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PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Andrea Martin
By Ernio Hernandez
20 May 2008
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Andrea Martin
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Andrea Martin — the Tony Award-nominated star of the Broadway musical Young Frankenstein — 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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Andrea Louise Martin
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Hometown:
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Portland, Maine
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Zodiac sign:
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Capricorn (sun), Sagittarius (rising), Scorpio (moon)
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First Broadway show ever saw:
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Skyscraper, with Julie Harris
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If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be?
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Sweet Charity with Gwen Verdon
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Current show you have been recommending to friends:
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November and Spring Awakening
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Favorite show tune:
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"Memory," from Cats
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Most played song on your iPod:
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Anything from album, "Konvicted," by Akon...I play it when I'm working out.
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One CD you couldn't live without:
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Barbara Hendricks singing Mozart Sacred Arias
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Last book you read:
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"The Portrait of a Lady," by Henry James
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Must-see TV show:
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Anything on CNN, I'm a news junkie
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Last good movie you saw:
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"Once"
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Favorite board game:
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Monopoly
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Performer you would drop everything to go see:
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Julie Walters
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Pop culture guilty pleasure:
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"American Idol"
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First stage kiss:
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As Liat in South Pacific, at the Kennebunkport Playhouse...I was 13...my father still hasn't gotten over it. He's 90 now.
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Favorite post-show meal:
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Two pieces of my homemade bread topped with almond butter and raw honey.
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How you got your Equity card:
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The touring company of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown in 1970.
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Worst flubbed line/missed cue/onstage mishap:
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On a Tony telecast when I was singing "The Farmer and the Cowman" with the cast of Oklahoma!...came in too early with the music...devastating!
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Cats or dogs?
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Don't have either now..but love them both.
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Favorite cereal:
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Oatmeal
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Who would play you in the movie?
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Sarah Bernhardt
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Worst job you ever had:
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Dressed as a chicken and handing out flyers in Times Square...luckily that lasted for a week. Then I was cast as a chicken on "Captain Kangaroo." The first job I had in NY.
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TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed:
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"SCTV"
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