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Setting the Stage, Offstage

Setting the Stage, Offstage
By PENELOPE GREEN

URSULA the sea witch idolizes Leona Helmsley, Jerry Falwell and Gloria Swanson, which is why their pictures are part of a collage hanging in Sherie Rene Scott’s dressing room at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. Like many stage actors, Ms. Scott, who plays Ursula in the Disney play “The Little Mermaid,” uses her dressing room to get herself in the mood of her character. Unlike most Broadway actors, however, Ms. Scott has scored a dressing room the size of a Manhattan one-bedroom, and it comes with features: French doors opening onto the street and a pink bathtub (put there for Elizabeth Taylor in 1983, when she was in “Private Lives”).

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Playbill: Broadway's Greatest Showstoppers to Feature Hamlisch, Chenoweth and Esparza

Broadway's Greatest Showstoppers to Feature Hamlisch, Chenoweth and Esparza

By Andrew Gans
March 20, 2008

Tony Award-winning A Chorus Line composer Marvin Hamlisch will make his debut with the New York Philharmonic May 20.

Hamlisch will be the conductor and host of an evening at Avery Fisher Hall entitled Broadway's Greatest Showstoppers. The 7:30 PM concert will boast the talents of Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and Raúl Esparza.

Concertgoers can expect to hear songs from Les Misérables, Carousel, My Fair Lady and A Chorus Line, among others.

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