She's just 19 years old, but Jennifer Damiano has already racked up quite a Broadway resume. She made her debut in the original cast of Spring Awakening, then scored a 2009 Tony nomination as Natalie, a sensitive teen burdened by her mother’s mental illness in Next to Normal. Now she’s ditched her dark hair for the auburn locks of the ultimate girl next door, Mary Jane Watson, in Broadway’s most talked about musical event, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark. Damiano recently took a break from the show’s busy preview period (“I’m in the eye of the storm right now, but I’m loving it,” she says) to discuss the revolutionary project, the heated media attention surrounding the show and the fun of falling for a famed superhero.
Mary Jane is an iconic character. What’s your take on her?
She’s pretty sexy in the comic books and pretty sweet in the movies, so I tried to find something in between—a more contemporary teenage girl, the kind of girl that didn’t really exist when the comics [first began]. In doing so, she became more like me. Girls these days respond to things ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Jennifer Damiano Sheds Light on the Buzzed-About World of Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark
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