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    Olympic dream, an adoptee's fantasy

    Olympic dream, an adoptee's fantasy

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    The Man Who Turned to Stone

    The Man Who Turned to Stone

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    25 years ago: A crash, a flash, a missile in the night

    25 years ago: A crash, a flash, a missile in the night

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    Pedro
    • Feb 1, 2019
    • 4 min

    Andy Borowitz: Blame Reality

    Andy Borowitz swears to me that he’s not out to “hoax anybody," but people are hoaxed, nonetheless. As soon as someone on Facebook posts...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 9 min

    Hagrid, Hermione, Harry: 'Just Jim Dale' is the voice behind the 'Harry Potter' audiobooks

    Jim Dale still hears voices. Hermione, Hagrid, Harry, and hundreds of others. Thanks to Dale, generations of "Harry Potter" fans —...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    Chris Botti: Man with the golden horn

    I was unfamiliar with Chris Botti when I got the assignment to interview him, the following day. I listened to a lot of his music,...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 6 min

    Thomas Meehan: Broadway's show doctor

    When I grow up, if I grow up, I want to be Thomas Meehan. A remarkable man. For this 2005 profile, I spoke with his collaborator, Mel...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 5 min

    Judy Kaye: Really good at singing really bad

    I adored "Souvenir," which came to Broadway in 2005 long before Meryl Streep turned it into "Florence Foster Jenkins." I'll stick with...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    John Cariani: Definitely specific, "Almost, Maine"

    John Cariani is an actor and writer and the gentlest soul I know. We first spoke in 2008. It's appropriate that John Cariani titled his...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    Colin Mochrie: Winging it, nightly

    The first rule of improv is never say "No." It's always "Yes, and..." Looking back over this 2006 interview, I notice that Colin Mochrie,...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    John Musto: Mikey and Johnny in the Steinway basement

    You hear about places like the Steinway basement. My 2006 chat with composer John Musto got me in. A magical place. The Steinway basement...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    Peter Schickele: Classical music with a P.D.Q. Bach laughtrack

    I first encountered Peter Schickele's alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach, when I was a college kid in New Mexico. I sang bass in a men's chorale and...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    Paquito D'Rivera: A clarinetist takes up residence in the Katonah woods

    I love a good laugh. I spent a laugh-filled July afternoon with Paquito D'Rivera in a Midtown rehearsal room. He radiates joy and...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 6 min

    Bill Nighy: Comic timing down to the 'Vertical' nanosecond

    I did a ton of research before speaking with Bill Nighy when he came to Broadway in 2006. I watched three or four of his movies and loved...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 2 min

    Michael Flatley: Never stepping flatly

    I couldn't resist teasing Michael Flatley when we spoke in 2006. I had just seen Paul McCartney on "60 Minutes" and noticed that when he...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 7 min

    Ted Sperling: Driving a 'South Pacific' Rolls-Royce with the top down

    Ted Sperling gave me an incredible gift, and I didn't use it. When I was granted unbelievable access, to the first time the cast of...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 5 min

    Karen Mason: Mamma Mia! It's Momma Rose!

    The great Irish actor Jim Norton once who told me that his character work always begins from the ground up, with the shoes his character...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 3 min

    Alec Baldwin: Trusting his instincts

    Before he came to Nyack to sit down with his friend Elliott Forrest in 2011, he gave me a few minutes to talk "30 Rock," and where his...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 5 min

    Bill Irwin: Have dressing-room trampoline, will travel

    When I call Bill Irwin, it's usually bad news. I called him when Jonathan Demme died, seeking his recollections of the "Rachel's Getting...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 4 min

    John Lithgow: Sharing his storied life

    John Lithgow is a gifted storyteller, so I was happy to catch up with him in 2010 as he prepared to bring his "Stories By Heart" tour to...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 5 min

    Bernadette Peters: The audience is a willing collaborator

    I have a confession: I've had a crush on Bernadette Peters since I saw her in "Song & Dance," a bipolar musical in which she sang the...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 5 min

    Chazz Palminteri: All that Chazz

    In 2007, when Chazz Palminteri revisited his masterwork, "A Bronx Tale," on Broadway (before eventually turning it into a musical), he...

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    Pedro
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 7 min

    Mary Tyler Moore: Something about Mary

    When I was a kid, Saturday nights meant "All in the Family," "The Bob Newhart Show," "Mary Tyler Moore" and "The Carol Burnett Show." In...

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