| Full given name: |
Elizabeth Stanley |
| Hometown: |
Camp Point, IL (Pop. 1,000) |
| Zodiac sign: |
Sagittarius |
| Audition song: |
“Hound Dog” seems to be a lucky tune for me. |
| Special skills: |
Piano, oboe, tuba, baker, and crafter! |
| First Broadway show ever saw: |
The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? |
To see anything in Broadway’s true Golden Era would be really thrilling… But, I must say I am a big Julie Andrews fan and I would love to have seen her in My Fair Lady (ironically on Broadway in 1956, when the actual Million Dollar Quartet was meeting up at Sun Studios!). |
| Current show you have been recommending to friends: |
Next Fall - a MUST see!! I saw it Off-Broadway and can’t wait for my schedule to open up so I can see it on Broadway again and again! Stunning script, actors, and direction! Not to be missed! |
| Favorite showtune: |
So many, but I do have a special fondness for "Good Morning, Starshine" from Hair, and "Muddy Water" from Big River. Hairspray also gets a lot of playtime on my iPod; it’s just so happy! |
| Most played song on your iPod: |
"I'm on a Roll" by Over the Rhine. Also, all of Levi's (he plays Jerry Lee Lewis) album "Where I Belong" - I LOVE IT. I seriously have played it probably 50 times in the past 48 hours. I told him I feel like a teenage stalker every time I walk by his dressing room. I’m so in awe of him! DOWNLOAD IT! |
| Web obsession: |
Pandora! My uncle introduced me to it a couple years ago. Changed my life! |
| Last book you read: |
Been revisiting the writings of Rumi lately. |
| Must-see TV show: |
"Modern Family" |
| Last good movie you saw: |
I'm reallllllly behind on my movie watching…but I most recently watched "Love Me Tender" to check out Elvis' first appearance on the silver screen. |
| Favorite board game: |
I've enjoyed a reprise of Scrabble in my life again lately. |
| Performer you would drop everything to go see: |
Joni Mitchell |
| Pop culture guilty pleasure: |
I have a weakness for Hello Kitty, she's just so cute. |
| First stage kiss: |
I believe it was in a production of Beauty and the Beast, when I was about 14? |
| Favorite pre-show meal: |
I'm really in love with Chop't and go there nearly every day. I've been eating ½ a salad before the show, and the other half after… also obsessed with their lemonade—the BEST! |
| How you got your Equity card: |
I got my card doing summer stock at Theatre by the Sea in Rhode Island. I played Ariel opposite Matt Cavenaugh in Footloose. In that same contract, I was the swing for Smokey Joe’s Café (I even went on for the BJ track and got to sing "Hound Dog," which is what I sang in my audition for MDQ!!) |
| Worst flubbed line: |
From Xanadu, the line should have been: "...the stage adaptation of the inferior cinematic offering..." But after a two-week hiatus, during the first show back, my mind went blank on this heightened muse-style language, and what I said instead was “... the... inferior... stage... MOVIE......" It felt like a foreign film where suddenly there is a word like "McDonalds" amongst a bunch of Japanese! Many many apologies to Douglas Carter Beane! |
| Worst costume ever: |
I was once handed a garbage bag full of wigs and told to find one that I liked for the show…. I loved that mullet.  |
| Favorite junk food: |
Hard to choose: I love candy, especially chocolate. Hot Tamales are also a secret love. But sometimes I also neeeeeeeeeed to shove nachos in my face! (Don’t be fooled by my "I love salad" for pre-show meal answer!) |
| Who would play you in the movie? |
Hmmmm…maybe the love child of Katherine Heigl and Natalie Maines? |
| Worst job you ever had: |
I once did summer stock at a theatre where there was a mushroom growing in the shower. I secretly enjoyed that this made it feel like an outdoor shower. |
| TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed: |
I played a victim on the first episode of "Fringe" and it was really fun to be on the set as it was all beginning. Also cool because they made a dummy of my upper body so they could remove my eyeball from my head as part of the crime solving! |
| Leading lady role you've been dying to play |
I’ve always wanted to play Evita. |
