Hazelle Goodman and Margo Kidder will join Broadway's Marin Mazzie in The Vagina Monologues Dec. 3 22.
Mazzie made her Broadway debut as Mary Jane Wilkes in Big River. She was nominated for her first Tony Award in 1994 for Passion, followed by a Best Actress nom for Mother in 1998's Ragtime and for Lilli Vanessi/Katharine in 2000's Kiss Me, Kate. Mazzie was nominated for an Olivier Award for reprising her Kate role on the West End.
Kidder is best known for her starring roles as Lois Lane in the Christopher Reeve "Superman" movies. Goodman frequently appears Off-Broadway, including her recent stints in the Public Theater's Cymbeline and the Tupac Shakur bioplay Up Against the Wind. Her film credits include "Hannibal" and Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry." Goodman is currently at work on her one-woman show Hazelle on Edge.
The Vagina Monologues are just that — solo contemplations on a woman's most intimate body part. Ensler interviewed 200 diverse women, including the elderly; African-Americans; and Bosnian rape victims, asking them a myriad of questions from "What do you call your vagina?" to "If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?" The play has been celebrated for its frank approach to its subject. The show is serious, comic, political, revealing and liberating, observers have said.
Ensler first performed The Vagina Monologues at HERE in 1996. Since the play's current Off-Broadway debut, her play Necessary Targets was produced around the world (including Off-Broadway in the winter of 2002). Her latest work, The Good Body, has its eye on Broadway in 2004, Ensler has said. Joe Mantello, who staged Love! Valour! Compassion! on Broadway, is the director of the show. A percentage of ticket sales for The Vagina Monologues goes to the V-Day Initiative, in support of women's issues. Tickets are $55. For further information on the Westside engagement, call (212) 239 6200.
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Moving in to displace Vagina Monologues in early 2003 is Daniel Stern's two-character marriage comedy, Barbra's Wedding, about how Barbra Streisand's wedding impacts her married neighbors on the star's nuptial day. Performances begin Feb. 11, 2003, under the direction of David Warren. No cast has been announced.
– By Christine Ehren
