By Andrew Gans
07 Mar 2008
Question: Do you have a favorite moment in the show for Ursula? Is there something that you look forward to each night?
Scott: The whole piece. I haven't missed a show. I love the onstage, and I love offstage when I get to see everybody here and laugh with them. I love my Ariel [Sierra Boggess], my pretty, pretty princess. She is so perfect. I don't think people realize how wonderful she is. She's just so talented and so lovely and so funny offstage, as is everyone in the cast. We've got a really talented cast. I look forward to that everyday, honestly.
Question: How long does it take you to get into costume and makeup? What's that process like?
Scott: Not bad at all. This company is so good about making things functional. I would get here half an hour before half-hour anyway. There's always so much that goes on in the theatre everyday. Even though it's the same show, there are so many variables that you never think about. Right now I start my makeup at half-hour before half-hour, and they're done in 40 minutes with wig and makeup, and then I get suited up at five 'til. My costume has its own little chamber because it can't fit up any stairs. My costume doesn't live in my dressing room. I go down and get dressed right offstage. It's kind of dreamy. I'm going to want to do that in every show now — wear my robe offstage and then drop trou and go on. [Laughs.]
Question: I think the last time we spoke, your son Elijah was just a few months old. How old is he now?
Scott: He'll be four in May.
Question: How has it been combining motherhood and working the show?
Scott: I wish every working mom would have the support that I have. I have space for him to come in the dressing room, and I have a husband that is incredibly involved and loving. Every working mom should have this kind of support. It's been great. I do see why there's not many working moms on Broadway. [Laughs.] It's really difficult — there's so many things I have to think about. Like today, being sick, I want to read him stories, but I have to think, "I have two shows, and I've got to watch my voice." Just little things like that. But kids are so cool, and they're so much smarter and more aware than a lot of people give them credit for. He gets it. He gets that mommy goes to work and pretends, and wants to be with him every other second when she's not at work. We have a really good thing going on in our family, and I'm very appreciative for it.
Scott: I don't look at the artwork, but I'm involved in terms of as much as I can going to see new pieces. Right now it's a little hard because I'm doing two shows. But after the 31st, we have some things for me lined up . . . I have the ideas, and [my husband] Kurt [Deutsch] takes them and makes them into actual reality, or has better ideas and runs everything. Kurt really is brilliant and [has the] incredible ability to be working on many things at once, many projects at the same time. We have a lot of albums coming out this year and a lot of projects that we're involved in.
Question: Do you think you'll record You May Now Worship Me?
Scott: I don't know. I have some ideas for some albums I would like to do, but we'll see what happens. I don't have big dreams in terms of recording. I have dreams for other people. That's why I started the label with Kurt. I'm not interested so much in developing projects for myself. I love writing, and I love writing with Dick Scanlan, but in terms of recording, I like thinking of ideas for other people and all my talented friends. We at Sh-K-Boom like to think of projects and develop things for other people in the community, too. So my stuff actually kind of comes in last. [Laughs.]
[The Little Mermaid plays the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 West 46th Street; tickets are available by calling (212) 307-4747. For more information visit www.disneyonbroadway.com. Presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, tickets for You May Now Worship Me — March 31 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 230 West 49th Street — are available by calling (212) 840-0770, ext. 268 or by visiting www.BroadwayCares.org.]
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Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will lend her voice to an evening to benefit Alveolar Capillary Displaysia (ACD) in April. Entitled Kristin Chenoweth, This One's Personal: A Concert to Stop ACD, the fundraiser will be held April 12 at the Helen Mills Event Space in Manhattan. Show time at the 140-seat venue is 8 PM. The evening is being produced by NiCole Robinson ("The West Wing," "All My Children") and her husband Craig Snyder, who lost their seven-week-old son Lincoln to ACD this past summer. Actress Robinson told me earlier this week, "Kristin Chenoweth is one of my best friends. We worked together on 'The West Wing,' and she has vowed to sing until enough money is raised to pay for the science that will isolate this gene and end ACD so that no other baby has to die in the unspeakable way her little friend Lincoln did. [Robinson and Snyder] have created the 3 Angels Fund for ACD Research, and we will have our first benefit this April 12 with all proceeds going directly to fund science." Helen Mills Event Space is located in Manhattan at 137 West 26th Street. For more information or to purchase tickets to the benefit click here.
Following her sold-out debut performance at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in February, Spring Awakening's Lea Michele will return to the intimate cabaret in April. Michele, who will be part of the all-star Les Misérables in Concert this summer at the Hollywood Bowl, will again offer her cabaret act, Once Upon a Dream, April 7. Feinstein's at Loews Regency is located in Manhattan at 540 Park Avenue at 61st Street. For reservations call (212) 339-4095. Visit feinsteinsatloewsregency.com for more information.
The fourth annual Flopz n' Cutz concert will be presented at Joe's Pub April 6 at 9:30 PM. Produced and directed by Jamie McGonnigal with musical direction by Michael Lavine, the evening will boast the talents of Landon Beard (Altar Boyz), Jennifer Cody (The Pajama Game, Seussical), Max von Essen (Les Miserables, Dance of the Vampires), Liz McCartney (Mamma Mia!, Taboo), Lea Michele (Spring Awakening), Julia Murney (Wicked, Lennon), Anthony Rapp (Rent, The Little Prince), Marty Thomas (Xanadu, Wicked), Wayne Wilcox (Coram Boy, "Rent" film) and Jennifer Hope Wills (Wonderful Town, Woman in White). Flopz n' Cuts 4, according to press notes, aims to "acquaint theatre enthusiasts with shows and songs that, while not quite successful in their original incarnations, still have merits that can be showcased in a concert setting." Joe's Pub is located within the Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street. Tickets, priced at $20, are available by calling (212) 967-7555 or by visiting www.joespub.com.
Broadway singer-actress Melissa Errico will play Joe's Pub April 23 and 24 at 7:30 PM. Errico's new show will celebrate the release of her latest solo recording, "Lullabies and Wildflowers," which is scheduled for an April 29 release on the Velour/Universal Records label. The Tony-nominated actress will be backed by Rob Mathes on piano/guitar, Ben Wittman on drums/percussion, Tim Lefebrve on bass and Berndt Shoenhart on guitar. Cabaretgoers can expect to hear songs by Mike Errico, Chucho Valdez, Judy Collins, the Gershwins, Michel Legrand, Burton Lane, Sammy Cahn, The Beatles and Tom Petty as well as traditional folk songs. Errico is also scheduled to perform on "The Martha Stewart Show" May 9 at 10 AM ET. There is a $30 cover charge and a two-drink minimum; for reservations call (212) 967-7555 or visit www.joespub.com.
Well, that's all for now. Happy diva-watching! E-mail questions or comments to agans@playbill.com.
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