![]() ![]() Once I found the fun of it, I just wanted to keep learning. “I also played a lot of sports growing up, so because I ‘had’ to learn for the show, I got really into it. “I had to juggle in a show in college so I think I learned from doing that,” Pinkham says. Audiences got to hear a brief excerpt of his rendition of “Blue Skies” during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade during a medley performance during which Pinkham also showed off his juggling chops. Pinkham, whose blue eyes and supernatural cheekbones give off a Jude Law-vibe, stars as Jim Hardy, the role originally portrayed by Bing Crosby, a former New York City performer who opens a venue on a farm in Connecticut that will only offer shows on public holidays. “To be quite honest, I think I wanted to sing ‘Blue Skies.’ I was thinking ‘Blue Skies,’ and ‘White Christmas,’ in December, in New York, on Broadway, and that was enough for me.” Very fitting, considering the show, based on the 1942 film of the same name, is all about capturing a nostalgic, cozy Christmas spirit set to the music of Irving Berlin (Berlin won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for that now ubiquitous song, “White Christmas.”) “The music was kind of the selling point for me,” Pinkham says of his decision to appear in the show. That sort of history lives in these walls.”Ī wire hanger rattles against an air vent by the door (“a theater ghost we’re trying to scare off,” Pinkham jokes), vibrating with a tinny, percussiveness that makes it sound almost like Pinkham and I are talking by a crackling fireplace. I’d love to find a way to do it at some point in my career.“There’s just something about doing a show and being in this building, this creaky old building with the company every day, in a dressing room that has housed, among many others, Donna Murphy, Barbara Cook…” Pinkham says, “I was told recently, with some sadness, Carrie Fisher was in here for her show. Recently I saw his “Nozze di Figaro,” and had this epiphany: How is it possible that all these sounds came from one man’s mind? I saw the movie when I was a kid but haven’t seen the stage play. I’m fascinated by this play and by Mozart himself. Living in New York, I don’t have a whole lot of things but they sure take up a lot of room. What I like most is the way she treats the act of tidying up: It’s almost spiritual. Kondo is a Japanese organizational guru who has a client list so vast, she wrote a book to get them started. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo There’s a “Moby Dick” motif in here as well. I picked this up and couldn’t put it down. It’s about a young man, blessed with a preternatural gift for fielding, trying to find out who he is in college through his experience on the baseball field, and what happens after he loses that ability. I can only imagine how overwhelming it was for her, but she was all smiles afterward. A few nights ago, the Wasserstein family was here, including Wendy’s daughter, Lucy - the the baby held up at the end of the play. It’s about Wendy Wasserstein’s life, but it doesn’t feel like a biography - you just want to know what happens next. So he and Moss became theater buddies, seeing a bunch of shows together before their own play got underway. “Lizzie and I realized early on that we’re going to play best friends, people who’ve known each other 25 years, after knowing each other for just four weeks,” says Pinkham, who won a Tony nod as the desperate Victorian in “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” and here plays Heidi’s gay confidante. Actors sometimes do all sorts of things to prepare for a part: lose weight, gain weight, research the Roman Empire.īryce Pinkham had it easy: To prep for Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Heidi Chronicles,” all he had to do was to hang out with Elisabeth Moss, the “Mad Men” star who plays Heidi. ![]()
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