Betty Buckley: Tony Winner and Broadway Legend

Theater People

Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

Tony Awards, Nyc, Musicals, Actors, Creative, Arts, Plays, Writers, Broadway, Theater, Society & Culture, Interview, Comedy, Producers, Performing Arts

4.8 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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I still can't breathe, you guys! Words cannot explain the pure exhilaration of sitting across the table from the one and only Betty Buckley and the concentration it took trying to sound smart while asking her questions! This Tony-winning Broadway legend certainly needs no introduction, but for the uninitiated, Betty made her Broadway debut in 1969 in 1776--a role she won on her VERY FIRST DAY IN NEW YORK and for which she earned her first Tony nomination. Among many other credits, she origina...

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Theater People podcast is brought to you by Heartbeat Opera.
0:04.1	To find out if tickets are still available for their radical new 90-minute adaptations of
0:09.2	Butterfly and Carmen, go to heartbeatopra.org. Today's episode is also brought to you by
0:15.0	Stage Door Manor. For more information on their summer theater programs, check them out at
0:19.3	stagedoor manor.com.
0:22.8	Welcome to the theater people podcast. I'm your host, Patrick Hines. You guys, there really are
0:28.9	not words to describe how excited I am to welcome today's guest, Tony Winter and theater royalty,
0:36.0	Betty Buckley. I'm going to keep this intro super short because our interview is long and we didn't want to cut any of the brilliant things Betty had to say.
0:44.6	So, Betty made her Broadway debut in 1969 in 1776.
0:50.0	She would go on to star in Cats, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Song and Dance, Carrie, and Sunset Boulevard to name just a few.
0:57.8	She won her Tony Award in 1983 for originating the iconic role of Grizzabella in Cats.
1:03.9	Her new album, Story Songs, is fabulous, and you can buy it wherever you get your music.
1:10.0	I still can't believe I got to chat with her.
1:13.5	Here's our conversation.
1:17.1	Hi, Betty Buckley.
1:18.6	Hello.
1:19.3	Those are words. I cannot believe I'm getting to say those words after all this time.
1:24.3	It is such an honor. I've been researching you for days now. So it's such an honor to get to
1:30.0	have you like in the flesh. Oh, I'm so happy to see you. Thank you so much. I was thinking today that I've
1:35.8	never interviewed a former journalist before. Oh, really? So you're going to have to give me some
1:39.5	feedback if I don't do this well. Oh, no. I'm sure you're great. I hear only good things.
1:44.8	Well, thank you.
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