Audra Ann McDonald

On stage 2 productions, 3 years

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Also credited on5 works

110 in the Shade (2007 Revival)
Gypsy (2024 Revival)
Marie Christine
Porgy and Bess (2012 Revival)
Ragtime

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In the literature8 passages

• In her dressing room at Carousel, Audra Ann McDonald had a picture of Barbra Streisand on her closet and a picture of Judy Garland on her mirror. “I’ve got both of them motivating me at all times,” she’d said.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Cast: Robert Breuler, Sandra Brown, Kate Buddeke, Michael Hayden, Eddie Korbich, Audra Ann McDonald, Sally Murphy, Jon Marshall Sharp, Fisher Stevens, Shirley Verrett, Jeff Weissebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Audra Ann McDonald grew up in Fresno, California, the child of educators who fervently believed in the arts. Her stage debut came at age seven, as one of the Siamese children in a local production of The King and I . At the king’s death, she burst into tears, displaying an easily accessible emotional life that would serve her well through…ebooks/Shapiro, Eddie/Nothing Like a Dame_ Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater - Eddie Shapiro.txt
• We had a big workshop before I left for Ragtime , in the summer of 1996. That’s where the piece really came together and came to life. I felt so creatively alive. Before that he had given me a few songs that we had worked on for a backer’s audition. Mary Bond Davis [was in it] and she had gotten into numerology and name work and all this…ebooks/Shapiro, Eddie/Nothing Like a Dame_ Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater - Eddie Shapiro.txt
• After Audra Ann McDonald sang “Meadowlark”, I asked her, “Do you have a little time? Can you stay?” All I could think was: Everybody has to hear her! I’ve got to see who else is in the building! I put a big star next to her name and ran around the building and found Graciela Daniele, who was director in residence at the time. She was work…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
• My mom and I started elbowing each other during “Mister Snow”. Who is this Audra Ann McDonald? The show had not yet been reviewed, and it felt like we were watching a star being born.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt

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