![]() ![]() From that I kind of threw together this larger than life, diva character.īT: And now you’ve been on a lengthy promotional tour chatting about the film. I had learned accents from my Italian diction teacher that I had when I was at Julliard. Absolutely! Having studied classically and having studied operatic divas over the years, I was ready. She’s weighed down by being such a large object, so we had to consider that, and Bill and Alan were a great help with that.īT: And how does one get into character playing a wardrobe? Did appearing in Master Class prepare you for the role?ĪM: Well yeah. *laughs* How appropriate! But lumbered is the perfect word to describe how she would be speaking. She would sound a little heavier and more lumbered. Then also just playing with her size and how she would sound embodying this wardrobe. In some ways we couldn’t go too far because people wouldn’t be able to understand what I was saying. When working in the studio, the main thing we were working on was her accent and how far we could go and still be intelligible in terms of what I was saying. After that there were times where I had to return to the studio. ![]() Then there were times when I was in a recording studio, recording all by myself, with Alan Menken and Bill Condon on the other side of the booth. What was the filming process like?Īudra McDonald: It was amazing! Obviously there were sections where my character was human, so I was on set in very large costumes on gorgeous sets with an amazing cast. The following is an excerpt of that conversation.īrief Take: You play Madame de Garderobe, a larger than life diva, in the new, live-action retelling of Beauty and the Beast. ![]() Thus it was with trembling hands that I spoke on the phone with Audra McDonald about her role in Disney’s live-action film, Beauty and the Beast. (Ironically, Ragtime lost the biggest Tony Award gong to Disney’s The Lion King, but that’s a discussion for another day). McDonald, and a young Lea Michele, the brand new groundbreaking musical struck a nerve with me, and I’ve been closely following the cast’s careers ever since. With a cast that included Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Peter Friedman, Ms. Sure, my parents took me to see The Phantom of the Opera, The Who’s Tommy, and Les Miserables when I was a kid, but it was seeing Ragtime some twenty-odd years ago that really cemented my love of musical theatre. Since 2012 she's been married to Will Swenson, they have a daughter, Sally James.I’m a huge musicals fan, and it’s largely because of six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald. She was married to Peter Donovan from 2000 to 2009, they have a daughter, Zoe Madeline. She also performs at concerts throughout the U.S. She has made many TV and movie appearances, most notably in 4 seasons of Private Practice (2007) & in Disney's remake of Красуня і Чудовисько (2017). She planned to make her West End debut in 2016 but postponed it in order to go on maternity leave, eventually debuting at the Wyndham's Theater in the West End in June 2017. By 2014, she had won 6 Tonys, becoming the first person to win the award in all 4 acting categories. In 2006, she debuted as an opera singer in a production of a one-act opera La Voix humaine at the Houston Grand Opera. She was nominated for her first Emmy Award in 2001 for her role in Wit (2001). ![]() In 1998, she released her first solo album Way Back to Paradise. A year later, she won her first Tony Award for her role in Carousel. She graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School and went on to study classical singing at Julliard, from which she graduated in 1993. She has a younger sister and grew up in Fresno, California. Her mother was a university administrator and her father was a high school principal stationed in West Berlin with the U.S. She's an actress and singer, best known for her many roles on Broadway. Audra McDonald was born on Jin Berlin, Germany as Audra Ann McDonald. ![]()
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