Nobody can say Sierra Boggess isn’t up for a challenge. After making her Broadway debut encased in fins and rolling footwear as Ariel in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, the golden-voiced actress headed to London to give an Olivier Award-nominated performance as unlucky-in-love Christine Daae in Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much-scrutinized (and later rejiggered) sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. Now Boggess is taking on a role that won Audra McDonald a Tony 15 years ago, soprano Sharon Graham in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway revival of Terrence McNally’s Master Class. Just before opening night, the vivacious actress chatted with Broadway.com about her NYC return opposite Tyne Daly.
Welcome back to New York after a jam-packed couple of years.
It’s been a whirlwind, and I love that I’m doing something so different than the last thing I did on Broadway. I certainly didn’t want to be pigeonholed as a Disney princess for the rest of my life [after The Little Mermaid]. You can’t get any more different than going from a 16-year-old mermaid to playing a mother of a 10-year-old son in the sequel of Phantom—and now a ...
Sunday, July 10, 2011
What Up, Sierra Boggess? The Master Class Star on Charting Her Course from Mermaid to the Phantom Sequel
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