You’re Never Fully Dressed Without Some Bile: The sunny Katie Finneran finds her inner Harridan for 'Annie'
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"Uta Hagen would have been proud. There was her former student, Katie Finneran, nearly seven months pregnant, putting on a burlesque show in a Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dress and high heels, convincing about ten or so auditioners that she was sloshed on bathtub gin and homicidally enraged by children. "It was pretty hilarious," says James Lapine, director of the upcoming revival of Annie. "She kind of knocked our socks off. She'd really done her homework.""
"Uta Hagen would have been proud. There was her former student, Katie Finneran, nearly seven months pregnant, putting on a burlesque show in a Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dress and high heels, convincing about ten or so auditioners that she was sloshed on bathtub gin and homicidally enraged by children. "It was pretty hilarious," says James Lapine, director of the upcoming revival of Annie. "She kind of knocked our socks off. She'd really done her homework.""