The self-proclaimed Downtown Diva is here! You Might Know Her From Sex and the City, Addams Family Values and the Broadway productions of Gypsy, The Women, You Can’t Take It With You, and her frequent work with playwright Charles Busch. She is now starring in Tootsie, the Broadway musical. Julie served us effervescent lemonade and told us about making the move from downtown theatre to the Broadway stage, having Bitsy von Muffling written for her, and managing her friendship with Charles off stage.
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Discussed this week
All That Chat - Anne’s fave Broadway message board
Maggie Smith onstage in London: A German Life
Ben Brantley calling Julie “wonderfully lethargic”
Barbara Hershey through the years
Lola Pashalinski & Charles Ludlam’s Theatre of the Ridiculous
Pakistani playwright, performance artist: Bina Sharif
Playwright, Charles Busch
Dottie Gets Spanked (dir: Todd Haynes)
Sex and the City’s Bitsy von Muffling
Christine Baranski, Harriet Harris
Peter MacNicol in Ghostbusters 2
Network heads: Brandon Tartikoff, Les Moonves, Jeff Sagansky
Sex and the City: Michael Patrick King / Cindy Chupack
Sitcom with Harvey Fierstein: Those Two
Gwen Verdon’s IBDB
Amy Sherman Palladino dialogue
Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters, directed by Sam Mendes (2003)
Gypsy overture (2003 Broadway revival. The greatest ever written)
