Don’t try to look for a pattern in Jan Maxwell’s Broadway resume. With credits ranging from Dancing at Lughnasa, A Doll’s House and Coram Boy to The Sound of Music and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the actress is always on the lookout for a fresh challenge. In the 2009-2010 season Maxwell appeared in not one, but two Broadway shows (The Royal Family and Lend Me a Tenor) and earned Tony nominations for both, bringing her total number of nominations up to four. Now she’s back on the board in Follies winning raves as Phyllis Rogers Stone, the once-wide-eyed showgirl turned bitter society wife. On a recent two-show day, Broadway.com chatted with Maxwell about tackling the challenging role while looking back on her own theatrical history.
Did you know Follies before you started working on it?
I knew some of the songs, of course, but I didn’t know the show and when my agents said that it was out of town I wasn’t interested. I was doing Wings at the time and I told [co-star] Anne Nathan, who goes back and forth between plays and musicals, “I was offered Phyllis in Follies. Is that ...
Monday, October 3, 2011
Follies Star Jan Maxwell on Surviving on Peanut Butter and Slimming Down for Sondheim
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