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We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

I grew up performing in theatre.

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

When I was a young woman, before I moved to New York, working in small, non-Equity theatres in the Midwest, I did a lot of musicals in my early to mid-20s.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.