This afternoon at Sardi’s, the Drama Desk held a luncheon featuring a panel of six multiple award winners/nominees discussing their experiences before and after receiving their honors from the organization. The participants were: John Lithgow, currently starring in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels…
Cherry Jones, who has received rave reviews for her unsparing performance as Sister Aloysius in Doubt…
Cleavant Derricks, one of the stars of Brooklyn: The Musical…
…Tom Aldredge, a.k.a. Juror #9 in the long-running Roundabout Theatre Company production of Twelve Angry Men…
…Frances Sternhagen, a.k.a. Clairee in the first Broadway production of Steel Magnolias…
…and David Rabe, author of Hurlyburly, which has been revived Off-Broadway to great acclaim.
Among the luncheon’s attendees were Rabe’s wife and daughter, actresses Jill Clayburgh (Pippin, The Rothschilds, The Exonerated, etc. on stage, An Unmarried Woman, etc. on film) and Lily Rabe (another star of Steel Magnolias).
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