NEW YORK--Donna Murphy remembers coming this winter through a blog reports that she was returning to Broadway in a musical Holocaust.
That prompted a moment of panic. Description of the show is not exactly sound like something that would cause a rush on tickets. Who would steal see genocide?
"Not that it was not beautiful pieces on the Holocaust and I do not mean to be disrespectful at all, but"a musical Holocaust "?". It sounds just as "Springtime for Hitler", "she said, referring to the satirical song of"The producers Mel Brooks.""
Don't worry fans of Murphy. His new show, "The people in the picture", depicts the Jews of Poland on the eve of the second world war, but it is not exactly a musical Holocaust. It includes Murphy as a bold troop of Yiddish theatre actress and her character decades later as an ailing 79-year-old grandmother in the 1970s, New York.
"It's got me completely by my heart and my soul," she said in his dressing room at the Roundabout Theatre Company Studio 54 theatre. The new show has a book and lyrics of novelist "Beaches" Iris Rainer Dart and "works on several levels." Musical opened Thursday to mixed, but most critics were once more struck by Murphy, hailed as a chameleon.
DART, 67, has been a fan of Murphy since 2000, when she took the actress in a performance of "wonderful town" and was delighted when she joined its music. "I was hoping for Donna Murphy to play this part since the idea," said Dart. "This woman can do everything." She has such a range. ?
Four years Murphy was the last on Broadway and each time gets more difficult that it establishes a balance between work and family. His daughter, Darmia, is now 6 and first performance preview of the musical has happened to fall on his birthday.
"This is very different to a Broadway show, when you have a little at home who said,"Mama, don't go not tonight,"or ' why don't do you the first part and come home?' or"just do a today "."," "she said." "" There is a great compromise, but that is what I do. ?
Murphy, an agile beauty which is 52 but that could easily pass for 32, has been branching recently in other mediums. She completed two films - "Dark Horse" by Todd Solondz with Christopher Walken Selma Blair and "Heights" with Vera Farmiga and Norbert Leo Butz, who made his debut at the Festival du Film of Tribeca.
She has also recently plunged in and out of the TV ("ugly Betty," "Law & Order" and "Trust in me") work of dubbing done (animation film "tangled") and live-action films such as "the nanny diaries."
"For me, my heart and my childhood dream, has always been to theater." And the experiences that I had with creativity the most significant were in theatre - those who have taught me the most, which gave me the opportunity to challenge myself the most, "she said."
"But, that being said, I cannot allow to work only in the theatre. Often the things that I'm more attracted by the practice are not necessarily big Broadway, commercial performances. I have had a lot of heartbreaking conversations where I say no to a beautiful game. ?
Murphy received the first of his two Tony Stephen Sondheim and "Passion of James Lapine" and received his second: Anna in the resumption of 1996 "the King and I." She also won the nomination of Tony for "wonderful town" and "LoveMusik of 2007".
She is married to actor and singer Shawn Elliott since 1990 and the stepmother of two girls Elliott, playing a grandmother in "The people in image" has been easy. In 2005, the couple added to their family by the adoption of a daughter of Guatemala, Darmia Hope. (It is also a fish for pets, named bubbles Julio Murphy Elliot).
"Little one needs me and I need it, too, Murphy says." "" I came to be a mother to child relatively late in my life and many of which would see how my work asked of me and what I wanted to give to it. ?
She remembers having report to the filming of "world trade center" only two days after Darmia has been reduced. "All I can say is I am happy that I play a character who had to cry a lot," she said.
With a young child means Murphy, known for its fierce research skills, may not always do the same duties that she used to. "You need to modify your approach." I am always cram, "she said."
In preparation for this new role, Murphy read met with Holocaust survivors, watched the images of the artists of the time, studied Yiddish Theatre and how the voice changes over time and even looked at the way with heart disease could affect his character.
"It is not as if I do it because I believe that I have." I like it. "I am a student constantly", she said. "In this program, my God, I could spend the rest of my life to research on many elements of it."
DART, the playwright, called Murphy "the hardest working actress I ever met" and said it "is not a lazy bone in her body." She joked that when the Director, Leonard Foglia, was first met with Murphy, the actress already knew more on the Yiddish Theatre that he.
"Is someone who did his homework and not would not set foot on this scene without the kind of work she has done for everything."
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