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#144 - Christine Sherrill - Mamma Mia she’s a Dynamo!

Christine Sherrill makes her Debut on Broadway as well as with us here at Behind the Awards. Christine dishes on what it’s like to go from Tour to Broadway, The moment she found out she was going to Broadway, and what Bucket List roles she has in mind... Read More

From the show: Behind the Awards with Eila Mell & Bruce Gotlieb

38 mins
Feb 4

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Christine Sherrill makes her Debut on Broadway as well as with us here at Behind the Awards. Christine dishes on what it’s like to go from Tour to Broadway, The moment she found out she was going to Broadway, and what Bucket List roles she has in mind. Christine talks about how this show is a fan favorite from Stage Door excitement to viral moments in the audience.
Also in this episode - Bug on Broadway starring Carrie Coon & Namir Smallwood.

Christine is making her Broadway Debut and last enjoyed the role of Donna during her residency with the Las Vegas company of MAMMA MIA! Other national credits include Kiss Me Kate (Kate); Next to Normal (Diana); Guys and Dolls (Adelaide); Sunset Boulevard (Norma Desmond) which earned her a Joseph Jefferson Award. Her work spans prestigious houses from the Goodman Theatre to DC Shakespeare. TV/Film/Video: “FBI Most Wanted,” “Prophet,” “Red Dead Redemption,” “Landline.”

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[0:00] Christine Sherrill: This is Christine Sherrill, and you're listening to Behind the Awards.

[0:13] Eila Mell: Hello, and welcome to Behind the Awards. I'm Eila. I am here with Bruce.

[0:18] Bruce Gotlieb: Hello there. How are we doing?

[0:20] Eila Mell: I'm good. How are you?

[0:22] Bruce Gotlieb: Not too bad. Not too bad. Finally going to venture out a little bit today into the tundra.

[0:31] Eila Mell: It is so cold and snowy out there. It's like 10 degrees at the moment, I think.

[0:35] Bruce Gotlieb: I know. Yeah, not fun.

[0:38] Eila Mell: It's not fun.

[0:40] Bruce Gotlieb: So, you know, big stir on Broadway with a lot of shows not being canceled.

[0:45] Eila Mell: It is. It certainly is. There were many that, you know, made announcements early, and then there were many that had their actors and actresses trudging through the snowfall.

[0:56] Bruce Gotlieb: It was happening as it was going on to the theater to put on. I know attendance reported low that day, which isn't surprising.

[1:01] Eila Mell: Of course. Right. Because, you know, it's a snowstorm. It was a real big snowstorm for us in New York anyway. And it just made it very difficult. And all you heard was the mayor saying, don't go out, stay home. I actually had tickets to a show and I canceled them because I just didn't want the stress of worrying if the show was going to be canceled, if I was going to have to try to venture out. It was just I figured I could rebook.

[1:31] Bruce Gotlieb: Right. And if you don't live in the city where you're like a subway stop away.

[1:38] Eila Mell: Or even, you know, across the street.

[1:40] Bruce Gotlieb: Right. There's, you know, a lot has to go into getting there.

[1:44] Eila Mell: Yeah. It's not so easy.

[1:47] Bruce Gotlieb: Right. Just walking the streets could be dangerous.

[1:50] Eila Mell: Yeah. Absolutely. So you're better to hunker down.

[1:53] Bruce Gotlieb: I know. It was just way too stressful worrying. Is it going to be canceled? Is it not going to be canceled?

[1:59] Eila Mell: Exactly. Exactly. I think they need to kind of get together and figure out a way like, you know, I don't know, like, you know, schools, they have a system in place.

[2:08] Bruce Gotlieb: Right. Maybe there should be a number. If you get above this many inches of snow, let's close. But I know it should be uniform. So people just know what's going to happen.

[2:17] Eila Mell: It's the uncertainty of it that's really stressful.

[2:20] Bruce Gotlieb: Right. No, for sure. For sure. And unless you come in from out of town and you're staying at a hotel and you're.

[2:25] Eila Mell: And you're right there.

[2:29] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, right there. There's normally a lot that goes in. I mean, there's a lot that goes into that aspect of it, too.

[2:34] Eila Mell: Right. So speaking of hotel rooms, though.

[2:38] Bruce Gotlieb: Oh, yeah, segue. I've never been more itchy in a theater.

[2:42] Eila Mell: We both have the pleasure or experience, should we say?

[2:42] Bruce Gotlieb: Oh, for me, it was a huge pleasure. I loved Bug playing at the Samuel Friedman.

[2:49] Eila Mell: Yes. It did make me itchy, though, just watching it. I just felt like, oh, I'm sure. And that's I'm sure that that is what they're going for because I think that's the right response.

[2:57] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, I'm sure that's the intention. We just got the announcement that they extended into March, which is exciting.

[3:07] Eila Mell: Yeah. Yeah. So Bug is playing. It's starring Carrie Coon, who we love from, you know, The Gilded Age.

[3:14] Bruce Gotlieb: Yes. So much. Yeah. I mean, it's a small cast. I think there's maybe five characters in it, but she's really, you know, the one who's on stage, I think, 95 percent of the time.

[3:26] Eila Mell: Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And it's a big ask, this role. It's really she does a lot.

[3:31] Bruce Gotlieb: She does. She does. And, you know, it's something that she kind of, you know, has to grow, grow with her and Namir Smallwood, who they're really most of their interaction is with one another there.

[3:45] Eila Mell: Yeah. They're really mostly the two of them. Yes, absolutely. You have to grow from this little, little bit of I don't want to call them friends, but like acquaintances, that type of energy of not really knowing one another to very intense.

[4:07] Bruce Gotlieb: Yes. And I mean, the actors themselves, well, we're hoping to have Namir on, so we'll talk to him about it. But, you know, I mean, they have to be physically naked in the show. So they're really true. They're really vulnerable on all different levels emotionally, but also physically. So, you know, it's quite a journey the show takes you on. And it's very intense. Would you classify it like a psychological thriller?

[4:32] Eila Mell: Yeah, definitely. A little horror-ish. Not horror, though. There's no jump scares. It's nothing like that. But it's disturbing. It's supposed to be disturbing and definitely psychological. And it's all about, you know, how two people together can create something that maybe one person doesn't.

[4:48] Bruce Gotlieb: Sure. There's a I forget the term for it, but it's a psychological term where people will commit crimes together that they would never do by themselves.

[4:54] Eila Mell: Sure. I forget what it is. But yeah, there's like, you know, the one one of the characters, not to give any spoil away, but one of the characters, and if you've seen the movie, then you know, but one of the characters, you know, incites a thought, right? A belief that they have.

[5:11] Bruce Gotlieb: Right. Yes. And while the other character might not be quite on board in the beginning, by the time you get really into the thick of it, you know, they start also believing what this other person believes.

[5:31] Eila Mell: And you can see why, because they were isolated and vulnerable. And then there's drugs involved. You know, it's like a perfect storm.

[5:36] Bruce Gotlieb: Absolutely. So did you like it, though?

[5:42] Eila Mell: I did like it. The one thing I will say, I understand why they put the intermission in because they needed to do some things with the set. But I thought that intermission really broke the momentum for me of the storytelling. I thought that it might have been more successful had they gone straight through and figured out a way to do what they wanted or needed to do technologically or set-wise. But I did enjoy it. I thought the two of them were really, really strong.

[6:08] Bruce Gotlieb: Absolutely. Was it my favorite? I don't know that it was my favorite, but it was enjoyable. It's definitely a show that stayed with me and I think about it. And I just really liked it so much. It's interesting because Carrie Coon has made this video that's gone kind of viral, this interview saying how had she not done White Lotus and that been so successful, she never would have, even as the wife of the playwright, been in the position to be able to do this play.

[6:32] Eila Mell: Yeah, it is an interesting conversation. And it's true. We had this conversation, you know, not really fully fleshed in depth, but kind of tip touching on the tip of the iceberg with our guests today that, you know, the business end of things and getting money and getting people in the seats obviously is something that has to be looked at. But there are plenty of people out there that, you know, are super talented and could handle it. And had Carrie Coon not had some of these other successes, wouldn't have changed her acting ability in this role. But it does change our people showing up just because her name's on the marquee.

[7:16] Bruce Gotlieb: Right. Because she's from TV. But then I guess there's the question, would she have been on TV had she not had this strong theater background? So maybe it's full circle, maybe it's not. I don't know.

[7:26] Eila Mell: Yeah. Right. I mean, I think it does. You know, there's that what if and you could look at it from both angles. Right. Well, now people show up to, you know, Meryl Streep is in the show. They're going to show up.

[7:36] Bruce Gotlieb: They will. But only initially. That doesn't mean people are going to keep going. If the show is still isn't good, even with the biggest names, it's not going to do so well. I've seen that before. We saw it last season. Right. Othello had the biggest names, but people, for whatever reason, didn't love it. We didn't see it. So we can't give our opinion.

[7:58] Eila Mell: That's true. But, you know, it was I think it was just a very expensive ticket.

[8:04] Bruce Gotlieb: And it was very expensive. Yeah. It really bore the brunt of that. You know, that whole controversy with ticket prices. And so even with Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, it didn't get a lot of love, but it's still, you know, it didn't suffer at the box office.

[8:20] Eila Mell: It's just true. You did recoup. So and actually, speaking of recouping, just to throw this in there, The Outsiders has recouped.

[8:26] Bruce Gotlieb: Oh, well, that's wonderful, which is exciting. It's the article I read said that it's the first musical since 2022 since And Juliet recouped.

[8:39] Eila Mell: All right. Well, that's great. Yeah. Every show should recoup. Absolutely.

[8:45] Bruce Gotlieb: Well, I can't wait to talk to our guest today. So why don't we bring out Christine Sherrill?

[8:51] Eila Mell: Yes. The star of Mamma Mia!

[8:55] Bruce Gotlieb: Well, Eila, we are so excited because we have Mamma Mia's leading lady, Christine Sherrill, who plays Donna at the Winter Garden eight times a week with us today on Behind the Awards. Welcome.

[9:07] Christine Sherrill: Thank you for having me. Happy, happy second snow day.

[9:15] Eila Mell: That's right. So it's been crazy. So you had one show canceled because of snow?

[9:19] Christine Sherrill: Yeah, we all showed up for our Sunday matinee. Kind of unbelievably, we showed up. We all made it. And then Sunday night, it just became evident that it was not safe to be, even for the patrons, right, to have shows?

[9:36] Eila Mell: Yeah, definitely.

[9:36] Christine Sherrill: Yeah, just trying to walk from, if you took the subway or the train or however you got there, just to walk to the theater, probably strengthens enough.

[9:44] Eila Mell: Yeah. And I was mostly worried about the ushers, to be honest.

[9:47] Christine Sherrill: Of course.

[9:48] Christine Sherrill: They're people that we hang out with backstage or whatever, and most of them are retired from their careers. And so they're a little bit older. And I was like, oh, we shouldn't have ushers.

[9:58] Eila Mell: Right.

[9:58] Christine Sherrill: No, it's true. But I think your show made the right call. A lot of shows didn't. They had performances and cast members were not happy.

[10:07] Bruce Gotlieb: No. I'm getting messages from people in Chicago and stuff saying like, what is going on?

[10:13] Eila Mell: Yeah.

[10:13] Christine Sherrill: They cancel. But of course, you know, I'm a Chicago gal, so that snow for me.

[10:19] Bruce Gotlieb: Right. Nothing.

[10:20] Christine Sherrill: Like I walked in the theater and my stage manager was like, where are your boots? I was like, they're our boots. I'm fine. I'm in flip flops.

[10:28] Bruce Gotlieb: That's right.

[10:28] Christine Sherrill: It's fine.

[10:29] Bruce Gotlieb: Why not? Pumps.

[10:32] Christine Sherrill: So how is the run going?

[10:34] Christine Sherrill: It's incredible. It's more than we ever anticipated, you know. So we have this glorious tour. We would roll into these cities and they were so excited. And we were experiencing this incredible joy in every city and getting such great response. And then Victor, Victor Wallace, who plays Sam, he's been with the company as long as I have. Right. He started out as a Sky. And he had kind of been saying to us, because this was my Broadway debut. I'd never been on Broadway.

[11:03] Christine Sherrill: That's right.

[11:04] Christine Sherrill: And he was like, hey, I don't want to sound jaded. But when we get to New York, we're not going to have the same kind of response. I want you all to be prepared that like people aren't going to jump to their feet. They're not going to clap and sing and do all the stuff that we're used to. So just, you know, be prepared. And then opening night, we were like, okay, this is just a fluke. Like, it's because it's all our friends and family. And then it was like a week later, two weeks in, three weeks in. We're like, so it's just been unprecedented in terms of like people, you know, sold out crowds, and just the enthusiasm. I couldn't ask for a better debut, right?

[11:46] Eila Mell: Yeah, show people love so much.

[11:49] Christine Sherrill: You know, it's the nostalgia of it. The music, everybody just loves it. The production that you guys are putting on is really, really, really tight. It's so good. You are just out of out of this world. You're at all.

[12:02] Christine Sherrill: Thank you. Beyond beyond words. It's so good.

[12:08] Christine Sherrill: Yeah, I just feel I don't want to sound cliche right now or like I'm being insincere. I'm being really sincere when I say I just am crazy, crazy grateful to this company for taking a risk on me. You know, I consider it a risk. They're like, we're gonna make our leading lady somebody, you know, has never been on Broadway. I've had a long relationship with them. And so I think they trust me. But still, it's a gamble now, right? I think producers feel really pressured to make decisions that they know will succeed.

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[26:53] Christine Sherrill: I guess they don't know actors from the past. They won't know John Wayne, or they won't know Gary Cooper, but they know Elvis, and they know music. Yeah, that's funny. There's got to be a memory bank thing in your brain. I think it's like a sense of smell that can bring you back. If you smell something familiar, you're transported, and I think music has that same quality, where it just brings you back to another time. Yeah, we've all seen music therapy in nursing homes and how patients who have lost most of their cognitive still can remember songs. Yeah, right. Music can bring Alzheimer's patients back for a moment, at least. Yeah, it's amazing, that connection. It is a medicine, right? Absolutely, yeah.

We should treat it like we're practicing medicine. That's right. That's right. So next time I'm not feeling well, if you're in the theater practicing your art, I'll consider you a doctor. I'll come to you. If you could just call me Dr. Sherrill, that would be great. Absolutely, I think that's right.

[28:02] Christine Sherrill: The show is winding down now. How does that feel? It's going to be a big transition for me. Three years of sort of just, you know, mostly, I think the most difficult part is leaving this group of people that I've lived and worked with for three years. Because again, I'm being really sincere when I say that we have an incredible cast that is really, really loving and hardworking. And I know that that's not always the case. And I don't think I've ever been in Mamma Mia where it hasn't been that way. I think it's because of the creatives. I think they're able to sit in that room and know somebody's sensibility and their character. And so it's going to be really hard to leave the Dynamos in my system.

[28:54] Bruce Gotlieb: You've had the opportunity to play other, you mentioned Norma Desmond and Sunset Boulevard just had, you know, obviously a huge hit last season. You've played Miss Hannigan. So you have some really big personality women.

[29:10] Christine Sherrill: Yeah, bucket list roles. Yeah. It's like, are there any others that you, you know, kind of have written down that you want to check off one day? Yes. One is of recent. One is from last week. Oh, you guys. I saw the workshop of Julia.

[29:29] Bruce Gotlieb: Okay.

[29:29] Christine Sherrill: It's the new Jennifer Nettles written. She's starring in it. Um, last Thursday I saw the workshop at PAC and it's going to open at PAC, right? July, August. I think I, I'm so glad I'm talking to this and to you about this and that I get to like, put it out, out there so that I can come back and have record of being like, I told you this was going to be a hit. It is unbelievable. It is just, I, I have not stopped thinking about it since I thought, saw it on Thursday. The music that she has written is out of this world. The story is out of this world. The voices of the women in the show are just, and the story is so poignant to this time. So that is definitely, I'm like, when Jennifer decides, like, you know, she's at the end of her time with that show, I'm going to be like waiting. I'm right here. Um, yeah, she's just, she's absolutely stunning in it. And the show itself is, is going to be a hit. It's, it's incredible.

[30:40] Christine Sherrill: So that is, that's definitely a new one on my bucket list. I would love to do Evan Hansen. I think I came really close to Evan Hansen here and then it closed.

[30:51] Bruce Gotlieb: So, well, just, just so you know, you may already know this, but we have a pretty reliable source that told us that there's going to be a 50th anniversary production of Annie coming to Broadway.

[31:01] Christine Sherrill: Oh, so just, you know, you might want to talk to your agent 50 years, 50 years. Pretty soon. Yeah. So their speed is going to be, it's part of their next season to kick it off from where it started. But the word is that it's going to also make its trajectory.

[31:20] Christine Sherrill: Yeah, that's incredible. Yeah. I think it was 77. So, yeah. Oh my gosh. The little girl in me would have freaked out. Oh my God. Just freaked out. There was nothing like, I didn't see the original cast, but I, I did get to see it and there's never been another theatrical experience for me like that because of how much I wanted to see that show. Oh my gosh. I used to listen to that album every day after school. Yes. I think it was part of my eight tracks, you guys. I had the vinyl from the movie and it had a whole, like, on, like, inside, like, it was like this, it was a whole experience when you put the record on that you can now be like in this, in the vinyl part of it all. It was a lot. Au revoir. Just throwing that tidbit out. Christmas hand cringes back into your brain.

[32:12] Bruce Gotlieb: You know, it might be good timing now that your show's winding down.

[32:15] Christine Sherrill: That's right. That's right. I'm texting my agents right now.

[32:18] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, good, good, good. Do that. You want to be first. They love mid-morning Tuesday texts from me.

[32:24] Christine Sherrill: I'm sure.

[32:25] Bruce Gotlieb: Well, speaking of, is there anything on the horizon that you're able to talk about that people can be on the lookout for?

[32:34] Christine Sherrill: No, I'm doing a couple concerts. I'm doing a few concerts in Chicago. I'm, I teach, I teach at these dance conventions, helping dancers that want to come to New York. They're, you know, they're like dancer dancers who are wanting to move into musical theater. So I help them sort out their books and their audition and know what it feels like to walk off that elevator at Ripley Greer and have your stomach sink.

[33:03] Bruce Gotlieb: That's so useful though, because people don't know what they need to go to, you know, a real audition.

[33:09] Christine Sherrill: Yeah, yeah. There was a, there, there was a student I had who went really far in callbacks for Outsiders. I mean, just an unbelievable dancer and they really loved her. And she texted me the night before her final callback and was like, they said to bring a book. Like, where, what kind of book? And I was like, oh, yeah, that's, that's a 9-1-1 text.

[33:34] Bruce Gotlieb: How many songs makes up a good book?

[33:38] Christine Sherrill: I don't think it's a lot. I think five. Okay. You know, in the old days, right, we used to have like a table of contents and you'd hand your book to the CD and be like, oh, here, you know, you can pick what you want from my table of contents. But I just think like five is enough. You need to know what you can sing. You need to have a little taste of everything that's on Broadway, you know, pop, rock, classical, like you need to have it all. And you could do that in five songs easy. I think that's where theater's changed so much because, you know, it's not just one style of music that you need to be responsible for anymore. And it's exciting.

[34:16] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, I agree. Now that you're going to have a little bit more free time on your hands, is there anything that you're on your list of shows that you are like must-sees for you coming up?

[34:25] Christine Sherrill: I'm embarrassed to say that I have not seen Just In Time and I won't leave the city until I do.

[34:33] Bruce Gotlieb: Oh my God, it's so special. How many times have you seen it?

[34:36] Christine Sherrill: Um, three.

[34:40] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, he's been a lot. I only saw it once.

[34:43] Christine Sherrill: Oh my God, I would go back literally if somebody every day called me and was like, do you want to go with me? I would say yes, every time.

[34:50] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, it's really great.

[34:52] Christine Sherrill: Yeah, I, Victor Wallace and I had a bucket list of things. He's really lovely. And he was like, let's make a bucket list of shows we want to see. We can't, he's like, we can't just like keep, you know, couch-riding when we're not on stage. So Wednesdays when we only had a matinee, we would set out to like go see a show. So we saw Death Becomes Her and we saw a couple other shows and, or we would hit like a, I wanted to go to, oh my gosh, what's the name of it? The Christmas Bar over by our theater. But so he took me there. Yeah, he was like, okay, this is your bucket list. I was like, yeah, it's my bucket list. And then, and then Death Becomes Her was on it and Just In Time and he took his mom and I was like, wow, well, I guess I'm on my own.

[35:36] Bruce Gotlieb: You're out.

[35:36] Christine Sherrill: So I've got one left.

[35:39] Bruce Gotlieb: All right.

[35:39] Christine Sherrill: Yeah, it's, it's like, it's like nothing that you'll ever see, I feel like, because it's, it's a show, like there's a storyline and, and there's a book, a very strong concert. And there's also like, there's so many different, and you're in the round. And you can't believe the ask of the lead character. I mean, I don't know who's going to be playing it when you see it, but it's just an unbelievable ask. And Jonathan Groff was incredible.

[36:09] Bruce Gotlieb: But I'm sure every he's, he's up to every ask, though, right?

[36:13] Christine Sherrill: Oh, yes. I mean, he plays instruments. He dances, he acts, he sings. He is himself. I mean, it's just it's crazy.

[36:22] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, and just a good person. I met him doing a regional production of this maybe, I think it was this in his hometown. And he waited at the stage door and was like, you know, I was just some girly in a regional show. And he was like, I just wanted to, I wanted to wait for you and tell you like, you know, just good people.

[36:43] Christine Sherrill: Wow. That's really nice.

[36:45] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah.

[36:46] Christine Sherrill: Yeah, I love that. I hear his understudy, Matt Magnusson is great, too.

[36:51] Bruce Gotlieb: I've been hearing that.

[36:51] Christine Sherrill: I've heard that as well. Yeah. Yeah, he finally got to go on. When we saw Death Becomes Her, I thought the two women, I was, I thought for sure I would go and see it. And that would be on my bucket list of roles to play. And I was like, those women are working so hard. Yes. I don't know if I should add this to my list. Right. Like, I'm not going to necessarily turn it down. But I was like, Megan was on the floor. And I turned to Victor and I was like, she's been singing for four minutes and she's on the floor.

[37:23] Bruce Gotlieb: She gets a little rest on the floor.

[37:24] Christine Sherrill: That's right.

[37:26] Bruce Gotlieb: Well, it's been amazing chatting with you. We're so happy for your success. And I mean, how great to make your Broadway debut finally.

[37:35] Christine Sherrill: Thank you.

[37:37] Bruce Gotlieb: And we can't wait to hear what's next. We want to hear your family. So anything you have coming up, even your concerts, and let us know.

[37:44] Christine Sherrill: Yes, absolutely.

[37:46] Bruce Gotlieb: We'll put the word out and let people know how to get tickets.

[37:49] Christine Sherrill: Yes, absolutely. Thanks for supporting us all.

[37:52] Bruce Gotlieb: Of course, it's my pleasure.

[37:55] Christine Sherrill: You're welcome back anytime.

[37:56] Bruce Gotlieb: You too. And we will see everyone next time on Behind the Awards.

[38:01] Christine Sherrill: Bye-bye.

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