Video: How Alyssa Milano's Daughter Inspired Her to Audition for Chicago
Plus, doing Fosse is reminding the Charmed star of that point she danced in Annie.
Alyssa Milano could also be identified for her display work, together with the tv present Charmed. But she truly received her begin in theatre. “When I used to be eight years outdated, I used to be within the second nationwide touring firm of Annie
for 18 months. That was my very first skilled gig,” remembers Milano. “I did the first musical version of Jane Eyre when I was little, which was a very special experience, because my dad actually helped with the props. Theatre, that's the beauty of it, is the community that you create.”
Though Milano’s profession has taken her away from the stage, she has now returned. She’s enjoying Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway in a restricted engagement by means of November 10. Watch the video above, the place Milano tells Playbill's Jeffrey Vizcaino what impressed her to do musicals once more.
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Heather Gershonowitz
Milano says she was impressed to do musicals once more due to her daughter, who's now doing musicals in her elementary faculty. “I just had a moment where I was like, ‘Wow, she's really powerful and strong, and I don't know how she's doing it.'” And then Milano realized, it was due to theatre, which led her to considering: “I did that at that age. Why aren't I doing that now?” Milano says it’s been a household custom to go to New York yearly and see a Broadway present.
“The great thing about musical theatre at a young age is, not only does it give you confidence, and also all of those things that you need to be a functioning adult, but also, it gives you community,” she says. “There's such an ease knowing that she's going to be in middle school and know who her people are.”
And the method of rehearsing Chicago, together with studying the Kander and Ebb songs and Fosse’s intricate choreography—it’s taken Milano again to her youthful self.
“It’s really hard,” she says with a smile about studying the choreography. “I remember being eight, and rehearsing for Annie, and there was this one dance step that sent me off the stage crying because I could not get it. I could not get it. And there have been those moments in [Chicago]. But I’m not crying, mind you, because now I have faith that I will get it eventually.” And probably the most astonishing factor is? “I still remember that move from when I was eight years old. It's never left my body,” marvels Milano. That means that Chicago will also never leave her body. “And that's really cool,” she says with a smile.
And it’s additionally proven Milano what she’s able to: “What an amazing thing to be older than I ever intended to be and to still be doing something for the first time.”
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Heather Gershonowitz
