Audra McDonald on the Broadway Roles She Was ‘Devastated’ She Didn't Get
08.12.2022 - 21:29
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Ohio State Murders, in which she is on stage for the entirety of the 75-minute play. The very next day, she will perform to a sold-out Carnegie Hall for a solo concert. And that’s all after she drops her six-year-old daughter off at the school bus. “To be honest, ‘me time’ is kind of nonexistent right now,” she says from her New York home.
In a world where the uber-successful seem to somehow have ten times more hours in a day than us mere mortals, it’s a refreshingly human response.But McDonald, a six-time who is the most decorated actress in the award’s history, is grateful for the lack of sleep. When Ohio State Murders opens on December 8, it marks many firsts: McDonald’s first time back on stage since 2019, the very first performance in the newly renamed James Earl Jones theater, and the long overdue Broadway debut of the award-winning 91-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy. “It’s a huge moment,” McDonald says.
“I recognize the importance of this, and I feel a huge responsibility to Adrienne Kennedy. I want to make sure that we’re telling her story in the way that she wants it to be told, in a way that makes her happy.” Ohio State Murders, originally written in 1992, is a tragi-mystery that follows the fictional Suzanne Alexander’s time at a segregated college and the unimaginable loss she undergoes. “Even though the show is very dark and heart wrenching, and a lot of it is an indictment on systemic racism within our society, the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do is be on stage,” says McDonald, who calls Kennedy every Sunday.
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