Sassy Stritch is as Entertaining as Ever
We stumbled upon a terrific interview with Elaine Stritch in the June 22 edition of the Hartford Courant by Frank Rizzo. Stritch’s “At Liberty” is playing at the Hartford Stage. Here are some of the highlights:
Stritch won an Emmy Award last year for her work playing Alec Baldwin’s mother in TV’s “30 Rock” comedy series.
Receiving the Emmy was all well and good, but mention the Tony Awards, and Stritch stiffens. She is still smarting from her Tony experience when she was cut off during her acceptance speech.
“It left a very bad taste in my mouth,” she says. “I shouldn’t be cut off from making a speech after being nominated so many times and then finally winning at the age of 70 — whatever it was. I want nothing to do with the Tonys. I’ve lost my Tony. I don’t even know where the hell it is. No idea,and I don’t give a [expletive] either. I really don’t. And what the [expletive] are the Tonys doing in Radio City Music Hall anyway? This is the American Theater, not the Rockettes.”
On leaving NYC:
Manhattan’s noise, the crowds, the traffic, it’s all just too much now, she says “I don’t like it here anymore. The humor’s gone. I don’t want to end my days here. If there’s not a part for me on 45th Street, I want out of here.”
Here’s a link to the rest of the article: http://www.courant.com/entertainment/stage/hc-spotlede0622.artjun22,0,5133941.story Well worth the read.