(From the Best of State of the Arts originally broadcast December 5, 2011) Showtime
television star, film star and singer Thea Gill (Queer as Folk) and Broadway Tony Award winner Sammy Williams
(A Chorus Line) are interviewed. The Live Arts Calendar features The Slap and Tickle Holiday Show at
Hollywood’s Lillian Theatre; and Kritzerland Records’ A Broadway/Hollywood Christmas at the Gardenia
Restaurant in Hollywood. Gill discusses her debut in Body and Soul at Sterling’s Upstairs at Vitello’s in
Studio City, CA. Williams tells of his beginnings in New York and on the Broadway stage. Embarrassing on
stage moments are divulged.
