You Might Know Her From Carrie, Split, The Happening, Frantic, Oz, Eight is Enough, Tender Mercies, Wyatt Earp, Eternity, and theatrical productions of CATS, Sunset Boulevard, Gypsy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and 1776. We talk to Tony-winner Betty Buckley about her upcoming residence at Joe's Pub April 24-26 2026. Betty also teased the new Amanda Kramer sci-fi drama By Design, the Annie Get Your Gun rodeo pitch that never came to be, and all the Easter-egg voices she's provided from Tender Mercies to Hair. Betty also gave us all the epic juice from starring in Brian De Palma's Carrie and then going on to originate it in the notorious Broadway musical adaptation. Oh baby, that's just the tip of the iceberg! Go see Betty at Joe's Pub if you're nearby! (Get your tix here)
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Discussed this week
Olga Merediz played a lesbian in Eternity
Asked Ann Harada which EGOT she'd fuck back in 2019 and she played ball
Tristate area: DMV vs Delco
In residence at Joes Pub April 24-26
Worked with Joe Papp a bunch but never got to do Shakespeare
Originated Grizabella in Cats on Broadway
Arthur Laurents & Stephen Sondheim came to see her in Gypsy at Papermill and Sondheim made Laurents deliver the bad news in her dressing room
James Lapine said years later that Betty would've been his Witch in Into the Woods (Sondheim wrote "Stay with Me" for her voice
John Simon and Pat Simon told her she was playing Rose against expectation
Works with psychologist on dark psyched portrayals
Slapping Nancy in the film Carrie
Played Carrie's mom Margaret in Carrie the Musical, directed by Terry Hands
"And Eve Was Weak" from Carrie
Betty at the 1998 Tonys with Rosie O'Donnell, Patti LuPone, and Jennifer Holliday
Triscuit commercial in the '70s
