular movement and you would J L : I lived on absolutely nothing for years. I never paid rent.
in the darkroom with these guys and hanging out. It was do it over and over and over. I lived in the Marais, above a kosher sausage factory, and
fabulous. But then they were all going off to Europe—they
HA : How old were you by then? I was supposed to go down and give them my rent once a
were young documentary filmmakers. And I fell in love with J L : 20. HA : So like, let’s say, picking up a book? month, but they never paid any attention, so I never paid.
one of them. We went off to Europe, we lived in the south of Which worked out well!
HA : Were you performing at all?
Spain, in Andalusia, and they made this documentary on the
12 13HA : It’s interesting, too, because also when you’re living that for him and make some money?” This is how weird life is: Left: Jessica Lange in American
Horror Story; Jessica Lange in
way, it’s teaching you something beautiful about sadness. the next night I came home, and on my door was a note Feud in 2017.
You’re lonely in a way that will never happen to you again. from Antonio saying that he had seen me, I don’t know
where, in the little bar down the street or someplace. And
J L : I remember so clearly one day sitting in the window of
that he would like to have me model for him.
my little apartment and thinking, “I’m so lonely, this is going
to kill me.” And the only way that I can get through this is HA : He asked the barman?
just to live moment to moment.
J L : Paris was very small in those days. He found out where J L : The first audition that I ever went to was for King Kong.
HA : You can almost touch it, right? I remember when I lived I lived and left me a note. Isn’t that crazy? He had a studio
HA : That’s incredible. You hadn’t done any work in New York
in Berlin for six months—I’d never lived anywhere else before. not far from me, on the Rue de Rennes. We would just hang
at all, on the “professional stage.” You did movies and came
And I remember looking at my feet on the cobblestones, being out. He loved to dress you up. That was when Karl Lagerfeld
back.
amazed that I was able to walk from a café to a restaurant. was just beginning, and he would get clothes from Karl and
I’d never felt loneliness before. And it’s a soul cry. then do my makeup. And then we’d go out and dance all J L : I decided to go out for that audition because I thought,
night and walk home at six o’clock in the morning. It was “Why not? It’s a free trip to California,” not taking it too
J L : We talk about it and say, “Oh, I’m lonely.” We trivialize just being young and having fun. seriously. I didn’t expect anything to come of it.
it. But if you’re in the depths of it, it’s like life and death,
right? It’s profound. But I have to say, even with that, I was HA : Yes, and everybody weighs a hundred pounds and HA : Pauline Kael wrote about you so beautifully in that
happier in Paris than— there’s all that energy. Had you taken acting classes at all by movie. She said to behave as naturally as you did in this
then? machine was profound to her as a viewer. I felt the same way,
HA : Than almost anywhere. that there are so few actors where you just want to watch
J L : Yeah. J L : No. When I left Paris again, I signed up for acting them behave. To me, you’ve always exemplified that. You’re
classes because I didn’t know what else to do. It just seemed
HA : When you went back to Paris the second time, was that looking for someone’s imagination toward a part, no?
like a natural progression after the years of mime.
when you modeled for Antonio [Lopez]?
HA : How old were you? J L : Yeah, I think it’s imagination, don’t you?
J L : That had to have been around ‘72, when I met Antonio J L : I was 25. I thought, “OK, I’ll just work as a waitress HA : You had such a solid education on stage before you were
and that whole other world of Paris. He was one of those really on stage. With mime, with scene work, etc.
and I’ll study.” I studied with Herbert Berghof, and then with
people that just step into your life and suddenly—
Warren Robertson. And later with Mira Rostova. And even J L : But I don’t think I was ready for stage when I did [A]
HA : The lights go on. How did you meet? later with Sandra Seacat. Streetcar [Named Desire].
J L : I was living on the Rue de Seine and my sister was HA : What was Mira like? HA : What was that experience like?
visiting. On the flight over she had been reading an article
about this guy who lived in Paris named Antonio who would
J L : Well, she was all about text. More than anything, I J L : I wanted to do that part. It came up and like everything
remember always just sitting. else in my life, I responded without thinking it through. I just
discover young women and have them pose for his sketches.
said yes! I learned so much working with Peter Hall on that
My sister knew I had zero money and she said, “Wouldn’t HA : Were you auditioning?
one the second time around. You know, I hate performances
it be interesting if you could find this guy Antonio and model
14 15where there’s nothing there but it’s all “out here,” you know? Below: Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1992. HA : That’s right. You need that limitlessness of the role.
Photo by Brigitte Lacombe.
Makes me want to scream in the theatre. Right: Sarah Paulson and Jessica Lange in The Glass Menagerie in 2005. When I saw you as Mary Tyrone it was just extraordinary to
Photo by Paul Kolnick. me, because I’ve known and been hurt by women who were
HA : When there’s no interior life.
addicted to something. You learn that you have to stay away,
J L : It’s unlike film: with the camera, it’s a dance. It’s a in a certain way.
seduction. I think the better the film actor, the more they
understand that you let the camera into something very
J L : You have to protect yourself.
private. With the stage you have that same interior life, but HA : Yes, because the drug is giving them license to not
somehow you have to open it to the world. I knew what had empathize. I remember having this conversation with you—
to happen, but I didn’t know how to get there the first time someone counted how many drinks they have during the
I did Streetcar. It was Sir Peter Hall who coaxed me into course of the play.
letting the audience in.
J L : It starts early, right after breakfast.
HA : To help you. And to also be with you, right? Some people HA : Mary is trying to survive herself in a way, right? The way
just can’t do it. It’s different in film because there’s a crew, and
you played it was that she was trying to survive her love—it
your relationship is with the director and it’s so intimate.
producer in London heard me talking at some press event, disappointed her, but she couldn’t get away from it.
J L : I remember when I worked with Kim Stanley it drove and I said I’d like to play Mary Tyrone. So he got the rights J L : So much is disappointment, isn’t it? And also having
her crazy doing film work. She said, “I can’t keep track,” to Long Day’s Journey [Into Night] and we did a production never been addicted, you have to really rely on the
because we’re shooting out of sequence—it’s the antithesis in London several years later. imagination to understand what that means, to really have
of stage performance, where you start at A and get to Z.
HA : You wrote something very beautiful in the introduction to that need. That last speech of hers, when she says, “And
Film for her was the reverse. It was about allowing that thing
one of the published versions. You said that you never felt that then in the spring something happened to me,” and she
to be more interior and less presentational.
you were finished with her. remembers. Oh Christ! That great love. “I met James Tyrone.”
HA : What did you love about playing with her? her against the wall and said, “Get out of my way, old
woman.” And I could see this hit her, because it wasn’t J L : I wish I could do it again. That’s one of those parts, like HA : “I was so happy for a time.”
J L : Everything was out there. She never protected herself in scripted. She said to me later, “Keep doing that. Say that to Blanche: if you didn’t age out of it, you could keep playing J L : Could there be anything more beautiful than that? I
that emotional territory. me every time.” I’d say it and she’d slap me, and it just got Blanche for the rest of your life and never get to the bottom mean, really.
HA : That scene where you push her and she says, “You have rougher and rougher. But working with Kim was exactly the of her. I live part of the year in New Orleans now, and
HA : No. Except your other line when he says, “You have to
done it now little sister.” One of the most demonic things I’ve way I love to work with another actor, where it’s on fire and every time I hear those cathedral bells I think, “Oh this is
dangerous and you don’t know where it’s going. She was forget the past, Mary.” And she says, “Why?”
ever seen. what she was talking about.” I hadn’t lived in New Orleans
J L : When we started doing that, because we’re both very
extraordinary. before I had done Blanche three times. So now when she J L : “How can I? The past is the present. It’s the future, too.
HA : What was the next stage piece for you? describes how, “Those cathedral bells are the only clean We all try to lie out of it, but life won’t let us.”
physical actors—it was rough. She would slap me hard,
thing in the Quarter,” it resonates. That’s discovery, right?
no stage slap. After two or three takes of her slapping me J L : I did Streetcar twice, which seems to be a pattern. I do You could keep discovering Mary Tyrone until the day you
in the face, I grabbed her—I remember this—and threw it once and then again to make sure I can get it all right. A died and never get to the bottom of it.
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In loving memory of our dear friend
and devoted supporter
HARVEY BLAU
The Board of Directors and Staff of
Roundabout
20 21Congratulations to Roundabout and to
Tony, Oscar and Emmy Award winner
Jessica Lange for receiving the
Jason Robards Award for Excellence in
Theatre. The Bok family is proud to
support Roundabout Theatre Company
and is thrilled to be a part of the
Roundabout family. Best wishes for
a successful Gala.
ROXANNE and SCOTT BOK
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24 25Congratulations to Jessica Lange.
Tootsie is one of the most outstanding
movies of any century, and your Oscar
winning performance was marvelous.
You deserve every honor
an actor can receive.
Fondly,
Joan Cohen,
better known as Michael Cohen’s Mother
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Our congratulations to Jessica Lange on
receiving The Jason Robards Award for
Excellence in Theatre!
Cheers to Todd Haimes and everyone
at Roundabout Theatre Company
on a wonderful Gala and
another fabulous season!
Marcia Dunn and Jonathan Sobel
30 31Congratulations to Roundabout Theatre
Company! I am honored to be a
part of the extraordinary and dedicated Roundabout’s mission and creativity
Board of Directors and the talented are a gift to the theatre world.
and energetic team at Roundabout, Congratulations to all.
powerfully led by Todd and Julia.
I look forward to being front row as PATRICIA and BERNARD GOLDSTEIN
Roundabout continues to grow and thrive.
Sylvia Golden
32 33John and Kiendl Gordon
are proud to be a part of the
Roundabout Family!
Congratulations to a fabulous team!!!
34 35Congratulations to honoree
Jessica Lange on receiving the
Jason Robards Award for Excellence in
Theatre, and to Roundabout for
its commitment to education and
enriching the lives of students and
teachers through the arts.
Jim and Josie Kelly
36 37Congratulations
Todd, Julia, Sydney, Steve
and the entire Company for
another fabulous year at
Roundabout Theatre Company.
STEPHANIE and RON KRAMER
38 39Congratulations to Jessica Lange
for her most deserving award!
Looking forward to Kristin Chenoweth’s
amazing performance and happy that I
was able to help bring her to the stage!
Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence
40 41Congratulations to Roundabout Theatre
Company and to Honoree Jessica Lange for
receiving the Jason Robards Award
for Excellence in Theatre. Cheers to
another successful season!
Lisa and Gregg Rechler
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We congratulate tonight’s honoree
Jessica Lange, the hardworking
gala chairs and the entire Roundabout
Community for another fantastic year.
Special recognition to the
outstanding Board Chairman, Tom Tuft.
Fern and Lenard Tessler
46 47We salute Jessica Lange for her
extraordinary talent and her contribution
to the theatre world. Congratulations to tonight’s honoree,
Jessica Lange, and to
We applaud Todd Haimes and the entire Roundabout Theatre Company
Roundabout Team for their commitment on another successful season.
to the artists and the community ensuring
quality theatre is accessible to all.
Tom and Diane Tuft
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New York City
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Congratulations to tonight’s honoree
Jessica Lange, and, with great affection,
a Legendary Night
to my friend Michael Cohen for program menu
all of his work and dedication on WELCOME Creamy Burrata
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India, Oman, and Israel. Come springtime, delve deep bidder and his/her guest will be considered participants arm chairs, a television to display the game, and the following Broadway stars: Audra McDonald, Will
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