About the author:
Kristine Nielsen always gets her laugh. As an actress, she has a unparalleled comedy pedigree, having originated many roles for playwright Christopher Durang, played the original Crazy Mary in A.R. Gurney’s play of the same name, and the original Bootsy in Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die. And with credits like The Iceman Cometh and A Streetcar Named Desire, Nielsen has proven she's just as comfortable with high drama. Now she is lending her impressive chops to a Broadway musical as the wheelchair-bound Storyteller (and number one Andrew Jackson fan!) in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Nielsen, who joined the show after its successful off-Broadway run at the Public Theater, took a moment to let Broadway.com inside the mind of this obsessive, Jackson-groping narrator, and tell us why this rockin' musical is so important for America.
I first came across Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson during its workshop at the Public Theater. I was there doing Christopher Durang’s play Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, and we were all sharing a dressing room. They were this sweet bunch of young actors, saying, “Oh, you don’t have to come, it ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Kristine Nielsen on Getting Bloody on Broadway and Touching Ben Walker?s Butt
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