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PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Kristine Nielsen
By Ernio Hernandez
30 Apr 2008
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Kristine Nielsen
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Kristine Nielsen — who co-stars in the Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses — fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits.
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Full given name:
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Kristine Nielsen
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Hometown:
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Bethesda, MD
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Zodiac sign:
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Gemini
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Audition song/monologue:
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"Zip" from Pal Joey/"Southern Comfort" from Terrence McNally's Whiskey
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Special skills:
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Cooking and eating
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First Broadway show ever saw:
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Actual in NY B'way show was Chicago, but saw Hair at the National in D.C.
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If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be?
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A Streetcar Named Desire, but any of the original Marx Brothers' shows. My dad had the time of his life as a young naval officer experiencing one of their events and I've always been envious.
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Favorite show tune:
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"You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel with "This Nearly Was Mine" from South Pacific a very close second.
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MAC or PC?
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PC
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Most played song on your iPod:
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"Beautiful Day" by U2
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One CD you couldn't live without:
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Any and all Bruce Springsteen
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Last book you read:
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"No Country for Old Men"
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Must-see TV show:
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"In Treatment," but "Damages" will be back!
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Last good movie you saw:
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"There Will Be Blood"
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Favorite board/card game:
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I hate card games and that's a main feature of what I have to do in Les Liaisons! HELP!!!!!!!
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Performer you would drop everything to go see:
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Maggie Smith
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Pop culture guilty pleasure:
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"Project Runway" and/or "The Chelsea Handler Show"
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First stage kiss:
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I'm sure there was an errant shepherd in an early Christmas pageant, but Michael Esper in Crazy Mary last summer left a lasting impression.
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Favorite post-show meal:
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Late-nite popcorn, always at home.
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Worst flubbed line/missed cue/onstage mishap:
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At Northwestern, just grasping all the possibilities and truthfulness of a school production - I played Suzie in Hot L Baltimore and insisted on heavy, realistically packed suitcases for my departure from the hotel. A cab driver was supposed to enter and help scoot me off the stage for a great final exit. Of course, the black box theatre door got locked by mistake, and the young actor playing the cab driver could not make his entrance. So I started to leave, dragging one suitcase off at a time. Then would have to come back on and retrieve another, improvising horrible Lanford Wilson like lines like "O.K. now I'm really going," or "This time I mean it!" or "I don't need this bag"..... (an actor's nightmare in slo-mo)
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Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition?
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I've been a Clipboard character on the original, "Criminal Intent," and "Conviction."
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Cats or dogs?
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Dogs
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Favorite cereal:
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McCann's Irish oatmeal
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Who would play you in the movie?
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I wish Maureen Stapleton was still around......
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Worst job you ever had:
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Information operator on Cape Cod when the lines went out in Boston and all 411 calls were sent to us and everyone who seemed to call was Italian with a very complicated name or Chinese with a frighteningly similar name with subtle tonal differences. |
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