This edition: Jennifer Holliday
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Original tape date: October 14, 2016.
First aired: November 18, 2016.
Actress Jennifer Holliday talks about her return to Broadway, playing in the Tony Award-winning revival of ”The Color Purple.” Holliday also reminisces about appearing in the original production of ”Dreamgirls” directed by her mentor Michael Bennett, beginning when she was 19 years-old. She won the Best Actress Tony Award for ”Dreamgirls” and became a star, but as she explains to us, the undertow from that heady experience led to years of struggle with depression and obesity. Eventually Holliday overcame those problems and dropping over 150 pounds (a weight loss she has sustained for more than 20 years), and she now continues her remarkable career, co-starring in ”The Color Purple” as the lithe and sexy "Shug Avery."
Guest List
Jennifer Holliday Actress, “The Color Purple”
- Isaac Butler and The Angels of "Angels in America"
- Saturday, April 21 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, April 22 - 7:00am
- Monday, April 23 - 7:30am, 1:30pm
- "Frozen" composer-lyricists Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez; The Broadway League president Charlotte St. Martin
- Monday, April 23 - 8:00pm
- Saturday, April 28 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, April 29 - 7:00am
- Monday, April 30 - 7:30am, 1:30pm
- tba
- Monday, April 30 - 8:00pm
- Saturday, May 5 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, May 6 - 7:00am
- Monday, May 7 - 7:30am, 1:30pm
- Isaac Butler and The Angels of "Angels in America"
- Monday, April 16 - 8:00pm
- "Harry Clarke"
- Monday, April 9 - 8:00pm
- Saturday, April 14 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, April 15 - 7:00am
- Monday, April 16 - 7:30am, 1:30pm
- "The 24 Hour Plays" and Theater Critics
- Monday, April 2 - 8:00pm
- Saturday, April 7 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, April 8 - 7:00am
- Monday, April 9 - 7:30am, 1:30pm
- Estelle Parsons and Patricia Bosworth
- Monday, March 26 - 8:00pm
- Saturday, March 31 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, April 1 - 7:00am
- Monday, April 2 - 7:30am, 1:30pm
- "Good for Otto"
- Saturday, March 24 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, March 25 - 7:00am
- Monday, March 26 - 7:30am, 1:30pm
