CHARLAYNE WOODARD ONE ON ONE.
American Theatre, December, 2000 by Berson, Misha
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When Charlayne Woodard hit Manhattan in the late 1970s, she was an idealistic, young Goodman School of Drama grad hungry to take on meaty roles in serious plays. "I came to town with 12 monologues," Woodard recalls, "and I didn't even have one song to sing for an audition." It didn't matter. To Woodard's surprise, she landed in a revival of Hair, and then in the five-member cast of Ain't Misbehavin', the Fats Waller revue en route from the Manhattan Theatre Club to a smash run on ...
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