| Full given name: |
Anika Noni Rose |
| Hometown: | Bloomfield, CT |
| Zodiac sign: | Virgo |
| Audition monologue: | Whatever works for that particular audition. I don't have monologues just sitting, available in my mind's back pocket. I admire people who can do that - who can just whip out "To be or not to be" at a party....I don't want to hear it, but I do admire it. |
| Special skills: | I can speak in different dialects, and I can pick up languages pretty quickly. I can do inventive tongue curls, make my eye look like it's wandering, and play like a child! |
| First Broadway show ever saw: | The Wiz |
| Current show you have been recommending to friends: | Passing Strange and In the Heights |
| Favorite show tune: | "Be a Lion," "Don't Rain on My Parade," "With Every Breath I Take," "Simple Joys," "I Loves You Porgy," "If I Could Feel," "The President is Dead," "Climb Every Mountain," "No Bad News." Ok, the whole original Broadway recording from The Wiz...there are so many songs! |
| MAC or PC? | Mac all day! (But pissed that my Flip Ultra doesn't wish to be compatible. It's '08, people, make it work!!!) |
| Most played song on your iPod: | Jill Scott's "Hate on Me" |
| Last book you read: | Either "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz, or Pete Hamill's "North River," both of which I loved. |
| Last good movie you saw: | "Juno" |
| Favorite board/card game: | Cranium |
| Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Ledisi |
| Pop culture guilty pleasure: | Every now and then I bop down the street (hard!) to "Wake me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! |
| First stage kiss: | I was Muriel in Ah, Wilderness! and had a sweet/very chaste kiss with my leading man. |
| Favorite pre-show meal: | As long as it's good food, I don't care, but lately I've had a hankering for the teriyaki chicken (with coconut rice instead of potatoes) from Ruby Foos. If it's pre-show, my buddy Zach makes sure it comes to the table quick and hot! |
| How you got your Equity card: | I got my Equity card in Robert O'Hara's Insurrection: Holding History at the Geary Theater. Embarrassingly, I got it again for Cat, because after traveling the damn globe for a year, a few things lapsed on me...oops. |
| Worst flubbed line/missed cue/onstage mishap: | Well, in Caroline, or Change I was supposed to sing "..and cicadas in the pecan trees.." However, on this particular day I lent angelic tone to "..and tomatoes in the pecan trees.." By the time I got back to my dressing room at intermission, there were three perfectly ripe tomatoes, on the vine, sitting on my dressing room table. (*see attached evidence)[below] |
| Worst costume ever: | I've been lucky so far...maybe what I wore in Eli's Comin'. |
| Cats or dogs? | Cats. |
| Favorite cereal: | Raisin Nut Bran, although I'm now allergic to nuts, and I think it's been discontinued. |
| Worst job you ever had: | In college, I was a greeter at Bennigans, which lasted about three weeks. I got nice tips, but had to share them and couldn't stand going home smelling like monte cristo. Not cute. |
| What leading lady role have you been dying to play? | I've always wanted to play Cleopatra in either stage or film. I am a great fan of Elizabeth Taylor, and she was beautiful in the film, but she sure didn't grow up near the Nile River. Can you imagine the sunburn? |
